百年孤独是什么文学的代表作 世纪文学经典:《百年孤独》第8章Part 4

世纪文学经典:《百年孤独》第8章Part 4  

The situation again became as tense as it had been during the months that preceded the first war. The cockfights
instituted by the mayor himself
were suspended. Captain Aquiles Ricardo
the mander of the garrison
took over the exercise of municipal power. The Liberals looked upon him as a provocateur. "Something terrible is going to happen
" úrsula would say to Aureli-ano José. "Don't go out into the street after six o'clock." The entreaties were useless. Aureli-ano José
just like Arcadio in other times
had ceased to belong to her. It was as if his return home
the possibility of existing without concerning himself with everyday necessities
had awakened in him the lewd and lazy leanings of his uncle José Arcadio. His passion for Amaranta had been extinguished without leaving any scars. He would drift around
playing pool
easing his solitude with occasional women
sacking the hiding places where úrsula had fotten her money. He ended up ing home only to change his clothes.
"They're all alike
" úrsula lamented. "At first they behave very well
they're obedient and prompt and they don't seem capable of killing a fly
but as soon as their beards appear they go to ruin." Unlike Arcadio
who had never known his real origins
he found out that he was the son of Pilar Ternera
who had hung up a hammock so that he could take his siesta in her house. More than mother and son
they were acplices in solitude. Pilar Ternera had lost the trail of all hope. Her laugh had taken on the tones of an an
her breasts had succumbed to the tedium of endless caressing
her stomach and her thighs had been the victims of her irrevocable fate as a shared woman
but her heart grew old without bitterness. Fat
talkative
with the airs of a matron in disgrace
she renounced the sterile illusions of her cards and found peace and consolation in other people's loves. In the house where Aureli-ano José took his siesta
the girls from the neighborhood would receive their casual lovers. "Lend me your room
Pilar
" they would simply say when they were already inside. "Of course
" Pilar would answer.
And if anyone was present she would explain. "I'm happy knowing that people are happy in bed."
She never charged for the service. She never refused the favor
just as she never refused the countless men who sought her out
even in the ilight of her maturity
without giving her money or love and only occasionally pleasure. Her five daughters
who inherited a burning seed
had been lost on the byways of life since adolescence. Of the o sons she managed to raise
one died fighting in the forces of Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía and the other was wounded and captured at the age of fourteen when he tried to steal a crate of chickens in a town in the swamp. In a certain way
Aureli-ano José was the tall
dark man who had been promised her for half a century by the king of hearts
and like all men sent by the cards he reached her heart when he was already stamped with the mark of death. She saw it in the cards.
"Don't go out tonight
" she told him. "Stay and sleep here because Carmelita Montiel is getting tired of asking me to put her in your room."
Aureli-ano José did not catch the deep feeling of begging that was in the offer.
"Tell her to wait for me at midnight" he said. He went to the theater
where a Spanish pany was putting on The Dagger of the Fox
which was really Zorzilla's play with the title changed by order of Captain Aquiles Ricardo
because the Liberals called the Conservatives Goths. Only when he handed in his ticket at the door did Aureli-ano José realize that Captain Aquiles Ricardo and o soldiers armed with rifles were searching the audience.
"Be careful
captain
" Aureli-ano José warned him. "The man hasn't been born yet who can lay hands on me." The captain tried to search him forcibly and Aureli-ano José
who was unarmed
began to run. The soldiers disobeyed the order to shoot. "He's a Buendía
" one of them explained. Blind with rage
the captain then snatched away the rifle
stepped into the center of the street
and took aim."
"Cowards!" he shouted. "I only wish it was Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía."
“当心点吧，上尉，”奥孟连诺·霍塞提出警告，“能够向我举手的人还没出世咧。”上尉试图强迫搜查他，没带武器的奥雷连诺·霍塞拔腿就跑。士兵们没有服从开枪的命令。“他是布恩蒂亚家的人嘛，”其中一个士兵解释。于是，狂怒的上尉拿起一支步枪，冲到街道中间，立即瞄准。
“全是胆小鬼！”他怒吼起来。“哪怕这是奥雷连诺上校，我也不伯！”