正着地

This is a remote and desolate little village, there is a simple little cottage, a ten-year-old boy was sitting in its own small hospital, the hands holding a tattered textbooks, watching intently, from time to time to stop thinking, although his clothes tattered, but he does not care, but careful study clasped every minute to do something meaningful things.

这是一个偏僻荒凉的小山村，有一个简陋的小平房，一个十来岁的小男孩正坐在自家的小院内，手中捧着一本破烂不堪的教科书，专心地看着，还不时停下来思考，他的衣衫虽破烂，但他毫不在意，只是认真地学习，紧紧地握住每一分每一秒去做些有意义的事情。

Some paper, the Pall Mall Gazette I think, describing the dress-rehearsal of one of my plays, spoke of you as following me about like my shadow: the memory of our friendship is the shadow that walks with me here: that seems never to leave me: that wakes me up at night to tell me the same story over and over till its wearisome iteration makes all sleep abandon me till dawn[34a]: at dawn it begins again: it follows me into the prison-yard and makes me talk to myself as I tramp round: each detail that accompanied each dreadful moment I am forced to recall: there is nothing that happened in those ill-starred years that I cannot recreate in that chamber of the brain which is set apart for grief or for despair: every strained note of your voice, every twitch and gesture of your nervous hands, every bitter word, every poisonous phrase[34b] comes back to me: I remember the street or river down which we passed, the wall or woodland that surrounded us, at what figure on the dial stood the hands of the clock, which way went the wings of the wind, the shape and colour of the moon.

有份报纸，我想是《泼尔穆尔报》吧，报道了我一出戏的彩排，说你像影子似的跟随着我：对你我友谊的回忆，就是在这里随我左右的影子，像是永不分离似的——深夜里唤我醒来，一遍又一遍地说着同一个故事，直磨得人睡意全无，醒到天明[34a]；天明时分又开始了，跟着我到牢房外的院子里，害得我一边步履沉重地走着一边喃喃自语——我被迫回想着每一个痛苦时刻的每一点细节，在那些个倒霉的年头里发生的事，没有哪一件我不能在那留给悲伤和绝望的脑室里再造重演：你每一点不自然的话音，每一个紧张兮兮的手势，每一句冷言恶语[34b]，都涌上了心头；我记着我们到过的街道和河流，四周的墙壁和树林，时钟的针正指着哪一点，风正吹向哪一面，月色月影又是什么模样。

At length they came up to the Boat; but 'tis impossible to express their Confusion, when they found the Boat fast a-Ground in the Creek, the Tide ebb'd out, and their two Men gone We could hear them call to one another in a most lamentable Manner, telling one another, they were gotten into an inchanted Island; that either there were Inhabitants in it, and they should all be murther'd, or else there were Devils and Spirits in it, and they should be all carry'd away, and devour'd.

这一切正合我的心愿。我让星期五和大副继续干他们的事，自己马上带其余的人偷偷渡过小河，出其不意地向那两个人扑过去。当时，一个人正躺在岸上，一个人还在船里呆着。那岸上的人半睡半醒，正想爬起来，走在头里的船长一下冲到他跟前，把他打倒在地。然后，船长又向船上的人大喝一声，叫他赶快投降，否则就要他的命。

Toddlers climbed happily over pebbled railroad tracks, men played chess on a platform surrounded by tall reeds, a bride posed for a portrait amid some unraked leaves, and two vanloads of officials on a study tour listened to a guide talk about environmental protection.

学步的幼儿欢快地走在鹅卵石的轨道上，下棋的人们坐在被高高的芦苇包围着的平台上，一个新娘摆出姿势故意地拨弄着树叶，一群官员组成的考察队伍正倾听着导游介绍环境保护的理念。

Trembling he obeyed, and raised his humble head; and then, in that utter clearness of the imminent dawn, while Nature, flushed with fullness of incredible colour, seemed to hold her breath for the event, he looked in the very eyes of the Friend and Helper; saw the backward sweep of the curved horns, gleaming in the growing daylight; saw the stern, hooked nose between the kindly eyes that were looking down on them humourously, while the bearded mouth broke into a half-smile at the corners; saw the rippling muscles on the arm that lay across the broad chest, the long supple hand still holding the pan-pipes only just fallen away from the parted lips; saw the splendid curves of the shaggy limbs disposed in majestic ease on the sward; saw, last of all, nestling between his very hooves, sleeping soundly in entire peace and contentment, the little, round, podgy, childish form of the baby otter.

他战战兢兢地抬起谦卑的头。就在破晓前那无比纯净的氛围里，大自然焕发着她那鲜艳绝伦的绯红，仿佛正屏住呼吸，等待这件大事——就在这一刻，鼹鼠直视那位朋友和救主的眼睛。他看到一对向后卷曲的弯弯的犄角，在晨光下发亮；他看到一双和蔼的眼睛，诙谐地俯视着他俩，慈祥的两眼间一只刚毅的鹰钩鼻。一张藏在须髯下的嘴，嘴角似笑非笑地微微上翘；一只筋肉隆起的臂，横在宽厚的胸前，修长而柔韧的手，仍握着那支刚离唇边的牧神之笛。毛蓬蓬的双腿线条优美，威严而安适地盘坐草地上；而偎依在老牧神的两蹄之间，是水獭娃娃那圆滚滚、胖乎乎、稚嫩嫩的小身子，他正安逸香甜地熟睡。

We took turns with the mirror as we ate mulberries, pelted each other with them, giggling, laughing; I can still see Hassan up on that tree, sunlight flickering through the leaves on his almost perfectly round face, a face like a Chinese doll chiseled from hardwood: his flat, broad nose and slanting, narrow eyes bamboo leaves, eyes that looked, depending on the light, gold, green, even sapphire I can still see his tiny low-set ears and that pointed stub of a chin, a meaty appendage that looked like it was added as a mere afterthought.

我们一边轮流地玩着镜子，一边吃着桑葚，一边用它们砸着对方，一边咯咯哈哈地笑。我现在还能想象出哈桑坐在树上的样子，阳光透过树叶闪烁在他那张几近正圆的脸上。他的脸像一张硬木凿刻出来的中国娃娃的脸：扁平而宽厚的鼻子，细长的眼睛斜斜的，宛如一片竹叶，眼球因为光线的不同而呈现出金色、绿色，甚至是蔚蓝色。我还记得他那生得很低的小耳朵，还有下巴上粘着的那个明显的肉球，肉乎乎的，仿佛是事后再加上去的一笔。

With this Resolution I enter'd the Wood, and with all possible Waryness and Silence, Friday following close at my Heels, I march'd till I came to the Skirt of the Wood, on the Side which was next to them; only that one Corner of the Wood lay between me and them; here I call'd softly to Friday, and shewing him a great Tree, which was just at the Corner of the Wood, I bad him go to the Tree, and bring me Word if he could see there plainly what they were doing; he did so, and came immediately back to me, and told me they might be plainly view'd there; that they were all about their Fire, eating the Flesh of one of their Prisoners; and that another lay bound upon the Sand, a little from them, which be said they would kill next, and which fir'd all the very Soul within me; he told me it was not one of their Nation; but one of the bearded Men, who he had told me of, that came to their Country in the Boat: I was fill'd with Horror at the very naming the white-bearded Man, and going to the Tree, I saw plainly by my Glass, a white Man who lay upon the Beach of the Sea, with his Hands and his Feet ty'd, with Flags, or Things like Rushes; and that he was an European, and had Cloaths on.

这样决定之后，我就进入了树林。星期五紧随我身后，小心翼翼、悄然无声地往前走。我们一直走到树林的边缘，那儿离他们最近，中间只隔着一些树木，是树林边沿的一角。到了那里后，我就悄悄招呼星期五，指着林角上最靠外的一棵大树，要他隐蔽在那树后去观察一下，如果能看清楚他们的行动，就回来告诉我。他去了不大工夫，就回来对我说，从那儿他看得很清楚，他们正围着火堆吃一个俘虏的肉，另外还有一个俘虏，正躺在离他们不远的沙地上，手脚都捆绑着。照他看来，他们接着就要杀他了。我听了他的话，不禁怒火中烧。他又告诉我，那躺着的俘虏不是他们部落的人，而是他曾经对我说过的坐小船到他们部落里去的那种有胡子的人。

There was a young flower in a desert where was always dried and sad-looking. It was growing by itself, enjoying everyday and saying to the Sun "When shall I be grown up?"

在一个周围充满着干燥与衰落景象的沙漠中，有一朵小花正绽放着……她孤单地生长着……快乐地过着每一天……她对太阳说：&我什么时候才能长大呀？&

Outside her shabby cottage, old Mrs. Tailor was hanging out laundry on a wire line, unaware that some children lay hidden in the leaves of a nearby tree watching her every move.

在破败的小屋外，年迈的泰勒夫人正伸手将洗好的衣物一件一件地往一根绳上晾着，她根本没察觉到几个孩子正躲在附近一棵树上的树叶丛中，正注视着她的一举一动呐。

A new construction of the coral family tree suggests that evolution proceeds at full bore in waters well below where sunlight penetrates.

一个新建的珊瑚谱系树表明在太阳光达不到的水下进化正全力以赴地进行着。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。