象公爵的

Nobody ever seemed quite clear whether the expression "Drunk as a lord" should be taken as a compliment or an insult.

好象没有人十分清楚"醉得象公爵一样"这样的表达是赞美还是侮辱。

Tom and me was to sleep in the same room and bed; so, being tired, we bid good-night and went up to bed right after supper, and clumb out of the window and down the lightning-rod, and shoved for the town; for I didn't believe anybody was going to give the king and the duke a hint, and so if I didn't hurry up and give them one they'd get into trouble sure.

队伍走过时，只见国王和公爵给骑在一根单杠上——其实，那只是我认为是国王和公爵，因为他们遍身给涂了漆，粘满了羽毛，简直已经不成人形——乍一看，简直象两根军人戴的狰狞可怕的粗翎子。

When the place couldn't hold no more, the duke he quit tending door and went around the back way and come on to the stage and stood up before the curtain and made a little speech, and praised up this tragedy, and said it was the most thrillingest one that ever was; and so he went on abragging about the tragedy, and about Edmund Kean the Elder, which was to play the main principal part in it; and at last when he'd got everybody's expectations up high enough, he rolled up the curtain, and the next minute the king come a-prancing out on all fours, naked; and he was painted all over, ringstreaked-and-striped, all sorts of colors, as splendid as a rainbow.

等到场子里再也容不下更多的人了，公爵从入口处走开，绕到场后，走到了台口，站在幕布前面，作了一个小小的演说。他对这次演的悲剧大大夸奖了一番，称作从来戏剧里最为惊心动魄的戏。他大吹大擂地把这个悲剧介绍了一番。还替老埃特蒙·基恩吹嘘了一通，说他要演剧中的主角。最后，当他把观众的胃口吊足的时候，他把幕布向上一拉。一会儿，但见国王全身一丝不挂，四肢着地，蹦上场来。他全身涂着红红绿绿的各种颜色，一圈一圈的条纹，就象天上彩虹那么色彩鲜艳。

But the rest was on hand, and so they all come and shook hands with the king and thanked him and talked to him; and then they shook hands with the duke and didn't say nothing, but just kept a-smiling and bobbing their heads like a passel of sapheads whilst he made all sorts of signs with his hands and said "Goo-goo -- goo-goo-goo" all the time, like a baby that can't talk.

不过其余的人都在场，他们就一个个走上前来，和国王握手，谢谢他，并和他说起话来。随后他们和公爵握手，并没有说什么话，只是脸上始终透着笑容，频频点点头，活象一群傻瓜蛋。

On the road Tom he told me all about how it was reckoned I was murdered, and how pap disappeared pretty soon, and didn't come back no more, and what a stir there was when Jim run away; and I told Tom all about our Royal Nonesuch rapscallions, and as much of the raft voyage as I had time to; and as we struck into the town and up through the -- here comes a raging rush of people with torches, and an awful whooping and yelling, and banging tin pans and blowing horns; and we jumped to one side to let them go by; and as they went by I see they had the king and the duke astraddle of a rail -- that is, I knowed it WAS the king and the duke, though they was all over tar and feathers, and didn't look like nothing in the world that was human -- just looked like a couple of monstrous big soldier-plumes.

在路上，汤姆告诉了我，当初人家怎样以为我是被谋害了，我爸又是怎样在不久以后失踪的，从此一去不回；杰姆逃走的时候又是怎样引起了震动的；一桩桩、一件件，原原本本都讲了。我呢，对汤姆讲了有关两个流氓演出《王室异兽》的事以及在木筏上一路漂流等等的全部经过。因为时间不多，只能讲到哪里就算哪里。我们到了镇上，直奔镇子的中心――那时是八点半钟――只见有一大群人象潮水般涌来，手执火把，一路吼啊，叫啊，使劲地敲起白铁锅，吹起号角。我们跳到了一旁，让大伙儿过去。队伍走过时，只见国王和公爵给骑在一根单杠上――其实，那只是我认为是国王和公爵，因为他们遍身给涂了漆，粘满了羽毛，简直已经不成人形――乍一看，简直象两根军人戴的狰狞可怕的粗翎子。

The duke he never let on he suspicioned what was up, but just went a goo-gooing around, happy and satisfied, like a jug that's googling out buttermilk; and as for the king, he just gazed and gazed down sorrowful on them new-comers like it give him the stomach-ache in his very heart to think there could be such frauds and rascals in the world.

公爵丝毫没有流露出他担心出了什么意外，而是继续在谷——谷——谷地到处叫唤，显得又高兴，又得意，仿佛象一把咕嘟嘟倒出牛奶来的奶壶。至于国王呢，他只是悲天悯人地两眼朝下望，望着那两个刚来的人，仿佛在心里哀叹世上竟然会有这样的骗子和流氓，把他肚子都气痛了。

The fences was made of different kinds of boards, nailed on at different times; and they leaned every which way, and had gates that didn't generly have but one hinge -- a leather one.

也有些围墙曾于某年某月刷白过，不过据公爵说，那是在哥伦布时代②的事了，这倒很象。园子里往往有猪闯进去，人们就把它们赶出去。

"Surely, Duke," Guthwulf drawled, leaning back against the arm of his chair like a sun-warmed cat, you don't blame us for that.

&的确，公爵，&Guthwulf懒洋洋地说，靠在椅子把上，象一只晒太阳的猫。你不能为此而指责我们。

The duke he begun to abuse him for an old fool, and the king begun to sass back, and the minute they was fairly at it I lit out and shook the reefs out of my hind legs, and spun down the river road like a deer, for I see our chance; and I made up my mind that it would be a long day before they ever see me and Jim again.

公爵呢，就骂他是个老傻瓜，国王也马上还嘴，乘他们闹得不可开交的时刻，我便溜出了酒馆，撒开腿就跑，活象一只小鹿沿着河边大路往前飞奔――因为我看到机会来啦，我下定了决心，从此以后，他们要是想再见到我和杰姆，那就不知道是何年何月啦。

"I hasten to do so." The duke left the royal presence with the speed of a young man

公爵就象个年青人那样敏捷地走了出去，他尽忠国王的热忱使他年青了许多，房间里只剩下了路易十八。

Do you know, i need you to come back

你知道吗，我需要你回来

Yang yinshu、Wang xiangsheng、Li decang,The first discovery of haemaphysalis conicinna.

1〕 杨银书，王祥生，李德昌。安徽省首次发现嗜群血蜱。