Chapter1-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《巴黎圣母院The Hunchback of Notre-Dame》

Victor Marie Hugo CHAPTER 1 The 6th of January,1482,was,a day of which history has not preserved any record.There was nothing worthy of note in the event which so early set in motion the bells and the citizens of Paris. What set in motion all the population of Paris on the 6th of January was the double solemnity②，united from time immemorial③，of the Epiphany and the Festival of Fools.On that day there was to be an exhibition of fireworks 5 in the Place de Greve,a May-tree planted at the chapel of Braque,and a mystery performed at the Palace of Justice. That morning,therefore,all the houses and shops remained shut, and crowds of citizens of both sexes were to be seen wending their way toward one of the three places specified above. It was not till the great clock of the palace had struck the hour of twelve that the performance was to begin-a late hour,to be sure,for a theatrical representation,but it had been found necessary to suit it to the convenience of the ambassadors ·002· 第一章 一四八二年一月六日那一天在历史上 并没有留下任何记载。即使是那一大早就 ①set in motion发动，调动 让钟声轰鸣、全体巴黎市民骚动不安的事 件，也不值得记上一笔。 ②solemnity/s3 lemnitr/n.严肃， 一月六日，这是使所有巴黎市民骚动 庄重 ③immemorial/mu'mo:rIal/a太 的一天，这是一个既庆祝主显节又庆祝愚 古的，极古的 人节的双重神圣的日子。在远古时代，这 ④epiphany/'pifoni/n.(神灵之)】 显现 两个节日就在同一天了。在那天，格雷沃 ⑤fireworks /fataw3ks/n.烟火 ⑥chapel"tfaepal/n.小礼拜堂 广场上有烟火展，布拉克小教堂要种五月 树，而司法宫要上演神秘剧。 因此，在那天一大早，所有的家门和 店铺都关闭了，市民们从四面八方涌向上 ⑦wend /wend/.行，走，前进 述三个地点。 specify'spestfal/.叙述 … 神秘剧一直要等到司法宫的大钟敲响 十二点的时候才开始演出。对一场戏的开 representation/reprizen'teifan/ 演时间而言，这确实是晚了一点，但是， n表示法，表现 ambassador /aem'baesada/n. 对大使们的便利而言，这又是必要的。 使 ·003· The Hunchback of Notre-Dame At this moment the clock struck twelve. The crowd clapped their hands."The mystery!"they repeated,"And send Flanders to all the devils!" "The morality immediately!"repeated the populace,"This instant! Or the sack and the cord for the commedians and the cardian!" A band of instruments,high and low,in the interior of the theater, began to play;the tapestry was raised,and forth came four persons, bepainted and bedecked with various colors,who climbed the rude stage-ladder,and,on reaching the upper platform,drew up in a row before the audience,to whom they paid the usual tribute of a low obeisance The symphony ceased,and the mystery commenced. The performers,having been liberally repaid for their obeisances with applause,began,amid solemn silence on the part of the audience, a prologue⑤，which we gladly spare the reader.. All this was really exceedingly fine;but yet,among the whole concourse upon whom the four allegorical personages were pouring, as if in emulation of each other,torrents of metaphors,there was not a more attentive ear,a more vehemently 0 throbbing heart,wilder looking eye,a more outstretched neck,than the eye,the ear,the neck,and the heart of the author,of the poet,of the worthy Pierre Gringoire.And he was completely absorbed in that kind of ecstatic contemplation with which an author sees his ideas drop one by one ·004· 巴黎圣母院 正在此时，正午十二点的钟声敲响了。 4 人们拍起手来。“演神秘剧！”人们喊 道，“让佛兰德的大使们见鬼去吧” ①populace/'popjulas/n平民，大 “立刻开演道德剧！”人们一遍一遍地 众 喊道，“马上开演！否则，我们就要杀人 啦，绞死那些喜剧演员和主教！” 。0000 这时，从舞台上传出了一阵高高低低 ②tapestry"tapistr/n.挂毯 的音乐声。帷幕被拉起来了，从幕后跳出 来四个身上涂着不同颜色的人，他们爬上 那粗糙的梯子，走到了舞台上；在观众面 前排成了一行，像往常一样，他们深深鞠 ③obeisance/u'beisns//n.鞠躬， 敬礼 躬行礼。交响乐停了下来，神秘剧的演出 ④symphony /'simfan/n.交响乐 开始了。 演员们在得到观众为他们鞠躬而回报 的慷慨掌声后，开始在一片庄严的肃静中 ⑤prologue"praulog/n.序幕 演出。这是序幕，我们很乐意让读者自己 去想象它的情形。 0米080 concourse/'kD0ko:s/n.群众 ⑦allegorical/xlr'gortkl/a寓言 所有这一切都极其美妙。但是，在听 的，寓意的 ⑧emulation/cmju'leifan/n.效 着那四个好像在相互竞赛的演员隐喻般的 法 对白的时候，观众中间没有谁的耳朵能够 ②metaphor"metofa/n.隐喻，暗 喻 比这出神秘剧的作者、诗人皮埃尔·甘果瓦 ⑧vehemently /vi:mantl/ad.热 烈地 更加专注的了，也没有谁比他的心跳得更 I ecstatic /eks'tetk/a.狂喜的 contemplation/.kontem'pleifan/ 剧烈、比他的脖子伸得更长了。他已经完 n注视，沉思 完全全地沉醉了。他沉浸在那种作者看见 ·005· The Hunchback of Notre-Dame from the lips of the actor,into the vast silence of the audience.A mind the silence of a vast assembly. The door of the platform,which had remained unseasonably closed, was suddenly more unseasonably thrown open,and the sonorous voice of the usher③abruptly④announced,“His Eminence Monseigneur the Cardinal de Bourbon!" Poor Gringoire! What he had reason to apprehend was but too soon realized.The entry of his Eminence upset the auditory5.All heads turned mechanically toward the platform.Not another word was to be heard."The Cardinal! The Cardinal!"The unlucky prologue was cut short a second time. From the moment that the Cardinal entered,Gringoire had not ceased to bestir himself for the salvation of his prologue.At first he enjoined the actors,who were in a state of suspense,to proceed and to raise their voices;then,perceiving that nobody listened to them,he ordered them to stop. All at once,what should Master Coppenole the hosier do,but rise from his seat?And Gringoire stood aghast to hear him,amid the breathless attention of the spectators,commence this abominable harangue: "Gentlemen burgesses and yeomen of Paris,I know not,by the Rood,what we are about here.Someone promised me that I should see the Festival of Fools and the election of Pope.We have our Pope of Fools at Ghent too,and,by the Rood,in this respect we are not behind your famous city.But the way we do is this-we collect a crowd,such as there is here;then every one that likes puts his head in turn through a hole,and grins at the others,and he who makes the ·006· 巴黎圣母院【 ①assembly /a'sembli/h.集合， 他的构思被演员逐一传递给了一大群静默 集会 ②sonorous/s3n3rs/a.洪亮的， 的观众时的那种狂喜的沉思之中了。 响亮的 舞台上的那扇一直毫无道理地关着的大 ③usher /Afal n.带位员 ④abruptly /'braptl/ad.突然地 门，在这时突然更加毫无道理地被打开了； 领路人突然大声说道：“波旁红衣主教大 人莅临” 可怜的甘果瓦！ 他有理由担心的事过早地发生了。主 ⑤auditory3:dtar/a听觉的 教的出现使观众骚动起来。所有的脑袋都 机械地向台上看去。除了每个人口里的 “红衣主教！红衣主教！”再也听不见别的 了。那可怜的序幕被再次打断。 卡+4 ⑥bestir /br'sta/m.激励 从红衣主教进来开始，甘果瓦就一直 ⑦suspense/ss'pens/n焦虑，悬 念 没有停止拯救他的序幕的努力。首先，他 吩咐那些犹豫不决的演员们继续他们的表 演，并且提高嗓门；随后，他发现已经没 8 hosier"hauzja/m经售男用内 有人关注演出了，他又只好让演员停下。 衣及袜子的商人 突然，袜店老板科勃诺尔从座位上站了 ②aghast/a'ga:st/a惊骇的 abominable /'bominabl/a. 起来，他要干什么？甘果瓦站在专注的观 厌的，令人憎恶的 众中间，恐惧地听着他发表一通令人讨厌 @harangue/ha'rxg/n.长篇演说 的长篇大论： burgess/b3d3rs/n.市民 “巴黎的市民们、农民们！上天作证， 我不知道我们在搞什么名堂！有人对我许 诺说我在这里能看到愚人节和愚人王的选 举。我们在格城也选过。上天作证，在这 方面，我们也不比你们一流城市差。但我 们是这样做的，就是聚集一帮人，就像这 儿一样；然后每个人轮流从一个洞里伸出 ·007· The Hunchback of Notre-Dame ugliest face is chosen Pope by acclamation-that's it." In the twinkling of an eye everything was ready for carrying the idea of Coppenole into effect. The grimaces began. Imagine a series of visages successively presenting every geometric figure,from the triangle to the trapeziumfrom the cone to the polyhedron③ The Pope of Fools was elected.“Iurrah！Hurrah!Hurrah!"”cried the people on all sides. It was,a red countenance of miraculous ugliness which at this moment shone forth from the circular aperture.After all the faces, pentagonal,hexagonal and heteroclite,that had followed each other at this window,without realizing the idea of the grotesque which the crowd had set up in their frantic imaginations,it required nothing short of the sublimely monstrous grimace which had just dazzled the multitude to obtain their suffrages Master Coppenole himself applauded; Clopin Trouillefou,who had been a candidate and God knows what intensity of ugliness his features could attainconfessed himself conquered. Imagine,if you can. The acclamation was unanimous:the crowd rushed to the chapel. The lucky Pope of Fools was brought out in triumph,and it was not till then that surprise and admiration were at their height:what had been mistaken for a grimace was his natural visage;indeed,it might be said that his whole person was but one grimace.His prodigious head was covered with red bristles;between his shoulders rose on ·008· 巴黎圣母院 脑袋对人咧嘴笑。谁笑得最难看，谁就在人 们的欢呼声中当选为愚人王。” 眨眼间，实现科勃诺尔想法所需的一 ①grimace/grt'mers/n.面部的歪 切都准备好了。 扭，鬼脸 怪笑表演开始了。 ②trapezium作ra'pi:zjam/n.梯 形，不规则四边形 想象一下吧，一连串的面孔出现了， ③polyhedron/polr'hedran/n.多 像是各种几何形状：从三角形的到梯形的； 面体 从圆锥形的到多面体的。 4。。0 愚人王被选出来了。“万岁！万岁！万 岁”人们在四面八方嚷着。 真的，这时候，一张奇丑无比的红脸 ④a即perture'epatjua/n孔，穴，缝 隙 出现在那个圆洞里。在所有的五边形、六 ③grotesque/grou'tesk/a怪异的 边形的和多边形面孔之后，出现了一张观 众以最狂热的想象都无法想象得出的丑陋 的脸。无需别的，单是这副绝妙的、怪异 @sublimely/sa'blarml/ad.高尚 地，卓越地 的丑相就已使观众目眩、博得他们的选票， ⑦suffrage /'sAfrid3/n投票，选举 权 连科勃诺尔老板也欢呼起来。曾是冠军候 选人的克洛宾·特瑞弗—天知道他如何把 这么多丑陋集于面容的一也只好认输了。 请想象这样一个丑陋的人吧，要是你能想 8 unanimous /ju:'naenimas/a. 体一致的，一致同意的 象的话。 @triumph /trarmf/n.凯旋，胜利 观众们齐声欢呼起来。人们向小教堂 挤去。他们把获胜的、幸运的愚人王领了 出来。此时此刻，人们的惊讶和赞叹才达 0 prodigious /pra'dd3as/a.巨大 的，惊人的 到了极点：人们误认为是故意做出来的鬼 脸竞然是他的本来面目；其实，可以这么 ·009· The Hunchback of Notre-Dame enormous hump①，which was counterbalanced by a protuberance②in front;his thighs and legs were so strangely put together that they touched at no one point but the knees,and seen in front,resembled two sickles joined at the handles;his feet were immense,his hands monstrous;but with all this deformity④，there was a formidable⑤air of strength,agility,and courage,constituting a singular exception to the eternal rule,which ordains that force,as well as beauty,shall result from harmony.He looked like a giant who had been broken in pieces and ill soldered together. "It is Quasimode the bellringer!It is Quasimodo the hunchback of Notre Dame!Quasimodo the oneeyed!Quasimodo the bandy-legged! Hurrah!Quasimodo the oneeyed!Quasimodo the bandy-legged!Hurrah! Hurrah!"The poor devil,it seems,had plenty of surnames to choose among. “Let pregnant⑧women take care of themselves!”cried the scholars. The women actually covered their faces. “Oh,the ugly ape!”'cried one.. “And as mischievous⑨as ugly,”said another. “'Tis the devil himself!”exclaimed a third. “Deaf”cried the hosier,with a Flemish horse-laugh.“By the Rood! He is an accomplished Pope!" "A devil of a fellow!"sighed Rohin Poussepain,aching all over from the effects of his fall."He appears-he is hunch-backed.He walks-he is bandy-legged.He looks at you-he is one-eyed.You talk to him-he is deaf!And what use does this Polyphemus make of his tongue,I wonder?” ·010·