🔊 Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M-- sur M-- enjoyed a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for virtue had filled the whole of Bas Boulonnais; it had eventually passed the confines of a small district and had been spread abroad through two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had rendered to the chief town by resuscitating the black jet industry, there was not one out of the hundred and forty communes of the arrondissement of M-- sur M-- which was not indebted to him for some benefit. He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the industries of other arrondissements. It was thus that he had, when occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen factory at Boulogne, the flax-spinning industry at Frévent, and the hydraulic manufacture of cloth at Boubers-sur-Canche. Everywhere the name of M. Madeleine was pronounced with veneration. Arras and Douai envied the happy little town of M-- sur M-- its mayor.

尽管市长本人并未察觉,蒙特伊小城却享有着某种声名。七年来,他的美德声誉传遍了整个下布洛涅；最终越出这小片地区的边界,扩散到两三个相邻省份。除了他通过复兴黑玉产业为这座首府做出的贡献外,蒙特勒伊区一百四十个市镇,没有一个不曾受惠于他。他甚至必要时还设法扶持并扩大其他区的产业。就这样,趁有机遇时,他用他的信用和资金支持了布洛涅的织布厂、弗雷旺的亚麻纺纱业,以及康什河畔布贝尔的机械织布厂。马德兰先生的名字处处受到尊崇。阿拉斯和杜埃都羡慕蒙特伊这座幸福的小城,它有这样一位市长。

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celebrity /səˈlebrəti/

n. 名人,名声➕

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veneration /ˌvenəˈreɪʃn/

n. 尊敬,崇敬➕

🔊 The Councillor of the Royal Court of Douai, who was presiding over this session of the Assizes at Arras, was acquainted, in common with the rest of the world, with this name which was so profoundly and universally honored. When the usher, discreetly opening the door which connected the council-chamber with the courtroom, bent over the back of the President's armchair and handed him the paper on which was inscribed the line which we have just perused, adding: "The gentleman desires to be present at the trial," the President, with a quick and deferential movement, seized a pen and wrote a few words at the bottom of the paper and returned it to the usher, saying, "Admit him."

主持这次在阿拉斯举行的重罪法庭会议的杜埃皇家法院的咨议,和世人一样,也知道这个深受普遍尊敬的名字。当传达员悄悄推开连接议事室与审判厅的门,俯身到庭长的扶手椅椅背上,递给他那张写着我们刚才读过的内容的纸片,并补充说“这位先生希望旁听审判”时,庭长迅速而恭敬地拿起笔,在那张纸的下方写了几句话,交还给传达员,并说道:“让他进来。”

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profoundly /prəˈfaʊndli/

adv. 深深地,深刻地➕

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deferential /ˌdefəˈrenʃl/

adj. 恭敬的,顺从的➕

🔊 The unhappy man whose history we are relating had remained near the door of the hall, in the same place and the same attitude in which the usher had left him. In the midst of his reverie he heard someone saying to him, "Will Monsieur do me the honour to follow me?" It was the same usher who had turned his back upon him but a moment previously, and who was now bowing to the earth before him. At the same time, the usher handed him the paper. He unfolded it, and as he chanced to be near the light, he could read it.

那个我们正在叙述其故事的不幸的人,一直待在审判厅门口,留在传达员离开他时的同一位置和同一姿态。他正陷入沉思,忽然听见有人对他说:“先生,可以赏光随我来吗？”正是刚才那位背对着他的传达员,此刻正对他深鞠躬。同时,传达员递给他那张纸。他展开纸,恰巧站在灯光旁,便读了起来。

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reverie /ˈrevəri/

n. 幻想,白日梦➕

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unfolded /ʌnˈfəʊldɪd/

v. 展开,打开（过去式）➕

🔊 "The President of the Court of Assizes presents his respects to M. Madeleine." He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him a strange and bitter aftertaste.

“重罪法庭庭长向马德兰先生致敬。” 他把纸揉在手里,仿佛这几个字对他来说包含着一种奇怪而苦涩的余味。

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aftertaste /ˈɑːftəteɪst/

n. 回味,余味➕

🔊 He followed the usher. A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted cabinet of severe aspect, lighted by two wax candles, placed upon a table with a green cloth. The last words of the usher who had just quitted him still rang in his ears: "Monsieur, you are now in the council-chamber; you have only to turn the copper handle of yonder door, and you will find yourself in the courtroom, behind the President's chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed.

他跟着传达员。几分钟后,他独自来到一间嵌板的小室,样子严肃,点着两支蜡烛,放在一张铺着绿毡的桌子上。刚刚离开他的传达员最后几句话还在他耳中回响:“先生,您现在在议事室里；只需转动那扇门的铜把手,您就会进入审判厅,位于庭长的椅子后面。” 这些话和他刚才走过的狭窄走廊、黑暗楼梯的模糊记忆混杂在一起。

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cabinet /ˈkæbɪnət/

n. 小房间,内阁➕

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traversed /ˈtrævɜːst/

v. 穿越,横过（过去式）➕

🔊 The usher had left him alone. The supreme moment had arrived. He sought to collect his faculties, but could not. It is chiefly at the moment when there is the greatest need for attaching them to the painful realities of life, that the threads of thought snap within the brain. He was in the very place where the judges deliberated and condemned. With stupid tranquillity he surveyed this peaceful and terrible apartment, where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing.

传达员留下他独自一人。关键的时刻到了。他试图集中思绪,却做不到。正是在最需要将思绪系于痛苦现实的时刻,思想之线在脑中断裂了。他身处的正是法官们商议和判决的地方。他带着木然的平静审视着这个既安宁又可怕的房间--这里曾碾碎过多少生命,这里很快将响起他的名字,而他的命运此刻正穿越此地。

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supreme /suːˈpriːm/

adj. 最高的,至高的➕

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deliberated /dɪˈlɪbəreɪtɪd/

v. 审议,仔细考虑（过去式）➕

🔊 He stared at the wall, then he looked at himself, wondering that it should be that chamber and that it should be he.

他凝视着墙壁,然后又看看自己,心中暗自诧异:眼前竟是这间屋子,而自己竟站在这里。

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wondering /ˈwʌndərɪŋ/

v. 感到好奇；想知道➕

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chamber /ˈtʃeɪmbər/

n. 房间；室（尤指卧室或议院）➕

🔊 He had eaten nothing for four and twenty hours; he was worn out by the jolts of the cart, but he was not conscious of it. It seemed to him that he felt nothing.

他已经二十四小时没有进食；马车的颠簸使他筋疲力尽,但他并未察觉。他似乎觉得自己什么也感觉不到。

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worn out /ˌwɔːn ˈaʊt/

adj. 筋疲力尽的,耗尽的➕

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conscious /ˈkɒnʃəs/

adj. 意识到的,清醒的➕

🔊 He approached a black frame which was suspended on the wall, and which contained, under glass, an ancient autograph letter of Jean Nicolas Pache, mayor of Paris and minister, and dated, through an error, no doubt, the ninth of June, of the year II, and in which Pache forwarded to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read it two or three times. He read it without paying any attention to it, and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette.

他走近墙上挂着的黑色镜框,里面镶着一封让·尼古拉·帕什--巴黎市长兼部长--的亲笔信,日期写的是“共和二年六月九日”,这大概是个笔误；帕什在信中向市镇提交了他们拘押的部长和议员名单。任何碰巧在那时看见他并留意他的人,想必都会觉得这封信令他极为好奇,因为他目光始终没有离开,反复看了两三次。但他读信时心不在焉,全无意识。他心中想着的是芳汀和珂赛特。

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spectator /spekˈteɪtə(r)/

n. 旁观者,观众➕

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unconsciously /ʌnˈkɒnʃəsli/

adv. 无意识地,不知不觉地➕

🔊 As he dreamed, he turned round, and his eyes fell upon the brass knob of the door which separated him from the Court of Assizes. He had almost forgotten that door. His glance, calm at first, paused there, remained fixed on that brass handle, then grew terrified, and little by little became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among his hair and trickled down upon his temples.

他正沉思着,转过身来,目光落到那扇将他与重罪法庭隔开的铜门把手上。他几乎忘了那扇门。起初平静的目光停留在那,盯着那铜把手,随后变得惊恐,渐渐充满了恐惧。汗珠从他发间渗出,顺着太阳穴淌下。

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perspiration /ˌpɜːspɪˈreɪʃn/

n. 汗水,出汗➕

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trickled /ˈtrɪkld/

v. 滴下,涓流（过去式）➕

🔊 At a certain moment he made that indescribable gesture of a sort of authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and which does so well convey, "Pardieu! who compels me to this?" Then he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had entered in front of him, went to it, opened it, and passed out. He was no longer in that chamber; he was outside in a corridor, a long, narrow corridor, broken by steps and gratings, making all sorts of angles, lighted here and there by lanterns similar to the night taper of invalids, the corridor through which he had approached. He breathed, he listened; not a sound in front, not a sound behind him, and he fled as though pursued.

在某一刻,他做出了那种难以描述、带着权威与反抗并存的手势,这手势意在传达、也确实很好地传达了:“见鬼！谁逼我了？”随即他猛地转身,看见前方他进来的那扇门,走过去,打开门,走了出去。他不再在那间屋子里；他到了外面一条走廊里--一条又长又窄的走廊,点缀着台阶和栅栏,拐着各种弯,到处点着类似病号夜灯的灯笼,正是他刚才走过的走廊。他喘息着,聆听着:前面没有声响,后面也没有声响。他像被追赶似的逃跑。

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rebellion /rɪˈbeljən/

n. 反叛,反抗➕

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fled /fled/

v. 逃跑（过去式）➕

🔊 When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The same silence reigned, and there was the same darkness around him. He was out of breath; he staggered; he leaned against the wall. The stone was cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself up with a shiver.

当他在这条走廊里拐了许多弯后,他又停下来倾听。四周仍是同样的寂静,周围仍是同样的黑暗。他喘不过气来,跌跌撞撞,靠在墙上。石头是冷的；汗水冰冷地挂在他的额头上；他打了个寒颤,直起身来。

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staggered /ˈstæɡəd/

v. 蹒跚,踉跄（过去式）➕

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ice-cold /ˌaɪs ˈkəʊld/

adj. 冰冷的➕

🔊 Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with something else, too, perchance, he meditated.

然后,孤零零地待在黑暗中,因寒冷--或许也因其他什么东西--而颤抖着,他陷入了沉思。

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perchance /pəˈtʃɑːns/

adv. 偶然,或许➕

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meditated /ˈmedɪteɪtɪd/

v. 沉思,冥想（过去式）➕

🔊 He had meditated all night long; he had meditated all the day: he heard within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!"

他已经沉思了整整一夜；又沉思了整整一天:他内心只听见一个声音,在说:“唉！”

🔊 A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed with agony, dropped his arms, and retraced his steps. He walked slowly, and as though crushed. It seemed as though someone had overtaken him in his flight and was leading him back.

这样过了一刻钟。终于,他低下头,痛苦地叹了口气,垂下了双臂,转身往回走。他走得很慢,仿佛被压垮了。似乎有人在他逃跑时追上了他,正把他带回去。

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agony /ˈæɡəni/

n. 痛苦,剧痛➕

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overtaken /ˌəʊvəˈteɪkən/

v. 追上,赶上（过去分词）➕

🔊 He re-entered the council-chamber. The first thing he caught sight of was the knob of the door. This knob, which was round and of polished brass, shone like a terrible star for him. He gazed at it as a lamb might gaze into the eye of a tiger.

他重新走进议事室。他第一眼看见的便是那门把手。这把手是圆形的黄铜,擦得锃亮,在他眼中像一颗可怕星星。他盯着它,就像羔羊凝视着老虎的眼睛。

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re-entered /ˌriːˈentərd/

v. 重新进入➕

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council-chamber /ˈkaʊnsəl ˌtʃeɪmbər/

n. 会议室,议事厅➕

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knob /nɒb/

n. 球形把手,旋钮➕

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polished /ˈpɒlɪʃt/

adj. 磨光的,抛光过的；优雅的➕

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brass /brɑːs/

n. 黄铜➕

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terrible /ˈterəbl/

adj. 可怕的,糟糕的➕

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gazed /ɡeɪzd/

v. 凝视,注视➕

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lamb /læm/

n. 羔羊,小羊➕

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tiger /ˈtaɪɡər/

n. 老虎➕

🔊 He could not take his eyes from it. From time to time he advanced a step and approached the door.

他无法把目光从上面移开。他时不时向前迈一步,靠近那扇门。

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advanced /ədˈvɑːnst/

v. 前进,推进➕

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approached /əˈprəʊtʃt/

v. 接近,靠近➕

🔊 Had he listened, he would have heard the sound of the adjoining hall like a sort of confused murmur; but he did not listen, and he did not hear.

如果他侧耳倾听,他会听到隔壁大厅里传来某种模糊的嗡嗡声；但他没有听,也听不见。

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adjoining /əˈdʒɔɪnɪŋ/

adj. 相邻的,毗邻的➕

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confused /kənˈfjuːzd/

adj. 困惑的,混乱的➕

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murmur /ˈmɜːrmər/

n. 低语声,咕哝声➕

🔊 Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near the door; he grasped the knob convulsively; the door opened.

突然,他自己也不知是怎么发生的,他已经站在门边；他痉挛地抓住把手,门开了。

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Suddenly /ˈsʌdənli/

adv. 突然地➕

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convulsively /kənˈvʌlsɪvli/

adv. 痉挛地,抽搐地➕

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grasped /ɡrɑːspt/

v. 抓住,理解➕

🔊 He was in the courtroom.

他进入了审判厅。

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courtroom /ˈkɔːrtruːm/

n. 法庭,审判室➕

Book VII. The Champmathieu Affair – Chapter eight: An Entrance by Favour (第八章:恩准入席)

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