Chapter6 巴斯克维尔庄园-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《福尔摩斯探案经典之巴斯克维尔的猎犬The Hound of the Baskervilles》

Chapter 6 Basherville Hall Sir Henry Baskerville and Dr. Mortimer were ready upon the appointed day, and we started as arranged for Devonshire. Mr. Sherlock Holmes drove with me to the station and gave me his last parting iniunctions^{} and advice "I will not bias^{②} your mind by suggesting theories or suspicions, Watson," said he: "I wish you simply to report facts in the fullest possible manner to me. and you can leave me to do the theorizing." "What sort of facts?" I asked "Anything which may seem to have a bearing③} however indirect upon the case, and especially the relations between young Baskerville and his neighbours or any fresh particulars concerning the death of Sir Charles. I have made some inauiries myself in the last few days, but the results have, I fear, been negative One thing only appears to be certain, and that is that Mr. James Desmond. who is the next heir, is an elderly gentleman of a very amiable disposition{, so that this persecution does not arise from him. I really think that we may eliminate him entirely from our calculations. There remain the people who will actually surround Sir Henry Baskerville upon the moor." “Would it not be well in the first place to get rid of this Barrymore couple?" "By no means^{}. You could not make a greater mistake. If they are innocent it would be a cruel injustice, and if they are guilty we should be giving up all chance of bringing it home to{} them. No, no, we will preserve them upon our list of suspects. Then there is a groom at the Hall, if I remember right. There are two moorland farmers. There is our friend Dr. Mortimer, whom I believe tc .096. 第六章 巴斯克维尔庄园 到了约定的日子,享利·巴斯克维尔爵士和莫蒂默 医生都准备妥当了,我们按照事先的安排启程前往德文 郡。夏洛克·福尔摩斯先生同我一道乘车去火车站。他 ① iniunction lin'dzankfanl 嘱咐 临行前又给了我一些嘱咐和建议。 ②bias lbaiaslv 影响:影 响..以致产生偏差 “我不想做出什么解释或者说出什么疑虑,以免影 响你的判断,华生,”他说,“我只要求你把各种事实尽 可能如实地向我汇报,然后由我来完成归纳、推理的工 作。” ③bearing I'bearinl n: 关 系,关联 “哪方面的事实?”我问。 “看上去与本案有关的所有事实,不管是多么地间 接的,尤其是年轻的巴斯克维尔与他的邻居们的关系。 或者是与查尔斯爵士的猝亡有关的任何新疑点。前几 天,我亲自做过一些调查,但我担心那些调查结果都是 ④ disposition Idispa'zifanln 同案件关联不大的。只有一点似乎可以肯定,那就是詹 性格,脾气 姆斯·德斯蒙德先生,即下一任继承人,是一位年事较 高的绅土,他为人非常友善,因此他绝对不会于出这种 伤天害理的事情。我真的认为,我们在考虑嫌疑人时 可以完全把他排除在外,只考虑那些荒原一带住在享 利·巴斯克维尔附近的人。” by no means 决不 “我们首先辞掉巴里摩尔夫妇不行吗?” “绝对不行,否则你就犯下了没有比这更大的错误 bring home (to)证实(某 了。如果他们是无辜的,这样做对他们太不公平,而如 人)犯(某罪) 果他们确实有罪,这样做就等于放弃了判他们应得之罪 的机会。不行,不行,我们不如把他们留下列入嫌疑人 ·097· Chapter 6 Baskerviffe Half be entirely honest. and there is his wife. of whom we know nothing, There is this naturalist, Stapleton, and there is his sister, who is said to be a young lady of attractions. There is Mr. Frankland, of Lafter Hall, who is also an unknown factor, and there are one or two other neighbours. These are the folk who must be your very special study." "I will do my best." "You have arms^{, I suppose?" "Yes, I thought it as well to take them." "Most certainly. Keep your revolver② near you night and day, and never relax your precautions." Our friends had already secured a first-class carriage and were waiting for us upon the platform "No, we have no news of any kind," said Dr. Mortimer in answer to my friend's questions. "I can swear to one thing, and that is that we have not been shadowed{③} during the last two days. We have never gone out without keeping a sharp watch, and no one could have escaped our notice." "You have always kept together, I presume?" "Except yesterday afternoon. I usually give up one day to pure amusement when I come to town, so I spent it at the Museum of the College of Surgeons." “And I went to look at the folk in the park." said Baskerville. "But we had no trouble of any kind." "It was imprudent, all the same." said Holmes, shaking his head an looking very grave. "I beg, Sir Henry, that you will not go about alone. Some great misfortune will befall{④} you if you do. Did you get your other boot?" "No, sir. it is gone forever." "Indeed. That is very interesting. Well, good-bye," he added as the train began to glide down the platform. "Bear in mind^{②}, Sir Henry, one of the phrases in that queer^{} old legend which Dr. Mortimer has read to us and avoid the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are exalted." I looked back at the platform when we had left it far behind and saw the tall, austere^{②} figure of Holmes standing motionless and gazing after us. The journey was a swift and pleasant one, and I spent it in making the .098. 第六章 巴斯克继尔庄园 名单。对啦,如果我没记错的话,庄园里住着一个马夫 和两个荒原上的农夫。还有我们的朋友莫蒂默医生和他 的夫人,我相信医生是绝对诚实的,而我们对他夫人却 一无所知。还有那位生物学家斯塔普尔顿,以及他的妹 妹,据说是位迷人的年轻姑娘。还有住在拉夫特尔庄园 的弗兰克兰先生,他也是个情况不明的人物。最后还有 一两个别的邻居。所有这些人你都要特别注意观察。” “我会竭尽所能。” ① arms lamzl n. 武器 “我看,你带着枪吧?” “对,我觉得还是带着的好。” ② revolver lri'valval n. 左轮 手枪 “毫无疑问。无论自天黑夜,手枪绝对不要离身, 千万不要放松警惕啊。” 我们的朋友早已订好了头等车厢的座位,此时正站 在站台上等着我们. “没有,没有任何消息,”莫蒂默医生回答我朋友的 问话,“有一点我能肯定,那就是,昨天和前天都没人 ③ shadow I'faedaul v 跟踪 盯我们的梢。我们每次出去时都高度警惕,谁也逃不出 我们的视线。” “我想,这两天你们一直形影不离吧?” “除了昨天下午,我每次进城时,总会花上一整天 时间来消遣娱乐,所以我昨天下午去参观了外科医师学 会博物馆。” “我去公园看热闹去了,”巴斯克维尔说,“我们都 没遇上什么麻烦。” “不管怎么说,你们还是不够谨慎,”福尔摩斯摇了 摇头,板着脸说,“享利爵士,我请求您,以后不要一 ④befall lbi'fs:ll降临,发 个人单独四处走动。不然,您肯定会大祸临头的。您找 生 到另一只靴子了吗?” “没有啊,先生,永远找不回来了。” “可不是嘛。这事情很有意思啊。行啊,再见吧,”火 hear in mind 记住 车沿着站台徐徐移动时,他补充说,“请记住,亨利爵士 queer lkwiala. 导乎寻常 的 莫蒂默医生给我们念的那个怪异离奇的古老传说中的一句 话--邪恶势力甚嚣尘上的黑暗时刻,要避开荒原。” 火车离开站台很远了,我回头望去,看到了福尔摩 austere lo'stial a. (神 斯高大严肃的身影,仍然一动不动地仁立在那儿,目不 色、态度等)严肃的, 严峻的 转睛地盯着我们看。 ·o99. Chapter 6 Baskerviffe Half more intimate acquaintance of my two companions and in playing with Dr Mortimer's spaniel. In a very few hours the brown earth had become ruddy^{① the brick had changed to granite②, and red cows grazed^{③} in well-hedged fields where the lush^{④} grasses and more luxuriant^{} vegetation spoke of a richer, if a damper, climate. Young Baskerville stared eagerly out of the window and cried aloud with delight as he recognized the familar features of the Devon scenery. "I've been over a good part of the world since I left it, Dr. Watson," said he: "but I have never seen a place to compare with it." "1 never saw a Devonshire man who did not swear by{} his county,"I remarked. "It depends upon the breed of men quite as much as on the county." said Dr. Mortimer. "A glance at our friend here reveals the rounded head of the Celt^{}, which carries inside it the Celtic enthusiasm and power of attachment. Poor Sir Charles's head was of a very rare type, half Gaelic half Ivernian in its characteristics. But you were very young when you last saw Baskerville Hall, were you not?" "L was a boy in my teens at the time of my father's death and had never seen the Hall, for he lived in a little cottage on the South Coast. Thence I went straight to a friend in America. I tell you it is all as new to me as it is to Dr. Watson, and I'm as keen as possible to see the moor." “Are you? Then your wish is easily granted. for there is your first sigh of the moor."said Dr. Mortimer, pointing out of the carriage window Over the green sauares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a gray, melancholy{} hill, with a strange jagged^{} summit, dim and vague in the distance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream, Baskerville sat for a long time, his eyes fixed upon it, and I read upon his eager face how much it meant to him, this first sight of that strange spot where the men of his blood had held sway^{} so long and left their mark so deep. There he sat, with his tweed^{}suit and his American accent in the corner of a prosaic railway-carriage, and yet as I looked at his dark and expressive face I felt more than ever how true a descendant he was of that long line of high-blooded^{}, fiery, and masterful men. There were .100. 第六章 巴斯克继尔庄园 这是一段快捷而又舒适的行程。期间,我同两位 ①ruddy Iradila 发幻的 同伴的关系进一步密切了,还同莫蒂默医生的长耳猫犬 ②granite I'qraenit] n. 花岗岩 玩要戏。短短几个小时之后,棕褐色的土地变成了红 ③ graze lqreizlv 吃草 ④lush llAa. 葱翠的:繁 色,砖瓦房换成了石头建筑,枣红色的牛群在用树篱圈 茂的 起来的土地上吃草。如茵绿草,更显茂盛的植被,表明 luxuriant llaa'zjuariantl a 了气候更加湿润,甚至更加潮湿。年轻的巴斯克维尔急 茂盛的,繁茂的 切地盯着窗外看,当他认出德文郡那熟悉的风光时,他 高兴得大叫起来。 “我离开这儿之后,到过世界上的许多地方,华生 医生,”他说,“但我却从未见过任何一个能够同这儿相 swear by认为...极好 媲美的地方。” 对..评价很高 “我也从没见过任何一个不赞美自已故乡的德文郡 人呢。”我说。 “这既有赖于本郡的自然环境,也同时有赖于人脉 血统啊,”莫蒂默医生说,“请看我们这位朋友,他圆圆 Celt lkeltln 凯尔特人 的头颜就是属于凯尔特型的,里面充满了凯尔特人的热 情洋溢和忠诚不贰。已故的查尔斯爵士的头颜则十分罕 见,兼有盖尔人和伊弗尼人的特点。但是,您最后见到 巴斯克维尔庄园时,还很年幼,对吧?” “我父亲去世时,我还是个十多岁的孩子。先前从 未见过庄园,因为他居住在南海岸的一憧小别墅里。从 那之后,我便直接去投靠了一个在美国的朋友。实话告 诉您,我同华生医生一样,对庄园的情况一无所知,热 切地期待着去欣赏一番荒原上的风光呢。” “真的吗?那么,您的愿望很容易就能够实现了 因为那就是吴现在您面前的第一道荒原风光了。”莫蒂 ⑧ melancholy I'melankalil a 默医生边说边指着车窗外面。 令人伤感的;使人忧郁 的 眺望远方,在那被分割成一块块方格的绿色田野 jagged I'dgagid] a. 凸 上,在那由树梢连成的低矮的曲线处,一座灰暗而阴 不平的 郁、顶端崎岖不平的小山丘慢慢地升起来。远远望去, hold sway支配,统治 小山晦暗而朦胧,宛若梦中的幻景。巴斯克维尔久久地 tweed Itwi:dl n. 相呢套装 坐着,两眼紧盯着窗外,一脸热切的表情。我据此明白 了,第一眼看到这个怪异的地方对他的触动很大。毕 竟,他的同族家人管理了庄园这么多年,在此留下了深 ② high-blooded I'hai'blkdid 深的印记。他身上穿着苏格兰呢的衣服,说话时带着美 a. 血统纯正的;出身良 好的 洲口音,静坐在一个寻常火车车厢的角落里。但当我看 ·101· Chapter 6 Baskerviffe Half pride, valour, and strength in his thick brows, his sensitive nostrils, and his large hazel^{①} eyes. If on that forbidding^{②} moor a difficult and dangerous quest should lie before us, this was at least a comrade for whom one might venture to take a risk with the certainty that he would bravely share it The train pulled up at a small wavside station and we all descended Outside, beyond the low, white fence, a wagonette③} with a pair of cobs^{④ was waiting. Our coming was evidently a great event, for station-master and porters clustered round us to carry out our luggage. It was a sweet, simple country spot, but I was surprised to observe that by the gate there stood two soldierly men in dark uniforms who leaned upon their short rifles and glanced keenly at us as we passed. The coachman, a hard-faced, gnarled} little fellow, saluted Sir Henry Baskerville, and in a few minutes we were flying swiftly down the broad, white road. Rolling pasture lands curved upward on either side of us, and old gabled^{} houses peeped out from amid the thick green foliage^{}, but behind the peaceful and sunlit countryside there rose ever, dark against the evening sky, the long, gloomy curve of the moor, broken by the jagged and sinister^{} hills. The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upward through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart's-tongue{} ferns. Bronzing bracken^{} and mottled bramble{} gleamed in the light of the sinking sun. Still steadily rising, we passed over a narrow granite bridge and skirted a noisy stream which gushed swiftly down. foaming and roaring amid the gray boulders^{}. Both road and stream wound up through a valley dense with scrub oak and fir. At every turn Baskerville gave an exclamation of delight looking eagerly about him and asking countless auestions. To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside. which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year. Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered^{} down upon us as we passed. The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation-sad gifts as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles “Halloa!"cried Dr. Mortimer. "what is this?" .102. 第六章 巴斯克尔庄园 着他那黝黑而富于表情的面孔时,我就更加真切地意 ① hazel I'heizall a. 淡褐色 识到,他确是那个古老家族的后代,血统高贵,性情刚 的 ②forbiddinglfa'bidinl a. 恐 烈,高傲专横。他那浓密的眉毛,敏感的鼻子和栗色的 怖的,可怕的 大眼睛无不显示着骄傲、豪放和强大。如果我们真会在 那令人恐怖的荒原上面临困难和危险情况,至少他会是 个可靠的同伴,会勇敢地承担风险。 ③ wagonette Iwaega'netl n. 四轮轻便游览马车 火车在路边的一个小站停了下来,我们下车了。一 ④cob lkobln. 结实的短服 辆由两匹短腿小马拉着的四轮马车在低矮的白色栏杆外 马 等候着我们。很显然,我们的到来是一件大事,因为站 长和搬运工都向我们围了上来,帮着我们搬运行李。这 是一个恬静而朴实的乡村小站。但是,令我感到诧异的 gnarled Ina:ld] a. (性 是,出站口处,站着两个身穿黑色制服的人,他们像军 情)暴躁的,易怒的 人那样站着,身体倚在不长的来复枪上,两眼直勾勾地 盯着我们走过去。马车夫身材矮小,神情冷酷而粗鲁 gabled l'aeibldla. 有山墙 他对着亭利·巴斯克维尔爵士行了个礼。几分钟过后 的;有三角墙的 foliage I'fauliid3l n. (一 我们沿着宽阔的白色大道疾驰而去。道路的两旁是起伏 株植物或树的)全部叶 不平的牧草地。古老的山墙房舍穿透浓密的绿荫,露出 子:一簇叶子 ⑧ sinister I'sinista]a. 不吉 屋顶。但在这宁静而又充满阳光的村落后面,却绵延着 利的,不祥的 又长又阴郁的荒原,上面布列着几座参差不齐且险恶的 小山,在傍晚天空的衬托下,显得尤为阴暗 四轮马车拐了个弯,驶入了一条岔路。我们顺着一 hart's-tongue I'ha:tstAn] n 羊齿 条路面深陷的-这是几个世纪来被马车车轮轨成的小 so bracken I'brekanl n. 欧洲 路曲折前行。道路的两侧是高高的石壁,上面长满了湿 bramble I'brxembll n. 荆 漉漉的苔薛和枝叶肥厚的羊齿植物。在落日的余晖中, 棘:树荐 古铜色的类和色彩斑驳的黑荐闪闪发亮。我们持续往 boulder I'hauldal n. 大园 上行驶着,经过了一座窄小的花岗石桥,然后沿着一条 石:巨砾 喧闹的小河继续前行。小河水流湍急,浪花四溅,从灰 色的乱石之间咆哮而过。无论是小河还是道路,他们都 在长满了矮小的橡树和纵树的峡谷之中蜿蜒而行。每到 一个拐弯处,巴斯克维尔都会高兴得大叫起来,他眼 晴急切地环顾四周,嘴里不断问着无数的问题。在他眼 oflutter I'flatslv 飘扬,飘 落 里,一切都是那么美丽,但我却觉得这一带的乡村明显 呈现出深秋的景象,难免有一点凄凉。枯黄的树叶铺满 了整条小路,我们从那儿经过时,还有些树叶翩翩飞落 到我们身上。我们的马车从枯叶上走过,此时,辄的 车轮声也寂静了下来-我隐约觉得,这是造物主撒在 ·103. Chapter 6 Baskerviffe Half A steep curve of heath-clad land, an outlying spur^{①} of the moor, lay in front of us. On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian^{② statue upon its pedestal③, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm. He was watching the road along which we travelled. "What is this, Perkins?" asked Dr, Mortimer Our driver half turned in his seat "There's a convict^{④} escaped from Princetown, sir. He's been out three days now, and the warders^{} watch every road and every station, but they've had no sight of him yet. The farmers about here don't like it. sir, and that's a fact." "Well, I understand that they get five pounds if they can give information." "Yes, sir, but the chance of five pounds is but a poor thing compared to the chance of having your throat cut. You see, it isn't like any ordinary convict. This is a man that would stick{} at nothing." “Who is he. then?" "It is Selden, the Notting Hill murderer." I remembered the case well. for it was one in which Holmes had taken an interest on account of the peculiar ferocity{} of the crime and the wanton brutality which had marked all the actions of the assassin. The commutation{ of his death sentence had been due to some doubts as to his complete sanity, so atrocious{} was his conduct. Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy^{} cairns^{①}and tors^{②}. A cold wind swept down from it and set us shivering. Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish^{} man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy{} against the whole race which had cast him out. It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky. Even Baskerville fell silent and pulled his overcoat more closely around him. We had left the fertile country behind and beneath us. We looked back on it now, the slanting rays of a low sun turning the streams to threads of ·104· 第六章 巴斯克继尔庄国 ①spurlsna:ln. 山子,山 重返家园的巴斯克维尔家族后裔车前的不祥之物。 嘴尖坡 ② equestrian li'kwestrionl n “嘿!”莫蒂默医生大声说,“那是什么?” 骑马者 我们的前方出现了一处长满欧石南的随峭的山坡 ③ pedestal I'pedistall n. 基 座,底座 它突显在荒原的边缘。山顶上可以清楚地看到一个骑在 马背上的士兵,就像一具吃立在碑座上的骑士雕像一 样。他黜黑而严峻,来复枪搭在伸向前方的手臂上,吴 预备发射的姿势。他在监视我们要走的这条道路。 “那是什么啊,珀金斯?”莫蒂默医生问。 ④ convict lkan'viktl n. 罪犯 warder I'wa:dal n. 监狱看 车夫在座位上把身子半侧过来。 守,狱吏 “有个罪犯从王子镇逃跑了,先生,到现在为止, 已经三天了。监狱的看守们正在监视每一条道路,每一 个车站,但还没有发现他的踪迹呢。附近的农户们都感 到很不安,先生,事情就是这样的。” “啊,我知道这个,如果有人提供信息,就能得到 五英榜的赏金。” “是的,先生,但同可能会被人割断喉管相比,可 能拿到的五镑钱就显得太微不足道了。您知道,他可不 sticklstiklv. 状豫,陆 曙;有顾虑 是什么普通的罪犯,是个肆无忌惮的家伙。” “那他到底是谁呢?” “他叫塞尔登,是诺丁山凶杀案中的那位凶手。” 那梳案件我记得很清楚,罪行极其残暴,罪犯的手 ferocity Ifa'rositi] n. 凶 恶,残忍 段极其残忍,因此引起了福尔摩斯的关注。罪犯之所以 逃脱了死刑,是因为其暴行太过残忍,以至让人怀疑他 commutation Lkomiu:'tej fan]n.改刑;减刑 的精神状态是否健全。说话的当儿,我们的马车驶上了 。 atrocious la'traufasl a. 残 坡顶,呈现在我们眼前的是一片广表的荒原,还有散布 忍的,残暴的 其中的鳞响怪异的突岩和堆垒如家的乱石。一股寒风从 craggyl'kraegil a. 峻端 荒原方向吹过来,我们不禁浑身打塞战。渺无人烟的荒 的;崎岖的 原上的某个角落里,一个鬼魅似的人物正像野兽藏身干 cairn lkean]n. 石家 tor Ito:ln. 突岩 洞穴一样潜藏着。他的内心充满着憎恨,他恨所有摒弃 o fiendish I'fi:ndij] a. 穷凶 他的人们。光秃秃的荒地,冷飓的寒风,幽黑的夜空, 极恶的 malignancy Ime'liqnansil 再加上一个杀人逃犯,所有这一切都会令人感到阴森恐 n.恶意:敌意 怖。就连巴斯克维尔也沉默不语,他把大衣裹得更紧了。 我们很快驶离了丰饶肥沃的乡村。回头遥望,我们 看见在夕阳的斜照下,溪水泛着丝丝闪闪的金光,新近 翻耕过的红色土地和宽广而葱郁的林地也烁烁发亮。我 们前面的道路蜿蜒在棕褐色和橄榄色的坡地上,更显得 ·105.