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PILAR TERNERA'S son was brought to his grand parents' house two weeks after he was born. úrsula admitted him grudgingly, conquered once more by the obstinacy of her husband, who could not tolerate the idea that an offshoot of his blood should be adrift, but he imposed the condition that the child should never know his true identity. Although he was given the name José Arcadio, they ended up calling him simply Arcadio so as to avoid confusion. At that time there was so much activity in the town and so much bustle in the house that the care of the children was relegated to a secondary level. They were put in the care of Visitación, a Guajiro Indian woman who had arrived in town with a brother in flight from a plague of insomnia that had been scourging their tribe for several years. They were both so docile and willing to help that úrsula took them on to help her with her household chores. That was how Arcadio and Amaranta came to speak the Guajiro language before Spanish, and they learned to drink lizard broth and eat spider eggs without úrsula's knowing it, for she was too busy with a promising business in candy animals. Macondo had changed. The people who had come with úrsula spread the news of the good quality of its soil and its privileged position with respect to the swamp, so that from the narrow village of past times it changed into an active town with stores and workshops and a permanent commercial route over which the first Arabs arrived with their baggy pants and rings in their ears, swapping glass beads for macaws. José Arcadio Buendía did not have a moment's rest. Fascinated by an immediate reality that came to be more fantastic than the vast universe of his imagination, he lost all interest in the alchemist's laboratory, put to rest the material that had become attenuated with months of manipulation, and went back to being the enterprising man of earlier days when he had decided upon the layout of the streets and the location of the new houses so that no one would enjoy privileges that everyonedid not have. He acquired such authority among the new arrivals that foundations were not laid or walls built without his being consulted, and it was decided that he should be the one in charge of the distribution of the land. When the acrobat gypsies returned, with their vagabond carnival transformed now into a gigantic organization of games of luck and chance, they were received with great joy, for it was thought that José Arcadio would be coming back with them. But José Arcadio did not return, nor did they come with the snakeman, who, according to what úrsula thought, was the only one who could tell them about their son, so the gypsies were not allowed to camp in town or set foot in it in the future, for they were considered the bearers of concupiscence and perversion. José Arcadio Buendía, however, was explicit in maintaining that the old tribe of Melquíades, who had contributed so much to the growth of the village with his ageold wisdom and his fabulous inventions, would always find the gates open.But Melquíades' tribe, according to what the wanderers said, had been wiped off the face of the earth because they had gone beyond the limits of human knowledge.皮拉·苔列娜的儿子出世以后两个星期,祖父和祖母把他接到了家里。乌苏娜是勉强收留这小孩儿的,因为她又没拗过丈大的固执脾气;想让布恩蒂亚家的后代听天由命,是他不能容忍的。但她提出了个条件:决不让孩子知道自己的真正出身。孩子也取名霍·阿卡蒂奥,可是为了避免混淆不清,大家渐渐地只管他叫阿卡蒂奥了。这时,马孔多事业兴旺,布恩蒂亚家中一片忙碌,孩子们的照顾就降到了次要地位,负责照拂他们的是古阿吉洛部族的一个印第安女人,她是和弟弟一块儿来到马孔多的,借以逃避他们家乡已经猖獗几年的致命传染病——失眠症。姐弟俩都是驯良、勤劳的人,乌苏娜雇用他们帮她做些家务。所以,阿卡蒂奥和阿玛兰塔首先说的是古阿吉洛语,然后才说西班牙语,而且学会喝晰蜴汤、吃蜘蛛蛋,可是乌苏娜根本没有发现这一点,因她制作获利不小的糖鸟糖兽太忙了。马孔多完全改变了面貌。乌苏娜带到这儿来的那些人,到处宣扬马孔多地理位置很好、周围土地肥沃,以致这个小小的村庄很快变戍了一个热闹的市镇,开设了商店和手工业作坊,修筑了永久的商道,第一批阿拉伯人沿着这条道路来到了这儿,他们穿着宽大的裤子,戴着耳环,用玻璃珠项链交换鹦鹉。霍·阿·布恩蒂亚没有一分钟的休息。他对周围的现实生活入了迷,觉得这种生活比他想象的大于世界奇妙得多,于是失去了对炼金试验的任何兴趣,把月复一月变来变去的东西搁在一边,重新成了一个有事业心的、精力充沛的人了,从前,在哪儿铺设街道,在哪儿建筑新的房舍,都是由他决定的,他不让任何人享有别人没有的特权。新来的居民也十分尊敬他,甚至请他划分土地。没有征得他的同意,就不放下一块基石,也不砌上一道墙垣。玩杂技的吉卜赛人回来的时候,他们的活动游艺场现在变成了一个大赌场,受到热烈的欢迎。因为大家都希望霍·阿卡蒂奥也跟他们一块儿回来。但是霍·阿卡蒂奥并没有回来,那个“蛇人”也没有跟他们在一起,照乌苏娜看来,那个“蛇人是唯”一知道能在哪儿找到她的儿子的;因此,他们不让吉卜赛人在马孔多停留,甚至不准他们以后再来这儿:现在他们已经认为吉卜赛人是贪婪佚的化身了。然而霍·阿·布恩蒂亚却认为,古老的梅尔加德斯部族用它多年的知识和奇异的发明大大促进了马孔多的发展,这里的人永远都会张开双臂欢迎他们。可是,照流浪汉们的说法,梅尔加德斯部族已从地面上消失了,因为他们竟敢超越人类知识的限度。
Emancipated for the moment at least from the torment of fantasy, José Arcadio Buendía in a short time set up a system of order and work which allowed for only one bit of license: the freeing of the birds, which, since the time of the founding, had made time merry with their flutes, and installing in their place musical clocks in every house. They were wondrous clocks made of carved wood, which the Arabs had traded for macaws and which José Arcadio Buendía had synchronized with such precision that every half hour the town grew merry with the progressive chords of the same song until it reached the climax of a noontime that was as exact and unanimous as a complete waltz. It was also José Arcadio Buendía who decided during those years that they should plant almond trees instead of acacias on the streets, and who discovered, without ever revealing it, a way to make them live forever. Many years later, when Macondo was a field of wooden houses with zinc roofs, the broken and dusty almond trees still stood onthe oldest streets, although no one knew who had planted them. While his father was putting the town in order and his mother was increasing their wealth with her marvelous business of candied little roosters and fish, which left the house twice a day strung along sticks of balsa wood, Aureliano spent interminable hours in the abandoned laboratory, learning the art of silverwork by his own experimentation. He had shot up so fast that in a short time the clothing left behind by his brother no longer fit him and he began to wear his father's, but Visitación had to sew pleats in the shirt and darts in the pants, because Aureliano had not sequined the corpulence of the others. Adolescence had taken away the softness of his voice and had made him silent and definitely solitary, but, on the other hand, it had restored the intense expression that he had had in his eyes when he was born. He concentrated so much on his experiments in silverwork that he scarcely left the laboratory to eat. Worried ever his inner withdrawal, José Arcadio Buendía gave him the keys to the house and a little money, thinking that perhaps he needed a woman. But Aureliano spent the money on muriatic acid to prepare some aqua regia and he beautified the keys by plating them with gold. His excesses were hardly comparable to those of Arcadio and Amaranta, who had already begun to get their second teeth and still went about all day clutching at the Indians' cloaks, stubborn in their decision not to speak Spanish but the Guajiro language. "You shouldn't complain." úrsula told her husband. "Children inherit their parents' madness." And as she was lamenting her misfortune, convinced that the wild behavior of her children was something as fearful as a pig's tail, Aureliano gave her a look that wrapped her in an atmosphere of uncertainty.霍·阿·布恩蒂亚至少暂时摆脱了幻想的折磨以后,在短时期内就有条不紊地整顿好了全镇的劳动生活;平静的空气是霍·阿·布恩蒂亚有一次自己破坏的,当时他放走了马孔多建立之初用响亮的叫声报告时刻的鸟儿,而给每一座房子安了一个音乐钟。这些雕木作成的漂亮的钟,是用鹦鹉向阿拉伯人换来的,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚把它们拨得挺准,每过半小时,它们就奏出同一支华尔兹舞曲的几节曲于让全镇高兴一次,——每一次都是几节新的曲于,到了晌午时分,所有的钟一齐奏出整支华尔兹舞曲,一点几也不走调。在街上栽种杏树,代替槐树,也是霍·阿·布恩蒂亚的主意,而且他还发明了一种使这些杏树永远活着的办法(这个办法他至死没有透露)。过了多年,马孔多建筑了一座座锌顶木房的时候,在它最老的街道上仍然挺立着一棵棵杏树,树枝折断,布满尘埃,但谁也记不得这些树是什么人栽的了。父亲大力整顿这个市镇,母亲却在振兴家业,制作美妙的糖公鸡和糖鱼,把它们插在巴里萨木棍儿上,每天两次拿到街上去卖,这时,奥雷连诺却在荒弃的试验室里度过漫长的时刻,孜孜不倦地掌握首饰技术。他已经长得挺高,哥哥留下的衣服很快不合他的身材了,他就改穿父亲的衣服,诚然,维希塔香不得不替他把衬衫和裤子改窄一些,因为奥雷连诺比父亲和哥哥都瘦。进入少年时期,他的嗓音粗了,他也变得沉默寡言、异常孤僻,但是他的眼睛又经常露出紧张的神色,这种神色在他出生的那一天是使他母亲吃了一惊的。奥雷连诺聚精会神地从事首饰工作,除了吃饭,几乎不到试验室外面去。霍·阿·布恩蒂亚对他的孤僻感到不安,就把房门的钥匙和一点儿钱给了他,以为儿子可能需要出去找找女人。奥雷连诺却拿钱买了盐酸,制成了王水,给钥匙镀了金。可是,奥雷连诺的古怪比不上阿卡蒂奥和阿玛兰塔的古怪。——这两个小家伙的乳齿开始脱落,仍然成天跟在印第安人脚边,揪住他们的衣服下摆,硬要说古阿吉洛语,不说西班牙语。“你怨不了别人,”乌苏娜向大夫说。“孩子的狂劲儿是父母遗传的,”他认为后代的怪诞习惯一点也不比猪尾巴好,就开始抱怨自己倒霉的命运,可是有一次奥色连诺突然拿眼睛盯着她,把她弄得手足无措起来。

PILAR TERNERA'S son was brought to his grand parents' house two weeks after he was born. úrsula admitted him grudgingly, conquered once more by the obstinacy of her husband, who could not tolerate the idea that an offshoot of his blood should be adrift, but he imposed the condition that the child should never know his true identity. Although he was given the name José Arcadio, they ended up calling him simply Arcadio so as to avoid confusion. At that time there was so much activity in the town and so much bustle in the house that the care of the children was relegated to a secondary level. They were put in the care of Visitación, a Guajiro Indian woman who had arrived in town with a brother in flight from a plague of insomnia that had been scourging their tribe for several years. They were both so docile and willing to help that úrsula took them on to help her with her household chores. That was how Arcadio and Amaranta came to speak the Guajiro language before Spanish, and they learned to drink lizard broth and eat spider eggs without úrsula's knowing it, for she was too busy with a promising business in candy animals. Macondo had changed. The people who had come with úrsula spread the news of the good quality of its soil and its privileged position with respect to the swamp, so that from the narrow village of past times it changed into an active town with stores and workshops and a permanent commercial route over which the first Arabs arrived with their baggy pants and rings in their ears, swapping glass beads for macaws. José Arcadio Buendía did not have a moment's rest. Fascinated by an immediate reality that came to be more fantastic than the vast universe of his imagination, he lost all interest in the alchemist's laboratory, put to rest the material that had become attenuated with months of manipulation, and went back to being the enterprising man of earlier days when he had decided upon the layout of the streets and the location of the new houses so that no one would enjoy privileges that everyonedid not have. He acquired such authority among the new arrivals that foundations were not laid or walls built without his being consulted, and it was decided that he should be the one in charge of the distribution of the land. When the acrobat gypsies returned, with their vagabond carnival transformed now into a gigantic organization of games of luck and chance, they were received with great joy, for it was thought that José Arcadio would be coming back with them. But José Arcadio did not return, nor did they come with the snakeman, who, according to what úrsula thought, was the only one who could tell them about their son, so the gypsies were not allowed to camp in town or set foot in it in the future, for they were considered the bearers of concupiscence and perversion. José Arcadio Buendía, however, was explicit in maintaining that the old tribe of Melquíades, who had contributed so much to the growth of the village with his ageold wisdom and his fabulous inventions, would always find the gates open.But Melquíades' tribe, according to what the wanderers said, had been wiped off the face of the earth because they had gone beyond the limits of human knowledge.
Emancipated for the moment at least from the torment of fantasy, José Arcadio Buendía in a short time set up a system of order and work which allowed for only one bit of license: the freeing of the birds, which, since the time of the founding, had made time merry with their flutes, and installing in their place musical clocks in every house. They were wondrous clocks made of carved wood, which the Arabs had traded for macaws and which José Arcadio Buendía had synchronized with such precision that every half hour the town grew merry with the progressive chords of the same song until it reached the climax of a noontime that was as exact and unanimous as a complete waltz. It was also José Arcadio Buendía who decided during those years that they should plant almond trees instead of acacias on the streets, and who discovered, without ever revealing it, a way to make them live forever. Many years later, when Macondo was a field of wooden houses with zinc roofs, the broken and dusty almond trees still stood onthe oldest streets, although no one knew who had planted them. While his father was putting the town in order and his mother was increasing their wealth with her marvelous business of candied little roosters and fish, which left the house twice a day strung along sticks of balsa wood, Aureliano spent interminable hours in the abandoned laboratory, learning the art of silverwork by his own experimentation. He had shot up so fast that in a short time the clothing left behind by his brother no longer fit him and he began to wear his father's, but Visitación had to sew pleats in the shirt and darts in the pants, because Aureliano had not sequined the corpulence of the others. Adolescence had taken away the softness of his voice and had made him silent and definitely solitary, but, on the other hand, it had restored the intense expression that he had had in his eyes when he was born. He concentrated so much on his experiments in silverwork that he scarcely left the laboratory to eat. Worried ever his inner withdrawal, José Arcadio Buendía gave him the keys to the house and a little money, thinking that perhaps he needed a woman. But Aureliano spent the money on muriatic acid to prepare some aqua regia and he beautified the keys by plating them with gold. His excesses were hardly comparable to those of Arcadio and Amaranta, who had already begun to get their second teeth and still went about all day clutching at the Indians' cloaks, stubborn in their decision not to speak Spanish but the Guajiro language. "You shouldn't complain." úrsula told her husband. "Children inherit their parents' madness." And as she was lamenting her misfortune, convinced that the wild behavior of her children was something as fearful as a pig's tail, Aureliano gave her a look that wrapped her in an atmosphere of uncertainty.


皮拉·苔列娜的儿子出世以后两个星期,祖父和祖母把他接到了家里。乌苏娜是勉强收留这小孩儿的,因为她又没拗过丈大的固执脾气;想让布恩蒂亚家的后代听天由命,是他不能容忍的。但她提出了个条件:决不让孩子知道自己的真正出身。孩子也取名霍·阿卡蒂奥,可是为了避免混淆不清,大家渐渐地只管他叫阿卡蒂奥了。这时,马孔多事业兴旺,布恩蒂亚家中一片忙碌,孩子们的照顾就降到了次要地位,负责照拂他们的是古阿吉洛部族的一个印第安女人,她是和弟弟一块儿来到马孔多的,借以逃避他们家乡已经猖獗几年的致命传染病——失眠症。姐弟俩都是驯良、勤劳的人,乌苏娜雇用他们帮她做些家务。所以,阿卡蒂奥和阿玛兰塔首先说的是古阿吉洛语,然后才说西班牙语,而且学会喝晰蜴汤、吃蜘蛛蛋,可是乌苏娜根本没有发现这一点,因她制作获利不小的糖鸟糖兽太忙了。马孔多完全改变了面貌。乌苏娜带到这儿来的那些人,到处宣扬马孔多地理位置很好、周围土地肥沃,以致这个小小的村庄很快变戍了一个热闹的市镇,开设了商店和手工业作坊,修筑了永久的商道,第一批阿拉伯人沿着这条道路来到了这儿,他们穿着宽大的裤子,戴着耳环,用玻璃珠项链交换鹦鹉。霍·阿·布恩蒂亚没有一分钟的休息。他对周围的现实生活入了迷,觉得这种生活比他想象的大于世界奇妙得多,于是失去了对炼金试验的任何兴趣,把月复一月变来变去的东西搁在一边,重新成了一个有事业心的、精力充沛的人了,从前,在哪儿铺设街道,在哪儿建筑新的房舍,都是由他决定的,他不让任何人享有别人没有的特权。新来的居民也十分尊敬他,甚至请他划分土地。没有征得他的同意,就不放下一块基石,也不砌上一道墙垣。玩杂技的吉卜赛人回来的时候,他们的活动游艺场现在变成了一个大赌场,受到热烈的欢迎。因为大家都希望霍·阿卡蒂奥也跟他们一块儿回来。但是霍·阿卡蒂奥并没有回来,那个“蛇人”也没有跟他们在一起,照乌苏娜看来,那个“蛇人是唯”一知道能在哪儿找到她的儿子的;因此,他们不让吉卜赛人在马孔多停留,甚至不准他们以后再来这儿:现在他们已经认为吉卜赛人是贪婪佚的化身了。然而霍·阿·布恩蒂亚却认为,古老的梅尔加德斯部族用它多年的知识和奇异的发明大大促进了马孔多的发展,这里的人永远都会张开双臂欢迎他们。可是,照流浪汉们的说法,梅尔加德斯部族已从地面上消失了,因为他们竟敢超越人类知识的限度。
霍·阿·布恩蒂亚至少暂时摆脱了幻想的折磨以后,在短时期内就有条不紊地整顿好了全镇的劳动生活;平静的空气是霍·阿·布恩蒂亚有一次自己破坏的,当时他放走了马孔多建立之初用响亮的叫声报告时刻的鸟儿,而给每一座房子安了一个音乐钟。这些雕木作成的漂亮的钟,是用鹦鹉向阿拉伯人换来的,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚把它们拨得挺准,每过半小时,它们就奏出同一支华尔兹舞曲的几节曲于让全镇高兴一次,——每一次都是几节新的曲于,到了晌午时分,所有的钟一齐奏出整支华尔兹舞曲,一点几也不走调。在街上栽种杏树,代替槐树,也是霍·阿·布恩蒂亚的主意,而且他还发明了一种使这些杏树永远活着的办法(这个办法他至死没有透露)。过了多年,马孔多建筑了一座座锌顶木房的时候,在它最老的街道上仍然挺立着一棵棵杏树,树枝折断,布满尘埃,但谁也记不得这些树是什么人栽的了。父亲大力整顿这个市镇,母亲却在振兴家业,制作美妙的糖公鸡和糖鱼,把它们插在巴里萨木棍儿上,每天两次拿到街上去卖,这时,奥雷连诺却在荒弃的试验室里度过漫长的时刻,孜孜不倦地掌握首饰技术。他已经长得挺高,哥哥留下的衣服很快不合他的身材了,他就改穿父亲的衣服,诚然,维希塔香不得不替他把衬衫和裤子改窄一些,因为奥雷连诺比父亲和哥哥都瘦。进入少年时期,他的嗓音粗了,他也变得沉默寡言、异常孤僻,但是他的眼睛又经常露出紧张的神色,这种神色在他出生的那一天是使他母亲吃了一惊的。奥雷连诺聚精会神地从事首饰工作,除了吃饭,几乎不到试验室外面去。霍·阿·布恩蒂亚对他的孤僻感到不安,就把房门的钥匙和一点儿钱给了他,以为儿子可能需要出去找找女人。奥雷连诺却拿钱买了盐酸,制成了王水,给钥匙镀了金。可是,奥雷连诺的古怪比不上阿卡蒂奥和阿玛兰塔的古怪。——这两个小家伙的乳齿开始脱落,仍然成天跟在印第安人脚边,揪住他们的衣服下摆,硬要说古阿吉洛语,不说西班牙语。“你怨不了别人,”乌苏娜向大夫说。“孩子的狂劲儿是父母遗传的,”他认为后代的怪诞习惯一点也不比猪尾巴好,就开始抱怨自己倒霉的命运,可是有一次奥色连诺突然拿眼睛盯着她,把她弄得手足无措起来。
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