🔊 Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen-maid, and the coachman had given warning.

幸福的家庭都是相似的,不幸的家庭各有各的不幸。奥布隆斯基家里一切都乱了套。妻子发现丈夫和家里从前的一个法国家庭女教师有私情,她向丈夫声明不能和他再在一个屋子里住下去了。这样的状态已经继续了三天,不仅夫妻两人,而且全家和仆人都为此感到痛苦。家里的每个人都觉得住在一起没有意思,觉得在任何客店里萍水相逢的人也都比他们,奥布隆斯基家全体的人和家人,更情投意合。妻子没有离开自己的房间一步；丈夫三天不在家了；小孩们像失了管教一样在家里到处乱跑；英国家庭女教师和女管家吵架,给朋友写了信,请替她找一个新的位置；男厨师昨天恰好在晚餐时走掉了；厨娘和马车夫辞了工。

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alike /əˈlaɪk/

adj. 相似的,相同的➕

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intrigue /ɪnˈtriːɡ/

n. 私通；密谋；引起兴趣的复杂情节➕

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governess /ˈɡʌvənəs/

n. 家庭女教师➕

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household /ˈhaʊshəʊld/

n. 一家人；家庭；同住一所房子的人➕

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stray /streɪ/

adj. 零散的；走失的；离群的➕

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housekeeper /ˈhaʊskiːpə(r)/

n. 管家,女管家➕

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man-cook /ˈmæn kʊk/

n. 男厨师➕

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kitchen-maid /ˈkɪtʃɪn meɪd/

n. 厨房女佣➕

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coachman /ˈkəʊtʃmən/

n. 马车夫➕

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warning /ˈwɔːnɪŋ/

n. 警告；预先通知（尤指离职通知）➕

🔊 Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky-Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world-woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o’clock in the morning, not in his wife’s bedroom, but on the leather-covered sofa in his study. He turned over his stout, well-cared-for person on the springy sofa, as though he would sink into a long sleep again; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the other side and buried his face in it; but all at once he jumped up, sat up on the sofa, and opened his eyes.

吵架后第三天,斯捷潘·阿尔卡季奇·奥布隆斯基公爵--他在交际场里是叫斯季瓦的--在照例的时间,早晨八点钟醒来,不在他妻子的寝室,却在他书房的鞣皮沙发上。他在弹簧沙发上翻了个身,好像要再睡一大觉似的,他使劲抱住那边的枕头,把脸埋在里边；可是他突然跳起来,坐在沙发上,张开眼睛。

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quarrel /ˈkwɒrəl/

n. 争吵,吵架➕

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fashionable /ˈfæʃnəbl/

adj. 时髦的,流行的；上流社会的➕

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leather-covered /ˈleðə kʌvəd/

adj. 皮革覆盖的➕

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stout /staʊt/

adj. 肥胖的,强壮的；坚固的➕

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well-cared-for /ˌwel ˈkeəd fɔː(r)/

adj. 精心照料的,保养得很好的➕

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springy /ˈsprɪŋi/

adj. 有弹性的,有弹力的➕

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vigorously /ˈvɪɡərəsli/

adv. 用力地,精力充沛地➕

🔊 "Yes, yes, how was it now?" he thought, going over his dream. "Now, how was it? To be sure! Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin was giving a dinner on glass tables, and the tables sang, Il mio tesoro-not Il mio tesoro though, but something better, and there were some sort of little decanters on the table, and they were women, too," he remembered.

“是的,是的,是怎么回事呢？”他想,重温着他的梦。“现在,是怎么回事呢？对了！阿拉宾在达姆施塔特请客；不,不是达姆施塔特,而是什么美国的东西。对了,达姆施塔特是在美国。对了,阿拉宾在玻璃桌上请客,桌子在唱《我亲爱的宝贝》--但不是《我亲爱的宝贝》,而是更好听的什么东西,还有一些小长颈玻璃瓶在桌上,而这些玻璃瓶也是女人,”他回忆着。

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Il mio tesoro /il ˈmiːo təˈzɔːroʊ/

n. (意大利语) 我的宝贝（此处指歌剧咏叹调名）➕

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decanters /dɪˈkæntəz/

n. 细颈酒瓶（复数）➕

🔊 Stepan Arkadyevitch’s eyes twinkled gaily, and he pondered with a smile. "Yes, it was nice, very nice. There was a great deal more that was delightful, only there’s no putting it into words, or even expressing it in one’s thoughts awake." And noticing a gleam of light peeping in beside one of the serge curtains, he cheerfully dropped his feet over the edge of the sofa, and felt about with them for his slippers, a present on his last birthday, worked for him by his wife on gold-colored morocco. And, as he had done every day for the last nine years, he stretched out his hand, without getting up, towards the place where his dressing-gown always hung in his bedroom. And thereupon he suddenly remembered that he was not sleeping in his wife’s room, but in his study, and why: the smile vanished from his face, he knitted his brows.

斯捷潘·阿尔卡季奇的眼睛快乐地闪耀着,他含着微笑沉思。“是的,真好,真好。还有许多妙不可言的东西,但是说不出来,而且醒着也想不起来。”于是看到从一幅呢绒窗帷边上射入的一线阳光,他愉快地把脚从沙发上伸下去,用脚去探找那双金色摩洛哥皮拖鞋,那是他妻子去年生日时送给他的礼物,而他照例是每晚放在床边的。由于一种九年来的习惯,他没有起身,就向他在寝室里常挂晨衣的地方伸过手去。他这才突然记起了他没有睡在他妻子的房间里,而是睡在自己的书房里,以及为什么:微笑从他脸上消失了,他皱起眉头。

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twinkled /ˈtwɪŋkld/

v. 闪烁,闪耀（过去式）➕

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gaily /ˈɡeɪli/

adv. 快乐地,欢快地➕

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pondered /ˈpɒndəd/

v. 沉思,仔细考虑（过去式）➕

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gleam /ɡliːm/

n. 微光,闪光➕

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peeping /ˈpiːpɪŋ/

v. 窥视,微现（现在分词）➕

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serge /sɜːdʒ/

n. 哔叽呢（一种布料）➕

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cheerfully /ˈtʃɪəfəli/

adv. 高兴地,乐意地➕

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slippers /ˈslɪpəz/

n. 拖鞋（复数）➕

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morocco /məˈrɒkəʊ/

n. 摩洛哥皮革（一种用山羊皮制成的优质皮革）➕

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knitted /ˈnɪtɪd/

v. 皱起（眉头）,编织（过去式）➕

🔊 "Ah, ah, ah! Oo!..." he muttered, recalling everything that had happened. And again every detail of his quarrel with his wife was present to his imagination, all the hopelessness of his position, and worst of all, his own fault.

“唉,唉,唉！哦！……”他喃喃自语,回想着所发生的一切。于是他和妻子吵架的一切详情,他的处境的全部无望,以及最糟的,他自己的过错,又浮现在他眼前。

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muttered /ˈmʌtəd/

v. 咕哝,低声抱怨（过去式）➕

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hopelessness /ˈhəʊpləsnəs/

n. 绝望,无望➕

🔊 "Yes, she won’t forgive me, and she can’t forgive me. And the most awful thing about it is that it’s all my fault-all my fault, though I’m not to blame. That’s the point of the whole situation," he reflected. "Oh, oh, oh!" he kept repeating in despair, as he remembered the acutely painful sensations caused him by this quarrel.

“是的,她不会饶恕我,她也不能饶恕我。而最糟的是,全是我的过错--全是我的过错,但也不能怪我。这就是整个情况的关键,”他沉思着。“唉,唉,唉！”他记起这次吵闹所给予他的极端痛苦的感觉,绝望地重复着。

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despair /dɪˈspeə(r)/

n. 绝望➕

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acutely /əˈkjuːtli/

adv. 强烈地,剧烈地；敏锐地➕

🔊 Most unpleasant of all was the first minute when, on coming, happy and good-humored, from the theater, with a huge pear in his hand for his wife, he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his surprise had not found her in the study either, and saw her at last in her bedroom with the unlucky letter that revealed everything in her hand.

最不愉快的是最初的一瞬间,当他从剧场回来,手里拿着一个大梨给他妻子,心情很快活而和善,在客厅里没有找到他妻子,使他异常吃惊的是,在书房里也没有找到她,而终于发现她在卧室里,手里拿着那封泄露了一切的倒霉的信。

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good-humored /ˌɡʊd ˈhjuːməd/

adj. 心情愉快的,脾气好的➕

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drawing-room /ˈdrɔːɪŋ ruːm/

n. 客厅,起居室➕

Chapter one (第一章)