Halting for a moment outside the door of the Director's room, Bernard drew a deep breath and squared his shoulders, 二伯纳在主任办公室门口站了一会儿,吸了一口气,挺起了胸脯, bracing himself to meet the dislike and disapp
We'd gone riding up one of those revolting mountains, and it was horribly hot and oppressive, and after lunch we went to sleep. Or at least I did. She must have gone for a walk, alone. 我们俩在那些叫人恶心的山上骑马玩,天热得可怕,
At the sound of his voice the Director started into a guilty realization of where he was; 主任听见他说话,猛然一惊,意识到了自己的处境,不安起来。 shot a glance at Bernard, and averting his eyes, blushed darkly; looked at
The Warden was a blond and brachycephalic Alpha-Minus, short, red, moon-faced, and broad-shouldered, with a loud booming voice, very well adapted to the utterance of hypnop.dic wisdom. 总监是个金头发白皮肤的阿尔法减。矮个儿、脸短而
You don't say so. 真的? My dear young lady, I do say so. 我亲爱的小姐,真的。 Six times twenty-fourno, it would be nearer six times thirty-six. 六乘以二十四不,差不多已是六乘以三十六了。 Bernard was pale and trembli
He raged against himselfwhat a fool!against the Directorhow unfair not to give him that other chance, that other chance which, he now had no doubt at all, he had always intended to take. 他对自己大发雷霆多么愚蠢!竟然对主任发起脾气
Chapter Seven 第七章 The mesa was like a ship becalmed in a strait of lion-coloured dust. 崖顶螈像一艘静静旋泊在狮子黄的海湾边的船。 The channel wound between precipitous banks, and slanting from one wall to the other across t
Cloaks of turkey feathers fluttered from their shoulders; huge feather diadems explodedgaudily round their heads. 肩膀上扑扇着火鸡毛,巨大的翎冠在他们头顶鲜艳地撒开。 With every step they took came the clink and rattle of th
Old? she repeated. But the Director's old; lots of people are old; they're not like that. 老了?她重复道,可是主任也老了,许多人都老了,却都不像那样。 That's because we don't allow them to be like that. We preserve them
At the further end of the room was another doorway, through which came a shaft of surdight and the noise, very loud and close, of the drums. 房间的那头又是一道门。阳光与鼓声便是从那道门传送来的。鼓声很响亮,很近。
Lenina was shocked by his blasphemy. Bernard! She protested in a voice of amazed distress. How can you? 他这番亵渎的话叫列宁娜大吃了一惊。伯纳!她抗议道,声音恐怖而痛苦。你怎么能够这样讲? In a different key,
I should say she was pretty, said a loud and cheery voice just behind him. 我要说她真漂亮。他身后一个声音快活地叫道。 Bernard started and looked around. The chubby red face of Benito Hoover was beaming down at himbeaming with man
Like the vague torsos of fabulous athletes, huge fleshy clouds lolled on the blue air above their heads. 他们头上是巨大蓬松的云朵,有如几个神话力土的模糊的胴体垂在蔚蓝的空中,或是高耸在他们头上。 Out of on
With eyes for the most part downcast and, if ever they lighted on a fellow creature, at once and furtively averted, Bernard hastened across the roof. 伯纳匆匆走过屋顶,眼睛大体望着地下,偶然见了人也立即悄悄躲开。 He was
Hence the laughter of the women to whom he made proposals, the practical joking of his equals among the men. 因此他追求的女人嘲笑他;跟他同级的男人拿他恶作剧。 The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he
Helmholtz Watson was writing when the message came down. 电话打来时赫姆霍尔兹华生先生正在写作。 Tell him I'm coming at once, he said and hung up the receiver. Then, turning to his secretary, I'll leave you to put my things away, he
Oh, Helmholtz, darling, do come and have a picnic supper with us on Exmoor. They clung round him imploringly. 哦,赫姆霍尔兹,亲爱的,晚饭时一定到老荒原来吧,跟我们一起野餐。她们缠住他乞求道。 He shook his hea
Helmholtz shook his head. Not quite. 赫姆霍尔兹摇摇头。不完全是。 I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something important to say and the power to say it only I don't know what it is, and I can't make
Even an Epsilon Lenina suddenly remembered an occasion when, as a little girl at school, 即使是爱扑塞隆列宁娜想起了一件事。那时她还是小姑娘,还在学校里读书。 she had woken up in the middle of the night and become awa
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