月亮和六便士第十八章(1)-英语课

时间：2019-02-13 作者：英语课 分类：月亮和六便士

英语课

　　Chapter 18 第十八章

　　In point of fact, I met Strickland before I had been a fortnight in Paris. 实际上，我在巴黎住了还不到两个星期就看到思特里克兰德了。
　　I quickly found myself a tiny apartment on the fifth floor of a house in the Rue 1 des Dames, 我没有费什么工夫就在达姆路一所房子的五层楼上租到一小间公寓。
　　and for a couple of hundred francs bought at a second-hand 2 dealer's enough furniture to make it habitable. 我花了两三百法郎在一家旧货店购置了几件家具，把屋子布置起来，
　　I arranged with the concierge 3 to make my coffee in the morning and to keep the place clean. 又同看门的人商量好，叫她每天早晨给我煮咖啡，替我收拾房间。
　　Then I went to see my friend Dirk Stroeve. 这以后我就去看我的朋友戴尔克·施特略夫。
　　Dirk Stroeve was one of those persons whom, according to your character, you cannot think of without derisive 4 laughter or an embarrassed shrug 5 of the shoulders. 戴尔克·施特略夫是这样一个人：根据人们不同的性格，有人在想到他的时候鄙夷地一笑，有的则困惑地耸一下肩膀。
　　Nature had made him a buffoon 6. 造物主把他制造成一个滑稽角色。
　　He was a painter, but a very bad one, whom I had met in Rome, and I still remembered his pictures. 他是一个画家，但他是一个很蹩脚的画家。我是在罗马和他认识的，我始终记得他那时画的画儿。
　　He had a genuine enthusiasm for the commonplace. 他衷心拜倒在平凡庸俗的脚下。
　　His soul palpitating with love of art, 他的灵魂由于对艺术的热爱而悸动着，
　　he painted the models who hung about the stairway of Bernini in the Piazza 7 de Spagna, undaunted by their obvious picturesqueness; 他描摹悬在斯巴尼亚广场贝尼尼（乔凡尼·罗伦索·贝尼尼（1598—1680），意大利巴洛克派雕塑家、建筑家和画家）式楼梯上的一些画幅，一点儿也不觉得这些绘画美得有些失真。
　　and his studio was full of canvases on which were portrayed 8 moustachioed, large-eyed peasants in peaked hats, urchins 9 in becoming rags, and women in bright petticoats. 他自己画室里的作品张张画的是蓄着小胡须、生着大眼睛、头戴尖顶帽的农民，衣衫破烂但又整齐得体的街头顽童，和穿着花花绿绿的裙子的女人。
　　Sometimes they lounged at the steps of a church, and sometimes dallied 10 among cypresses 11 against a cloudless sky; 这些画中人物有时候在教堂门口台阶上闲立，有时候在一片晴朗无云的碧空下的柏树丛中戏逐，
　　sometimes they made love by a Renaissance 12 well-head, and sometimes they wandered through the Campagna by the side of an ox-waggon. 有时候在有文艺复兴时期建筑风格的喷泉边调情，也有时候跟在牛车旁边走过意大利田野。
　　They were carefully drawn 13 and carefully painted. 这些人物画得非常细致，色彩过于真切。
　　A photograph could not have been more exact. 就是摄影师也不能拍出更加逼真的照片来。
　　One of the painters at the Villa 14 Medici had called him Le Maitre de la Boite a Chocoloats. 住在梅迪其别墅的一位画家管施特略夫叫做巧克力糖盒子的大画师。
　　To look at his pictures you would have thought that Monet, Manet, and the rest of the Impressionists had never been. 看了他的画，你会认为莫奈（克劳德·莫奈（1840—1926），法国画家）、马奈（埃多瓦·马奈（1832—1883），法国画家）和所有印象派画家从来不曾出现过。

月亮和六便士 第十八章(1)

月亮和六便士第十八章(1)