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【原著共读】《The Tell-Tale Heart 》(4)

发表于2020-09-01 2084次查看

Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror.

It was not a groan of pain or of grief---oh, no!---it was the low stifed sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe.

I knew the sound well.

Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it has welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me.

I say I knew it well.

I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart.

I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise, when he had turned in the bed.

His fears had been ever since growing upon him.

He had been trying to fancy them causeless, but could not.

He had been saying to himself---"It is nothing but the wind in the chimney---it is only a mouse crossing the floor," or  "It is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp."

Yes, he had been trying to comfort himself with these suppositions: but he had found all in vain.

All in vain; because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim.

And it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel---although he neither saw or heard---to feel the presence of my head within the room.

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  • 2楼 Echo 2020-09-01

    我本来想说“这风格,就像爱伦·坡写得似的”

    结果绕回去一百度,真是他写的

    2333

  • 3楼 Echo 2020-09-01

    爱伦·坡是真的牛

    全篇不着一字写情节,全靠心理描写就能让人体会到那种紧张感

    • Cao 2020-09-02
      最开始又紧张又有点莫名其妙……因为不了解发生了什么
    • Cao 2020-09-02
      最初我以为他写了一个疯子or精神病人……
  • 4楼 Echo 2020-09-03

    催更!

  • 5楼 Cao 2020-09-07

    【词汇积累】

    presently

    除了present的现在时,还有“不久”的意思

    groan

    呻吟,叹息

    mortal terror

    极度恐惧

    mortal在文学作品中有“危急的,致命的,很严重的”这样的含义

    awe

    敬畏

    well up

    涌出

    bosom

    胸/胸怀

    pity

    n.怜悯,同情

    v. 对……怜悯/同情

    chimney

    烟囱

    supposition

    suppose的名词形式,假定,推测,假设

  • 6楼 Cao 2020-09-09

    【表达汇总】

    a groan of pain

    一声痛苦的呻吟

     

    arise from

    出自……(原文是“发出一声出自灵魂深处的声音”)

     

    when overcharged with awe

    (心中)充满了敬畏

    想描述“充满了某种情绪”,可以不直译为being fullfilled with sth, 而是being overcharged with awe

     

    many a night

    很多个晚上(猜的,应该是这个意思吧)

     

    it has welled up from my own bosom

    形容心中/胸中蔓延出某种情绪,可以表达为“well up from”

     

    I chuckled at hear

    我的/在心中暗自偷笑

    chukle本意是“吃吃笑/咯咯笑”,这里的重点在于介词at

     

    He had been trying to fancy them causeless.

    这里的fancy是想象的意思

    fancy + 宾语 + 宾补

     

    because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim

    这里的in approaching里面的In用得很有启发性

  • 7楼 Echo 2020-09-10

    慢慢汇总,汇总完给你加精

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