小艾,这是哪里找的啊?有些地方都看不明白呢。。 表情占位:s:138
网上找不到电子版,吕叔湘先生翻译的译文非常精妙,那篇我是阿拉木,当年就广为流传,不过现在看得人少了。想看的可以去买他的译文集。在网上找到一些翻译片断。
1. I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
这个故事我是东一点西一点从许多人那儿得来的,每次听到的都有点不同。
2. It was there that, several years ago, I saw him for the first time; and the sight pulled me up sharp.
他让我大吃一惊。
3. Therewas something bleak and unapproachable in his face, and he was sostiffened and grizzled that I took him for an old man and was surprisedto hear that he was not more than fifty-two.
他的脸上有一种苍苍凉凉不可逼近的神气。他的肢体异常木强,头上是白发盈颠,我只当他一定很老了,后来听说他才不过五十二岁。
4. “…” Harmon threw out between reminiscent pauses.
哈蒙一边儿回想一边儿说。
5. Everyone in Starkfield knew him and gave him a greeting tempered to his owngrave mien; but his taciturnity was respected and it was only on rareoccasions that one of the older men of the place detained him for aword.
斯塔克菲尔镇上的人个个都认得他,跟他打招呼;可是大家都尊重他的沉默,难得才有一两个年老的人留住他说几句话。
6. Harmon thoughtfully passed his tobacco to the other cheek. “Oh, as to that: I guess it’s always Ethan done the caring.”
哈蒙若有所思地把那片烟草从这边嘴巴磨到那边。“喔,讲到这个,……”
7. Ihad been sent up by my employers on a job connected with the bigpower-house at Corbury Junction, and a long-drawn carpenters’ strikehad so delayed the work that I found myself anchored at Starkfield—thenearest habitable spot—for the best part of the winter. I chafed atfirst, …
我那个时候是奉公司的命做着和考白里车站的大动力厂有关的一项工程,离那儿最近的可住的地方是斯塔克菲尔镇;因为木匠们罢工,一罢就罢了多少天,把工程耽搁下来,把我也羁留在斯塔克菲尔过了大半个冬天。头上我还愤愤不平,……
8. During my stay at Starkfield I lodged with a middle-aged widow colloquially known as Mrs. Ned Hale.
……大家管她叫纳德·赫尔太太的家里。
9. … and Mrs. Hale, in particular, had a certain wan refinement not out of keeping with her pale old-fashioned house.
尤其是赫尔太太,具有一种黯淡的优雅态度,和她的灰色的旧式房子恰恰相称。
10. Somarked was the change in her manner, such depths of sad initiation didit imply, that with some doubts as to my delicacy, I put the case anewto my village oracle, Harmon Gow; …
赫尔太太提起依坦·弗洛美的名字,神色大变。
11. … and though all conceded that Ethan Frome’s had been beyond the common measure, …
虽然大家都承认依坦·弗洛美的烦恼超出寻常的限度,……
12. The illness spread to the other Starkfield stables and for a day or two I was put to it to find a means of transport.
……有一两天我简直找不着一辆车子。
13. I stared at the suggestion. “Ethan Frome? But I’ve never even spoken to him. Why on earth should he put himself out for me?”
我有点诧异。 …… 他怎么会肯为了我找这个麻烦?
14. “Well,matters ain’t gone any too well with him,” Harmon said. “When a man’sbeen setting round like a hulk for twenty years or more, seeing thinsthat want doing, it eats inter him, and he loses his grit. …
“唉,他的日子不太好过,”哈蒙说。“一个人坐在家里二十多年,眼看着许多该做的事情做不了,您说他焦不焦?有劲儿没劲儿?……”
15. WhenEthan could sweat over ‘em both from sun-up to dark he kinder choked aliving out of 'em; see how he makes out now. Fust his father got akick, out haying, and went soft in the brain, and gave away money likeBible texts afore he died.
早年弗洛美能打天亮到天黑去磨古它们的时候,还对付着勒掯点儿什么出来;可是就在那个时候,他一家人几张嘴巴也就把那点儿吃尽喝光,这会儿他怎么混来着我可想不出。先是他爹在地里割草的时候摔了一跤,脑子有了毛病,花钱像施善书,好几年才死了。
16. Sickness and trouble: that’s what Ethan’s had his plate full up with, ever since the very first helping.
病痛和祸害,这是依坦的家常便饭,从他能吃饭的时候算起。
17. Anotherday, on getting into my train at the Flats, I missed a volume ofpopular science—I think it was on some recent discoveries inbio-chemistry—which I had carried with me to read on the way.
又一天,我已经上了火车,带在身边路上看看的一本通俗科学书——好像是一本讲生物化学上的新发明的——找不着了。(Word order)
18. There are things hin that book that I didn’t know the first word about.
那本书里有好些个事情我简直一点儿也看不懂。
19. I wondered less at his words than at the queer note of resentment in his voice.
他破例说起话来使我诧异,可是远不及他的深以为憾的语气使我更诧异得历害。
20. He hesitated, and I had the impression that he felt himself about to yield to a stealing tide of inertia; then, …
他迟疑了一下,好像要屈服于一阵偷偷掩袭上来的惰性;……
21. Butsomething in his past history, or in his present way of living, hadapparently driven him too deeply into himself for any casual impulse todraw him back to his kind.
但是他的过去的身世或是他的现在的生活之中似乎有个什么东西逼得他只肯跟他自己打交道,偶然的冲动决不能拉他回来和别人亲近。
22. I don’t know why I put it in the conditional, however, for I …
我不知道我为什么心里有这么个“要是”,……
23. He was not the kind of man to be turned from his business by any commotion of the elements, …
他不是下雨下雪可以阻止他干他的事情的那种人。
24. The snow had ceased, and a flash of watery sunlight exposed the house on the slope above us in all its plaintive ugliness.
雪已经不下了,淡淡的一闪日光把我们前面的山坡上的那所房子的可悲的丑陋暴露无遗。
25. Fromecontinued, checking with a twitch of the left rein the bay’s evidentintention of turning in through the broken-down gate.
弗洛美接着说,一边拿左手一拉缰绳,拨转了马头,那匹老马显然已经打算穿过那破烂的篱门回家去了。
26. Butat the sunset the clouds gathered again, bringing an earlier night, andthe snow began to fall straight and steadily from a sky without wind,in a soft universal diffusion more confusing than the gusts and eddiesof the morning.
……轻轻地可是广泛地散布开来,比了早半天的闹一阵息一阵更加恼人。
27. … and at last reached a point where Frome, peering into what seemed to me formless night, said: …
终于到了一个地方,在我看来是不辨形状的黑暗里,弗洛美凝神一看,说:……
28. The bitter cold and the heavy going had nearly knocked the wind out of me.
刺骨的寒气和崎岖的山路差点儿叫我倒下。
29. There’s been about enough of this for anybody.
这个玩意儿谁也干不下去了。
30. The night was perfectly still, and the air so dry and pure that it gave little sensation of cold.
夜很静,空气干燥而洁净,叫人不很觉得冷。
31. Nowand then he turned his eyes from the girl’s face to that of herpartner, which, in the exhilaration of the dance, had taken on a lookof almost impudent ownership.
他时而转移他的目光从女子的脸上到她的舞伴的脸上,那个脸在跳舞的狂热之中俨然有“佳人属我”的神情。