英语听力 暮光之城•暮色 第15期:初见(5)

 I glanced sideways at the beautiful boy, who was looking at his tray now, picking a bagel to pieces with long, pale fingers.His mouth was moving very quickly, his perfect lips barely opening. The other three still looked away, and yet I felt he was speaking quietly to them.

我用眼角匆匆瞥了那个漂亮的男孩子一眼，只见他正看着盘子，用他白皙而修长的手指把面包圈撕成小块扔进嘴里。他的嘴动得非常快，两片完美的嘴唇之间仅仅露着一条缝。其余的三个依然望着一边，不过我感觉到他在悄悄地跟他们说着什么。

 

Strange, unpopular names, I thought. The kinds of names grandparents had. But maybe that was in vogue¹ here — small town names? I finally remembered that my neighbor was called Jessica, a perfectly² common name. There were two girls named Jessica in my History class back home.

 

古怪的，少见的名字，我寻思着。爷爷奶奶们才用这种名字呀。不过，也许是这儿时兴呢——小镇上的名字?我终于想起来了，我旁边的女孩叫杰西卡，一个非常普通的名字。我家那边，历史课班上就有两个叫杰西卡的女孩。

 

"They are… very nice-looking." I struggled with the conspicuous³ understatement.

 

"他们……长得很好看呢。"我努力用明显轻描淡写的语气掩饰自己心中的惊叹。

 

"Yes!" Jessica agreed with another giggle⁴. "They're all together though — Emmett and Rosalie, and Jasper and Alice, I mean.And they live together." Her voice held all the shock andcondemnation of the small town, I thought critically. But, if I was being honest, I had to admit that even in Phoenix⁵, it would cause gossip.

 

"对!"杰西卡又咯咯地笑起来表示认同，"只是，他们全都在一起——我是指，埃美特和罗莎莉，还有贾斯帕和爱丽丝。而且，他们还住在一起。"我苛刻地想，她的语调包含了小镇上所有人对此表示震惊和指责的心声。不过实话实说，我不得不承认，这样的事，就是放到凤凰城，也会引起风言风语的。

 

"Which ones are the Cullens?" I asked. "They don't look related…"

 

"哪几个是卡伦家的孩子?"我问，"他们看上去不像有血缘关系……"

 

"Oh, they're not. Dr. Cullen is really young, in his twenties or early thirties. They're all adopted. The Hales are brother and sister, twins — the blondes — and they're foster children."

 

"噢，他们不是卡伦家的孩子。卡伦大夫其实很年轻，才二十几岁或者三十出头。他们都是收养的。姓黑尔的两个是姐弟俩，双胞胎——金发的那两个——他们是领养的孩子。"

 

"They look a little old for foster children."

 

"作为领养的孩子，他们年龄偏大了一点吧。"

 

"They are now, Jasper and Rosalie are both eighteen, but they've been with Mrs. Cullen since they were eight. She's their aunt or something like that."

 

"他俩现在，贾斯帕和罗莎莉都是十八，可他俩八岁就跟卡伦太太在一起了。她是他俩的姑姑之类的。"

 

"That's really kind of nice — for them to take care of all those kids like that, when they're so young and everything."

 

"他们真是心地善良的好人，这么年轻，就照看这么多的孩子。"

 

"I guess so," Jessica admitted reluctantly, and I got the impression that she didn't like the doctor and his wife for some reason. With the glances she was throwing at their adopted children, I would presume the reason was jealousy⁶. "I think that Mrs.Cullen can't have any kids, though," she added, as if that lessened⁷ their kindness.

 

"我想也是，"杰西卡的回答有些勉强，而且我得出了这么个印象，觉得她出于某种原因，不太喜欢那个大夫和他妻子。从她看他们收养的那些孩子的眼神中，我推测这个原因就是嫉妒。"不过，我认为卡伦太太生不了孩子。"她补了一句，仿佛这样可以让他们的善良打点儿折扣似的。

 

Throughout all this conversation, my eyes flickered⁸ again and again to the table where the strange family sat. They continued to look at the walls and not eat.

 

整个交谈过程中，我不止一次地把目光移向那素昧平生的一家人坐的那张桌子。他们依然望着四壁，没有吃东西。

 

"Have they always lived in Forks?" I asked. Surely I would have noticed them on one of my summers here.

 

"他们一直住在福克斯吗?"我问。无疑当我在这里度过某个夏天的时候，我就应该注意到他们了。

 

"No," she said in a voice that implied it should be obvious, even to a new arrival like me. "They just moved down two years ago from somewhere in Alaska."

 

"不，"她说，听她的语气，好像含有一种即使对我这样初来乍到的人来说，答案也是明摆着的意思，"他们是两年前才从阿拉斯加的某个地方搬来的。"

 

I felt a surge of pity, and relief. Pity because, as beautiful as they were, they were outsiders, clearly not accepted.Relief that I wasn't the only newcomer here, and certainly not the most interesting by any standard.

 

我顿时涌起了一阵同情，也感到了一丝慰藉。同情，是因为尽管他们貌若天仙，却是外地来的，显然没有为当地人接纳。慰藉，是因为我不是这儿惟一新来的，而且无论按什么标准，我无疑也不是最令人关注的对象。

 

As I examined them, the youngest, one of the Cullens, looked up and met my gaze, this time with evident curiosity in his expression. As I looked swiftly away, it seemed to me that his glance held some kind of unmet expectation.

 

我打量他们的时候，最小的那个，卡伦兄妹中的一个，抬头和我的目光不期而遇，这一次，他的表情里充满了明显的好奇。我赶紧把目光移开了，在我看来，他的眼神里似乎有着某种未能得到满足的期待。

1 Vogue   

n.时髦，时尚；adj.流行的

参考例句：

• Flowery carpets became the vogue.花卉地毯变成了时髦货。
• Short hair came back into vogue about ten years ago.大约十年前短发又开始流行起来了。

2 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

3 conspicuous   

adj.明眼的，惹人注目的；炫耀的，摆阔气的

参考例句：

• It is conspicuous that smoking is harmful to health.很明显，抽烟对健康有害。
• Its colouring makes it highly conspicuous.它的色彩使它非常惹人注目。

4 giggle   

n.痴笑，咯咯地笑；v.咯咯地笑着说

参考例句：

• Both girls began to giggle.两个女孩都咯咯地笑了起来。
• All that giggle and whisper is too much for me.我受不了那些咯咯的笑声和交头接耳的样子。

5 phoenix   

n.凤凰，长生(不死)鸟；引申为重生

参考例句：

• The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
• The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。

6 jealousy   

n.妒忌，嫉妒，猜忌

参考例句：

• Some women have a disposition to jealousy.有些女人生性爱妒忌。
• I can't support your jealousy any longer.我再也无法忍受你的嫉妒了。

7 lessened   

减少的，减弱的

参考例句：

• Listening to the speech through an interpreter lessened its impact somewhat. 演讲辞通过翻译的嘴说出来，多少削弱了演讲的力量。
• The flight to suburbia lessened the number of middle-class families living within the city. 随着迁往郊外的风行，住在城内的中产家庭减少了。

8 flickered   

（通常指灯光）闪烁，摇曳( flicker的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The lights flickered and went out. 灯光闪了闪就熄了。
• These lights flickered continuously like traffic lights which have gone mad. 这些灯象发狂的交通灯一样不停地闪动着。