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纯真年代(牛津简读版)|The Age of Innocence(Oxford Version)

10. 纽兰造访巴黎|10. NEWLAND VISITS PARIS

属类： 双语小说 【分类】双语小说 -[作者: 伊迪丝.华顿] 阅读：[4665]
对于富人和时尚人士来说，19世纪70年代的纽约社交界充斥着各种规矩：何时应该打黑领带，或者何时适宜进行下午拜访;可以邀请谁参加晚上的聚会，或者听歌剧时可以挨着谁坐;哪些人受欢迎，哪些人不受欢迎。 埃伦·奥兰斯卡伯爵夫人是一位波兰伯爵的妻子，曾在欧洲生活多年，现在孤身一人回到了她在纽约的家。她希望摆脱自己不幸婚姻带来的痛苦，但她不了解纽约社交界的各种规矩。而纽兰·阿彻则深谙于此;他的未婚妻——年轻的梅·韦兰——也按照这些规矩生活着，因为她无法想象还有其他的生活方式。
纽兰、梅和埃伦陷入了一场爱情、名誉和责任的战斗之中。在这场战斗中，礼貌的微笑背后隐藏着强烈的情感，一切尽在不言中，而那穿过拥挤房间的意味深长的一瞥，更是胜过千言万语。
For the rich and the fashionable, New York society in the 1870s was a world full of rules: rules about when to wear a black tie, or the correct time to pay an afternoon visit; rules about who you could invite to your evening parties or sit next to at the opera; rules about who was an acceptable person, and who was not.
Countess Ellen Olenska, who has lived for many years in Europe as the wife of a Polish Count, returns alone to her family in New York. She hopes to leave the pain of her unhappy marriage behind her, but she does not understand the rules of New York society. Newland Archer, however, understands them only too well, and the girl he is engaged to marry, young May Welland, lives her life by the rules, because she cannot imagine any other way of living.
Newland, May, and Ellen are caught in a battle between love, honour, and duty – a battle where strong feelings hide behind polite smiles, where much is left unsaid, and where a single expressive look across a crowded room can carry more meaning than a hundred words.
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纽兰坐在图书室的写字台前，环视这间屋子。过去三十多年来，他一生中大部分真实的事情都发生在这间图书室。大约二十六年前，他的妻子在这里红着脸告诉他她怀孕的消息。他的长子达拉斯在这里第一次向他蹒跚走来，喊着“爸爸！”长相酷似母亲的女儿玛丽在这里宣布与雷吉·奇弗斯最乏味的那个儿子订婚。在这里，他伟大的朋友西奥多·罗斯福告诉他：“去他的职业政治家吧，阿彻！国家需要的是像你这样的人才。”

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Newland sat at the desk in his library, and looked round at the room where most of the real things of his life had happened over the last thirty years. There his wife, nearly twenty-six years ago, had blushingly told him she was expecting a baby. There his elder son Dallas had taken his first steps towards him, shouting, ’Dad!’ There his daughter Mary, who was so like her mother, had announced her engagement to the dullest of Reggie Chivers’ sons. And there his great friend Theodore Roosevelt had told him, ’Forget about the professional politicians, Archer! It’s men like you the country wants.’

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“像你这样的人——”这一席话曾经让纽兰何等刻骨铭心！他曾经何等热情地响应召唤！最终，他找到了一些有意义的事情去做，并在当地政府机构辛勤地工作。然而，一段时间过后，他感觉自己已经竭尽所能，于是欣然隐退，重新过上较为平静的生活。在纽约，他受人仰慕和尊重。他的日子过得很忙碌，也过得很充实。“我想，这就是一个人的全部追求。”他想。

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Men like you’ – how those words had impressed Newland! How eagerly he had answered the call! At last he had found something worthwhile to do, and he worked long hours in local government. After a while, however, he felt he had done what he could, and returned thankfully to a quieter life. He was admired and respected in New York; his days were full, and they were filled usefully. ’I suppose that’s all a man should ask,’ he thought.

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他知道他遗失了一样东西——生命之花。起初，他想到埃伦·奥兰斯卡的时候心情非常绝望。然而这么多年来，她已经成为完美的化身，使他不会去想别的女人。对梅来说，他一直是个好丈夫。他们最小的孩子比尔生病，她照顾他时突然染病而离世，他对她衷心哀悼。他们多年的共同生活已经向他证明，只要婚姻双方能够一直做到对彼此尽责，即便是一种枯燥的责任也无关紧要。如果他们没有做到，那么婚姻就会变成一场私利的斗争。回首往事，他知道自己也曾有过荣耀的时刻，同时也为之痛心。毕竟，旧的方式也有好的一面。

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Something he knew he had missed – the flower of life. But when he thought, so despairingly at first, of Ellen Olenska, over the years she became the picture of perfection, and that picture kept him from thinking of other women. He had been a good husband to May, and when she had suddenly died – carried off by the illness through which she had nursed their youngest child, Bill – he had honestly mourned her. Their long years together had shown him that it did not matter so much if marriage was a dull duty, as long as the couple always behaved in a responsible, dutiful way to each other. If they failed to do that, the marriage just became a battle of selfish interests. Thinking back over his life, he saw there was honour in his past, and he mourned for it. After all, there was good in the old ways.

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他的目光停留在他得到的第一张梅的照片上，它依然占据着写字台上惯常的位置。照片上的她，正如当年他在佛罗里达的橘树下见到的样子。她始终如一，再也没有像那天那样高尚，但也没有差很多——她勇敢、大度、容易信赖他人，但特别缺乏想象力。她儿时的那个世界已经分崩离析并进行了重塑，她都丝毫没有觉察。孩子们像纽兰一样向她隐瞒自己新潮的观念，以此来保护她。她去世时依然认为人世间是个好地方，到处是像她自己家那样幸福美满的家庭。她能够安心地离开人间，因为她相信，无论发生什么事，纽兰都会向达拉斯继续灌输他自己曾被教导必须遵从的那些观念，而达拉斯（当纽兰随她而去之后）也会将同样的观念教导给小比尔。至于玛丽，她对她就像对自己那样有把握。因此，从死亡的边缘拯救回小比尔之后，她便撒手而去，心满意足地到阿彻家的墓穴中就位。

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His eyes rested on his first photograph of May, which still kept its place on his desk. There she was, just as he had seen her under the Florida orange trees. And she had remained the same – never quite as noble as on that day, but never far below – brave, generous, trusting, but with so little imagination that the world of her childhood had fallen into pieces and rebuilt itself without her noticing the changes. Her children protected her by hiding their modern opinions from her, as Newland hid his. And she died thinking the world a good place, full of happy, loving families like her own; she could bear to leave it because she trusted that, whatever happened, Newland would continue teaching Dallas to obey the same rules that he had been taught, and that Dallas (when Newland followed her) would do the same for little Bill. Of Mary she was as sure as of her own self. So, having saved little Bill from death, and given her life in the effort, she went happily to her place in the Archer family grave.

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电话铃响了，纽兰摘下电话。从前信差是最快的通讯方式，他们离那些日子多么遥远了！

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The telephone rang, and Newland answered it. How far they were from the days when a messenger boy was the fastest way of communicating!

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“芝加哥有人要和你通话。”

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Chicago wants you.’

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啊，一定是达拉斯，他被公司派往那里出差。

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Ah, it must be Dallas, who was there on business for his firm.

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“嗨，爸爸。是的，我是达拉斯。我说——你觉得周三乘坐‘毛里塔尼亚’号去法国怎么样？我得在六月初赶回来结婚呢。”话音突然变成笑声——“所以我们得赶紧。我说，爸爸，一定要来啊。考虑一下？不，先生，一分钟也不行。如果你能为不去找到一条理由——对了，我知道你不能。噢，太好了！我就知道你会同意的。”

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Hallo, Dad. Yes, Dallas here. I say – how do you feel about sailing to France on Wednesday on the Mauretania? I’ve got to be back in early June for my wedding’ – the voice broke into a laugh – ’so we must hurry. I say, Dad, do come. Think it over? No, sir, not for a minute. If you can find a single reason why not – no, I knew you couldn’t. Oh good! I knew you’d agree.’

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这将是他们最后一次共同的旅行了，因为在六月份，达拉斯就将迎娶范妮·博福特——她是朱利叶斯·博福特和第二任妻子范妮·林所生的女儿。可怜的雷吉娜去世之后，他就娶了之前的这位情人。对纽兰来说，这是单独跟长子一起相处的最后机会，颇具吸引力，而且是去法国！自从蜜月归来之后，他就再未踏足那里。梅不喜欢旅行，与其和外国人说话，她宁愿和朋友家人交谈。

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It would be their last trip together, because in June Dallas was marrying Fanny Beaufort – she was Julius Beaufort’s daughter by his second wife, Fanny ring, the mistress he had married after poor Regina died. It was tempting for Newland to take this last chance of being alone with his first-born son. And France! He had not been there since his honeymoon. May had disliked travelling, and preferred the conversation of friends and family to that of foreigners.

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她去世快两年了，自那以后，纽兰已经没有理由再继续原来的那一套。但是，尽责的最坏后果就是，他没有能力再去做其他事情了。然而，有时候，想象力会突然超越平日的水平，俯视人生漫长曲折的道路上所有的十字路口和转折点。纽兰呆坐在那里，思索着……

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Since her death, nearly two years before, there had been no reason for Newland to continue in the same routine. But the worst of doing his duty was that it had made him unable to do anything else. There are moments, however, when a man’s imagination suddenly rises above its daily level, and looks down over all the crossroads and turning points in the long road of life. Newland hung there and wondered...

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纽兰从旅馆窗口向外张望着春日照耀下的巴黎街头，他感觉自己的内心躁动着年轻人的困惑和渴望。在头几年焦躁不安的日子里，他常常会想象自己战胜一切，重返巴黎，和埃伦在一起。可如今他真的来到这里，却觉得自己畏缩、老派、乏味——与他曾经梦想成为的光辉形象相比，他只是一个灰色的身影……

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Looking out of his hotel window at the streets of Paris in the spring sunshine, he felt his heart beating with a young man’s confusion and eagerness. In the first impatient years he had often imagined the scene of his victorious return to Paris and Ellen, but now that he was here, he felt shy, old-fashioned, dull – just a grey shadow of a man compared with the brilliant figure he had dreamed of being...

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达拉斯高兴地把手搭在他的肩头，说：“嘿，爸爸，真是太棒了，不是吗？”他们站了一会儿，接着年轻人又说：“对了，我有个口信要告诉你：奥兰斯卡伯爵夫人五点半等着见我们。”

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Dallas’s hand came down cheerfully on his shoulder. ’Hallo, Father, this is wonderful, isn’t it?’ They stood for a while, and then the young man continued, ’By the way, I’ve got a message for you: the Countess Olenska expects us both at half-past five.’

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他说得很轻松，有些漫不经心。纽兰转过身看着他，发现他眼神里有一丝会意的笑。

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He spoke lightly, carelessly, but turning to look at him, Newland thought he could see a knowing smile in his eyes.

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“我没告诉过你吗？”达拉斯继续说，“范妮让我保证一定要去看望奥兰斯卡夫人。范妮还是个小姑娘的时候，博福特先生把她从阿根廷送来了法国，夫人对她特别好。那时，范妮一个朋友也没有，奥兰斯卡夫人对她很友善。所以今天我给她打了电话，说想去看她。”

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Didn’t I tell you?’ Dallas went on. ’Fanny made me promise to see Madame Olenska. She was awfully good to Fanny as a little girl, when Mr Beaufort sent Fanny over to France from Argentina. Fanny didn’t have any friends, and Madame Olenska was very kind to her. So I telephoned today and asked to see her.’

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纽兰盯着他说：“你告诉她我也来了？”

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Newland stared at him. ’You told her I was here?’

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“当然啦——为什么不呢？”达拉斯把胳膊塞到父亲的胳膊里，“我说，爸爸，她长得什么样？说实话吧——你和她过去是好朋友，对吗？她是不是非常可爱？”

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Of course – why not?’ Dallas slipped his arm through his father’s. ’I say, Father, what was she like? Confess – you and she were great friends, weren’t you? Wasn’t she awfully lovely?’

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“可爱？我不知道。她是与众不同。”

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Lovely? I don’t know about that. She was different.’

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“啊——你说得对！她与众不同，但又不知道为什么。这跟我对范妮的感觉完全相同。”

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Ah – there you have it! She’s different, and one doesn’t know why. It’s exactly what I feel about Fanny.’

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父亲看上去非常惊讶。“可是，亲爱的孩子——你和范妮……那完全是另一回事……”

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His father looked shocked. ’But my dear boy – you and Fanny... that’s quite a different situation...’

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“噢，爸爸，别这么迂腐了！她不是——曾经——是你的范妮吗？我是说，就是你愿为她抛弃一切的女人，只不过你没那样做。”

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Oh Dad, don’t be so old-fashioned! Wasn’t she – once – your Fanny? I mean, the woman you’d have given up everything for, but you didn’t.’

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“我没有那样做。”纽兰皱着眉头重复道。

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I didn't,' echoed Newland, frowning.

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“是的，亲爱的老男孩，你没有那样做。但妈妈说过——她去世的前一天把我叫过去，你还记得吗？她说，她知道我们跟你在一起很安全，而且会永远安全，因为有一次，当她要求你时，你放弃了最向往的东西。”

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No, dear old boy, you didn't. But Mother said – she sent for me the day before she died, you remember? She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she'd asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted.'

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纽兰默默地回味着这句奇怪的话。终于，他小声说道：“她从来没有要求过我什么。”

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Newland received this strange communication in silence. At last he said in a low voice: ’She never asked me.’

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“对，你们俩从没有相互要求过什么，对吗？你们只是坐着互相观察，猜测对方心里想些什么。可我觉得，你们老一辈人了解对方心里的想法，比我们了解自己的想法还多。我们都没有时间去了解自己。”

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No, you never did ask each other anything, did you? You just sat and watched each other, and guessed at what was going on underneath. But I think you older people knew more about each other’s private thoughts than we ever have time to find out about our own.’

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纽兰的心头仿佛卸下了沉重的铁枷——妻子终究猜出了他的心事并表示了同情。他久久地望着窗外，生活的急流在身边滚滚向前……“我才五十七岁！”他发觉自己在想。夏日的梦想已然过去，然而陪在埃伦身边，享受宁静秋日友谊的果实肯定还不算太迟。

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It seemed to take an iron hand from Newland’s heart to know that his wife had, after all, guessed and pitied. For a long time he looked out of the window, while the stream of life rolled by... ’I’m only fifty-seven!’ he found himself thinking. Summer dreams were past, but surely it was not too late for a quiet autumn of friendship, with Ellen as his companion.

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他和达拉斯一起穿街走巷，朝奥兰斯卡夫人的公寓走去。儿子对巴黎充满了兴奋、热情，而父亲则陷入了自己的思绪之中。

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Together he and Dallas walked through the streets towards Madame Olenska’s apartment, the son full of excited enthusiasm for Paris, the father busy with his thoughts.

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他与奥兰斯卡夫人分开了大半生时间。她住在这座古老而美丽的城市里，生活在他不认识的人们中间。这里到处都是剧院、画作、书籍，还有那些他只能去猜测其内容的谈话。这些年里，他对她一直怀着不变的记忆，而她对他的记忆也许不再像他深藏内心的激情那样鲜明了。

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More than half a lifetime divided him from Madame Olenska. She had lived in this ancient beautiful city, among people he did not know, in a rich atmosphere of theatres, and paintings, and books, and conversations he could only guess at. During all those years he had lived with his unchanging memory of her, but her memory of him might no longer be as bright as the flame he carried in his own heart.

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他们找到了那个大楼，抬头望向五楼，那里有一个阳台，窗户上的浅绿色百叶窗正开着。

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They found the building, and looked up at the fifth floor to a balcony, and windows with pale green shutters, which were open.

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“我想我要坐一会儿。”纽兰说，手指着广场树下的一张长凳。

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I think I’ll sit down for a moment,’ said Newland, pointing to a bench under some trees in the square.

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“怎么了——你不舒服吗？”儿子问道。

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Why – aren’t you well?’ his son asked.

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“我好得很。不过，我想让你一个人上去。”

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Perfectly well. But I’d like you to go up without me.’

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“可是，爸爸，你是不是压根儿就不打算上去呢？”

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But Dad, does that mean you won’t come up at all?’

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“我不知道。”纽兰缓缓地说。

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I don’t know,’ said Newland slowly.

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“可我要怎么说呢？”

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But what shall I say?’

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“亲爱的孩子，你不是总知道该说什么吗？”

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My dear boy, don’t you always know what to say?’

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“好吧。我就说你守旧，不喜欢坐电梯，宁愿自己爬楼梯。”

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Very well. I’ll say you’re old-fashioned, and prefer walking up the stairs because you don’t like lifts.’

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父亲笑着说：“说我守旧就够了。”

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His father smiled. ’Just say I’m old-fashioned.’

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达拉斯一脸困惑地摇摇头，走了进去。

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Puzzled, Dallas shook his head and went inside.

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阿彻坐到长凳上，继续抬头望着那个阳台和开着浅绿色百叶窗的窗户。他可以想象达拉斯迈着轻快的步伐走进房间，一位肤色较深、面孔白皙的夫人迅速抬起头来，伸出一只瘦长的手，上面戴着三枚戒指。

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Archer sat down on the bench, and continued to look up at the balcony and the windows with the pale green shutters. In his mind he could see Dallas entering the room with his rapid, light step, and a dark lady with a pale face, who would look up quickly and hold out a long thin hand with three rings on it.

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“对我来说，呆在这儿比上去更真实。”他突然听到自己在说。由于害怕失去最后那个真实的影子，他一直呆在座位上没有动。

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It’s more real to me here than if I went up,’ he suddenly heard himself say, and the fear of losing that last shadow of reality kept him in his seat.

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暮色渐浓，纽兰在长凳上坐了许久，目光始终没有离开过窗户。终于，公寓里点起了一盏灯，用人关上了百叶窗。

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He sat for a long time on the bench in the thickening darkness, his eyes never turning from the windows. At last a lamp was lit inside the apartment, and a servant closed the shutters.

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这时，纽兰·阿彻慢慢站起身来，一个人朝旅馆的方向走了回去。

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At that, Newland Archer stood up slowly and walked back alone to his hotel.

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Archer

['ɑːtʃə(r)]

n.射箭运动员;弓箭手

felted

['feltɪd]

v. 把 ... 制成毡(使 ... 粘结)

thankful

['θæŋkfl]

adj.感谢的;感激的

York

[jɔːk]

约克郡;〈板球〉使击球员出局

despairing

[dɪ'speərɪŋ]

adj.感到绝望的,

Ellen

[ˈelən]

n.埃伦(女子名)

Bill

[bɪl]

①帐单；清单;

honour

[ˈɒnə]

n.光荣;

past

[pɑːst]

a. 过去的;

obey

[ə'beɪ]

v.服从;遵守;顺从;听从

messenger

['mesɪndʒə(r)]

n.报信者;先兆

Chicago

[ʃɪ'kɑːgəʊ,-'kɔː-]

n.芝加哥

mistress

['mɪstrəs]

n.主妇;女主人;情妇

conversation

[ˌkɒnvə'seɪʃn]

n.谈话;会话

crossroad

['krɔːsrəʊd]

n.交叉路;十字路口;转折点

Paris

['pærɪs]

n.巴黎;重楼(百合科植物);帕里斯(姓氏)

eagerness

['iːgənɪs]

n.渴望;热心

impatient

[ɪm'peɪʃnt]

adj.不耐烦的;急躁的

Countess

['kaʊntəs]

n.女伯爵;伯爵夫人

Madame

['mædəm]

n.夫人

told

[təʊld]

v.告诉;吩咐;讲述

Fanny

['fæni]

n. 范妮(女子名; Frances 的昵称)n. 屁股

echo

['ekəʊ]

①[C][U]回声；反响；共鸣;

autumn

['ɔːtəm]

n.秋季

excite

[ɪk'saɪt]

vt.使兴奋;使激动;刺激;激起

theatre

[ˈθɪətə]

n.戏院,剧场,电影院

unchanging

[ʌn'tʃeɪndʒɪŋ]

adj.不变的

liftable

[lɪftəbl]

a.1. 可以举起的

shook

[ʃʊk]

n.(装配木桶或箱;盒等的)一套现成板料

thickening

['θɪkənɪŋ]

n.变厚;厚的部分;增稠,

Archer

['ɑːtʃə(r)]

n.射箭运动员;弓箭手

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