Chapter7-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《巴黎圣母院The Hunchback of Notre-Dame》

CHAPTER 7 Claude Frollo was,no ordinary personage.He belonged to one of those families who,in the impertinent language of the last century, were called indiscriminately haute bourgeoisie or petite noblesse He had from his childhood been destined by his parents for the Church.He was taught to read Latin,to cast down his eyes,and to speak low.While quite a boy,his father had placed him in the College de Torchi in the Universite;and there he had grown up on the missal and the lexicon⑤. He was a dull,grave,serious boy,who studied assiduously,and learned quickly.He made but little noise in his recreations,had mingled but little in the bacchanals of the Rue du Fourre,and had not cut a figure in that mutiny of the year 1463,which the chroniclers have gravely recorded under the title of "Sixth Disturbance of the Universite'”. He was assiduous in his attendance on the upper and lower schools of the Rue Saint-Jean-Beauvais.The first scholar whom the Abbe of Saint-Pierre-de-Val,at the moment of commencing his lecture on the ·068· 第七章 克洛德·弗罗洛绝不是一个等闲之辈。 ①impertinent/im'p3 tinont/a,粗 鲁的 用上个世纪不礼貌的语气说，他出自一个 2 bourgcoisic /bua3wa:'zi/n. 中产阶级家庭，或者说，出自一个小贵族 产阶级 petite noblesse(法语l小贵族 家庭。 打童年起，他父母就决意让他做神职。 他们教他读拉丁文，垂着眼睛，低声说话。 在他还是一个小孩时，他的父亲就送他到 ④missal /misol/,弥撒用书 大学城的托西神学院去；在那里，弥撒书 ⑤lexicon /leksikan/n.辞典 和辞典伴随他长大。 他本是个忧郁、严肃、认真的孩子。 6 assiduously /a'sidjoasl/ad 苦地 他学习勤奋，而且学得很快。课间休息时 他很少喧闹，几乎不参与季尔街的狂欢节， ⑦chronicler'kroniklo/n记录 在一四六三年的暴动中也没有露面，那场 者，年代史编者 暴动，史官郑重地称为“大学城的第六次 动乱”。 他孜孜不倦地前去圣约翰·博维尔街上 那些大大小小的学校里听课。当时的一流 学者，圣比埃尔·德·瓦尔修道院长在圣旺 德勒日学院讲授宗教法规时，总能看到克 ·069· 巴黎圣母院「 洛德·弗罗洛就坐在他对面的椅子上，靠着 一根柱子。他拿着墨水瓶，咬着笔杆，在 膝盖上记着。在冬天他则向手指头呵气。 第一审判员、神学博士米尔斯·德斯甲埃先 生每个星期一的早晨在雷夫·圣德尼学校开 门的时候所见到的第一位学生，就是这位 克洛德·弗洛罗。所以，这位十六岁的年轻 神父已经成为奥秘神学领域的权威、教规 ①heology0r'olbd3ln.神学 神学领域的权威、索邦神学院经院神学的 博土。 学完神学后，他又投入查理曼法典研 究中。 ②decretal/dr'kri:tl/n.教皇的教 书，教令 消化了教规之后，他又转攻医学和自 3 sanctuary/'saenktjoor/n.圣所 由科学。他学习拉丁文、希腊文和希伯来 文三种语言，当时，这三种语言好比三重 ④hoarding/"ho:dnl,贮藏 圣殿，很少有人过问：他有一种获取、积 攒知识的真正热情，这个年轻人的人生好 像只有一个目标，那就是，学习。 大约就在那个时期，一四六六年夏天 的酷热，导致了一场破坏性的瘟疫，仅仅 在巴黎子爵领地，就夺走了大约四万多人 的生命。一则流言在大学里流传：梯尔沙 普街受到这场瘟疫的影响尤为严重。这位 青年学子闻讯大惊，他急忙赶往父母住的 5 preceding/prt'si:din/a在前 的，在先的 这条街。一进屋，他发现父母已于前一夜 亡故。他的襁褓中的小弟弟无人照应，仍 然活着，正在啼哭。这个婴儿就是克洛德 ·071· The Hunchback of Notre-Dame the house absorbed in thought.Hitherto he had lived only in learning and science;he now began to live in life. This catastrophe was a crisis in the existence of Claude.An orphan and head of a family at nineteen,he felt himself rudely roused from the reveries of the schools to the realities of the world.Moved with pity,he conceived a passionate fondness for this helpless infant brother- a strange and delightful thing,this human affection,to him who heretofore had loved nothing but books. This affection developed itself to an extraordinary degree:in a soul so new to the feeling,it was like the first love.He fancied,for he was at an age when one illusion only gives place to another,that the family affections,the ties of blood,were alone needful for him,and that the love of his little brother was sufficient to fill his heart for his whole life. He gave himself up therefore to the love of his little Jehan with the passion of a character already ardent,energetic,and concentrated.He was more than a brother to the infant:he became a mother to him. Thenceforward the thought of his little brother became not only a recreation,but even the object of his studies.He resolved to devote himself entirely to the care of him,and never to have any other wife, or any other child,but the happiness and prosperity of his brother. It was at the moment when he was returning on Quasimodo Sunday from saying Mass at "the alter of the lazy,"which stood by the door of the choir 5 on the right,near the image of the Blessed Virgin,that this attention was attracted by the group of old women ·072· 巴黎圣母院 D hitherto/h1d'tu/od.到目前为 家给他留下的唯一的亲人了。他把孩子抱 止 起来，心事重重地离开了家。在这以前， 2 catastrophe /k'taestrof/n大灾 他一直只以学问和知识为重，从此，他开 始接触人生。 这一变故是克洛德生命中的危机。作为 一个孤儿，一个十九岁的家长，他觉得自 己忽然从学校的梦境中回到了现实世界。 他被怜悯打动，对这个无助的小弟弟产生 了强烈的爱怜之情—这是一件新奇、令 heretofore/hitu'fo/ad.以前 人兴奋的人类的感情。对他而言，在这以 前，他只爱书本。 这种感情发展到了一种奇特的地步： 在一个如此鲜活的灵魂里，这感情就如初 恋一般深刻。因为他正处于一个梦幻代替 另一个梦幻的年代，以为只要有家庭的爱， 有血缘联系就足够了，只要爱一个小兄弟 就能充实他的一生。 于是，他以一个性格深沉、热烈、专 注的人的全部激情去爱他的小兄弟约翰。 对于他的小兄弟而言，他不仅是兄长，而 thenceforward /ens fo:wad/ 且也是母亲。 ad.从那时，此后 从那个时候起，对小兄弟的思念不仅成 了他的一种休息，更成为他学习的目的。 他决心将全身心都投入于照顾他的小兄弟， 终身不娶不育，仅仅为小兄弟的幸福和前 途而活。 正是在复活节后第一个星期天，他给 choir /'kwala/n.唱诗班 那个“懒人祭坛”做完弥撒后往回走。这 个祭坛位于大堂正门右侧，紧挨着圣母像。 ·073· The Hunchback of Notre-Dame cackling round the bed of the foundling.He approached the unfortunate little creature,so hated and so threatened.Its distress,its deformity,its destitution,the thought of his young brother,the idea which suddenly flashed across his mind,that if he were to die his poor little Jehan too might perhaps be mercilessly thrown upon the same spot,assailed his heart all at once:it melted with pity,and he carried away the boy. When he had taken the child out of the sack,he found him to be, in fact,a monster of deformity.The poor little wretch had a prodigious wart5 over his left eye,his head was close to his shoulders,his back arched,his breastbone protruded,and his legs were twisted;but he appeared lively,and though it was impossible to tell what language he attempted to speak,his cry indicated a tolerable degree of strength and health.This extreme ugliness only served to increase the compassion of Claude;and he vowed in his heart to bring up this boy for the love of his brother,that,whatever might be in the time to come the faults of little Jehan,he might have the benefit of this charity done in his behalf. He baptized his adopted child and named him Quasimodo,either to commemorate the day on which he had found him,or to express the incomplete and scarcely finished state of the poor creature.In truth, Quasimodo,with one eye,hunchback,and crooked legs,was but an apology for a man. ·074· 巴黎圣母院 ①cackle /'kaekl/喋喋不休 围在弃婴床边高声议论的那一群老妇人吸 引了他的注意力。于是，他走向那个招人 憎恶、正受到威胁的不幸的小生命。那种 2destitution /desti'tju:fon/n. ® 惨状，那种畸形，那种被抛弃的命运，使 他想到了他的小兄弟，他脑海突然闪出一 个念头：若是他死了，可怜的小约翰也可 得assail/'se/k,攻击 能被扔在同一地方，这顿时使他的心神震 动，怀着恻隐之心，他把孩子抱走了。 当他把孩子从麻袋里拿出来之后，他 ④prodigious/pra'did3os/a巨大 发现他果真是个畸形怪物。这个可怜的小 的 wart /wo:t/n.(皮肤上的疣，衮 东西左眼有个大肉疣，脑袋缩在两肩中， 子 背是驼的，胸骨突起，双腿蜷缩，但是看 起来生气勃勃。虽然并不清楚他试图说何 种语言，但是他的哭声却显示出某种力量 和健康。这种极端的丑陋反而更加激发了 克洛德的同情心，他在心里暗暗发誓，为 了对他小兄弟的爱，他要把这小孩养大成 人。不论小约翰将来犯下什么过失，都可 以从这件以他名义做的善事上得到补偿。 他对养子进行洗礼，并取名为加西莫 baptize /baep'taz/n.给…施 洗礼 多。他或者是想纪念收养这小孩的日子， commemorate /ka'memoreit/v. 或者表示这可怜虫的残废和发育不全。确 纪念 实，加西莫多独眼、驼背、罗圈腿，只是 人类的类似物罢了。 ·075·