15 Preparations for a Journey准备旅行-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《小海蒂Heidi》

IXV. Preparations for a Jourmey grandmother spoke and said, "The happiest of all things is when an old friend comes and greets us as in former times: the heart is comforted with the assurance that some day everything that we have loved will be given back to us. You will come soon again, Uncle, and you, child. to-morrow?" The old man and Heidi promised her faithfully to do so: then it was time tc break up the party, and these two went back up the mountain. As they had been greeted with bells when they made their journey down in the morning, so now they were accompanied by the peaceful evening chimes{① as they climbed to the hut. which had quite a Sunday-like appearance as it stood bathed in the light of the low evening sun. But when grandmamma comes next autumn there will be many fresh iovs anc surprises both for Heidi and grandmother: without doubt a proper bed will be put up in the hay-loft, for wherever grandmamma steps in, there everything is soon in right order, outside and in. XV. Preparations for a Journey The kind doctor who had given the order that Heidi was to be sent home was walking along one of the broad streets towards Herr Sesemann's house. It was a sunny September morning, so full of light and sweetness that it seemed as if everybody must rejoice. But the doctor walked with his eyes fastened to the ground and did not once lift them to the blue sky above him. There was an expression of sadness on his face, formerly so cheerful, and his hair had grown greyer since the spring. The doctor had had an only daughter, who, after his wife's death, had been his sole and constant companion, but only a few months previously death had deprived him of this dear child, and he had never been the same bright and cheery man since. Sebastian opened the door to him, greeting him with every mark of respectful civility②, for the doctor was not only the most cherished friend of the master and his daughter, but had by his kindness won the hearts of the whole household “Everything as usual, Sebastian?" asked the doctor in his pleasant voice as he .252· 15.准备版行 界上最令人高兴的事就是老朋友像以前那样来问候我 们;当我们确信曾经爱过的一切都会重新回到身边时, 人的心灵为此感到安慰。你们明天很快还会来吧,阿尔 姆大叔?还有你,孩子?” 爷爷和海蒂答应肯定会来,随后大家散了,一老一 小往山上走去。他们早上下山时有清亮的钟声问候,现 在回到山上小屋时又有和谐的钟声相伴。他们的小屋沐 ① chime Itfaimln. 钟声 浴在落日的余晖中,像是披上了节日的盛装。 秋天远方老奶奶的拜访会为海蒂和婆婆带来无数新 的惊喜;毫无疑问,放干草的阁楼上会安置一张像样的 床,老奶奶无论走到哪里,所有的一切,不管屋里屋外 都会安排得井然有序。 15.准备旅行 那位盼咐把海蒂立即送回家的好心的医生正沿着宽 阔的大街向塞斯曼先生家走去。那是个九月的早晨,阳 光明媚,空气清新而芬芳,似乎人人都会心情舒畅。但 医生走路时却双眼盯住地面,毫不理会头顶上的蓝天。 他那一向愉快的脸上充满了悲哀,入春以来头发也变花 白了。医生有个独生女儿,妻子去世之后,女儿就是他 唯一的陪伴,但就在几个月前,他的宝贝女儿死了,从 此他的生活中就再也没有了往日的开朗欢乐。 塞巴斯蒂安为他打开门,满怀敬意地问候着。医生 不仅是主人及其女儿最亲近的朋友,而且以自己的善良 赢得了家里所有人的尊敬。 ② civility [si'viloti]n. 礼貌 “一切都好吗,塞巴斯蒂安?”医生一边在塞巴斯 蒂安前面走着,一边用他那动听的声音问道。 “你来了,我真高兴。”医生走进门的时候,塞斯 ·253· I XV. Preparations for a Jourmey preceded^{①}Sebastian up the stairs. "I am glad you have come, doctor," exclaimed Herr Sesemann as the latter entered."We must really have another talk over this Swiss journey: do you still adhere② to your decision, even though Clara is decidedly improving in health?" "My dear Sesemann, I never knew such a man as you!" said the doctor as he sat down beside his friend. "I really wish your mother was here: evervthing would be clear and straightforward then and she would soon put things in right train. You sent for me three times yesterday only to ask me the same question, though you know what I think." "Yes, I know, it's enough to make you out of patience with me: but you must understand, dear friend"- and Herr Sesemann laid his hand imploringly on the doctor's shoulder -"that I feel I have not the courage to refuse the child what I have been promising her all along, and for months now she has been living on the thought of it day and night. She bore this last bad attack so patiently because she was buoyed{③} up with the hope that she should soon start on her Swiss journey, and see her friend Heidi again, and now must I tell the poor child, who has to give up so many pleasures, that this visit she has so long looked forward to must also be cancelled? I really have not the courage to do it." "You must make up your mind to it, Sesemann," said the doctor with authority, and as his friend continued silent and deiected{④he went on after a pause, "Consider yourself how the matter stands. Clara has not had such a bad summer as this last one for years. Only the worst results would follow from the fatigue of such a journey, and it is out of the question for her. And then we are already in September, and although it may still be warm and fine up there, it may just as likely be already very cold. The days too are growing short, and as Clara cannot spend the night up there she would only have a two hours'visit at the outside. The journey from Ragatz would take hours, for she would have to be carried up the mountain in a chair. In short. Sesemann. it is impossible. But I wil go in with you and talk to Clara: she is a reasonable child, and I will tell her what my plans are. Next May she shall be taken to the baths and stay there for the cure until it is quite hot weather. Then she can be carried up the mountain from time tc time, and when she is stronger she will enjoy these excursions far more than she would now. Understand, Sesemann, that if we want to give the child a chance of .254: 15.准备版行 ① precede [prit'sitd]: 位 曼先生就叫起来,“关于这次瑞士之行,我们还得好好 于...之前 谈谈;现在克菜拉的身体确实比以前好多了,你还坚持 你的决定吗?” ② adhere [ad'hia]v: 坚持 “我亲爱的塞斯曼,真没见过你这种人!”医生说 着坐在朋友身边,“我真希望你母亲能在这儿,那样的 话,一切都会清清爽爽,她会马上把一切都安排妥当 的。昨天你就派人叫我来了三次,每次都问同样的问题 而你又很清楚我的想法。” “是的,我很清楚,这足以让你对我失去耐心了 可是,我亲爱的朋友,你一定要理解”-一塞斯曼先生 乞求地把手放在医生的肩上--“我没有勇气拒绝孩 子,这是早就答应了她的,几个月以来,她在日夜盼望 着那日子的到来。上次发病,她顽强地忍受下来,就是 ③ 因为心中的希望鼓舞了她,一想到能很快去瑞士见朋友 buoy boi]v: 振奋 海蒂,她的精神就振作起来了。难道现在非让我对这可 怜的孩子说,她那盼望已久的旅行必须取消吗?她将失 去许多欢乐,我真没有勇气那么做。” “你一定要拿定主意,塞斯曼。”医生很有权威地 ④ dejected [di'dgektid] a. 情绪低落的 说,看到朋友沉默不语,一副灰心丧气的样子,他停顿 了一下,然后又说,“你自己考虑一下现在的情况。克 莱拉有好几年没像今年夏天这样病得厉害了,长途旅行 产生的疲劳只会导致最坏的后果,对克菜拉说来,肯定 是吃不消的。现在已经九月份了,那里可能还很温暖 但也同样可能已经很冷了。白天正变得越来越短,克菜 拉又不能在山上过夜,她每天只有两个小时的时间外出 探望朋友,但是从雷格兹出发得走好几个小时,因为孩 子得坐在椅子里被抬上山。塞斯曼,一句话,这是不可 能的。我跟你进去对克菜拉说,她是个明理的孩子,让 我来告诉她我的计划。明年五月份,带她去温泉浴场, 并住在那里治疗,一直住到天热。然后,经常带她上山 去,那时她的身体会健壮许多,会比现在更能感受到旅 行的乐趣。你要明白,塞斯曼,如果我们想让孩子有机 ·255· IXV. Preparations for a Jourmey recovery we must use the utmost care and watchfulness." Herr Sesemann, who had listened to the doctor in sad and submissive silence now suddenly jumped up. "Doctor," he said, "tell me truly: have you really any hope of her final recovery?" The doctor shrugged his shoulders. "Very little," he replied quietly. "But friend, think of my trouble. You have still a beloved child to look for you and greet you on your return home. You do not come back to an empty house and sit down to a solitary meal. And the child is happy and comfortable at home too. If there is much that she has to give up, she has on the other hand many advantages. No. Sesemann, you are not so greatly to be pitied -you have still the happiness of being together. Think of my lonely house!" Herr Sesemann was now striding up and down the room as was his habit wher deeply engaged in thought. Suddenly he came to a pause beside his friend and laid his hand on his shoulder. "Doctor, I have an idea: I cannot bear to see you look as you do: you are no longer the same man. You must be taken out of yourself for a while, and what do you think I propose? That you shall take the journey and go and pay Heidi a visit in our name." The doctor was taken aback at this sudden proposal and wanted to make objections. but his friend gave him no time to say anything. He was so delighted with his idea, that he seized the doctor by the arm and drew him into Clara's room The kind doctor was always a welcome visitor to Clara, for he generally had something amusing to tell her. Lately, it is true, he had been graver, but Clara knew the reason why and would have given much to see him his old lively self again She held out her hand to him as he came up to her: he took a seat beside her, and her father also drew up his chair, and taking Clara's hand in his began to talk tc her of the Swiss journey and how he himself had looked forward to it. He passed as quickly as he could over the main point that it was now impossible for her tc undertake it. for he dreaded the tears that would follow: but he went on withou pause to tell her of his new plan, and dwelt on the great benefit it would be to his friend if he could be persuaded to take this holiday. The tears were indeed swimming in the blue eyes, although Clara strugglec to keep them down for her father's sake, but it was a bitter disappointment to give up the journey, the thought of which had been her only joy and solace^{①} during the .256· 15.准备版行) 会恢复健康,就必须给予最大限度的关怀和照料。” 这时,一直默然静听的塞斯曼先生突然站起来说: “医生,请你说实话,这孩子真的还有希望恢复健康 吗?” 医生耸耸肩,平静地回答:“微乎其微。可是,我 的朋友,你得考虑一下我的处境。现在你毕竟还有一个 可爱的孩子,她需要你,在你回到家时问候你,你不会 回到一个空荡荡的家,独自一人坐在桌旁吃饭,孩子在 家里也会感到幸福和舒适。如果说她要失去许多欢乐的 话,那么从另一方面看,她会得到许多好处。不,塞斯 曼,你不那么令人同情一你还有克菜拉可以相依为 命,而我却是孤灯独影!” 塞斯曼先生在屋里来回走着,这是他思考问题时的 习惯动作。突然,他在朋友身边停下来,把手放到他肩 膀上说:“医生,我有个想法。我不忍看到你现在的样子, 你变化太大了,眼下你必须出去换换空气,知道我想怎 么办吗?请你这就出发,这次以我们的名义看望海蒂。” 听到这话,医生很吃惊,想开口拒绝,但朋友却不 给他说话的机会。塞斯曼先生非常满意自已的想法,高 兴地抓住医生的胳膊,拉着他走进克菜拉的房间。克菜 拉总是很乐意见到这位善良的医生,因为他总能讲一些 有趣的事。最近,他的确变得严肃了,但克菜拉明白其中 的原因,渴望着他能像以前那么快活。医生走过来的时候 克菜拉向他伸出手去,他在孩子旁边坐下来。塞斯曼先 生也拉过一把椅子坐下,握住孩子的手,跟她谈起瑞士之 行并说自已特别盼望它的到来。由于害怕孩子落泪,他 用很快的速度说,目前克菜拉的身体情况不允许她旅行 然后一口气说出自己的新打算,他强调说,如果医生听 他的,到瑞士去一趟,那么将会对他有很大好处。 为了父亲的缘故,克菜拉极力忍着,但那蓝色的眼 晴里还是泪光闪闪。想起自已病了这么久,瑞士之行一 ① solace solasln. 慰藉 直是她唯一的快乐与安慰,现在却得放弃,她没法不悲 ·257. I XV. Preparations for a Jourmey lonely hours of her long illness. She knew, however, that her father would never refuse her a thing unless he was certain that it would be harmful for her, So she swallowed her tears as well as she could and turned her thoughts to the one hope still left her. Taking the doctor's hand and stroking it, she said pleadingly,- "Dear doctor, you will go and see Heidi, won't you? And then you can come and tell me all about it. what it is like up there, and what Heidi and the grandfather and Peter and the goats do all day. I know them all so well! And then you can take what I want to send to Heidi: I have thought about it all, and also something for the grandmother. Do pray go, dear doctor, and I will take as much cod liver oil as you like." Whether this promise finally decided the doctor it is impossible to say, but it is certain that he smiled and said. - as your father and I wish to see you. And have you decided when I am to start?" “To-morrow morning - early if possible," replied Clara. "Yes, she is right."put in Herr Sesemann. "the sun is shining and the sky is blue, and there is no time to be lost: it is a pity to miss a single one of these days on the mountain." The doctor could not help laughing."You will be reproaching me next for not being there already: well I must go and make arrangements for getting off." But Clara would not let him go until she had given him endless messages for Heidi, and had explained all he was to look at so as to give her an exact description on his return. Her presents she would send round later, as Frauleir Rottenmeier must first help her to pack them up: at that moment she was out on one of her excursions into the town, which always kept her engaged for some time The doctor promised to obey Clara's directions in every particular: he would start some time during the following day if not the first thing in the morning, and would bring back a faithful account of his experiences and of all he saw and heard The servants of a household have a curious faculty{②} of divining what is going on before they are actually told about anything. Sebastian and Tinette must .258. 15.注备版行) 痛失望。但同时她也很明白,父亲几乎从不拒绝她做什 么事,除非他认定这件事对她不利。因此克菜拉尽力忍 住眼泪,开始考虑那剩下的一线希望。她拉住医生的手 摩着,恳求道: “亲爱的医生,你会去看望海蒂,是不是?然后你 可以回来告诉我,那山上怎么样,海蒂和爷爷还有彼得 和山羊整天都干些什么。我对他们都记得非常清楚!你 可以帮我带些东西给海蒂,这我都想好了,还要给婆婆 带些。亲爱的医生,答应我去吧!我会听你的话,多吃 鱼肝油。” 不知是否由于这最后一句允诺使医生下了决心, 他 微笑着说: ① )plump IplAmpla.( 人) “那样的话,我当然得去了,克莱拉,因为你会丰 胖得好看的 满强壮起来,这正是你爸爸和我希望见到的。你决定让 我什么时候动身呢?” “明天早晨--一大早,如果可能的话。”克菜拉 回答。 “对,她说得对。”塞斯曼先生插话道,“现在正是 阳光明媚、秋高气爽的时节,不能浪费光阴;错过山上那 么美好的日子,哪怕只有一天,也会是件令人遗憾的事。' 医生忍不住大笑起来:“你接着就会怪我还没赶到 那儿了!好吧,我得走了,回去打点行装,准备出发。” 可是,克菜拉却不放他走,又给他讲了一大堆要带 给海蒂的口信儿,还嘱咐他要仔细观察的一切,回来后 好给她详细地讲讲。她要带的礼物回头再送过去,因为 得先让罗顿迈尔小姐帮忙打包,而她这会儿去了城里 这总是要花费好长一段时间的。医生表示将完全听从克 ② faculty I'faekoltiln. 能力 莱拉的吟咐,明天就出发,争取一早就走,并会把自己 所看到和听到的一切都详细地讲给克菜拉听。 家里的仆人们往往都具有一种特殊的才能,那就 是在被正式通知什么事之前就已经把它猜测出来了。 塞巴斯蒂安和蒂耐特肯定是充分地具备了这种才能 .259· I XV. Preparations for a Jourmey have possessed this faculty in a high degree, for even as the doctor was going downstairs, Tinette, who had been rung for, entered Clara's room. "Take that box and bring it back filled with the soft cakes which we have with coffee." said Clara, pointing to a box which had been brought long before in preparation for this. Tinette took it up, and carried it out dangling it contemptuously{①in her hand. "Hardly worth the trouble I should have thought." she said pertly as she lef the room. As Sebastian opened the door for the doctor he said with a bow, "Will the Herr Doctor be so kind as to give the little miss my greetings." "I see," said the doctor, "you know then already that I am off on a journey." Sebastian hesitated and gave an awkward little cough."I am - I have -I hardly know myself. Oh yes, I remember: I happened to pass through the dining room and caught little miss's name, and I put two and two together - and so I thought-” "I see, I see," smiled the doctor, "one can find out a great many things by thinking. Good-bye till I see you again, Sebastian: I will be sure and give your message." The doctor was hastening off when he met with a sudden obstacle: the violen wind had prevented Friulein Rottenmeier prosecuting②} her walk any farther, and she was just returning and had reached the door as he was coming out. The white shawl she wore was so blown out by the wind that she looked like a ship in ful sail. The doctor drew back, but Friulein Rottenmeier had always evinced{} peculiar appreciation and respect for this man, and she also drew back with exaggerated politeness to let him pass. The two stood for a few seconds, each anxious to make way for the other, but a sudden gust of wind sent Fraulein Rottenmeier flying with all her sails almost into the doctor's arms, and she had to pause and recover herself before she could shake hands with the doctor with becoming decorum^{}. She was put out at having been forced to enter in so undignified a manner, but the doctor had a way of smoothing people's ruffled{} feathers, and she was soon listening with her usual composure{} while he informed her of his intended journey, begging her in his most conciliatory voice to pack up the parcels for Heidi as she alone knew how to pack. And then he took his leave .260: 15.注备版行) 因为就在医生要下楼的时候,刚被叫来的蒂耐特就进 入了克菜拉的房间。 “把那个箱子拿去,装满我们喝咖啡时吃的那种软 点心。”克菜拉指着一个箱子说,那是早就为此准备好 的。蒂耐特拿起箱子,一脸轻蔑地晃着搬出门去。 ① contemptuously “我还以为是什么好东西呢,真不值当的。”离开 kon'temptiuoslil ad. 蔑 视地 房间时,她讥讽地说。 塞巴斯蒂安为医生开大门时,弯腰行礼,说:“医 生先生,烦劳您替我向那小姑娘问好,好吗?” “我知道了。”医生说,“这么说,你是清楚我要去 那儿的了。” 塞巴斯蒂安犹豫了一下,不自然地轻轻咳嗽了一 声,“我是--我已经--我自已也不大清楚。啊,我 想起来了:刚才我碰巧路过餐室,听到提起那小姑娘的 名字,就推测--所以我想是--” “好了,我明自了。”医生微笑着,“人们可以用头 脑推测出许多事情。再见了,塞巴斯蒂安,我会把你的 问候带到的。” 医生正要匆匆离开,却突然碰到了麻烦:街上起了 .prosecute Pprosikiu:tl! 贯彻,执行 大风,罗顿迈尔小姐无法继续散步,便转身往回返,就 在医生要出去的时候,她来到了门口,身上的白披肩被 ③ evince li'vins]v显示出 风吹得鼓鼓的,整个人看上去像一只扯满风帆的船。医 生见状向后退了几步,而罗顿迈尔小姐由于一向景仰面 前的男人,有些过分礼貌地向后退去,想让他先过。两 个人站了一会儿,互相谦让着。突然,一阵大风险些让 罗顿迈尔小姐乘着风帆吹到医生的怀里,她用力站稳脚 ④ decorum [di'ks:ram] n. 跟,等回过神来,才彬彬有礼地与医生握手。她为自己 端庄稳重 不得已的丢丑感到懊恼,但医生很有一套安抚人的办 ruffled['rafld]a.弄乱的 法。很快,这位女管家就像往常一样,姿态优雅地听医 composure [kam'pouya] n.镇定沉着 生说话了。医生告诉她说自已就要前往瑞士,很客气地 请她帮助打包,装送给海蒂的礼物,因为只有她才知道 怎么做这事。随后,医生就离开了。 ·261·