
《呼啸山庄》经典语录:英文原文与中文翻译
Wuthering Heights
从艾米莉·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》中选出的15句经典语录,英文原文下附中文翻译。每一句都直接摘自原书。整本书可以免费阅读,配有翻译、朗读和词典。
I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
我在他们周围徘徊,在那片温和的天空下:看着飞蛾在石楠和蓝铃花间扑动,听着柔风在草丛中呼吸,心里纳闷,怎么会有人把长眠在这片宁静土地下的人想象成不得安眠呢。
“If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable.”
「我要是上了天堂,内莉,我会痛苦得要命。」
“And so do I. I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. And this is one: I’m going to tell it —but take care not to smile at any part of it.”
「我也是这样。我这一生做过一些梦,它们从此留在我心里,改变了我的想法:它们穿透了我,像酒穿透水,改变了我心神的颜色。这就是其中一个:我要讲给你听,不过你千万当心,不管讲到哪一处都别笑。」
“Go and carry my message,” he interrupted, impatiently. “I’m in hell till you do!”
「去把我的话带到,」他不耐烦地打断我。「你不去,我就在地狱里!」
“You are putting the question through very idle curiosity,” he interrupted, with a laugh. “Yet I’ll answer it. Last night I was on the threshold of hell. Today, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me! And now you’d better go! You’ll neither see nor hear anything to frighten you, if you refrain from prying.”
「你问这个问题,纯粹是无聊的好奇心,」他笑着打断我。「不过我还是回答你。昨晚我站在地狱的门槛上。今天,我已经望见我的天堂了。我眼睛盯着它:只差不到三尺就把我隔开了!现在你最好走吧!只要你忍住别乱打听,就既不会看见也不会听见任何让你害怕的东西。」
“ ‘I’m weary of enduring now,’ I replied; ‘and I’d be glad of a retaliation that wouldn’t recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.’
「『我已经厌倦忍受了,』我回答说;『我倒乐意报复一下,只要不反弹到我自己身上;可是背信弃义和暴力是两头带尖的矛,刺伤使用它们的人,比刺伤敌人还厉害。』
“Quietly as a lamb!” I answered, aloud. “She drew a sigh, and stretched herself, like a child reviving, and sinking again to sleep; and five minutes after I felt one little pulse at her heart, and nothing more!”
「像羔羊一样安静!」我大声回答。「她叹了口气,伸了伸身子,像个孩子苏醒过来,又沉入睡眠;五分钟后,我感觉到她心口一下微弱的跳动,再就没有了!」
“Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?” was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair. And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish: they did not melt.
「哦,凯茜!哦,我的命啊!我怎么受得了?」这是他说的第一句话,那语气毫不掩饰他的绝望。这时他那么专注地凝视着她,我以为他目光的强烈会逼出眼泪来;可那双眼睛只是燃烧着痛苦:并没有融化。
“No!” she shrieked. “Oh, don’t, don’t go. It is the last time! Edgar will not hurt us. Heathcliff, I shall die! I shall die!”
「不!」她尖声叫道。「哦,别,别走。这是最后一次了!埃德加不会伤害我们的。希斯克利夫,我要死了!我要死了!」
“You needn’t have touched me!” he answered, following her eye and snatching away his hand. “I shall be as dirty as I please: and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty.”
「你本来不必碰我!」他顺着她的目光看去,把手抽开,回答说。「我爱多脏就多脏:我就喜欢脏,我偏要脏。」
“And for me, too,” I replied. “I’ll walk in the yard till daylight, and then I’ll be off; and you need not dread a repetition of my intrusion. I’m now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”
「对我也是一样,」我回答说。「我要在院子里走到天亮,然后就离开;你不必担心我再闯进来。我现在已经完全治好了在社交中寻乐子的毛病,不管是乡下还是城里。一个明白事理的人,应当在自己身上找到足够的陪伴。」
“Rough as a saw-edge, and hard as whinstone! The less you meddle with him the better.”
「粗得像锯齿,硬得像玄武岩!你越少招惹他越好。」
You see, Mr. Lockwood, it was easy enough to win Mrs. Heathcliff’s heart. But now, I’m glad you did not try. The crown of all my wishes will be the union of those two. I shall envy no one on their wedding day: there won’t be a happier woman than myself in England!
你看,洛克伍德先生,赢得希斯克利夫太太的心本来很容易。不过现在,我很高兴你没有试。我所有愿望的顶点,就是那两个人结合。他们结婚那天,我不会羡慕任何人:全英国不会有比我更幸福的女人!
He died blissfully, Mr. Lockwood: he died so. Kissing her cheek, he murmured —“I am going to her; and you, darling child, shall come to us!” and never stirred or spoke again; but continued that rapt, radiant gaze, till his pulse imperceptibly stopped and his soul departed. None could have noticed the exact minute of his death, it was so entirely without a struggle.
他死得很幸福,洛克伍德先生:他就是这样死的。他吻着她的脸颊,喃喃地说:「我要到她那儿去了;你,亲爱的孩子,也要到我们这儿来!」然后就再没有动过,也没有再说过话;只是继续那样出神地、容光焕发地凝视着,直到他的脉搏不知不觉地停止,灵魂离去。谁也注意不到他断气的确切时刻,因为那过程完全没有挣扎。
“When day breaks I’ll send for Green,” he said; “I wish to make some legal inquiries of him while I can bestow a thought on those matters, and while I can act calmly. I have not written my will yet; and how to leave my property I cannot determine. I wish I could annihilate it from the face of the earth.”
「天一亮我就派人去请格林,」他说;「我想趁我还能分神想想这些事,还能冷静行事的时候,向他请教一些法律上的问题。我还没有立遗嘱;我的财产怎么留,我拿不定主意。我真希望把它从地面上消灭掉。」
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