他又来了。她向躁动不安的曼哈顿观众席上投去第一瞥时，就看见他了——他坐在第一排，头稍稍向前倾，两只灰色的眼睛紧紧地盯着她。她知道，对他来说，这个偌大的剧场里就只有他们两人在一起，那排浓妆艳抹的芭蕾舞演员们的脸庞和那轰鸣呜咽的小提琴伴奏他都视而不见、充耳不闻。对他而言，那些统统可以忽略不计，如同维纳斯石像上飘落的微尘。她的心头被激起一种本能的抵触情绪。
读书笔记
是否公开
He was there again. She saw him when she took her first glance at the restless Manhattan audience—down in the front row with his head bent a bit forward and his gray eyes fixed on her. And she knew that to him they were alone together in a world where the high-rouged row of ballet faces and the massed whines of the violins were as imperceivable as powder on a marble Venus. An instinctive defiance rose within her.
读书笔记
是否公开
“傻小子！”她匆匆地自言自语了一句，没有接受观众们的加演要求。
读书笔记
是否公开
“Silly boy!” she said to herself hurriedly, and she didn’t take her encore.
读书笔记
是否公开
“一个礼拜才能挣到一百块，他们还希求什么呢——永不减退的激情吗？”她在后台兀自抱怨。
读书笔记
是否公开
“What do they expect for a hundred a week—perpetual motion?” she grumbled to herself in the wings.
读书笔记
是否公开
“玛西亚，怎么了？”
读书笔记
是否公开
“What’s the trouble? Marcia?”
读书笔记
是否公开
“我不喜欢坐在前排的那个家伙。”
读书笔记
是否公开
“Guy I don’t like down in front.”
读书笔记
是否公开
在最后一幕，她正要表演最擅长的绝技时，忽然奇怪地感到怯场。她没有给贺拉斯寄承诺过的明信片。昨天夜里，她装作没看见他——跳完舞，她就急匆匆地离开剧院，在公寓里度过了一个不眠之夜——这个月她经常会这样——想着他那苍白而热切的面容，单薄而稚嫩的身体，无情又不谙世事的恍惚神思，这些都令她着迷。
读书笔记
是否公开
During the last act as she waited for her specialty she had an odd attack of stage fright. She had never sent Horace the promised post-card. Last night she had pretended not to see him—had hurried from the theatre immediately after her dance to pass a sleepless night in her apartment, thinking—as she had so often in the last month—of his pale, rather intent face, his slim, boyish figure, the merciless, unworldly abstraction that made him charming to her.
读书笔记
是否公开
现在他来了，她又隐隐约约地感到心情低落——仿佛被迫背上了异乎寻常的责任。
读书笔记
是否公开
And now that he had come she felt vaguely sorry—as though an unwonted responsibility was being forced on her.
读书笔记
是否公开
“神童！”她大声说。
读书笔记
是否公开
“Infant prodigy!” she said aloud.
读书笔记
是否公开
“你在说什么？”站在她身边的一个黑人滑稽演员问道。
读书笔记
是否公开
“What?” demanded the negro comedian standing beside her.
读书笔记
是否公开
“没什么——自己说着玩儿的。”
读书笔记
是否公开
“Nothing—just talking about myself.”
读书笔记
是否公开
在舞台上，她感觉好多了。这是她擅长的舞蹈——她总觉得她这样的跳法对男人的挑逗最多也不过和漂亮女孩给予男人的想象一样。她跳舞只是一种特技表演而已。
读书笔记
是否公开
On the stage she felt better. This was her dance—and she always felt that the way she did it wasn’t suggestive any more than to some men every pretty girl is suggestive. She made it a stunt.
读书笔记
是否公开
住宅区，商业区，果冻装在汤勺里，
读书笔记
是否公开
“Uptown, downtown, jelly on a spoon,
读书笔记
是否公开
太阳沉下去，在月光下颤抖不已。
读书笔记
是否公开
After sundown shiver by the moon.”
读书笔记
是否公开
现在，他没有看她。她看得清清楚楚。他在故意看背景上的城堡，脸上带着在塔夫特烧烤餐厅时的那副神情。她的心头燃起一团怒火——他在责怪她。
读书笔记
是否公开
He was not watching her now. She saw that clearly. He was looking very deliberately at a castle on the back drop, wearing that expression he had worn in the Taft Grill. A wave of exasperation swept over her—he was criticising her.
读书笔记
是否公开
是那摇曳的身姿令我颤抖不已，
读书笔记
是否公开
“That’s the vibration that thr-ills me,
读书笔记
是否公开
奇怪的是我的心中如何充满了这样的情感，
读书笔记
是否公开
Funny how affection fi-lls me
读书笔记
是否公开
住宅区，商业区——
读书笔记
是否公开
Uptown, downtown—”
读书笔记
是否公开
她的心头被无法抑制的反感情绪所占据，她突然可怕地意识到了观众的存在，这是她第一次登台以来从来没有过的事情。第一排那张苍白的脸是在向她暗送秋波吗？那个年轻女孩的嘴角是不是吊着一缕厌恶之情？她的那两个肩膀——那两个颤抖的肩膀——是她的肩膀吗？这真的是她的肩膀吗？她的肩膀肯定不会颤抖的！
读书笔记
是否公开
Unconquerable revulsion seized her. She was suddenly and horribly conscious of her audience as she had never been since her first appearance. Was that a leer on a pallid face in the front row, a droop of disgust on one young girl’s mouth? These shoulders of hers—these shoulders shaking—were they hers? Were they real? Surely shoulders weren’t made for this!
读书笔记
是否公开
然后——你看一眼就会明了一切。
读书笔记
是否公开
“Then—you’ll see at a glance
读书笔记
是否公开
葬礼上我需要圣维特斯跳着舞引领
读书笔记
是否公开
“I’ll need some funeral ushers with St. Vitus dance
读书笔记
是否公开
在世界的尽头我会——
读书笔记
是否公开
At the end of the world I’ll—”
读书笔记
是否公开
一支巴松管和两架大提琴喧嚣着进入尾声。她停下来，拉紧每一条肌肉，踮着脚尖摆出一个造型，她青春的面容带着后来被一个年轻女观众称为“如此奇怪的、疑惑的表情”，目光呆滞地注视着观众，没有鞠躬就匆匆离开舞台。她跑进更衣室，迅速脱下一条裙子，又钻进另一条裙子里，到外面叫了一辆出租车。
读书笔记
是否公开
The bassoon and two cellos crashed into a final chord. She paused and poised a moment on her toes with every muscle tense, her young face looking out dully at the audience in what one young girl afterward called“such a curious, puzzled look,” and then without bowing rushed from the stage. Into the dressing-room she sped, kicked out of one dress and into another, and caught a taxi outside.
读书笔记
是否公开
她的公寓很暖和——空间很小，里面有一排剧照和几套吉卜林和欧·亨利的书，这是她有一次从一个蓝眼睛的代理商那里买来的，偶尔看一看。有几把和公寓相匹配的椅子，但是没有一把舒服的；有一盏绘有黑鹂图案的灯，罩着粉红色的灯罩，把整个房间变成了一个令人窒息的粉红色世界。房间里也有几件令人愉悦的东西——令人愉悦的东西却无情地互相敌对，在神思恍惚的时刻越发有一种错位的感觉，一种无法忍受的滋味。而最糟糕的莫过于一幅用橡树皮镶嵌的、从伊利铁路看过去的帕塞伊克市的大型风景画——总之，这是一次为了打造一间令人振奋的屋子而进行的极度夸张的、极度吝啬的疯狂尝试。玛西亚知道这是一个败笔。
读书笔记
是否公开
Her apartment was very warm—small, it was, with a row of professional pictures and sets of Kipling and O. Henry which she had bought once from a blue-eyed agent and read occasionally. And there were several chairs which matched, but were none of them comfortable, and a pink-shaded lamp with blackbirds painted on it and an atmosphere of other stifled pink throughout. There were nice things in it—nice things unrelentingly hostile to each other, offspring of a vicarious, impatient taste acting in stray moments. The worst was typified by a great picture framed in oak bark of Passaic as seen from the Erie Railroad—altogether a frantic, oddly extravagant, oddly penurious attempt to make a cheerful room. Marcia knew it was a failure.
读书笔记
是否公开
天才走进屋子，笨拙地握住了她的双手。
读书笔记
是否公开
Into this room came the prodigy and took her two hands awkwardly.
读书笔记
是否公开
“这次我追上你了。”他说。
读书笔记
是否公开
“I followed you this time,” he said.
读书笔记
是否公开
“哦！”
读书笔记
是否公开
“Oh!”
读书笔记
是否公开
“我要你嫁给我。”他说。
读书笔记
是否公开
“I want you to marry me,” he said.
读书笔记
是否公开
她张开双臂投入他的怀抱，充满激情地亲吻了他的嘴唇。
读书笔记
是否公开
Her arms went out to him. She kissed his mouth with a sort of passionate wholesomeness.
读书笔记
是否公开
“嘿！”
读书笔记
是否公开
“There!”
读书笔记
是否公开
“我爱你。”他说。
读书笔记
是否公开
“I love you,” he said.
读书笔记
是否公开
她再次吻了他，然后轻叹一声，猛地坐到扶手椅上，半躺在那里，莫名其妙地笑起来，直笑得浑身发抖。
读书笔记
是否公开
She kissed him again and then with a little sigh flung herself into an armchair and half lay there, shaken with absurd laughter.
读书笔记
是否公开
“哦，你这个神童！”她叫道。
读书笔记
是否公开
“Why, you infant prodigy!” she cried.
读书笔记
是否公开
“很好，如果你想这么叫就这么叫好了。我对你说过我比你老一万岁——现在依然比你老一万岁。”
读书笔记
是否公开
“Very well, call me that if you want to. I once told you that I was ten thousand years older than you—I am.”
读书笔记
是否公开
她又大笑起来。
读书笔记
是否公开
She laughed again.
读书笔记
是否公开
“我不喜欢别人和我对着干。”
读书笔记
是否公开
“I don’t like to be disapproved of.”
读书笔记
是否公开
“再也没有人和你对着干了。”
读书笔记
是否公开
“No one’s ever going to disapprove of you again.”
读书笔记
是否公开
“欧玛尔，”她问道，“你为什么要和我结婚？”
读书笔记
是否公开
“Omar,” she asked, “why do you want to marry me?”
读书笔记
是否公开
天才站起身，把两只手插到衣袋里。
读书笔记
是否公开
The prodigy rose and put his hands in his pockets.
读书笔记
是否公开
“因为我爱你，玛西亚·梅朵。”
读书笔记
是否公开
“Because I love you, Marcia Meadow.”
读书笔记
是否公开
然后，她不再叫他欧玛尔。
读书笔记
是否公开
And then she stopped calling him Omar.
读书笔记
是否公开
“亲爱的伙计，”她说，“你知道我还是有点爱你的。你身上有种东西——我说不出是什么——每次见到你，它都让我备受煎熬。但是，亲爱的——”她不说了。
读书笔记
是否公开
“Dear boy,” she said, “you know I sort of love you. There’s something about you—I can’t tell what—that just puts my heart through the wringer every time I’m round you. But honey—”She paused.
读书笔记
是否公开
“但是什么？”
读书笔记
是否公开
“But what?”
读书笔记
是否公开
“但是存在很多问题呀。但是你只有十八岁，而我快二十岁了。”
读书笔记
是否公开
“But lots of things. But you’re only just eighteen, and I’m nearly twenty.”
读书笔记
是否公开
“胡说！”他打断她的话，“这么说吧——我已经十九岁了，你也十九岁，我们的年龄很接近——之前说的比你大一万岁就不算了。”
读书笔记
是否公开
“Nonsense!” he interrupted. “Put it this way—that I’m in my nineteenth year and you’re nineteen. That makes us pretty close—without counting that other ten thousand years I mentioned.”
读书笔记
是否公开
玛西亚大笑起来。
读书笔记
是否公开
Marcia laughed.
读书笔记
是否公开
“但是还有一些‘但是’。你的家人——”
读书笔记
是否公开
“But there are some more ‘buts.’ Your people—”
读书笔记
是否公开
“我的家人！”天才恶狠狠地大声叫道，“我的家人只想把我变成一个魔鬼。”他的脸憋得通红，放出了狠话：“我的家人可以回家坐下来歇着了！”
读书笔记
是否公开
“My people!” exclaimed the prodigy ferociously. “My people tried to make a monstrosity out of me.” His face grew quite crimson at the enormity of what he was going to say. “My people can go way back and sit down!”
读书笔记
是否公开
“天哪！”玛西亚担心地叫起来，“至于吗？我认为是方法问题。”
读书笔记
是否公开
“My heavens!” cried Marcia in alarm. “All that? On tacks, I suppose.”
读书笔记
是否公开
“方法——对极了，”他强烈赞同，“所有的事情都是这样。我越来越觉得他们宁愿让我变成一具干尸——”
读书笔记
是否公开
“Tacks—yes,” he agreed wildly—“on anything. The more I think of how they allowed me to become a little dried-up mummy—”
读书笔记
是否公开
“是谁让你意识到了你的那种情况？”玛西亚轻声问，“是我吗？”
读书笔记
是否公开
“What makes you think you’re that?” asked Marcia quietly—“me?”
读书笔记
是否公开
“是的。自从遇见了你，我就开始嫉妒在大街上见到的每一个人，因为他们都比我早知道爱情是什么。我曾经把爱情称作‘性冲动’。天哪！”
读书笔记
是否公开
“Yes. Every person I’ve met on the streets since I met you has made me jealous because they knew what love was before I did. I used to call it the ‘sex impulse.’ Heavens!”
读书笔记
是否公开
“还有‘但是’呢。”玛西亚说道。
读书笔记
是否公开
“There’s more ‘buts,’” said Marcia
读书笔记
是否公开
“是什么？”
读书笔记
是否公开
“What are they?”
读书笔记
是否公开
“我们怎么生活？”
读书笔记
是否公开
“How could we live?”
读书笔记
是否公开
“我会去挣钱。”
读书笔记
是否公开
“I’ll make a living.”
读书笔记
是否公开
“你还在上大学。”
读书笔记
是否公开
“You’re in college.”
读书笔记
是否公开
“你认为我就那么想得到文学硕士吗？”
读书笔记
是否公开
“Do you think I care anything about taking a Master of Arts degree?”
读书笔记
是否公开
“嘿，你想得到我(4)，是吗？”
读书笔记
是否公开
“You want to be Master of Me, hey?”
读书笔记
是否公开
“是的！什么？我的意思是，不是的！”
读书笔记
是否公开
“Yes! What? I mean, no!”
读书笔记
是否公开
玛西亚大笑起来，轻盈地落到了他的腿上。他疯狂地抱紧她，在她的脖子上印上了一个深深的吻痕。
读书笔记
是否公开
Marcia laughed, and crossing swiftly over sat in his lap. He put his arm round her wildly and implanted the vestige of a kiss somewhere near her neck.
读书笔记
是否公开
“你很单纯，”玛西亚开心地说，“不过，你似乎不怎么理智。”
读书笔记
是否公开
“There’s something white about you,” mused Marcia, “but it doesn’t sound very logical.”
读书笔记
是否公开
“哦，别总提那该死的理智！”
读书笔记
是否公开
“Oh, don’t be so darned reasonable!”
读书笔记
是否公开
“没办法。”玛西亚说道。
读书笔记
是否公开
“I can’t help it,” said Marcia.
读书笔记
是否公开
“我恨这些机器一样的人！”
读书笔记
是否公开
“I hate these slot-machine people!”
读书笔记
是否公开
“但是我们——”
读书笔记
是否公开
“But we—”
读书笔记
是否公开
“哦，别说了！”
读书笔记
是否公开
“Oh, shut up!”
读书笔记
是否公开
玛西亚总不能用耳朵说话，（她的嘴巴被吻住了）所以她只好不说了。
读书笔记
是否公开
And as Marcia couldn’t talk through her ears she had to.
读书笔记
是否公开
- 加入书架
-
回顶部
- 上一页阅读背景
- 下一页
-
回底部
|
|
defiance [dɪ'faɪəns] |
n.蔑视;违抗;挑衅 |
|
|
|
encore ['ɒŋkɔː(r)] |
n.再演;加演;安可曲 |
|
|
|
perpetual [pə'petʃuəl] |
adj.永久的;永恒的;一再往复的 |
|
|
|
grumble ['ɡrʌmbl] |
v.发牢骚;抱怨;轰鸣 |
|
|
|
fright [fraɪt] |
n.惊骇;惊恐;怪人 |
|
|
|
theatre [ˈθɪətə] |
n.戏院,剧场,电影院 |
|
|
|
abstraction [æb'strækʃn] |
n.抽象;抽象概念;心不在焉 |
|
|
|
felted ['feltɪd] |
v. 把 ... 制成毡(使 ... 粘结) |
|
|
|
prodigy ['prɒdədʒi] |
n.惊人的事物;奇迹;神童;天才 |
|
|
|
comedian [kə'miːdiən] |
n.喜剧演员 |
|
|
|
stunt [stʌnt] |
n.特技;阻碍成长 |
|
|
|
Uptown [ˌʌp'taʊn] |
n.住宅区 |
|
|
|
shiver ['ʃɪvə(r)] |
v.颤动;发抖 |
|
|
|
exasperation [ɪɡˌzɑːspə'reɪʃn] |
n.让人恼怒的事;被激怒的状态 |
|
|
|
vibration [vaɪ'breɪʃn] |
n.震动;颤动 |
|
|
|
disgust [dɪs'ɡʌst] |
n.厌恶;憎恶;反感 |
|
|
|
usher ['ʌʃə(r)] |
n.带位员;招待员 |
|
|
|
blackbird ['blækbɜːd] |
n.画眉;黑鸟;黑鹂;燕八哥 |
|
|
|
stifle ['staɪfl] |
vt.使窒息;扼杀;扑灭;抑制 |
|
|
|
unrelenting [ˌʌnrɪ'lentɪŋ] |
adj.不屈不挠的;不松懈的 |
|
|
|
offspring ['ɒfsprɪŋ] |
n.后代;子孙;产物 |
|
|
|
impatient [ɪm'peɪʃnt] |
adj.不耐烦的;急躁的 |
|
|
|
stray [streɪ] |
n.走失的家畜;浪子 |
|
|
|
typify ['tɪpɪfaɪ] |
v.作为某人或某物的典型;代表;象征 |
|
|
|
bark [bɑːk] |
v.(狗)吠;咆哮 |
|
|
|
extravagant [ɪk'strævəɡənt] |
adj.奢侈的;浪费的;过度的;大量的 |
|
|
|
passionate ['pæʃənət] |
adj.热情的;激情的;易怒的 |
|
|
|
fling [flɪŋ] |
vt. 投，抛，扔，掷; |
|
|
|
armchair ['ɑːmtʃeə(r)] |
n.扶手椅;单人沙发;安乐椅 |
|
|
|
disapprove [ˌdɪsə'pruːv] |
v.不赞成 |
|
|
|
nineteen [ˌnaɪn'tiːn] |
十九 |
|
|
|
enormity [ɪ'nɔːməti] |
n.暴行;极恶;巨大 |
|
|
|
tack [tæk] |
n.大头钉;行动方针 |
|
|
|
mummy ['mʌmi] |
n.木乃伊 |
|
|
|
swift [swɪft] |
adj.快的;迅速的;敏捷的 |
|
|
|
Muse [mjuːz] |
v.沉思;冥想 |
|
|
|
darn [dɑːn] |
v.织补 |
|
