1 Mowgli's Brothers毛格利的兄弟们-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《森林王子The Jungle Book》

Rudyurd Kinding Mowgli's Brothers Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free- The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power. Talon and tush and claw. Oh,hear the call!-Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law! Night-Song in the Jungle It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest,scratched himself,yawned2,and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs,and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.“Augrh!”said Father Wolf.“'It is time to hunt again.”He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined:"Good luck go with you,O Chief of the Wolves.And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never ·002· 毛格利的兄弟们 黑夜被蝙蝠芒恩释放， 又被鸢鹰兰恩带回了家。 ①byre[baia]n.[英国英 牧群被关进棚里， 语]牛栏，牛棚，牛舍 因为我们会游荡到天明。 现在是用我们的利爪和尖牙 显示荣耀和力量的时刻。 噢，听听这嚎叫一祝所有 遵守丛林法则的兽众打猎顺利！ —丛林夜之歌 思翁尼群山，一个非常暖和的傍晚，狼爸爸睡了一 天，醒来时已经七点钟了。他挠挠痒痒，打个哈欠，把 ②yawn [jo:n],打阿欠 爪子一个个地舒展开来，好赶走残留在爪尖儿的睡意。 狼妈妈还躺着，她那大大的灰鼻子枕在四个狼崽儿身 上，他们还站立不稳，不时发出尖叫。月光从他们一家 住的山洞口照进来。狼爸爸叫道：“嗷鸣！该去打猎了。” ③spring[spri]跳，跃起 他正要跳下山坡，一个小小的身影拖着一条毛茸茸的尾 ④bushy[bu们a.毛茸茸的 巴溜进门，哼哼唧唧地说：“噢，狼王，祝您好运。也 5 threshold ['Orefhauld]n. 门0，入口 祝您尊贵的孩子们享有好运和强壮的白牙，永不忘记这 ⑥whine[wain发牢骚 世上还有人忍饥挨饿。” ·003· Mowgli's Brothers forget the hungry in this world." It was the jackal-Tabaqui,the Dish-licker-and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief,and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.But they are afraid of him too,because Tabaqui,more than anyone else in the jungle, is apt to go mad,and then he forgets that he was ever afraid of anyone,and runs through the forest biting everything in his way.Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad,for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.We call it hydrophobia,but they call it dewanee-the madness-and run. “Enter,then,and look,”said Father Wolf stiffly⑦，“but there is no food here.." "For a wolf,no,"said Tabaqui,"but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast.Who are we,the Gidur-log [the jackal people],to pick and choose?"He scuttled to the back of the cave,where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it,and sat cracking the end merrily. "All thanks for this good meal,"he said,licking his lips."How beautiful are the noble children!How large are their eyes!And so young too!Indeed,indeed,I might have remembered that the children of kings are men from the beginning." Now,Tabaqui knew as well as anyone else that there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their faces.It pleased him to see Mother and Father Wolf look uncomfortable. Tabaqui sat still,rejoicing in the mischief that he had made,and then he said spitefully: "Shere Khan,the Big One,has shifted his hunting grounds.He will hunt among these hills for the next moon,so he has told me." Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River,twenty miles away. “He has no right!”Father Wolf began angrily一By the Law of the Jungle he has no right to change his quarters without due warning.He will ·004· 毛格利的兄弟们 这是豺狗塔巴奇，外号叫作“舔盘子的”。印度的 ①jackal['aek]n.【动物】 狼都看不起塔巴奇，因为他总是跑来跑去惹是生非，东 豺，胡狼 家长西家短，要不就是从村子的垃圾堆里刨些破布烂皮 ②despise [di'spaiz]轻视， 藐视 什么的来吃吃。但是狼也害怕他，因为塔巴奇要比丛林 ③mischief[mistfif].恶 里任何野兽都容易发狂，一发起疯来他就忘了他以前怕 作剧，捣蛋 过谁，满林子撒野，见什么咬什么。小小的塔巴奇发疯 ④rag[regn.破布 的时候，甚至连老虎也会跑掉躲起来，因为疯病是任何 野兽可能遭遇的最丢脸的事儿。我们管这叫狂犬病，他 5 disgraceful [dis'greisful] a.丢脸的，丢人现眼的 们管它叫“疯癫症”1，唯恐避之不及。 ⑥hydrophobia 狼爸爸冷冰冰地说：“进来看看吧，但是这儿可没 [haidrau'foubja]n.狂犬 什么吃的。” 病 ⑦stiffly['stifli]ad.生硬地 塔巴奇说：“对狼来说是没有，不过对像我这样的贱 民来说，一根干骨头就称得上大餐了。我们豺族2哪有资 格挑三拣四？”他屁颠屁颠地跑到山洞后面，找到一根 ⑧scuttle['skAl急促地 还剩点儿肉的鹿骨头，坐下来高高兴兴地开始大嚼。 跑 他舔舔嘴说：“谢谢您的这顿大餐。您的孩子们长 ⑨buck[bAk]n.【动物】雄 得可真好啊，眼睛又大，年纪又轻！当然啦，当然啦， 鹿 我差点忘了，国王的孩子一开始就不是凡夫俗子啊！” 众所周知，当着孩子的面恭维他们最容易招来厄 运。塔巴奇当然也知道，但是他就乐意看见狼爸爸和狼 妈妈露出不安的表情。 塔巴奇一动也不动地坐着，欣赏他一手制造的恶作 剧，然后充满恶意地说： “‘大个子’希尔汗3换猎场了。下个月他就会到这 片山里来打食儿，他是这么跟我说的。” 希尔汗是一头老虎，住在二十英里外的瓦因刚加河 附近。 “他凭什么！”狼爸爸生气地喊道：“按照丛林法则， 他没有权利不打招呼就换领地。他会把方圆十英里以内 1原文中的dewanee是印地语，意为“疯狂，癫狂”， 2原文中Gidur-log是作者自创的一个词。印度人把豺狗叫gidur。 3原文Shere Khan中的Shere在某些印度方言中是老虎的意思， Khan是“可汗”的意思，表示他是老虎的首领。 ·005· Mowgli's Brothers frighten every head of game within ten miles,and I-I have to kill for two, these days." "His mother did not call him Lungri [the Lame One]for nothing,"said Mother Wolf quietly."He has been lame in one foot from his birth.That is why he has only killed cattle2.Now the villagers of the Waingunga are angry with him,and he has come here to make our villagers angry.They will scour the jungle for him when he is far away,and we and our children must run when the grass is set alight.Indeed,we are very grateful to Shere Khan!" "Shall I tell him of your gratitude?"said Tabaqui. "Out!"snapped Father Wolf."Out and hunt with thy master.Thou hast done harm enough for one night." "I go,"said Tabaqui quietly."Ye can hear Shere Khan below in the thickets. I might have saved myself the message." Father Wolf listened,and below in the valley that ran down to a little river he heard the dry,angry,snarly,singsong whine of a tiger who has caught nothing and does not care if all the jungle knows it. "The fool!"said Father Wolf."To begin a night's work with that noise! Does he think that our buck are like his fat Waingunga bullocks?" "H'sh.It is neither bullock nor buck he hunts to-night,"said Mother Wolf. 'It is Man.” The whine had changed to a sort of humming purr that seemed to come from every quarter of the compass.It was the noise that bewilders woodcutters and gypsies sleeping in the open,and makes them run sometimes into the very mouth of the tiger. "Man!"said Father Wolf,showing all his white teeth."Faugh!Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man,and on our ground too!" The Law of the Jungle,which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill,and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or ·006· 毛格利的兄弟们 的所有猎物都给吓跑的，可是我一我这些天可得抓两 头狼的食物啊。” 狼妈妈不动声色地说：“他妈妈叫他‘朗格里'1（意为 ①lame [leim]a.瘸的，跛 瘸子)，可不是乱叫的。他生下来一条腿就瘸了，所以他 的 只杀牛。他把瓦因刚加河一带的村民都给惹恼了，现在 ②cattle[kaetl]n.牛 又要来招惹咱这儿的村民。到时候他一走了之，村民们 ③scour[skaua]g荡涤， 肃清 会到丛林里来四下搜他。等他们把草都烧起来，我们和 孩子就只好逃命了。那我们可真得要好好感谢希尔汗呢！” “要不要我向他转达一下你们的谢意？”塔巴奇说。 ④thy[oaia.[古语、诗 狼爸爸一声怒吼：“滚！出去陪你的主子打猎去！ 歌用语]你的 你己经搅得我们一个晚上不得安生了。” 塔巴奇轻声哪囔：“我走，不过，你能听见希尔汗 就在底下的灌木丛里。早知道我就不来传话儿了。” 狼爸爸听了听，的确，从下面通向一条小溪的山谷里， 传来了老虎干巴巴的、气急败坏、唱经一样的嚎叫。他什 么也没逮着，也毫不在乎整个丛林都知道他一无所获。 狼爸爸说：“这个笨蛋！晚上的捕猎刚开始动静就 这么大，他以为我们这儿的雄鹿跟他瓦因刚加河那儿的 ⑤bullock[bulok]n,【动 肥阉牛一样蠢吗？” 物】阉牛 狼妈妈说：“嘘一今晚他想猎的既不是阉牛也不 是雄鹿，而是人。” ⑥pur[pa]n.(猫等发出 老虎的哀嚎变成了一种低沉的鸣鸣声，好像从四面八 的)呜鸣声 方传来。正是这种声音让露宿的樵夫和吉普赛人惊恐不安， 慌不择路地逃跑，有时偏偏一头撞进老虎那张大嘴里。 “人！”狼爸爸喊道，气得龇出一口白牙。“呸！ 难道池塘里的甲虫和青蛙还不够他吃，他还想吃人，而 ⑦beetles[bi:tl].【昆虫】 且是在我们的地盘上！” 甲虫 丛林法则的每一条都是有道理的，它规定任何野兽 都不得吃人，除非是为了给幼崽演示如何捕杀猎物，而 且还必须是在自家猎场或者本部落领地之外。至于说为 1原文中Lungri在印度方言中的意思是“瘸腿”。 ·007· Mowgli's Brothers tribe.The real reason for this is that man-killing means,sooner or later,the arrival of white men on elephants,with guns,and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches.Then everybody in the jungle suffers.The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things,and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him.They say too-and it is true-that man-eaters become mangy,and lose their teeth. The purr grew louder,and ended in the full-throated"Aaarh!"of the tiger's charge. Then there was a howl-an untigerish howl-from Shere Khan."He has missed,.”said Mother Wolf.“What is it? Father Wolf ran out a few paces and heard Shere Khan muttering and mumbling savagely as he tumbled about in the scrub. "The fool has had no more sense than to jump at a woodcutter's campfire, and has burned his feet,"said Father Wolf with a grunt."Tabaqui is with him." "Something is coming uphill,"said Mother Wolf,twitching one ear."Get ready." The bushes rustled a little in the thicket,and Father Wolf dropped with his haunches under him,ready for his leap.Then,if you had been watching,you would have seen the most wonderful thing in the world-the wolf checked in mid-spring.He made his bound before he saw what it was he was jumping at, and then he tried to stop himself.The result was that he shot up straight into the air for four or five feet,landing almost where he left ground. “Manl"he snapped.“Aman'scub.Look Directly in front of him,holding on by a low branch,stood a naked brown baby who could just walk-as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night.He looked up into Father Wolf's face,and laughed. "Is that a man's cub?"said Mother Wolf."I have never seen one.Bring it here." A Wolf accustomed to moving his own cubs can,if necessary,mouth an egg without breaking it,and though Father Wolf's jaws closed right ·008· 毛格利的兄弟们 什么，当然是因为一旦杀了人，迟早会招来带着猎枪、 骑着大象的白人，还有成百上千敲锣打鼓、放着鞭炮、 ①gong[gplh.铜锣，锣 举着火炬的棕人。那样的话丛林里所有的生灵都会遭殃。 野兽之间流传的说法是人是所有生物中最弱小也最缺乏 自卫能力的，所以进攻人类就未免显得没有风度。他们 ②unsportsmanlike [.An'sportsmanlaik]a. 还说不能碰人是因为吃了人的动物会长癣，还会掉牙： 有运动道德的 当然事实也的确如此。 ③mangy[meind3-ija.患 老虎的咕噜声越来越大，最终变成一声洪亮的“啊 疥癣的：下贱的，卑鄙 的 鸣”，这是表示进攻的咆哮。 接着希尔汗又发出一声嚎叫，却没了虎啸的威风。 狼妈妈听了说：“他没得手。这是怎么了？” 狼爸爸跑出去几步远，听到希尔汗一边在灌木丛里 ④mutter[mAt3]k低声说 跌跌撞撞，一边发出气急败坏的咕哝声。 ⑤scrub[skrAb]n.灌木 ⑥grunt[grnt)n.(表示不 狼爸爸哼了一声：“这个笨蛋也太没脑子了，居然 满、轻蔑等的)哼声， 扑到樵夫的篝火上，把自个儿的脚丫子给烫伤了。现在 咕哝 塔巴奇跟着他呢。” ⑦twitch[twi],抽动 “有什么东西到山坡上来了。准备好。”狼妈妈说着， 一只耳朵抖了抖。 灌木丛传来轻微的沙沙声，狼爸爸用后腿蹲下，准备 ⑧haunch [ho:ntf]n.[常用 复数]（动物的）腰腿 随时扑向来者。接着一如果你在场的话，你会看到世界 部 上最奇妙的一件事情一狼跳到一半又收住了。他还没看 清他的目标就跳了起来，然后又想办法停下来。结果就是 他直跃到空中大概四到五英尺高，然后又几乎原地落下。 狼爸爸突然喊道：“人！是人的崽子。看！” 只见狼爸爸正前方站着一个浑身光溜溜的棕色小 孩儿，他手里攀着一根低矮的枝条，将将会走路的样子 一有史以来还从未有过这么软乎乎的还带酒窝儿的小 东西在夜里来到狼窝呢。他抬起头看着狼爸爸的脸，笑了。 狼妈妈说：“这是人的小崽儿吗？我还从没见过呢。 把它带过来。” 叼惯了幼崽的狼，必要时能口含鸡蛋而不破。所 以狼爸爸虽然紧紧地咬住了小孩的背部，可是当他把 ·00g· Mowgli's Brothers on the child's back not a tooth even scratched the skin as he laid it down among the cubs. "How little!How naked,and-how bold!"said Mother Wolf softly.The baby was pushing his way between the cubs to get close to the warm hide. "Ahai!He is taking his meal with the others.And so this is a man's cub.Now, was there ever a wolf that could boast of a man's cub among her children?" "I have heard now and again of such a thing,but never in our Pack or in my time,"said Father Wolf."He is altogether without hair,and I could kill him with a touch of my foot.But see,he looks up and is not afraid." The moonlight was blocked out of the mouth of the cave,for Shere Khan's great square head and shoulders were thrust into the entrance.Tabaqui,behind him,was squeaking:"My lord,my lord,it went in here!" "Shere Khan does us great honor,"said Father Wolf,but his eyes were very angry."What does Shere Khan need?" “My quarry.Aman's cub went this way,”said Shere Khan.“Its parents have run off.Give it to me." Shere Khan had jumped at a woodcutter's campfire,as Father Wolf had said,and was furious from the pain of his burned feet.But Father Wolf knew that the mouth of the cave was too narrow for a tiger to come in by.Even where he was,Shere Khan's shoulders and forepaws were cramped for want of room, as a man's would be if he tried to fight in a barrel. "The Wolves are a free people,"said Father Wolf."They take orders from the Head of the Pack,and not from any striped cattle-killer.The man's cub is ours-to kill if we choose." "Ye choose and ye do not choose!What talk is this of choosing?By the bull that I killed,am I to stand nosing into your dog's den for my fair dues?It is I,Shere Khan,who speak!" The tiger's roar filled the cave with thunder.Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward,her eyes,like two green moons in the darkness,facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan. ·010·