《呼啸山庄》开篇：英文原著带中文翻译

1801. —I have just returned from a visit to my landlord —the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist’s heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still further in his waistcoat, as I announced my name.

1801年。我刚刚拜访过我的房东回来，就是那个将要给我惹麻烦的孤独的邻居。这儿可真是一个美丽的乡间！在整个英格兰境内，我不相信我竟能找到这样一个能与尘世的喧嚣完全隔绝的地方。一个厌世者的理想的天堂。而希刺克厉夫和我正是分享这儿荒凉景色的如此合适的一对。一个绝妙的人！在我骑着马走上前去时，看见他的黑眼睛缩在眉毛下猜忌地瞅着我。而在我通报自己姓名时，他把手指更深地藏到背心袋里，完全是一副不信任我的神气。刹那间，我对他产生了亲切之感，而他却根本未察觉到。

“Mr. Heathcliff?” I said.

「希刺克厉夫先生吗？」我说。

A nod was the answer.

回答是点了一下头。

“Mr. Lockwood, your new tenant, sir. I do myself the honour of calling as soon as possible after my arrival, to express the hope that I have not inconvenienced you by my perseverance in soliciting the occupation of Thrushcross Grange: I heard yesterday you had had some thoughts —”

「先生，我是你的新租户，洛克乌德。我一到达就尽快来拜访你，是希望我没有因为坚持要租画眉田庄而给你带来不便。我昨天听说你曾有些想法……」

“Thrushcross Grange is my own, sir,” he interrupted, wincing. “I should not allow anyone to inconvenience me, if I could hinder it —walk in!”

「画眉田庄是我的，先生，」他打断我的话，畏缩了一下。「只要我能阻止，我就不允许任何人给我带来不便。进来吧！」

The “walk in” was uttered with closed teeth, and expressed the sentiment, “Go to the Deuce”: even the gate over which he leant manifested no sympathising movement to the words; and I think that circumstance determined me to accept the invitation: I felt interested in a man who seemed more exaggeratedly reserved than myself.

「进来吧」这句话是从牙缝里挤出来的，表达的情绪是「见鬼去吧」。就连他倚着的那扇门，对这句话也没有表示同情的动静。我想，正是这种情况使我下定决心接受邀请。我对一个似乎比我还要过分矜持的人产生了兴趣。

When he saw my horse’s breast fairly pushing the barrier, he did put out his hand to unchain it, and then sullenly preceded me up the causeway, calling, as we entered the court —“Joseph, take Mr. Lockwood’s horse; and bring up some wine.”

当他看见我的马胸脯真的在推门时，他确实伸出手来解开了链子，然后阴沉地走在我前面，上了石铺路。我们走进院子时，他喊道：「约瑟夫，把洛克乌德先生的马牵走，拿些酒来。」

“Here we have the whole establishment of domestics, I suppose,” was the reflection suggested by this compound order. “No wonder the grass grows up between the flags, and cattle are the only hedge-cutters.”

「这大概就是他们家的全部仆人了，」这道混合命令使我想到。「难怪石板缝里长草，只有牛来修剪树篱了。」

Joseph was an elderly, nay, an old man: very old, perhaps, though hale and sinewy. “The Lord help us!” he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.

约瑟夫是个上了年纪的人，不，是个老头：也许很老了，不过还健壮，筋骨很好。「上帝保佑我们！」他接过我的马时，低声地自言自语，带着一种不悦的怨气。同时他那么酸溜溜地看着我的脸，于是我宽厚地猜想，他一定需要上帝的帮助来消化他的晚餐，而他虔诚的感叹与我的意外光临毫无关系。

Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff’s dwelling. “Wuthering” being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun. Happily, the architect had foresight to build it strong: the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, and the corners defended with large jutting stones.

呼啸山庄是希刺克厉夫先生的住宅名称。「呼啸」是一个意味深长的内地形容词，形容这地方在风暴天气里所受的大气骚动。的确，他们那儿时时刻刻一定有着纯净、振奋的通风。只需看看宅子尽头那几棵矮小的枞树过度倾斜，还有那一排瘦削的荆棘都向着一个方向伸展枝条，仿佛在向太阳乞讨，就可以猜想到北风吹过边缘的力量了。幸而建筑师有先见之明，把它造得很坚固：窄窗深深地嵌在墙里，墙角有大块凸出的石头防护着。

Before passing the threshold, I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque carving lavished over the front, and especially about the principal door; above which, among a wilderness of crumbling griffins and shameless little boys, I detected the date “1500,” and the name “Hareton Earnshaw.” I would have made a few comments, and requested a short history of the place from the surly owner; but his attitude at the door appeared to demand my speedy entrance, or complete departure, and I had no desire to aggravate his impatience previous to inspecting the penetralium.

在跨过门槛以前，我停下来欣赏正面，尤其是正门上大量奇形怪状的雕刻。在正门上方，在一大堆 crumbling 的狮身鹫首怪兽和不知羞的小男孩中间，我发现了「1500」这个年份和「哈里顿·恩萧」这个名字。我本想评论几句，并请这位乖戾的房主简单介绍一下这地方的历史。可是他在门口的态度似乎要求我赶快进去，或者干脆离开。在参观内室之前，我可不想加剧他的不耐烦。