Chapter18-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《巴黎圣母院The Hunchback of Notre-Dame》

CHAPTER 18 In the Middle Ages every town,and till the time of Louis XII, every town in France had its sanctuaries. When the culprit had once set foot in the sanctuary,the criminal was sacred,but he was obliged to beware of leaving it;one step out of the island-asylum plunged him again into the sea.Condemned persons thus rescued have been known to grow grey in a cloister,on the staircase of a palace,in the garden of an abbey,in the porch of a church:in this way the sanctuary was a prison as well as any place that bore the name.It sometimes happened that a solemn ordinance of the Parliament violated the sanctuary,and gave up the condemned to the executioner;but the case was rare. The churches had in general a cell appropriated to the reception of fugitives④. At Notre-Dame it was a small cell on the top of the aisle,under the fying-buttresses⑤，facing the cloisters.. Here it was that,after his wild and triumphant course through towers and galleries,Quasimodo deposited La Esmeralda. Her ideas awoke also and returned to her one by one.She saw that ·164· 第十八章 在中世纪，一直到路易十二时代，法 国的每个城市都有圣堂避难所。 一旦罪犯踏进避难所就得到了保护， 但是他必须注意不得离开。因为一走出避 ①asylum /a'sarlam/n.收容所 难岛，他就会面临灭顶之灾。已知有些罪 ②plunge/plAnd3/.使…陷入 犯就在修道院、一座宫殿的楼梯间、寺院 的花园、教堂的拱门下躲着，直到头发变 ③abbey'ebln.修道院 白。从这种意义上来说，避难所与其他监 狱一样，没有什么区别。有时，议会会发 出一道庄严的命令，侵入避难所，把罪犯 交给刽子手，不过这样的情况是很少见的。 教堂通常都有一间小屋，专门收留避 ④fugitive /fjurd3tIln.逃亡者 难者。 在巴黎圣母院，这间小屋建在飞檐拱 顶下的侧廊上，正对着修道院。 ⑤buttress /'bAtra3s/n扶墙，拱壁 加西莫多在钟楼和楼廊中狂野而又洋 洋得意地跑了一阵后，就把拉·爱斯美拉达 ⑥deposit /d'pDzt/.安置 安置在了这里。 她的记忆也复苏了，她想起了一件件 ·165· The Hunchback of Notre-Dame she was in the church;she recollected having been snatched out of the hand of the executioner;that Phoebus was alive,and that he no longer loved her;and these two ideas,one of which imparted such bitterness to the other,presenting themselves at once to the poor girl,she turned toward Quasimodo,who remained standing beside her,and whose aspect frightened her,saying,"Why did you save me?" He looked anxiously at her,as if striving to guess what she said. She repeated the question.He then east on her a look deeply sorrowful, and withdrew.She was lost in astonishment. A few moments afterward,he returned,bringing a bundle which he laid at her feet.It contained apparel which charitable women had left for her at the door of the church.He seemed to participate in this feeling of modesty.Covering his face with his large hand,he again retired, with slow step. She had scarcely finished before Quasimodo returned.He brought a basket under one arm and a mattress③under the other.“Eatl”he spread the mattress on the floor,.and said,“Sleep！”It was his own dinner,his own bed,that the bell ringer had brought her. The Egyptian lifted her eyes to his face to thank him;but she could not utter a word.The poor fellow was absolutely hideous.She drooped her head with a thrill of horror..“Ahl”said he,.“I frighten you,I am ugly enough,God wot.Do not look at,but only hear keen to me.In the daytime you shall stay here;at night you can walk about all over the church.But stir not a step out of it either by night or by day,or they will catch you and kill you,and it will be the death of me.” ·166· 巴黎圣母院 往事。她看见自己在教堂里，她想起自己 被人从刽子手的手中夺回来；弗比斯还活 着，但已不再爱她。这两个念头同时闪现 在可怜的姑娘的脑海中，其中一个使另一 个变得无比辛酸，她转过身面向加西莫多， 他依然站在她身边，他的面容吓着了她。 她说：“你为什么要救我？” ①strive/strarv/.努力，力争 他焦急地看着她，好像努力地猜测她 在说什么。她又问了一遍，随即，加西莫 多非常悲哀地看了她一眼就跑开了。她惊 讶得茫然不知所措。 过了一会儿，他回来了，放了一包东 西在她脚边。里面是那些好心的妇女放在 ②participate/pa:'tisipert/n.分享 教堂门边的衣服。加西莫多似乎感觉到了 羞赧，他用大手捂住脸，又一次走开了， 步子很慢。 她刚刚穿上衣服，加西莫多就回来了。 他一只手提着一个篮子，另一只胳膊下夹 ③mattress/maetris/n.床垫 着一个床垫。“吃吧！”他把床垫铺在地上 说，“睡吧！”原来敲钟人把自己的食物和 床褥给她带来了。 埃及姑娘抬起头看他，想表示感谢， 但却说不出来。可怜的人长得太丑了。她 吓得直哆嗦，低下了头。“啊，”他说， “我知道我吓着你了。我太丑了，不是吗？ 你不要看我，只听我说话就行了。白天你 待在这儿，晚上可以在教堂逛逛。不论白 天还是夜晚，你都不能出去一步，否则他 们会抓住你，把你杀了，那我也活不成 了。” ·167· The Hunchback of Notre-Dame She felt a hairy shaggy head rubbing against her hands and her knees.She shuddered-everything now alarmed herand looked.It was the poor goat,the nimble Djali,which had escaped along with her at the moment when Quasimodo dispersed Charmolue's brigade.At the same time,as if an invisible hand had removed the obstruction which had so long repressed her tears,she began to weep,and as the big drops trickled down her cheeks she felt the keenest and bitterest portion of her sorrows leaving her along with them. ·168· 巴黎圣母院【 ①shaggy /Jaeg/a毛发蓬松的 她觉得有个毛茸茸的脑袋蹭着她的手 和她的膝盖。她战栗着一现在什么东西 都能吓她一跳—定睛一看，原来是她那 ②disperse/dis'p3s/.分散 可怜的山羊，灵巧的雅里。在加西莫多驱 ③brigade/br'geId/n.队，组 ④obstruction/ab'strakfan/n障 逐沙莫吕尔的队伍时，它跟着她逃了出 碍 来。与此同时，好像有一只看不见的手将 长期压制她眼泪的东西拿开了，她开始哭 泣。当大颗眼泪流到她的面颊时，她觉得 她最沉重、最难以忍受的那些痛苦也随之 而去了。 ·169·