批判主义The_Midnight_Visitor_深夜访客(中英对照)

2021年1月20日发(作者：continue什么意思)
The Midnight Visitor
深夜访客





Ausable
did
not
fit
the
description
of
any
secret
agent
Fowler
had
ever
read
about .
Following him down the corridor of the gloomy French hotel where Ausable had a room , Fowler
felt
disappointed .
It
was
a
small
room
on
the
sixth
floor
,and
hardly
a
setting
for
a
romantic
figure .




奥斯鲍根本不像书中见过的任何特工。
跟着他走在这个法国小旅馆昏 暗的走廊上，
方
罗感到很失望。奥斯鲍的房间在六楼，很狭小，一个浪漫的角色不应该是这样的 背景。





Ausable was , for one thing , fat . Very fat . And then there was his accent . Though he
spoke French and German passably , he had never altogether lost the New England accent he had
brought to Paris from Boston twenty years ago .




首先，奥斯鲍很肥，非常肥，讲话还带有浓重的口音。他的法语和德语还说的过去，
但二十年前从波斯顿带到巴黎的新英格兰口音还没舍得丢。






was a secret agent , a spy , dealing in espionage and danger . You wished yo meet me because you
are a writer , young and romantic . You thought you would have mysterious figures in the night ,
the crack of pistols , drugs in the wine .





你很失望吧，”
奥斯鲍边走边气喘吁吁的说。
“
有人告诉你我是特工，间谍，经常身
处 险境。而你是作家，年轻，浪漫。你想着今晚会发掘出一个神秘的角色，感受刺激的午夜
枪声和葡萄酒里 的毒药。
”






instead
of
having
messages slipped
into
his
hand by
dark-eyed
beauties
,
gets
only
an
ordinary
telephone call making an appointment in his room . You have been bored !
to himself as he unlocked the door of his room and stood aside to let his frustrated guest enter .




“
可是，相反，你只是 与一个行动迟缓的胖子在法国音乐厅里度过一个乏味的晚上，
这个胖子只是通过普通的电话定了个约会，
而不是由一个大眼睛的美女把纸条秘密递到他手
里。你感到烦了吧！
”
胖子边 笑边打开房门，然后站到一边把他沮丧的客人让了进去。






you will see a paper , a quite important paper for which several men and women have risked their
lives , come to me in the next-to-last step of its journey into official hands . Some day soon that
paper may well affect the course of history . There is drama in that thought , don't you think ?
he spoke , Ausable closed the door behind him. Then he switched on the light .



“
你的幻想破灭了，
”
奥斯鲍说道，
“
但我年轻的朋友，高兴起 来吧。马上你就会看到
一份文件，
一份非常重要的文件，许多人已经为此付出了生命，到我这儿 是最后一站了，然
后就会交到上级手里。不久，那份文件也许会改写历史。这样想是不是很有戏剧性？< br>”
他边
说边走了进来，关上门，打开了灯。





And as the light came on ,Fowler had his first real thrill of the day . For halfway across the
room , a small automatic pistol in his hand , stood a man .




Ausable blinked a few times.




灯亮起的一刹那，
方罗终于第一次感受到了这一天中真正的刺激。
房间的 中间站着一
个人，手持一把小巧的自动手枪，正对准他们。





奥斯鲍眨了几下眼。






you doing in my room ?