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悲惨世界|Les Miserables

Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 14 The Last Square

属类: 双语小说 【分类】世界名著 -[作者: 维克多-雨果] 阅读:[104351]
Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 14 The Last Square
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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羽林军的几个方阵,有如水中的岩石,屹立在溃军的乱流中,一直坚持到夜晚。夜来了,死神也同时来了,他们等候那双重黑影,不屈不挠,任凭敌人包围。每个联队,各各孤立,和各方面被击溃的大军已完全失去联系,他们从容就义,各自负责。有的守着罗松一带的高地,有的守在圣约翰山的原野里,准备作最后的一搏。那些无援无望,勇气百倍,视死如归的方阵在那一带轰轰烈烈地呻吟待毙。乌尔姆、瓦格拉姆、耶拿、弗里德兰①的声名也正随着他们死去。

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Several squares of the Guard, motionless amid this stream of the defeat, as rocks in running water, held their own until night. Night came, death also; they awaited that double shadow, and, invincible, allowed themselves to be enveloped therein. Each regiment, isolated from the rest, and having no bond with the army, now shattered in every part, died alone. They had taken up position for this final action, some on the heights of Rossomme, others on the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean. There, abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their death-throes in formidable fashion. Ulm, Wagram, Jena, Friedland, died with them.

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①这些都是拿破仑打胜仗的地方。

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At twilight, towards nine o’clock in the evening, one of them was left at the foot of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. In that fatal valley, at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now inundated by the masses of the English, under the converging fires of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of projectiles, this square fought on. It was commanded by an obscure officer named Cambronne. At each discharge, the square diminished and replied. It replied to the grape-shot with a fusillade, continually contracting its four walls. The fugitives pausing breathless for a moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and ever-decreasing thunder.

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夜色朦胧,九点左右,在圣约翰山高地的坡下还剩一个方阵。在那阴惨的山谷中,在铁骑军曾经向上奔驰,现在流遍英军的血、盖满英军尸体的山坡下,在胜利的敌军炮队集中轰击下,那一个方阵仍在战斗。他们的长官是一个叫康布罗纳的无名军官。每受一次轰击,那方阵便缩小一次,但仍在还击。他们用步枪对抗大炮,四面的人墙不断缩短。有些逃兵在上气不接下气时停下来,在黑暗中远远听着那惨淡的枪声在渐渐减少。

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When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no longer anything but clubs, when the heap of corpses was larger than the group of survivors, there reigned among the conquerors, around those men dying so sublimely, a sort of sacred terror, and the English artillery, taking breath, became silent. This furnished a sort of respite. These combatants had around them something in the nature of a swarm of spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, the white sky viewed through wheels and gun-carriages, the colossal death’s-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the shades of twilight they could hear the pieces being loaded; the matches all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round their heads; all the lintstocks of the English batteries approached the cannons, and then, with emotion, holding the supreme moment suspended above these men, an English general, Colville according to some, Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave Frenchmen!" Cambronne replied, "-----."

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那队壮士只剩下寥寥几个人,他们的军旗成了一块破布,他们的子弹已经射完,步枪成了光杆,在尸堆比活人队伍还大时,战胜者面对那些坚贞卓绝、光荣就义的人们,也不免如见神明,感到一种神圣的恐怖,英军炮队一时寂静无声,停止了射击。那是一种暂息。战士们觉得在他们四周有无数幢幢鬼魂、骑士的形象、炮身的黑影以及从车轮和炮架中窥见的天色,英雄们在战场远处的烟尘中隐隐望见死神的髑髅,其大无比,向他们逼近并注视着他们。他们在苍茫暮色中可以听到敌人上炮弹的声音,那些燃着的引火绳好象是黑暗中猛虎的眼睛,在他们头上绕成一个圈,英国炮队的火杆一齐靠近了炮身,这时,有一个英国将军,有人说是科维耳,也有人说是梅特兰,他当时心有所感,抓住悬在他们头上的那最后一秒钟,向他们喊道:“勇敢的法国人,投降吧!”康布罗纳答道:“屎!”

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{EDITOR’S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word "Merde!" in lieu of the ----- above.}

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