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世纪文学经典:《百年孤独》第1章Part 4

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When the gypsies came back, úrsula had turned the whole population of the village against them. But curiosity was greater than fear, for that time the gypsies went about the town making a deafening noise with all manner of musical instruments while a hawker announced the exhibition of the most fabulous discovery of the Naciancenes. So that everyone went to the tent and by paying one cent they saw a youthful Melquíades, recovered, unwrinkled, with a new and flashing set of teeth. Those who remembered his gums that had been destroyed by scurvy, his flaccid cheeks, and his withered lips trembled with fear at the final proof of the gypsy's supernatural power. The fear turned into panic when Melquíades took out his teeth, intact, encased in their gums, and showed them to the audience for an instant-a fleeting instant in which he went back to being the same decrepit man of years past-and put them back again and smiled once more with the full control of his restored youth. Even José Arcadio Buendía himself considered that Melquíades' knowledge had reached unbearable extremes, but he felt a healthy excitement when the gypsy explained to him atone the workings of his false teeth. It seemed so simple and so prodigious at the same time that overnight he lost all interest in his experiments in alchemy. He underwent a new crisis of bad humor. He did not go back to eating regularly, and he would spend the day walking through the house. "Incredible things are happening in the world," he said to úrsula. "Right there across the river there are all kinds of magical instruments while we keep on living like donkeys." Those who had known him since the foundation of Macondo were startled at how much he had changed under Melquíades' influence.吉卜赛人回来的时候,乌苏娜唆使全村的人反对他们,可是好奇战胜了恐惧,因为吉卜赛人奏着各式各样的乐器,闹嚷嚷地经过街头,他们的宣传员说是要展出纳希安兹人最奇的发明。大家都到吉卜赛人的帐篷去,花一分钱,就可看到返老还童的梅尔加德斯——身体康健,没有皱纹,满口漂亮的新牙。有些人还记得他坏血病毁掉的牙床、凹陷的面颊、皱巴巴的嘴唇,一见吉卜赛人神通广大的最新证明,都惊得发抖。接着,梅尔加从嘴里取出一副完好的牙齿,刹那间又变成往日那个老朽的人,并且拿这副牙齿给观众看了一看,然后又把它装上牙床,微微一笑,似乎重新恢复了青春,这时大家的惊愕却变成了狂欢。甚至霍·阿·布恩蒂亚本人也认为,梅尔加德的知识到了不大可能达到的极限,可是当吉卜赛人单独向他说明假牙的构造时,他的心也就轻快了,高兴得放声大笑。霍·阿·布恩蒂亚觉得这一切既简单又奇妙,第二天他就完全失去了对炼金术的兴趣,陷入了沮丧状态,不再按时进餐,从早到晚在屋子里踱来踱去。“世界上正在发生不可思议的事,”他向乌苏娜唠叨。“咱们旁边,就在河流对岸,已有许多各式各样神奇的机器,可咱们仍在这儿象蠢驴一样过日子。”马孔多建立时就了解他的人都感到惊讶,在梅尔加德斯的影响下,他的变化多大啊!
At first José Arcadio Buendía had been a kind of youthful patriarch who would give instructions for planting and advice for the raising of children and animals, and who collaborated with everyone, even in the physical work, for the welfare of the community. Since his house from the very first had been the best in the village, the others had been built in its image and likeness. It had a small, well-lighted living roost, a dining room in the shape of a terrace with gaily colored flowers, two bedrooms, a courtyard with a gigantic chestnut tree, a well kept garden, and a corral where goats, pigs, and hens lived in peaceful communion. The only animals that were prohibited, not just in his house but in the entire settlement, were fighting cocks.从前,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚好象一个年轻的族长,经常告诉大家如何播种,如何教养孩子,如何饲养家畜;他跟大伙儿一起劳动,为全村造福。布恩蒂亚家的房子是村里最好的,其他的人都力求象他一样建筑自己的住所。他的房子有一个敞亮的小客厅、摆了一盆盆鲜花的阳台餐室和两间卧室,院子里栽了一棵挺大的栗树,房后是一座细心照料的菜园,还有一个畜栏,猪、鸡和山羊在栏里和睦相处。他家里禁养斗鸡,全村也都禁养斗鸡。
úrsula's capacity for work was the same as that of her husband. Active, small, severe, that woman of unbreakable nerves who at no moment in her life had been heard to sing seemed to be everywhere, from dawn until quite late at night, always pursued by the soft whispering of her stiff, starched petticoats. Thanks to her the floors of tamped earth, the unwhitewashed mud walls, the rustic, wooden furniture they had built themselves were always dean, and the old chests where they kept their clothes exhaled the warm smell of basil.乌苏娜象丈夫一样勤劳。她是一个严肃、活跃和矮小的女人,意志坚强,大概一辈子都没唱过歌,每天从黎明到深夜,四处都有她的踪影,到处都能听到她那浆过的荷兰亚麻布裙子轻微的沙沙声。多亏她勤于照料,夯实的泥土地面、未曾粉刷的上墙、粗糙的自制木器,经常都是千干净净的,而保存衣服的旧箱子还散发出紫苏轻淡的芳香。

When the gypsies came back, úrsula had turned the whole population of the village against them. But curiosity was greater than fear, for that time the gypsies went about the town making a deafening noise with all manner of musical instruments while a hawker announced the exhibition of the most fabulous discovery of the Naciancenes. So that everyone went to the tent and by paying one cent they saw a youthful Melquíades, recovered, unwrinkled, with a new and flashing set of teeth. Those who remembered his gums that had been destroyed by scurvy, his flaccid cheeks, and his withered lips trembled with fear at the final proof of the gypsy's supernatural power. The fear turned into panic when Melquíades took out his teeth, intact, encased in their gums, and showed them to the audience for an instant-a fleeting instant in which he went back to being the same decrepit man of years past-and put them back again and smiled once more with the full control of his restored youth. Even José Arcadio Buendía himself considered that Melquíades' knowledge had reached unbearable extremes, but he felt a healthy excitement when the gypsy explained to him atone the workings of his false teeth. It seemed so simple and so prodigious at the same time that overnight he lost all interest in his experiments in alchemy. He underwent a new crisis of bad humor. He did not go back to eating regularly, and he would spend the day walking through the house. "Incredible things are happening in the world," he said to úrsula. "Right there across the river there are all kinds of magical instruments while we keep on living like donkeys." Those who had known him since the foundation of Macondo were startled at how much he had changed under Melquíades' influence.
At first José Arcadio Buendía had been a kind of youthful patriarch who would give instructions for planting and advice for the raising of children and animals, and who collaborated with everyone, even in the physical work, for the welfare of the community. Since his house from the very first had been the best in the village, the others had been built in its image and likeness. It had a small, well-lighted living roost, a dining room in the shape of a terrace with gaily colored flowers, two bedrooms, a courtyard with a gigantic chestnut tree, a well kept garden, and a corral where goats, pigs, and hens lived in peaceful communion. The only animals that were prohibited, not just in his house but in the entire settlement, were fighting cocks.
úrsula's capacity for work was the same as that of her husband. Active, small, severe, that woman of unbreakable nerves who at no moment in her life had been heard to sing seemed to be everywhere, from dawn until quite late at night, always pursued by the soft whispering of her stiff, starched petticoats. Thanks to her the floors of tamped earth, the unwhitewashed mud walls, the rustic, wooden furniture they had built themselves were always dean, and the old chests where they kept their clothes exhaled the warm smell of basil.


吉卜赛人回来的时候,乌苏娜唆使全村的人反对他们,可是好奇战胜了恐惧,因为吉卜赛人奏着各式各样的乐器,闹嚷嚷地经过街头,他们的宣传员说是要展出纳希安兹人最奇的发明。大家都到吉卜赛人的帐篷去,花一分钱,就可看到返老还童的梅尔加德斯——身体康健,没有皱纹,满口漂亮的新牙。有些人还记得他坏血病毁掉的牙床、凹陷的面颊、皱巴巴的嘴唇,一见吉卜赛人神通广大的最新证明,都惊得发抖。接着,梅尔加从嘴里取出一副完好的牙齿,刹那间又变成往日那个老朽的人,并且拿这副牙齿给观众看了一看,然后又把它装上牙床,微微一笑,似乎重新恢复了青春,这时大家的惊愕却变成了狂欢。甚至霍·阿·布恩蒂亚本人也认为,梅尔加德的知识到了不大可能达到的极限,可是当吉卜赛人单独向他说明假牙的构造时,他的心也就轻快了,高兴得放声大笑。霍·阿·布恩蒂亚觉得这一切既简单又奇妙,第二天他就完全失去了对炼金术的兴趣,陷入了沮丧状态,不再按时进餐,从早到晚在屋子里踱来踱去。“世界上正在发生不可思议的事,”他向乌苏娜唠叨。“咱们旁边,就在河流对岸,已有许多各式各样神奇的机器,可咱们仍在这儿象蠢驴一样过日子。”马孔多建立时就了解他的人都感到惊讶,在梅尔加德斯的影响下,他的变化多大啊!
从前,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚好象一个年轻的族长,经常告诉大家如何播种,如何教养孩子,如何饲养家畜;他跟大伙儿一起劳动,为全村造福。布恩蒂亚家的房子是村里最好的,其他的人都力求象他一样建筑自己的住所。他的房子有一个敞亮的小客厅、摆了一盆盆鲜花的阳台餐室和两间卧室,院子里栽了一棵挺大的栗树,房后是一座细心照料的菜园,还有一个畜栏,猪、鸡和山羊在栏里和睦相处。他家里禁养斗鸡,全村也都禁养斗鸡。
乌苏娜象丈夫一样勤劳。她是一个严肃、活跃和矮小的女人,意志坚强,大概一辈子都没唱过歌,每天从黎明到深夜,四处都有她的踪影,到处都能听到她那浆过的荷兰亚麻布裙子轻微的沙沙声。多亏她勤于照料,夯实的泥土地面、未曾粉刷的上墙、粗糙的自制木器,经常都是千干净净的,而保存衣服的旧箱子还散发出紫苏轻淡的芳香。
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terrace ['terəs]

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likeness ['laiknis]

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