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索菲娅，冰冷的小房间里，大部分时间都回荡着争吵声，就像夫人独角连续剧，
< br>又被奇怪和不祥的沉默打断了。
但是偶而先生好象失去了耐性，
< br>不再沉默，
而是
刺耳的、低沉的、生气的叫喊。夫人始终
保持着高声的持续的尖叫而没有减弱，
她的声音即使是在发怒时也带有一种奇怪的平板单
调。
但现在先生他在争吵声中
的声音很高，柔和，带有强调性的
语调而突然爆发，当他们都能听的见的，听起
来就象一系列不同的形式的爆炸。呜呜呜呜
，一只狗慢慢的的叫着。
过了一会儿，
索菲娅不再注意他们的争吵了，
修补着夫人的一个女式背心，
修补
时她必须得全神贯注，她感到很累，全身酸疼，又是一个辛苦天，昨天也是，前
天也是，每天都很辛苦，她已经不再年轻了，两年前她都过五十岁了，从她有记
忆时，
每天过的都很辛苦，
当她还是一个乡下小姑娘
时，
就经常背着成袋的土豆，
蹒跚地走在泥泞的路上，
每走十步就得歇歇，
这永远没有个尽头，
每天周
而复始
的重复着这繁重的工作。
She looked up from her sewing, moved
her head from side to side, blinked.
She had begun to see lights and spots
of colour dancing before her eyes; it
often happened to her now. a sort of
yellowish bright worm was wriggling up
towards the right-hand corner of her
field of vision; and though it was always
moving upwards, upwards, it was always
there in the same place. And there
were
stars of red and green that snapped and brightened
and faded all around
the
worm.
They
moved
between
her and her sewing;
they
were on
with her
work; Madame wanted her camisole most
particularly tomorrow morning. But it
was difficult to see round the worm.
她停止缝补抬起头，
活动活动一下发僵的脖子，
眨眨发胀的眼睛，
感觉眼前金光
乱飞，最近这种情况时常发
生，一种黄色的虫子在她视野内蠕动，并且有红、绿
的闪亮的星星围着这些虫子，
它们有她与缝的衣服之前来回移动，
当她闭上眼睛，
< br>仍然存在。过了一会儿，她继续缝补，夫人明天早上要穿她的长袖紧身外衣，但
是
这黄色的虫子在眼前晃动使得看手上的针线活很吃力
.
There
was
suddenly
a
great
increase
of
noise
from
the
other
end
of
the
corridor. A door had opened; words
articulated themselves.
“…
Moiaussi,
”
Monsieur
uttered
a
harsh,
dangerous
was
the
sound of heavy footsteps
in the passage, a rattling in the umbrella stand;
then
the front door banged.
突然另一个走廊的尽头的争吵声大了起来，门打开了，他们的争吵声清晰起来。
“要是你认为我是你的奴隶的活，我的朋友，那你就大错特错了，我做我自己想
做的事”
。
“我也是”
，
先生发出了一声刺耳的、吓人的笑声
.
一阵阵有力的脚步声经过，咚咚地走进衣具间，然后前门咚的关上了。
< br>
Sophie looked down again at her
work. Oh, the worm, the coloured stars, the
aching fatigue in all her limbs! If one
could only spend a whole day in bed- in a
huge bed, feathery, warm, and soft, all
the day long
…
索菲娅
又继续她的工作，哦，这个虫子，这些彩色星星，全身酸疼酸疼。如果能
有一整天躺在一
个很大的床上，轻软又暖和，持续一整天，真是太好了。
The
ringing
of
the
bell
startled
her.
It
always
made
her
jump,
that
furious
wasp-like buzzer. She got up, put her
work down on the table, smoothed her
apron, set straight her cap, and
stepped out into the corridor. Once more the
bell buzzed furiously. Madame was
impatient.
夫人响铃叫她的声音打断了她的沉思，
惊得她跳了起来，
狂怒的声音就像蜂鸣器。
她站起来放下手头的
工作，
展展围裙，
整理好她的帽子。
然
后走向走廊尽头的房
间，铃声再一次响起，夫人已没有耐心了。
“
at last, Sophie. I thought
you were never coming.
”
“索菲娅，你总算出现了，我还以为你不过来了呢。
”
< br>
Sophie said nothing; there was
nothing to say. Madame was standing in front
of the open wardrobe. A bundle of
dresses hung over her arm, and there were
more of them lying in a heap on the
bed.
索菲娅一言不发，
也没什么可说的，
夫人站在打开的衣柜前，
一捆衣服高高地堆
在她的胳膊
上，还有很多衣服堆在床上。
“
Unebeaute a la
Rubens,
”
her
husband used to call her when he was in an
amorous mood. He liked these massive,
splendid, great women. None of your
flexible drain-pipes for
him.
”
Helene
Fourmont
”
was his
pet name for her.
“真是一个鲁本斯式的美人”
< br>，
当她丈夫含情脉脉地看着她，常常这样称呼她，他
喜欢
高大、热情的女人，那种体态窈窕柔软的细腿女郎可绝不合他的口味，
Helene
Fourmont
，她每次都这样称呼她。
“
some
day,
”
Madame used
to tell her friends,
“
some
day I really must go to
the Louvre and
see my portrait. By Rubens, you know.
It
’
s extraordinary that
one should have lived all
one
’
s life in Paris and
never have seen the Louvre.
Don't you
think so?
”
“总有一天”
夫人常常对她的朋友说，
“总有一天，我真得去卢浮宫看看我的画像，
< br>乘坐
RUBENS
，你知道的，这是另人兴奋的，有人一
辈子住在巴黎却没去过卢
浮宫，你也这样认为吧”
。
She was superb tonight. Her
cheeks were flushed; her blue eyes shone with
an unusual brilliance between their
long lashes, her short, red-brown hair had
broken wildly loose.
今晚她状态好极
了，
脸颊红红的，
蓝色的眼睛在经过长时间的争吵后闪着不同建
党的光彩，她那短的、红褐色的头发零乱的松散着。
“
Tomorrow,
Sophie,
”
she
said
dramatically,
“
we
start
for
Rome.
Tomorrow
morning.
”
She unhooked another dress from the
wardrobe as she spoke, and
threw it on
to the bed. With the movement her dressing-gown
flew open, and
there
was
a
vision
of
ornate
underclothing
and
white
exuberant
flesh.
“
we
must pack at
once.
”
“
For how long,
Madame?
”
“
A fortnight, three months-
how should I know?
”
“
It makes a difference,
Madame.
”
“
The important thing is to
get away. I shall not return to this house, after
what
has been said to me tonight, till
I am humbly asked to.
”
她戏剧性地说，
“索菲娅，明天我们去罗马，明天早上”
< br>，
她边说边从衣柜里解开了
另一件裙子的钩子，
把裙子也扔在床上，
随着她的动作她的睡袍飘了开来，
< br>那是
一件有很多蕾丝的很暴露的内衣，
“我们必须马上打
包”
。
“去多久呢，夫人？”
“两个星期、
三个月，
-
我怎么知道去多久？”
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