CHAPTER 3 第三章-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《简·爱Jane Eyre》

CHAPTER 3 The good apothecary appeared a little puzzled.I was standing before him:he fixed his eyes on me very steadily:his eyes were small and gray,not very bright;but I dare say I should think them shrewd now:he had a hard-featured yet good-natured looking face.Having considered me at leisure,he said,'What made you ill yesterday?' 'She had a fall,'said Bessie,again putting in her word. Fall!why,that is like a baby again!Can't she manage to walk at her age?She must be eight or nine years old.' ‘I was knocked down,'was the blunt④explanation,jerked⑤out of me by another pang of mortified pride;'but that did not make me ill,'I added;while Mr Lloydd helped himself to a pinch of snuff 'The fall did not make you ill;what did,then?'pursued Mr Lloyd,when Bessie was gone. 'I was shut up in a room where there is a ghost,till after dark.' ·010· 第三章 Dapothecary /oppBakeri/n. 药剂师，药师 好心的药剂师显得有些莫明其妙。我站在 他面前，他目不转睛地瞧着我。他的眼睛小且 ②shrewd∫ru:d/a精明的 呈灰色，并不明亮，但我应当说现在我认为它 们非常锐利。他的相貌严厉而温和，他从容地 ③leisure/le3a/m.空闲，闲暇 打量了我一番后说：“昨天你怎么得的病？” “她跌了一跤。”贝茜又插嘴说。 “跌跤！那是小孩子的把戏！她这样年纪 还不会走路？她总得有八九岁了吧。” ④blunt/blant/a钝的 “我被人打倒了，”自尊心再次受到伤害引 ⑤jekd33k/r.急拉，急动 起的一阵痛楚使我冒昧地作了这样的辩解， @pang /pae可n.剧痛，悲痛 ⑦mortify/mo:tifa/数.抑制， “但那并没有使我生病。”我趁劳埃德先生取了 苦修 一撮鼻烟吸起来时接着说。 8 pinch /pintf/n.撮 ⑨snuf/snf/n.典烟 40444 “跌跤不会使你生病，那么是什么原因 呢？”当贝茜一离开，劳埃德先生赶紧问道。 “他们把我关在一间闹鬼的房子里，直到 天黑。” ·011· JaneEyre I saw Mr Lloyd smile and frown at the same time.'Ghost! What,you are a baby after all!You are afraid of ghosts?' 'Of Mr Reed's ghost I am;he died in that room,and was laid out there.Neither Bessie nor any one else will go into it at night,if they can help it;and it was cruel to shut me up alone without a candle-so cruel that I think I shall never forget it.' 'Nonsense!And is it that makes you so miserable?Are you afraid now in daylight?' 'No:but night will come again before long;and besides,I am unhappy-very unhappy,for other things.' 'What other things?Can you tell me some of them?' 'For one thing,I have no father or mother,brothers or sisters.' 'You have a kind aunt and cousins.' Again I paused;then bunglingly③enounced④， 'But John Reed knocked me down,and my aunt shut me up in the red-room.' Mr Lloyd a second time produced his snuffbox. Would you like to go to school?' 'I should indeed like to go to school,'was the audible conclusion of my musings ·012· 简·爱 ①fowm/fraun/.皱眉头 我看到劳埃德先生微微一笑，又皱了皱 眉，“鬼！哎，你毕竞是个孩子！你怕鬼吗？” “我怕里德先生的鬼魂，他就死在那间房 子里，还停在那儿。如果有别的办法，贝茜和 其他人晚上都不进那个房间。把我一个人关在 里面，也没有蜡烛，心肠那么狠，我一辈子都 ②miserable'mrzarabl/a.悲 不会忘。” 惨的，痛苦的 “胡说！就因为这个使你难过的吗？现在 大白天你还怕吗？” “现在不怕，不过黑夜马上就要来临。除 此之外，我不快乐，很不快乐，因为其他的事 情。” “其他什么事？能说些给我听听吗？” “一方面是因为我没有父母，也没有兄弟 bunglingly /'banglini/ad. 笨拙地 姐妹。” ④enounce'nauns/r.声明， 说 “可是你有一位和蔼的舅母和表兄妹们。” 我又停住了，随后笨笨磕磕地说： “就是约翰·里德把我打倒了，而舅妈又把 我关进红房子。” 劳埃德先生又一次掏出了鼻烟盒。 indeed /in'did/ad.的确， .w..o 真正地 ⑥audible/3:dbo/a听得见 “你想上学吗？” 的 ⑦musing/'mju:zm/n沉思， 44440 暝想 “我真的愿意去上学，”这是我沉思之后轻 声说出的结论。 ·013·