通译双语文库:悲惨世界Part 3 Book 1 Chapter 9 The Old Soul of Gaul

Part 3 Book 1 Chapter 9 The Old Soul of Gaul
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...

There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; Beaumarchais had something of it. Gaminerie is a shade of the Gallic spirit. Mingled with good sense, it sometimes adds force to the latter, as alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin. Camille Desmoulins was a native of the faubourgs. Championnet, who treated miracles brutally, rose from the pavements of Paris; he had, when a small lad, inundated the porticos of Saint-Jean de Beauvais, and of Saint-Etienne du Mont; he had addressed the shrine of Sainte-Genevieve familiarly to give orders to the phial of Saint Januarius.

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The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and handsome eyes because he has wit. If Jehovah himself were present, he would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on boxing. All beliefs are possible to him. He plays in the gutter, and straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in the presence of grape-shot; he was a scapegrace, he is a hero; like the little Theban, he shakes the skin from the lion; Barra the drummer-boy was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture says "Vah!" and in a moment he has passed from the small brat to the giant.

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This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal. Measure that spread of wings which reaches from Moliere to Barra.

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To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses himself, because he is unhappy.

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Part 3 Book 1 Chapter 9 The Old Soul of Gaul

①波克兰（Poquelin），莫里哀的姓。

②卡米尔·德穆兰（Camille　Desmoulins，1760-1794），法国政论家，十八世纪末资产阶级革命活功家，右翼雅各宾党人。

③尚皮奥内（Championnet，1762-1800），革命时期的将军。

④圣热纳维埃夫是巴黎的保护神，她的遗骸盒很受人尊敬。

⑤圣詹纳罗是那不勒斯的保护神，他殉教时留下的一瓶血一直被视为圣物。

①巴拉（Bara，1779-1793），共和军的少年军人，被俘后敌人强迫他喊“国王万岁”，他的回答是“共和万岁！”接着就在敌人的排枪下牺牲，时年十四。巴黎先贤祠有他的塑像。

这污泥中的孩子也是理想中的孩子。你衡量从莫里哀到巴拉的智力的广度便知道了。

总而言之，简括起来说，野孩是个贪玩的孩子，因为他苦恼。

This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal. Measure that spread of wings which reaches from Moliere to Barra.

To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses himself, because he is unhappy.

Part 3 Book 1 Chapter 9 The Old Soul of Gaul

①波克兰（Poquelin），莫里哀的姓。

②卡米尔·德穆兰（Camille Desmoulins，1760-1794），法国政论家，十八世纪末资产阶级革命活功家，右翼雅各宾党人。

③尚皮奥内（Championnet，1762-1800），革命时期的将军。

④圣热纳维埃夫是巴黎的保护神，她的遗骸盒很受人尊敬。

⑤圣詹纳罗是那不勒斯的保护神，他殉教时留下的一瓶血一直被视为圣物。

①巴拉（Bara，1779-1793），共和军的少年军人，被俘后敌人强迫他喊“国王万岁”，他的回答是“共和万岁！”接着就在敌人的排枪下牺牲，时年十四。巴黎先贤祠有他的塑像。

这污泥中的孩子也是理想中的孩子。你衡量从莫里哀到巴拉的智力的广度便知道了。

总而言之，简括起来说，野孩是个贪玩的孩子，因为他苦恼。

This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal. Measure that spread of wings which reaches from Moliere to Barra.

To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses himself, because he is unhappy.

②卡米尔·德穆兰（Camille　Desmoulins，1760-1794），法国政论家，十八世纪末资产阶级革命活功家，右翼雅各宾党人。