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悲惨世界|Les Miserables

Part 3 Book 1 Chapter 3 He is Agreeable

属类: 双语小说 【分类】世界名著 -[作者: 维克多-雨果] 阅读:[104003]
Part 3 Book 1 Chapter 3 He is Agreeable
19世纪30年代的法国。富人乘坐马车,用金餐具吃喝。穷人没有工作,没有食物,没有希望——他们是穷苦人,起义一触即发。法国人民还记得1789年的法国大革命。当时,民众在巴黎街头筑起街垒,死去的人数以千计。这样的时刻又要到来了吗? 这是冉阿让的故事。他坐了19年的牢,终于恢复了自由身。可是,他怎么生活,到哪里去找工作呢?像他这样一个人,还有什么希望呢?这也是沙威的故事,他是一个督察,一个残忍的人,一个冷酷的人。他的人生只有一个目标——把冉阿让再次送进大牢。这还是芳汀的故事,芳汀和她的女儿珂赛特。她们的故事是怎样改变了冉阿让的一生?这也是马吕斯的故事。他是巴黎的一名学生,做好了为起义而牺牲的准备——或是为爱情而死。最后,还有伽弗洛什——一个在巴黎街头流浪的孩子,他没有家,没有亲人,没有鞋穿……可他的脸上总是挂着笑容,心中总是有歌儿在欢唱。
不过,我们要先从冉阿让讲起……
France in the 1830s. The rich ride in carriages, and eat from gold plates. The poor have no work, no food, no hope – they are Les Misérables, and rebellion is in the air. France remembers the French Revolution in 1789, when the people built barricades in the streets of Paris, and the dead were counted in thousands. Is that time coming again?
This is the story of Jean Valjean. A prisoner for nineteen years, now at last he is a free man. But how can he live, where can he find work? What hope is there for a man like him? It is also the story of Javert, a police inspector, a cruel man, a hard man. He wants one thing in life – to send Valjean back to prison. And it is Fantine’s story too, Fantine and her daughter Cosette. How does their story change Valjean’s life? And it is also Marius’s story. He is a student in Paris, ready to die for the rebellion – or for love. And last, there is Gavroche – a boy of the Paris streets, with no home, no family, no shoes... But a boy with a smile on his face and a song in his heart.
But we begin with Jean Valjean...
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那“小子”总有办法弄到几个苏,到了夜里,他便拿去看戏。一进那道具有魔力的大门,他的模样便完全变了,他先头还是个野孩,现在成了个titi①了。戏院是一种底舱在上、翻了身的船。titi便挤在那底舱里。titi对野孩来说,正如花蝴蝶之与幼虫,同是飞翔的生物。只要有他在,有他那种兴高采烈的喜色,热情欢乐的活力,拍翅膀似的掌声,那狭窄、恶臭、昏暗、污秽、腌臜、丑陋、令人作呕的底舱便够得上被称作天堂了。

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In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means to procure, the homuncio enters a theatre. On crossing that magic threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes the titi.[18] Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed with wings and soaring. It suffices for him to be there, with his radiance of happiness, with his power of enthusiasm and joy, with his hand-clapping, which resembles a clapping of wings, to confer on that narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the name of Paradise.

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①titi,巴黎街头的顽童。

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[18] Chicken: slang allusion to the noise made in calling poultry.

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你把一些无用的东西送给一个人,又从他身上把必需的东西剥夺掉,你便有了一个野孩。

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Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, and you have the gamin.

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对文学野孩并非没有直觉。他的爱好,我们不无歉意地说,也许一点也不倾向于古典方面。他生来就不怎么有学院派的气息。因此,举个例子,马尔斯小姐的声望在那一小群翻江倒海的孩子们中是带点讽刺味的。野孩称她为“妙小姐”。这孩子叫、笑、闹、斗,衣服褛裂如缨络,形容寒伧如学究,在溷水沟里捕鱼,在污泥地里行猎,从垃圾堆里逗乐,在十字街头冷嘲热讽、讥诮、挖苦、吹口哨、唱歌、喝彩、唾骂,用烂污小调来调剂颂主诗歌,能唱各种歌曲,从“从深渊的底里”①直到“狗上床”,能得到他没找到的东西,能了解他所不知道的事物,顽强到不择手段,狂妄到心安理得,多情到逐臭纳污,能蹲在神山上面,滚进粪土堆中,出来却沾满一身星斗。巴黎的野孩,就是具体而微的拉伯雷。

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The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic taste. He is not very academic by nature. Thus, to give an example, the popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy children was seasoned with a touch of irony. The gamin called her Mademoiselle Muche--"hide yourself."

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①安葬时教士所唱的祈祷经。

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This being bawls and scoffs and ridicules and fights, has rags like a baby and tatters like a philosopher, fishes in the sewer, hunts in the cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his wit, grins and bites, whistles and sings, shouts, and shrieks, tempers Alleluia with Matantur-lurette, chants every rhythm from the De Profundis to the Jack-pudding, finds without seeking, knows what he is ignorant of, is a Spartan to the point of thieving, is mad to wisdom, is lyrical to filth, would crouch down on Olympus, wallows in the dunghill and emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in this youth.

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他不欣赏自己的裤子,除非它有一个表袋。

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He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket.

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他不轻易感到惊奇,更不容易恐惧,他用歌谣讥刺迷信,他戳穿谰言妄语,嘲讪神异,对着鬼怪伸舌头,拆垮虚张声势的空架子,丑化歌功颂德的谀词。那并不是因为他平庸,远不是那样,而是因为他以离奇怪诞的幻影代替了那庄严妙相。假使风暴神出现在那野孩的眼前,他也许会说:“哟!马虎子。”

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He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes songs on superstitions, he takes the wind out of exaggerations, he twits mysteries, he thrusts out his tongue at ghosts, he takes the poetry out of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. It is not that he is prosaic; far from that; but he replaces the solemn vision by the farcical phantasmagoria. If Adamastor were to appear to him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!"

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