【断背山】06

 A few handfuls of hailrattled against the window followed by rain and slippery wind banging theunsecured door of the next room then and through the night.The room stank¹ of semen and smoke and sweat and whiskey, of old carpetand sour hay, saddle leather, shit and cheap soap. Ennis lay spread-eagled,spent and wet, breathing deep, still half tumescent, Jack² blowing forcefulcigarette clouds like whale spouts³, and Jack said, 

     “Christ, it got a be all thattime a yours ahorseback makes it so goddamn good. We got to talk about this.Swear to god I didn’t know we was goin a get into this again -- yeah, I did.Why I’m here. I fuckin knew it. Redlined all the way, couldn’t get here fastenough.” 

     “I didn’t know where in the hell you was,” said Ennis. 

     “Four years. I aboutgive up on you. I figured you was sore about that punch.”              “Friend,” said Jack, 

     “I was in Texas rodeoin. How I met Lureen. Look over onthat chair.”On the back of the soiled orange chair he saw the shine of a buckle⁴.“Bullridin?” 

     “Yeah. I made three fuckin thousand dollars that year. Fuckin starved. Had toborrow everthing but a toothbrush from other guys. Drove grooves⁵ acrossTexas. Half the time under that cunt truck fixin it. Anyway, I didn’t neverthink about losin. Lureen? There’s some serious money there. Her old man’sgot it. Got this farm machinery⁶ business. Course he don’t let her have none athe money, and he hates my fuckin guts⁷, so it’s a hard go now but one a thesedays -- “ 

     “Well, you’re goin a go where you look. Army didn’t get you?” The thundersounded far to the east, moving from them in its red wreaths of light. 

     “They can’t get no use out a me. Got some crushed vertebrates. And a stressfracture, the arm bone here, you know how bullridin you’re always leverin itoff your thigh⁸? -- she gives a little ever time you do it. Even if you tape it goodyou break it a little goddamn bit at a time. Tell you what, hurts like a bitchafterwards. Had a busted⁹ leg. Busted in three places. Come off the bull and itwas a big bull with a lot a drop, he got rid a me in about three flat and hecome after me and he was sure faster. Lucky enough. Friend a mine got his oilchecked with a horn dipstick and that was all she wrote. Bunch a otherthings, fuckin busted ribs¹⁰, sprains¹¹ and pains, torn ligaments. See, it ain’t likeit was in my daddy’s time. It’s guys with money go to college, trainedathaletes. You got a have some money to rodeo now. Lureen’s old manwouldn’t give me a dime¹² if I dropped it, except one way. And I know enoughabout the game now so I see that I ain’t never goin a be on the bubble. Otherreasons. I’m gettin out while I still can walk.”Ennis pulled Jack’s hand to his mouth, took a hit from the cigarette, exhaled¹³. 

     “Sure as hell seem in one piece to me. You know, I was sittin up here all thattime tryin to figure out if I was -- ? I know I ain’t. I mean here we both gotwives and kids, right? I like doin it with women, yeah, but Jesus H., ain’tnothin like this. I never had no thoughts a doin it with another guy except Isure wrang it out a hunderd times thinkin about you. You do it with otherguys? Jack?” 

     “Shit no,” said Jack, who had been riding more than bulls, not rolling hisown. 

     “You know that. Old Brokeback got us good and it sure ain’t over. Wegot a work out what the fuck we’re goin a do now.” 

     “That summer,” said Ennis. 

     “When we split up after we got paid out I hadgut cramps¹⁴ so bad I pulled over and tried to puke, thought I ate somethin badat that place in Dubois. Took me about a year a figure out it was that Ishouldn’t a let you out a my sights. Too late then by a long, long while.” 

     “Friend,” said Jack. 

     “We got us a fuckin situation here. Got a figure out whatto do.” 

     “I doubt there’s nothin now we can do,” said Ennis. 

     “What I’m sayin, Jack, Ibuilt a life up in them years. Love my little girls. Alma? It ain’t her fault. Yougot your baby and wife, that place in Texas. You and me can’t hardly bedecent together if what happened back there” -- he jerked his head in thedirection of the apartment -- 

     “grabs on us like that. We do that in the wrongplace we’ll be dead. There’s no reins¹⁵ on this one. It scares the piss out a me.” 

     “Got to tell you, friend, maybe somebody seen us that summer. I was backthere the next June, thinkin about goin back -- I didn’t, lit out for Texas instead-- and Joe Aguirre’s in the office and he says to me, he says, ‘You boys found away to make the time pass up there, didn’t you,’ and I give him a look butwhen I went out I seen he had a big-ass pair a binoculars¹⁶ hangin off hisrearview.” He neglected to add that the foreman had leaned back in hissqueaky wooden tilt chair, said, 

1 stank   

n. (英)坝，堰，池塘 动词stink的过去式

参考例句：

• Her breath stank of garlic. 她嘴里有股大蒜味。
• The place stank of decayed fish. 那地方有烂鱼的臭味。

2 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

3 spouts   

n.管口( spout的名词复数 )；（喷出的）水柱；（容器的）嘴；在困难中v.（指液体）喷出( spout的第三人称单数 )；滔滔不绝地讲；喋喋不休地说；喷水

参考例句：

• A volcano spouts flame and lava. 火山喷出火焰和岩浆。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The oil rushes up the tube and spouts up as a gusher. 石油会沿着钢管上涌，如同自喷井那样喷射出来。 来自辞典例句

4 buckle   

n.扣子，带扣；v.把...扣住，由于压力而弯曲

参考例句：

• The two ends buckle at the back.带子两端在背后扣起来。
• She found it hard to buckle down.她很难专心做一件事情。

5 grooves   

n.沟( groove的名词复数 )；槽；老一套；（某种）音乐节奏v.沟( groove的第三人称单数 )；槽；老一套；（某种）音乐节奏

参考例句：

• Wheels leave grooves in a dirt road. 车轮在泥路上留下了凹痕。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Sliding doors move in grooves. 滑动门在槽沟中移动。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

6 machinery   

n.(总称)机械，机器；机构

参考例句：

• Has the machinery been put up ready for the broadcast?广播器材安装完毕了吗？
• Machinery ought to be well maintained all the time.机器应该随时注意维护。

7 guts   

v.狼吞虎咽，贪婪地吃，飞碟游戏（比赛双方每组5人，相距15码，互相掷接飞碟）；毁坏（建筑物等）的内部( gut的第三人称单数 )；取出…的内脏n.勇气( gut的名词复数 )；内脏；消化道的下段；肠

参考例句：

• I'll only cook fish if the guts have been removed. 鱼若已收拾干净，我只需烧一下即可。
• Barbara hasn't got the guts to leave her mother. 巴巴拉没有勇气离开她妈妈。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 thigh   

n.大腿；股骨

参考例句：

• He is suffering from a strained thigh muscle.他的大腿肌肉拉伤了，疼得很。
• The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。

9 busted   

adj. 破产了的，失败了的，被降级的，被逮捕的，被抓到的 动词bust的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• You are so busted! 你被当场逮住了！
• It was money troubles that busted up their marriage. 是金钱纠纷使他们的婚姻破裂了。

10 ribs   

n.肋骨( rib的名词复数 )；（船或屋顶等的）肋拱；肋骨状的东西；（织物的）凸条花纹

参考例句：

• He suffered cracked ribs and bruising. 他断了肋骨还有挫伤。
• Make a small incision below the ribs. 在肋骨下方切开一个小口。

11 sprains   

扭伤( sprain的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Bruises, sprains, muscular pain, muscular fatigue, lumbago, stiff shoulders, backache. 跌打扭伤，肌肉疼痛，肌肉疲劳，腰痛，肩肌僵直，背痛。
• For recent injuries such as sprains and headaches, cold compresses are recommended. 对最近的一些伤病，例如扭伤和头痛，建议进行冷敷。

12 dime   

n.（指美国、加拿大的钱币）一角

参考例句：

• A dime is a tenth of a dollar.一角银币是十分之一美元。
• The liberty torch is on the back of the dime.自由火炬在一角硬币的反面。

13 exhaled   

v.呼出，发散出( exhale的过去式和过去分词 )；吐出（肺中的空气、烟等），呼气

参考例句：

• He sat back and exhaled deeply. 他仰坐着深深地呼气。
• He stamped his feet and exhaled a long, white breath. 跺了跺脚，他吐了口长气，很长很白。 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子

14 cramps   

n. 抽筋, 腹部绞痛, 铁箍 adj. 狭窄的, 难解的 v. 使...抽筋, 以铁箍扣紧, 束缚

参考例句：

• If he cramps again let the line cut him off. 要是它再抽筋，就让这钓索把它勒断吧。
• "I have no cramps." he said. “我没抽筋，"他说。

15 reins   

感情，激情； 缰( rein的名词复数 )； 控制手段； 掌管； （成人带着幼儿走路以防其走失时用的）保护带

参考例句：

• She pulled gently on the reins. 她轻轻地拉着缰绳。
• The government has imposed strict reins on the import of luxury goods. 政府对奢侈品的进口有严格的控制手段。

16 binoculars   

n.双筒望远镜

参考例句：

• He watched the play through his binoculars.他用双筒望远镜看戏。
• If I had binoculars,I could see that comet clearly.如果我有望远镜，我就可以清楚地看见那颗彗星。