通译双语文库:恋爱中的女人第04章　跳水人

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THE WEEK passed away. On the Saturday it rained, a soft drizzling rain that held off at times. In one of the intervals Gudrun and Ursula set out for a walk, going towards Willey Water. The atmosphere was grey and translucent, the birds sang sharply on the young twigs, the earth would be quickening and hastening in growth. The two girls walked swiftly, gladly, because of the soft, subtle rush of morning that filled the wet haze. By the road the black-thorn was in blossom, white and wet, its tiny amber grains burning faintly in the white smoke of blossom. Purple twigs were darkly luminous in the grey air, high hedges glowed like living shadows, hovering nearer, coming into creation. The morning was full of a new creation.

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When the sisters came to Willey Water, the lake lay all grey and visionary, stretching into the moist, translucent vista of trees and meadow. Fine electric activity in sound came from the dumbles below the road, the birds piping one against the other, and water mysteriously plashing, issuing from the lake.

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The two girls drifted swiftly along. In front of them, at the corner of the lake, near the road, was a mossy boat-house under a walnut tree, and a little landing-stage where a boat was moored, wavering like a shadow on the still grey water, below the green, decayed poles. All was shadowy with coming summer.

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Suddenly, from the boat-house, a white figure ran out, frightening in its swift sharp transit, across the old landing-stage. It launched in a white arc through the air, there was a bursting of the water, and among the smooth ripples a swimmer was making out to space, in a centre of faintly heaving motion. The whole otherworld, wet and remote, he had to himself. He could move into the pure translucency of the grey, uncreated water.

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Gudrun stood by the stone wall, watching.

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`How I envy him,' she said, in low, desirous tones.

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`Ugh!' shivered Ursula. `So cold!'

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`Yes, but how good, how really fine, to swim out there!' The sisters stood watching the swimmer move further into the grey, moist, full space of the water, pulsing with his own small, invading motion, and arched over with mist and dim woods.

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`Don't you wish it were you?' asked Gudrun, looking at Ursula.

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`I do,' said Ursula. `But I'm not sure -- it's so wet.'

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`No,' said Gudrun, reluctantly. She stood watching the motion on the bosom of the water, as if fascinated. He, having swum a certain distance, turned round and was swimming on his back, looking along the water at the two girls by the wall. In the faint wash of motion, they could see his ruddy face, and could feel him watching them.

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`It is Gerald Crich,' said Ursula.

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`I know,' replied Gudrun.

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And she stood motionless gazing over the water at the face which washed up and down on the flood, as he swam steadily. From his separate element he saw them and he exulted to himself because of his own advantage, his possession of a world to himself. He was immune and perfect. He loved his own vigorous, thrusting motion, and the violent impulse of the very cold water against his limbs, buoying him up. He could see the girls watching him a way off, outside, and that pleased him. He lifted his arm from the water, in a sign to them.

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`He is waving,' said Ursula.

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`Yes,' replied Gudrun. They watched him. He waved again, with a strange movement of recognition across the difference.

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①参见德国英雄史诗《尼伯龙根之歌》。

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`Like a Nibelung,' laughed Ursula. Gudrun said nothing, only stood still looking over the water.

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Gerald suddenly turned, and was swimming away swiftly, with a side stroke. He was alone now, alone and immune in the middle of the waters, which he had all to himself. He exulted in his isolation in the new element, unquestioned and unconditioned. He was happy, thrusting with his legs and all his body, without bond or connection anywhere, just himself in the watery world.

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Gudrun envied him almost painfully. Even this momentary possession of pure isolation and fluidity seemed to her so terribly desirable that she felt herself as if damned, out there on the high-road.

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`God, what it is to be a man!' she cried.

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`What?' exclaimed Ursula in surprise.

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`The freedom, the liberty, the mobility!' cried Gudrun, strangely flushed and brilliant. `You're a man, you want to do a thing, you do it. You haven't the thousand obstacles a woman has in front of her.'

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Ursula wondered what was in Gudrun's mind, to occasion this outburst. She could not understand.

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`What do you want to do?' she asked.

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`Nothing,' cried Gudrun, in swift refutation. `But supposing I did. Supposing I want to swim up that water. It is impossible, it is one of the impossibilities of life, for me to take my clothes off now and jump in. But isn't it ridiculous, doesn't it simply prevent our living!'

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She was so hot, so flushed, so furious, that Ursula was puzzled.

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The two sisters went on, up the road. They were passing between the trees just below Shortlands. They looked up at the long, low house, dim and glamorous in the wet morning, its cedar trees slanting before the windows. Gudrun seemed to be studying it closely.

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`Don't you think it's attractive, Ursula?' asked Gudrun.

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`Very,' said Ursula. `Very peaceful and charming.'

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`It has form, too -- it has a period.'

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`What period?'

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①朵拉茜·华滋华斯（１７７１—１８５５），女批评家，威廉·华滋华斯的妹妹。

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`Oh, eighteenth century, for certain; Dorothy Wordsworth and Jane Austen, don't you think?'

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Ursula laughed.

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`Don't you think so?' repeated Gudrun.

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`Perhaps. But I don't think the Criches fit the period. I know Gerald is putting in a private electric plant, for lighting the house, and is making all kinds of latest improvements.'

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Gudrun shrugged her shoulders swiftly.`Of course,’ she said, `that’s quite inevitable.’

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`Quite,' laughed Ursula. `He is several generations of youngness at one go. They hate him for it. He takes them all by the scruff of the neck, and fairly flings them along. He'll have to die soon, when he's made every possible improvement, and there will be nothing more to improve. He's got go, anyhow.'

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`Certainly, he's got go,' said Gudrun. `In fact I've never seen a man that showed signs of so much. The unfortunate thing is, where does his go go to, what becomes of it?'

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`Oh I know,' said Ursula. `It goes in applying the latest appliances!'

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`Exactly,' said Gudrun.

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`You know he shot his brother?' said Ursula.

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`Shot his brother?' cried Gudrun, frowning as if in disapprobation.

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`Didn't you know? Oh yes! -- I thought you knew. He and his brother were playing together with a gun. He told his brother to look down the gun, and it was loaded, and blew the top of his head off. Isn't it a horrible story?'

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`How fearful!' cried Gudrun. `But it is long ago?'

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`Oh yes, they were quite boys,' said Ursula. `I think it is one of the most horrible stories I know.'

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`And he of course did not know that the gun was loaded?'

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`Yes. You see it was an old thing that had been lying in the stable for years. Nobody dreamed it would ever go off, and of course, no one imagined it was loaded. But isn't it dreadful, that it should happen?'

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`Frightful!' cried Gudrun. `And isn't it horrible too to think of such a thing happening to one, when one was a child, and having to carry the responsibility of it all through one's life. Imagine it, two boys playing together -- then this comes upon them, for no reason whatever -- out of the air. Ursula, it's very frightening! Oh, it's one of the things I can't bear. Murder, that is thinkable, because there's a will behind it. But a thing like that to happen to one --'

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`Perhaps there was an unconscious will behind it,' said Ursula. `This playing at killing has some primitive desire for killing in it, don't you think?'

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`Desire!' said Gudrun, coldly, stiffening a little. `I can't see that they were even playing at killing. I suppose one boy said to the other, "You look down the barrel while I pull the trigger, and see what happens." It seems to me the purest form of accident.'

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`No,' said Ursula. `I couldn't pull the trigger of the emptiest gun in the world, not if some-one were looking down the barrel. One instinctively doesn't do it -- one can't.'

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Gudrun was silent for some moments, in sharp disagreement.

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`Of course,' she said coldly. `If one is a woman, and grown up, one's instinct prevents one. But I cannot see how that applies to a couple of boys playing together.'

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Her voice was cold and angry.

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`Yes,’ persisted Ursula. At that moment they heard a woman’s voice a few yards off say loudly:`Oh damn the thing!’ They went forward and saw Laura Crich and Hermione Roddice in the field on the other side of the hedge, and Laura Crich struggling with the gate, to get out. Ursula at once hurried up and helped to lift the gate.

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`Thanks so much,' said Laura, looking up flushed and amazon-like, yet rather confused. `It isn't right on the hinges.'

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`No,' said Ursula. `And they're so heavy.'

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`Surprising!' cried Laura.

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`How do you do,' sang Hermione, from out of the field, the moment she could make her voice heard. `It's nice now. Are you going for a walk? Yes. Isn't the young green beautiful? So beautiful -- quite burning. Good morning -- good morning -- you'll come and see me? -- thank you so much -- next week -- yes -good-bye, g-o-o-d b-y-e.'

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Gudrun and Ursula stood and watched her slowly waving her head up and down, and waving her hand slowly in dismissal, smiling a strange affected smile, making a tall queer, frightening figure, with her heavy fair hair slipping to her eyes. Then they moved off, as if they had been dismissed like inferiors. The four women parted.

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①高乃依（１６０６—８４），法国诗人与戏剧家，著有悲剧《熙德》等。

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第04章 跳水人|Chapter 4 Diver

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Gudrun stood by the stone wall, watching.

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`How I envy him,' she said, in low, desirous tones.

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`Ugh!' shivered Ursula. `So cold!'

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`Yes, but how good, how really fine, to swim out there!' The sisters stood watching the swimmer move further into the grey, moist, full space of the water, pulsing with his own small, invading motion, and arched over with mist and dim woods.

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`Don't you wish it were you?' asked Gudrun, looking at Ursula.

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`I do,' said Ursula. `But I'm not sure -- it's so wet.'

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`It is Gerald Crich,' said Ursula.

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`I know,' replied Gudrun.

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`He is waving,' said Ursula.

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`Yes,' replied Gudrun. They watched him. He waved again, with a strange movement of recognition across the difference.

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`Like a Nibelung,' laughed Ursula. Gudrun said nothing, only stood still looking over the water.

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Gudrun envied him almost painfully. Even this momentary possession of pure isolation and fluidity seemed to her so terribly desirable that she felt herself as if damned, out there on the high-road.

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`God, what it is to be a man!' she cried.

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`What?' exclaimed Ursula in surprise.

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`The freedom, the liberty, the mobility!' cried Gudrun, strangely flushed and brilliant. `You're a man, you want to do a thing, you do it. You haven't the thousand obstacles a woman has in front of her.'

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Ursula wondered what was in Gudrun's mind, to occasion this outburst. She could not understand.

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`What do you want to do?' she asked.

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`Nothing,' cried Gudrun, in swift refutation. `But supposing I did. Supposing I want to swim up that water. It is impossible, it is one of the impossibilities of life, for me to take my clothes off now and jump in. But isn't it ridiculous, doesn't it simply prevent our living!'

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She was so hot, so flushed, so furious, that Ursula was puzzled.

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The two sisters went on, up the road. They were passing between the trees just below Shortlands. They looked up at the long, low house, dim and glamorous in the wet morning, its cedar trees slanting before the windows. Gudrun seemed to be studying it closely.

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`Don't you think it's attractive, Ursula?' asked Gudrun.

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`Very,' said Ursula. `Very peaceful and charming.'

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`It has form, too -- it has a period.'

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`What period?'

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`Oh, eighteenth century, for certain; Dorothy Wordsworth and Jane Austen, don't you think?'

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Ursula laughed.

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`Don't you think so?' repeated Gudrun.

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`Perhaps. But I don't think the Criches fit the period. I know Gerald is putting in a private electric plant, for lighting the house, and is making all kinds of latest improvements.'

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Gudrun shrugged her shoulders swiftly.`Of course,’ she said, `that’s quite inevitable.’

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`Certainly, he's got go,' said Gudrun. `In fact I've never seen a man that showed signs of so much. The unfortunate thing is, where does his go go to, what becomes of it?'

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`Oh I know,' said Ursula. `It goes in applying the latest appliances!'

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`Exactly,' said Gudrun.

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`You know he shot his brother?' said Ursula.

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`Shot his brother?' cried Gudrun, frowning as if in disapprobation.

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`Didn't you know? Oh yes! -- I thought you knew. He and his brother were playing together with a gun. He told his brother to look down the gun, and it was loaded, and blew the top of his head off. Isn't it a horrible story?'

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第04章　跳水人|Chapter 4 Diver