约翰 斯坦贝克 Chrysanthemums 菊花_译文.doc
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1、【精品文档】如有侵权,请联系网站删除,仅供学习与交流约翰 斯坦贝克 Chrysanthemums 菊花_译文.精品文档.ChrysanthemumsElisa is a young married lady working on an isolated farm and proud of her skills in growing flowers. One day, she suddenly feels a desire to communicate with the outside world. What happens to her? Please read the following s
2、tory.年轻媳妇伊利莎住在一家偏僻的农场,一手高超的种花技能令她自豪。一天,她突然有了与外界交流的愿望。有什么故事发生呢?请您往下看。The high grey-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world. On every side it sat like a lid on the mountains and made of the great valley a closed pot. On the broad, level land
3、floor the gang plows bit deep and left the black earth shining like metal where the shares had cut. On the foothill ranches across the Salinas River, the yellow stubble fields seemed to be bathed in pale cold sunshine, but there was no sunshine in the valley now in December. The thick willow scrub a
4、long the river flamed with sharp and positive yellow leaves.飘荡在半空中的冬雾呈现出灰法兰绒色,将萨利纳斯山谷严实地罩了起来;同时也把它与外界分隔开。雾气锁着山头,四面象顶盖子,而山谷则成了一口盖得严严实实的深锅。农民在宽阔平坦的土地上深耕,犁铧过处,黑色的土地闪着金属的光泽。在横卧萨利纳斯河的丘陵地上,农场里的茬地泛着黄色,象是沐浴在冷冷的苍白日光下;不过,现在时至腊月,山谷里没什么阳光。河边上密密麻麻的柳丛上的黄叶颜色鲜浓,象着了火似的。It was a time of quiet and of waiting. The air
5、was cold and tender. A light wind blew up from the southwest so that the farmers were mildly hopeful of a good rain before long; but fog and rain do not go together.这是一个安静,叫人等待的季节。空气凉凉的,柔柔的。从西南方向吹来一阵轻风,农民们隐隐地感到不久会有一场及时雨,但雨和雾是不一起来的。Across the river, on Henry Allens foothill ranch there was little wor
6、k to be done, for the hay was cut and stored and the orchards were plowed up to receive the rain deeply when it should come. The cattle on the higher slopes were becoming shaggy and rough-coated.河对岸亨利埃伦家位于丘陵上的农场里已经没什么活计了:干草都收割过并存放了起来,果园业已深翻过,好等到有雨的时候浇个透底墒。高处山坡上的牛变得毛皮杂乱粗糙。Elisa Allen, working in her
7、flower garden, looked down across the yard and saw Henry, her husband, talking to two men in business suits. The three of them stood by the tractor shed, each man with one foot on the side of the little Fordson. They smoked cigarettes and studied the machine as they talked.伊利莎埃伦正在花园里干活儿,穿过院子朝远处望时,她看
8、见丈夫亨利正在与两个身着工作服的人交谈。三个人都站在拖拉机棚边上,一只脚蹬在那辆小型福特牌拖拉机的一侧。说话的时候,他们边抽着烟,边打量拖拉机。Elisa watched them for a moment and then went back to her work. She was thirty-five. Her face was lean and strong and her eyes were as clear as water. Her figure looked blocked and heavy in her gardening costume, a mans black ha
9、t pulled low down over her eyes, clod-hopper shoes, a figured print dress almost completely covered by a big corduroy apron with four big pockets to hold the snips, the trowel and scratcher, the seeds and the knife she worked with. She wore heavy leather gloves to protect her hands while she worked.
10、伊利莎看了他们一会儿,又继续忙自己的活儿。她今年三十五岁,脸庞瘦俏并透着坚毅,一双眼睛清澈如水。由于穿着园艺工作服,她显得鼓囊囊的、有点儿笨拙。她头上戴着一顶男式的黑帽子,拉得很低,直到她的眼睛。脚上是一双粗笨的鞋子。下面穿的印花裙子几乎全给那个大号的灯心绒围裙遮盖了起来。围裙上有四个大口袋,用来放她干活时用的剪刀、泥铲、刮管器、种子和刀。干活时她戴着厚厚的皮手套,免得弄伤手。She was cutting down the old years chrysanthemum stalks with a pair of short and powerful scissors. She looked
11、 down toward the men by the tractor shed now and then. Her face was eager and mature and handsome; even her work with the scissors was over-eager, over-powerful. The chrysanthemum stems seemed too small and easy for her energy.她这会儿正用一把锋利的小剪子把去年的菊花枝剪短,还不时朝站在拖拉机棚边上的三个男人望一望。她的脸上充满着渴望,看起来成熟漂亮甚至连她拿着剪刀干活的
12、样子都显得那么有力,饱含期待,以至于那些菊花的枯杆相比之下都显得纤细柔弱,容易收拾了。She brushed a cloud of hair out of her eyes with the back of her glove, and left a smudge of earth on her cheek in doing it. Behind her stood the neat white farm house with red geraniums close-banked around it as high as the windows. It was a hard-swept loo
13、king little house with hard-polished windows, and a clean mud-mat on the front steps.她用手套的背部将眼前的一绺乌发抹开,一点污渍就留在了她的脸颊上。她身后是整洁的白色农舍,红色的天竺葵紧紧地簇拥着,直到窗户附近。看得出这座不大的屋子好好打扫过,窗户也曾细心地擦拭过,就连前面台阶上的擦鞋垫都收拾得干干净净。Elisa cast another glance toward the tractor shed. The strangers were getting into their Ford coupe. She
14、 took off a glove and put her strong fingers down into the forest of new green chrysanthemum sprouts that were growing around the old roots. She spread the leaves and looked down among the close-growing stems. No aphids were there, no sowbugs or snails or cutworms. Her terrier fingers destroyed such
15、 pests before they could get started.伊利莎又朝拖拉机棚的方向看了一眼,那些陌生人正钻进他们的福特牌小客车里。她脱掉一只手套,将自己有力的手指伸到从老的菊花根部新生的一丛幼苗里,然后分开叶子,在长得郁郁葱葱的幼苗里查看。里面蚜虫、潮虫、蜗牛、毛虫什么的都没有。如果真有的话,她那犀利无比的手指也会在这些害虫逃跑之前就将它们消灭。Elisa started at the sound of her husbands voice. He had come near quietly, and he leaned over the wire fence that pro
16、tected her flower garden from cattle and dogs and chickens.听到丈夫的声音,伊利莎吃了一惊。原来他已经悄悄地走到了她的旁边,从铁丝栅栏那边俯过身来。铁丝栅栏把她的花园圈了起来,免得牛呀,狗呀,鸡呀这些家畜糟蹋。At it again, he said. Youve got a strong new crop coming. Elisa straightened her back and pulled on the gardening glove again: Yes. Theyll be strong this coming year.
17、 In her tone and on her face there was a little smugness. Youve got a gift with things, Henry observed. Some of those yellow chrysanthemums you had this year were ten inches across. I wish youd work out in the orchard and raise some apples that big. Her eyes sharpened. Maybe I could do it, too. Ive
18、a gift with things, all right. My mother had it. She could stick anything in the ground and make it grow. She said it was having planters hands that knew how to do it. Well, it sure works with flowers, he said. Henry, who were those men you were talking to? Why, sure, thats what I came to tell you.
19、They were from the Western Meat Company. I sold those thirty head of three-year-old steers. Got nearly my own price, too.“又侍弄你的花儿啦,”他说,“它们今年长势好啊。”听到丈夫搭话,伊利莎直起身,顺手把那只手套又戴上:“对,今年长势会很好。”不管是言语中还是脸上都洋溢着得意。 “你干活儿很有一手,”亨利说,“你今年种的黄菊花中有的有十英寸那么大,真希望你去侍弄果园,也结出那么大的苹果来。”她的眼睛一亮。“或许我也能。我的确在种植方面有一手,我妈妈也是那样。她随便把什么东西
20、往地下一插,就能活。她说是因为有了庄稼人的手才知道怎么去种植。”“嗯,种花也是这样的,”他说。“亨利,刚才同你说话的那些人是谁呀?”“啊,对了,我正要跟你说呢。他们是西部肉制品公司的。我把那三十头三岁的菜牛卖给他们,差不多是我要的价格。”Good, she said. Good for you. And I thought, he continued, I thought how its Saturday afternoon, and we might go into Salinas for dinner at a restaurant, and then to a picture show
21、to celebrate, you see. Good, she repeated. Oh, yes. That will be good. Henry put on his joking tone. Theres fights tonight. Howd you like to go to the fights? Oh, no, she said breathlessly. No, I wouldnt like fights. Just fooling, Elisa. Well go to a movie. Lets see. Its two now. Im going to take Sc
22、otty and bring down those steers from the hill. Itll take us maybe two hours. Well go in town about five and have dinner at the Cominos Hotel. Like that? Of course Ill like it. Its good to eat away from home. All right, then. Ill go get up a couple of horses. She said, Ill have plenty of time to tra
23、nsplant some of these sets, I guess.“太好了,”她说,“真有你的。” “我想,”他接着说,“现在是周六下午,我们可以去萨利纳斯的一家饭店吃顿饭,再去看场电影,庆祝一下,你看怎么样。”“太好了,”她重复道。“真是好极了。”亨利接着开玩笑说,“今天晚上有拳击赛,你愿意看吗?”“不,”她紧张地说,“我可不喜欢拳击赛。”“骗你哪,伊利莎。我们去看电影。让我想一下,现在是下午两点,我去叫斯哥迪,把牛赶下山。这大概要两个钟头。我们会在五点钟到城里,去克民诺斯酒店吃晚饭。你觉得怎么样?”“当然可以,在外面吃饭好。”“那好,我去准备几匹马。”“我想我会有充裕的时间把这些苗儿
24、种上的。”伊利莎说。She heard her husband calling Scotty down by the barn. And a little later she saw the two men ride up the pale yellow hillside in search of the steers. There was a little square sandy bed kept for rooting the chrysanthemums. With her trowel she turned the soil over and over, and smoothed i
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