美丽新世界Brave New World 第11章(1)

 After the scene in the Fertilizing¹ Room,

授精室那一幕之后，

all upper-caste London was wild to see this delicious creature,伦敦的上层种姓都迫不及待地想见识一下这位妙人,who had fallen on his knees before the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning—or rather the ex-Director,那野蛮人竟然跑到孵化与条件设置中心主任——倒不如说是前主任，for the poor man had resigned immediately afterwards,因为这可怜的人随即辞了职，

and never set foot inside the Centre again—had flopped² down and called him (the joke was almost too good to be true!) "my father."再也没有进过中,动了——面前，扑通一声跪倒在地，叫他“爸爸”。（这恶作剧精彩得叫人不敢相信。）Linda, on the contrary, cut no ice; nobody had the smallest desire to see Linda.

而相反，琳妲却没有引起注意，谁也没有想过要看她。

To say one was a mother—that was past a joke: it was an obscenity.

把人称做妈妈原本是过分的玩笑，是一种亵渎。

Moreover, she wasn't a real savage³, had been hatched out of a bottle and conditioned like any one else: so coudn't have really quaint⁴ ideas.

何况她跟别人一样，是从瓶子里孵化出来的，是设定过条件的人，不是真正的野蛮人，因此她不可能真正引起怪念头。

Finally—and this was by far the strongest reason for people's not wanting to see poor Linda—there was her appearance.

最后，还有她那副模样——这才是人们木希望看见可怜的琳妲的最大理由。

Fat; having lost her youth; with bad teeth, and a blotched complexion,青春不再，肥胖臃肿，一口坏牙，满脸斑点。

and that figure (Ford!)—you simply couldn't look at her without feeling sick, yes, positively⁵ sick.

还有那身材（福帝呀！）见了她你不能不作呕，打心眼里作呕。

So the best people were quite determined⁶ not to see Linda.

因此优秀的人都决心不见琳妲。

And Linda, for her part, had no desire to see them.

而琳妲自己也从来没有想过见他们。

The return to civilization was for her the return to soma,回归文明意味着回归唆麻，

was the possibility of lying in bed and taking holiday after holiday,不但可以躺在床上一天又一天地享受唆麻假日，

without ever having to come back to a headache or a fit of vomiting,而且醒过来不会头痛，恶心，想呕吐。

without ever being made to feel as you always felt after peyotl,用不着感到像喝了佩瑶特一样心虚、抬不起头，

as though you'd done something so shamefully⁷ anti-social that you could never hold up your head again.

仿佛干了什么反社会的可耻罪行。

Soma played none of these unpleasant tricks.

唆麻不会开这种刻薄的玩笑。

The holiday it gave was perfect and, if the morning after was disagreeable, it was so, not intrinsically,它所给予的假期是完美的，如果说随后的早上也不愉快的话，but only by comparison with the joys of the holiday.

却并非由于内在的感受，只是觉得不如唆麻假日那么快活而已。

The remedy was to make the holiday continuous.

补救的办法是继续度假。

Greedily she clamoured for ever larger, ever more frequent doses.

她不断贪婪地吵着要求增加唆麻的剂量和次数。

Dr. Shaw at first demurred⁸; then let her have what she wanted.

萧医生起初反对，后来就按照她的要求给她。

She took as much as twenty grammes a day.

她一天吞下的唆麻竟达二十克之多。

 

1 fertilizing   

v.施肥( fertilize的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Sometimes the preliminary step must be taken of reducing weed population before fertilizing. 有时候，在施肥之前，必须采取减少杂草密度的预备性步骤。 来自辞典例句
• The self fertilizing garden can also be planted in raised beds. 自我施肥的菜园也可以在苗圃床中种植。 来自互联网

2 flopped   

v.（指书、戏剧等）彻底失败( flop的过去式和过去分词 )；（因疲惫而）猛然坐下；（笨拙地、不由自主地或松弛地）移动或落下；砸锅

参考例句：

• Exhausted, he flopped down into a chair. 他筋疲力尽，一屁股坐到椅子上。
• It was a surprise to us when his play flopped. 他那出戏一败涂地，出乎我们的预料。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 savage   

adj.野蛮的；凶恶的，残暴的；n.未开化的人

参考例句：

• The poor man received a savage beating from the thugs.那可怜的人遭到暴徒的痛打。
• He has a savage temper.他脾气粗暴。

4 quaint   

adj.古雅的，离奇有趣的，奇怪的

参考例句：

• There were many small lanes in the quaint village.在这古香古色的村庄里，有很多小巷。
• They still keep some quaint old customs.他们仍然保留着一些稀奇古怪的旧风俗。

5 positively   

adv.明确地，断然，坚决地；实在，确实

参考例句：

• She was positively glowing with happiness.她满脸幸福。
• The weather was positively poisonous.这天气着实讨厌。

6 determined   

adj.坚定的；有决心的

参考例句：

• I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
• He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。

7 shamefully   

可耻地； 丢脸地； 不体面地； 羞耻地

参考例句：

• He misused his dog shamefully. 他可耻地虐待自己的狗。
• They have served me shamefully for a long time. 长期以来，他们待我很坏。

8 demurred   

v.表示异议，反对( demur的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• At first she demurred, but then finally agreed. 她开始表示反对，但最终还是同意了。
• They demurred at working on Sundays. 他们反对星期日工作。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》