董贝父子中董贝的形象 双语小说连载:《董贝父子》第11章 Part 7

双语小说连载:《董贝父子》第11章 Part 7  

Miss Blimber
too
although a slim and graceful maid
did no soft violence to the gravity of the house. There was no light nonsense about Miss Blimber. She kept her hair short and crisp
and wore spectacles. She was dry and sandy with working in the graves of deceased languages. None of your live languages for Miss Blimber. They must be dead - stone dead - and then Miss Blimber dug them up like a Ghoul.
Mrs Blimber
her Mama
was not learned herself
but she pretended to be
and that did quite as well. She said at evening parties
that if she could have known Cicero
she thought she could have died contented. It was the steady joy of her life to see the Doctor's young gentlemen go out walking
unlike all other young gentlemen
in the largest possible shirt-collars
and the stiffest possible cravats. It was so classical
she said.
As to Mr Feeder
B.A.
Doctor Blimber's assistant
he was a kind of human barrel-an
with a little list of tunes at which he was continually working
over and over again
without any variation. He might have been fitted up with a change of barrels
perhaps
in early life
if his destiny had been favourable; but it had not been; and he had only one
with which
in a monotonous round
it was his occupation to bewilder the young ideas of Doctor Blimber's young gentlemen. The young gentlemen were prematurely full of carking anxieties. They knew no rest from the pursuit of stony-hearted verbs
savage noun-substantives
inflexible syntactic passages
and ghosts of exercises that appeared to them in their dreams. Under the forcing system
a young gentleman usually took leave of his spirits in three weeks. He had all the cares of the world on his head in three months. He conceived bitter sentiments against his parents or guardians in four; he was an old misanthrope
in five; envied Curtius that blessed refuge in the earth
in six; and at the end of the first elvemonth had arrived at the conclusion
from which he never afterwards departed
that all the fancies of the poets
and lessons of the sages
were a mere collection of words and grammar
and had no other meaning in the world.
至于布林格博士的助手、文学士菲德先生，他是一个人为的手摇风琴；他根据一份小小的曲调目录，一遍又一遍、毫无变化地演奏着。如果他的命运好的话，那么他可能在早年就装备好一个备用的手摇风琴；但是他的命运不好，他只有他本人这个手摇风琴，他的职业就是用这个单调的圆筒来迷糊博士手下的这些年轻的先生们的年轻的思想。这些年轻的先生们过早地操心、忧虑。铁石心肠的动词、残暴粗野的名词、毫不通融的句法，以及出现在他们梦中的练习的魔鬼在追赶着他们，使他们得不到休息；在催熟的制度下，一位年轻的先生通常在三个星期以后就失去了朝气；他在三个月以后就为世界上各种事情操心；他在四个月以后对他的父母和监护人怀着怨恨的情绪；他在五个月以后成了个老厌世者；他在六个月以后羨慕库尔提乌斯②幸运地遁身在地中；他在头十二个月末尾的时候得出结论：诗篇中的幻想和圣人的教训只不过是词与语法的汇集，在世界上没有其他意义；从此以后他就再也没有抛弃过这个结论。
But he went on blow
blow
blowing
in the Doctor's hothouse
all the time; and the Doctor's glory and reputation were great
when he took his wintry growth home to his relations and friends.
Upon the Doctor's door-steps one day
Paul stood with a fluttering heart
and with his small right hand in his father's. His other hand was locked in that of Florence. How tight the tiny pressure of that one; and how loose and cold the other!
Mrs Pipchin hovered behind the victim
with her sable plumage and her hooked beak
like a bird of ill-omen. She was out of breath - for Mr Dombey
full of great thoughts
had walked fast - and she croaked hoarsely as she waited for the opening of the door.
'Now
Paul
' said Mr Dombey
exultingly. 'This is the way indeed to be Dombey and Son
and have money. You are almost a man already.'
'Almost
' returned the child.
--------①西塞罗（MarcusTulliusCicero）（公元前106—43年）：古罗马政治家、雄辩家和著作家。②库尔提乌斯（MarcusCurtius）：据古罗马神话传说，公元前362年，罗马广场裂开一条无底深沟；预言师说，只有把罗马最宝贵的东西扔下去，裂缝才能重新合拢。这时年轻人库尔提乌斯宣称，没有什么能比一个勇敢的公民更可宝贵的了，于是他全副武装跳下了深沟。他刚一跳下，裂缝就立即重新合拢。后来这处地方变成了一片池塘，称为库尔提乌斯湖（LacusCurtius）。
conceive vt. 怀孕；构思；以为；持有
vi. 怀孕；设想；考虑
[ 过去式conceived 过去分词conceived 现在分词conceiving ]
conceive of 设想；想象
例句：
(1) James Bond:Oh
I conceive you.
詹姆斯·邦德：哦，我相信。
(2) Conceive it first in your own mind.
在你自己的脑海里设想一下。
(3) How do you conceive we got here?
“你觉得我们是怎么到这里的？”
(4) No one could conceive of his hard work.
没人能设想他工作的辛苦。
(5) When did scientists conceive of space travel?
科学家们什么时候设想出太空旅行的?。
(6) I simply refuse to conceive of such a solution.
这样的解决办法，我是绝对不考虑的。
(7) It's difficult to conceive of living on the moon.
很难想像在月球上生活。
(8) I can't conceive where he came up with that idea.
我想不出他是怎么想到这个主意的。
(9) How could you conceive of his granting the demand?
你怎么竟会认为他可能批准这个要求呢？
(10) I cannot conceive of such a thing happening again.
我不能想像这种事会再发生。