🔊 Stepan Arkadyevitch, as usual, did not waste his time in Petersburg. In Petersburg, besides business, his sister's divorce, and his coveted appointment, he wanted, as he always did, to freshen himself up, as he said, after the mustiness of Moscow.

斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇像往常一样,在彼得堡没有虚度光阴。在彼得堡,除了公事、他妹妹的离婚以及他垂涎已久的职位外,他还想--正如他常说的--从莫斯科的沉闷中振作起来,换换心情。

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divorce /dɪˈvɔːrs/

n. 离婚➕

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coveted /ˈkʌvɪtɪd/

adj. 令人垂涎的,渴望得到的➕

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appointment /əˈpɔɪntmənt/

n. 职位,任命；约会➕

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mustiness /ˈmʌstɪnəs/

n. 霉味,陈腐➕

🔊 In spite of its cafés chantants and its omnibuses, Moscow was yet a stagnant bog. Stepan Arkadyevitch always felt it. After living for some time in Moscow, especially in close relations with his family, he was conscious of a depression of spirits. After being a long time in Moscow without a change, he reached a point when he positively began to be worrying himself over his wife's ill-humour and reproaches, over his children's health and education, and the petty details of his official work; even the fact of being in debt worried him. But he had only to go and stay a little while in Petersburg, in the circle there in which he moved, where people lived--really lived--instead of vegetating as in Moscow, and all such ideas vanished and melted away at once, like wax before the fire. His wife?... Only that day he had been talking to Prince Tchetchensky. Prince Tchetchensky had a wife and family, grown-up pages in the corps, ... and he had another illegitimate family of children also. Though the first family was very nice too, Prince Tchetchensky felt happier in his second family; and he used to take his eldest son with him to his second family, and told Stepan Arkadyevitch that he thought it good for his son, enlarging his ideas. What would have been said to that in Moscow?

尽管有歌舞咖啡馆和公共马车,莫斯科依然是一片死气沉沉的沼泽。斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇总能感觉到这一点。在莫斯科住上一段时间后,尤其是与家人密切相处时,他总会感到精神压抑。若在莫斯科久居不变,他甚至会开始为妻子的坏脾气和指责、孩子的健康和教育、以及公务上的琐碎细节而烦恼；就连负债也令他忧心忡忡。但只要他去彼得堡小住一番,进入那个圈子--那里的人们真正地生活,而非像在莫斯科那样苟且度日--所有这些念头便顿时消散,如同蜡遇火一般。他的妻子？就在那天,他还和切琴斯基公爵谈过话。切琴斯基公爵有妻室儿女,儿子们都在军官学校读书……他还有另一房非婚生的孩子。尽管第一房家室也很好,但切琴斯基公爵在第二房家庭中感到更幸福；他经常带大儿子去第二房家庭,并告诉斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇,他认为这对儿子有好处,能开阔他的眼界。这种事在莫斯科会怎么说呢？

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stagnant /ˈstæɡnənt/

adj. 停滞的,不流动的➕

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bog /bɒɡ/

n. 沼泽,泥潭➕

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depression /dɪˈprɛʃən/

n. 抑郁,沮丧；经济萧条➕

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reproaches /rɪˈprəʊtʃɪz/

n. 责备,指责（复数）➕

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petty /ˈpɛti/

adj. 琐碎的,小的；心胸狭隘的➕

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vegetating /ˈvɛdʒɪteɪtɪŋ/

v. 过单调乏味的生活,像植物般生活➕

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vanished /ˈvænɪʃt/

v. 消失（过去式）➕

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melted /ˈmɛltɪd/

v. 融化（过去式）➕

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wax /wæks/

n. 蜡➕

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illegitimate /ˌɪlɪˈdʒɪtɪmət/

adj. 非法的,私生的➕

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corps /kɔːr/

n. 团队,军团➕

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enlarging /ɪnˈlɑːrdʒɪŋ/

v. 扩大（现在分词）➕

🔊 His children? In Petersburg children did not prevent their parents from enjoying life. The children were brought up in schools, and there was no trace of the wild idea that prevailed in Moscow, in Lvov's household, for instance, that all the luxuries of life were for the children, while the parents have nothing but work and anxiety. Here people understood that a man is in duty bound to live for himself, as every man of culture should live.

他的孩子？在彼得堡,孩子并不会妨碍父母享受生活。孩子们被送进学校,完全没有像莫斯科--比如在利沃夫家--那种荒唐的观念:所有奢华都该给孩子,而父母只有工作和操劳。这里的人们明白,一个人有责任为自己而活,正如每个有教养的人所应该的那样。

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prevailed /prɪˈveɪld/

v. 盛行,普遍存在（过去式）➕

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luxuries /ˈlʌkʃəriz/

n. 奢侈品（复数）➕

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anxiety /æŋˈzaɪəti/

n. 焦虑,担忧➕

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bound /baʊnd/

adj. 有义务的,受约束的➕

🔊 His official duties? Official work here was not the stiff, hopeless drudgery that it was in Moscow. Here there was some interest in official life. A chance meeting, a service rendered, a happy phrase, a knack of facetious mimicry, and a man's career might be made in a trice. So it had been with Bryantsev, whom Stepan Arkadyevitch had met the previous day, and who was one of the highest functionaries in government now. There was some interest in official work like that.

他的公务？这里的公务不像在莫斯科那样死板、无望、苦差事。在彼得堡,官场生活自有其趣味。一次偶遇、一次帮忙、一句妙语、一种逗趣模仿的本领,都可能让人一夜之间飞黄腾达。布良采夫就是这样,他前一天才见到斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇,现在已是政府高官之一。这样的公务工作自有其吸引力。

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drudgery /ˈdrʌdʒəri/

n. 苦工,单调乏味的工作➕

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knack /næk/

n. 诀窍,本领➕

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facetious /fəˈsiːʃəs/

adj. 滑稽的,爱开玩笑的➕

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mimicry /ˈmɪmɪkri/

n. 模仿,仿效➕

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trice /traɪs/

n. 瞬间（用于短语 in a trice）➕

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functionaries /ˈfʌŋkʃəneriz/

n. 官员,工作人员（复数）➕

🔊 The Petersburg attitude on pecuniary matters had an especially soothing effect on Stepan Arkadyevitch. Bartnyansky, who must spend at least fifty thousand to judge by the style he lived in, had made an interesting comment the day before on that subject. As they were talking before dinner, Stepan Arkadyevitch said to Bartnyansky:

彼得堡人对金钱的态度尤其让斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇感到舒心。前一天,以他那种生活方式至少需要花费五万卢布的巴尔特尼扬斯基,就这个话题发表了一番有趣的评论。饭前聊天时,斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇对巴尔特尼扬斯基说:

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pecuniary /pɪˈkjuːniəri/

adj. 金钱的,财政的➕

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soothing /ˈsuːðɪŋ/

adj. 安慰的,镇定的➕

🔊 "You're friendly, I fancy, with Mordvinsky; you might do me a favour: say a word to him, please, for me. There's an appointment I should like to get--secretary of the agency..."

“我看你和莫尔德温斯基很熟；能不能帮我个忙:替我跟他说句话。有个职位我很想得到--代理处秘书……”

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fancy /ˈfænsi/

v. 认为,想象；喜欢➕

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favour /ˈfeɪvər/

n. 帮助,善意的行为➕

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agency /ˈeɪdʒənsi/

n. 机构,代理处➕

🔊 "Oh, I shan't remember all that, if you tell it to me... But what possesses you to have to do with railways and Jews?... Take it as you will, it's a low business."

“哦,你要是跟我说这些,我可记不住……不过你干吗非要跟铁路和犹太人打交道呢？随你怎么想,这可不是什么体面事。”

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possesses /pəˈzɛsɪz/

v. 支配,驱使（第三人称单数）➕

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railways /ˈreɪlweɪz/

n. 铁路（复数）➕

🔊 Stepan Arkadyevitch did not say to Bartnyansky that it was a "growing thing"--Bartnyansky would not have understood that.

斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇没有对巴尔特尼扬斯基说这是“发展中的事业”--巴尔特尼扬斯基不会理解的。

🔊 "I want the money, I've nothing to live on."

“我需要钱,我没法维持生活了。”

🔊 "You're living, aren't you?"

“你现在不是活得好好的吗？”

🔊 "Yes, but in debt."

“是啊,但负债累累。”

🔊 "Are you, though? Heavily?"

“是吗？欠得多吗？”

🔊 "Very heavily: twenty thousand."

“很多:两万卢布。”

🔊 Bartnyansky broke into good-humoured laughter.

巴尔特尼扬斯基愉快地大笑起来。

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good-humoured /ˌɡʊd ˈhjuːməd/

adj. 心情愉快的,性情温和的➕

🔊 "Oh, lucky fellow!" said he. "My debts mount up to a million and a half, and I've nothing, and still I can live, as you see!"

“哦,幸运的家伙！”他说,“我欠的债已经达到一百五十万了,而我身无分文,但仍然能像你看到的那样生活！”

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mount up /ˈmaʊnt ʌp/

v. 增加,上升➕

🔊 And Stepan Arkadyevitch saw the correctness of this view not in words only but in actual fact. Zhivahov owed three hundred thousand, and hadn't a farthing to bless himself with, and he lived, and in style too! Count Krivtsov was considered a hopeless case by everyone, and yet he kept two mistresses. Petrovsky had run through five millions, and still lived in just the same style, and was even a manager in the financial department with a salary of twenty thousand. But besides this, Petersburg had physically an agreeable effect on Stepan Arkadyevitch. It made him younger. In Moscow he sometimes found a gray hair in his head, dropped asleep after dinner, stretched, walked slowly upstairs, breathing heavily, was bored by the society of young women, and did not dance at balls. In Petersburg he always felt ten years younger.

而斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇不仅从言语上,更从事实上看到了这种观点的正确性。日瓦霍夫欠了三十万,一个子儿都没有,却照样生活,而且派头十足！克里夫佐夫伯爵在所有人看来都无可救药,可他照样养着两个情妇。彼得罗夫斯基挥霍了五百万,生活依旧阔绰,甚至还当上了财政部门的主管,年薪两万。除此之外,彼得堡在生理上也对斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇产生了宜人的影响,让他年轻了许多。在莫斯科时,他有时会发现自己头上有了白发,饭后打瞌睡,伸懒腰,慢吞吞地上楼气喘吁吁,厌烦年轻女性的社交,在舞会上也不跳舞。而在彼得堡,他总觉得自己年轻了十岁。

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correctness /kəˈrektnəs/

n. 正确性；准确性➕

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financial /faɪˈnænʃl/

adj. 财务的；金融的➕

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salary /ˈsæləri/

n. 薪水；薪资➕

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physically /ˈfɪzɪkli/

adv. 身体上；物理上➕

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agreeable /əˈɡriːəbl/

adj. 令人愉快的；惬意的➕

🔊 His experience in Petersburg was exactly what had been described to him on the previous day by Prince Pyotr Oblonsky, a man of sixty, who had just come back from abroad: "We don't know the way to live here," said Pyotr Oblonsky. "I spent the summer in Baden, and you wouldn't believe it, I felt quite a young man. At a glimpse of a pretty woman, my thoughts... One dines and drinks a glass of wine, and feels strong and ready for anything. I came home to Russia--had to see my wife, and, what's more, go to my country place; and there, you'd hardly believe it, in a fortnight I'd got into a dressing gown and given up dressing for dinner. Needn't say I had no thoughts left for pretty women. I became quite an old gentleman. There was nothing left for me but to think of my eternal salvation. I went off to Paris--I was as right as could be at once."

他在彼得堡的经历,恰恰与前一天刚从国外回来的六十岁的彼得·奥布隆斯基公爵向他描述的一样。“我们这里不懂得如何生活,”彼得·奥布隆斯基说道,“我在巴登过了一个夏天,你简直不敢相信,我顿时觉得自己年轻了。一瞥见漂亮女人,我的思绪就……吃了饭喝杯酒,就感觉精力充沛,什么都愿意干。我回到俄罗斯--不得不去见妻子,还得去乡下的庄园；你几乎难以置信,两周后我就穿上了睡衣,连晚餐都不换装了。更别提对漂亮女人还有什么念头了。我彻底变成了一个老头子。除了考虑灵魂的救赎,我什么想法都没有了。我又去了趟巴黎--立刻就恢复了活力。”

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fortnight /ˈfɔːrtnaɪt/

n. 两星期；十四天➕

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dressing gown /ˈdresɪŋ ɡaʊn/

n. 晨衣；睡衣➕

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eternal /ɪˈtɜːrnəl/

adj. 永恒的；永久的➕

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salvation /sælˈveɪʃən/

n. 拯救；救赎➕

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glimpse /ɡlɪmps/

n. 一瞥；短暂的看见➕

🔊 Stepan Arkadyevitch felt exactly the difference that Pyotr Oblonsky described. In Moscow he degenerated so much that if he had had to be there for long together, he might in good earnest have come to considering his salvation; in Petersburg he felt himself a man of the world again.

斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇对彼得·奥布隆斯基描述的那种差异感同身受。在莫斯科,他堕落得太厉害,如果在那里待得太久,他真可能要认真考虑灵魂的救赎了；而在彼得堡,他又感觉自己是个上流社会的人了。

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degenerated /dɪˈdʒenəreɪtɪd/

v. 退化；堕落；变质➕

🔊 Between Princess Betsy Tverskaya and Stepan Arkadyevitch there had long existed rather curious relations. Stepan Arkadyevitch always flirted with her in jest, and used to say to her, also in jest, the most unseemly things, knowing that nothing delighted her so much. The day after his conversation with Karenin, Stepan Arkadyevitch went to see her, and felt so youthful that in this jesting flirtation and nonsense he recklessly went so far that he did not know how to extricate himself, as unluckily he was so far from being attracted by her that he thought her positively disagreeable. What made it hard to change the conversation was the fact that he was very attractive to her. So that he was considerably relieved at the arrival of Princess Myakaya, which cut short their tête-à-tête.

贝特西·特韦尔斯卡娅公爵夫人和斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇之间一直存在着相当奇特的关系。斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇总是开玩笑地和她调情,也开玩笑地对她说些最不堪入耳的话,知道没有什么比这更让她高兴的了。在与卡列宁谈话后的第二天,斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇去拜访她,感到自己如此年轻,以至于在这玩笑般的调情和胡言乱语中,他鲁莽地深陷其中,不知如何脱身,不幸的是他非但对她毫无兴趣,反而觉得她实在令人讨厌。更难改变话题的是,他发现自己对她极具吸引力。因此,当米亚卡娅公爵夫人到来,打断了他们的单独相处时,他大大松了口气。

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unseemly /ʌnˈsiːmli/

adj. 不体面的；不合适的➕

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recklessly /ˈrekləsli/

adv. 鲁莽地；不计后果地➕

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extricate /ˈekstrɪkeɪt/

v. 使解脱；救出；使摆脱➕

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tête-à-tête /ˌtet ɑː ˈtet/

n. 单独会晤；密谈➕

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cut short /kʌt ʃɔːrt/

v. 打断；缩短；中止➕

🔊 "Ah, so you're here!" said she when she saw him. "Well, and what news of your poor sister? You needn't look at me like that," she added. "Ever since they've all turned against her, all those who're a thousand times worse than she, I've thought she did a very fine thing. I can't forgive Vronsky for not letting me know when she was in Petersburg. I'd have gone to see her and gone about with her everywhere. Please give her my love. Come, tell me about her."

“啊,你也在这儿！”她看到他说,“喂,你那可怜的妹妹怎么样了？别那样看着我,”她补充道,“自从所有人都反对她以后--那些比她坏一千倍的人--我就觉得她做了一件非常好的事。我无法原谅弗龙斯基,她在彼得堡时他竟没通知我。我会去看她,陪她去任何地方。请代我向她问好。来,跟我说说她的事。”

🔊 "Yes, her position is very difficult; she..." began Stepan Arkadyevitch, in the simplicity of his heart accepting as sterling coin Princess Myakaya's words "tell me about her." Princess Myakaya interrupted him immediately, as she always did, and began talking herself. "She's done what they all do, except me--only they hide it. But she wouldn't be deceitful, and she did a fine thing. And she did better still in throwing up that crazy brother-in-law of yours. You must excuse me. Everybody used to say he was so clever, so very clever; I was the only one that said he was a fool. Now that he's so thick with Lidia Ivanovna and Landau, they all say he's crazy, and I should prefer not to agree with everybody, but this time I can't help it."

“是的,她的处境很艰难；她……”斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇天真地以为米亚卡娅公爵夫人那句“跟我说说她的事”是真心话,便开始说了起来。米亚卡娅公爵夫人像往常一样立刻打断了他,自己开始说话。“她做了所有女人都会做的事--除了我--只不过她们都藏着掖着。但她不愿欺骗,所以干得很漂亮。她甩掉你那个疯疯癫癫的妹夫,更是做对了。请原谅我。以前人人都说他聪明,非常聪明；只有我说他是个傻瓜。现在他那么黏着利季娅·伊万诺夫娜和兰道,大家都说他疯了,我本不想附和所有人,但这次我不得不这么说了。”

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simplicity /sɪmˈplɪsəti/

n. 简单；朴素；天真➕

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deceitful /dɪˈsiːtfəl/

adj. 欺诈的；不诚实的➕

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sterling coin /ˈstɜːrlɪŋ kɔɪn/

n. 真金白银；纯正可靠的东西➕

🔊 "Oh, do please explain," said Stepan Arkadyevitch; "what does it mean? Yesterday I was seeing him on my sister's behalf, and I asked him to give me a final answer. He gave me no answer, and said he would think it over. But this morning, instead of an answer, I received an invitation from Countess Lidia Ivanovna for this evening."

“哦,请解释一下,”斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇说,“这到底是什么意思？昨天我为了妹妹的事去见他,请他给我一个明确的答复。他没有回答,说要考虑一下。但今天早上,我没等到答复,反而收到了利季娅·伊万诺夫娜伯爵夫人今晚的邀请。”

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behalf /bɪˈhæf/

n. 代表；利益（常用于 on behalf of）➕

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Countess /ˈkaʊntɪs/

n. 伯爵夫人；女伯爵➕

🔊 "Ah, so that's it, that's it!" said Princess Myakaya gleefully, "they're going to ask Landau what he's to say."

“啊,原来是这样,原来是这样！”米亚卡娅公爵夫人兴高采烈地说,“他们要问兰道该怎么说。”

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gleefully /ˈɡliːfəli/

adv. 欢快地；幸灾乐祸地➕

🔊 "Ask Landau? What for? Who or what's Landau?"

“问兰道？为什么？兰道是谁,是什么人？”

🔊 "What! you don't know Jules Landau, le fameux Jules Landau, le clairvoyant? He's crazy too, but on him your sister's fate depends. See what comes of living in the provinces--you know nothing about anything. Landau, do you see, was a commis in a shop in Paris, and he went to a doctor's; and in the doctor's waiting room he fell asleep, and in his sleep he began giving advice to all the patients. And wonderful advice it was! Then the wife of Yury Meledinsky--you know, the invalid?--heard of this Landau, and had him to see her husband. And he cured her husband, though I can't say that I see he did him much good, for he's just as feeble a creature as ever he was, but they believed in him, and took him along with them and brought him to Russia. Here there's been a general rush to him, and he's begun doctoring everyone. He cured Countess Bezzubova, and she took such a fancy to him that she adopted him."

“什么！你连朱尔兰道,著名的朱尔·兰道,先知都不知道？他也是个疯子,但你妹妹的命运就取决于他。看看住在乡下是什么后果--你什么都不知道。兰道,你知道吧,原来是巴黎一家商店的店员,他去看医生；在医生的候诊室里睡着了,睡梦中开始给所有病人出主意。而且出的主意非常棒！后来尤里·梅列金斯基的妻子--你知道,那个病人？--听说了这个兰道,就把他请来给丈夫治病。他把她丈夫治好了,虽然我不觉得真有多大效果,因为他还是那么虚弱,但他们都相信他,就带着他一起来到俄罗斯。这里的人一窝蜂地涌向他,他开始给所有人治病。他治好了别祖博娃伯爵夫人,伯爵夫人特别喜欢他,就收养了他。”

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clairvoyant /kleərˈvɔɪənt/

adj. 有洞察力的；有千里眼的➕

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invalid /ˈɪnvəlɪd/

n. 病人；体弱者➕

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feeble /ˈfiːbəl/

adj. 虚弱的；无力的➕

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doctoring /ˈdɒktərɪŋ/

v. 行医；医治（动词 doctor 的现在分词/动名词）➕

🔊 "Adopted him?"

“收养了他？”

🔊 "Yes, as her son. He's not Landau any more now, but Count Bezzubov. That's neither here nor there, though; but Lidia--I'm very fond of her, but she has a screw loose somewhere--has lost her heart to this Landau now, and nothing is settled now in her house or Alexey Alexandrovitch's without him, and so your sister's fate is now in the hands of Landau, alias Count Bezzubov."

“是的,作为儿子。他现在不再是兰道了,而是别兹祖博夫伯爵。不过这倒无关紧要,可是莉迪娅--我很喜欢她,但她脑子有点不正常--如今迷上了这个兰道,没有他,她和阿列克谢·亚历山德罗维奇家里什么事都定不下来。所以你妹妹的命运现在就掌握在兰道,也就是别兹祖博夫伯爵手里了。”

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alias /ˈeɪliəs/

adv. 又名为；也称为➕

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neither here nor there /ˈniːðər hɪər nɔːr ðeər/

phr. 不相关；无关紧要➕

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screw loose /skruː luːs/

n. 螺丝松动；古怪之处（have a screw loose 表示有点古怪）➕

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lost her heart /lɒst hɜːr hɑːrt/

v. 爱上了（某人）➕

Part Seven – Chapter twenty (第二十章)

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