🔊 One morning I went down to breakfast and the Englishman, Harris, was already at the table. He was reading the paper through spectacles. He looked up and smiled.

一天早上,我下楼吃早餐,英国人哈里斯已经坐在桌边了。他戴着眼镜看报纸。他抬起头笑了笑。

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spectacles /ˈspektəkəlz/

n. 眼镜➕

🔊 "Good morning," he said. "Letter for you. I stopped at the post and they gave it me with mine."

“早上好,”他说。“有你的信。我在邮局停了一下,他们和我的信一起给我的。”

🔊 The letter was at my place at the table, leaning against a coffee-cup. Harris was reading the paper again. I opened the letter. It had been forwarded from Pamplona. It was dated San Sebastian, Sunday:

信放在我桌子的位置上,靠着一个咖啡杯。哈里斯又在看报纸了。我打开信。信是从潘普洛纳转寄来的。日期是圣塞巴斯蒂安,星期天:

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forwarded /ˈfɔːwədɪd/

v. 转寄；转发➕

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dated /ˈdeɪtɪd/

v. 注明日期➕

🔊 Dear Jake, We got here Friday, Brett passed out on the train, so brought her here for 3 days rest with old friends of ours. We go to Montoya Hotel Pamplona Tuesday, arriving at I don’t know what hour. Will you send a note by the bus to tell us what to do to rejoin you all on Wednesday. All our love and sorry to be late, but Brett was really done in and will be quite all right by Tues. and is practically so now. I know her so well and try to look after her but it’s not so easy. Love to all the chaps, Michael.

亲爱的杰克,我们星期五到的,勃莱特在火车上晕倒了,所以带她到我们老朋友这里休息三天。我们星期二去蒙托亚旅馆潘普洛纳,不知道几点到。你能通过巴士送个便条告诉我们星期三怎么和你们会合吗？爱你们大家,抱歉迟到了,但勃莱特真的累坏了,星期二会完全好的,现在几乎就好了。我很了解她,尽力照顾她,但不容易。向大家问好,迈克尔。

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passed out /pɑːst aʊt/

v. phrase. 昏倒；失去知觉➕

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done in /dʌn ɪn/

adj. phrase. 筋疲力尽的；累垮了的➕

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chaps /tʃæps/

n. 家伙；男人（非正式,尤用于英式英语）➕

🔊 "What day of the week is it?" I asked Harris.

“今天是星期几？”我问哈里斯。

🔊 "Wednesday, I think. Yes, quite. Wednesday. Wonderful how one loses track of the days up here in the mountains."

“星期三,我想。是的,没错。星期三。在山里日子都过糊涂了,真妙。”

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loses track /luːzɪz træk/

v. phrase. 忘记；记不清（时间、进展等）➕

🔊 "Yes. We’ve been here nearly a week."

“是啊。我们在这儿待了快一星期了。”

🔊 "I hope you’re not thinking of leaving?"

“我希望你们不是要走？”

🔊 "Yes. We’ll go in on the afternoon bus, I’m afraid."

“是的。恐怕我们得坐下午的巴士进城。”

🔊 "What a rotten business. I had hoped we’d all have another go at the Irati together."

“真扫兴。我本来希望我们能再去伊拉蒂河一起钓鱼呢。”

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rotten /ˈrɒtən/

adj. 糟糕的；令人不快的（非正式）➕

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have another go /hæv əˈnʌðə ɡəʊ/

v. phrase. 再试一次➕

🔊 "We have to go into Pamplona. We’re meeting people there."

“我们得去潘普洛纳。我们在那儿要见人。”

🔊 "What rotten luck for me. We’ve had a jolly time here at Burguete."

“我运气真差。我们在布尔格特这儿过得可开心了。”

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jolly /ˈdʒɒli/

adj. 愉快的；快乐的（尤用于英式英语）➕

🔊 "Come on in to Pamplona. We can play some bridge there, and there’s going to be a damned fine fiesta."

“一起来潘普洛纳吧。我们可以在那儿打打桥牌,而且将有一场该死的精彩节庆。”

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fiesta /fiˈestə/

n. （尤指西班牙和拉丁美洲的）节日,庆典➕

🔊 "I’d like to. Awfully nice of you to ask me. I’d best stop on here, though. I’ve not much more time to fish."

“我很想去。你邀请我真是太好了。不过我还是最好留在这儿。我没多少时间钓鱼了。”

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Awfully /ˈɔːfəli/

adv. 非常；极其（常用于口语,表示强调）➕

🔊 "You want those big ones in the Irati."

“你想钓伊拉蒂河里那些大家伙。”

🔊 "I say, I do, you know. They’re enormous trout there."

“我说,是的,你知道。那儿的鳟鱼可大了。”

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enormous /ɪˈnɔːrməs/

adj. 巨大的,庞大的➕

🔊 "I’d like to try them once more."

“我想再试一次。”

🔊 "Do. Stop over another day. Be a good chap."

“试吧。多待一天。做个好伙计。”

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chap /tʃæp/

n. 家伙,小伙子（非正式,尤英式）➕

🔊 "We really have to get into town," I said.

“我们真的得进城了,”我说。

🔊 "What a pity."

“真可惜。”

🔊 After breakfast Bill and I were sitting warming in the sun on a bench out in front of the inn and talking it over. I saw a girl coming up the road from the centre of the town. She stopped in front of us and took a telegram out of the leather wallet that hung against her skirt.

早餐后,比尔和我坐在旅店前的一张长椅上晒太阳,商量这事。我看见一个姑娘从镇中心沿路走来。她在我们面前停下,从挂在裙子上的皮夹里掏出一封电报。

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leather /ˈleðər/

n. 皮革➕

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wallet /ˈwɒlɪt/

n. 钱包➕

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telegram /ˈtelɪɡræm/

n. 电报➕

🔊 "Por ustedes?"

“给你们的？”

🔊 I looked at it. The address was: “Barnes, Burguete.”

我看了看。地址是:“巴恩斯,布尔格特。”

🔊 "Yes. It’s for us."

“是的。是我们的。”

🔊 She brought out a book for me to sign, and I gave her a couple of coppers. The telegram was in Spanish: “Vengo Jueves Cohn.”

她拿出一个本子让我签字,我给了她几个铜板。电报是西班牙文的:“Vengo Jueves Cohn。”

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coppers /ˈkɒpəz/

n. 铜币；警察（俚语）,但这里是铜币➕

🔊 I handed it to Bill.

我把它递给比尔。

🔊 "What does the word Cohn mean?" he asked.

“科恩这个词什么意思？”他问。

🔊 "What a lousy telegram!" I said. "He could send ten words for the same price. 'I come Thursday.' That gives you a lot of dope, doesn’t it?"

“这电报真差劲！”我说。“同样的价钱他能发十个字。‘我星期四来。’这给你很多信息,是不是？”

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lousy /ˈlaʊzi/

adj. 糟糕的,差劲的➕

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dope /doʊp/

n. 信息,情报；毒品➕

🔊 "It gives you all the dope that’s of interest to Cohn."

“这给了你科恩感兴趣的所有信息。”

🔊 "We’re going in, anyway," I said. "There’s no use trying to move Brett and Mike out here and back before the fiesta. Should we answer it?"

“反正我们要进城,”我说。“在节庆前把勃莱特和迈克弄到这儿再弄回去没用。我们该回电吗？”

🔊 "We might as well," said Bill. "There’s no need for us to be snooty."

“不妨回一下,”比尔说。“我们没必要摆架子。”

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snooty /ˈsnuːti/

adj. 势利的,傲慢的➕

🔊 We walked up to the post-office and asked for a telegraph blank.

我们走到邮局,要了一张电报单。

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telegraph /ˈtelɪɡrɑːf/

n. 电报➕

🔊 "What will we say?" Bill asked.

“我们说什么？”比尔问。

🔊 "'Arriving to-night.' That’s enough."

“‘今晚到。’这就够了。”

🔊 We paid for the message and walked back to the inn. Harris was there and the three of us walked up to Roncesvalles. We went through the monastery.

我们付了电报费,走回旅店。哈里斯在那儿,我们三个一起走到龙塞斯瓦列斯。我们参观了修道院。

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inn /ɪn/

n. 小旅馆,客栈➕

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monastery /ˈmɒnəstri/

n. 修道院➕

🔊 "It’s a remarkable place," Harris said, when we came out. "But you know I’m not much on those sort of places."

“这地方真了不起,”哈里斯出来时说。“但你知道我对这类地方不太感冒。”

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remarkable /rɪˈmɑːkəbl/

adj. 非凡的,显著的➕

🔊 "Me either," Bill said.

“我也是,”比尔说。

🔊 "It’s a remarkable place, though," Harris said. "I wouldn’t not have seen it. I’d been intending coming up each day."

“不过,这地方真了不起,”哈里斯说。“我不会没来看过的。我本来打算每天来的。”

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intending /ɪnˈtendɪŋ/

v. 打算,意图（现在分词形式）➕

🔊 "It isn’t the same as fishing, though, is it?" Bill asked. He liked Harris.

“但这和钓鱼不一样,是吧？”比尔问。他喜欢哈里斯。

🔊 "I say not."

“我说不是。”

🔊 We were standing in front of the old chapel of the monastery.

我们站在修道院的老教堂前。

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chapel /ˈtʃæpl/

n. 小教堂➕

🔊 "Isn’t that a pub across the way?" Harris asked. "Or do my eyes deceive me?"

“对面不是家酒吧吗？”哈里斯问。“还是我眼花了？”

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deceive /dɪˈsiːv/

v. 欺骗➕

🔊 "It has the look of a pub," Bill said.

“看起来像酒吧,”比尔说。

🔊 "It looks to me like a pub," I said.

“我看也像酒吧,”我说。

🔊 "I say," said Harris, "let’s utilize it." He had taken up utilizing from Bill.

“我说,”哈里斯说,“咱们利用一下。”他从比尔那儿学来了“利用”这个词。

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utilize /ˈjuːtəlaɪz/

v. 利用➕

🔊 We had a bottle of wine apiece. Harris would not let us pay. He talked Spanish quite well, and the innkeeper would not take our money.

我们每人喝了一瓶酒。哈里斯不让我们付钱。他西班牙语说得相当好,店主不肯收我们的钱。

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apiece /əˈpiːs/

adv. 每人,各➕

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innkeeper /ˈɪnkiːpər/

n. 客栈老板➕

🔊 "I say. You don’t know what it’s meant to me to have you chaps up here."

“我说。你们不知道有你们这些伙计在这儿对我意味着什么。”

🔊 "We’ve had a grand time, Harris."

“我们过得开心极了,哈里斯。”

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grand /ɡrænd/

adj. 宏伟的；极好的➕

🔊 Harris was a little tight.

哈里斯有点醉了。

🔊 "I say. Really you don’t know how much it means. I’ve not had much fun since the war."

“我说。真的,你们不知道这有多重要。自从战争以来,我没怎么开心过。”

🔊 "We’ll fish together again, some time. Don’t you forget it, Harris."

“我们以后找个时间再一起钓鱼。别忘了,哈里斯。”

🔊 "We must. We have had such a jolly good time."

“一定。我们过得这么愉快。”

🔊 "How about another bottle around?"

“再来一瓶怎么样？”

🔊 "Jolly good idea," said Harris.

“好主意,”哈里斯说。

🔊 "This is mine," said Bill. "Or we don’t drink it."

“这瓶我请,”比尔说。“不然我们不喝。”

🔊 "I wish you’d let me pay for it. It does give me pleasure, you know."

“我希望你让我付。这真的让我高兴,你知道。”

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pleasure /ˈpleʒər/

n. 愉快；乐趣➕

🔊 "This is going to give me pleasure," Bill said.

“这会让我高兴,”比尔说。

🔊 The innkeeper brought in the fourth bottle. We had kept the same glasses. Harris lifted his glass.

店主拿来了第四瓶酒。我们还用着原来的杯子。哈里斯举起酒杯。

🔊 "I say. You know this does utilize well."

“我说。你们知道这利用得真好。”

🔊 Bill slapped him on the back.

比尔拍了拍他的背。

🔊 "Good old Harris."

“好样的哈里斯。”

🔊 "I say. You know my name isn’t really Harris. It’s Wilson-Harris. All one name. With a hyphen, you know."

“我说。你们知道我的名字其实不是哈里斯。是威尔逊-哈里斯。一个完整的名字。带连字符,你知道。”

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hyphen /ˈhaɪ.fən/

n. 连字符➕

🔊 "Good old Wilson-Harris," Bill said. "We call you Harris because we’re so fond of you."

“好样的威尔逊-哈里斯,”比尔说。“我们叫你哈里斯是因为我们太喜欢你了。”

🔊 "I say, Barnes. You don’t know what this all means to me."

“我说,巴恩斯。你不知道这一切对我意味着什么。”

🔊 "Come on and utilize another glass," I said.

“来,再利用一杯,”我说。

🔊 "Barnes. Really, Barnes, you can’t know. That’s all."

“巴恩斯。真的,巴恩斯,你不可能知道。就这样。”

🔊 "Drink up, Harris."

“喝了吧,哈里斯。”

🔊 We walked back down the road from Roncesvalles with Harris between us. We had lunch at the inn and Harris went with us to the bus. He gave us his card, with his address in London and his club and his business address, and as we got on the bus he handed us each an envelope. I opened mine and there were a dozen flies in it. Harris had tied them himself. He tied all his own flies.

我们走回从龙塞斯瓦列斯来的路,哈里斯走在中间。我们在旅店吃了午饭,哈里斯陪我们走到巴士站。他给了我们他的名片,上面有他在伦敦的地址、他的俱乐部和他的办公地址,我们上车时,他递给我们每人一个信封。我打开我的,里面有十几只苍蝇。哈里斯自己绑的。他所有的苍蝇都是自己绑的。

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flies /flaɪz/

n. （钓鱼用的）假蝇；飞蝇➕

🔊 "I say, Harris-" I began.

“我说,哈里斯--”我开口说。

🔊 "No, no!" he said. He was climbing down from the bus. "They’re not first-rate flies at all. I only thought if you fished them some time it might remind you of what a good time we had."

“不,不！”他说。他正从巴士上下来。“这些根本不是一流的苍蝇。我只是想,如果你哪天用它们钓鱼,可能会让你想起我们过得多么愉快。”

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first-rate /ˌfɜːstˈreɪt/

adj. 一流的,最优秀的➕

🔊 The bus started. Harris stood in front of the post-office. He waved. As we started along the road he turned and walked back toward the inn.

巴士开动了。哈里斯站在邮局前。他挥了挥手。我们沿路开走时,他转身朝旅店走去。

🔊 "Say, wasn’t that Harris nice?" Bill said.

“嘿,哈里斯不是挺好吗？”比尔说。

🔊 "I think he really did have a good time."

“我想他确实过得很开心。”

🔊 "Harris? You bet he did."

“哈里斯？他肯定开心。”

🔊 "I wish he’d come into Pamplona."

“我希望他能来潘普洛纳。”

🔊 "He wanted to fish."

“他想钓鱼。”

🔊 "Yes. You couldn’t tell how English would mix with each other, anyway."

“是啊。反正你也说不准英国人之间会怎么相处。”

🔊 "I suppose not."

“我想是的。”

🔊 We got into Pamplona late in the afternoon and the bus stopped in front of the Hotel Montoya. Out in the plaza they were stringing electric-light wires to light the plaza for the fiesta. A few kids came up when the bus stopped, and a customs officer for the town made all the people getting down from the bus open their bundles on the sidewalk. We went into the hotel and on the stairs I met Montoya. He shook hands with us, smiling in his embarrassed way.

下午晚些时候我们到了潘普洛纳,巴士停在蒙托亚旅馆前。广场上,他们正在拉电线,为节庆照亮广场。巴士停下时,几个孩子围上来,镇上的海关官员让所有下车的人在人行道上打开包裹。我们走进旅馆,在楼梯上我遇到了蒙托亚。他和我们握手,以他那种尴尬的方式微笑着。

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plaza /ˈplɑːzə/

n. 广场（尤指西班牙语国家的城市广场）➕

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stringing /ˈstrɪŋɪŋ/

v. 用线串起；悬挂➕

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electric-light /ɪˈlektrɪk laɪt/

adj. 电灯的；电光的➕

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customs officer /ˈkʌstəmz ˈɒfɪsə(r)/

n. 海关官员➕

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bundles /ˈbʌndlz/

n. 包裹；捆➕

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sidewalk /ˈsaɪdwɔːk/

n. 人行道（美式英语）➕

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embarrassed /ɪmˈbærəst/

adj. 尴尬的；窘迫的➕

🔊 "Your friends are here," he said.

“你的朋友们在这儿,”他说。

🔊 "Mr. Campbell?"

“坎贝尔先生？”

🔊 "Yes. Mr. Cohn and Mr. Campbell and Lady Ashley."

“是的。科恩先生、坎贝尔先生和阿什利夫人。”

🔊 He smiled as though there were something I would hear about.

他微笑着,好像有什么我会听到的事。

🔊 "When did they get in?"

“他们什么时候到的？”

🔊 "Yesterday. I’ve saved you the rooms you had."

“昨天。我给你们留了原来的房间。”

🔊 "That’s fine. Did you give Mr. Campbell the room on the plaza?"

“太好了。你给坎贝尔先生广场那边的房间了吗？”

🔊 "Yes. All the rooms we looked at."

“是的。所有我们看过的房间。”

🔊 "Where are our friends now?"

“我们的朋友们现在在哪儿？”

🔊 "I think they went to the pelota."

“我想他们去回力球了。”

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pelota /pəˈloʊtə/

n. 回力球（一种西班牙或巴斯克地区用球拍和墙进行的球类运动）➕

🔊 "And how about the bulls?"

“牛呢？”

🔊 Montoya smiled. "To-night," he said. "To-night at seven o’clock they bring in the Villar bulls, and to-morrow come the Miuras. Do you all go down?"

蒙托亚笑了。“今晚,”他说。“今晚七点比利亚尔公牛进场,明天是米乌拉公牛。你们都去看吗？”

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bring in /brɪŋ ɪn/

v. phr. 带来,引入➕

🔊 "Oh, yes. They’ve never seen a desencajonada."

“哦,是的。他们从没见过卸牛入栏。”

🔊 Montoya put his hand on my shoulder.

蒙托亚把手放在我肩上。

🔊 "I’ll see you there."

“我在那儿见你。”

🔊 He smiled again. He always smiled as though bull-fighting were a very special secret between the two of us; a rather shocking but really very deep secret that we knew about. He always smiled as though there were something lewd about the secret to outsiders, but that it was something that we understood. It would not do to expose it to people who would not understand.

他又笑了。他总是笑,好像斗牛是我们两人之间非常特殊的秘密；一个相当令人震惊但真正非常深刻的秘密,我们都知道。他总是笑,好像这个秘密对外人来说有些猥亵,但却是我们理解的东西。不能暴露给不理解的人。

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lewd /luːd/

adj. 淫秽的,下流的➕

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expose /ɪkˈspəʊz/

v. 揭露,暴露➕

🔊 "Your friend, is he aficionado, too?" Montoya smiled at Bill.

“你的朋友,他也是斗牛迷吗？”蒙托亚对比尔微笑。

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aficionado /əˌfɪʃiəˈnɑːdəʊ/

n. （尤指对斗牛、音乐等的）狂热爱好者➕

🔊 "Yes. He came all the way from New York to see the San Fermines."

“是的。他大老远从纽约来看圣费尔明节。”

🔊 "Yes?" Montoya politely disbelieved. "But he’s not aficionado like you."

“是吗？”蒙托亚礼貌地表示怀疑。“但他不像你那样是斗牛迷。”

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disbelieved /ˌdɪsbɪˈliːvd/

v. 怀疑,不信➕

🔊 He put his hand on my shoulder again embarrassedly.

他又尴尬地把手放在我肩上。

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embarrassedly /ɪmˈbærəsɪdli/

adv. 尴尬地,窘迫地➕

🔊 "Yes," I said. "He’s a real aficionado."

“是的,”我说。“他是个真正的斗牛迷。”

🔊 "But he’s not aficionado like you are."

“但他不像你那样是斗牛迷。”

🔊 Aficion means passion. An aficionado is one who is passionate about the bull-fights. All the good bull-fighters stayed at Montoya’s hotel; that is, those with aficion stayed there. The commercial bull-fighters stayed once, perhaps, and then did not come back. The good ones came each year. In Montoya’s room were their photographs. The photographs were dedicated to Juanito Montoya or to his sister. The photographs of bull-fighters Montoya had really believed in were framed. Photographs of bull-fighters who had been without aficion Montoya kept in a drawer of his desk. They often had the most flattering inscriptions. But they did not mean anything. One day Montoya took them all out and dropped them in the waste-basket. He did not want them around.

Aficion意味着激情。斗牛迷就是对斗牛充满热情的人。所有好的斗牛士都住在蒙托亚的旅馆；也就是说,那些有aficion的人住在那儿。商业斗牛士可能住一次,然后就不回来了。好的斗牛士每年都来。蒙托亚的房间里挂着他们的照片。照片上题献给华尼托·蒙托亚或他妹妹。蒙托亚真正相信的斗牛士的照片都装裱起来。没有aficion的斗牛士的照片,蒙托亚放在书桌抽屉里。它们经常有最奉承的题词。但它们没什么意义。有一天蒙托亚把它们都拿出来扔进了废纸篓。他不想让它们留在身边。

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Aficion /ˌæfɪˈsjɒn/

n. （西班牙语）热情,尤指对斗牛的热情➕

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passionate /ˈpæʃənət/

adj. 热情的,激昂的➕

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dedicated /ˈdedɪkeɪtɪd/

adj. 专用的,献身的➕

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framed /freɪmd/

adj. 装裱好的➕

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flattering /ˈflætərɪŋ/

adj. 奉承的,讨好的➕

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inscriptions /ɪnˈskrɪpʃənz/

n. 题词,铭文➕

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waste-basket /ˈweɪstˌbæskɪt/

n. 废纸篓➕

🔊 We often talked about bulls and bull-fighters. I had stopped at the Montoya for several years. We never talked for very long at a time. It was simply the pleasure of discovering what we each felt. Men would come in from distant towns and before they left Pamplona stop and talk for a few minutes with Montoya about bulls. These men were aficionados. Those who were aficionados could always get rooms even when the hotel was full. Montoya introduced me to some of them. They were always very polite at first, and it amused them very much that I should be an American. Somehow it was taken for granted that an American could not have aficion. He might simulate it or confuse it with excitement, but he could not really have it. When they saw that I had aficion, and there was no password, no set questions that could bring it out, rather it was a sort of oral spiritual examination with the questions always a little on the defensive and never apparent, there was this same embarrassed putting the hand on the shoulder, or a “Buen hombre.” But nearly always there was the actual touching. It seemed as though they wanted to touch you to make it certain.

我们经常谈论公牛和斗牛士。我在蒙托亚旅馆住过几年。我们每次谈话时间都不长。这只是发现彼此感受的乐趣。人们从遥远的城镇来,离开潘普洛纳前,停下来和蒙托亚谈几分钟公牛。这些人是aficionados。那些是aficionados的人即使旅馆满员也能拿到房间。蒙托亚介绍我认识了一些。他们起初总是很有礼貌,我是一个美国人,这让他们觉得很有趣。不知怎的,人们想当然地认为美国人不可能有aficion。他可能模仿或混淆为兴奋,但不可能真正拥有。当他们看到我有aficion,而且没有密码,没有固定问题能引出来,更像是一种口头的精神检验,问题总是有点防御性,从不明显,就有这种同样的尴尬地把手放在肩上,或者说“好人”。但几乎总是有实际的触碰。好像他们想碰你以确定。

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simulate /ˈsɪmjʊleɪt/

v. 模拟,假装➕

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oral /ˈɔːrəl/

adj. 口头的,口述的➕

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spiritual /ˈspɪrɪtʃuəl/

adj. 精神的,心灵的➕

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examination /ɪɡˌzæmɪˈneɪʃən/

n. 检查,考试➕

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defensive /dɪˈfensɪv/

adj. 防御的,戒备的➕

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apparent /əˈpærənt/

adj. 明显的,表面上的➕

🔊 Montoya could forgive anything of a bull-fighter who had aficion. He could forgive attacks of nerves, panic, bad unexplainable actions, all sorts of lapses. For one who had aficion he could forgive anything. At once he forgave me all my friends. Without his ever saying anything they were simply a little something shameful between us, like the spilling open of the horses in bull-fighting.

蒙托亚能原谅任何有aficion的斗牛士的任何事。他能原谅神经紧张、恐慌、糟糕的无法解释的行为,各种失误。对于有aficion的人,他能原谅一切。他立刻原谅了我所有的朋友。他从不说什么,它们只是我们之间一点可耻的东西,就像斗牛中马匹被剖开。

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unexplainable /ˌʌnɪkˈspleɪnəbəl/

adj. 无法解释的➕

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lapses /læpsɪz/

n. 失误,疏忽➕

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shameful /ˈʃeɪmfəl/

adj. 可耻的,丢脸的➕

🔊 Bill had gone up-stairs as we came in, and I found him washing and changing in his room.

我们进来时,比尔已经上楼了,我发现他在房间里洗漱换衣服。

🔊 "Well," he said, "talk a lot of Spanish?"

“嗯,”他说,“聊了不少西班牙语？”

🔊 "He was telling me about the bulls coming in to-night."

“他告诉我今晚牛要进场。”

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bulls /bʊlz/

n. 公牛（尤指斗牛中的公牛）➕

🔊 "Let’s find the gang and go down."

“我们去找那帮人,然后下去。”

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gang /ɡæŋ/

n. 一伙人；团伙➕

🔊 "All right. They’ll probably be at the café."

“好的。他们可能在咖啡馆。”

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probably /ˈprɒbəbli/

adv. 很可能；大概➕

🔊 "Have you got tickets?"

“你有票吗？”

🔊 "Yes. I got them for all the unloadings."

“有。我买了所有卸牛场的票。”

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unloadings /ʌnˈləʊdɪŋz/

n. 卸货；卸载（复数形式）➕

🔊 "What’s it like?" He was pulling his cheek before the glass, looking to see if there were unshaved patches under the line of the jaw.

“是什么样的？”他对着镜子拉脸颊,看下巴线以下有没有没刮干净的地方。

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unshaved /ʌnˈʃeɪvd/

adj. 未刮胡子的；未修剪的➕

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patches /ˈpætʃɪz/

n. 小块区域；斑点（复数形式）➕

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unshaved patches /ʌnˈʃeɪvd ˈpætʃɪz/

n. phrase. 未刮胡子的区域；胡茬斑点➕

🔊 "It’s pretty good," I said. "They let the bulls out of the cages one at a time, and they have steers in the corral to receive them and keep them from fighting, and the bulls tear in at the steers and the steers run around like old maids trying to quiet them down."

“挺不错的,”我说。“他们把公牛一个个从笼子里放出来,围栏里有阉牛迎接它们,防止它们打架,公牛冲向阉牛,阉牛像老处女一样跑来跑去,想让它们安静下来。”

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steers /stɪəz/

n. 阉牛（复数形式）➕

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corral /kəˈrɑːl/

n. 畜栏；围栏➕

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tear in /teər ɪn/

v. phrase. 猛冲；冲入➕

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old maids /əʊld meɪdz/

n. phrase. 老处女；过时的人或物（复数形式）➕

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quiet them down /ˈkwaɪət ðem daʊn/

v. phrase. 使它们平静下来➕

🔊 "Do they ever gore the steers?"

“它们会顶伤阉牛吗？”

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gore /ɡɔː(r)/

v. 用角刺伤；戳伤➕

🔊 "Sure. Sometimes they go right after them and kill them."

“当然。有时它们直接追着它们,杀死它们。”

🔊 "Can’t the steers do anything?"

“阉牛不能做什么吗？”

🔊 "No. They’re trying to make friends."

“不能。它们想交朋友。”

🔊 "What do you have them in for?"

“为什么要放它们进去？”

🔊 "To quiet down the bulls and keep them from breaking horns against the stone walls, or goring each other."

“为了让公牛安静下来,防止它们用角撞石墙,或者互相顶伤。”

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breaking horns /ˈbreɪkɪŋ hɔːnz/

n. phrase. 折断角➕

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goring /ˈɡɔːrɪŋ/

v. 用角刺伤（动名词形式）➕

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quiet down /ˈkwaɪət daʊn/

v. phrase. 平静下来；安静下来➕

🔊 "Must be swell being a steer."

“当阉牛一定很棒。”

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swell /swel/

adj. 极好的；出色的（俚语）➕

🔊 We went down the stairs and out of the door and walked across the square toward the Café Iruña. There were two lonely looking ticket-houses standing in the square. Their windows, marked SOL, SOL Y SOMBRA, and SOMBRA, were shut. They would not open until the day before the fiesta.

我们走下楼梯,出了门,穿过广场向伊鲁尼亚咖啡馆走去。广场上有两个孤零零的售票处。它们的窗户上标着阳座、半阳半阴座、阴座,关着。它们要到节庆前一天才开门。

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lonely looking /ˈloʊnli ˈlʊkɪŋ/

adj. 看起来孤单的➕

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marked /mɑːrkt/

adj. 标记的,显著的➕

🔊 Across the square the white wicker tables and chairs of the Iruña extended out beyond the Arcade to the edge of the street. I looked for Brett and Mike at the tables. There they were. Brett and Mike and Robert Cohn. Brett was wearing a Basque beret. So was Mike. Robert Cohn was bare-headed and wearing his spectacles. Brett saw us coming and waved. Her eyes crinkled up as we came up to the table.

广场对面,伊鲁尼亚的白色柳条桌椅延伸到拱廊外,直到街边。我在桌子间寻找勃莱特和迈克。他们在那里。勃莱特、迈克和罗伯特·科恩。勃莱特戴着一顶巴斯克人贝雷帽。迈克也是。罗伯特·科恩没戴帽子,戴着眼镜。勃莱特看到我们来了,挥了挥手。我们走到桌边时,她的眼睛眯了起来。

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wicker /ˈwɪkər/

n. 柳条➕

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Arcade /ɑːrˈkeɪd/

n. 拱廊➕

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Basque beret /bæsk bəˈreɪ/

n. 巴斯克贝雷帽➕

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bare-headed /ˌbeərˈhedɪd/

adj. 光头的,不戴帽子的➕

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crinkled /ˈkrɪŋkld/

v. 起皱➕

🔊 "Hello, you chaps!" she called.

“嗨,伙计们！”她喊道。

🔊 Brett was happy. Mike had a way of getting an intensity of feeling into shaking hands. Robert Cohn shook hands because we were back.

勃莱特很开心。迈克握手时有一种强烈的感情。罗伯特·科恩握手是因为我们回来了。

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intensity /ɪnˈtensəti/

n. 强度➕

🔊 "Where the hell have you been?" I asked.

“你们到底去哪儿了？”我问。

🔊 "I brought them up here," Cohn said.

“我带他们来的,”科恩说。

🔊 "What rot," Brett said. "We’d have gotten here earlier if you hadn’t come."

“胡说,”勃莱特说。“要是你没来,我们早到了。”

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rot /rɒt/

n. 胡说,废话➕

🔊 "You’d never have gotten here."

“你们永远到不了。”

🔊 "What rot! You chaps are brown. Look at Bill."

“胡说！你们晒黑了。看看比尔。”

🔊 "Did you get good fishing?" Mike asked. "We wanted to join you."

“钓得怎么样？”迈克问。“我们本想加入你们的。”

🔊 "It wasn’t bad," I said. "We missed you."

“还不错,”我说。“我们想你们了。”

🔊 "I wanted to come," Cohn said, "but I thought I ought to bring them."

“我想来的,”科恩说,“但我觉得应该带他们来。”

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ought /ɔːt/

modal v. 应该➕

🔊 "You bring us. What rot."

“你带我们。胡说。”

🔊 "Was it really good?" Mike asked. "Did you take many?"

“真的好吗？”迈克问。“钓了很多？”

🔊 "Some days we took a dozen apiece. There was an Englishman up there."

“有些天我们每人钓了十二条。那儿有个英国人。”

🔊 "Named Harris," Bill said. "Ever know him, Mike? He was in the war, too."

“叫哈里斯,”比尔说。“认识他吗,迈克？他也参战了。”

🔊 "Fortunate fellow," Mike said. "What times we had. How I wish those dear days were back."

“幸运的家伙,”迈克说。“我们那时多开心啊。我多希望那些美好的日子能回来。”

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Fortunate /ˈfɔːrtʃənət/

adj. 幸运的➕

🔊 "Don’t be an ass."

“别傻了。”

🔊 "Were you in the war, Mike?" Cohn asked.

“你参战了吗,迈克？”科恩问。

🔊 "Was I not."

“怎么没有。”

🔊 "He was a very distinguished soldier," Brett said. "Tell them about the time your horse bolted down Piccadilly."

“他是个非常杰出的士兵,”勃莱特说。“告诉他们你的马在皮卡迪利大街狂奔的事。”

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distinguished /dɪˈstɪŋɡwɪʃt/

adj. 卓越的；著名的➕

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bolted /boʊltɪd/

v. 狂奔；突然逃跑➕

🔊 "I’ll not. I’ve told that four times."

“我不说。我说过四次了。”

🔊 "You never told me," Robert Cohn said.

“你从没告诉过我,”罗伯特·科恩说。

🔊 "I’ll not tell that story. It reflects discredit on me."

“我不说那个故事。那对我有损名誉。”

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reflects /rɪˈflekts/

v. 反映；反射➕

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discredit /dɪsˈkredɪt/

n. 耻辱；不信誉➕

🔊 "Tell them about your medals."

“说说你的勋章。”

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medals /ˈmedlz/

n. 奖章；勋章➕

🔊 "I’ll not. That story reflects great discredit on me."

“我不说。那个故事对我大有损名誉。”

🔊 "What story’s that?"

“什么故事？”

🔊 "Brett will tell you. She tells all the stories that reflect discredit on me."

“勃莱特会告诉你们。她讲所有对我有损名誉的故事。”

🔊 "Go on. Tell it, Brett."

“说吧。讲出来,勃莱特。”

🔊 "Should I?"

“我应该讲吗？”

🔊 "I’ll tell it myself."

“我自己讲。”

🔊 "What medals have you got, Mike?"

“你有什么勋章,迈克？”

🔊 "I haven’t got any medals."

“我没有勋章。”

🔊 "You must have some."

“你肯定有一些。”

🔊 "I suppose I’ve the usual medals. But I never sent in for them. One time there was this whopping big dinner and the Prince of Wales was to be there, and the cards said medals will be worn. So naturally I had no medals, and I stopped at my tailor’s and he was impressed by the invitation, and I thought that’s a good piece of business, and I said to him: ‘You’ve got to fix me up with some medals.’ He said: ‘What medals, sir?’ And I said: ‘Oh, any medals. Just give me a few medals.’ So he said: ‘What medals have you, sir?’ And I said: ‘How should I know?’ Did he think I spent all my time reading the bloody gazette? ‘Just give me a good lot. Pick them out yourself.’ So he got me some medals, you know, miniature medals, and handed me the box, and I put it in my pocket and forgot it. Well, I went to the dinner, and it was the night they’d shot Henry Wilson, so the Prince didn’t come and the King didn’t come, and no one wore any medals, and all these coves were busy taking off their medals, and I had mine in my pocket."

“我想我有普通的勋章。但我从没申请过。有一次有个盛大的晚宴,威尔士亲王要来,请柬上说请佩戴勋章。自然,我没有勋章,我就去了我的裁缝那儿,他被邀请函打动了,我想这是个好生意,就对他说:‘你得给我弄些勋章。’他说:‘什么勋章,先生？’我说:‘哦,任何勋章。就给我一些勋章。’他说:‘您有什么勋章,先生？’我说:‘我怎么知道？’他以为我整天看该死的公报吗？‘就给我一大堆。你自己挑。’于是他给我弄了些勋章,你知道,微型勋章,把盒子递给我,我放进口袋就忘了。嗯,我去参加晚宴,那天晚上他们枪杀了亨利·威尔逊,所以亲王没来,国王没来,没人戴勋章,所有这些家伙忙着取下勋章,而我的在口袋里。”

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whopping /ˈwɒpɪŋ/

adj. 巨大的➕

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miniature /ˈmɪnɪtʃə(r)/

adj. 微型的➕

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coves /kəʊvz/

n. 家伙（俚语,指人）➕

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bloody /ˈblʌdi/

adj. 该死的（俚语,用于强调）➕

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gazette /ɡəˈzet/

n. 公报,官方报纸➕

🔊 He stopped for us to laugh.

他停下来等我们笑。

🔊 "Is that all?"

“就这些？”

🔊 "That’s all. Perhaps I didn’t tell it right."

“就这些。也许我没讲好。”

🔊 "You didn’t," said Brett. "But no matter."

“你没讲好,”勃莱特说。“但没关系。”

🔊 We were all laughing.

我们都笑了。

🔊 "Ah, yes," said Mike. "I know now. It was a damn dull dinner, and I couldn’t stick it, so I left. Later on in the evening I found the box in my pocket. What’s this? I said. Medals? Bloody military medals? So I cut them all off their backing-you know, they put them on a strip-and gave them all around. Gave one to each girl. Form of souvenir. They thought I was hell’s own shakes of a soldier. Give away medals in a night club. Dashing fellow."

“啊,是的,”迈克说。“我现在知道了。那晚宴该死地无聊,我受不了,就走了。后来晚上我发现口袋里的盒子。这是什么？我说。勋章？该死的军功章？于是我把它们都从背板上剪下来--你知道,它们放在一条带子上--分给了大家。每个女孩给一个。当作纪念品。她们以为我是个了不起的士兵。在夜总会送勋章。潇洒的家伙。”

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damn /dæm/

adj. 该死的（用于表达愤怒或强调）➕

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souvenir /ˌsuːvəˈnɪə(r)/

n. 纪念品➕

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dashing /ˈdæʃɪŋ/

adj. 潇洒的,风度翩翩的➕

🔊 "Tell the rest," Brett said.

“讲剩下的,”勃莱特说。

🔊 "Don’t you think that was funny?" Mike asked. We were all laughing. "It was. I swear it was. Any rate, my tailor wrote me and wanted the medals back. Sent a man around. Kept on writing for months. Seems some chap had left them to be cleaned. Frightfully military cove. Set hell’s own store by them." Mike paused. "Rotten luck for the tailor," he said.

“你不觉得好笑吗？”迈克问。我们都在笑。“是的。我发誓是的。总之,我的裁缝写信给我,想要回勋章。派了个人来。写了几个月信。好像有个家伙把勋章留下清洗。非常军事化的家伙。把勋章看得比命还重。”迈克停顿了一下。“裁缝真倒霉,”他说。

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frightfully /ˈfraɪtfəli/

adv. 非常,极其➕

🔊 "You don’t mean it," Bill said. "I should think it would have been grand for the tailor."

“你不是认真的吧,”比尔说。“我以为对裁缝来说是好事。”

🔊 "Frightfully good tailor. Never believe it to see me now," Mike said. "I used to pay him a hundred pounds a year just to keep him quiet. So he wouldn’t send me any bills. Frightful blow to him when I went bankrupt. It was right after the medals. Gave his letters rather a bitter tone."

“非常好的裁缝。现在看我你绝不会相信,”迈克说。“我过去每年付他一百英镑,就为了让他安静。这样他就不会给我寄账单。我破产时对他是个可怕的打击。就在勋章事件之后。让他的信语气相当苦涩。”

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frightful /ˈfraɪtfl/

adj. 可怕的,令人恐惧的➕

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bankrupt /ˈbæŋkrʌpt/

adj. 破产的➕

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bitter /ˈbɪtə(r)/

adj. 苦涩的,愤懑的➕

🔊 "How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked.

“你怎么破产的？”比尔问。

🔊 "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."

“两种方式,”迈克说。“逐渐地,然后突然地。”

🔊 "What brought it on?"

“什么引起的？”

🔊 "Friends," said Mike. "I had a lot of friends. False friends. Then I had creditors, too. Probably had more creditors than anybody in England."

“朋友,”迈克说。“我有很多朋友。虚伪的朋友。然后我还有债权人。可能比英国任何人都多。”

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creditors /ˈkredɪtərz/

n. 债权人➕

🔊 "Tell them about in the court," Brett said.

“告诉他们法庭上的事,”勃莱特说。

🔊 "I don’t remember," Mike said. "I was just a little tight."

“我不记得了,”迈克说。“我有点醉了。”

🔊 "Tight!" Brett exclaimed. "You were blind!"

“醉了！”勃莱特惊呼。“你烂醉如泥！”

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blind /blaɪnd/

adj. 醉得什么也看不见的,烂醉的（俚语）➕

🔊 "Extraordinary thing," Mike said. "Met my former partner the other day. Offered to buy me a drink."

“奇怪的是,”迈克说。“前几天遇到我以前的合伙人。要请我喝一杯。”

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Extraordinary /ɪkˈstrɔːrdəneri/

adj. 非凡的,特别的,意想不到的➕

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former partner /ˈfɔːrmər ˈpɑːrtnər/

n. phrase. 前合伙人；前伴侣➕

🔊 "Tell them about your learned counsel," Brett said.

“告诉他们你那博学的律师,”勃莱特说。

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learned counsel /ˈlɜːrnɪd ˈkaʊnsl/

n. phrase. 博学的律师（尤指在法庭上代表当事人的律师,一种正式或尊敬的称呼）➕

🔊 "I will not," Mike said. "My learned counsel was blind, too. I say this is a gloomy subject. Are we going down and see these bulls unloaded or not?"

“我不说,”迈克说。“我那博学的律师也醉了。我说这是个 gloomy 主题。我们下不下去看卸牛？”

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gloomy /ˈɡluːmi/

adj. 令人沮丧的,阴郁的,悲观的➕

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unloaded /ˌʌnˈloʊdɪd/

v. (past participle). 卸下,卸货➕

🔊 "Let’s go down."

“我们下去吧。”

🔊 We called the waiter, paid, and started to walk through the town. I started off walking with Brett, but Robert Cohn came up and joined her on the other side. The three of us walked along, past the Ayuntamiento with the banners hung from the balcony, down past the market and down past the steep street that led to the bridge across the Arga. There were many people walking to go and see the bulls, and carriages drove down the hill and across the bridge, the drivers, the horses, and the whips rising above the walking people in the street. Across the bridge we turned up a road to the corrals. We passed a wine-shop with a sign in the window: Good Wine 30 Centimes A Liter.

我们叫来服务员,付了钱,开始穿过镇子走。我起初和勃莱特一起走,但罗伯特·科恩走过来,加入她另一边。我们三个一起走,经过挂着横幅的市政厅阳台,下到市场,再下到通往阿尔加河桥的陡峭街道。许多人走着去看牛,马车下山过桥,车夫、马匹和鞭子高过街上步行的人。过桥后,我们转向一条通往牛栏的路。我们经过一家酒馆,窗户上有招牌:好酒每升30生丁。

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Ayuntamiento /aˌʝuntaˈmjento/

n. （西班牙语）市政厅,市政府➕

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banners /ˈbænərz/

n. 横幅,旗帜➕

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steep /stiːp/

adj. 陡峭的➕

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Arga /ˈɑːrɡə/

n. 阿尔加河（西班牙河流名）➕

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carriages /ˈkærɪdʒɪz/

n. （由马匹牵引的）四轮马车➕

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whips /wɪps/

n. 鞭子➕

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corrals /kəˈrælz/

n. 畜栏（尤指关牛马的围栏）➕

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Centimes /ˈsɒntiːm/

n. 生了（法国、比利时等国的货币单位,1法郎=100生了）➕

🔊 "That’s where we’ll go when funds get low," Brett said.

“等钱不够了,我们就去那儿,”勃莱特说。

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funds /fʌndz/

n. 资金,现款➕

🔊 The woman standing in the door of the wine-shop looked at us as we passed. She called to some one in the house and three girls came to the window and stared. They were staring at Brett.

我们经过时,站在酒馆门口的女人看着我们。她朝屋里喊了一声,三个女孩来到窗前盯着看。她们盯着勃莱特。

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stared /steərd/

v. (past tense). 凝视,盯着看➕

🔊 At the gate of the corrals two men took tickets from the people that went in. We went in through the gate. There were trees inside and a low, stone house. At the far end was the stone wall of the corrals, with apertures in the stone that were like loopholes running all along the face of each corral. A ladder led up to the top of the wall, and people were climbing up the ladder and spreading down to stand on the walls that separated the two corrals. As we came up the ladder, walking across the grass under the trees, we passed the big, gray painted cages with the bulls in them. There was one bull in each travelling-box. They had come by train from a bull-breeding ranch in Castile, and had been unloaded off flat-cars at the station and brought up here to be let out of their cages into the corrals. Each cage was stencilled with the name and the brand of the bull-breeder.

牛栏门口,两个人收票让进去的人进。我们进门。里面有树和一栋低矮的石屋。远处是牛栏的石墙,石墙上有孔,像观察孔沿着每个牛栏的正面。一个梯子通向墙顶,人们爬上梯子,散开站在分隔两个牛栏的墙上。我们爬上梯子,走过树下的草地时,经过关着公牛的大灰漆笼子。每个运输箱里有一头公牛。它们从卡斯蒂利亚的一个养牛场坐火车来,在车站从平板车上卸下,带到这里从笼子里放到牛栏。每个笼子上都印着养牛人的名字和品牌。

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apertures /ˈæpərtʃərz/

n. 孔,洞,缝隙➕

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loopholes /ˈluːphoʊlz/

n. （墙上的）射击孔,窥视孔；法律或规则中的）漏洞➕

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travelling-box /ˈtrævəlɪŋ bɒks/

n. 旅行箱,运输箱（文中指运输公牛的箱子）➕

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bull-breeding /ˈbʊl ˌbriːdɪŋ/

n. (compound adjective). 饲养公牛的,培育斗牛的➕

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Castile /kæˈstiːl/

n. 卡斯蒂利亚（西班牙历史上的地区,以养牛和斗牛传统闻名）➕

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flat-cars /ˈflæt kɑːrz/

n. 平板车,平车（铁路货车的一种）➕

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stencilled /ˈstensld/

v. (past participle). 用模板印刷,用模版刷写➕

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brand /brænd/

n. （牲畜身上表示归属的）烙印；品牌➕

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bull-breeder /ˈbʊl ˌbriːdər/

n. 斗牛饲养者,养牛人➕

🔊 We climbed up and found a place on the wall looking down into the corral. The stone walls were whitewashed, and there was straw on the ground and wooden feed-boxes and water-troughs set against the wall.

我们爬上去,在墙上找了个地方往下看牛栏。石墙刷白了,地上有稻草,墙边放着木制饲料箱和水槽。

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whitewashed /ˈwaɪtwɒʃt/

adj. 被粉刷成白色的；被粉饰的➕

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feed-boxes /ˈfiːd ˌbɒksɪz/

n. 饲料槽➕

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water-troughs /ˈwɔːtə ˌtrɒfs/

n. 水槽（供牲畜饮水用）➕

🔊 "Look up there," I said.

“看那儿,”我说。

🔊 Beyond the river rose the plateau of the town. All along the old walls and ramparts people were standing. The three lines of fortifications made three black lines of people. Above the walls there were heads in the windows of the houses. At the far end of the plateau boys had climbed into the trees.

河对岸升起城镇的高原。沿着旧墙和城墙,人们站着。三道防御工事形成了三道黑色的人线。墙上方,房子的窗户里有人头。高原远处,男孩们爬上了树。

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plateau /ˈplætəʊ/

n. 高原；稳定时期➕

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ramparts /ˈræmpɑːts/

n. 防御墙,壁垒（尤指城堡周围的）➕

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fortifications /ˌfɔːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)nz/

n. 防御工事（如城墙、碉堡等）➕

🔊 "They must think something is going to happen," Brett said.

“他们一定以为要发生什么事了,”勃莱特说。

🔊 "They want to see the bulls."

“他们想看牛。”

🔊 Mike and Bill were on the other wall across the pit of the corral. They waved to us. People who had come late were standing behind us, pressing against us when other people crowded them.

迈克和比尔在牛栏坑对面的墙上。他们向我们挥手。来晚的人站在我们后面,当别人挤他们时,他们挤我们。

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pressing /ˈpresɪŋ/

adj. 紧迫的；拥挤的（此处为现在分词作形容词用）➕

🔊 "Why don’t they start?" Robert Cohn asked.

“为什么还不开始？”罗伯特·科恩问。

🔊 A single mule was hitched to one of the cages and dragged it up against the gate in the corral wall. The men shoved and lifted it with crowbars into position against the gate. Men were standing on the wall ready to pull up the gate of the corral and then the gate of the cage. At the other end of the corral a gate opened and two steers came in, swaying their heads and trotting, their lean flanks swinging. They stood together at the far end, their heads toward the gate where the bull would enter.

一头骡子套在一个笼子上,把它拖到牛栏墙的门边。人们用撬棍推拉,把它顶到门边。墙上站着人,准备拉起牛栏的门,然后笼子的门。牛栏另一端,一扇门开了,两头阉牛进来,摇晃着头小跑,瘦削的侧腹摆动。它们一起站在远处,头朝向公牛要进来的门。

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hitched /hɪtʃt/

v. 拴住,套住（动物或车辆）➕

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crowbars /ˈkrəʊbɑːz/

n. 撬棍➕

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flanks /flæŋks/

n. 侧腹,（动物的）胁腹➕

🔊 "They don’t look happy," Brett said.

“它们看起来不高兴,”勃莱特说。

🔊 The men on top of the wall leaned back and pulled up the door of the corral. Then they pulled up the door of the cage.

墙上的人向后仰,拉起了牛栏的门。然后他们拉起了笼子的门。

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leaned /liːnd/

v. 倾斜；倚靠（lean 的过去式）➕

🔊 I leaned way over the wall and tried to see into the cage. It was dark. Some one rapped on the cage with an iron bar. Inside something seemed to explode. The bull, striking into the wood from side to side with his horns, made a great noise. Then I saw a dark muzzle and the shadow of horns, and then, with a clattering on the wood in the hollow box, the bull charged and came out into the corral, skidding with his forefeet in the straw as he stopped, his head up, the great hump of muscle on his neck swollen tight, his body muscles quivering as he looked up at the crowd on the stone walls. The two steers backed away against the wall, their heads sunken, their eyes watching the bull.

我身子探过墙,想看看笼子里。里面很暗。有人用铁条敲了敲笼子。里面好像有什么爆炸了。公牛用角左右撞击木头,发出巨大的声响。然后我看到一个黑暗的鼻口和角的影子,接着,随着中空木箱里的咔哒声,公牛冲出来进入牛栏,前脚在稻草中打滑停下,头抬起,颈上巨大的肌肉块紧绷鼓起,身体肌肉颤抖着,它抬头看着石墙上的人群。两头阉牛退到墙边,头低下,眼睛盯着公牛。

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muzzle /ˈmʌzl/

n. （动物的）鼻口部➕

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hump /hʌmp/

n. 隆起物,驼峰➕

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quivering /ˈkwɪvərɪŋ/

adj. 颤抖的,抖动的➕

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sunken /ˈsʌŋkən/

adj. 凹陷的,下陷的➕