狄更斯哪部作品好 狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第17章Part 02

狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第17章Part 02  

Captain Cuttle
however
being cognisant of what had happened
relinquished these attempts
as he perceived the slender chance that now existed of his being able to obtain a little easy chat with Mr Dombey before the period of Walter's departure. But in admitting to himself
with a disappointed and crestfallen countenance
that Sol Gills must be told
and that Walter must go—taking the case for the present as he found it
and not having it enlightened orimprovedbeforehand by the knowing management of a friend—the Captain still felt an unabated confidence that he
Ned Cuttle
was the man for Mr Dombey; and that
to set Walter's fortunes quite square
nothing was wanted but that they o should e together.
For the Captain never could fet how well he and Mr Dombey had got on at Brighton; with what nicety each of them had put in a word when it was wanted; how exactly they had taken one another's measure; nor how Ned Cuttle had pointed out that resources in the first extremity
and had brought the interview to the desired termination. On all these grounds the Captain soothed himself with thinking that though Ned Cuttle was forced by the pressure of events to 'stand by' almost useless for the present
Ned would fetch up with a wet sail in good time
and carry all before him.
Under the influence of this good-natured delusion
Captain Cuttle even went so far as to revolve in his own bosom
while he sat looking at Walter and listening with a tear on his shirt-collar to what he related
whether it might not be at once genteel and politic to give Mr Dombey a verbal invitation
whenever they should meet
to e and cut his mutton in Brig Place on some day of his own naming
and enter on the question of his young friend's prospects over a social glass.
在这种出自善意的误解的影响下，卡特尔船长坐在那里，看着沃尔特，听着他叙述，同时在衬衫领子上掉下一颗眼泪的时候，心中甚至在转悠着这样的念头：不论哪一天他遇见董贝先生时，他就口头邀请他，在他指定的任何一天，到布里格广场来品尝品尝羊肉，然后在碰杯祝酒时再谈谈他年轻朋友的前途问题——这样做是不是既符合礼仪而又富于策略？
But the uncertain temper of Mrs MacStinger
and the possibility of her setting up her rest in the passage during such an entertainment
and there delivering some homily of an unplimentary nature
operated as acheckon the Captain's hospitable thoughts
and rendered him timid of giving them encouragement.