武汉大学研究生英语Unit 7 考试难句翻译.doc

1 It was a big, frame squarish house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. （Para 2）那是一幢过去漆成白色的四方形大木屋,坐落在当年一条最考究的街道上,还装点着有十九世纪七十年代风格的圆形屋顶,尖塔和涡形花纹的阳台,带有浓厚的轻盈气息2only Miss Emilys house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps 一 an eyesore among eyesores. （Para 2）只有爱米丽小姐的屋子岿然独存,四周簇拥着棉花车和汽油泵.房子虽已破败,却还是桀骜不驯,装模作样,真是丑中之丑.3Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emilys father had loaned money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business, preferred this way of repaying. （Para 3）沙多里斯上校编造了一大套无中生有的话,说是爱米丽的父亲曾经贷款给镇政府,因此,镇政府作为一种交易,宁愿以这种方式偿还.4When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked；and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the single sun-ray（Para 5）黑人掀开一扇窗帘,这时,便可看出皮套子已经坼裂;等他们坐了下来,大腿两边就有一阵灰尘冉冉上升,尘粒在那一缕阳光中缓缓旋转.5Her skeleton was small and spare; Perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her: Because of her small frame, extra weight became much more visible and exaggerated on her. （Para 6） 她的身架矮小，也许正因为这个缘故,在别的女人身上显得是丰满的东西,而她却给人以肥大的感觉.6Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors stated their errand. （Para 6） 当客人说明来意时,她那双凹陷在一脸隆起的肥肉之中,活像揉在 一团生面中的两个小煤球似的眼睛不住地移动着,时而瞧瞧这张面孔,时而打量那张面孔。7With all her strength, she defeated those who came for the tax as what she did to their fathers about the smell thirty years before. （Para 15）她就这样把他们"连人带马"地打败了, 正如三十年前为了那股气味的事战胜了他们的父辈一样.8We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and chutching a horsewhip; the two of them framed by the back-flung front door. （Para 25）长久以来，我们把这家人看做一幅画中的人物：身段苗条，穿着白衣的爱米丽小姐立在后面，她父亲则双脚侧影在前面，背对爱米丽，手持一根马鞭，一扇向后开的前门恰好嵌住了他们俩的身影。9So when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated; even with insanity in the family she wouldnt have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized. （Para 25） 因此当她年近三十，尚未结婚时，我们实在没有喜幸的心理，只是觉得先前的看法得到了证实。即令她家有着疯癫的血液吧，如果真有一切机会摆在她面前，她也不至于断然放过。10Now she too would know more or less about the importance of a penny that makes people excited or despaired. （Para 26） 如今她也体会到多一便士就激动喜悦，少一便士痛苦失望的那种人皆有的心情了。11Later we said, “Poor Emily” behind the jalousies as they passed on Sunday afternoon in the glittering buggy, Miss Emily with her head high and Homer Barron with his hat cocked and a cigar in his teeth, reins and whip in a yellow glove. （Para 43）以后每逢礼拜天下午他们乘着漂亮的轻便马车驰过：爱米丽小姐昂着头，荷默歪戴着帽子，嘴里叼着雪茄烟，戴着黄手套的手握着马缰和马鞭。我们在百叶窗背后都不禁要说一声：“可怜的爱米丽。” 12as if that quality of her father which had thwarted her womans life so many times had been too virulent and too furious to die. （Para 47）她父亲的性格三番五次地使她那作为女性的一生平添波折，而这种性格仿佛大恶毒，太狂暴，还不肯消失似的。13Now and then we would see her in one of the downstairs windows she had evidently shut up the top floor of the houselike the carven torso of an idol in a niche, looking or not looking at us, we could never tell which. Thus she passed from generation to generation -dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse. （Para 51） 不时我们在楼底下的一个窗口她显然是把楼上封闭起来了见到她的身影，像神龛中的一个偶像的雕塑躯干，我们说不上她是不是在看着我们。她就这样度过了一代又一代高贵，宁静，无法逃避，无法接近，怪僻乖张。14She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight. （Para 53）她死在楼下一间屋子里，笨重的胡桃木床上还挂着床帷，她那长满铁灰头发的头枕着的枕头由于用了多年而又不见阳光，已经黄得发霉了。15They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers, with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier and the ladies sibilant and macabre （Para 55）他们第二天就举行了丧礼，全镇的人都跑来看看覆盖着鲜花的爱米丽小姐的尸体。停尸架上方悬挂着她父亲的炭笔画像，一脸深刻沉思的表情，妇女们唧唧喳喳地谈论着死亡，16confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottle-neck of the most recent decade of years. （Para 55） 他们把按数学级数向前推进的时间给搅乱了。这是老年人常有的情形。在他们看来，过去的岁月不是一条越来越窄的路，而是一片广袤的连冬天也对它无所影响的大草地，只是近十年来才像窄小的瓶口一样，把他们同过去隔断了。17The violence of breaking down the door seemed to fill this room with pervading dust. A thin, acrid pall as of the tomb seemed to lie everywhere upon this room decked and furnished as for a bridal: upon the valance curtains of faded rose color, upon the rose-shaded lights, upon the dressing table, upon the delicate array of crystal and the mans toilet things backed with tarnished silver, silver so tarnished that the monogram was obscured. （Para 57）门猛烈地打开，震得屋里灰尘弥漫。这间布置得像新房的屋子，仿佛到处都笼罩着墓室一般的淡淡的阴惨惨的氛围：败了色的玫瑰色窗帘，玫瑰色的灯罩，梳妆台，一排精细的水晶制品和白银作底的男人盥洗用具，但白银已毫无光泽，连刻制的姓名字母图案都已无法辨认了。 18Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair. （Para 60）后来我们才注意到旁边那只枕头上有人头压过的痕迹。我们当中有一个人从那上面拿起了什么东西，大家凑近一看这时一股淡淡的干燥发臭的气味钻进了鼻孔原来是一绺长长的铁灰色头发。