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悲惨世界|Les Miserables

Part 3 Book 2 Chapter 7 Rule: Receive No One except in the Evening

属类: 双语小说 【分类】世界名著 -[作者: 维克多-雨果] 阅读:[103865]
Part 3 Book 2 Chapter 7 Rule: Receive No One except in the Evening
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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明慧·吉诺曼先生便是那样一个人,他的头发一根也不掉,也没有全白,只是花白,并且一贯梳成狗耳朵式。总之,尽管那样,仍俨然可尊。

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他是从十八世纪来的:轻浮而自大。

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在王朝复辟时期的最初几年中,吉诺曼先生棗当时他还年轻,他在一八一四年①还只有七十四岁棗住在圣日耳曼郊区,圣稣尔比斯教堂附近的塞尔凡多尼街。他只在满了八十岁后又过了些日子,这才脱离社交隐退到沼泽区去。

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脱离社交以后,他仍紧守着原来的习惯,主要是白天绝对关上大门,不到天黑,不问有什么事,决不接待任何人。这一习惯是他坚决不改的。他五点钟吃晚饭,接着,大门就开了。这是他那个世纪的风气,他一点也不越规。“阳光是贼,”他说,“它只配望望关上的门窗。规规矩矩的人要到穹苍放射星光时才放射他的智慧。”他待在他的堡垒里,不接待任何人,即使国王来了也一样。这是他那时代古老的高贵气派。

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①一八一四年是拿破仑帝国末年和王朝复辟初年。

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Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,-- which was gray rather than white,--and which was always dressed in "dog’s ears." To sum up, he was venerable in spite of all this.

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He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and great.

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In 1814 and during the early years of the Restoration, M. Gillenormand, who was still young,--he was only seventy-four,--lived in the Faubourg Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired to the Marais when he quitted society, long after attaining the age of eighty.

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And, on abandoning society, he had immured himself in his habits. The principal one, and that which was invariable, was to keep his door absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever except in the evening. He dined at five o’clock, and after that his door was open. That had been the fashion of his century, and he would not swerve from it. "The day is vulgar," said he, "and deserves only a closed shutter. Fashionable people only light up their minds when the zenith lights up its stars." And he barricaded himself against every one, even had it been the king himself. This was the antiquated elegance of his day.

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