1 Story of the Door一扇门的故事-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《化身博士The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde》

#AeenCeu CReve Story of the Door Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged^{} countenance② that was never lighted by a smile: cold, scanty③ and embarrassed in discourse④: backward in sentiment; lean^{}, long, dusty, dreary^} and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently^{} human beaconed{} from his eye: something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life. He was austere^{} with himself: drank gin when he was alone, to mortifya taste for vintages^{}: and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years. But he had an approved{②} tolerance for others sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds: and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove{}."I incline to Cain's heresy,"he used to say quaintly^{④ "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way." In this character, it was freauently his fortune to be the last reputable^{}acguaintance^{①} and the las .002. 一扇门的故事 ① rugged ['ragid]a.粗糙 厄塔森先生是一名律师,他面部线条粗扩,从未露出 的;有皱纹的 ② countenance 过微笑。他情感内敛,交流时冷漠、寡言、局促。他瘦高 ['kauntanansln. 面容 个头,缺乏活力,沉闷阴郁,但有时不知怎么的也让人觉 ③ scanty 'skaenti]a. 吝啬的 得可爱。好友相聚的时候,一旦酒对了他的胃口,他的双 ④ discourse [dis'ko:sln. 谈话 lean lli:n]a.瘦的:精瘦的 眼就会流露出异常柔和的温情,这种温情在他平日的言语 dreary [driari]a. 忧郁 中是一工点都感受不到的,但却能在他酒后沉默的面容中 的,沉闷的 eminently l'eminantli] 悄然体现,当然,他平日里的所作所为、为人处世中也时 ad.明显地,突出地 时流露出敦厚、温情的一面。他生活朴素,自我约束极头 ⑧ beacon ['bi:kan]v 像灯 塔般照耀 严厉:一个人的时候若想念葡萄佳酿了,会喝点杜松子酒 austere [o'stia]a. 严格律 解解惨:他非常喜欢看戏剧,却有整整二十年不曾光顾过 己的,自我约束的 mortify I'mo:tifai]v抑 剧院。但是对别人,他却宽容得不能更宽容。有时候,他 制,克制 会好奇地想,那些整天胡作非为的人怎么会拥有那么强大 vintage ['vintid3]n.(尤 的心理素质呢,对此他甚至还有点嫉妒。但无论在任何情 指某一葡萄丰收季酸造 的)葡萄酒 况下,他都会选择去帮助这些人,而不愿加以指责。他常 approved [a'pru:vd] a. 经 常略带异趣地说:“我并不反对该隐的邪恶{,我的兄弟要是 过检验的 reprove [ri'pru:v]v责 选择堕落,我是不会阻止的。”正是因为这样的性格,对 备,指摘 于那些走向堕落的人,他往往会成为他们生命中遇见的最 ④ quaintly [kweintli] ad. 离 奇有趣地 reputable I'repjutabl] a 杜松子酒:一种价格适中的酒。 2. 受尊敬的 该隐得到邪恶:据《圣经》记载,该隐是亚当和夏娃的第一个孩子 acquaintance 后来成了人类历史上第一个杀人犯,其因嫉妒而杀害了自已的亲弟弟 [a'kweintans]n. 熟人 亚伯。 ·003· I Story of the ①oor good influence in the lives of downgoing men. And to such as these, so long as^{} they came about his chambers{②}, he never marked③ a shade{} of change in his demeanour. No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson: for he was undemonstrative at the best, and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature. It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity: and that was the lawyer's way. His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest: his affections, like ivy^{}, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness^{} in the object. Hence{}, no doubt the bond that united him to Mr. Richard Enfield. his distant kinsman, the well-known man about town. It was a nut to crack for many, what these two could see in each other, or what subject they could find in common. It was reported by those who encountered them in their Sunday walks, that they said nothing, looked singularly{} dull and would hail with obvious relief the appearance of a friend. For all that, the two men put the greatest store by these excursions, counted them the chief jewel of each week and not only set aside occasions of pleasure, but even resisted the calls of business, that they might enjoy them uninterrupted. It chanced on one of these rambles that their way led them down a by- street in a busy quarter of London. The street was small and what is called quiet, but it drove a thriving^{} trade on the weekdays. The inhabitants^{} were all doing well, it seemed and all emulously^{②}hoping to do better still, and laying out the surplus of their grains in coguetry: so that the shop fronts stood along that thoroughfare with an air of invitation, like rows of smiling saleswomen. Even on Sunday, when it veiled its more florid charms and lay comparatively{} empty of passage, the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest: and with its freshly painted shutters. well-polished brasses, and general cleanliness and gaiety} of note, instantly caught and pleased the eye of the passenger ·004. 一扇门的故事 ① solong as 只要 后一个值得尊敬的好人,对他们的人生产生最后一点正面 ② chamber I'tfeimba] n.房 影响。对于这些人,只要他们登门造访,他都一视同仁 间 ③ mark [ma:k]v显示 从不表现出一丁点的异样 ④shade[feid]n.-丝,-点 正因为厄塔森先生天生性格含蓄、矜持,而且他 demeanour [di'mi:na] n. 也以宽容、温厚与人交友,对他来说,待人以宽就是 行为,举动 一种本能。其实,一个处事谦恭的人往往会接受命运 为他安排好的朋友圈子,厄塔森先生就属于这类人 律师一般都这样。他对交友对象,并无特殊倾向。与 他关系亲厚者,要么是亲戚,要么是结识已久的熟人。 ivy I'aivi]n. 常青 他与朋友的感情也如常青藤一般,时间越长久,感情 aptness I'aeptnis]n. 才能; 越浓烈,这不,厄塔森先生与他的远亲理查德·恩菲 适合性 ⑧ hence [hensl ad. 因此. 尔德先生之间的友谊就是如此。恩菲尔德先生是镇子 所以 上出了名的花花公子。很多人都难以理解,这样性格 如此不同的两个人,究竟互相看中了对方的什么呢? 9 singularly ['singjuloli]ad 或者说,是什么共同点让他们走到了一起呢?每个星 异常地:非常地 期天下午,他俩都会出去散步,据碰见他们的人说 他俩散步的时候从不说话,气氛非常沉闷。若是途中 还能遇见个朋友聊聊天,俩人都能轻松一截。即便如此 这两人却格外重视他们的这次散步,把它当作每周最 重要的活动。为了保证这次散步能顺利进行,他们可 以取消其他的娱乐活动,其至会将公务抛诸脑后。 事情就发生在他们一次散步途中。那天,他俩来到 thriving loriaivinla. 发 伦敦闹市区的一条窄巷里。因为是周末,巷子里生意不 达的,繁荣的 像平时那样红火,显得有些安静。这里的住户看上去家 inhabitant [in'haebitant] n 境都不错,但也还能感觉到他们都很卖力,着实想要再 居民,住户 emulously I'emjulaslil ad 富裕一些,于是把剩余的钱都用在打点自家商铺门面上 竞赛性地,好竞争地 了。你瞧,巷子两边的商铺,就如两排笑容可掬的女服 ③ coquetry lkokitri]n. 卖 务员,热情邀请客人进店光顾。即使是星期天,巷子里 俏,调情 行人稀少,与平日里的热闹景象相比稍显逊色,但比起 ④ comparatively 周边那些脏兮兮的街道,这条巷子依然光芒四射,好比 [kom'paerotivli]ad. 比较 地,相较来看 森林里烧着的一团火那样亮眼。百叶窗刚刚新上过漆 gaiety 'geisti]n. 快乐. 黄铜把手擦得钗亮钗亮,窗明几净,色彩明亮,路过的 快活 客人看上一眼就会觉得赏心悦目,还能不进去光顾光顾 ·005· I Story of the ①oor Two doors from one corner, on the left hand going east the line was broken by the entry of a court: and just at that point a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable^{①} on the street. It was two storeys② high: showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower storey and a blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper: and bore in every feature, the marks of prolonged③ and sordid negligence. The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered^{④} and distained. Tramps^{} slouched^{} into the recess and struck matches on the panels: children kept shop upon the steps: the schoolboy had tried his knife on the mouldings^{}: and for close on a generation. no one had appeared to drive away these random visitors or to repair their ravages⑧. Mr. Enfield and the lawyer were on the other side of the by-street: but wher they came abreast of the entry, the former lifted up his cane{} and pointed “Did you ever remark that door?" he asked: and when his companion had replied in the affirmative. "It is connected in my mind," added he, "with a very odd story." "Indeed?" said Mr. Utterson, with a slight change of yoice, "and what was that?" "Well, it was this way," returned Mr. Enfield: "I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o'clock of a black winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town where there was literally nothing to be seen but lamps. Street after street and all the folks{ asleep-street after street. all lighted up as if for a procession and all as empty as a church--till at last I got into that state of mind when a man listens and listens and begins to long for the sight of a policeman. All at once, I saw two figures: one a little man who was stumping along eastward at a good walk, and the other a girl of maybe eight or ten who was running as hard as she was able down a cross street. Well, sir, the two ran into one another naturally enough at the corner; and then came the horrible^{} part of the thing: for the man trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming on ·006. 一扇门的故事 在一个街角处,顺左手边向东拐,走过两个门面 有一座院子。院子里竖立着一栋阴暗神秘的二层小楼 ① gable l'geibl]n. (建筑物 楼的外横墙紧紧挨着街边。底楼除了一扇门外,别无其 三角墙上部的)端墙 他。门上没有安装门钗,也没有门环,表面的漆皮起了 ② storey I'sto:ri]n. 楼层 浮泡,脏兮兮的。门上的墙体已经脱色,因为没有窗 ③ prolong [pra'lon]v延长 户,乍一看好似没有眼睛的额头。无论从哪个角度看 ④ blistered ['blistad] a. 起泡 的 这栋楼都让人觉得厌恶,满满都是航脏、长期无人照看 tramp Itraempln. 流浪者 的痕迹。流浪汉晃悠着走进去,倚在门板上划火柴;小 slouch [slautf]v 没精打 孩子们在台阶上摆起小摊;凸起的橡上有小刀的划痕 采地坐着(或站立) 应该是上学的孩子在上面试过小刀。差不多有一代人了 moulding I'mauldin]n.模 制件 这里从没有主人出现去赶走这些不速之客,修一修这破 ⑧ ravage [rava:3]n. [常用 败的房子。 复数 劫掠后的残迹 律师厄塔森先生和恩菲尔德先生当时在对面的街上 cane lkein]n.手杖;竹杖 走着,当他们走到院子入口的正对面时,恩菲尔德举起 手杖指了指门问道 “你注意到这扇门了吗?”得到厄塔森的肯定回答 后,他接着说:“这扇门总能让我想起一个非常离奇的 故事。” “哦?什么故事?”厄塔森间,语气稍微变了下。 “好吧,我给你讲讲。”恩菲尔德讲起了他的故事。 “那是在一个冬日凌晨,当时大约三点钟的样子,天 漆黑漆黑的,我从很远的地方回家。穿过城区的时候, 路上什么都看不见,一条街挨着一条街,只有一排排点 folk[fauk]n. 人们 亮的路灯,所有人应该都在酣睡中,空旷的街面犹如空 荡荡的教堂。我边走边仔细听周围的动静,听着听着, 逐渐非常渴望有警察马上出现。就在这时,我突然看见 两个人:一个个头矮小的男人,正快步向东走,还有一 个差不多八到十岁的小姑娘,正使劲从前面的一条横街 上跑过来。然后,在转角处两个人一下子撞到了一起 可怕的事情发生了:矮个子男人踩着女孩的身体走了过 去,竟然显得若无其事,留下小女孩躺在地上大声哭叫 horrible 'horablla. 骇人 你听起来好像不觉得有什么,但是眼睁睁地看到这种事 听闻的 情发生简直太可恶了。那矮个子简直不像个人,倒有点 .007· I Story of the ①oor the ground. It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish^①} to see. It wasn't like a man: it was like some damned Juggernaut. I gave a few halloa, took to my heels, collared my gentleman, and brought him back to where there was already quite a group about the screaming child. He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running. The people who had turned out were the girl's own family: and pretty soon, the doctor, for whom she had been sent put in his appearance. Well, the child was not much the worse, more frightened, according to the Sawbones: and there you might have supposed would be an end to it. But there was one curious circumstance②. I had taken a loathing{③ to my gentleman at first sight. So had the child's family, which was only natural. But the doctor's case was what struck me. He was the usual cut and dry apothecary④, of no particular age and colour, with a strong Edinburgh accent and about as emotional as a bagpipe^{}. Well. sir, he was like the res of us: every time he looked at my prisoner, I saw that Sawbones turn sick and white with desire to kill him. I knew what was in his mind. just as he knew what was in mine: and killing being out of the question, we did the next best. We told the man we could and would make such a scandal out of this as should make his name stink{} from one end of London to the other. If he had any friends or any credit, we undertook that he should lose them. And all the time, as we were pitching it in red hot, we were keeping the women off him as best we could for they were as wild as harpies^{}. I never saw a circle of such hateful faces: and there was the man in the middle, with a kind of black sneering coolness-frightened too, I could see that-but carrying it .008. 一扇门的故事 ① hellish ['helifla. 地 像那该死的印度教神车。我大喊几声,几步追了上去, (般)的 抓住那家伙的领子,把他拽回原地。那儿已经聚集了一 小群人,围着还在地上尖叫的孩子。那家伙异常冷酷 不作任何反抗,只是狠狠地朝我看了一眼。他的眼神简 直太可怕了,就那么一眼,看得我浑身冷汗直流。闻声 赶来的人都是小女孩的家里人,很快,还来了一名医生。 原来,小女孩正是被家里人派去请这位医生的。据医生 说,小女孩受伤并不是很严重,主要是受到了惊吓。到 这儿,你会认为事情就结束了吧。然而并不是这样,后 面还有稀奇的呢。看到那矮个子的第一眼,我就感到无 ② circumstance 比厌恶,当然,小女孩的家人肯定也是这种反应,这很 ['sa:komstons]n. 情形. 正常嘛。但是那名医生的反应却让我感到吃惊。他就是 情况 一名普通的药剂师,看不出年龄有多大,相貌平平,说 ③ loathing I'louòinln. 嫌恶 ④ apothecary Ia'pofakari] 话带着很浓的爱丁堡{}口音,听上去很容易动感情,像是 n.药剂师 在奏风笛一样。他竟然也跟我们一样!每次他看一眼那 bagpipe ['begpaipl n. 风 家伙,马上就脸色惨白,露出厌恶的表情,好像恨不得 笛 杀了他。我知道医生当时在想什么,他应该也明白我的 心思,我们彼此心照不宣。既然杀了那家伙是不可能的 事,我们就退而求其次,把能做的事情做好。于是,我 stink [stink]v惹人讨厌 们跟那家伙说,我们能就这件事情大做文章,而且会把 他的这桩丑事宣扬出去,让整个伦敦都知道他那臭名昭 著的名字。如果他还有朋友圈子或者任何与信誉相关的 harpy ['ha:piln. 残忍贪 东西,那么我们敢肯定,他一定会因此而失去一切。整 婪的人 个过程中,在我俩愤怒地指责、威胁那家伙的时候,我 们尽量把在场的女人拉得距离他远一点,那群女人当时 情绪太过激动,我还从来没有见过那么多人同时露出那 么愤恨的表情。那小矮个被围在中间,但是他居然还是 露出一副嘲讽、冷酷、阴森的表情。我能看出来,他也 害怕了,但是又很快就战胜了那点恐惧,真真像个恶魔 印度教神车:印度教中有一个乘车节,是纪念“世界主宰”扎格 纳特神下凡的节日,据说在此节日期间朝拜扎格纳特可以免除轮回之 劫,因此每年都有数百名狂热的教徒投身于载着扎格纳特神像的神车 之下,让车轮活活轨死,以示虔诚。 2 爱丁堡:苏格兰首府。 ·009. I Story of the ①oor off, sir, really like Satan. 'If you choose to make capital out of this accident. said he, 'I am naturally helpless. No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene.' says he. Name your figure.' Well, we screwed him up^{} to a hundred pounds for the child's family: he would have clearly liked to stick out: but there was something about the lot of us that meant mischief②. and at last he struck. The next thing was to get the money: and where do you think he carried us but to that place with the door?-whipped out③} a key, went in, and presently came back with the matter of ten pounds in gold and a cheaue for the balance on Coutts's, drawn payable to bearer and signed with a name that I can't mention. though it's one of the points of my story, but it was a name at least very well known and often printed. The figure was stiff: but the signature was good for more than that if it was only genuine. I took the liberty of pointing out to my gentleman that the whole business looked apocryphal④, and that a man does not. in real life, walk into a cellar door at four in the morning and come out with another man's cheaue for close upon a hundred pounds. But he was quite easy and sneering.'Set your mind at rest,' says he, 'I will stay with you till the banks open and cash the cheque{} myself.' So we all set off, the doctor, and the child's father, and our friend and mvself, and passed the rest of the nigh in my chambers: and next day, when we had breakfasted, went in a body to the bank. I gave in the cheque myself, and said I had every reason to believe it was a forgery}. Not a bit of it. The cheque was genuine." "Tut-tut."said Mr. Utterson "I see you feel as I do,"said Mr. Enfield. "Yes, it's a bad story. For my mar was a fellow that nobody could have to do with, a really damnable man: and the person that drew the cheaue is the very pink of the proprieties, celebrated too, and (what makes it worse) one of your fellows who do what they call good Black mail I suppose: an honest man paying through the nose for some of the .010·