评论
打印
Mr Toots, seeing Florence in tears, had great difficulty in getting beyond this point, and had nearly tumbled into the well again. But a chucKle saved him on the brink.
图茨先生看到弗洛伦斯眼泪汪汪，觉得再说下去非常困难，几乎又要滚进井里去了。可是吃吃的一笑把他从井边救住了。
'I say,' he proceeded, 'Miss Dombey! I could have had him stolen for ten shillings, if they hadn't given him up: and I would: but they were glad to get rid of him, I think. If you'd like to have him, he's at the door. I brought him on purpose for you. He ain't a lady's dog, you know,' said Mr Toots, 'but you won't mind that, will you?'
“我说，”他继续说道，“董贝小姐！如果他们当时舍不得把他抛弃，我也会出十先令把他给偷出来的，我会的，不过我想，他们当时很高兴把他给打发掉。如果您愿意要他的话，那么他就在门口。我是特意把他带来给您的。您知道，他不是贵妇人养的那种狗。”图茨先生说，“不过，您不会介意吧，是不是？”
In fact, Diogenes was at that moment, as they presently ascertained from looking down into the street, staring through the window of a hackney cabriolet, into which, for conveyance to that spot, he had been ensnared, on a false pretence of rats among the straw. Sooth to say, he was as unlike a lady's dog as might be; and in his gruff anxiety to get out, presented an appearance sufficiently unpromising, as he gave short yelps out of one side of his mouth, and overbalancing himself by the intensity of every one of those efforts, tumbled down into the straw, and then sprung panting up again, putting out his tongue, as if he had come express to a Dispensary to be examined for his health.
当他们往下面的街道上俯视时，立刻就确证了这个事实；实际上，戴奥吉尼斯这时正从一辆出租单马篷车的窗口瞪眼往外瞧着；为了把他运到这个地方，他们曾经假装稻草中间有耗子，用这个法子把他诱骗进这辆单马篷车里。说实话，他丝毫也不像贵妇人养的狗；他急不可耐地想从车中挣脱出来，显出一副很不讨人喜爱的样子；他歪着嘴，发出汪汪的短吠；由于每次用力过猛，身子失去平衡，就翻滚到稻草堆里，然后又气喘吁吁地跳上来，吐出舌头，仿佛他是特地到诊疗所来检查身体似的。
But though Diogenes was as ridiculous a dog as one would meet with on a summer's day; a blundering, ill-favoured, clumsy, bullet-headed dog, continually acting on a wrong idea that there was an enemy in the neighbourhood, whom it was meritorious to bark at; and though he was far from good-tempered, and certainly was not clever, and had hair all over his eyes, and a comic nose, and an inconsistent tail, and a gruff voice; he was dearer to Florence, in virtue of that parting remembrance of him, and that request that he might be taken care of, than the most valuable and beautiful of his kind. So dear, indeed, was this same ugly Diogenes, and so welcome to her, that she took the jewelled hand of Mr Toots and kissed it in her gratitude. And when Diogenes, released, came tearing up the stairs and bouncing into the room (such a business as there was, first, to get him out of the cabriolet!), dived under all the furniture, and wound a long iron chain, that dangled from his neck, round legs of chairs and tables, and then tugged at it until his eyes became unnaturally visible, in consequence of their nearly starting out of his head; and when he growled at Mr Toots, who affected familiarity; and went pell-mell at Towlinson, morally convinced that he was the enemy whom he had barked at round the corner all his life and had never seen yet; Florence was as pleased with him as if he had been a miracle of discretion.
虽然戴奥吉尼斯是一条人们在夏天可以碰见的那种可笑的狗，一条跌跌撞撞跑着、外貌丑陋，四肢笨拙、圆头圆脑的狗；他的行动老是根据一个错误的想法，就是邻近有一个敌人，向他吠叫是值得赞扬的；虽然他决算不上脾气好，也的确不聪明，头毛垂遮着眼睛，鼻子滑稽可笑，尾巴忽左忽右地摇摆，声音粗哑难听；可是由于保罗在离开人世之前还惦记着他，还要求好好照料他，所以，对弗洛伦斯来说，他比他最高贵、最漂亮的同类都更为宝贵。确实，这个丑陋的戴奥吉尼斯对她是那么宝贵，那么深受欢迎，因此，她拉起图茨先生佩带宝石的手，满怀感激地吻了吻它。戴奥吉尼斯释放后飞奔上楼，蹦进房间（把他首先从篷车里弄出来，真是费了多大的工夫啊！），钻到各种家具底下，把那条挂在他脖子下面、晃来晃去的长长的铁链缠绕在桌子和椅子的腿上，然后拖曳着它，直到他那被蓬松的毛发遮盖住的眼睛几乎从眼窝里跳出来为止；他向着假装跟他很亲昵的图茨先生咆哮，又向托林森猛扑过去，认定托林森就是他一生中从角落里对着狂吠而至今还没见过面的敌人；弗洛伦斯喜欢他极了，仿佛他是挖空心思才能创造出的奇迹似的。
