6 Incident of Dr. Lanyon兰尼恩医生的怪事…-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《化身博士The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde》

Incident of Dr. Lanyon Time ran on: thousands of pounds were offered in reward. for the death of Sir Danvers was resented as a public injury: but Mr. Hyde had disappeared out of the ken^{①} of the police as though he had never existed. Much of his past was unearthed{②, indeed. and all disreputable: tales came out of the man's cruelty, at once so callous and violent: of his vile life, of his strange associates of the hatred that seemed to have surrounded his career: but of his present whereabouts^{}, not a whisper. From the time he had left the house in Soho on the morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out{④: and gradually, as time drew on, Mr. Utterson began to recover from the hotness of his alarm, and tc grow more at quiet with himself. The death of Sir Danvers was, to his way of thinking, more than paid for by the disappearance of Mr. Hyde. Now that that evil^{} influence had been withdrawn, a new life began for Dr. Jekyll. He came out of his seclusion{}, renewed relations with his friends, became once more their familiar guest and entertainer: and whilst he had always been known for charities, he was now no less distinguished for religion. He was busy, he was much in the open air, he did good: his face seemed to open and brighten, as if .064. 兰尼恩医生的怪事 时间一天一天过去了。丹弗斯爵士的遇害引起了一 场公愤,舆论认为这是对社会赤裸裸的威胁,警方为此 ① ken ken]n. 视野,眼界 悬赏上千英镑捉拿凶手。但是,那位海德先生却从此消 ② unearth IAn's:e]v 发现 失了,再也没有进入到警方的视野之中,就好像他这个 人从来不曾存在过一样。他的过去被挖出不少,都是些 为人所不齿的恶劣行径。有说此人异常残忍、冷酷无情、 ③ whereabouts 暴虐成性;有说他生活粗鄙,与他打交道的都是一些怪 ['hweara.bauts]n. 下落 人;也有说他个人生涯中,所到之处,无不遭人憎恶。但 行踪 是,关于他当前的行踪,却查无音讯。自从凶案发生那 ④blot out(从记忆中)忘 天早上,他从苏活区那所房子中离开之后,就彻底销声 掉,忘却 匿迹了。光阴莅再,厄塔森先生也慢慢从那段焦灼、惊 恐不安的日子中恢复过来,内心里又恢复了往日的安宁。 evila.坏的,邪恶的 在厄塔森看来,海德先生的消失足以抵偿丹弗斯爵士的 seclusion [si:klu:3anln 不幸死亡,甚至还有更多意义。对杰基尔博士来说,既 隐蔽之处 然不利影响都已消除,那么他也可以开始新生活了。他 从隐居生活回到社交圈,恢复了与朋友之间的来往,重 新做回了那个大家熟悉的客人、款待者。从前,他因热 心慈善事业而声名卓著,现如今,又因支持宗教发展而 名噪一时。他整天马不停蹄地奔波着,忙着参与各种公 共事务,而且他干得还很不错。他精神头极好,容光焕发 好像打心底认为自已就该为大家服务。就这么有两个多 ·065. Incident of①r. Canyon with an inward consciousness of service: and for more than two months, the doctor was at peace. On the 8th of January Utterson had dined at the doctor's with a small party Lanyon had been there: and the face of the host had looked from one to the other as in the old days when the trio{} were inseparable friends. On the 12th and again on the 14th, the door was shut against the lawyer. "The doctor was confined to the house." Poole said. "and saw no one."On the 15th. he tried again, and was again refused: and having now been used for the last two months to see his friend almost daily, he found this return of solitude to weigh upon his spirits. The fifth night he had in Guest to dine with him: and the sixth he betook himself to Dr. Lanyon's There at least he was not denied admittance{②: but when he came in, he was shocked at the change which had taken place in the doctor's appearance. He had his death-warrant written legibly③} upon his face. The rosy man had grown pale: his flesh had fallen away: he was visibly balder and older: and yet it was not so much these tokens of a swift physical decay that arrested the lawyer's notice, as a look in the eye and quality of manner that seemed to testify to some deep-seated terror of the mind. It was unlikely that the doctor should fear death and yet that was what Utterson was tempted to suspect. "Yes,"he thought: "he is a doctor, he must know his own state and that his days are counted: and the knowledge is more than he can bear."And yet when Utterson remarked on his ill-looks, it was with an air of great firmness that Lanyon declared himself a doomed④man "I have had a shock," he said, "and I shall never recover. It is a questior of weeks. Well. life has been pleasant: I liked it: yes, sir. I used to like it.1 sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away." "Jekyll is ill, too," observed Utterson. "Have you seen him?" But Lanyon's face changed, and he held up a trembling hand. "I wish to see .066. 兰恩医生的怪事 月的时间里,博士生活得很安宁 一月八日那天,厄塔森在博士家参加了一个小宴 会。兰尼恩医生也去了。宴会上,主人一会儿瞅瞅厄塔 森,一会儿又看看兰尼恩,似乎回到了从前,他们三人 依旧是形影不离的好友。然而,一月十二日,厄塔森再 ①trio'tri:au]n.三人-组 去博士家时,却被拒之门外了。接着十四日,依旧如此。 “博士把自已关在屋子里了。”浦尔说,“他不见任何人。’ 十五日,厄塔森又去试了一次,还是无功而返。近两个 月以来,他已经习惯了几乎天天与这位老朋友见面,现 在要重新回到一个人独处的生活,他感到一时难以适应, 情绪异常低落。十六日晚上,他邀请盖斯特先生去他家 一同共进晚餐。十七日晚上,他自己去了兰尼恩医生家。 ② admittance [od'mitansl n 到了兰尼恩家,至少他没有吃闭门羹。但是,当他一 准许进入 进门看见兰尼恩的时候,却不禁大吃一惊。这位医生样貌 大变,看他那张脸,似乎明明白白地写着自已死期将至。 ③ legibly ['ledgablil ad. 易 那原本健康红润的面孔变得消瘦灰白,头发明显掉了许 辨别地 多,人也衰老了不少。但是,比起兰尼恩身体迅速衰老的 种种迹象,让厄塔森更为吃惊的是,他的眼睛里、行为举 止中都透着一股恐惧,那是一种发自内心的深深的恐惧 作为一名医生,按说他并不应该惧怕死亡,但厄塔森由不 得朝着这方面猜测。“是的,”他想,“他自已就是医生啊 他一定清楚自己的身体状况,也知道自己时日不多了。正 因为如此,洞悉这一切才让他更加不能承受。”奇怪的是 当厄塔森直言他看起来病恹恹时,兰尼恩竟语气十分肯定 ④ doomed [du:md]a. 注定 地说自已难逃一死,已时日不多,没有一丝犹豫。 的,命定的 “我最近受了一次惊吓,”他说,“再也恢复不了了。 我撑不了多久了,就几个星期吧。俟,生活曾经那么美 好,我是那么热爱生活。是的,先生,我一直非常热爱 生活。我有时候想,如果我们无所不知,那么我们一定 会更愿意离开。” “杰基尔也病了,”厄塔森说,“你见过他吗?” 兰尼恩瞬间脸色大变,他举起一只颤巍巍的手打住 话头说:“我再也不想看见他,也不想听到杰基尔博士 ·067. Incident of①r. Canyon or hear no more of Dr. Jekyll," he said in a loud, unsteady voice. "I am quite done with that person: and I beg that you will spare me any allusion^{} to one whom I regard as dead." "Tut-tut." said Mr. Utterson: and then after a considerable② pause, "Can'tl do anything?" he inauired. "We are three very old friends, Lanyon: we shall no live to make others." "Nothing can be done," returned Lanyon: "ask himself." "He will not see me." said the lawyer "I am not surprised at that."was the reply. "Some day, Utterson, after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you. And in the meantime{③}, if you can sit and talk with me of other things, for God's sake, stay and do so: but if you cannot keep clear of this accursed{ topic then in God's name, go, for I cannot bear it." As soon as he got home, Utterson sat down and wrote to Jekyll complaining of his exclusion from the house, and asking the cause of this unhappy break with Lanyon; and the next day brought him a long answer, often very pathetically worded, and sometimes darkly mysterious in drift. The quarrel with Lanyon was incurable{}."I do not blame our old friend," Jekyll wrote, "but I share his view that we must never meet. I mean from henceforth to lead a life of extreme seclusion: you must not be surprised, nor must you doubt my friendship, if my door is often shut even to you. You must suffer me to go my own dark way. I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I cannot name. If I am the chief of sinners}, I am the chief of sufferers also. I could not think that this earth contained a place for sufferings and terrors so unmanning{}: and you can do but one thing, Utterson. to lighter this destiny, and that is to respect my silence."Utterson was amazed: the dark influence of Hyde had been withdrawn, the doctor had returned to his old tasks .068. 兰恩医生的怪事 这几个字。”他声音很大,却有些颤抖。“我跟这个人已 ① allusion [a'lju:3an]n. 暗 经一刀两断了,我求你了,不要跟我提及任何有关他的 指,影射 事情,在我心里,他已经死了。” “啊,天哪!”厄塔森惊叫道,停了好一会儿没再作 ② considerable 声。然后他问道:“我能做点什么呢?兰尼恩,我们三个 [kan'sidorablla. 相当多 的 人做了一辈子的朋友了,不可能再去交新的朋友了。” “你什么也做不了。”兰尼恩说,“你去问他自已吧。” “他不愿意见我啊。”厄塔森回答。 “我料想他会这样。”兰尼恩接着说,“厄塔森,等 我死了,或许有一天你会了解这里面的是非曲直。但是 我现在不能告诉你。那么,你现在能不能陪我坐会儿 ③ in the meantime 与此同 咱们聊点别的。拜托了,就照我说的做吧。但是,如果 时 你非要聊这个该死的话题,那么我以上帝的名义还是请 ④ accursed 你走吧,我受不了。” [a'ka:sid]a.讨厌的:可 憎的 那晚,厄塔森一回到家,就马上坐下来给杰基尔写 信,抱怨他为何将自己拒之门外,又询问他为何与兰尼 恩闹得如此不快,以至于都要绝交。第二天,他收到了 一封很长的回信。这封信措辞伤感,有些地方表意十分 神秘。杰基尔在信中说他与兰尼恩的友谊已经破裂,不 incurable in'kjuarabl] a. 可挽回了。“我并不责怪咱们这位老朋友,”杰基尔写道, 不能治愈的 “但是我赞同他的看法,我们不能再见面了。我决定从 今以后,过一种完全与世隔绝的生活。我不会再开门见 客,哪怕是你也不例外,但请你不要惊讶,也绝不要怀 疑我们之间的友谊。你必须要放手,让我自已去走完这 sinner I'sina]n.恶棍, 段黑暗之路。我是罪有应得,我把自已带入了一场危局 流氓 之中,又无法向别人诉说,这都是我应受的惩罚。如果 说我是罪魁祸首,那我也是最大的受害者。我想,这世 unmanning [An'maenin] 上再也没有什么痛苦和恐怖会像我现在所承受的这些, a.使怯儒的 如此让人难以自持。但是,厄塔森,你唯一能做的就是 尊重我的沉默,这样还能减轻我的痛苦。”厄塔森怔住 了。本来,海德的邪恶影响已经消除了,博士已经回到 了他往日的工作中,恢复了他的社交圈。就在一个星期 前,博士的前景看起来还是一片光明,大家都认为他一 ·069· Incident of①r. Canyon and amities; a week ago, the prospect had smiled with every promise of a cheerful and an honoured age: and now in a moment, friendship, and peace of mind, and the whole tenor of his life were wrecked. So great and unprepared a change pointed to madness: but in view of Lanyon's manner and words, there must lie for it some deeper ground A week afterwards Dr. Lanyon took to his bed, and in something less thar a fortnight he was dead. The night after the funeral, at which he had been sadly affected, Utterson locked the door of his business room, and sitting there by the light of a melancholy{} candle, drew out and set before him an envelope addressed by the hand and sealed with the seal of his dead friend. "PRIVATE for the hands of G. J. Utterson ALONE, and in case of② his predecease^{③}tc be destroyed unread." so it was emphatically④ superscribed: and the lawyer dreaded to behold the contents. "I have buried one friend to-day," he thought: “what if this should cost me another?" And then he condemned the fear as a dislovalty, and broke the seal. Within there was another enclosure, likewise sealed, and marked upon the cover as "not to be opened till the death or disappearance of Dr. Henry Jekyll." Utterson could not trust his eyes. Yes it was disappearance: here again, as in the mad will which he had long ago restored to its author, here again were the idea of a disappearance and the name of Henry Jekyll bracketted. But in the will. that idea had sprung from the sinister^{} suggestion of the man Hyde: it was set there with a purpose all too plain and horrible. Written by the hand of Lanyon, what should it mean? A great curiosity came on the trustee, to disregard the prohibition{} and dive at once to the bottom of these mysteries: but professional honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations: and the packet slept in the inmost corner of his private safe It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it: and it may be .o70. 兰恩医生的怪事 1 定会有一个安心快乐、备受尊重的晚年。然而,转眼间 一切都变了。他与朋友之间的友谊、他自己内心的安宁 甚至生活的全部都被击得粉碎。变化如此之大,如此之 突然,唯一的解释只能是他发疯了。但是,看兰尼恩的 神情,听他的言语,事情并不那么简单,其中一定还有 更深的原因。 一周以后,兰尼恩医生已卧床不起。接着还不到两 个星期,他就去世了。兰尼恩的葬礼上,厄塔森悲痛不 已。当天晚上,他把自己反锁在工作室里,在凄冷的烛 ① melancholy I'melankali] 光中,他坐下来,拿出一个信封放在面前。信封口是他 a.使人忧郁的 ② incase of假使,倘若 刚刚死去的朋友用自己的印章封上的,信封上的字也是 ③ predecease I'pri:di'si:sln 他亲手书写的。上面写着:“私人密件,加·约·厄塔 先死,早死 森单独一人时亲启。万一他不幸离世,必须不经启阅直 ④ emphatically 接销毁。”这几个字下面还画上了着重号。厄塔森犹豫 [im'faetikali]ad. 明显地 了,他突然有点不敢看信里究竟写了什么。“就在今天, 显然 我已经埋葬了一位朋友,”他想,“如果这封信让我再失 去另外一个怎么办?”但他立即遣责自已的胆怯,因为 如此便是对友谊的不忠。于是他揭开了封印。信封里面 还有一个小信封,同样用印章封着口,上面写着:“直 到亨利·杰基尔博士死亡或失踪后方可启阅。”厄塔森 简直不敢相信自己的眼睛。没错,“失踪”,又是这两个 字!跟杰基尔那份疯狂的遗嘱中用词一模一样!“失踪” sinister I'sinistola. 邪恶 一词又和亨利·杰基尔这个名字联系在了一起。他已向 的,恶意的 杰基尔确认过,遗嘱中有关“失踪”的条款是那个险诈 prohibition 的海德的主意,显然他居心不良,用意很明显。厄塔森 Lprouhi'bifan]n. 禁令 也早已将那份遗嘱还给了杰基尔。但现在,这两个字竟 是出自兰尼恩医生之手,这又作何解释呢?作为一名受 托律师,厄塔森此刻产生了强烈的好奇心。他想要不顾 禁令,现在就打开信封,揭开这里面所有的秘密。但是 强烈的职业道德感和对死去朋友的忠诚让他不得不严格 恪守职责。于是,他又将信件放回他的私人保险柜,放 在那最深处的角落里。 那时那景中,抑制住好奇心容易,可要彻底丢掉好 ·071· Incident of①r. Canyon doubted if, from that day forth, Utterson desired the society of his surviving friend with the same eagerness^{①}. He thought of him kindly: but his thoughts were disauieted and fearful. He went to call indeed: but he was perhaps relieved to be denied admittance: perhaps, in his heart, he preferred to speak with Poole upon the doorstep and surrounded by the air and sounds of the open city, rather than to be admitted into that house of voluntary bondage, and to sit and speak with its inscrutable recluse. Poole had, indeed, no very pleasant news to communicate. The doctor, it appeared. now more than ever confined himself to the cabinet over the laboratory, where he would sometimes even sleep: he was out of spirits, he had grown very silent, he did not read: it seemed as if he hac something on his mind. Utterson became so used to the unvarying character of these reports, that he fell off little by little in the frequency of his visits .072· 兰恩医生的怪事 奇心却并非易事。从那天起,厄塔森是否依然如以往一 ① eagerness 'i:ganis] n. 热 样渴望和杰基尔交往,已不那么肯定了。他还是会想念 切,渴望 他,但一些想法让他焦虑不安,甚至不寒而栗。他还是 会去他家,但仍然被拒之门外,这反倒让他感觉轻松一 些。或许,在他心底,他更愿意在露天环境下,在城市 的喧嚣中和浦尔站在门口说上几句话,而不情愿被引入 那自愿幽闭者的屋子里,坐下来跟那位让人无法理解的 隐士谈话。然而,浦尔那里并没有什么好消息。据观察 博士完全把自已幽禁了,以前从没发生过这种情况。他 整日躲在实验室上面的工作室里,甚至晚上也在那里睡 觉。他精神萎靡,沉默寡言,也不搞研究,看起来心事 重重。厄塔森每次上门,浦尔跟他汇报的情况只有这些 没有一丁点新的消息。渐渐地,他去探望博士的次数越 来越少了。 .073·