狄更斯的小说特点 狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第17章Part 01

狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第17章Part 01  

Chapter 17 Captain Cuttle does a little Business for the Young People
Captain Cuttle
in theexerciseof that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming
with which (as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature
had gone to Mr Dombey's house on the eventful Sunday
winking all the way as a vent for his superfluous sagacity
and had presented himself in the full lustre of the ankle-jacks before the eyes of Towlinson. Hearing from that individual
to his great concern
of the impending calamity
Captain Cuttle
in his delicacy
sheered off again confounded; merely handing in the nosegay as a small mark of his solicitude
and leaving his respectful pliments for the family in general
which he acpanied with an expression of his hope that they would lay their heads well to the wind under existing circumstances
and a friendly intimation that he would 'look up again' to-morrow.
The Captain's pliments were never heard of any more. The Captain's nosegay
after lying in the hall all night
was swept into the dust-bin next morning; and the Captain's sly arrangement
involved in one catastrophe with greater hopes and loftier designs
was crushed to pieces. So
when an avalanche bears down a mountain-forest
igs and bushes suffer with the trees
and all perish together.
船长的问候再也没有被人听到。船长的花束在前厅里搁了一夜，第二天早晨就被扫进了垃圾箱；船长神机妙算的安排，连同那更为伟大的希望和更为崇高的计划一道卷进了这场奇灾大祸，如今已被彻底粉碎。因此，当雪崩冲毁山间的森林时，细枝和灌木也随同大树遭殃，全都荡然无存。
When Walter returned home on the Sunday evening from his long walk
and its memorable close
he was too much occupied at first by the tidings he had to give them
and by the emotions naturally awakened in his breast by the scene through which he had passed
to observe either that his Uncle was evidently unacquainted with the intelligence the Captain had undertaken to impart
or that the Captain made signals with his hook
warning him to avoid the subject. Not that the Captain's signals were calculated to have proved very prehensible
however attentively observed; for
like those Chinese sages who are said in their conferences to write certain learned words in the air that are wholly impossible of pronunciation
the Captain made such waves and flourishes as nobody without a previous knowledge of his mystery
would have been at all likely tounderstand.