美丽新世界Brave New World 第6章(6)

 　　We'd gone riding up one of those revolting mountains, and it was horribly hot and oppressive, and after lunch we went to sleep. Or at least I did. She must have gone for a walk, alone.

　　我们俩在那些叫人恶心的山上骑马玩，天热得可怕，又闷。午饭后我们去睡了。至少我是睡了。她肯定是一个人散步去了。

　　At any rate, when I woke up, she wasn't there.

　　总而言之，我醒来时她不在家。

　　And the most frightful¹ thunderstorm I've ever seen was just bursting on us.

　　而那时我所遇到过的最可怕的风暴正在我们头上暴发。

　　And it poured and roared and flashed; and the horses broke loose and ran away;

　　雷声隆隆，电光闪闪，倾盆大雨。我们的马挣脱缰绳逃掉了。

　　and I fell down, trying to catch them, and hurt my knee, so that I could hardly walk.

　　我想抓住马，却摔倒了，伤了膝盖，几乎不能走路。

　　Still, I searched and I shouted and I searched. But there was no sign of her.

　　我仍然一边喊一边找，一边喊一边找。可是什么迹象都没有找到。

　　Then I thought she must have gone back to the rest-house by herself. So I crawled down into the valley by the way we had come.

　　我猜想她说不定已经一个人回去了，又沿着来时的路爬下山谷。

　　My knee was agonizingly painful, and I'd lost my soma.

　　我的膝盖痛得要命，却又弄丢了唆麻。

　　It took me hours. I didn't get back to the rest-house till after midnight. And she wasn't there; she wasn't there," the Director repeated. There was a silence. "Well," he resumed at last, "the next day there was a search.

　　我走了好几个小时，直到半夜才回到住处，可是她仍然不在。”主任重复道，沉默了一会儿。“喏，”他终于说了下去，‘黎二天又找。

　　But we couldn't find her. She must have fallen into a gully somewhere; or been eaten by a mountain lion.

　　仍然找不到。她一定是在什么地方摔下了山沟里，或是叫山上的狮子吃了。

　　Ford² knows. Anyhow it was horrible. It upset me very much at the time.

　　福帝知道！总之，那是很可怕的，我心里难过极了，

　　More than it ought to have done, I dare say.

　　肯定超过了应有的限度——

　　Because, after all, it's the sort of accident that might have happened to any one; and, of course, the social body persists although the component³ cells may change."

　　因为那种意外毕竟可能发生在任何人身上；而尽管构成社会的细胞可能变化，社会群体却万古长青。”

　　But this sleep-taught consolation⁴ did not seem to be very effective.

　　但是这种睡眠教育的安慰似乎不大起作用。

　　Shaking his head, "I actually dream about it sometimes," the Director went on in a low voice.

　　他摇摇头，“‘实际上我有时候会梦见这事，”主任语调低沉地说下去，

　　"Dream of being woken up by that peal⁵ of thunder and finding her gone; dream of searching and searching for her under the trees."

　　“梦见被隆隆的雷声惊醒，发现她不见了；梦见自己在树下找呀，找呀。”

　　He lapsed⁶ into the silence of reminiscence.

　　他沉默了，堕入了回忆。

　　"You must have had a terrible shock," said Bernard, almost enviously⁷.

　　“你一定是吓坏了。”伯纳几乎要羡慕他了，说。

1 frightful   

adj.可怕的；讨厌的

参考例句：

• How frightful to have a husband who snores!有一个发鼾声的丈夫多讨厌啊！
• We're having frightful weather these days.这几天天气坏极了。

2 Ford   

n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过

参考例句：

• They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
• If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。

3 component   

n.组成部分，成分，元件；adj.组成的，合成的

参考例句：

• Each component is carefully checked before assembly.每个零件在装配前都经过仔细检查。
• Blade and handle are the component parts of a knife.刀身和刀柄是一把刀的组成部分。

4 consolation   

n.安慰，慰问

参考例句：

• The children were a great consolation to me at that time.那时孩子们成了我的莫大安慰。
• This news was of little consolation to us.这个消息对我们来说没有什么安慰。

5 peal   

n.钟声；v.鸣响

参考例句：

• The bells of the cathedral rang out their loud peal.大教堂响起了响亮的钟声。
• A sudden peal of thunder leaves no time to cover the ears.迅雷不及掩耳。

6 lapsed   

adj.流失的，堕落的v.退步( lapse的过去式和过去分词 )；陷入；倒退；丧失

参考例句：

• He had lapsed into unconsciousness. 他陷入了昏迷状态。
• He soon lapsed into his previous bad habits. 他很快陷入以前的恶习中去。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 enviously   

adv.满怀嫉妒地

参考例句：

• Yet again, they were looking for their way home blindly, enviously. 然而，它们又一次盲目地、忌妒地寻找着归途。 来自辞典例句
• Tanya thought enviously, he must go a long way south. 坦妮亚歆羡不置，心里在想，他准是去那遥远的南方的。 来自辞典例句