🔊 When there were no longer any of the leaders left alive, except Enjolras and Marius at the two extremities of the barricade, the centre, which had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, gave way. The cannon, though it had not effected a practicable breach, had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled away; and the rubbish which had fallen, now inside, now outside, had, as it accumulated, formed two piles in the nature of slopes on the two sides of the barrier, one on the inside, the other on the outside. The exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack.

当除了位于街垒两端的安灼拉和马吕斯之外,再也没有任何领袖活着的时候,长久以来由古费拉克、若李、波舒哀、弗以伊和公白飞支撑的中央部分终于崩溃了。那门炮虽然没有轰开一个可通行的缺口,却在棱堡中央炸出一个相当大的凹陷；在那里,墙顶被炮弹削平,坍塌下来；落下的碎石砖块,有的落在墙内,有的落在墙外,堆积起来,在壁垒两侧形成了两个斜坡状的堆垛--一个在内侧,一个在外侧。外侧的斜坡正好为进攻者提供了一条斜面。

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barricade /ˌbærɪˈkeɪd/

n. 街垒；路障➕

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sustained /səˈsteɪnd/

v. (past tense). 支撑；维持➕

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breach /briːtʃ/

n. 缺口；突破➕

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barrier /ˈbæriər/

n. 障碍；屏障➕

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exterior /ɪkˈstɪriər/

adj. 外部的；外面的➕

🔊 A final assault was there attempted, and this assault succeeded. The mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with irresistible force, and the serried front of battle of the attacking column made its appearance through the smoke on the crest of the battlements. This time, it was decisive. The group of insurgents who were defending the centre retreated in confusion.

一次最后的冲锋在那里尝试,并且成功了。那支刺刀林立、向前猛冲的队伍以不可阻挡的力量涌来,密集的进攻队列透过硝烟出现在壁垒的顶端。这一次,是决定性的。守卫中央的那群起义者混乱地撤退了。

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assault /əˈsɔːlt/

n. 攻击；袭击➕

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decisive /dɪˈsaɪsɪv/

adj. 决定性的；果断的➕

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insurgents /ɪnˈsɜːrdʒənts/

n. 叛乱者；起义者➕

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confusion /kənˈfjuːʒən/

n. 混乱；困惑➕

🔊 Then the gloomy love of life awoke once more in some of them. Many, finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not wish to die. This is a moment when the instinct of self-preservation emits howls, when the beast reappears in men. They were hemmed in by the lofty, six-story house which formed the background of their redoubt. This house might prove their salvation. The building was barricaded, and walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line had reached the interior of the redoubt, there was time for a door to open and shut, the space of a flash of lightning was sufficient for that, and the door of that house, suddenly opened a crack and closed again instantly, was life for these despairing men. Behind this house, there were streets, possible flight, space. They set to knocking at that door with the butts of their guns, and with kicks, shouting, calling, entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them.

这时,那种阴郁的求生欲又在他们中的一些人心中复苏。许多人发现自己置身于这片枪林弹雨的枪口之下,不愿意死。这是一个时刻,当自卫的本能发出嚎叫,野兽在人身上重现。他们被作为棱堡背景的那栋六层高的大楼围困在其中。这栋楼或许能拯救他们。这栋建筑被层层封锁,仿佛从上到下都被封死了。在正规军部队冲进棱堡内部之前,还有时间打开又关上一扇门,一眨眼的工夫就足够了；那栋楼的门突然开了一条缝,又立刻关上,对于这些绝望的人来说,那就是生路。在这栋楼后面,有街道,可以逃生,有空间。他们开始用枪托撞门,用脚踢,呼喊,求饶,扭绞着双手。没有人开门。从三楼的小窗口,那个死人的头俯视着他们。

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instinct /ˈɪnstɪŋkt/

n. 本能；直觉➕

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self-preservation /ˌselfˌprezərˈveɪʃən/

n. 自我保护；自卫➕

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sufficient /səˈfɪʃənt/

adj. 足够的；充分的➕

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despairing /dɪˈsperɪŋ/

adj. 绝望的；无望的➕

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flight /flaɪt/

n. 逃跑；飞行➕

🔊 But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, sprang forward and protected them. Enjolras had shouted to the soldiers: "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with his back planted against the Corinthe building, a sword in one hand, a rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he barred against assailants. He shouted to the desperate men: -- "There is but one door open; this one." -- And shielding them with his body, and facing an entire battalion alone, he made them pass in behind him. All precipitated themselves thither. Enjolras, executing with his rifle, which he now used like a cane, what singlestick players call a "covered rose" round his head, levelled the bayonets around and in front of him, and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the soldiers tried to make their way in, and the insurgents strove to bar them out. The door was slammed with such violence, that, as it fell back into its frame, it showed the five fingers of a soldier who had been clinging to it, cut off and glued to the post.

但是安灼拉和马吕斯,以及聚集在他们身边的七八个人,冲上前去保护他们。安灼拉曾对士兵们喊道:“不准前进！”一名军官没有服从,安灼拉便杀死了那名军官。此刻他身处棱堡的小内院,背靠着科林斯建筑,一手持剑,一手持枪,挡着酒馆的门,阻止进攻者进入。他对那些绝望的人喊道:“只有一扇门开着,就是这扇。”他用身体掩护他们,独自面对整整一个营,让他们从他身后通过。所有人一拥而入。安灼拉用步枪（现在他把它当棍子使）在头顶挥舞,做出击棍手所谓的“护顶击”,扫平了周围和前方的刺刀,他是最后一个进去的；随即出现了可怕的一幕:士兵们试图冲进去,起义者则拼命挡住他们。门被猛地关上,以至于门框落回原位时,露出了一名士兵紧抓门框的五根手指,被切断并粘在了门柱上。

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desperate /ˈdespərət/

adj. 绝望的；拼命的➕

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entire /ɪnˈtaɪər/

adj. 整个的；全部的➕

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battalion /bəˈtæljən/

n. 营；大队➕

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precipitated /prɪˈsɪpɪteɪtɪd/

v. (past tense). 促使；突然陷入➕

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ensued /ɪnˈsuːd/

v. (past tense). 随后发生；接着发生➕

🔊 Marius remained outside. A shot had just broken his collar bone, he felt that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already shut, he felt the shock of a vigorous hand seizing him, and the swoon in which his senses vanished, hardly allowed him time for the thought, mingled with a last memory of Cosette: -- "I am taken prisoner. I shall be shot."

马吕斯留在了外面。一颗子弹刚刚打断了他的锁骨,他感到自己快要晕倒、快要倒下。那一刻,已经闭上眼睛的他,感觉到一只有力的手抓住了他,而随着意识消失的昏厥,使他几乎没有时间思考,只夹杂着对珂赛特的最后记忆:“我成了俘虏。我会被枪毙的。”

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vigorous /ˈvɪɡərəs/

adj. 有力的；精力充沛的➕

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vanished /ˈvænɪʃt/

v. (past tense). 消失；消散➕

🔊 Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and chain, while those outside were battering furiously at it, the soldiers with the butts of their muskets, the sappers with their axes. The assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was now beginning.

安灼拉没有在酒馆避难的人群中看到马吕斯,也有同样的想法。但此时已经到了每个人都没有时间思考自己死亡的时刻。安灼拉把门闩横在门上,插上门闩,又用钥匙和链条上了双锁,而外面的人正疯狂地砸门--士兵用枪托,工兵用斧头。进攻者聚集在门边。酒馆的围攻现在开始了。

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refuge /ˈrefjuːdʒ/

n. 避难所；庇护➕

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meditate /ˈmedɪteɪt/

v. 冥想；思考➕

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siege /siːdʒ/

n. 包围；围攻➕

🔊 The soldiers, we will observe, were full of wrath.

我们要指出,士兵们满怀怒火。

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wrath /ræθ/

n. 愤怒；盛怒➕

🔊 The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still more melancholy circumstance. During the few hours which had preceded the attack, it had been reported among them that the insurgents were mutilating their prisoners, and that there was the headless body of a soldier in the wine-shop. This sort of fatal rumor is the usual accompaniment of civil wars, and it was a false report of this kind which, later on, produced the catastrophe of the Rue Transnonain.

炮兵中士的死激怒了他们,此外还有一件更悲惨的事。在进攻前的几个小时里,士兵中流传着谣言,说起义者正在残害俘虏,酒馆里有一具无头的士兵尸体。这种致命的谣言是内战中常见的伴随物,正是这类假报告后来导致了特朗斯诺南街的惨案。

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enraged /ɪnˈreɪdʒd/

adj./v. (past tense). 激怒的；被激怒➕

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melancholy /ˈmelənkɒli/

adj./n. 忧郁的；忧郁➕

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fatal /ˈfeɪtl/

adj. 致命的；灾难性的➕

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catastrophe /kəˈtæstrəfi/

n. 灾难；灾祸➕

🔊 When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: "Let us sell our lives dearly."

当门被堵死后,安灼拉对其他人说:“让我们拼死一战。”

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dearly /ˈdɪrli/

adv. 昂贵地；深情地➕

🔊 Then he approached the table on which lay Mabeuf and Gavroche. Beneath the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the cold folds of the shroud. A hand projected from beneath the winding sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. Enjolras bent down and kissed that venerable hand, just as he had kissed his brow on the preceding evening.

然后他走近那张放着马伯夫和伽弗洛什的桌子。黑布下隐约可见两个僵硬笔直的身影,一大一小,两张脸在裹尸布冰冷的褶皱下隐约可辨。一只手从尸布下伸出来,垂在地板附近。那是老人的手。安灼拉俯身亲吻了那只可敬的手,就像前一天晚上他亲吻老人的额头一样。

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rigid /ˈrɪdʒɪd/

adj. 僵硬的；严格的➕

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visible /ˈvɪzəbl/

adj. 看得见的；明显的➕

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venerable /ˈvenərəbl/

adj. 令人尊敬的；古老的➕

🔊 These were the only two kisses which he had bestowed in the course of his life.

这是他一生中仅有的两次亲吻。

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bestowed /bɪˈstoʊd/

v. (past tense). 给予；授予➕

🔊 Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes; the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are dogged. No quarter. No flag of truce possible. Men are willing to die, provided their opponent will kill them. When Suchet says: -- "Capitulate," -- Palafox replies: "After the war with cannon, the war with knives." Nothing was lacking in the capture by assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers by crushing them horribly, nor shots fired from the attic-windows and the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, the frenzied madness of extermination. The assailants, rushing into the wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been beaten in and flung on the ground, found not a single combatant there. The spiral staircase, hewn asunder with the axe, lay in the middle of the taproom, a few wounded men were just breathing their last, everyone who was not killed was on the first floor, and from there, through the hole in the ceiling, which had formed the entrance of the stairs, a terrific fire burst forth. It was the last of their cartridges. When they were exhausted, when these formidable men on the point of death had no longer either powder or ball, each grasped in his hands two of the bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and held the scaling party in check with these frightfully fragile clubs. They were bottles of aquafortis.

让我们长话短说。那街垒曾像底比斯的城门一样战斗；那酒馆则像萨拉戈萨的房屋一样战斗。这些抵抗是顽强的。不留活口。不可能有休战旗。人们愿意去死,只要对手会杀死他们。当絮歇说:“投降吧,”帕拉福克斯回答:“大炮战之后,是刀战。”在于什鲁酒馆的强攻中,什么都不缺:既有从窗户和屋顶雨点般落下的铺路石,砸得士兵血肉模糊,激怒了围攻者；又有从阁楼窗户和地窖射出的子弹；还有进攻的狂怒；最后,当门被冲开时,那种疯狂灭绝的欲望。进攻者冲进酒馆,脚被砸在地上的门板绊住,却发现里面没有一个战斗者。螺旋楼梯被斧头砍断,倒在酒馆中央；几个伤员正在咽气；所有没死的人都上了二楼,从那里,通过原先楼梯入口的天花板洞口,射出了猛烈的火力。这是他们最后的弹药。当弹药耗尽,当这些濒临死亡的可怕汉子既没有火药也没有子弹时,每个人抓起两瓶安灼拉事先留下的、我们提到过的瓶子,用这些极其脆弱的棍棒阻挡着登梯的敌人。那是硝酸瓶。

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resistances /rɪˈzɪstənsɪz/

n. 抵抗；抵抗力量➕

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dogged /ˈdɒɡɪd/

adj. 顽强的；坚持不懈的➕

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opponent /əˈpoʊnənt/

n. 对手；反对者➕

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capture /ˈkæptʃər/

n./v. 捕获；夺取➕

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exasperating /ɪɡˈzæspəreɪtɪŋ/

adj. 使人恼怒的；激怒人的➕

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formidable /fɔːrˈmɪdəbl/

adj. 可怕的；令人敬畏的；强大的➕

🔊 We relate these gloomy incidents of carnage as they occurred. The besieged man, alas! converts everything into a weapon. Greek fire did not disgrace Archimedes, boiling pitch did not disgrace Bayard. All war is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the besiegers, though confined and embarrassed by being directed from below upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily surrounded by heads of the slain, whence dripped long, red and smoking streams, the uproar was indescribable; a close and burning smoke almost produced night over this combat. Words are lacking to express horror when it has reached this pitch. There were no longer men in this conflict, which was now infernal. They were no longer giants matched with colossi. It resembled Milton and Dante rather than Homer. Demons attacked, spectres resisted.

我们如实记述这些阴森可怖的屠杀场面。唉,被围困的人把一切东西都变成了武器。希腊火没有让阿基米德蒙羞,滚烫的沥青也没有让巴亚尔蒙羞。所有战争都是恐怖之事,没有选择。围攻者的步枪射击虽然因从下往上受到限制和阻碍,却是致命的。天花板洞口的边缘很快围满了被击毙者的头颅,从那里滴下长长的、红色冒烟的溪流；喧嚣无法形容；浓密灼热的硝烟几乎使这场战斗陷入黑夜。当恐怖达到这种程度时,言语已不足以表达。这场冲突中不再有人,它已变得地狱般。他们不再是巨人对阵巨人。它更像弥尔顿和但丁,而非荷马。恶魔进攻,鬼魂抵抗。

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carnage /ˈkɑːrnɪdʒ/

n. 大屠杀；残杀➕

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weapon /ˈwepən/

n. 武器；兵器➕

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infernal /ɪnˈfɜːrnl/

adj. 地狱般的；魔鬼般的➕

🔊 It was heroism become monstrous.

这是变成了怪物的英雄主义。

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heroism /ˈheroʊɪzəm/

n. 英雄主义；英勇行为➕

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monstrous /ˈmɒnstrəs/

adj. 可怕的；巨大的；怪异的➕

Book I. The War Between Four Walls – Chapter twenty-two: Foot to Foot (第二十二章:步步紧逼)

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