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悲惨世界|Les Miserables

Part 3 Book 1 Chapter 4 He may be of Use

属类: 双语小说 【分类】世界名著 -[作者: 维克多-雨果] 阅读:[104421]
Part 3 Book 1 Chapter 4 He may be of Use
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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巴黎以闲人开始,以野孩殿后,这两种人是任何其他城市有不起的;一个是满足于东张西望的盲目接受,一个是无穷无尽的主动出击;这是呆老汉和淘哥儿,只在巴黎的自然史中才会有。闲人是整个君主制度的形象,野孩是整个无政府主义的形象。

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Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the gamin.

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巴黎近郊的这个脸色灰白的孩子,面对着令人深省的社会现实和人间事物,活着,成长着,在苦难中沉下去,浮上来。他自以为是不用心思的,其实不然。他望着,老想笑,也老想着要干其他的事。不问你是什么,成见也好,贪渎行为也好,卑劣作风、压迫、不义、专制、不公、热狂、暴政也好,你都得留心注意那个张着嘴发愣的野孩。

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This pale child of the Parisian faubourgs lives and develops, makes connections, "grows supple" in suffering, in the presence of social realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself heedless; and he is not. He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is on the verge of something else also. Whoever you may be, if your name is Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin.

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那小不点儿会成长起来的。

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The little fellow will grow up.

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他是什么材料做成的?任何一种污泥。一撮土,一口气,你就有了亚当。只要有神经过就够了。而在那野孩的头上总是有神经过的。幸运照顾着野孩。我们在这里所说的幸运,颇有点冒险犯难的意味。用凡尘俗土抟捏出来的这小子,无知、不文、鲁莽、粗野、平凡,他将成为奋发有为的人还是碌碌无闻的人呢?等着瞧吧,“周回陶钧”,巴黎的精神,这是个凭机会创造孩童、凭造化陶铸成人的巨灵,它不同于拉丁的陶工,它能化瓦釜为黄钟。

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Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful of dirt, a breath, and behold Adam. It suffices for a God to pass by. A God has always passed over the street Arab. Fortune labors at this tiny being. By the word "fortune" we mean chance, to some extent. That pigmy kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. Will that become an Ionian or a Boeotian? Wait, currit rota, the Spirit of Paris, that demon which creates the children of chance and the men of destiny, reversing the process of the Latin potter, makes of a jug an amphora.

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