欧美文化博览 文森特·凡· 高传(9)

And do you sleep here now, Mrs Simth?

现在你睡在这儿，史密斯夫人?

Is this your bedroom?

这是你的卧室吗?

Yes, this is my bedroom.

是的,这是我的卧室。

So you sleep in the room Van Gogh slept in.

所以你睡的是梵高睡的那个房间。

Yes, I do.

是的,就是这样。

That must be exciting. I will be excited.

那一定很刺激。我将会非常兴奋。

I can’t hear him snoring at all.

我听不清他在打鼾。

How lucky you, I bet he did.

你真是太幸运了,我打赌他一定是那样。

His landlady¹, Mrs Ursula Loyer ran a small school here.

他的女房东，乌尔苏拉·洛伊尔在这里经营着一家小学校。

She also took lodges².

她也租别的房间。

Vincent was working in Covent Garden at Goupil's London office.

文森特在考文特花园伦敦办公室工作。

And every morning, he walked to work in a top hat he bought especially.

每天早上,他总是戴着一顶大礼帽去工作。

He thought it made him look more English.

他认为这会让他看起来更加具有英国人的气质。

This journey to Covent Garden took him 45 minutes.

这次到柯芬花园的旅行花去他45分钟的时间。

And that’s not easy.

而那并不容易。

The wandering minstrel, I

流浪的歌手,我

A thing of shreds³

一件事的碎片

Van Gogh was a ridiculously fast walker.

梵高是一位不可思议的快走者。

He shot past the Oval where the English play that strange game, called cricket.

他穿过了椭圆走道，而英国人在那里进行着被称为板球的奇怪比赛。

He didn’t enjoy the fog, it depressed⁴ him.

他不喜欢雾,那会让他感到沮丧。

And the river, pumped full of sewage used to stink⁵ so badly he hurried across it.

而这条河,灌满的污水如此糟糕而且非常恶臭,他总是匆忙穿过它。

But he loved this view over Westminster Bridge.

但他喜欢在威斯敏斯特大桥上的这种风景。

The housed of Parliament just built, the Thames Embankment newly reclaimed⁶ from 32 acres of mud.

议会刚刚建成,泰晤士河堤坝刚刚从32英亩的泥浆中新开垦出。

He couldn’t have missed the poverty.

他不可能错过了贫困。

You know that has expression slumming it.

你知道贫民窟的表达。

Well, slumming was something Londoners used to do in Vincen's time.

嗯,访问贫民窟是伦敦人在文森特的那段时间中经常做的。

It means going to look at the slums.

这意味着是要去看看贫民窟。

The worst ones were in the East End, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, terrifying places, underage prostitutes lurking⁷ in the alleys⁸, and an unbuilt sewage system pumping crap into the streets.

最糟糕的是在伦敦东区,怀特教堂，贝瑟尔·格林，这里是非常可怕的地方,未成年妓女潜伏在小巷里，而一个未被建成的污水系统将垃圾流入到街道上。

1 landlady   

n.女房东，女地主

参考例句：

• I heard my landlady creeping stealthily up to my door.我听到我的女房东偷偷地来到我的门前。
• The landlady came over to serve me.女店主过来接待我。

2 lodges   

v.存放( lodge的第三人称单数 )；暂住；埋入；（权利、权威等）归属

参考例句：

• But I forget, if I ever heard, where he lodges in Liverpool. 可是我记不得有没有听他说过他在利物浦的住址。 来自辞典例句
• My friend lodges in my uncle's house. 我朋友寄居在我叔叔家。 来自辞典例句

3 shreds   

v.撕碎，切碎( shred的第三人称单数 )；用撕毁机撕毁（文件）

参考例句：

• Peel the carrots and cut them into shreds. 将胡罗卜削皮，切成丝。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I want to take this diary and rip it into shreds. 我真想一赌气扯了这日记。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说

4 depressed   

adj.沮丧的，抑郁的，不景气的，萧条的

参考例句：

• When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
• His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。

5 stink   

vi.发出恶臭；糟透，招人厌恶；n.恶臭

参考例句：

• The stink of the rotten fish turned my stomach.腐烂的鱼臭味使我恶心。
• The room has awful stink.那个房间散发着难闻的臭气。

6 reclaimed   

adj.再生的；翻造的；收复的；回收的v.开拓( reclaim的过去式和过去分词 )；要求收回；从废料中回收（有用的材料）；挽救

参考例句：

• Many sufferers have been reclaimed from a dependence on alcohol. 许多嗜酒成癖的受害者已经被挽救过来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They reclaimed him from his evil ways. 他们把他从邪恶中挽救出来。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

7 lurking   

潜在

参考例句：

• Why are you lurking around outside my house? 你在我房子外面鬼鬼祟祟的，想干什么？
• There is a suspicious man lurking in the shadows. 有一可疑的人躲在阴暗中。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

8 alleys   

胡同，小巷( alley的名词复数 )； 小径

参考例句：

• I followed him through a maze of narrow alleys. 我紧随他穿过一条条迂迴曲折的窄巷。
• The children lead me through the maze of alleys to the edge of the city. 孩子们领我穿过迷宫一般的街巷，来到城边。