🔊 "This is a terrible thing," he said, the moment we got out into the street. I realised that he had come away with me in order to discuss once more what he had been already discussing for hours with his sister-in-law. "We don't know who the woman is, you know," he said. "All we know is that the blackguard's gone to Paris." "I thought they got on so well." "So they did. Why, just before you came in Amy said they'd never had a quarrel in the whole of their married life. You know Amy. There never was a better woman in the world."

“这可真是件糟糕的事,”我们一走到街上,他就说道。我意识到他跟我出来,是为了再讨论一遍他刚才和嫂子已经讨论了好几个小时的事。“我们不知道那女人是谁,你知道,”他说。“我们只知道那个无赖去了巴黎。”“我以为他们相处得很好。”“确实如此。就在你进来之前,艾米还说他们结婚以来从未吵过架。你了解艾米。世界上再没有比她更好的女人了。”

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blackguard /ˈblæɡɑːrd/

n. 恶棍,无赖➕

🔊 Since these confidences were thrust on me, I saw no harm in asking a few questions. "But do you mean to say she suspected nothing?" "Nothing. He spent August with her and the children in Norfolk. He was just the same as he'd always been. We went down for two or three days, my wife and I, and I played golf with him. He came back to town in September to let his partner go away, and Amy stayed on in the country. They'd taken a house for six weeks, and at the end of her tenancy she wrote to tell him on which day she was arriving in London. He answered from Paris. He said he'd made up his mind not to live with her any more." "What explanation did he give?" "My dear fellow, he gave no explanation. I've seen the letter. It wasn't more than ten lines." "But that's extraordinary."

既然这些私密话硬塞给了我,我觉得问几个问题也无妨。“但你是说她一点都没怀疑？”“一点都没有。八月他和她还有孩子们在诺福克度过。他还是老样子。我和我妻子下去住了两三天,我还和他打了高尔夫球。九月他回到城里,让他的合伙人去休假,艾米则留在乡下。他们租了一幢房子住六周,租期结束时她写信告诉他她哪天到伦敦。他从巴黎回信。他说他已经下定决心不再和她一起生活了。”“他给了什么解释？”“我亲爱的伙计,他没给任何解释。我见过那封信。不超过十行。”“但这太奇怪了。”

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confidences /ˈkɒnfɪdənsɪz/

n. 知心话,秘密➕

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extraordinary /ɪkˈstrɔːrdəneri/

adj. 非凡的,特别的,不寻常的➕

🔊 We happened then to cross the street, and the traffic prevented us from speaking. What Colonel MacAndrew had told me seemed very improbable, and I suspected that Mrs. Strickland, for reasons of her own, had concealed from him some part of the facts. It was clear that a man after seventeen years of wedlock did not leave his wife without certain occurrences which must have led her to suspect that all was not well with their married life. The Colonel caught me up. "Of course, there was no explanation he could give except that he'd gone off with a woman. I suppose he thought she could find that out for herself. That's the sort of chap he was."

这时我们正巧过马路,车流让我们无法交谈。“麦克安德鲁上校”告诉我的事似乎很不可能,我怀疑“斯特里克兰太太”出于自己的原因,向他隐瞒了部分事实。很明显,一个结婚十七年的男人不会无缘无故离开妻子,必定有一些事让她怀疑他们的婚姻生活并不如意。上校赶上来。“当然,除了他跟一个女人跑了,他给不出任何解释。我猜他是觉得她自己能发现。他就是那种人。”

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wedlock /ˈwedlɒk/

n. 婚姻,已婚状态➕

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occurrences /əˈkɜːrənsɪz/

n. 事件,发生的事情➕

🔊 "What is Mrs. Strickland going to do?" "Well, the first thing is to get our proofs. I'm going over to Paris myself." "And what about his business?" "That's where he's been so artful. He's been drawing in his horns for the last year." "Did he tell his partner he was leaving?" "Not a word." Colonel MacAndrew had a very sketchy knowledge of business matters, and I had none at all, so I did not quite understand under what conditions Strickland had left his affairs. I gathered that the deserted partner was very angry and threatened proceedings. It appeared that when everything was settled he would be four or five hundred pounds out of pocket. "It's lucky the furniture in the flat is in Amy's name. She'll have that at all events." "Did you mean it when you said she wouldn't have a bob?" "Of course I did. She's got two or three hundred pounds and the furniture." "But how is she going to live?" "God knows." The affair seemed to grow more complicated, and the Colonel, with his expletives and his indignation, confused rather than informed me. I was glad that, catching sight of the clock at the Army and Navy Stores, he remembered an engagement to play cards at his club, and so left me to cut across St. James's Park.

“‘斯特里克兰太太’打算怎么办？”“嗯,第一件事是拿到证据。我亲自去巴黎一趟。”“他的生意呢？”“这就是他狡猾的地方。过去一年他一直在收缩业务。”“他告诉合伙人他要离开吗？”“一个字都没说。”“麦克安德鲁上校”对生意事务知之甚少,而我更是一窍不通,所以我不太明白“斯特里克兰”是在什么条件下离开他的事务的。我了解到被抛弃的合伙人非常生气,威胁要采取法律行动。似乎等一切了结,他会损失四五百英镑。“幸好公寓里的家具是以艾米的名义。她至少还能得到那些。”“你说她一个子儿都没有,是认真的吗？”“当然是认真的。她有两三百英镑和家具。”“但她怎么生活呢？”“天知道。”事情似乎越来越复杂,上校骂骂咧咧、义愤填膺,反而让我更加困惑,而不是明白。我很高兴他看到陆军和海军商店的钟,想起在俱乐部有牌局,于是留下我,独自穿过圣詹姆斯公园走了。

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artful /ˈɑːrtfl/

adj. 狡猾的,狡诈的；巧妙的➕

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sketchy /ˈsketʃi/

adj. 粗略的,大概的,不完全的➕

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proceedings /prəˈsiːdɪŋz/

n. 诉讼,法律程序➕

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expletives /ˈeksplətɪvz/

n. 咒骂语,感叹词➕

Chapter nine (第九章)

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