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英汉互译
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阅读《爱丽丝梦游仙境》第五章
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at
each other for some
time in
silence
:
at last the
Caterpillar took the hookah out
of its
mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy
voice.
毛毛虫和爱丽丝彼此沉默地注视了好一会。最后,毛毛虫从嘴里
拿出了水烟管,
用慢吞吞的、瞌睡似的声调同她说起了话。
'Who are YOU?'said the
Caterpillar. This was not an
encouraging opening for a conversation.
Alice replied, rather
shyly, 'I--I
hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I
know who I WAS when I got up this
morning, but I think I must
have been
changed several times since then.'
“你是谁?”毛毛虫问,这可不是
鼓励人谈话的开场白,爱丽丝
挺不好意思地回答说:“我……眼下很难说,先生……至少
今天起床
时,我还知道我是谁的,从那时起,不过我就变了好几回了。”
'What do
you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar sternly.
'Explain yourself!'
“你这话是什么意思?”毛毛虫严
厉地说,“你自己解释一下!”
'I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid,
sir' said Alice,
'because I'm not
myself, you see.'
“我没法解释,先生,”爱丽丝说,“因为我已经不是我自己
了,
你瞧。”
'I don't see,' said the
Caterpillar.
“我瞧不出。”毛毛虫说。
'I'm afraid I can't put it
more clearly,' Alice replied
very
politely, 'for I can't understand it myself to
begin
with; and
being so many different sizes in a day is very
confusing.'
“我不能解释得更清楚了,”爱丽丝非常有礼貌地回答,“因
为
我压根儿不懂是怎么开始的,一天里改变好几次大小是非常不舒服
的。”
'It isn't,' said the Caterpillar.
'Well, perhaps you
haven't found it so
yet,' said Alice; 'but when you have to
turn into a chrysalis--you will some
day, you know--and then
after that into
a butterfly, I should think you'll feel it a
little queer, won't you?'
“唉,也许你还没有体会,”爱丽
丝说,“不过当你必须变成一
只蝶蛹的时候——你知道自己总有一天会这样的——然后再
变成一只
蝴蝶、我想你会感到有点奇怪的,是不是,”
'Not a bit,'
said the Caterpillar.
“一点也不。”毛毛虫说。
'Well, perhaps
your feelings may be different,' said
Alice; 'all I know is, it would feel
very queer to ME.'
“哦!可能你的感觉同我不一样,”爱丽丝说,“不过这些事
使
我觉得非常奇怪。”
'You!' said the Caterpillar
contemptuously. 'Who are
YOU?'
“你!”毛毛虫轻蔑地说,“你是谁?”
Which brought
them back again to the beginning of the
conversation. Alice felt a little
irritated at the
Caterpillar's making
such VERY short remarks, and she drew
herself up and said, very
gravely, 'I think, you ought to
tell me
who YOU are, first.'
这句话又把他们带回了谈话的开头,对于毛毛虫的那些非常简
短
的回答,爱丽丝颇有点不高兴了,她挺直了身子一本正经地说:“我
< br>想还是你先告诉我,你是谁?”
'Why?' said the
Caterpillar.
“为什么?”毛毛虫说。
Here was another puzzling
question; and as Alice could
not think
of any good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed
to be in a VERY unpleasant state of
mind, she turned away.
这又成了一个难题:爱丽丝想不出任何比较好的理由来回答它
,
看来,毛毛虫挺不高兴的,所以爱丽丝转身就走了。
'Come back!'
the Caterpillar called after her. 'I've
something important to say!' This
sounded promising,
certainly
:
Alice
turned and came back again.
“回来!”毛毛虫在她身后叫道,“我有几句重要的话讲!”
这
话听起来倒是鼓舞人的,于是爱丽丝回来了。
'Keep your
temper,' said the Caterpillar.
“别发脾气嘛!”毛毛虫说。
'Is that all?' said Alice,
swallowing down her anger as
well as
she could.
“就这个话吗?”爱丽丝忍住了怒气问。
'No,' said the
Caterpillar.
“不。”毛毛虫说。
Alice thought she might as well wait,
as she had nothing
else to do, and
perhaps after all it might tell her something
worth hearing. For some minutes it
puffed away without
speaking, but at
last it unfolded its arms, took the hookah
out of its mouth again, and said, 'So
you think you're
changed, do you?'
爱丽丝
想反正没什么事,不如在这儿等一等,也许最后它会说一
点儿值得听的话的。有好几分钟
,他仅仅喷着烟雾不说话。最后它松
开胳膊,把水烟管从嘴里拿出来,说:“你认为你已
经变了,是吗?”
'I'm afraid I am, sir,' said Alice; 'I
can't remember
things as I used--and I
don't keep the same size for ten
minutes together!'
“我想是的,先生。”爱丽丝说。
“我平时知道的事,现在都忘
了,而且连把同样的身材保持十分钟都做不到,”
'Can't
remember WHAT things?' said the
Caterpillar.
“你忘了些什么?”毛毛虫问。
'Well, I've tried to say
but it all came different!' Alice
replied in a very
melancholy
voice.
< br>“我试着背《小蜜蜂怎么干活》,不过背出来的完全变了样!”
爱丽丝忧郁地回答
。
'Repeat,
Caterpillar.
“那么背诵《你老了,威廉爸爸》吧!”毛毛虫说。
Alice folded
her hands, and
began
:
--
爱丽丝把双手交叉放好,开始背了:
'You are old, Father
William,' the young man said, 'And
your
hair has become very white; And yet you
incessantly
stand on your head-- Do you
think, at your age, it is right?'
“年轻人说道:‘你已经老啦,威
廉爸爸,你头上长满了白发。
可你老是头朝下倒立着,像你这把年纪,这合适吗?’
p>
'In
my youth,' Father William replied to his son, 'I
feared it might injure the brain; But,
now that I'm perfectly
sure I have
none, Why, I do it again and again.'
‘当我年轻的时候,’威廉爸爸回
答儿子,‘我怕这样会损坏脑
子;现在我脑袋已经空啦,所以就这样玩个不止。’
'You
are old,' said the youth, 'as I mentioned before,
And have grown most uncommonly fat; Yet
you turned a back-
somersault in at the
door-- Pray, what is the reason of
that?'
‘你已经老啦,’年轻人说:‘像我刚才说的一样,你已经变
得
非常肥胖;不过你一个前空翻翻进门来,这是怎么搞的?请你讲讲。’
'In my
youth,' said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
'I kept all my limbs very supple By the
use of this ointment-
-one shilling the
box-- Allow me to sell you a couple?'
‘当我年轻的时候,’老哲人摇晃
着灰白的卷发说道,‘我总是
让关节保持柔软灵巧,我用的是这种一先令一盒的油膏,你
想要两盒
吗,请允许我向你推销,’
'You are old,' said the
youth, 'and your jaws are too
weak For
anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the
goose, with the
bones and the beak-- Pray how did you manage
to do it?'
‘你已经老啦,’年轻人说,‘你的下巴应该是衰弱得只能喝
些
稀汤,不过你把一只整鹅,连骨带嘴全都吃光,请问你怎能这样?’
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'In my
youth,' said his father, 'I took to the law, And
argued each case with my wife; And the
muscular strength,
which it gave to my
jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life.'
‘当我年轻的时候,’爸爸说,研
究的是法律条文。对于每个案
子,都拿来同妻子辩论,所以我练得下巴肌肉发达,这使我
受用终
身。’
'You are old,' said the
youth, 'one would hardly suppose
That
your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced
an eel
on the end of your nose-- What
made you so awfully clever?'
‘你已经老啦,’年轻人说,很难
想象,你的眼睛会像从前,一
样闪光。不过你居然能把一条鳗鱼,竖在鼻子尖上。请问,
你怎会这
么棒?’
'I have answered three
questions, and that is enough,'
Said
his father; 'don't give yourself airs! Do you
think I
can listen all day to such
stuff? Be off, or I'll kick you
down
stairs!'
‘够啦,’他的爸爸说,‘我已经回答了三个问题。你不要太放
肆啦,我不会
整天听你胡言乱语。快滚吧,不然我就要,一脚把你踢
下楼梯。’”
'That is not
said right,' said the Caterpillar.
“背错了。”毛毛虫说。
'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said
Alice, timidly; 'some
of the words have
got altered.'
“我也怕不十分对,”爱丽丝羞怯地说,“有些字已经变了。”
'It is wrong
from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar
decidedly, and there was silence for
some minutes.
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/p>
“从头到尾都错了,”毛毛虫干脆地说。然后他们又沉默了几分
钟
。
The Caterpillar was the first to
speak.'What size do you
want to be?' it
asked.
毛毛虫首先开腔了:“你想变成多么大小呢?”
[en]'Oh, I'm
not particular as to size,' Alice hastily
replied; 'only one doesn't like
changing so often, you know.'
“唉!多么大小我倒不在乎。”爱
丽丝急忙回答,“不过,一个
人总不会喜欢老是变来变去的,这你是知道的。”
'I
DON'T know,' said the Caterpillar.
“我不知道。”毛毛虫说。
Alice said
nothing
:
she had never been
so much
contradicted in her life
before, and she felt that she was
losing her temper.
爱丽丝不说话了,她从来没有遭到
过这么多的反驳,感到自己要
发脾气了。
'Are you
content now?' said the Caterpillar.
“你满意现在的样子吗?”毛毛虫说。
'Well, I should like to be a LITTLE
larger, sir, if you
wouldn't mind,'
said Alice
:
'three inches is
such a wretched
height to
be.'
“哦,如果你不在意的话,先生,我想再大一点,”爱丽丝说,
“像这样三英寸高,太
可怜了。”
'It is a very good height indeed!' said
the Caterpillar
angrily,rearing itself
upright as it spoke (it was exactly
three inches high).
“这正是一个非常合适的高度。”
毛毛虫生气地说,它说话时还
使劲儿挺直了身子,正好是三英寸高。
'But I'm not
used to it!' pleaded poor Alice in a piteous
tone. And she thought of herself, 'I
wish the creatures
wouldn't be so
easily offended!'
“可我不习惯这个高度!”爱丽丝可怜巴巴地说道,同时心里
想:
“我希望这家伙可别发火!”
'You'll get used to it in
time,' said the Caterpillar;
and it put
the hookah into its mouth and began smoking
again.
< br>“不久你就会习惯的!”毛毛虫说着又把水烟管放进嘴里抽起来
了。
This time
Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak
again. In a minute or two the
Caterpillar took the hookah out
of its
mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself.
Then
it got down off the mushroom, and
crawled away in the grass,
merely
remarking as it went, 'One side will make you grow
taller, and the other side will make
you grow shorter.'
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