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楼主:正在看牡丹 2011-03-11

Guleesh HERE was once a boy in the County Mayo; Guleesh was his name. There was the finest rath a little way off from the gable of the house, and he was often in the habit of seating himself on the fine grass bank that was running round it. One night he stood, half leaning against the gable of the house, and looking up into the sky, and watching the beautiful white moon over his head. After he had been standing that way for a couple of hours, he said to himself My bitter grief that I am not gone away out of this place altogether. I'd sooner be any place in the world than here. Och, it's well for you, white moon, says he, that's turning round, turning round, as you please yourself, and no man can put you back. I wish I was the same as you.
格力希的传说
格力希,格力希,玛有郡的格力希,故事开始,他还是少年。
格力希的小屋屋顶两面是梯形,另外两面是三角山形,称为山墙。小屋不远处,一座极其雄伟的土堡傲然屹立,周围绿茵环绕,格力希经常来这片草地上闲坐。
一天晚上,格力希斜倚山墙,仰望着夜空中的明月。站着,望着,过了几个钟头,他终于忍不住自语:“苍天有眼,让我远离这片土地吧!除了这儿,哪儿不是乐土?哦,月亮,皎洁的月亮,东西南北,任你来去,为何我不是你?”
Hardly was the word out of his mouth when he heard a great noise coming like the sound of many people running together, and talking, and laughing, and making sport, and the sound went by him like a whirl of wind, and he was listening to it going into the rath. Musha, by my soul, says he, but ye're merry enough, and I'll follow ye.
话音未落,传来一阵喧嚣,像是一大群人在奔跑、笑闹。这片欢乐的闹嚷从格力希耳边呼啸而过,直抵土堡。“噢,天哪……不过,他们可够乐呵的。我也要去。”
What was in it but the fairy host, though he did not know at first that it was they who were in it, but he followed them into the rath. It's there he heard the fulparnee, and the folpornee, the rap-lay-hoota, and the roolya-boolya, that they had there, and every man of them crying out as loud as he could My horse, and bridle, and saddle! My horse, and bridle, and saddle!
这帮闹哄哄的家伙不是别人,他们是一支小精灵军队。格力希开始对此一无所知,但还是不管三七二十一,跟着他们进了土堡。他们唱的都是什么呀,fulparnee,folpornee,rap-lay-hoota,roolya-boolya,每个精灵都扯着嗓子吼:“马儿,笼头,马鞍!马儿,笼头,马鞍!”
By my hand, said Guleesh, my boy, that's not bad. I'll imitate ye, and he cried out as well as they My horse, and bridle, and saddle! My horse, and bridle, and saddle! And on the moment there was a fine horse with a bridle of gold, and a saddle of silver, standing before him. He leaped up on it, and the moment he was on its back he saw clearly that the rath was full of horses, and of little people going riding on them.
“我举双手双脚发誓,像这么吼上一嗓子可真不赖。”格力希跃跃欲试地说。他也跟着喊了一声:“战马,笼头,马鞍!战马,笼头,马鞍!”就这么一喊,一匹戴着金笼头、披着银鞍的骏马出现在他眼前。格里希跳上马,立即看到,原来土堡里满是马匹,马背上是一个个小骑士。
Said a man of them to him Are you coming with us to-night, Guleesh
“格力希,今晚你跟我们一起去吗?”一个小精灵问他。
I am surely, said Guleesh.
“那是当然。”格力希回答。
If you are, come along, said the little man, and out they went all together, riding like the wind, faster than the fastest horse ever you saw a-hunting, and faster than the fox and the hounds at his tail.
“那就跟上来吧!”
格力希跟着精灵军纵马而出,像风一样迅疾,跑得再快的猎马也比他不上,奔逃的狐狸、紧衔马尾的猎犬更是不值一提。

The cold winter's wind that was before them, they overtook her, and the cold winter's wind that was behind them, she did not overtake them. And stop nor stay of that full race, did they make none, until they came to the brink of the sea.
精灵军一路奔驰,把凛冽的北风甩在身后,北风一旦被甩在身后,便只能紧追其后,无法超越。直至到达海滨,马蹄声从未稍歇。
Then every one of them said Hie over cap! Hie over cap! and that moment they were up in the air, and before Guleesh had time to remember where he was, they were down on dry land again, and were going like the wind. At last they stood still, and a man of them said to Guleesh Guleesh, do you know where you are now
这时,所有人同声高喊:“嗨——腾云!嗨——驾雾!”骑士和战马,立即拔地而起,格力希还没反应过来到了哪儿,就又降落到陆地上,再次逐风而行。最后,他们终于勒马止步,一个小精灵向格力希问道:“格力希,你知道现在在哪儿吗?
Not a know, says Guleesh.
“完全不知道。”格力希回答。

#2 囡囡妈 2011-03-12

那段话就是形容声音嘈杂,乱七八糟的吧,,呵呵,用点好玩的形容声音的词吧。

#3 译海泛舟 2011-03-19

Hie over cap! Hie over cap!  译成“嗨——腾云!嗨——驾雾!” 。 很妙!很精彩!

Hie over cap 这个短语,本义是什么?我在网上没有查到呢,求解。

#4 囡囡妈 2011-03-19

不是什么短语,就是小精灵人策马时喊的号,这句话应该有引号的,不知道牡丹是从哪里转贴的,没有引号了。

前面的说话部分也是,引号贴过来的时候都没有了。

#5 慕容胖胖 2011-03-22

爱看牡丹的翻译,很有个人风格。

I'll follow ye

I'll imitate ye

我不明白有什么必要在这非得意译呢?

#6 慕容胖胖 2011-03-31

牡丹,最近很忙哈,没上来翻了。

#7 正在看牡丹 2011-04-20

You're in France, Guleesh, said he. The daughter of the king of France is to be married tonight, the handsomest woman that the sun ever saw, and we must do our best to bring her with us, if we're only able to carry her off; and you must come with us that we may be able to put the young girl up behind you on the horse, when we'll be bringing her away, for it's not lawful for us to put her sitting behind ourselves. But you're flesh and blood, and she can take a good grip of you, so that she won't fall off the horse. Are you satisfied, Guleesh, and will you do what we're telling you
“这儿是法国,格力希。”小精灵回答,“今晚法王的公主要出嫁,她是普天之下最美最美的女人。不管有多困难,我们必须要把她夺走;你也得跟着我们。我们是小精灵,她不能坐在我们的马背上,所以得把她放在你的身后。你是血肉之躯,她抓住你,就不会跌下马去。你对此安排满意吗,格力希?愿不愿意照办?”
Why shouldn't I be satisfied said Guleesh. I'm satisfied, surely, and anything that ye will tell me to do I'll do it without doubt.
“当然满意,”格力希说,“非常满意。无论你们有何吩咐,我都会一往无前。”
They got off their horses there, and a man of them said a word that Guleesh did not understand, and on the moment they were lifted up, and Guleesh found himself and his companions in the palace. There was a great feast going on there, and there was not a nobleman or a gentleman in the kingdom but was gathered there, dressed in silk and satin, and gold and silver, and the night was as bright as the day with all the lamps and candles that were lit, and Guleesh had to shut his two eyes at the brightness. When he opened them again and looked from him, he thought he never saw anything as fine as all he saw there. There were a hundred tables spread out, and their full of meat and drink on each table of them, flesh-meat, and cakes and sweetmeats, and wine and ale, and every drink that ever a man saw. The musicians were at the two ends of the hall, and they were playing the sweetest music that ever a man's ear heard, and there were young women and fine youths in the middle of the hall, dancing and turning, and going round so quickly and so lightly, that it put a soorawn in Guleesh's head to be looking at them. There were more there playing tricks, and more making fun and laughing, for such a feast as there was that day had not been in France for twenty years, because the old king had no children alive but only the one daughter, and she was to be married to the son of another king that night. Three days the feast was going on, and the third night she was to be married, and that was the night that Guleesh and the sheehogues came, hoping, if they could, to carry off with them the king's young daughter.

下马之后,一位小精灵说了个格力希听不懂的字眼,所有人脚不沾地,转眼便来到法王的宫殿。那儿正举行着盛大的婚宴,全国各地的贵族绅士没有一个不在场,个个穿金戴银、着绸披丝,到处灯火辉煌,如白昼般刺目。过了一会儿,格力希才敢把紧闭的双眼睁开,向外扫视。他从未见过如斯美景:整整一百张餐桌,每张桌上全是吃的喝的,肉、糕点、蜜饯,葡萄酒、麦芽酒,全天下所有的饮料美酒无一或缺;乐队在大厅两头演奏,曲音如仙乐般动人;俊秀美丽的少男少女在大厅中间翩翩起舞,飞速旋转的身姿曼妙轻盈,把格力希看得眼花缭乱;除此之外,数不清的人在玩游戏、谈天、笑闹。二十年过去了,法国还是第一次举办这样的盛宴。除了这位待嫁的公主,老国王再没有其他的孩子。婚宴持续了三天,今天是最后一天。今晚,公主将嫁给另一位国王;今晚,格力希和精灵军队来到王宫,企图把公主从国王身边夺走。

我现在很想知道自己文一点的翻法对不对,照理来说是尊重这篇故事的文风,可是自己好像驾驭不了……能随着练习长进么,真是对自己很怀疑呀

@胖胖,I'll follow ye我也想过是不是I'll imitate ye的意思,但后来想想,他是跟着小精灵离开故土,寻找欢乐,所以应该还是跟随的意思重一点?

#8 正在看牡丹 2011-04-22

Guleesh and his companions were standing together at the head of the hall, where there was a fine altar dressed up, and two bishops behind it waiting to marry the girl, as soon as the right time should come. Now nobody could see the sheehogues, for they said a word as they came in, that made them all invisible, as if they had not been in it at all.
正对门口立着一座华美的圣坛,两位主教站在后面,准备时间一到,就为公主举行婚礼。格力希和精灵军进来的时候说了一句隐身咒语,众人对他们完全视若无睹。他们就站在圣坛旁边,严阵以待。
“Tell me which of them is the king's daughter,” said Guleesh, when he was becoming a little used to the noise and the light.
格力希好不容易从这片光怪陆离、丝竹喧嚣中清醒点,问道:“嘿,哪个是公主?”
“Don't you see her there away from you,” said the little man that he was talking to.
“那儿,就在那儿呀。”个子小小的精灵回答说。
Guleesh looked where the little man was pointing with his finger, and there he saw the loveliest woman that was, he thought, upon the ridge of the world. The rose and the lily were fighting together in her face, and one could not tell which of them got the victory. Her arms and hands were like the lime, her mouth as red as a strawberry when it is ripe, her foot was as small and as light as another one's hand, her form was smooth and slender, and her hair was falling down from her head in buckles of gold. Her garments and dress were woven with gold and silver, and the bright stone that was in the ring on her hand was as shining as the sun.
格力希顺着小精灵手指的方向看过去,便再也移不动双眼:“走遍天涯海角,我也见不到更美的女子了吧。” 公主的脸蛋上玫瑰和百合互相争艳,不分胜负,手臂和双手如酸橙花般洁白,嘴唇如成熟的草莓般红润,纤细的小脚简直能在掌中轻盈起舞,体态柔美优雅,波浪般的长发披泻而下,金银织成她的衣裙,手指上的戒石如烈日般闪耀。
Guleesh was nearly blinded with all the loveliness and beauty that was in her; but when he looked again, he saw that she was crying, and that there was the trace of tears in her eyes. “It can't be,” said Guleesh, “that there's grief on her, when everybody round her is so full of sport and merriment.”
看着公主,格力希目眩神迷,可是定睛一看,如此美丽、可爱的公主,眼睛里却是盈盈欲滴,正在暗自哭泣。“这是怎么回事,公主竟然还会伤心?看哪,她身边的人是多么兴高采烈!”

#9 coffeecat 2011-04-24

只看到前面,似乎有些字没有翻出来
watching the beautiful white moon over his head
凝视夜空中皎洁的明月

standing that way for a couple of hours,
这个好像是 这么着站了一两个钟点 的意思吧....单单翻译为很久,是不是不太准确

全文第一句,初看有点突兀,读了好几次读出味道来,蛮有特色的。

#10 正在看牡丹 2011-04-27

"Musha, then, she is grieved," said the little man; "for it's against her own will she's marrying, and she has no love for the husband she is to marry. The king was going to give her to him three years ago, when she was only fifteen, but she said she was too young, and requested him to leave her as she was yet. The king gave her a year's grace, and when that year was up he gave her another year's grace, and then another; but a week or a day he would not give her longer, and she is eighteen years old tonight, and it's time for her to marry; but, indeed," says he, and he crooked his mouth in an ugly way—" indeed, it's no king's son she'll marry, if I can help it."
“啊,真的呀。”小精灵也看到公主在悲伤地哭泣。“这桩婚事不合她的心意,她不爱那个未婚夫,所以才会如此悲痛。早在三年前,在她满十五岁的时候,法王就想让她出嫁,她对父王说自己还太小,恳求他让她继续留在身边,就这样年复一年地一再拖延,直到今年,法王一时一刻也不肯再恩赐。她今晚满十八岁,的确到了出嫁的年龄,不过,”说到这儿,小精灵怪模怪样地撇起了嘴,“说实在的,只要可以的话,我是不会让她嫁给什么王子的。”
Guleesh pitied the handsome young lady greatly when he heard that, and he was heart-broken to think that it would be necessary for her to marry a man she did not like, or, what was worse, to take a nasty sheehogue for a husband. However, he did not say a word, though he could not help giving many a curse to the ill-luck that was laid out for himself, to be helping the people that were to snatch her away from her home and from her father.
可怜的公主,如此美丽,遭遇却如此悲惨,格力希一想到她要被迫嫁给不爱的人,心简直都要碎了,而如果让她嫁给一个恶心的小精灵,公主岂不更是苦上加苦。他缄口不言,心里却诅咒不绝,诅咒这可恶的命运,竟要让他为虎作伥,帮助这些精灵把公主夺走,让她远离家园,远离父亲。

#11 正在看牡丹 2011-06-04

He began thinking, then, what it was he ought to do to save her, but he could think of nothing. "Oh! if I could only give her some help and relief," said he, "I wouldn't care whether I were alive or dead; but I see nothing that I can do for her."
怎么办?怎样才能拯救公主?可是格力希什么办法都想不出来:“如果我能帮帮她,让她解除噩运,我是生是死又有什么关系!可我什么也做不了。”
He was looking on when the king's son came up to her and asked her for a kiss, but she turned her head away from him. Guleesh had double pity for her then, when he saw the lad taking her by the soft white hand, and drawing her out to dance. They went round in the dance near where Guleesh was, and he could plainly see that there were tears in her eyes.
王子走到公主面前,请她赐予他一个亲吻。公主别开脸,不搭理他,他却依然牵起她洁白柔嫩的小手,把她拉到舞池里。公主在王子引领下一圈接一圈地旋转,格力希在不远处看得清楚,她已经是泪盈双睫,心里不禁倍增怜悯。
When the dancing was over, the old king, her father, and her mother the queen, came up and said that this was the right time to marry her, that the bishop was ready, and it was time to put the wedding-ring on her and give her to her husband.
跳完舞,老国王和王后宣布吉时已到,主教也准备好了,该把戒指套上公主的手指,将她交给她的丈夫。
The king took the youth by the hand, and the queen took her daughter, and they went up together to the altar, with the lords and great people following them.
于是,国王牵着王子,王后牵着公主,把他们双双领向圣坛,各位领主权贵在后迤逦而行。
When they came near the altar, and were no more than about four yards from it, the little sheehogue stretched out his foot before the girl, and she fell. Before she was able to rise again he threw something that was in his hand upon her, said a couple of words, and upon the moment the maiden was gone from amongst them. Nobody could see her, for that word made her invisible. The little maneen seized her and raised her up behind Guleesh, and the king nor no one else saw them, but out with them through the hall till they came to the door.
眼看就要走到圣坛面前,只差三四米的距离的时候,小精灵伸出脚,把公主绊倒在地。公主正挣扎着要爬起来,小精灵把手里捏着的什么东西扔到她身上,同时念了一句隐身咒语,转眼间,公主消失得无影无踪,没有一个人能看见她。这个小侏儒一把抓住她,举到格力希背上,在睁眼瞎一般的国王和其他人面前,带着公主一阵风般地冲过大厅,直至宫门。

#12 正在看牡丹 2011-06-04

Oro! dear Mary! it's there the pity was, and the trouble, and the crying, and the wonder, and the searching, and the rookawn, when that lady disappeared from their eyes, and without their seeing what did it. Out of the door of the palace they went, without being stopped or hindered, for nobody saw them, and, "My horse, my bridle, and saddle!" says every man of them. "My horse, my bridle, and saddle!" says Guleesh; and on the moment the horse was standing ready caparisoned before him. "Now, jump up, Guleesh," said the little man, "and put the lady behind you, and we will be going; the morning is not far off from us now."
圣母在上!喜事变祸事,王宫里一下子乱了套,悲叹哀号自然不用说,眼睁睁看着公主凭空消失才最让人摸不着头脑。人们争来争去,像没头苍蝇一样四处搜寻。
这些可不关小精灵他们的事。在肉眼凡胎面前,他们如空气般无形,毫无阻碍地冲出宫门,喊道:“战马,笼头,马鞍!”跟他们一样,格力希也吼着:“战马,笼头,马鞍!”一匹马身披华丽的鞍辔,转眼间出现在他身边。小精灵对他喊:“格力希,上马!让殿下坐在你身后,咱们立即上路!咱们时间不多,天马上就要亮了。”
Guleesh raised her up on the horse's back, and leaped up himself before her, and, "Rise, horse," said he; and his horse, and the other horses with him, went in a full race until they came to the sea.
格力希把公主举到马背上,纵身上马:“驾!”与其他骑士一起,纵马狂奔,直到海边。
"Hie over cap!" said every man of them.
“嗨——腾云!嗨——驾雾!”每个小精灵都这么吆喝一声。
"Hie over cap!" said Guleesh; and on the moment the horse rose under him, and cut a leap in the clouds, and came down in Erin.
“嗨——腾云!嗨——驾雾!”格力希也跟着吆喝。马儿腾空一跃,穿过云海,直接降落在爱尔兰。
They did not stop there, but went of a race to the place where was Guleesh's house and the rath. And when they came as far as that, Guleesh turned and caught the young girl in his two arms, and leaped off the horse.
"I call and cross you to myself, in the name of God!" said he; and on the spot, before the word was out of his mouth, the horse fell down, and what was in it but the beam of a plough, of which they had made a horse; and every other horse they had, it was that way they made it. Some of them were riding on an old besom, and some on a broken stick, and more on a bohalawn or a hemlock-stalk.
一口气也没歇,他们马不停蹄地奔回格力希的老家。到了那儿,格力希侧过身,把掳来的少女抱在怀里,跳下马来,高喊道:“以上帝的名义,我召唤你,你属于我!”话音未落,胯下的马匹骤然散架,只剩一根犁柱,这就是马儿的原形;不光这匹马,其他所有的马都是这么变出来的——有的小精灵骑在旧长柄扫帚上,有的骑在折断的棍子上,更多的是骑在一根狗舌草或毒芹茎上。
The good people called out together when they heard what Guleesh said:
"Oh! Guleesh, you clown, you thief, that no good may happen you, why did you play that trick on us?"
听到格力希的话,这些伙计全都着忙了。他们齐声怒骂:“格力希!你要充小丑,要当强盗么?你要遭报应的!你为什么要这么耍我们?”
But they had no power at all to carry off the girl, after Guleesh had consecrated her to himself.
可是,格力希已经以上帝的名义将公主占为己有,小精灵对此无能为力。
"Oh! Guleesh, isn't that a nice turn you did us, and we so kind to you? What good have we now out of our journey to France. Never mind yet, you clown, but you'll pay us another time for this. Believe us, you'll repent it."
“噢,格力希,我们对你那么好,你却这样恩将仇报!我们竹篮打水一场空,白去了一趟法国。你这个小丑,你记着,我们决不会就此罢休,这笔账,总有还的时候。你后悔的日子在后头。”
"He'll have no good to get out of the young girl," said the little man that was talking to him in the palace before that, and as he said the word he moved over to her and struck her a slap on the side of the head. "Now," says he, "she'll be without talk any more; now, Guleesh, what good will she be to you when she'll be dumb? It's time for us to go—but you'll remember us, Guleesh!"
在王宫里跟格力希搭话的小精灵下了一个诅咒:“他照样得不着好。”说着,他来到公主身边,在她脑侧猛的一拍。“好了,她再也说不了话了。嘿,格力希,一个哑巴公主对你还能有什么好处?我们要走了,可你别想忘了我们!”
When he said that he stretched out his two hands, and before Guleesh was able to give an answer, he and the rest of them were gone into the rath out of his sight, and he saw them no more.
没等格力希反唇相驳,小精灵展开双臂,和他的同伴一起进入土堡,从格力希眼前消失,从此不见踪影。

#13 正在看牡丹 2011-06-06

He turned to the young woman and said to her: "Thanks be to God, they're gone. Would you not sooner stay with me than with them?" She gave him no answer. "There's trouble and grief on her yet," said Guleesh in his own mind, and he spoke to her again: "I am afraid that you must spend this night in my father's house, lady, and if there is anything that I can do for you, tell me, and I'll be your servant."
格力希转过身,对年轻的公主说:“感谢上帝,他们终于走了。跟着我总比跟着他们强吧?”公主沉默不语。“她脑子还没转过弯来,还在伤心哪。”格力希琢磨着,于是继续道:“殿下,恐怕您得屈尊在我家住一晚上。如果您有任何需要,我任您差遣。”
The beautiful girl remained silent, but there were tears in her eyes, and her face was white and red after each other.
美丽的女孩依然一声不吭,眼里满是泪水,脸上一阵儿红,一阵儿白。
"Lady," said Guleesh, "tell me what you would like me to do now. I never belonged at all to that lot of sheehogues who carried you away with them. I am the son of an honest farmer, and I went with them without knowing it. If I'll be able to send you back to your father I'll do it, and I pray you make any use of me now that you may wish."
“殿下,”格力希说,“您现在有什么吩咐吗?我跟那帮妖精强盗可不是一伙儿的,我父亲是一个本分的农民,我跟他们走的时候,不知道是要干这坏事,才把你给抢到这儿来。只要可以,我肯定会把您送回您父王身边的。请您尽管吩咐吧,您想我做什么,我就做什么。”
He looked into her face, and he saw the mouth moving as if she was going to speak, but there came no word from it.
"It cannot be," said Guleesh, "that you are dumb. Did I not hear you speaking to the king's son in the palace tonight? Or has that devil made you really dumb, when he struck his nasty hand on your jaw?"
他探询地看着她,她的嘴动了动,好像要说话一样,但却没吐出一个音节。
“这怎么可能,”格力希说,“你怎么可能变成哑巴?今晚,我在王宫里明明听到你对王子说话。那个魔鬼用他的脏手在你下巴颏上甩了那么一下,真的就把你变哑了吗?“
The girl raised her white smooth hand, and laid her finger on her tongue, to show him that she had lost her voice and power of speech, arid the tears ran out of her two eyes like streams, and Guleesh's own eyes were not dry, for as rough as he was on the outside he had a soft heart, and could not stand the sight of the young girl, and she in that unhappy plight.
女孩抬起手,白皙光滑的手指搭在舌尖上,向他示意,她再也发不出声音,再也不能开口说话。眼泪像小溪一样从她眼睛里流出。格力希的眼睛也湿了,他看上去是个糙汉子,但有一副软心肠,见不得女孩这么痛苦,遭遇这么悲惨的事情。

注:查了查资料,决定还是把sheehogue翻成“小妖精”,爱尔兰小妖

#14 正在看牡丹 2011-06-06

He began thinking with himself what he ought to do, and he did not like to bring her home with himself to his father's house, for he knew well that they would not believe him, that he had been in France and brought back with him the king of France's daughter, and he was afraid they might make a mock of the young lady or insult her.
他想,到底该怎么办呢。他不想把她带回家。如果他告诉大家他去了法国,还把法王的公主带了回来,没有人会相信他,他们可能会戏弄她,甚至侮辱她。
As he was doubting what he ought to do, and hesitating, he chanced to remember the priest. "Glory be to God," said he, "I know now what I'll do; I'll bring her to the priest's house, and he won't refuse me to keep the lady and care her." He turned to the lady again and told her that he was loth to take her to his father's house, but that there was an excellent priest very friendly to himself, who would take good care of her, if she wished to remain in his house; but that if there was any other place she would rather go, he said he would bring her to it.
格力希犹豫不决,半天也拿不定主意,直到突然想起村里的牧师:“荣耀归于圣主,我知道该怎么办了。我要把她带到牧师那儿去,他会帮我照看她的。”他再次转向公主,告诉她他不愿意把她带回家,但有个牧师和他关系很不错;牧师人很好,如果她愿意待在他那儿,他会好好照顾她,但如果她想去其他什么地方,那也没有问题,他总是会遵从她的心意。
She bent her head, to show him she was obliged, and gave him to understand that she was ready to follow him any place he was going. "We will go to the priest's house, then, " said he; "he is under an obligation to me, and will do anything I ask him."
公主垂下头,表示自己愿意去牧师那儿,也愿意跟随他去任何其他地方。于是,格力希说:“那好,咱们就去牧师那儿。他欠我一个人情,什么都会帮我做。”
They went together accordingly to the priest's house, and the sun was just rising when they came to the door. Guleesh beat it hard, and as early as it was the priest was up, and opened the door himself. He wondered when he saw Guleesh and the girl, for he was certain that it was coming wanting to be married they were.
走到牧师家门口的时候,旭日刚刚升起。格力希抡起拳头,重重地捶了捶门。牧师飞快地从床上爬起来,把门打开。看到格力希和一个女孩站在一起,他以为他们是来请他主持婚礼。
"Guleesh, Guleesh, isn't it the nice boy you are that you can't wait till ten o'clock or till twelve, but that you must be coming to me at this hour, looking for marriage, you and your sweetheart? You ought to know that I can't marry you at such a time, or, at all events, can't marry you lawfully. But ubbubboo!" said he, suddenly, as he looked again at the young girl," in the name of God, who have you here? Who is she, or how did you get her?"
“格力希呀格力希,你性子也太急了吧,连十点、十二点都等不了,非得这个时候就来找我?这么早,我可没法给你们主持婚礼,就算主持了,那也是不合法的。嘿,慢着!”他猛地打住,仔细看了看公主,“以上帝的名义,这个女孩是谁?她是什么人?你们怎么在一起的?”

不明白为什么大早上的结婚不合法。哪位同学有相关的知识么?
上一个论坛问了问,最接近的猜测是某个时期可能禁止秘密结婚,这种结婚在夜晚进行的可能性较大,或者是因为没有见证人,所以才不合法,但也没有定论,可能需要相关的历史专门知识吧

#15 正在看牡丹 2011-06-07

"Father," said Guleesh, "you can marry me, or anybody else, if you wish; but it's not looking for marriage I came to you now, but to ask you, if you please, to give a lodging in your house to this young lady."
“神父,”格力希说,“您要是乐意,不管是给我还是给其他任何人都可以主持婚礼,但我来这儿不是为了结婚的。您看,您能不能让这位小姐在您这儿住下?”
The priest looked at him as though he had ten heads on him; but without putting any other question to him, he desired him to come in, himself and the maiden, and when they came in, he shut the door, brought them into the parlour, and put them sitting.
牧师瞪着他,活像他长了十个脑袋似的,但却没再多问,就让他和姑娘一起进了门。牧师随后把门关上,把他们领进起居室,给他们让了坐。
"Now, Guleesh," said he, "tell me truly who is this young lady, and whether you're out of your senses really, or are only making a joke of me."
“哪,格力希,”牧师开口道,“你老老实实地告诉我,这位小姐究竟是谁?你是神智不清了,还是在开我玩笑?”
"I'm not telling a word of lie, nor making a joke of you," said Guleesh; "but it was from the palace of the king of France I carried off this lady, and she is the daughter of the king of France."
“我现在每个字都是实话,我也不是在开你玩笑。”格力希回答道,“这位小姐是从法国的王宫给我带到这里。她是法王的公主。”
He began his story then, and told the whole to priest, and the priest was so much surprised that could not help calling out at times, or clapping his hands together.
于是,他把整件事原原本本地讲给了牧师听。听着听着,牧师总是会忍不住惊叫两声,或是猛地一拍巴掌。
When Guleesh said from what he saw he thought the girl was not satisfied with the marriage that was going take place in the palace before her and the sheehog broke it up, there came a red blush into the girl's cheek and he was more certain than ever that she had sooner be as she was—badly as she was—than be the married wife of the man she hated. When Guleesh said that he would be very thankful to the priest if he would keep her in own house, the kind man said he would do that as long as Guleesh pleased, but that he did not know what they ought to do with her, because they had no means of sending back to her father again.
格力希讲着讲着,讲到他冷眼旁观,觉得公主并不满意这桩婚事,讲到婚礼正要开始,小妖精们却骤然出现,把婚礼搅散,这时,公主的脸颊上浮现出一抹红霞,让他更加确定,她宁愿保持现在这样的状况,也不愿嫁给她厌恨的那个男人。
一切都讲完了,格力希重提话头,请牧师千万要帮这个忙,收留公主。好心的牧师满口答应,多长时间都愿意,但是,这也不是长久之计,他们可没办法把公主送回她父王身边呀。
Guleesh answered that he was uneasy about the same thing, and that he saw nothing to do but to keep quiet until they should find some opportunity of doing something better. They made it up then between themselves the priest should let on that it was his brother's daughter he had, who was come on a visit to him from another county, and that he should tell everybody that she was dumb and do his best to keep every one away from her. They told the young girl what it was they intended to do, she showed by her eyes that she was obliged to them.
格力希说,他也在为这件事烦心,可是目前没有别的办法,只有按兵不动,等以后找到机会,再想个更好的辙。最后,他俩决定对外就说公主是牧师的侄女,住在别的郡,现在来他家做客;牧师得告诉所有人“他侄女”是个哑巴,还得尽量不让任何人接近她。公主听了他们的主意,眨巴眨巴眼睛,以示她一切听从安排。

我觉得“冷眼”这个词用得不对,因为格力希对公主是很感同身受的,但目前想不到更好的表达,暂存疑