美国语文第四册 第99期:鲁滨逊·克鲁索的住所(1)（在线收听） |
I have already described my habitation, which was a tent under the side of a rock, surrounded with a strong pale of posts and cables, 我前面已经描述了我的住所，这是一个帐篷，位于山岩一侧，周围是用木桩和缆绳搭造的结实的栅栏， but I might now rather call it a wall, for I raised a kind of wall up against it of turf, about two feet thick on the outside; 我现在也可以把这个栅栏称作墙，因为在栅栏的外面我堆砌了两英尺厚的草皮；
and, after some time (I think it was a year and a half) I raised rafters from it, leaning to the rock, 过了一段时间（我想是一年半）我架起了椽，一端靠在岩石上，
and thatched or covered it with boughs of trees and such things as I could get to keep out the rain, which I found at some times of the year very violent. 用树枝等材料封了顶，在暴雨倾盆时可以用来避雨。
I have already observed how I brought all my goods into this pale, and into the cave which I had made behind me; 我把所有物品拿进栅栏，放到岩洞里；
but I must observe, too, that at first this was a confused heap of goods, which, as they lay in no order, took up all my place, 但是开始的时候东西堆得杂乱无章，很占地方，
so that I had no room to turn myself. 我甚至无法转身。
So I set to work to enlarge my cave and work farther into the earth; 因此我着手扩大岩洞，挖出更多的泥土。
for it was a loose, sandy rock, which yielded easily to the labor I bestowed upon it. 因为岩石已经疏松沙化了，挖掘起来很容易。
And so when I found that I was pretty safe as to beasts of prey, I worked sideways into the rock; 当我发现自己相当安全，不用担心野兽的攻击时，我开始挖掘山岩的侧面；
and then, turning to the right again, worked quite out, and made me a door to come out on the outside of my pale or fortification. 然后又向右挖，一直挖到外面，这样我就能从另一扇门通到栅栏或者说堡垒的外面。
This gave me not only egress and regress, as it was a back way to my tent and to my storehouse, but gave me room to stow my goods. 我不但多了出口和入口，进出帐篷和工具间，而且贮藏的空间也扩大了。 |
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