CHAPTER 13 第十三章-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《简·爱Jane Eyre》

CHAPTER 13 _. 'Ah! in that case I must abridge{}. Opening the window, I walked in upon them; liberated Celine from my protection; gave her notice to vacate ② her hotel; offered her a purse for immediate exigencies; disregarded screams, hysterics③, prayers, protestations, convulsions^④; made an appointment with the vicomtefor a meeting at the Bois de Boulogne. Next morning I had the pleasure of encountering him; left a bullet in one of his poor etiolated{*} arms, feeble as the wing of a chicken in the pip, and then thought I had done with the whole crew. But unluckily the Varens, six months before, had given me this fillette Adele, who, she affirmed, was my daughter; and perhaps she may be, though I see no proofs of such grim paternity} written in her countenance{}: Pilot is more like me than she. Some years after I had broken with the mother, she abandoned{②}her child, and ran away to Italy with a musician or singer. I acknowledged no natural claim on Adèle's part to be supported by me, nor do I now acknowledge any, for I am not her father: but hearing that she was quite destitute{, I e'en took the poor thing out of the slime{} and mud of Paris, and transplanted^{*} it 078. 第十三章 ...... ① abridge /a'brid3/ t. 删节, “噢!那样我就只好从简了。我打开落地 缩短 窗,朝他们走去,解除了对塞莉纳的保护,通 ② vacate /va'kett/ v. 空出 知她离开房子,给了她一笔钱以备眼前急用. ③hysterics /hr'sterks/ n. 歇 斯底里症的发作,发疯 不去理踩她的哭叫,歇斯底里,恳求、抗议和 ④ convulsion /kon'vAlfan/ n. 震动,动乱 疗孪,跟那位子爵约定在布洛尼树林决斗的时 5vicomte /vr'kt/ n. 子晋 间。第二天早晨,我有幸遇见他,在他如同锥 ctiolate /i:t1aoleit/ v. 变青 白,变苍白 鸡翅膀那么弱不禁风的可怜的一条胳膊上留下 了一颗子弹,随后我认为我已了结同这伙人的 关系。可是不幸的是,这位瓦伦在六个月前给 了我这个小姑娘阿黛勒,一口咬定她是我的女 儿。也许她是,尽管我从她脸上看不到任何她 7 paternity /pa'ta:nitv n. 父 系,父系后斋 严厉父亲的影子。派洛特还比她更像我呢。我 ⑧ countenance /kauntInans n.面容 同瓦伦决裂后几年,瓦伦遗弃了孩子,同一个 ② abandon /'bendan/c 放 音乐家或是歌唱家私奔到了意大利。我并没有 弃,遗弃 destitute /destitju:t/ a 困 承认自已有抚养阿黛勒的义务,就是现在也不 穷的 slime /slam/ n. 烂泥 承认,因为我不是她的父亲,不过一听到她孤 ② transplant /traens'pla:nt/ v. 苦伶仃,我便把这个可怜虫带出了巴黎的泥 移居 ·079. JaneFyre here, to grow up clean in the whol esome soil of an English country garden. Mrs Fairfax found you to train it; but now you know that it is the illegitimate{①} offspring②} of a French opera-girl, you will perhaps think differently of your post and protégée③: you will be coming to me some day with notice that you have found another place-that you beg me to look out for a new governess, -eh?' 'No, Adele is not answerable for either her mother's faults or yours: I have a regard for her; and now that I know she is, in a sense, parentless-forsaken by her mother and disowned by you, sir-I shall cling closer to her than before. How could I possibly prefer the spoilt pet of a wealthy family, who would hate her governess as a nuisance④, to a lonely little orphan who leans towards her as a friend?' And was Mr Rochester now ugly in my eyes? No, reader: gratitude and many associations{③}, all pleasurable and genial{}, made his face the object I best liked to see; his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire. Yet I had not forgotten his faults: indeed, I could not, for he brought them frequently before me. He was proud, sardonic^}, harsh to inferiority{} of every description: in my secret soul I knew that his great kindness to me was balanced by unjust severity to many others. He was moody, too, unaccountably so; I more than once, when sent for to read to him, found him sitting in his library alone, with his head bent on his folded arms: and, when he looked up, a morose^{}, almost a malignant^{} scowl!{} blackened his features. But I believed that his moodiness, his harshness, and his former faults of morality(I say former, for now he seemed corrected of them) had their .08o. 简·爱) 坑,转移到这里,让她在英国乡间花园健康的 土壤中干干净净地成长,费尔法克斯太太找到 ① illegitimate /alr'dsutimt/ a 非法的,私生的 了你来培养她;而现在,你知道她是一位法国 ② offspring /pfsprin/ n. 子 孙,后代 歌剧女郎的私生女了,你也许对自已的职位和 ③ protegee /prp'ti3ev/ n. 女 保护人身份改变了想法,说不定哪一天你会来 被保护者 见我,通知我已经找到了别的工作,让我另请 一位新的家庭教师等等呢?” “不,阿黛勒不应对她母亲和你的过失负 责。我很关心她,现在我知道她在某种意义上 说没有父母--被她母亲抛弃,而又不被你承 ④ nuisance /'nju:sns/ n. 讨厌 认,先生--我会比以前更疼爱她。我怎么可 的人 能会喜欢一个被宠坏的讨厌家庭教师的富贵子 弟,而不喜欢像朋友一样对待她的孤苦无依的 小孤儿呢?” ..... association /asoosI'etfan 在我的眼睛里,罗切斯特先生现在还很丑 n.交往 genial /d3ì'naial/ a. 和ō 吗?不,读者。感激之情以及很多愉快亲切的 的,亲切的 联想,使他的脸成为我最爱看的东西了。房间 sardonic /so:'dpntk/ a. 嘲 里有他的存在比生了最旺的火还更令人高兴 笑的,讥讽的 不过我并没有忘记他的缺陷。说实话,要忘也 8 inferiority /in.ftarr'priti/ n 自卑,次等 忘不了,因为那些在我面前不断地暴露出来。 他高傲、刻薄、粗暴地对待不如他的人。我心 里非常明白,他对我深情厚意,但被对很多其 他人不当的严厉抵消了。他还郁郁不欢,简直 morose /ma'raos/ a. 郁闷 到了不可理解的程度。我被叫去读书给他听 的,乖僻的 o maligmant /mo'lgnant/ a 时,曾不止一次地发现他独自一人坐在图书室 有恶意的 里,脑袋伏在紧抱的双臂上。他抬头时,闷闷 scowl /skaul/ n. 愁容 ·081· JaneEyre source in some cruel cross of fate. I believed he was naturally a man of better tendencies, higher principles, and purer tastes than such as circumstances had developed, education instilled ①, or destiny encouraged. I thought there were excellent materials in him; though for the present they hung together somewhat spoiled and tangled②. I cannot deny that I grieved for, his grief, whatever that was, and would have given much to assuage③ it. Though I had now extinguished my candle and was laid down in bed, I could not sleep for thinking of his look when he paused in the avenue, and told how his destiny had risen up before him, and dared him to be happy at Thornfield. .__ Something creaked: it was a door ajar; and that door was Mr Rochester's, and the smoke rushed in a cloud from thence. I thought no more of Mrs Fairfax; I thought no more of Grace Poole, or the laugh: in an instant, I was within the chamber. Tongues of flame darted round the bed: the curtains were on fire. In the midst of blaze and vapour, Mr Rochester lay stretched motionless, in deep sleep 'Wake! wake! ' I cried. I shook him, but he only murmured and turned: the smoke had stupefied④} him. Not a moment could be lost: the very sheets were kindling. I rushed to his basin and ewer}; fortunately, one was wide and the other deep, and both were filled with water. I heaved them up, deluged{} the bed and its occupant, flew back to my own room,brought my own water-jug,baptized{} the couth afresh, and, by God's aid, succeeded in extinguishing the flames which were devouring it. .082. 简·爱) 不乐近乎恶意的怒容使他的脸色铁青。不过我 相信他的郁闷、他的粗暴和他以前道德上的过 错(我说“以前”,因为现在他似乎已经改正 ①instill/n'stulr.滴注,逐渐 灌翰 了)都来源于他命运中某些艰苦的磨难。我相 ② tangle /taenal v. 使缠结 信,比起那些受环境熏陶、教育启迪或者命运 鼓励的人来,他天生就有更好的志向、更高的 准则和更纯的旨趣。我想他身上有些非常好的 ③ assuage /s'sweid3/ v. 缓和 镇定 东西,只是目前给糟塌了,揽乱在一起。我无 法否认,不管是什么样的哀伤,我为他的哀伤 而哀伤,并且愿意尽我所能减轻它。 虽然我已经灭了蜡烛,躺在床上,但一想 起他在林荫道上停下脚步来的神色,我便无法 入睡。那时他说命运之神已出现在他面前,并 且问他敢不敢在桑菲尔德获得幸福 ...... 什么东西吱咯一声:那是一扇半掩的门, 罗切斯特先生的房门,团团烟雾从里面冒出 来。我不再去想费尔法克斯太太,也不再去想 格雷斯·普尔,或者那笑声。一瞬间,我进了 他的房间里。火舌从床的四周跳动,帐蠖已经 起火。在火光与烟雾的包围中,罗切斯特先生 ④ stupefy /stju:pifav/ v. 使茫 然,吓呆 舒展着身子,一动不动地睡得很熟。 ewer/joa/ n. 大□水罐 “醒醒!醒醒!”我叫着推他,可是他只是 dcluge /delju:dy r. 使泛 咕了一下,翻了一个身,烟雾熏得他麻木 滥,淹没 了,一刻也不能再耽搁了:床单都着了。我冲 baptize /baep'tarz/ u. 给...._施洗礼 到他的脸盆和水罐前,幸好一个大,一个深 都装满了水。我举起来,把水倒在床上和人身 ·083· JaneEyre The hiss of the quenched{ element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash②of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed③, roused Mr Rochester at last. Thought it was now dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water. 'Is there a flood?' he cried 'No, sir,' I answered; 'but there has been a fire: get up, do; you are quenched now; I will fetch you a candle.' 'In the name of all the elves^*} in Christendom, is that Jane Eyre?' he demanded. 'What have you done with me, witch, sorceress? Who is in the room besides you? Have you plotted^{} to drown me?' 'I will fetch you a candle, sir; and, in Heaven's name, get up. Somebody has plotted something: you cannot too soon find out who and what it is.' 'There! I am up now; but at your peril^{} you fetch a candle yet: wait two minutes tillI get into some dry garments, if any dry there be-yes, here is my dressing-gown. Now run!' I did run; I brought the candle which still remained in the gallery. He took it from my hand, held it up, and surveyed the bed, all blackened and scorched, the sheets drenched y, the carpet round swimming in water. 'What is it? and who did it?' he asked. I briefly related to him what had transpired^{}: the strange laugh I had heard in the gallery: the step ascending to the third story; the smoke-the smell of fire which had conducted me to his room: in what ·084· 简·爱) ①quench /kwent f/ t. 熄减 上,飞跑回自己的房间,取了我的水罐,再来 一次洗礼。感谢上帝,我终于扑灭了正要吞没 ② splash /splaef/ n. 飞溅的水 床榻的火焰 ③bestow /br'stou/ c. 授予,使 用 被浇灭的火焰发出的丝丝声,我倒完水随 ④ fulminating / fAlmIneitin a. 呵斥的,爆发性的 手扔掉的水罐的破裂声,尤其是我慷慨赐予的 5 anathema /s'naeermo/ n. 咒 淋浴的哗啦声,最后终于把罗切斯特先生惊醒 这 了。尽管此刻漆黑一片,但我知道他醒了,因 为我听见他一发现自已躺在水潭之中,便发出 了奇怪的咒骂声。 “发大水了吗?”他叫道。 “没有,先生,”我回答,“不过是一场火 clf/elf/ n. 精灵 sorceress /'so:soris/ n. 女度 灾,起来吧,你湿透了,我去拿支蜡烛。” 法师,女巫 ⑧ plot /plpt/t. 密谋,计划 “以基督世界所有精灵的名义起誓,是简 爱吗?”他问,“你把我怎么啦,女巫,妖婆 除了你,房间里还有谁,你要阴谋要把我淹死 吗?” “我去给你拿支蜡烛,先生,皇天在上 peril/peril/n. 危险,冒险 快起来吧。有人捣鬼。你应该马上调查是谁干 的,究竟怎么回事。” “瞧!我起来了。不过你还得冒险去取一 支蜡烛来,等我两分钟,让我穿上件干外衣。 要是还有一一这是我的晨衣,现在你快跑!” 我确实跑了,取了仍然留在走廊上的蚌 p drench /drentf.. 湿 烛。他从我手里把蜡烛拿走,举得高高的,仔 细察看着床铺,只见一片焦黑,床单湿透了, 周围的地毯浸在水中 n transpire /traens'paia/ v. 发 “怎么回事?谁于的?”他问。 生 我简要地向他叙述了一下事情的经过:我 在走廊上听到的奇怪笑声;登上三楼去的脚步 ·085· JaneFyre state I had found matters there, and how I had deluged him with all the water I could lay hands on. He listened very gravely; his face, as I went on, expressed more concern than astonishment; he did not immediately speak when I had concluded. ._. .086. 简·爱) 声;还有那烟雾--那火烧味如何把我引到了 他的房间;那里的一切处在什么样的情况下; 我又如何把我手头的水泼在他身上。 他十分严肃地倾听着。我继续谈下去,他 脸上露出的表情忧虑甚于惊讶。我讲完后他没 有马上开口。 ...... ·087·