狄更斯小说改编系列 狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第16章Part2

狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第16章Part2  

When day began to dawn again
he watched for the sun; and when its cheerful light began to sparkle in the room
he pictured to himself—pictured! he saw—the high church towers rising up into the morning sky
the town reviving
waking
starting into life once more
the river glistening as it rolled (but rolling fast as ever)
and the country bright with dew.
Familiar sounds and cries came by degrees into the street below; the servants in the house were roused and busy; faces looked in at the door
and voices asked his attendants softly how he was. Paul always answered for himself
'I am better. I am a great deal better
thank you! Tell Papa so!'
By little and little
he got tired of the bustle of the day
the noise of carriages and carts
and people passing and repassing; and would fall asleep
or be troubled with a restless and uneasy sense again—the child could hardly tell whether this were in his sleeping or his waking moments—of that rushing river. 'Why
will it never stop
Floy?' he would sometimes ask her. 'It is bearing me away
I think!'
白天的忙乱，马车、大车的喧闹声和人们的来来往往渐渐使他感到厌倦，他会睡去，或者又会因为那迅猛奔腾的河流感到急躁不安，无法平静——孩子不知道这是在他睡着的时候还是醒着的时候发生的事情。“唉，它就永远也不停吗，弗洛伊？”有时他会问她，“我觉得，它是要把我带走呢！”
But Floy could always soothe and reassure him; and it was his daily delight to make her lay her head down on his pillow
and take some rest.
'You are always watching me
Floy
let me watch you
now!' They would prop him up with cushions in a corner of his bed
and there he would recline the while she lay beside him: bending forward oftentimes to kiss her
and whispering to those who were near that she was tired
and how she had sat up so many nights beside him.
Thus
the flush of the day
in its heat and light
would gradually decline; and again the golden water would be dancing on the wall.