Chapter2-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《水孩子The Water Babies》

Chapter II “And is there care in heaven？and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base That may compassion of their evils move? There is:-else much more wretched were the case Of men than beasts:But oh!the exceeding grace Of Highest God that loves His creatures so, And all His works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed Angels He sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man,to serve His wicked foe!" SPENSER A mile off,and a thousand feet down. So Tom found it;though it seemed as if he could have chucked a pebble on to the back of the woman in the red petticoat who was weeding in the garden,or even across the dale to the rocks beyond.For the bottom of the valley was just one field broad,and on the other side ran the stream;and above it,gray crag,gray down,gray stair,gray moor walled up to heaven. A quiet,silent,rich,happy place;a narrow crack cut deep into the earth;so ·048· 第二章 天堂有没有关爱？ 天上的精灵会不会爱这些卑贱的生灵 ①compassion [kom'pa/n间 用怜悯的心助他们除去恶念？ i.同情，怜悯 有啊：否则更悲惨命运会落在人而非野兽身上： 2 exceeding [ik'si:din] 但是！天父的恩惠满盈， a.超越的，非常的 深沉地爱着他的造物， 他尽己所能播撒慈悲， 他派神圣的天使下凡， ③wicked[wikid]a.坏的， 帮助那恶人，帮助他邪恶的敌人！ 邪恶的 一斯宾塞 一英里远，一千英尺之下。 汤姆发现了那片村舍。他觉得那儿近在眼前，似乎 ④chuck[fk]g扔，抛 扔一块卵石过去，就能砸到那个穿着红裙子除草的女 人，甚至能穿过河谷打到对面的岩石。因为河谷的底部 ⑤dale[deil]m.山谷，峪 不过是一片田地那么宽，在另一侧，溪流在流淌。河谷 的上方，是灰色的巉岩，灰色的土丘，灰色的台阶，灰 色的沼泽，一直延伸到天际。 这是一片安然寂静、丰裕快乐的土地。一道狭窄的 ·049· Chapter II deep,and so out of the way,that the bad bogies can hardly find it out.The name of the place is Vendale;and if you want to see it for yourself,you must go up into the High Craven,and search from Bolland Forest north by Ingleborough, to the Nine Standards and Cross Fell;and if you have not found it,you must turn south,and search the Lake Mountains,down to Scaw Fell and the sea; and then,if you have not found it,you must go northward again by merry Carlisle,and search the Cheviots all across,from Annan Water to Berwick Law; and then,whether you have found Vendale or not,you will have found such a country,and such a people,as ought to make you proud of being a British boy. So Tom went to go down;and first he went down three hundred feet of steep heather,mixed up with loose brown grindstone,as rough as a file; which was not pleasant to his poor little heels,as he came bump,stump, jump,down the steep.And still he thought he could throw a stone into the garden. Then he went down three hundred feet of lime-stone terraces,one below the other,as straight as if a carpenter had ruled them with his ruler and then cut them out with his chisel There was no heath there,but- First,a little grass slope,covered with the prettiest flowers,rockrose and saxifrage,and thyme and basil,and all sorts of sweet herbs. Then bump down a two-foot step of limestone. Then another bit of grass and flowers. Then bump down a one-foot step. Then another bit of grass and flowers for fifty yards,as steep as the house- roof,where he had to slide down on his dear little tail. Then another step of stone,ten feet high;and there he had to stop himself, and crawl along the edge to find a crack;for if he had rolled over,he would have rolled right into the old woman's garden,and frightened her out of her wits. Then,when he had found a dark narrow crack,full of green-stalked ·050· 第二章 沟壑深嵌在地面上，这样深，这样偏僻，就连坏妖怪都 很难找到它。这个地方叫文代尔。如果你想去亲眼看看 的话，你就得爬上克雷文高地，找到因格尔博罗峰北面 的伯兰德森林，去到九旗和十字丘；要是你没有找到， 你就得向南走，去湖山一带寻找，往下走，走到斯考丘， 来到海边；要是你还是没找到，你就得接着向北走，取 道快乐的卡莱尔，找遍整个切维厄特，从安娜湖一直找 到贝里克·劳；这时候，不管你有没有找到文代尔，你 都会找到这样一个村子，认识那里的村民，那一切能让 你为自己是一个不列颠男孩而骄傲。 于是汤姆就进谷了。他先穿过三百英尺的陡坡，坡 ①steep [sti：p 陡的 ②grindstone ['grain dst a un] 上满是石楠丛，松散的棕色砂石散布其间，跟锉刀一样 n.砂石 粗糙。他跌跌撞撞，蹦蹦跳跳，走下坡去，不过他的脚 后跟可得遭点罪了。那时他依然觉得，能把一块石头扔 进花园里去。 再往下走三百英尺是石灰岩台地，一级接着一级， ③carpenter ['ka：panta] n.木匠 笔直笔直的，就好像木匠用尺子量过，又用凿子凿出来 ④chisel ['tiz l] n. 凿子 一样。那儿没有石楠丛，但是— ⑤rock rose ['rokr ou z] n.岩 蔷薇 先是一小块长满草的坡地，开满了最美丽的花朵， ⑥saxifrage ['sae ks if reid] 岩蔷薇，虎耳草，百里香和罗勒，还有各种各样的芳香 n.虎耳草 的植物。 ⑦thyme [t aim] n.百里香 ⑧basil ['be zl] n.罗勒 接着他跃下一块两英尺高的石灰岩。 接着又是一片花花草草。 又跳下一个一英尺高的石阶。 接着又是一片五十码的草地，跟屋顶一样陡峭，汤 姆只好一屁股坐在地上滑下去。 ⑨crawl [kro：I]v爬， 爬行 接着又是一段石阶，有十英尺高。这时他不得不停 下脚步，沿着岩石的边缘爬行。因为要是一不小心滚下 去的话，他就会不偏不倚地滚到那个老太太的花园里， ⑩stalked[sto：kd] a.有茎 把她吓得魂飞魄散。 的 接着他找到一条黑暗的狭缝，里面长满绿油油的蕨 051 Chapter II fern,such as hangs in the basket in the drawing-room,and had crawled down through it,with knees and elbows,as he would down a chimney,there was another grass slope,and another step,and so on,till-oh,dear me!I wish it was all over;and so did he.And yet he thought he could throw a stone into the old woman's garden. At last he came to a bank of beautiful shrubs;white-beam with its great silver-backed leaves,and mountain-ash,and oak;and below them cliff and crag, cliff and crag,with great beds of crown-ferns and wood-sedge;while through the shrubs he could see the stream sparkling,and hear it murmur on the white pebbles.He did not know that it was three hundred feet below. You would have been giddy,perhaps,at looking down:but Tom was not. He was a brave little chimney-sweep;and when he found himself on the top of a high cliff,instead of sitting down and crying for his baba(though he never had had any baba to cry for),he said,"Ah,this will just suit me!"though he was very tired;and down he went,by stock and stone,sedge and ledge,bush and rush,as if he had been born a jolly little black ape,with four hands instead of two. And all the while he never saw the Irishwoman coming down behind him. But he was getting terribly tired now.The burning sun on the fells had sucked him up;but the damp heat of the woody crag sucked him up still more;and the perspiration ran out of the ends of his fingers and toes,and washed him cleaner than he had been for a whole year.But,of course,he dirtied everything,terribly as he went.There has been a great black smudge all down the crag ever since. And there have been more black beetles in Vendale since than ever were known before;all,of course,owing to Tom's having blacked the original papa of them all,just as he was setting off to be married,with a sky-blue coat and scarlet leggins,as smart as a gardener's dog with a polyanthus in his mouth. At last he got to the bottom.But,behold,it was not the bottom-as people usually find when they are coming down a mountain.For at the foot of the crag were heaps and heaps of fallen limestone of every size from that of your head ·052· 第二章 类，就像挂在客厅花篮里的那种植物。他手脚并用，爬 过那缝隙，就像爬烟囱一样。又是一片绿草坡，又是一 段石阶，走啊走，直到一噢，我的天！我希望这一切 能快点结束，汤姆也一定这么想。但他还是觉得，他能 把一个小石子扔进底下的花园里。 ①shub[rbm.灌木 最后他来到一排漂亮的灌木丛旁。白面子树长着银背 的叶子，还有花楸树和橡树。树丛下面，就是连绵的峭壁 巉岩，长满大片的蕨类和莎草。透过灌木丛，汤姆可以看 到溪流闪闪发光，还能听到水流冲刷白色卵石发出的细声 低语。他不知道，底下还有三百英尺的路，才能到小溪呢。 ②giddy['gida.头晕的 往下看，你可能会感到头晕眼花。但汤姆没有。他 是一个勇敢的小小扫烟囱工。当他发现自己正站在高高 的峭壁上，他没有腿一软坐倒在地，也没有哭着喊着要 爸爸（尽管他从来没有一个爸爸可以让他哭叫），他只 ③stock[stk]n.木头 是叫道：“啊，这太适合我了！”尽管他已经很累很累了， ④ledge [led]n.壁架 但他依然往下走去，走过树桩和石块，莎草和巉岩，灌 木和灯芯草，好像生来就是一只快乐的小黑猴，长了四 只爪，而不是两只手。 而他始终没有发现那个爱尔兰女人跟着他一路走下来。 但是汤姆现在已经精疲力竭了。荒野上空的烈日将 他炙烤，而树木丛生的巉岩上潮湿的热气更是烤得他全 ⑤perspiration 身发干。汗水从他手指尖和脚趾尖滴淌下来，把他洗得 [pa:spi'reifn]n.汗水 比一年中任何时候都干净。不过，当然了，他把他走过 ⑥smudge[smwd]n.污迹 的地方全弄脏了。那座巉岩从此就留下了一大片污迹。 ⑦beetle[bi:tln.甲虫 文代尔多了很多黑甲虫，比以前任何时候都多。都是因 为汤姆把甲虫的老祖宗给染黑了：原来那甲虫老祖宗要 启程去结婚，穿着天蓝色的大衣，戴着深红色的绑腿， 8 polyanthus [.poli'aeneas] .西洋樱草 时髦得就像园丁的狗，嘴里衔着一束西洋樱草。 最终他走到了谷底下。但是再一看，这还不是谷 底一这是人们下山时常常会遇上的情况。巉岩底下， 是一堆一堆从上面掉落下来的石灰石，小的只有你脑袋 ·053· Chapter II to that of a stage-waggon,with holes between them full of sweet heath-fern; and before Tom got through them,he was out in the bright sunshine again;and then he felt,once for all and suddenly,as people generally do,that he was b-e- a-t,beat. You must expect to be beat a few times in your life,little man,if you live such a life as a man ought to live,let you be as strong and healthy as you may:and when you are,you will find it a very ugly feeling.I hope that that day you may have a stout staunch friend by you who is not beat;for,if you have not,you had best lie where you are,and wait for better times,as poor Tom did. He could not get on.The sun was burning,and yet he felt chill all over.He was quite empty,and yet he felt quite sick.There was but two hundred yards of smooth pasture between him and the cottage,and yet he could not walk down it.He could hear the stream murmuring only one field beyond it,and yet it seemed to him as if it was a hundred miles off. He lay down on the grass till the beetles ran over him,and the flies settled on his nose.I don't know when he would have got up again,if the gnats and the midges had not taken compassion on him.But the gnats blew their trumpets so loud in his ear,and the midges nibbled so at his hands and face wherever they could find a place free from soot,that at last he woke up,and stumbled away, down over a low wall,and into a narrow road,and up to the cottage-door. And a neat pretty cottage it was,with clipped yew hedges all round the garden,and yews inside too,cut into peacocks and trumpets and teapots and all kinds of queer shapes.And out of the open door came a noise like that of the frogs on the Great-A,when they know that it is going to be scorching hot to-morrow-and how they know that I don't know,and you don't know,and nobody knows. He came slowly up to the open door,which was all hung round with clematis and roses;and then peeped in,half afraid. And there sat by the empty fireplace,which was filled with a pot of sweet herbs,the nicest old woman that ever was seen,in her red petticoat,and short ·054· 第二章 大，大的却跟马车一样大。石头上有很多洞，里面长满 了芬芳的石楠和蕨类。汤姆还没能穿过乱石堆，就又被 明媚的阳光晃到了，突然，一瞬间，就像人们常常碰到 的那样，他觉得自己累—垮一了，累垮了。 小家伙，不管你多强壮、多健康，你一生中也总会 有那么几次觉得自己累垮了，每个人都是这样的。而当 你遇上那种时候，你就会感到非常沮丧。我希望那时， ①staunch[sto:ntf]a.忠实 你身边能有强健的、忠实可靠，又撑得住的朋友。但要 的，坚定的 是没有的话，你最好像可怜的汤姆一样，先躺下来，等 情况好点了再说。 他眼下再也走不动了。尽管烈日当空，他还是浑身 打着寒战。他饥肠辘辘，却很想呕吐。他和小屋中间只 ②pasture[pa:stA)]n.牧草 地 有两百码平坦的草地了，但他压根挪不开步子。他能听 到小溪就在那边的田地上潺潺流淌，但这段路对他来说 却有一百英里那么遥远。 他就平躺在草地上，直到甲虫爬到他身上，苍蝇在 ③gnat[nt]n小昆虫 他鼻尖歇脚。要是蚊虫和蠓虫不对他大发慈悲，我都不 ④midge[mid3]n.翅目小 昆虫 知道他何时才能再起身。但蚊虫在他耳边吹响号角，蠓 ⑤trumpet['trAmpit)n.喇 虫见到他手上和脸上没有煤灰的地方就咬。最后汤姆到 叭，号角 底是醒来了，跌跌撞撞地走开去，翻过一座低低的矮墙， 走上一条窄窄的路，沿路走到小屋的门前。 ⑥yew [ju:m.紫杉 这是一座干净漂亮的小屋。花园四周都是修剪过的 紫杉木篱笆，园子里也种着紫杉树，修剪成孔雀、喇叭、 茶壶和各种奇怪的形状。从敞开的门里，传来一阵嘈杂 ⑦scorching[sko:t可]a.灼 热的 的声音，像是青蛙知道明天会变得格外炎热而发出的吵 声。至于它们是怎么知道的，我不知道，你不知道，也 没有人会知道。 ⑧clematis[klematis]n.铁 汤姆慢慢地向开着的门走去，门上挂满了铁线莲和 线莲 玫瑰花。他向门里偷看，心里有点害怕。 空壁炉里装满了香草，旁边坐着一位汤姆见过的最 慈祥的老奶奶。她穿着红裙子和一件短短的斜条纹布睡 ·055· Chapter II dimity bedgown,and clean white cap,with a black silk handkerchief over it, tied under her chin.At her feet sat the grandfather of all the cats;and opposite her sat,on two benches,twelve or fourteen neat,rosy,chubby little children,learning their Chris-cross-row;and gabble enough they made about it. Such a pleasant cottage it was,with a shiny clean stone floor,and curious old prints on the walls,and an old black oak sideboard full of bright pewter and brass dishes,and a cuckoo clock in the corner,which began shouting as soon as Tom appeared:not that it was frightened at Tom,but that it was just eleven o'clock. All the children started at Tom's dirty black figure-the girls began to cry, and the boys began to laugh,and all pointed at him rudely enough;but Tom was too tired to care for that. “What art thou,,and what dost want??”cried the old dame.“A chimney- sweep!Away with thee!I'll have no sweeps here." “Water,”said poor little Tom,quite faint. "Water?There's plenty i'the beck,"she said,quite sharply. "But I can't get there;I'm most clemmed with hunger and drought."And Tom sank down upon the door-step,and laid his head against the post. And the old dame looked at him through her spectacles one minute,and two, and three;and then she said,"He's sick;and a bairn's a bairn,sweep or none." “Water,”said Tom. "God forgive me!"and she put by her spectacles,and rose,and came to Tom."Water's bad for thee;I'll give thee milk."And she toddled off into the next room,and brought a cup of milk and a bit of bread. Tom drank the milk off at one draught,and then looked up,revived. “Where didst come from?”said the dame.. "Over Fell,there,"said Tom,and pointed up into the sky. "Over Harthover?and down Lewthwaite Crag?Art sure thou art not lying?" ·056· 第二章 ①dimity[dimiti的i.麻纱 衣，戴着一顶干净的白帽子，用一条黑色的丝巾系在下 巴上。她的脚边坐着一只老得不能再老的猫。对面两条 长凳上，坐着十二个或十四个小孩，白白净净，脸红乎 ②gabble[gbl急促而 乎，胖胖嘟嘟。他们坐在那里学字母，七嘴八舌，吵吵 含混不清地说 嚷嚷。 ③pewter[pju:ta)]n.白 这是一座多么惬意的小屋呀。石头地板干干净净泛 (铅和锡的合金) 着光，墙上挂着些古老而有趣的画，一个黑色的橡木碗 柜里放满了白镴和黄铜盘子，角落里有一只布谷鸟时 钟，汤姆一出现就叫了起来：倒不是看到汤姆被吓坏了， 而是那时刚好到了十一点。 所有的小孩看到汤姆又黑又脏的样子都吓坏了一 女孩子哭了起来，而男孩子哈哈大笑，都粗鲁地指着他。 但是汤姆实在太累了，顾不上这些了。 “你是谁？你要做什么？”那个老奶奶喊道，“一 个扫烟囱的！快走吧！我这不需要扫烟囱。” “我要水。”可怜的小汤姆说，他很虚弱。 “水？河里多着呢。”她说道，声音很严厉。 ④clemmed [klemd]a.饥 饿的 “我走不过去了。我又饿又渴，实在走不动了。” 汤姆瘫倒在门前的台阶上，脑袋靠在柱子上。 那老奶奶透过她的眼睛，盯着汤姆看了一分钟、两 分钟、三分钟，然后她说：“他病了：孩子就是孩子，管 他是不是扫烟囱的。” “水。”汤姆说。 “上帝宽恕我！”她摘下眼镜，起身向汤姆走去。“水 对你不好，我给你倒点牛奶吧。”她蹒跚地走到隔壁房 间，拿来一杯牛奶和一点面包。 汤姆一口气喝完了牛奶，抬起头来，振作起来了。 “你从哪里来的？”老奶奶问道。 “从山那边跑过来的。”汤姆说着朝天空那边指去。 “从哈特豪夫府过来？翻过卢思韦特峭壁？你敢说 你不是在讲大话？” ·057·