美丽新世界Brave New World 第4章(5)

 　　With eyes for the most part downcast and, if ever they lighted on a fellow creature, at once and furtively¹ averted², Bernard hastened across the roof.

　　伯纳匆匆走过屋顶，眼睛大体望着地下，偶然见了人也立即悄悄躲开。

　　He was like a man pursued, but pursued by enemies he does not wish to see, lest they should seem more hostile even than he had supposed, and he himself be made to feel guiltier and even more helplessly alone.

　　他像是被敌人追捕，却不愿意看见追捕者，因为怕他们的样子比预想的更可怕。这就把他自己弄得更为内疚，更加无可奈何的孤独。

　　"That horrible Benito Hoover!" And yet the man had meant well enough.

　　哪个可怕的本尼托·胡佛户可那人的用心原本是好的。

　　Which only made it, in a way, much worse. Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

　　这就使他的处境更糟糕。用心良好的人跟居心不良的人做法竟然完全一样。

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　　Even Lenina was making him suffer.

　　就连列宁娜也让他痛苦。

　　He remembered those weeks of timid indecision, during which he had looked and longed and despaired of ever having the courage to ask her.

　　他记得那几星期畏怯犹豫的日子，那时他曾经希冀、渴望有勇气问问她，却又失望了。

　　Dared he face the risk of being humiliated³ by a contemptuous refusal?

　　他有勇气面对遭到轻蔑拒绝的羞辱吗？

　　But if she were to say yes, what rapture⁴!

　　可她如果竟然同意了，他又会狂喜到什么程度！

　　Well, now she had said it and he was still wretched–wretched that she should have thought it such a perfect afternoon for Obstacle Golf, that she should have trotted⁵ away to join Henry Foster, that she should have found him funny for not wanting to talk of their most private affairs in public.

　　好了，她现在已经对他明白表态了，可他仍然难受——因为她居然认为那天下午最好是用来打障碍高尔夫，而且跟亨利·福斯特一溜烟跑掉了。他不愿在公开场合谈他俩之间最秘密的私事，她居然觉得好笑。

　　Wretched, in a word, because she had behaved as any healthy and virtuous⁶ English girl ought to behave and not in some other, abnormal, extraordinary way.

　　总之，他难受，因为她的行为只像个健康的、有道德的英格兰姑娘，毫无其他独特的与众不同之处。

　　He opened the door of his lock-up and called to a lounging couple of Delta-Minus attendants to come and push his machine out on to the roof.

　　他打开自己的机库，叫来两个闲逛着的德尔塔减随从把他的飞机推到屋顶上去。

　　The hangars were staffed by a single Bokanovsky Group, and the men were twins, identically small, black and hideous⁷.

　　机库的管理员是同一组波坎诺夫斯基化的多生子，一模一样地矮小、熏黑、狰狞。

　　Bernard gave his orders in the sharp, rather arrogant⁸ and even offensive tone of one who does not feel himself too secure in his superiority.

　　伯纳像一个对自己的优越性不太有把握的人一样发出命令，口气尖利，带几分傲慢，甚至有些气势汹汹。

　　To have dealings with members of the lower castes was always, for Bernard, a most distressing⁹ experience.

　　伯纳对跟种姓低的人打交道有非常痛苦的经验。

　　For whatever the cause (and the current gossip about the alcohol in his blood-surrogate may very likely–for accidents will happen–have been true)

　　因为不管原因何在，关于他代血剂里的酒精的流言大有可能是实有其事，因为意外总是会发生的。

　　Bernard's physique as hardly better than that of the average Gamma.

　　伯纳的身体并不比一般的伽玛好。

　　He stood eight centimetres short of the standard Alpha height and was slender in proportion.

　　他的个子比标准阿尔法矮了八公分，身体也相应单薄了许多。

　　Contact with members of he lower castes always reminded him painfully of this physical inadequacy¹⁰.

　　跟下级成员的接触总痛苦地让他想起自己这种身体缺陷。

　　"I am I, and wish I wasn't"; his self-consciousness was acute and stressing.

　　“我是我，却希望没有我。”他的自我意识很强烈，很痛苦。

　　Each time he found himself looking on the level, instead of downward, into a Delta's face, he felt humiliated.

　　每一次他发现自己平视着，而不是俯视着一个德尔塔的脸时便不禁感到受了侮辱。

　　Would the creature treat him with the respect due to his caste?

　　那家伙会不会以对待我的种姓应有的尊重对待我？

　　The question haunted him. Not without reason.

　　那问题叫他日夜不安，却并非没有道理。

　　For Gammas, Deltas¹¹ and Epsilons had been to some extent conditioned to associate corporeal¹² mass with social superiority.

　　因为伽玛们、德尔塔们和爱扑塞隆们经过一定程度的条件设置，总是把社会地位的优越性和个子的大小挂钩的。

　　Indeed, a faint hypnop.dic prejudice in favour of size was universal.

　　实际上由于睡眠教育，有利于大个子的偏见普遍存在。

1 furtively   

adv. 偷偷地, 暗中地

参考例句：

• At this some of the others furtively exchanged significant glances. 听他这样说，有几个人心照不宣地彼此对望了一眼。
• Remembering my presence, he furtively dropped it under his chair. 后来想起我在，他便偷偷地把书丢在椅子下。

2 averted   

防止，避免( avert的过去式和过去分词 )； 转移

参考例句：

• A disaster was narrowly averted. 及时防止了一场灾难。
• Thanks to her skilful handling of the affair, the problem was averted. 多亏她对事情处理得巧妙，才避免了麻烦。

3 humiliated   

感到羞愧的

参考例句：

• Parents are humiliated if their children behave badly when guests are present. 子女在客人面前举止失当，父母也失体面。
• He was ashamed and bitterly humiliated. 他感到羞耻，丢尽了面子。

4 rapture   

n.狂喜；全神贯注；着迷；v.使狂喜

参考例句：

• His speech was received with rapture by his supporters.他的演说受到支持者们的热烈欢迎。
• In the midst of his rapture,he was interrupted by his father.他正欢天喜地，被他父亲打断了。

5 trotted   

小跑，急走( trot的过去分词 )； 匆匆忙忙地走

参考例句：

• She trotted her pony around the field. 她骑着小马绕场慢跑。
• Anne trotted obediently beside her mother. 安妮听话地跟在妈妈身边走。

6 virtuous   

adj.有品德的，善良的，贞洁的，有效力的

参考例句：

• She was such a virtuous woman that everybody respected her.她是个有道德的女性，人人都尊敬她。
• My uncle is always proud of having a virtuous wife.叔叔一直为娶到一位贤德的妻子而骄傲。

7 hideous   

adj.丑陋的，可憎的，可怕的，恐怖的

参考例句：

• The whole experience had been like some hideous nightmare.整个经历就像一场可怕的噩梦。
• They're not like dogs,they're hideous brutes.它们不像狗，是丑陋的畜牲。

8 arrogant   

adj.傲慢的，自大的

参考例句：

• You've got to get rid of your arrogant ways.你这骄傲劲儿得好好改改。
• People are waking up that he is arrogant.人们开始认识到他很傲慢。

9 distressing   

a.使人痛苦的

参考例句：

• All who saw the distressing scene revolted against it. 所有看到这种悲惨景象的人都对此感到难过。
• It is distressing to see food being wasted like this. 这样浪费粮食令人痛心。

10 inadequacy   

n.无法胜任，信心不足

参考例句：

• the inadequacy of our resources 我们的资源的贫乏
• The failure is due to the inadequacy of preparations. 这次失败是由于准备不足造成的。

11 deltas   

希腊字母表中第四个字母( delta的名词复数 )； （河口的）三角洲

参考例句：

• Tidal channels, deltas, and washover fans are characteristically associated with offshore bars. 潮汐水道、三角洲和冲刷扇典型地与滨外砂洲伴生在一起。
• I know many of the early civilizations prospered on deltas. 我知道很多古老的文明都是在三角洲上蓬勃发展起来的。

12 corporeal   

adj.肉体的，身体的；物质的

参考例句：

• The body is the corporeal habitation of the soul.身体为灵魂之有形寓所。
• He is very religious;corporeal world has little interest for him.他虔信宗教，对物质上的享受不感兴趣。