🔊 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII, with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers’ shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as churchwarden in the churchwarden’s pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d’Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Eskimo mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor’s platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuffbox à la Charter.

1817年,被路易十八以某种不失骄傲的王者风度称为他统治的第二十二年。这一年,布鲁吉埃·德·索尔松先生备受推崇。所有的理发店,因期盼着发粉和王室白色羽毛的归来,纷纷涂上天蓝色,饰以鸢尾花纹。那是个天真的时代,林奇伯爵每周日都穿着法国贵族服饰,佩戴红色绶带,带着他那独特的长鼻子和显赫侧影--那是属于完成过光辉业绩的人才有的气度--坐在圣日耳曼德普雷教堂的执事席位上。林奇先生的光辉业绩如下:1814年3月12日,身为波尔多市长的他,过于迅速地将城市拱手交给了昂古莱姆公爵先生。于是,他得到了贵族头衔。1817年,时尚把四至六岁的男童吞没在巨大的山羊皮帽中,那帽子带有耳罩,形似爱斯基摩人的皮帽。法国军队按照奥地利模式穿着白色制服；兵团改称“军团”；番号不再是数字,而是省份的名称；拿破仑被囚禁在圣赫勒拿岛；由于英国拒绝提供绿色呢布,他只好翻穿旧大衣。1817年,佩利格里尼在歌唱,比戈蒂尼小姐在舞蹈,波蒂埃独领风骚,奥德里尚未出现。萨基夫人接替了福里奥索。普鲁士人仍驻留在法国。德拉洛先生是一位显贵。正统派刚刚通过砍断普莱尼耶、卡尔博诺和托勒隆的手与头来彰显自身。塔列朗亲王--大内侍,以及被任命为财政部长的路易神父,彼此相视而笑,如同两位占卜师那心照不宣的笑容；两人曾在1790年7月14日于战神广场主持过联盟弥撒；塔列朗以主教身份主持,路易则以执事身份辅祭。1817年,在这同一个战神广场的林荫小道上,可以看到两根巨大的木柱躺在雨中,在草丛里腐烂,涂着蓝色油漆,上面有鹰和蜜蜂的痕迹,镀金正在脱落。这两根木柱是两年前在五月校场上支撑皇帝讲台的。它们这里那里被驻扎在巨石广场附近的奥地利人营火的焦痕熏黑。其中两三根木柱已经在这些营火中消失,用来温暖帝国军队的大手。五月校场有一个显著特点:它是在六月举行的,地点却在三月校场（战神广场）。在这一年,1817年,有两样东西很流行:伏尔泰-图凯和“宪章”鼻烟盒。

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assurance /əˈʃʊərəns/

n. 保证；自信；确信➕

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celebrated /ˈsɛlɪbreɪtɪd/

adj. 著名的；驰名的➕

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candid /ˈkændɪd/

adj. 坦率的；公正的；纯净的➕

🔊 The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother’s head into the fountain of the Flower-Market.

巴黎最近轰动的事件是多东的罪行--他将自己兄弟的头颅扔进了花卉市场的喷泉中。

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sensation /sɛnˈseɪʃən/

n. 轰动；感觉；知觉➕

🔊 They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, the Medusa, which was destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Géricault with glory. Colonel Selves was going to Egypt to become Soliman-Pasha. The palace of Thermes, in the Rue de La Harpe, served as a shop for a cooper. On the platform of the octagonal tower of the Hotel de Cluny, the little shed of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval astronomer under Louis XVI, was still to be seen. The Duchesse de Duras read to three or four friends her unpublished Ourika, in her boudoir furnished by X. in sky-blue satin. The N’s were scratched off the Louvre. The bridge of Austerlitz had abdicated, and was entitled the bridge of the King’s Garden, a double enigma, which disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one stroke.

海军部开始焦虑,因为那艘注定要让肖马雷蒙羞、让热里科获取荣耀的致命护卫舰“美杜莎号”杳无音信。塞尔夫上校前往埃及,准备成为苏里曼帕夏。拉阿尔普街的泰尔姆宫被用作一家箍桶铺。在克吕尼酒店八角塔的平台上,仍能看到为路易十六时期的航海天文学家梅西耶充当观测站的小木板棚。迪拉斯公爵夫人在她那个由某位先生装饰着天蓝色缎子的闺房里,向三四个朋友朗读她未出版的《乌里卡》。卢浮宫上的N字被刮掉了。奥斯特利茨桥已退位,改名为“御花园桥”--一个双重谜语,同时掩盖了奥斯特利茨桥和植物园。

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anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/

adj. 焦虑的；急切的➕

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fatal /ˈfeɪtəl/

adj. 致命的；毁灭性的➕

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frigate /ˈfrɪɡɪt/

n. 护卫舰；三桅快速帆船➕

🔊 Louis XVIII, much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the corner of his fingernail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties--Napoleon and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize subject, "The Happiness procured through Study." M. Bellart was officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis Courier. There was a false Chateaubriand, named Marchangy, in the interim, until there should be a false Marchangy, named d’Arlincourt. Claire d’Albe and Malek-Adel were masterpieces; Madame Cottin was proclaimed the chief writer of the epoch. The Institute had the academician, Napoleon Bonaparte, stricken from its list of members. A royal ordinance erected Angoulême into a naval school; for the Duc d’Angoulême, being lord high admiral, it was evident that the city of Angoulême had all the qualities of a seaport; otherwise the monarchical principle would have received a wound. In the Council of Ministers the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope performances, which adorned Franconi’s advertising posters, and which attracted throngs of street urchins, should be tolerated. M. Paër, the author of Agnese, a good sort of fellow, with a square face and a wart on his cheek, directed the little private concerts of the Marquise de Sasenaye in the Rue Ville l’Évêque.

路易十八,一边用指甲尖批注贺拉斯的作品,一边为那些成为皇帝或成为太子的人物所困扰--他有两件心事:拿破仑和马蒂兰·布吕诺。法兰西学术院给出的征文题目是:“学习带来的幸福”。贝拉尔先生拥有官方的雄辩之才。在他的阴影下,可以窥见未来的总检察长德·布罗埃正在萌芽,此人后来成为保尔-路易·库里耶嘲讽的对象。有一个冒牌的夏多布里昂,名叫马尔尚吉,暂时代理,直到将来出现一个冒牌的马尔尚吉,名叫达尔兰古。克莱尔·达尔伯和马莱克-阿代尔被视为杰作；科坦夫人被公认为那个时代的首席女作家。法兰西研究院将院士拿破仑·波拿巴从名单中剔除。一道王室法令将昂古莱姆设为海军学校；因为昂古莱姆公爵身为海军元帅,显然昂古莱姆这座城市具备所有海港的特质；否则君主主义原则就会受到伤害。在部长会议上,人们争论是否应容忍那些装饰着弗朗科尼广告海报的走钢丝表演插图--这些插图吸引成群街头顽童。阿涅丝的作曲者帕埃尔先生,是个心地善良的家伙,面孔方正,脸颊上有颗痣,在维尔-勒维克街指挥萨塞奈侯爵夫人的小型私人音乐会。

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preoccupied /priˈɒkjupaɪd/

adj. 全神贯注的；心事重重的➕

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eloquent /ˈeləkwənt/

adj. 雄辩的；有口才的➕

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masterpieces /ˈmɑːstərpiːsɪz/

n. 杰作；代表作➕

🔊 All the young girls were singing the "Hermit of Saint-Avelle," with words by Edmond Géraud. "The Yellow Dwarf" was transferred into Mirror. The Café Lemblin stood up for the Emperor, against the Café Valois, which upheld the Bourbons. The Duc de Berri, already surveyed from the shadow by Louvel, had just been married to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The bodyguard hissed Mademoiselle Mars. The grand newspapers were all very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The Constitutionnel was constitutional. La Minerve called Chateaubriand "Chateaubriant." That t made the good middle-class people laugh heartily at the expense of the great writer. In journals which sold themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David had no longer any talent, Arnault had no longer any wit, Carnot was no longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no longer any genius. No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes complained of it in his exile. Now David, having, in a Belgian publication, shown some displeasure at not receiving letters which had been written to him, it struck the royalist journals as amusing; and they derided the prescribed man well on this occasion. What separated two men more than an abyss was to say, the regicides, or to say the voters; to say the enemies, or to say the allies; to say Napoleon, or to say Bonaparte. All sensible people were agreed that the era of revolution had been closed forever by King Louis XVIII, surnamed "The Immortal Author of the Charter." On the platform of the Pont-Neuf, the word Redivivus was carved on the pedestal that awaited the statue of Henry IV. M. Piet, in the Rue Thérèse, No. 4, was making the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy. The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to Bacot." MM. Canuel, O’Mahoney, and De Chappedelaine were preparing the sketch, to some extent with Monsieur’s approval, of what was to become later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l’Eau"--of the waterside. L’Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie was conferring with Trogoff. M. Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, reigned. Chateaubriand stood every morning at his window at No. 27 Rue Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, a complete set of dentist’s instruments spread out before him, cleaning his teeth, which were charming, while he dictated The Monarchy According to the Charter to M. Pilorge, his secretary.

所有年轻女孩都在唱埃德蒙·热罗作词的《圣阿韦尔隐士》。《黄矮人》改名为《镜子》。朗布兰咖啡馆支持皇帝,对抗支持波旁家族的瓦卢瓦咖啡馆。贝里公爵--早已被暗影中的卢韦尔盯上--刚刚与一位西西里公主结婚。斯塔尔夫人已于一年前去世。近卫军向马尔斯小姐喝倒彩。各大报纸的版面都很小。形式受限,但自由极大。《立宪党人报》是立宪的。《密涅瓦报》把夏多布里昂称为“夏多布里安”。那个字母“t”让善良的中产阶级们拿这位大作家开怀大笑。在那些自卖自身的报刊中,堕落的记者们辱骂1815年的流亡者。大卫不再有才华,阿尔诺不再有才智,卡尔诺不再诚实,苏尔特没有赢过任何战役；的确,拿破仑也不再有任何天才。无人不知,寄给流亡者的信件通过邮政极少能送达他手中,因为警察将其截获作为神圣职责。这并非新鲜事；笛卡尔在流亡中曾抱怨过这一点。如今,大卫在一份比利时出版物中表示对一些写给自己的信没有收到而不满,保王党报刊觉得这很有趣；他们借此大大嘲弄了这位被放逐者。将两个人分开甚于深渊的,是说“弑君者”还是“投票者”；是说“敌人”还是“盟友”；是说拿破仑还是波拿巴。所有明理之人都同意,革命时代已被国王路易十八永远终结,他被冠以“宪章不朽作者”的绰号。在新桥的平台上,“Redivivus”一词被刻在等待亨利四世雕像的基座上。皮埃先生,在泰雷兹街4号,正在起草他的秘密议会计划以巩固君主制。右翼领袖在重大时刻说:“我们必须写信给巴科。”卡努埃尔、奥马霍尼和德·沙普德莱纳先生们,在某种程度上得到王弟的批准,正在勾画后来被称为“水边阴谋”的草图。黑针会已经在他们所在的区密谋。德拉韦代里正在与特罗戈夫商议。德卡兹先生,一位极度自由派人士,正在当政。夏多布里昂每天早晨站在圣多米尼克街27号的窗前,穿着足踏裤和拖鞋,一条马德拉斯头巾缠在他灰白的头发上,眼睛盯着镜子,面前摆着一整套牙科器械,一边清洗他那迷人的牙齿,一边向他的秘书皮洛尔日先生口述《根据宪章的君主制》。

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transferred /trænsˈfɜːrd/

v. 转移；调动；转述➕

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previously /ˈpriːviəsli/

adv. 先前；以前➕

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exiles /ˈeksaɪlz/

n. 流亡者；被放逐者➕

🔊 Criticism, assuming an authoritative tone, preferred Lafon to Talma. M. de Féletez signed himself A.; M. Hoffmann signed himself Z. Charles Nodier wrote Thérèse Aubert. Divorce was abolished. Lyceums called themselves colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden fleur-de-lys, fought each other apropos of the King of Rome. The counter-police of the château had denounced to her Royal Highness Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d'Orleans, who made a better appearance in his uniform of a colonel-general of hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of dragoons--a serious inconvenience.

批评界以权威口吻偏好拉丰胜过塔尔马。德·费莱特先生署名A.,霍夫曼先生署名Z.。夏尔·诺迪埃写了《泰蕾丝·奥贝尔》。离婚被废除。公立中学改称学院。中学生们,衣领上饰有金色百合花图案,因关于罗马王的问题相互打斗。王宫的反警察机构向王后殿下告发了随处可见的奥尔良公爵先生的肖像--他穿着骠骑兵上校将军制服,比贝里公爵穿着龙骑兵上校将军制服更显气派--这是个严重的不便。

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authoritative /ɔːˈθɒrɪtətɪv/

adj. 权威的；专断的➕

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abolished /əˈbɒlɪʃt/

v. 废除；废止➕

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denounced /dɪˈnaʊnst/

v. 谴责；告发➕

🔊 The city of Paris was having the dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked themselves what M. de Trinquelague would do on such or such an occasion; M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de Coussergues; M. de Salaberry was not satisfied. The comedian Picard, who belonged to the Academy, which the comedian Molière had not been able to do, had The Two Philiberts played at the Odéon, upon whose pediment the removal of the letters still allowed "Theatre of the Empress" to be plainly read. People took part for or against Cugnet de Montarlot. Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary. The Liberal, Pélicier, published an edition of Voltaire, with the following title: Works of Voltaire, of the French Academy. "That will attract purchasers," said the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:-- Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws. As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, administered the diocese of Lyons. The quarrel over the valley of Dappes was begun between Switzerland and France by a memoir from Captain, afterwards General Dufour. Saint-Simon, ignored, was erecting his sublime dream. There was a celebrated Fourier at the Academy of Science, whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, whom the future will recall. Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; a note to a poem by Millevoye introduced him to France in these terms: "a certain Lord Baron." David d’Angers was trying to work in marble. The Abbé Caron was speaking, in terms of praise, to a private gathering of seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, named Félicité-Robert, who, at a latter date, became Lamennais. A thing which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal to the Pont Louis XV; it was a piece of mechanism which was not good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at this useless thing. M. de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by a coup d’etat, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the pavilion de Marsan wished to have M. Delaveau for prefect of police, on account of his piety.

巴黎市自费重新为荣军院的穹顶镀金。严肃人士自问德·特兰克拉格先生在如此这般的情况下会做什么；克洛泽尔·德·蒙塔尔斯先生与克洛泽尔·德·库塞格先生在诸多问题上意见不一；德·萨拉贝里先生并不满意。演员皮卡尔--他属于法兰西学术院,这是演员莫里哀未能做到的--在奥德翁剧院上演了《两个菲利贝尔》,该剧院的三角楣上,字母拆除后仍可清楚看到“皇后剧院”字样。人们支持或反对库涅·德·蒙塔洛。法比耶是叛乱者,巴武是革命派。自由派的佩利西耶出版了一版伏尔泰的作品,标题为:《伏尔泰作品集,法兰西学术院版》。“这能吸引买家,”精明的出版商说。普遍看法是,夏尔·卢瓦宗先生将成为世纪天才；嫉妒开始啃噬他--这是荣耀的征兆；有人为他写了这句诗:“即使卢瓦宗偷窃,也能感到他有爪。”由于费什枢机拒绝辞职,阿马西总主教德·潘斯先生管理里昂教区。瑞士与法国之间关于达普斯河谷的争端,由后来成为杜福尔将军的上尉的一份备忘录发起。被忽视的圣西门正在构建他崇高的梦想。科学院里有一位著名的傅立叶,被后代遗忘；而在某间阁楼里有一位默默无闻的傅立叶,未来将会记起他。拜伦勋爵开始崭露头角；米勒瓦的一首诗的一条注释用以下措辞将他介绍给法国:“一位叫拜伦的勋爵。”大卫·当热正在尝试大理石雕刻。卡隆神父在弗扬蒂纳死胡同里向一群神学院学生私下赞扬一位不知名的神父,名叫费利西泰-罗贝尔,他后来成为拉梅内。一件在塞纳河上冒着烟、发出如游水狗般声音的东西,从皇家桥到路易十五桥,在杜伊勒里宫的窗下来来去去；那是个没什么大用的机器；一种玩具,一个梦想缠身的发明家的空想；一个乌托邦--一艘蒸汽船。巴黎人冷漠地注视着这个无用的东西。德·沃布朗先生,通过政变改革法兰西学院的人,这位杰出人士创作了大量院士、法令和成员批次,但在创造他们之后,自己却未能成为其中一员。圣日耳曼郊区和马尔桑宫因德·拉沃先生的虔诚而希望他担任警察总监。

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regilded /riːˈɡɪldɪd/

v. 重新镀金；重新涂金➕

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factious /ˈfækʃəs/

adj. 派系的；好搞派别的➕

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ingenious /ɪnˈdʒiːniəs/

adj. 巧妙的；足智多谋的➕

🔊 Dupuytren and Récamier entered into a quarrel in the amphitheatre of the School of Medicine, and threatened each other with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, with one eye on Genesis and the other on nature, tried to please bigoted reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons flatter Moses.

迪皮特朗和雷卡米埃在医学院阶梯教室里发生争执,就耶稣基督神性问题互相挥拳相向。居维叶,一只眼盯着《创世记》,另一只眼盯着自然,试图通过调和化石与经文,让乳齿象奉承摩西,来取悦虔诚的反动派。

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amphitheatre /ˈæmfɪθɪətər/

n. 圆形剧场；竞技场➕

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divinity /dɪˈvɪnɪti/

n. 神性；神学；上帝➕

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genesis /ˈdʒenɪsɪs/

n. 起源；创始；（圣经）创世纪➕

🔊 M. François de Neufchâteau, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have pomme de terre pronounced parmentière, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the royalist polemics, to the state of "Infamous Grégoire." The locution of which we have made use--passed to the state of--has been condemned as a neologism by M. Royer Collard. Under the third arch of the Pont de Jéna, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining aperture made by Blücher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its bar a man who, on seeing the Comte d’Artois enter Notre Dame, had said aloud: "Sapristi! I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm." A seditious utterance. Six months in prison.

弗朗索瓦·德·纳夫夏托先生,值得称道的帕尔芒捷记忆的培育者,费尽千辛万苦想把“土豆”（pomme de terre）发音为“帕尔芒捷里耶”（parmentière）,但毫无成效。前主教、前国民公会议员、前参议员格雷瓜尔神父,在保王党论战中被贬为“臭名昭著的格雷瓜尔”。我们刚才所用的措辞--“被贬为”--曾被鲁瓦耶-科拉尔先生谴责为新词。在耶拿桥的第三个拱下,两年前用来堵塞布吕歇尔为炸桥而挖的矿井的新石头,仍因其白色而可辨认。法院传讯了一个人,他在看到阿图瓦伯爵进入圣母院时高声说:“见鬼！我怀念当年看到波拿巴和塔尔马挽着胳膊走进‘美丽野人’酒店的时候。”一句煽动性言论。六个月监禁。

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praiseworthy /ˈpreɪzˌwɜːrði/

adj. 值得赞扬的；可嘉的➕

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infamous /ˈɪnfəməs/

adj. 臭名昭著的；无耻的➕

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neologism /niˈɒlədʒɪzəm/

n. 新词；新义➕

🔊 Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches and dignities; deserters from Ligny and Quatre-Bras, in the brazenness of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy in the most barefaced manner.

叛徒们毫无顾忌地露面；那些在战斗前夕投敌的人毫不掩饰他们的犒赏,光天化日之下厚颜无耻地炫耀财富与显赫；来自利尼和四臂村的逃兵,以其报酬丰厚的卑劣无耻,最露骨地展示着他们对君主制的忠诚。

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traitors /ˈtreɪtərz/

n. 叛徒；叛国者➕

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cynicism /ˈsɪnɪsɪzəm/

n. 愤世嫉俗；冷嘲热讽➕

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turpitude /ˈtɜːrpɪtjuːd/

n. 堕落；邪恶；卑鄙➕

🔊 This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these details, which are wrongly called trivial--there are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation--are useful. It is of the physiognomy of the years that the physiognomy of the centuries is composed. In this year of 1817 four young Parisians arranged "a fine farce."

这便是混混沌沌、杂乱无章地浮现出来的1817年的面貌,如今已被遗忘。历史几乎忽略了所有这些细节,它别无选择；无限会将它吞没。然而,这些被错误地视为琐碎的细节--人类中没有琐碎的事实,如同植被中没有微小的叶片--是有用的。正是岁月的面相构成了世纪的面相。在这一年1817年,四个巴黎年轻人安排了一场“精彩的闹剧”。

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confusedly /kənˈfjuːzɪdli/

adv. 困惑地；混乱地➕

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pell-mell /ˌpel ˈmel/

adv. 乱七八糟地；混乱地➕

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infinity /ɪnˈfɪnɪti/

n. 无限；无穷大➕

Book III. In the Year 1817 – Chapter one: The Year 1817 (第一章:1817年)