不期而爱小说连载第80章 双语小说连载:《董贝父子》第14章 Part 1

双语小说连载:《董贝父子》第14章 Part 1  

Chapter 14 Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned
and goes Home for the Holidays
When the Midsummer vacation approached
no indecent manifestations of joy were exhibited by the leaden-eyed young gentlemen assembled at Doctor Blimber's. Any such violent expression as 'breaking up
' would have been quite inapplicable to that polite establishment. The younggentlemen oozed away
semi-annually
to their own homes; but they never broke up. They would have scorned the action.
Tozer
who was constantly galled and tormented by a starched white cambric neckerchief
which he wore at the express desire of Mrs Tozer
his parent
who
designing him for the Church
was of opinion that he couldn't be in that forward state of preparation too soon - Tozer said
indeed
that choosing beeen o evils
he thought he would rather stay where he was
than go home. However inconsistent this declaration might appear with that passage in Tozer's Essay on the subject
wherein he had observed 'that the thoughts of home and all its recollections
awakened in his mind the most pleasing emotions of anticipation and delight
' and had also likened himself to a Roman General
flushed with a recent victory over the Iceni
or laden with Carthaginian spoil
advancing within a few hours' march of the Capitol
presupposed
for the purposes of the simile
to be the dwelling-place of Mrs Tozer
still it was very sincerely made. For it seemed that Tozer had a dreadful Uncle
who not only volunteered examinations of him
in the holidays
on abstruse points
but isted innocent events and things
and wrenched them to the same fell purpose. So that if this Uncle took him to the Play
or
on a similar pretence of kindness
carried him to see a Giant
or a Dwarf
or a Conjuror
or anything
Tozer knew he had read up some classical allusion to the subject beforehand
and was thrown into a state of mortal apprehension: not foreseeing where he might break out
or what authority he might not quote against him.
托泽按照他母亲托泽夫人的明确的意愿，佩戴了一条浆过的白色麻纱围巾，并经常被它擦伤、弄痛。他母亲立意要他接受一个教会的职位，并认为他预先做好准备愈早愈好。托泽确实曾经说过，如果两害相权取其轻的话，他想他宁可留在现在的地方，而不回家去。他的这个声明与他论述这个问题的一篇论文中的一段看来可能是矛盾的；他在那段文章中说，“对家的思念与所有的回忆在他心中唤醒了期待与喜悦的最愉快的情感”；他还把自己比作一位罗马将军，由于新近战胜爱西尼①而得意扬扬，或者满载着从迦太基掠夺来的战利品向前行进，还有几个小时的路程就可以到达朱庇特神殿②；可以推测，他在这里为了比喻，是把朱庇特神殿比作托泽夫人的寓所；但是尽管这样，他的那个声明是十分真诚作出的。因为托泽似乎有一位严厉可怕的伯父，他不仅自告奋勇，在假期中考问他一些深奥难解的问题，而且还抓住一些无害的事件与事情，耍弄花招，以达到同样残酷的目的。因此，如果这位伯父要领他到戏院看戏，或者在出于善意的类似借口下，领他去看一个大汉，或一个矮子，或一个邪术家，或不论是什么，托泽知道他必须事先读一读经典著作中在这个问题上提到过的一些话，因此他就处在一种极为忧虑不安的状态中，不知道伯父在什么时候会大发脾气，也不知道他会引用什么权威的话来反对他。
As to Briggs
his father made no show of artifice about it. He never would leave him alone. So numerous and severe were the mental trials of that unfortunate youth in vacation time
that the friends of the family (then resident near Bayswater
London) seldom approached the ornamental piece of water in Kensington Gardens
' without a vague expectation of seeing Master Briggs's hat floating on the surface
and an unfinished exercise lying on the bank. Briggs
therefore
was not at all sanguine on the subject of holidays; and these o sharers of little Paul's bedroom were so fair a sample of the young gentlemen in general
that the most elastic among them contemplated the arrival of those festive periods with genteel resignation.
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②朱庇特神殿（Capitol）：朱庇特（Jupiter），也译朱比特，是罗马传说中的主神。