Calaveras County

美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习

Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend’s friend, Leonidas W.

并询问我的朋友Leonidas W。

Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result.

笑脸,按要求做,我在此附上结果。

I have a lurking suspicion that Leonidas W.

我有一个潜伏的怀疑 列奥尼达斯W。

Smiley is a myth; and that my friend never knew such a personage; and that he only conjectured that if I asked old Wheeler about him, it would remind him of his infamous Jim Smiley, and he would go to work and bore me to death with some exasperating reminiscence of him as long and as tedious as it should be useless to me.

"笑笑"是一个神话;我的朋友从来不知道这样的个性;他只是猜想如果我问起老惠勒关于他的事,那会让他想起他臭名昭著的吉姆·笑笑,他会去工作,用一些令人叹为观止的回忆来折磨我到死,他的时间和厌倦,应该对我毫无用处.

If that was the design, it succeeded.

如果这是设计,它成功。

I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the barroom stove of the dilapidated tavern in the decayed mining camp of Angel’s, and I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance.

我发现Simon Wheeler在Angel已腐朽的矿场里被破烂的酒馆的酒吧炉子舒适地打炮,我注意到他又胖又秃头,而且表现得温和又简单。

He roused up, and gave me good-day.

他唤起,给了我美好的一天。

I told him a friend had commissioned me to make some inquiries about a cherished companion of his boyhood named Leonidas W.

我告诉他一个朋友委托我 对他童年时期的一位 珍爱的同伴Leonidas W 做了一些调查

Smiley— Rev.

笑脸-Rev.

Leonidas W.

列奥尼达斯·W.

Smiley, a young minister of the Gospel, who he had heard was at one time a resident of Angel’s Camp.

Smilley,福音书的一位年轻部长,他曾经听到过这个消息,他曾经是天使营的居民.

Simon Wheeler backed me into a corner and blockaded me there with his chair, and then sat down and reeled off the monotonous narrative which follows this paragraph.

赛门 Wheeler支持我进入一个角落,用他的椅子把我封锁在那里,然后坐下来,从该段后面的单调叙事中取出。

He never smiled, he never frowned, he never changed his voice from the gentle-flowing key to which he tuned his initial sentence, he never betrayed the slightest suspicion of enthusiasm; but all through the interminable narrative there ran a vein of impressive earnestness and sincerity, which showed me plainly that, so far from his imagining that there was anything ridiculous or funny about his story, he regarded it as a really important matter, and admired its two heroes as men of transcendent genius in finesse.

他从未微笑,从未皱眉 从温柔流出的关键, 他调用他最初的句子, 他从未背叛 一点热情的怀疑; 但是所有通过无休止的叙述 有一种令人印象深刻的 真诚和真诚的脉络, 这向我明确显示,

I let him go on in his own way, and never interrupted him once.

我让他以自己的方式继续 从未打断过他一次

“Rev.

“订正本。

Leonidas W.

列奥尼达斯·W.

H’m, Reverend Le—well, there was a feller here once by the name of Jim Smiley, in the winter of ’49—or may be it was the spring of ’50—I don’t recollect exactly, somehow, though what makes me think it was one or the other is because I remember the big flume warn’t finished when he first came to the camp; but any way, he was the curiousest man about always betting on anything that turned up you ever see, if he could get anybody to bet on the other side; and if he couldn’t he’ d change sides.

Le-well牧师,在49年的冬天, 有个叫Jim Smilley的人来过这里, 也可能是50年的春天, 我记不起来了, 不知何故,

“ Any way that suited the other man would suit him—any way just so’s he got a bet, he was satisfied.

“...... 任何适合他人的方式都会适合他,

But still he was lucky, uncommon lucky; he most always come out winner.

但是他还是幸运的,不寻常的幸运;他总是出场取胜.

He was always ready and laying for a chance; there couldn’t be no solit’ry thing mentioned but that feller’ d offer to bet on it, and take any side you please, as I was just telling you.

他总是准备好并准备机会;不可能没有提及任何孤独的事情,但是他提议赌注,并且愿意站在你的任何一边,正如我刚才所告诉你的那样。

If there was a horse-race, you’ d find him flush or you’ d find him busted at the end of it; if there was a dog-fight, he’ d bet on it; if there was a cat-fight, he’ d bet on it; if there was a chicken-fight, he’ d bet on it; why, if there was two birds setting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first; or if there was a camp- meeting, he would be there reg’lar to bet on Parson Walker, which he judged to be the best exhorter about here, and he was, too, and a good man.

如果有种跑马,你会发现他被冲走,或者在比赛结束时发现他被打倒;如果有斗狗,他会打赌;如果有斗猫,他会打赌;如果有斗鸡,他会打赌;为什么,如果有两只鸟在栅栏上摆放,他会打赌哪只鸟会先飞;或者如果有阵营会议,他会在帕森·沃克身上打赌,他认为他是最好的劝戒者,他也是好人。

If he even see a straddle-bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to—to wherever he was going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle-bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road.

如果他甚至看到一个横行的虫子 开始去任何地方, 他会打赌他会花多久时间去 - 去他要去的地方, 如果你带他起来, 他会击败那个横行的虫子 去墨西哥, 但他会发现他被绑在什么地方, 和他在路上的时间。

“Lots of the boys here has seen that Smiley and can tell you about him.

“这里的很多男孩看到这个笑脸,可以告诉你他的情况。

Why, it never made no difference to him—he’ d bet on any thing—the dangest feller.

他的赌博,对于他没有任何区别。

Parson Walker’s wife laid very sick once, for a good while, and it seemed as if they warn’t going to save her; but one morning he come in, and Smiley up and asked him how she was, and he said she was considerable better—thank the Lord for his inf’nit’ mercy—and coming on so smart that with the blessing of Prov’ dence she’ d get well yet; and Smiley, before he thought, says, ‘Well, I’ll risk two-and-a-half she don’t anyway.’

帕森·沃克(Parson Walker)的妻子曾经病得很重,一段时间内,似乎他们警告她不要救她;但有一天早晨,他进来问他她的情况如何,他说她比他好得多 -- -- 感谢上帝的慈悲 -- -- 并且变得如此聪明,在普罗夫的恩赐下,她已经康复了;而斯米利,在他想到之前,他说,“好吧,我反正她会冒着两个半的风险。 " ; "

“This-yer Smiley had a mare—the boys called her the fifteen-minute nag, but that was only in fun, you know, because, of course, she was faster than that—and he used to win money on that horse, for all she was so slow and always had the asthma, or the distemper, or the consumption, or something of that kind.

" 这女笑脸有一个母马——男孩们称她为"十五分钟",但这只是好玩的,因为,当然,她比那快,而且他用那匹马赢钱,因为她总是这么慢,总是有哮喘,或气喘,或吸食等症状。

They used to give her two or three hundred yards start, and then pass her under way; but always at the tail end of the race she’ d get excited and desperate-like, and come cavorting and straddling up, and scattering her legs around, sometimes in the air, and sometimes out to one side, and kicking up m-o-r-e dust and raising m-o-r-e racket with her coughing and sneezing and blowing her nose—and always end up just about a neck ahead, as near as you could cipher it down.

他们经常给她两到三百码的起点,然后在路上经过她;但总是在比赛的尾部,她会变得兴奋而绝望地走来走去,她的腿会散去,有时是在空中走去,有时是在一旁走去,然后用她的咳嗽和打喷嚏来抬起她的叫声来,并吹起她的鼻子——最后总是在前面的脖子上,尽可能近一点,你可以把它从下面破解出来。

“ And he had a little small bull-pup, that to look at him you’ d think he warn’t worth a cent but to set around and look ornery and lay for a chance to steal something.

“...... 他有一个小小的公牛, 看着他, 你会认为他警告说,

But as soon as money was up on him he was a different dog; his under-jaw’ d begin to stick out like the fo’castle of a steamboat, and his teeth would uncover and shine like the furnaces.

但一拿到钱他就变了一只狗; 他的底衣开始像蒸汽船的起伏口一样站出来,

And a dog might tackle him and bully-rag him, and bite him, and throw him over his shoulder two or three times, and Andrew Jackson—which was the name of the pup— Andrew Jackson would never let on but what he was satisfied, and hadn’t expected nothing else— and the bets being doubled and doubled on the other side all the time, till the money was all up; and then all of a sudden he would grab that other dog jest by the j’int of his hind leg and freeze to it—not chaw, you understand, but only just grip and hang on till they throwed up the sponge, if it was a year.

一只狗可能追上他并欺负他,咬他两到三次,然后把他扔到肩膀上,安德鲁·杰克逊——这是小狗的名字—— 安德鲁·杰克逊从不放过,只是他满意的,而且没有其他的预期。 赌注总是翻了一番,在另一边翻了一番,直到钱都满了;然后他突然抓住了另一只狗,用他后腿的J'int来开玩笑,然后冻住它——不是抓,你明白,只是抓住并挂住,直到他们吐出海绵,如果是一年的话。

“Smiley always come out winner on that pup, till he harnessed a dog once that didn’t have no hind legs, because they’ d been sawed off in a circular saw, and when the thing had gone along far enough, and the money was all up, and he come to make a snatch for his pet holt, he see in a minute how he’ d been imposed on, and how the other dog had him in the door, so to speak, and he ’peared surprised, and then he looked sorter discouraged-like, and didn’t try no more to win the fight, and so he got shucked out bad.

" 斯米利总是在那只小狗上跑出胜利者,直到他用一只没有后腿的狗,因为狗在圆形锯子中被锯了下来,当事情发展得足够了,而且钱都齐全了,他来抢取他的宠物蹄,他看到一分钟后,他又如何被强加于他,另一只狗如何把他塞入了门里,这样一说,他就惊异了,然后他看起来更加沮丧,不再试图赢得这场斗争,于是,他大吃一惊。

He gave Smiley a look, as much as to say his heart was broke, and it was his fault, for putting up a dog that hadn’t no hind legs for him to take holt of, which was his main dependence in a fight, and then he limped off a piece and laid down and died.

他给斯笑利一个表情,就像说他的心脏断了一样,这都是他的错,因为他养了一条狗,没有后腿让他拿起霍尔特,这是他在一场战斗中的主要依赖,然后他瘸了一条腿并躺下而死。

“It was a good pup, was that Andrew Jackson, and would have made a name for hisself if he’ d lived, for the stuff was in him and he had genius —I know it, because he hadn’t no opportunities to speak of, and it don’t stand to reason that a dog could make such a fight as he could under them circumstances if he hadn’t no talent.

安德鲁·杰克逊(Andrew Jackson)是个不错的小狗, 如果他能活下来, 他本会为自己取名, 因为那些东西在他身上, 他有天才—— 我知道,因为他没有机会谈论,

It always makes me feel sorry when I think of that last fight of his, and the way it turned out.

这总是让我感到抱歉 当我想到他最后的战斗 和结果。

“Well, this-yer Smiley had rat-tarriers, and chicken cocks, and tom-cats and all of them kind of things, till you couldn’t rest, and you couldn’t fetch nothing for him to bet on but he’ d match you.

“这个笑脸有老鼠、鸡鸡、汤姆猫和所有的东西, 直到你无法休息,

He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and said he cal’lated to educate him; and so he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump.

有一天,他煮取了一只青蛙,然后带他回家,他说他准备去教育他;因此,他三个月来从未做过任何事,而是在他的后院里学习跳取青蛙。

And you bet you he did learn him, too.

你打赌他也学过他

He’ d give him a little punch behind, and the next minute you’ d see that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut—see him turn one summerset, or may be a couple, if he got a good start, and come down flat-footed and all right, like a cat.

下一瞬间你就会看到那只青蛙像甜甜圈一样在空中发抖,

“He got him up so in the matter of ketching flies, and kep’ him in practice so constant, that he’ d nail a fly every time as fur as he could see him.

" 他把他拉起来,在吃起苍蝇的问题上,在实际上,他总是这样,每次他看到一只苍蝇时,他都会像见到他一样用皮毛钉住它。

Smiley said all a frog wanted was education, and he could do ’most anything—and I believe him.

笑脸说青蛙想要的只是教育,

Why, I’ve seen him set Dan’l Webster down here on this floor—Dan’l Webster was the name of the frog—and sing out, ‘Flies, Dan’l, flies!’

我见过他把Dan 'l Webster放在这里的地上, " ; "

and quicker’n you could wink he’ d spring straight up and snake a fly off’n the counter there, and flop down on the floor ag’in as solid as a gob of mud, and fall to scratching the side of his head with his hind foot as indifferent as if he hadn’t no idea he’ d been doin’ any more’n any frog might do.

并像泥巴一样活活地倒在地上, 摔倒在地上,

“You never see a frog so modest and straightfor’ard as he was, for all he was so gifted.

" 你从未见过一只青蛙像他这样谦虚和直率,因为他有天赋。

And when it come to fair and square jumping on a dead level, he could get over more ground at one straddle than any animal of his breed you ever see.

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Jumping on a dead level was his strong suit, you understand; and when it come to that, Smiley would ante up money on him as long as he had a red.

跳到死地就是他强壮的西装,你明白的;到了这个地步,斯梅利只要有红色,就会将钱放在他身上.

Smiley was monstrous proud of his frog, and well he might be, for fellers that had traveled and been everywheres, all said he laid over any frog that ever they see.

笑脸为他的青蛙而骄傲 他或许是 到处游荡的堕落者

“Well, Smiley kep’ the beast in a little lattice box, and he used to fetch him downtown sometimes and lay for a bet.

他有时会去市中心打赌。

One day a feller—a stranger in the camp, he was—come acrost him with his box, and says: ‘What might be that you’ve got in the box?’

有一天,一个在营地的陌生人,他带着他的盒子来吊死他,并说: " 盒子里可能有什么? " ; "

“ And Smiley says, sorter indifferent-like, ’It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, maybe, but it ain’t—it’s only just a frog.’

" 笑脸说,比较无动于衷的说:"它可能是一只鹦鹉,也可能是一只金丝雀,但是它不是,它只是一个青蛙。 " ; "

“ And the feller took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says, ‘H’m—so ’tis.

“...... 堕地者取之而取之,而细察之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取之而取而取之而取而取之而取而取之而取而取而取而取而取之而取而取而取而取而取而取而取而取之而取而取而取而取之而取而取而取而取而取之而取而取而取而取而取而取而取之而取而取而取而取之而取而取而取而取之而取而取而取而取而取之而取而取而取而取而取而取而取之而取之而取而取而取之而取而取而取而取

Well, what’s he good for?’

他有什么好处? " ; "

“‘Well,’ Smiley says, easy and careless, ‘he’s good enough for one thing, I should judge—he can outjump any frog in Calaveras County.’

" `嗯,'微笑说,“简单而粗心,`他有一点是好的,我应该判断,他可以跳出卡拉维拉斯县的任何一只青蛙。 " ; "

“The feller took the box again, and took another long, particular look, and give it back to Smiley, and says, very deliberate, ‘Well,’ he says, ‘I don’t see no points about that frog that’s any better’n any other frog.’

" 摔倒者又拿起箱子,又看了一眼,又把箱子还给斯米利,他故意说:"好吧",他说:"我看不出这只青蛙有什么分数,这比其他青蛙好。 " ; "

“‘Maybe you don’t,’ Smiley says.

「也许你不知道,

‘Maybe you understand frogs and maybe you don’t understand ’em; maybe you’ve had experience, and maybe you ain’t only a amature, as it were.

“也许你懂青蛙,也许你不懂青蛙;也许你有经验,

Anyways, I’ve got my opinion and I’ll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras Cou nt y.’

我将冒着四十美元的风险, 他可以跳出任何青蛙,

“ And the feller studied a minute, and then says, kinder sad like, ‘Well, I’m only a stranger here, and I ain’t got no frog; but if I had a frog, I’ d bet you.’

“...... 摔跤手学习了一分钟,然后说, 更令人伤心的是, “嗯,我在这里只是一个陌生人, 我没有青蛙;但如果我有青蛙,我敢打赌。 " ; "

“ And then Smiley says, ‘That’s all right—that’s all right—if you’ll hold my box a minute, I’ll go and get you a frog.’

“...... 笑脸说,“没关系,没关系,如果你握住我的盒子一分钟,我去拿只青蛙给你。 " ; "

And so the feller took the box, and put up his forty dollars along with Smiley’s, and set down to wait.

于是被弃者取出宝箱来,并随笑利出四十元来,并起而等.

“So he set there a good while thinking and thinking to hisself, and then he got the frog out and prized his mouth open and took a teaspoon and filled him full of quail shot—filled him pretty near up to his chin—and set him on the floor.

" 于是,他在那里安心地思考和思考,然后他把青蛙取出并赏出他的口来取出一通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通通

Smiley he went to the swamp and slopped around in the mud for a long time, and finally he ketched a frog, and fetched him in, and give him to this feller, and says: ‘Now, if you’re ready, set him alongside of Dan’l, with his forepaws just even with Dan’l’s, and I’ll give the word.’

笑脸到沼泽去,在泥地上漫游了很长时间,最后他把一只青蛙煮了一壶,把他抓来,交给这个倒地者,然后说:"现在,如果你准备好了,就把他和Danl放在一起,用他的前爪,哪怕是Danl的,我也会说一句话。 " ; "

“Then he says, ‘One—two—three— git!’

" 然后他说:`一 二 三' ! " ; "

and him and the feller touched up the frogs from behind, and the new frog hopped off lively, but Dan’l give a heave, and hysted up his shoulders— so—like a Frenchman, but it warn’t no use— he couldn’t budge; he was planted as solid as a church, and he couldn’t no more stir than if he was anchored out.

他和跳水者从后面摸起青蛙,新青蛙跳出活泼的地步,但丹尔却轻而易举地抬起肩膀来——就像一个法国人一样,但是这警告他一点用也没有,他不能动;他被植入了像教堂一样坚固的地盘,而且他不能比被抛锚更刺激。

Smiley was a good deal surprised, and he was disgusted too, but he didn’t have no idea what the matter was, of course.

笑脸很惊讶, 也令人厌恶,

“The feller took the money and started away; and when he was going out at the door, he sorter jerked his thumb over his shoulder—so—at Dan’l, and says again, very deliberate, ‘Well,’ he says, ‘I don’t see no points about that frog that’s any better’n any other frog.’

" 落花者拿走了钱并开始离开;当他走出门时,他用拇指打到他肩膀上 -- -- 所以 -- -- 在Danl,他再次说,“嗯,”他说,“我看不出关于这只青蛙的任何一点比任何其他青蛙都好。 " ; "

“Smiley he stood scratching his head and looking down at Dan’l a long time, and at last says, ‘I do wonder what in the nation that frog throwed off for—I wonder if there ain’t something the matter with him—he ’pears to look mighty baggy, somehow.’

" 斯米利站在地上抓起头来,望着丹一看很久,终于说道:"我确实想知道青蛙为了什么而抛出的国家...... 不知道他是不是有什么问题, " ; "

“ And he ketched Dan’l up by the nap of the neck, and hefted him, and says, ‘Why blame my cats if he don’t weigh five pounds!’

“...... 他把Dan 'l 放在脖子上, 并把他踢了起来, 说:"如果他不重5磅, " ; "

and turned him upside down and he belched out a double handful of shot.

将他颠倒,并拔出一双手来。

And then he see how it was, and he was the maddest man—he set the frog down and took out after that feller, but he never ketched him.

然后,他看见了,他是最疯狂的人,他把那只青蛙放下来取出,然后,他从不宰了他。

And—” (Here Simon Wheeler heard his name called from the front yard, and got up to see what was wanted.)

”(这里是西蒙·惠勒听到他的名字从前院叫来,然后起来看看想要什么。 )

And turning to me as he moved away, he said: “Just set where you are, stranger, and rest easy—I ain’t going to be gone a second.”

回到我身边,他说:“你在哪里,陌生人,安心休息,我不会离开一秒钟。 “

But, by your leave, I did not think that a continuation of the history of the enterprising vagabond Jim Smiley would be likely to afford me much information concerning the Rev.

但是,经过你的允许,我并不认为继续 充满激情的流浪汉吉姆·斯米利的历史 可能不会给我很多关于牧师的信息。

Leonidas W.

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Smiley, and so I started away.

笑脸,所以我开始离开。

At the door I met the sociable Wheeler returning, and he buttonholed me and recommenced: “Well, this-yer Smiley had a yaller, one-eyed cow that didn’t have no tail, only jest a short stump like a bannanner, and—” However, lacking both time and inclination, I did not wait to hear about the afflicted cow, but took my leave.

在门上,我遇见了可口的惠勒回来,他按住我并重新开始说: “这个笑脸的人有一个独眼的牛,它没有尾巴,只象一个放荡者一样笑出一个短长的树桩,然后——” 然而,由于既缺乏时间又缺乏倾向,我并没有等待听到受苦的母牛的消息,而是离开了.

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