Chapter26-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《巴黎圣母院The Hunchback of Notre-Dame》

CHAPTER26 Toward the evening of the same day, when the judicial offcers of the Bishop came to remove the mangled①} corpse of the Archdeacon, Quasimodo was disappeared. Many rumours were circulated respecting this affair. The general opinion was that the day had arrived when, according to agreement, Quasimodo, or the devil, was to carry away Claude Frollo, the sorcerer. For this reason the Archdeacon was not interred in consecrated{}ground. As for Pierre Gringoire, he contrived③ to save the goat, and to gain applause as a tragic writer. ... We have just said that on the day when the Egyptian and the Archdeacon died, Ouasimodo was not to be found in Notre-Dame Respecting the mysterious disappearance of Quasimodo, all that we have been able to discover is this: About a year and a half or two years after the events with which this history concludes, when search was made in the vault of 218: 第二十六章 当天晚上,当主教的司法官来到西巴 ①mangle/maengl z. 损坏 尔广场,收拾副主教被摔坏的户体时,加 西莫多已经不见了。 围绕此事引发了许多传言。人们普遍 认为,那约定的日子到了。按照约定,加 西莫多,或者魔鬼,要把克洛德·弗罗洛, 或者说那巫师带走。这就是副主教没有葬 在圣地的原因。 ② consecrated /'kpnsikreitid a 神圣的,被视为神圣的 至于皮埃尔·甘果瓦,他设法救出了那 ③ contrive /kon'trarv/ v. 设计,设 法做到 山羊,作为一个戏剧作家也赢得了喝彩。 ...... 我们在前面刚刚说过,在埃及姑娘和 副主教死的那天,加西莫多也从圣母院失 踪了。 关于加西莫多神秘的失踪,下面是我 们能披露的一切: 就在本篇叙述的众多事件结束一年半 或两年后,当人们到鹰山去寻找奥利维· ·219· The Hunch6ack of Notre-Dame Monffaucon for the body of Olivier le Daim, among these hideous carcases^{}were found two skeletons②} in a singular posture. One of these skeletons, which was that of a woman, had still upon it some fragments of a dress that had once been white: and a little silk bag braided③} with green beads, which was open and empty. The other, was the skeleton of a man. It was remarked that the spine④ was crooked and one leg shorter than the other. He must have come hither and died in the place. When those who found this skeleton attempted to disengage it from that which it held in its grasp, it crumbled{ to dust. 220. 巴黎圣母院 勒·丹的尸体的时候,在这些可怕的骸骨 中,人们发现了两具姿势奇异的敲。其 ① carcase /ka:kas/ n. P体 ② skeleton /skeltan n. 中一具是女的,上面残留着一些白色衣服 的碎片,一个嵌着绿珠子的丝绸小荷包, ③ braid /breid n. &带 已经打开了,里面空无一物。另一具是男 人的骸骨。可以明显地看出他的脊稚是弯 ④ spine /spain/n. 脊柱 曲的,一只腿比另一只腿短。他肯定是来 到那里后才死去的。当发现这具尸骨的人 disengage /drsin'geidy v. 使脱 离,解开 们试图把他同抱着的那具户骨分开时,他 crumble/krAmbl/v. 弄碎,粉碎 化作了灰尘。 22.