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名利场|Vanity Fair

第三章　利蓓加遇见了敌人

属类： 双语小说 【分类】世界名著 -[作者: 萨克雷] 阅读：[45371]
CHAPTER III Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy
聪明漂亮的利蓓加出身于贫穷的画师家庭，从小父母双亡，在平克顿女子学校受尽歧视。离校后她凭着美貌和机智，不择手段地猎取金钱，通过投机和冒险，力图挤进上流社会。几经坎坷，几度荣辱，在英国社会的名利场中，她最终还是默默无闻地度日。围绕利蓓加，小说成功地塑造了爱米丽亚、乔治、罗登、乔瑟夫、克劳莱小姐、都宾等人物的形象。[5]原作副题是《没有主角的小说》，这里的人物不是简单化的或好或坏，他们都有着复杂而深刻的内心活动。利蓓加已成为十九世纪初期英国社会的一个女冒险家的典型
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两个姑娘进门的时候，一个肥胖臃肿的人正在壁炉旁边看报。他穿着鹿皮裤子，统上有流苏的靴子，围着好几条宽大的领巾，几乎直耸到鼻子；上身是红条子的背心，苹果绿的外衣，上面的铁扣子差不多有半喀郎银元那么大。这一套打扮，正是当年花花公子时行的晨装。他看见女孩子们进来，从安乐椅里直跳起来，满面通红，恨不得把整个脸儿缩到领巾里面去。

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A VERY stout, puffy man, in buckskins and Hessian boots, with several immense neckcloths that rose almost to his nose, with a red striped waistcoat and an apple green coat with steel buttons almost as large as crown pieces (it was the morning costume of a dandy or blood of those days) was reading the paper by the fire when the two girls entered, and bounced off his arm-chair, and blushed excessively, and hid his entire face almost in his neckcloths at this apparition.

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爱米丽亚拉着他伸出来的两个指头摇了一下，笑道：“乔瑟夫，这儿没有外人，只是你妹妹罢了。你知道吗，我回了家不走了。这位就是你听见我说起的朋友，夏泼小姐。”

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"It’s only your sister, Joseph," said Amelia, laughing and shaking the two fingers which he held out. "I’ve come home FOR GOOD, you know; and this is my friend, Miss Sharp, whom you have heard me mention."

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缩在领巾里面的头哆嗦得利害，开言道：“没有说起，从来没有说起！我的意思是——听见你说起过的。天气冷得要死，小姐。”说完，他用尽力气拨着火，其实当时正是六月中旬的天气。

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"No, never, upon my word," said the head under the neckcloth, shaking very much—"that is, yes—what abominably cold weather, Miss"—and herewith he fell to poking the fire with all his might, although it was in the middle of June.

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利蓓加虽然是对爱米丽亚窃窃私语，可是声音很响。她说：“他长得很漂亮。”

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"He’s very handsome," whispered Rebecca to Amelia, rather loud.

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爱米丽亚答道：“是吗？让我来告诉他。”

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"Do you think so?" said the latter. "I’ll tell him."

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夏泼小姐往后倒退了一步，怯生生的活像一头小鹿，口里说道：“宝贝儿！你怎么也不准告诉他的！”她先前已经斯文腼腆的向那位先生行了个屈膝礼，两眼一直羞羞涩涩瞧着地毯，居然能够看见他的相貌，真是稀罕事儿。

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"Darling! not for worlds," said Miss Sharp, starting back as timid as a fawn. She had previously made a respectful virgin-like curtsey to the gentleman, and her modest eyes gazed so perseveringly on the carpet that it was a wonder how she should have found an opportunity to see him.

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爱米丽亚对着拨火棒说道：“哥哥，多谢你送给我那么好看的披肩。披肩真美，你说是不是，利蓓加？”

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"Thank you for the beautiful shawls, brother," said Amelia to the fire poker. "Are they not beautiful, Rebecca?"

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夏泼小姐翻起眼睛来向着天，眼光从地毯上直接移到烛台上，接口道“唷！美极了！”

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"O heavenly!" said Miss Sharp, and her eyes went from the carpet straight to the chandelier.

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乔瑟夫气喘吁吁的把火棒火钳弄得一片响，一张黄脸皮红得不能再红。他妹妹接着对他说道：“乔瑟夫，可惜我没有这么漂亮的礼物送给你。我在学校里的时候给你绣了一副挺美的背带。”

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Joseph still continued a huge clattering at the poker and tongs, puffing and blowing the while, and turning as red as his yellow face would allow him. "I can’t make you such handsome presents, Joseph," continued his sister, "but while I was at school, I have embroidered for you a very beautiful pair of braces."

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做哥哥的认真着急起来，嚷嚷着说：“老天哪！爱米丽亚，你这是什么意思？”老实的家伙说着话，一面用全身的力气扯住铃带子拉铃，把带子一扯两截，越发觉得狼狈不堪，说道：“看老天的面子，给我出去看看我的便车是不是在门口。我不能再等了。我非走不可了。我那马夫真该死！我非走不可了。”

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"Good Gad! Amelia," cried the brother, in serious alarm, "what do you mean?" and plunging with all his might at the bell-rope, that article of furniture came away in his hand, and increased the honest fellow’s confusion. "For heaven’s sake see if my buggy’s at the door. I CAN’T wait. I must go. D—— that groom of mine. I must go."

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他们的爸爸刚好在这时候走进来。他是英国商人本色，手里颠着一把印戳子，铧鎯铧鎯的响，他问道：“怎么了，爱米？”

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At this minute the father of the family walked in, rattling his seals like a true British merchant. "What’s the matter, Emmy?" says he.

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“乔瑟夫要我去瞧瞧他的——他的便车是不是在门口。爸爸，便车究竟是怎么样的？”

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"Joseph wants me to see if his—his buggy is at the door. What is a buggy, Papa?"

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老先生口角相当俏皮，答道：“便车就是一匹马拉的轿子。”

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"It is a one-horse palanquin," said the old gentleman, who was a wag in his way.

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乔瑟夫听了这话，哈哈大笑。笑到一半，可巧和夏泼小姐四目相遇，他仿佛给人打了一槍，突然停下来不响了。

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Joseph at this burst out into a wild fit of laughter; in which, encountering the eye of Miss Sharp, he stopped all of a sudden, as if he had been shot.

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“这位小姐就是你的朋友吗？夏泼小姐，我非常欢迎你来。看来你和爱米两个准在跟乔瑟夫拌嘴，要不然怎么他想走呢？”

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"This young lady is your friend? Miss Sharp, I am very happy to see you. Have you and Emmy been quarrelling already with Joseph, that he wants to be off?"

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乔瑟夫说道：“爹，我答应我们公司里的保诺美今儿和他吃饭的。”

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"I promised Bonamy of our service, sir," said Joseph, "to dine with him."

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“胡说！你不是跟你妈说过在家吃饭吗？”

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"O fie! didn’t you tell your mother you would dine here?"

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“我穿的衣服不合适。”

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"But in this dress it’s impossible."

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“你瞧他穿的多漂亮！到哪儿吃饭都行。对不对，夏泼小姐？”

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"Look at him, isn’t he handsome enough to dine anywhere, Miss Sharp?"

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他这么一说，夏泼小姐当然回头瞧着朋友，两个人一块儿格格的笑起来，老头儿听了非常的得意。他看见自己的笑话说得很成功，便接连着说下去道：“在平克顿女子学校里面有这种鹿皮裤子没有？”

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On which, of course, Miss Sharp looked at her friend, and they both set off in a fit of laughter, highly agreeable to the old gentleman."Did you ever see a pair of buckskins like those at Miss Pinkerton’s?" continued he, following up his advantage.

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乔瑟夫嚷道：“老天爷！爸爸，你这是怎么说！”

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"Gracious heavens! Father," cried Joseph.

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“嗳唷，这一下我可伤了他的心了。亲爱的赛特笠太太，我提起他的鹿皮裤子，把他气坏了。不信你问夏泼小姐。乔瑟夫，来来来，跟夏泼小姐交个朋友。咱们一块儿下去吃饭。”

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"There now, I have hurt his feelings. Mrs. Sedley, my dear, I have hurt your son’s feelings. I have alluded to his buckskins. Ask Miss Sharp if I haven’t? Come, Joseph, be friends with Miss Sharp, and let us all go to dinner."

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“乔瑟夫，今儿的比劳①是配着你的胃口做的。你爸爸又从鱼市场带了一条最好的比目鱼回来。”

①一种土耳其菜，用米饭、禽类或羊肉、葡萄干、杏仁等一起煨过，再加甜汁和炸洋葱。
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"There’s a pillau, Joseph, just as you like it, and Papa has brought home the best turbot in Billingsgate."

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“来吧，来吧，你陪着夏泼小姐下楼，我来招呼这两个年轻女的。”做爸爸的说了这话，一手扶着太太，一手拉着女儿，兴高采烈的跟着下去。

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"Come, come, sir, walk downstairs with Miss Sharp, and I will follow with these two young women," said the father, and he took an arm of wife and daughter and walked merrily off.

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利蓓加打定主意要收服这个肥大的花花公子，请各位太太小姐别怪她。一般说来，娴静知礼的小姐少不得把物色*丈夫这件工作交给妈妈去做，可是夏泼小姐没有慈爱的母亲替她处理这么细致烦难的事儿，她自己不动手，谁来代替呢？

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If Miss Rebecca Sharp had determined in her heart upon making the conquest of this big beau, I don’t think, ladies, we have any right to blame her; for though the task of husband-hunting is generally, and with becoming modesty, entrusted by young persons to their mammas, recollect that Miss Sharp had no kind parent to arrange these delicate matters for her, and that if she did not get a husband for herself, there was no one else in the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands.

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女孩儿们为什么要出入交际场所，还不是因为她们有崇高的志向，愿意出嫁吗？她们为什么成群结队到温泉去？为什么连着好几个月每天晚上跳舞直跳到早上五点钟？为什么孜孜不倦的弹钢琴练奏鸣曲？为什么肯出一基尼一小时的学费，到时髦的唱歌先生那里学唱，而且一学就是四支歌儿？胳膊长得美丽，胳膊肘生得细巧的姑娘还学竖琴呢！她们为什么模仿古代的箭手，戴着小绿帽子，插着鸟毛，还不是想射倒一个“合适”的青年公子吗？

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What causes young people to ”come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them trooping to watering-places? What keeps them dancing till five o’clock in the morning through a whole mortal season? What causes them to labour at pianoforte sonatas, and to learn four songs from a fashionable master at a guinea a lesson, and to play the harp if they have handsome arms and neat elbows, and to wear Lincoln Green toxophilite hats and feathers, but that they may bring down some ”desirable” young man with those killing bows and arrows of theirs?

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做父母的也都是场面上的人，为什么肯卷起地毯，把屋子里翻腾得乱七八糟，在一年的收入里面抽出五分之一来请客，开跳舞会，用冰冻的香槟酒款待客人呢？难道是真心诚意的爱人类，大公无私的让年轻的一代跳舞作乐吗？呸！他们要嫁女儿啊！忠厚的赛特笠太太是慈爱不过的，心里早已为她的爱米丽亚定了二十来个计划。咱们亲爱的利蓓加，无倚无靠，比她朋友更需要丈夫，自然更应该努力了。

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What causes respectable parents to take up their carpets, set their houses topsy-turvy, and spend a fifth of their year’s income in ball suppers and iced champagne? Is it sheer love of their species, and an unadulterated wish to see young people happy and dancing? Psha! they want to marry their daughters; and, as honest Mrs. Sedley has, in the depths of her kind heart, already arranged a score of little schemes for the settlement of her Amelia, so also had our beloved but unprotected Rebecca determined to do her very best to secure the husband, who was even more necessary for her than for her friend.

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她的想像力本来就很丰富，又受过《天方夜谈》和《哥特氏①地理学》这两本书的熏陶，因此她问准了爱米丽亚的哥哥的确有钱，就给自己造了个灿烂辉煌的空中楼阁。那时她正在换衣服准备下去吃饭，一面打扮，一面幻想自己是楼阁里的女主人！她还有个丈夫，不过那时还没有见过，因此他的形态面貌是模模糊糊的。她仿佛看见自己重重叠叠的穿戴了披肩、包头布和钻石项链，骑着大象去参拜蒙古大汗，大象的步伐就配着《蓝胡子》歌剧②中进行曲的节奏。这如意算盘真像阿拉那斯加做的梦③。

①哥特（William　Guthrie，1708—70），苏格兰作家，所著《哥特氏地理学》风行甚久，十九世纪初叶并有法文译本。②《蓝胡子》原是十七世纪法国诗人贝罗（Perrault）所著的童话，蓝胡子是个财主，凡是嫁给他的女人都活不长。最后娶的妻子名法蒂玛，有一次蓝胡子有事出门，法蒂玛不遵丈夫之嘱，擅自开了密室的门，发现丈夫好几个前妻的尸身。蓝胡子回来，见秘密已经揭穿，准备将她刺死，幸而她的哥哥们及时赶到，杀死蓝胡子，救了她的性*命。这故事曾在1798年编成歌剧，由凯莱（Michael　Kelly）作曲，考尔曼（Georgeu　Colman）作词。③《天方夜谈》中的人物。他把父亲的遗产买了一篮子玻璃器皿，幻想着靠了这些东西做买卖做得一帆风顺，不觉手舞足蹈起来，把一篮子碗盏都打破了。</em>
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She had a vivid imagination; she had, besides, read the Arabian Nights and Guthrie’s Geography; and it is a fact that while she was dressing for dinner, and after she had asked Amelia whether her brother was very rich, she had built for herself a most magnificent castle in the air, of which she was mistress, with a husband somewhere in the background (she had not seen him as yet, and his figure would not therefore be very distinct); she had arrayed herself in an infinity of shawls, turbans, and diamond necklaces, and had mounted upon an elephant to the sound of the march in Bluebeard, in order to pay a visit of ceremony to the Grand Mogul. Charming Alnaschar visions!

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除了年轻人，谁也看不见这般美丽的景象。女孩子们想入非非的从古至今多的是；像利蓓加·夏泼一样做着迷人的白日梦的姑娘，又岂止她一个？

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it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you, and many a fanciful young creature besides Rebecca Sharp has indulged in these delightful day-dreams ere now!

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乔瑟夫·赛特笠比他妹妹大十二岁，在东印度公司①民政部做事。我写这本书的时候，在《东印度纪录》的孟加拉分刊上有他的名字。他是卜格雷·窝拉地方的收税官。人人都知道，这个职位既体面又赚钱。读者如果要知道乔瑟夫后来高升到什么地位，也可以参考上面所说的刊物。

①东印度公司最初是私营商业机关，在1773年后已经控制印度的政权，1858年正式由英政府接管。
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Joseph Sedley was twelve years older than his sister Amelia. He was in the East India Company’s Civil Service, and his name appeared, at the period of which we write, in the Bengal division of the East India Register, as collector of Boggley Wollah, an honourable and lucrative post, as everybody knows: in order to know to what higher posts Joseph rose in the service, the reader is referred to the same periodical.

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卜克雷·窝拉所在的地区风景很美，可是人迹罕至，卑湿而多树。大家常到那里去打竹鸡，因此出了名。在那儿也常碰得上老虎。乔瑟夫做了收税官之后，写给父母的信上说，离他那里四十里地就是拉姆根奇，是州长常驻的地点，再过去三十里又有骑兵营。他在这有趣的地方一个人过了八年。军中的特派队一年去两回，把他征收的税款收齐了交到加尔各答去。除此之外，他终年看不见一个文明人。

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Boggley Wollah is situated in a fine, lonely, marshy, jungly district, famous for snipe-shooting, and where not unfrequently you may flush a tiger. Ramgunge, where there is a magistrate, is only forty miles off, and there is a cavalry station about thirty miles farther; so Joseph wrote home to his parents, when he took possession of his collectorship. He had lived for about eight years of his life, quite alone, at this charming place, scarcely seeing a Christian face except twice a year, when the detachment arrived to carry off the revenues which he had collected, to Calcutta.

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算他运气好，正在那时害了肝病，必须回到欧洲去医治，才算有机会在本国享福。他在伦敦的时候不和父母住在一起，却拿出风流单身汉的款儿来，租了房子另过。

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Luckily, at this time he caught a liver complaint, for the cure of which he returned to Europe, and which was the source of great comfort and amusement to him in his native country. He did not live with his family while in London, but had lodgings of his own, like a gay young bachelor.

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他出国以前年纪还小，没有尝过时髦人的各种快乐，现在回家，便专心致志的寻欢作乐起来。他坐了马车在公园里兜风；到有名的酒菜馆吃饭（当时还没有东方俱乐部呢）；随着时下的风气，常常上戏院；有的时候费了好大的劲儿，穿上窄窄的外衣，戴上硬边的帽子，去听歌剧。

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Before he went to India he was too young to partake of the delightful pleasures of a man about town, and plunged into them on his return with considerable assiduity. He drove his horses in the Park; he dined at the fashionable taverns (for the Oriental Club was not as yet invented); he frequented the theatres, as the mode was in those days, or made his appearance at the opera, laboriously attired in tights and a cocked hat.

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他后来回到印度，一提起那一段寻欢作乐的日子，总是眉飞色舞，口气里好像他和白鲁美尔①两人是当时豪华公子队里的尖儿。这些话他一直到老说不厌。其实他虽然住在伦敦，却跟他在卜克雷·窝拉的时候一样寂寞。他差不多一个朋友都没有，如果他没有生肝病，没有医生来看他，没有他的蓝色*丸药陪着他，准会活活闷死。

①白鲁美尔（George　Bryan　Brummel，1778—1840），当时英国有名的纨袴子弟。
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On returning to India, and ever after, he used to talk of the pleasure of this period of his existence with great enthusiasm, and give you to understand that he and Brummel were the leading bucks of the day. But he was as lonely here as in his jungle at Boggley Wollah. He scarcely knew a single soul in the metropolis: and were it not for his doctor, and the society of his blue-pill, and his liver complaint, he must have died of loneliness.

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他生性懒惰，脾气浮躁，又爱吃，又爱喝，一看见女人就吓得半死。勒塞尔广场家里人多热闹；他的父亲是个性情随和的老头儿，很爱开玩笑，说的话常常扫他的面子，害得他不敢多回老家。

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He was lazy, peevish, and a bon-vivant; the appearance of a lady frightened him beyond measure; hence it was but seldom that he joined the paternal circle in Russell Square, where there was plenty of gaiety, and where the jokes of his good-natured old father frightened his amour-propre.

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乔瑟夫因为自己身材长得太肥硕，心里着急，着实感到烦恼。他有时也会下个横劲，努力把身上多余的油脂去掉些儿，可是爱舒服图口腹的脾气很快的打消了矫正缺点的决心，不知不觉的恢复一日三食的习惯了。他打扮得并不漂亮，可是花在这上面的精神可了不得，一天得费好几个钟头收拾他那肥胖的身子呢。

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His bulk caused Joseph much anxious thought and alarm; now and then he would make a desperate attempt to get rid of his superabundant fat; but his indolence and love of good living speedily got the better of these endeavours at reform, and he found himself again at his three meals a day. He never was well dressed; but he took the hugest pains to adorn his big person, and passed many hours daily in that occupation.

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他的佣人在他衣服上大大的捞了一笔钱。他的梳妆台上摆满了各种香油香水；过时的美人儿用的化妆品也不能比他多。他指望给自己捏出个细腰来，把当年所有的紧身、腰带、肚箍全试用过了。恰像所有的胖子一样，他老把衣服做得太紧，而且爱挑颜色鲜艳的料子和最花哨的式样。

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His valet made a fortune out of his wardrobe: his toilet-table was covered with as many pomatums and essences as ever were employed by an old beauty: he had tried, in order to give himself a waist, every girth, stay, and waistband then invented. Like most fat men, he would have his clothes made too tight, and took care they should be of the most brilliant colours and youthful cut.

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他好不容易的把衣服穿好之后，下午一个人坐了马车逛公园，然后回家换一套衣服，又一个人到廊下咖啡馆吃饭。他像女孩子一般爱虚荣——也许就是因为他的虚荣心太重，所以才异乎寻常的怕羞，初出茅庐的利蓓加小姐如果能够驾驭这样一位先生，真算得上出人头地的聪明了。

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When dressed at length, in the afternoon, he would issue forth to take a drive with nobody in the Park; and then would come back in order to dress again and go and dine with nobody at the Piazza Coffee-House. He was as vain as a girl; and perhaps his extreme shyness was one of the results of his extreme vanity. If Miss Rebecca can get the better of him, and at her first entrance into life, she is a young person of no ordinary cleverness.

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利蓓加的第一步走得很巧妙。她夸奖赛特笠长得漂亮，因为知道爱米丽亚准会去告诉妈妈。做妈妈的多半又会说给乔瑟夫听。就算她不去传话，听得人家称赞儿子，心里总是高兴的。天下为娘的都是一样心肠。沙哀科兰克斯虽然是个女巫，如果听见人家说她儿子开力本①跟太陽神阿波罗一般漂亮，准觉得得意。

①莎士比亚《暴风雨》一剧中的一个又丑又笨的角色。
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The first move showed considerable skill. When she called Sedley a very handsome man, she knew that Amelia would tell her mother, who would probably tell Joseph, or who, at any rate, would be pleased by the compliment paid to her son. All mothers are. If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.

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再说，利蓓加说话的声音又响，说不定乔瑟夫·赛特笠本人就会无意之中听见这话。事实上他的确已经听见了。他心底里一向自以为一表堂堂，一听这话，快活得胖身子里面条条筋络都抖动起来。可是接着他又起了疑团，想道：“这女孩子莫非在开我的玩笑？”这么一想，他立刻就跳过去拉铃，准备逃走，后来还是他爹说着笑话，他妈妈央告着，才算把他留下来。这些事上面已经说过了。

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Perhaps, too, Joseph Sedley would overhear the compliment—Rebecca spoke loud enough—and he did hear, and (thinking in his heart that he was a very fine man) the praise thrilled through every fibre of his big body, and made it tingle with pleasure. Then, however, came a recoil. ”Is the girl making fun of me?” he thought, and straightway he bounced towards the bell, and was for retreating, as we have seen, when his father’s jokes and his mother’s entreaties caused him to pause and stay where he was.

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他陪着夏泼小姐下楼的时候，心里疑疑惑惑，一方面又觉得很兴奋。他想：“不知道她是真的觉得我漂亮，还是在取笑我。”我刚才不是形容乔瑟夫像女孩子一样爱虚荣吗？求老天爷发慈悲！女孩子们也可以用同样的手段对咱们报复，讽刺女人像男人一样爱虚荣。这句话说的一些不错。

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He conducted the young lady down to dinner in a dubious and agitated frame of mind. ”Does she really think I am handsome?” thought he, ”or is she only making game of me?” We have talked of Joseph Sedley being as vain as a girl. Heaven help us! the girls have only to turn the tables, and say of one of their own sex, ”She is as vain as a man,” and they will have perfect reason.

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满面胡子的男子汉往往像最爱卖俏的姑娘一样，喜欢听人家的奉承，打扮的时候吹毛求疵，长得漂亮些就自鸣得意，对于自己迷人的本事估计得清楚着呢。

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The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilettes, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascination, as any coquette in the world.

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他们一路下楼，乔瑟夫涨红了脸，利蓓加举止端庄，一双绿眼睛望着地下。她穿了一身白衣服，露出雪白的肩膀；年纪轻轻的，越显得天真烂漫，活是个又娴静又纯洁的小姑娘。

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Downstairs, then, they went, Joseph very red and blushing, Rebecca very modest, and holding her green eyes downwards. She was dressed in white, with bare shoulders as white as snow—the picture of youth, unprotected innocence, and humble virgin simplicity.

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她想；“我该装得很沉静，同时表示对印度发生兴趣。”

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”I must be very quiet,” thought Rebecca, ”and very much interested about India.”

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咱们已经听说赛特笠太太配着儿子的胃口预备下一盘精美的咖哩辣酱，吃饭的时候，佣人把这盘菜送到利蓓加面前，她做出小鸟依人的姿态对乔瑟夫看了一眼，说道：“这是什么？”

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Now we have heard how Mrs. Sedley had prepared a fine curry for her son, just as he liked it, and in the course of dinner a portion of this dish was offered to Rebecca. "What is it?" said she, turning an appealing look to Mr. Joseph.

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他的嘴里塞满了咖哩，狼吞虎咽的吃得高兴，脸都红了，说道：“妙得很，妈妈。这咖哩酱跟我在印度吃的一样好。”

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"Capital," said he. His mouth was full of it: his face quite red with the delightful exercise of gobbling. "Mother, it’s as good as my own curries in India."

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利蓓加小姐说道：“啊这是印度菜吗？那我非尝点儿不可。从印度来的东西都好。”

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"Oh, I must try some, if it is an Indian dish," said Miss Rebecca. "I am sure everything must be good that comes from there."

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赛特笠先生笑道：“亲爱的，给夏泼小姐一点儿咖哩酱。”

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"Give Miss Sharp some curry, my dear," said Mr. Sedley, laughing.

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利蓓加以前从来没有尝过这种菜。

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Rebecca had never tasted the dish before.

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赛特笠先生问道：“你看这咖哩酱是不是跟别的印度东西一样好呢？”

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"Do you find it as good as everything else from India?" said Mr. Sedley.

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利蓓加给胡椒辣得说不出的苦，答道：“嗳，好吃极了。”

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"Oh, excellent!" said Rebecca, who was suffering tortures with the cayenne pepper.

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乔瑟夫一听这句话合了意，便道：“夏泼小姐，跟‘洁冽’①一块儿吃吃看。”

①洁冽（Chili）也是一种辣菜，可是和Chilly（冷冰冰）声音相似。
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"Try a chili with it, Miss Sharp," said Joseph, really interested.

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利蓓加听见这名字，以为是什么凉爽的菜蔬，喘着气回答道：“洁冽吗？好的！”菜上来之后，她说：“你看这东西真是又绿又新鲜。”说着，吃了一口。不料洁冽比咖哩更辣。人都是血肉做的，哪里挡得住这样的苦楚，辣得她放下叉子叫道：“给我点儿水，给我点儿水，天哪！”赛特笠先生是个老粗，向来在证券市场做买卖，同行的人都爱恶作剧，所以他一听这话，哈哈大笑起来，说道：“这才是真正的印度货呢！三菩，给夏泼小姐拿点儿开水来。”

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"A chili," said Rebecca, gasping. "Oh yes!" She thought a chili was something cool, as its name imported, and was served with some. "How fresh and green they look," she said, and put one into her mouth. It was hotter than the curry; flesh and blood could bear it no longer. She laid down her fork. "Water, for Heaven’s sake, water!" she cried. Mr. Sedley burst out laughing (he was a coarse man, from the Stock Exchange, where they love all sorts of practical jokes). "They are real Indian, I assure you," said he. "Sambo, give Miss Sharp some water."

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乔瑟夫觉得这次恶作剧妙不可言，也跟着爸爸一起大笑。母女两个看着利蓓加可怜，只不过微笑一下。利蓓加恨不得把赛特笠老头儿一把掐死。幸而她有涵养，刚才勉强吞下了难吃的咖哩酱，如今又竭力压制下心里的气恼。等到她能够开口说话的时候，就做出很幽默的样子，和颜悦色的说道：“《天方夜谈》里面说波斯公主在奶油饼里搁胡椒。我刚才要是记得这故事就好了。你们印度的奶油饼里也搁胡椒吗？”

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The paternal laugh was echoed by Joseph, who thought the joke capital. The ladies only smiled a little. They thought poor Rebecca suffered too much. She would have liked to choke old Sedley, but she swallowed her mortification as well as she had the abominable curry before it, and as soon as she could speak, said, with a comical, good-humoured air, "I ought to have remembered the pepper which the Princess of Persia puts in the cream-tarts in the Arabian Nights. Do you put cayenne into your cream-tarts in India, sir?"

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赛特笠老头儿笑起来，觉得利蓓加脾气不错。乔瑟夫只说：“小姐，你说奶油饼吗？孟加拉的奶油糟透了。我们通常都用羊奶做奶油。唉，我不吃也没有办法。”

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Old Sedley began to laugh, and thought Rebecca was a good-humoured girl. Joseph simply said, "Cream-tarts, Miss? Our cream is very bad in Bengal. We generally use goats’ milk; and, ’gad, do you know, I’ve got to prefer it!"

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老头儿说：“夏泼小姐，你现在不喜欢所有的印度东西了吧？”太太小姐们走了之后，滑头的老家伙对儿子说：“乔，留心点儿。那女孩儿看上你了。”

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"You won’t like EVERYTHING from India now, Miss Sharp," said the old gentleman; but when the ladies had retired after dinner, the wily old fellow said to his son, "Have a care, Joe; that girl is setting her cap at you."

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乔得意的了不得，说道：“胡说，胡说！我记得从前在邓姆邓姆有个女孩子，是炮兵营里格脱勒的女儿，后来嫁给外科医生兰斯的。她在一八○四那年紧紧的追着我不放。她还追墨力格托尼。墨力格托尼是个顶呱呱的好人，吃饭以前我还跟你说来着。现在他是勃奇勃奇的州长，要不了五年一定能做参议员。

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"Pooh! nonsense!" said Joe, highly flattered. "I recollect, sir, there was a girl at Dumdum, a daughter of Cutler of the Artillery, and afterwards married to Lance, the surgeon, who made a dead set at me in the year ’4—at me and Mulligatawney, whom I mentioned to you before dinner—a devilish good fellow Mulligatawney—he’s a magistrate at Budgebudge, and sure to be in council in five years.

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我刚才说到那回炮兵营里开跳舞会，第十四联队的奎丁对我说：‘赛特笠，我把十三镑对你的十镑合你赌个东道，苏菲·格脱勒不出两年准能到手一个丈夫，不是你就是墨力格托尼，’他说的。我说：‘赌就赌吧！’喝！后来——这红酒不错。在哪家买的？阿顿姆生还是卡博耐尔？”

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Well, sir, the Artillery gave a ball, and Quintin, of the King’s 14th, said to me, ’Sedley,’ said he, ’I bet you thirteen to ten that Sophy Cutler hooks either you or Mulligatawney before the rains.’ ’Done,’ says I; and egad, sir—this claret’s very good. Adamson’s or Carbonell’s?”

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那老实的股票商人没说话，只轻轻的打呼噜，原来他已经睡着了，乔瑟夫的故事也就没有再讲下去。他在男人堆里说话多得很。每逢给他治病的高洛浦医生来看望他，问问他肝病好些没有，蓝丸药吃了灵不灵，他就常常对他讲这故事，已经讲过几十回了。

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A slight snore was the only reply: the honest stockbroker was asleep, and so the rest of Joseph’s story was lost for that day. But he was always exceedingly communicative in a man’s party, and has told this delightful tale many scores of times to his apothecary, Dr. Gollop, when he came to inquire about the liver and the blue-pill.

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乔瑟夫·赛特笠因为病着，所以吃饭的时候除了喝西班牙白酒之外又喝一瓶红酒，还吃了满满两碟子奶油草莓。他手边一个盘子里有二十四个小油酥饼，别人都不吃，因此也归他受用。他心里惦记着楼上的女孩子（写小说的人有个特别的权利，什么事都瞒不过他），肚里思忖道：“那小东西不错，她兴致很高，又有趣儿。吃饭的时候我替她捡手帕，她瞧着我怪有意思似的。她的手帕掉在地下两回呢。这会儿谁在客厅里唱歌？让我上去瞧瞧。”

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Being an invalid, Joseph Sedley contented himself with a bottle of claret besides his Madeira at dinner, and he managed a couple of plates full of strawberries and cream, and twenty-four little rout cakes that were lying neglected in a plate near him, and certainly (for novelists have the privilege of knowing everything) he thought a great deal about the girl upstairs. "A nice, gay, merry young creature," thought he to himself. "How she looked at me when I picked up her handkerchief at dinner! She dropped it twice. Who’s that singing in the drawing-room? ’Gad! shall I go up and see?"

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不幸他突然一阵害臊，怎么也压不下去。那时他爸爸睡着了；他的帽子就在过道里，而且在邻近沙乌撒泼顿街上还停着一辆出差马车。他想：“我还是去看‘四十大盗’和第坎泊小姐的跳舞。”于是他踮着脚轻轻溜掉，没有把他那好爸爸给吵醒。

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But his modesty came rushing upon him with uncontrollable force. His father was asleep: his hat was in the hall: there was a hackney-coach standing hard by in Southampton Row. "I’ll go and see the Forty Thieves," said he, "and Miss Decamp’s dance"; and he slipped away gently on the pointed toes of his boots, and disappeared, without waking his worthy parent.

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那时利蓓加正在一边弹一边唱，爱米丽亚站在客厅里敞开的窗子前面闲眺。她说道：“乔瑟夫走了。”

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"There goes Joseph," said Amelia, who was looking from the open windows of the drawing-room, while Rebecca was singing at the piano.

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赛特笠太太说：“夏泼小姐把他吓跑了。可怜的乔，他干吗那么怕羞呢！”

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"Miss Sharp has frightened him away," said Mrs. Sedley. "Poor Joe, why WILL he be so shy?"

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