美國(guó)語(yǔ)文第六冊(cè) 第273期:紐約一個(gè)大熱天(3)

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至于另一個(gè)人，在人們從他身邊走過時(shí)，對(duì)身旁的朋友嗓音粗噶地說，

"I can't stand this much longer. My hands tingle as if they had gone to sleep; my heart—"

“我再也受不了了。我的手一陣刺痛，好像睡著了似的;我的心……”

But still the multitude hurried on, passing, repassing, encountering, evading,

可是，很多人依舊急匆匆趕路，經(jīng)過，再經(jīng)過，碰上，躲開，

vanishing into shop doors, and emerging from them, dispersing down the side streets, and swarming out of them.

閃身進(jìn)了商店，接著又從商店門后現(xiàn)身，紛紛鉆進(jìn)小巷，又一窩蜂地涌出來(lái)。

It was a scene that possessed the beholder with singular fascination, and in its effect of universal lunacy,

這是對(duì)此特別癡迷的人看到的一幕，人們都普遍極蠢，

it might well have seemed the last phase of a world presently to be destroyed.

這個(gè)世界似乎處于末日來(lái)臨前的最后階段。

They who were in it, but not of it, as they fancied — though there was no reason for this — looked on it amazed,

置身于這個(gè)世界的人們，雖然并不屬于這個(gè)世界，正如他們所幻想的那樣——盡管無(wú)法予以解釋——驚異地打量這個(gè)世界，

and at last their own errands being accomplished, and themselves so far cured of the madness of purpose,

最后他們自己的差事也得以完成了，而他們則出于醫(yī)治躁狂之目的，

they cried with one voice that it was a hideous sight, and strove to take refuge from it in the nearest place where the soda fountain sparkled.

遂異口同聲地呼吁，這是可怕的景象，極力躲避到最近的地方，那里到處都可見冷飲柜。

It was a vain desire. At the front door of the apothecary's hung a thermometer,

其實(shí)，這是徒勞的愿望而已。在藥店門口掛著一支溫度計(jì)，

and as they entered they heard the next comer cry out with a maniacal pride in the affliction laid upon mankind, "Ninety-seven degrees!"

他們進(jìn)去時(shí)聽到下一個(gè)來(lái)客憑著降臨到人類頭上的痛苦所導(dǎo)致的癲狂的自豪喊道：“九十七度!”

Behind them, at the door, there poured in a ceaseless stream of people, each pausing at the shrine of heat,

在他們身后的門口，涌進(jìn)不間斷的人流，大家都在炙熱的“圣壇”前停下腳步，

before he tossed off the hissing draught that two pale, close-clipped boys served them from either side of the fountain.

在他站在通風(fēng)口處脫下衣服前，兩個(gè)面色蒼白，說話急促的小伙子從噴泉的兩側(cè)迎上前來(lái)。