手机APP下载

您现在的位置: 首页 > 双语阅读 > 名著小说 > 百年孤独 > 正文

世纪文学经典:《百年孤独》第4章Part 7

来源:可可英语 编辑:shaun   可可英语APP下载 |  可可官方微信:ikekenet
José Arcadio Buendía conversed with Prudencio Aguilar until dawn. A few hours later, worn out by the vigil, he went into Aureliano's workshop and asked him: "What day is today?" Aureliano told him that it was Tuesday. "I was thinking the same thing," José Arcadio Buendía said, "but suddenly I realized that it's still Monday, like yesterday. Look at the sky, look at the walls, look at the begonias. Today is Monday too." Used to his manias, Aureliano paid no attention to him. On the next day, Wednesday, José Arcadio Buendía went back to the workshop. "This is a disaster," he said. "Look at the air, listen to the buzzing of the sun, the same as yesterday and the day before. Today is Monday too." That night Pietro Crespi found him on the porch, weeping for Prudencio Aguilar, for Melquíades, for Rebeca's parents, for his mother and father, for all of those he could remember and who were now alone in death. He gave him a mechanical bear that walked on its hind legs on a tightrope, but he could not distract him from his obsession. He asked him what had happened to the project he had explained to him a few days before about the possibility of building a pendulum machine that would help men to fly and he answered that it was impossible because a pendulum could lift anything into the air but it could not lift itself.霍·阿·布恩蒂亚跟普鲁登希奥·阿吉廖尔一直谈到夭亮。几小时以后,他由于失眠变得疲惫不堪,走进奥雷连诺的作坊,问道:“今天是星期呀?”奥雷连诺回答他是星期二。“我也那么想,”霍·阿·布恩蒂亚说,“可我突然觉得,今天还是星期一,象昨天一样。你瞧天空,瞧墙壁,瞧秋海棠。今天还是星期一。”奥雷连诺对他的怪里怪气已经习以为常,没有理睬这些话。下一天,星期三,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚又来到作坊。“这简直是一场灾难,”他说。“你瞧瞧空气,听听太阳的声音,一切都跟昨天和前天一模一样。今天还是星期一。”晚上,皮埃特罗·克列斯比遇见他在走廊上流泪:他不太雅观地、抽抽嗒嗒地哭诉普鲁登希奥·阿吉廖尔,哭诉梅尔加德斯,哭诉雷贝卡的双亲,哭诉自己的爸爸妈妈——哭诉他能想起的、还在阴间孤独生活的人。皮埃特罗·克列斯比给了他一只用后腿走钢丝的“自动狗熊”,可也未能使他摆脱愁思。于是皮埃特罗·克列斯比就问,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚不久以前向他谈到过的计划——使人飞到空中的钟摆机器搞得如何了?霍·阿·布恩蒂亚回答说,制造这种机器是不可能的,因为钟摆能使任何东西升到空中,它自己却不能上。
On Thursday he appeared in the workshop again with the painful look of plowed ground. "The time machine has broken," he almost sobbed, "and úrsula and Amaranta so far away!" Aureliano scolded him like a child and he adopted a contrite air. He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time. He spent the whole night in bed with his eyes open, calling to Prudencio Aguilar, to Melquíades, to all the dead, so that they would share his distress. But no one came. On Friday. before anyone arose, he watched the appearance of nature again until he did not have the slightest doubt but that it was Monday. Then he grabbed the bar from a door and with the savage violence of his uncommon strength he smashed to dust the equipment in the alchemy laboratory, the daguerreotype room, the silver workshop, shouting like a man possessed in some high-sounding and fluent but completely incomprehensible language. He was about to finish off the rest of the house when Aureliano asked the neighbors for help. Ten men were needed to get him down, fourteen to tie him up, twenty to drag him to the chestnut tree in the courtyard, where they left him tied up, barking in the strange language and giving off a green froth at the mouth. When úrsula and Amaranta returned he was still tied to the trunk of the chestnut tree by his hands and feet, soaked with rain and in a state of total innocence. They spoke to him and he looked at them without recognizing them, saying things they did not understand. úrsula untied his wrists and ankles, lacerated by the pressure of the rope, and left him tied only by the waist. Later on they built him a shelter of palm brandies to protect him from the sun and the rain.星期四,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚又来到作坊,他的面孔露出了完全的绝望。“时间机器坏啦,”他几乎号啕地说,“乌苏娜和阿玛兰塔又去得那么远!”奥雷连诺骂他象个小孩儿,他就顺从地一声不响了。在六个小时之内,他仔细地观察了各种东西,打算确定它们的样子跟头一天有没有差别,并且坚持不渝地寻找变化,借以证明时间的推移。整个晚上他都睁着眼睛躺在床上,呼唤普鲁登希奥·阿古廖尔、梅尔加德斯和一切死人来分担他的忧虑,可是谁也没来。星期五早晨,家里的人还在睡觉,他又开始研究周围各种东西的形状,最后毫不怀疑这一天还是星期一。接着,他抓住一根门闩,使出浑身非凡的力气,凶猛地砸烂了炼金器具、照相机洗印室和金银首饰作坊,同时,他象着了魔似的,快嘴快舌地尖声叫嚷,但是谁也不懂他叫些什么。他还想毁掉整座房子,可是奥雷连诺马上叫了左邻右舍的人来帮忙。按倒霍·阿·布恩蒂亚,需要十个人;捆起他来,需要十四个人,把他拖到院内大栗树下,需要二十个人;他们拿绳子把他捆在树干上。他仍在用古里古怪的话乱骂,嘴里冒出绿色的唾沫。乌苏娜和阿玛兰塔回来的时候,他的手脚仍然是捆着的,浑身被雨水淋得透湿,但已完全平静、无害了。她们跟他讲话,但他不认得她们,他回答的话也叫人莫名其妙。乌苏娜松开了他已经磨出血来的手腕和脚踝,只留下了捆在腰间的绳子。随后,她们用棕榈枝叶给他搭了个棚子,免得他受到日晒雨淋。

José Arcadio Buendía conversed with Prudencio Aguilar until dawn. A few hours later, worn out by the vigil, he went into Aureliano's workshop and asked him: "What day is today?" Aureliano told him that it was Tuesday. "I was thinking the same thing," José Arcadio Buendía said, "but suddenly I realized that it's still Monday, like yesterday. Look at the sky, look at the walls, look at the begonias. Today is Monday too." Used to his manias, Aureliano paid no attention to him. On the next day, Wednesday, José Arcadio Buendía went back to the workshop. "This is a disaster," he said. "Look at the air, listen to the buzzing of the sun, the same as yesterday and the day before. Today is Monday too." That night Pietro Crespi found him on the porch, weeping for Prudencio Aguilar, for Melquíades, for Rebeca's parents, for his mother and father, for all of those he could remember and who were now alone in death. He gave him a mechanical bear that walked on its hind legs on a tightrope, but he could not distract him from his obsession. He asked him what had happened to the project he had explained to him a few days before about the possibility of building a pendulum machine that would help men to fly and he answered that it was impossible because a pendulum could lift anything into the air but it could not lift itself.
On Thursday he appeared in the workshop again with the painful look of plowed ground. "The time machine has broken," he almost sobbed, "and úrsula and Amaranta so far away!" Aureliano scolded him like a child and he adopted a contrite air. He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time. He spent the whole night in bed with his eyes open, calling to Prudencio Aguilar, to Melquíades, to all the dead, so that they would share his distress. But no one came. On Friday. before anyone arose, he watched the appearance of nature again until he did not have the slightest doubt but that it was Monday. Then he grabbed the bar from a door and with the savage violence of his uncommon strength he smashed to dust the equipment in the alchemy laboratory, the daguerreotype room, the silver workshop, shouting like a man possessed in some high-sounding and fluent but completely incomprehensible language. He was about to finish off the rest of the house when Aureliano asked the neighbors for help. Ten men were needed to get him down, fourteen to tie him up, twenty to drag him to the chestnut tree in the courtyard, where they left him tied up, barking in the strange language and giving off a green froth at the mouth. When úrsula and Amaranta returned he was still tied to the trunk of the chestnut tree by his hands and feet, soaked with rain and in a state of total innocence. They spoke to him and he looked at them without recognizing them, saying things they did not understand. úrsula untied his wrists and ankles, lacerated by the pressure of the rope, and left him tied only by the waist. Later on they built him a shelter of palm brandies to protect him from the sun and the rain.


霍·阿·布恩蒂亚跟普鲁登希奥·阿吉廖尔一直谈到夭亮。几小时以后,他由于失眠变得疲惫不堪,走进奥雷连诺的作坊,问道:“今天是星期呀?”奥雷连诺回答他是星期二。“我也那么想,”霍·阿·布恩蒂亚说,“可我突然觉得,今天还是星期一,象昨天一样。你瞧天空,瞧墙壁,瞧秋海棠。今天还是星期一。”奥雷连诺对他的怪里怪气已经习以为常,没有理睬这些话。下一天,星期三,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚又来到作坊。“这简直是一场灾难,”他说。“你瞧瞧空气,听听太阳的声音,一切都跟昨天和前天一模一样。今天还是星期一。”晚上,皮埃特罗·克列斯比遇见他在走廊上流泪:他不太雅观地、抽抽嗒嗒地哭诉普鲁登希奥·阿吉廖尔,哭诉梅尔加德斯,哭诉雷贝卡的双亲,哭诉自己的爸爸妈妈——哭诉他能想起的、还在阴间孤独生活的人。皮埃特罗·克列斯比给了他一只用后腿走钢丝的“自动狗熊”,可也未能使他摆脱愁思。于是皮埃特罗·克列斯比就问,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚不久以前向他谈到过的计划——使人飞到空中的钟摆机器搞得如何了?霍·阿·布恩蒂亚回答说,制造这种机器是不可能的,因为钟摆能使任何东西升到空中,它自己却不能上。
星期四,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚又来到作坊,他的面孔露出了完全的绝望。“时间机器坏啦,”他几乎号啕地说,“乌苏娜和阿玛兰塔又去得那么远!”奥雷连诺骂他象个小孩儿,他就顺从地一声不响了。在六个小时之内,他仔细地观察了各种东西,打算确定它们的样子跟头一天有没有差别,并且坚持不渝地寻找变化,借以证明时间的推移。整个晚上他都睁着眼睛躺在床上,呼唤普鲁登希奥·阿古廖尔、梅尔加德斯和一切死人来分担他的忧虑,可是谁也没来。星期五早晨,家里的人还在睡觉,他又开始研究周围各种东西的形状,最后毫不怀疑这一天还是星期一。接着,他抓住一根门闩,使出浑身非凡的力气,凶猛地砸烂了炼金器具、照相机洗印室和金银首饰作坊,同时,他象着了魔似的,快嘴快舌地尖声叫嚷,但是谁也不懂他叫些什么。他还想毁掉整座房子,可是奥雷连诺马上叫了左邻右舍的人来帮忙。按倒霍·阿·布恩蒂亚,需要十个人;捆起他来,需要十四个人,把他拖到院内大栗树下,需要二十个人;他们拿绳子把他捆在树干上。他仍在用古里古怪的话乱骂,嘴里冒出绿色的唾沫。乌苏娜和阿玛兰塔回来的时候,他的手脚仍然是捆着的,浑身被雨水淋得透湿,但已完全平静、无害了。她们跟他讲话,但他不认得她们,他回答的话也叫人莫名其妙。乌苏娜松开了他已经磨出血来的手腕和脚踝,只留下了捆在腰间的绳子。随后,她们用棕榈枝叶给他搭了个棚子,免得他受到日晒雨淋。
重点单词   查看全部解释    
protect [prə'tekt]

想一想再看

vt. 保护,投保

联想记忆
violence ['vaiələns]

想一想再看

n. 暴力,猛烈,强暴,暴行

 
distract [di'strækt]

想一想再看

vt. 转移,分心

联想记忆
fluent ['flu:ənt]

想一想再看

adj. 流利的,流畅的

联想记忆
impossible [im'pɔsəbl]

想一想再看

adj. 不可能的,做不到的
adj.

联想记忆
understand [.ʌndə'stænd]

想一想再看

vt. 理解,懂,听说,获悉,将 ... 理解为,认为<

 
courtyard ['kɔ:tjɑ:d]

想一想再看

n. 庭院,院子

 
shelter ['ʃeltə]

想一想再看

n. 庇护所,避难所,庇护
v. 庇护,保护,

联想记忆
waist [weist]

想一想再看

n. 腰,腰部

 
contrite ['kɔntrait]

想一想再看

adj. 悔悟了的,后悔的,痛悔的

 

发布评论我来说2句

    最新文章

    可可英语官方微信(微信号:ikekenet)

    每天向大家推送短小精悍的英语学习资料.

    添加方式1.扫描上方可可官方微信二维码。
    添加方式2.搜索微信号ikekenet添加即可。