The Gift of the Magi
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
ne dollar and eighty-seven cents.
无一元并八十七分.
That was all.
就这样
And sixty cents of it was in pennies.
并有六十分为入分.
Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.
便便用推平杂货商、菜人和屠夫的方式,
Three times Della counted it.
三乘德乐所计.
One dollar and eighty-seven cents.
一钱八十七分.
And the next day would be Christmas.
第二天是圣诞节
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
很明显,除了被打倒在沙发上和嚎叫上,没什么可做的。
So Della did it.
所以Della就这么做了
Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
这激发了人们的道德反思, 生活是由泣血、嗅觉和微笑组成的, 嗅觉占据了主导地位。
While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home.
虽然家中的情妇从第一阶段逐渐得到补贴到第二阶段,但看看家里.
A furnished flat at $8 per week.
一个每周8美元的家具公寓。
It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.
它没有完全乞丐的描述,但是它肯定有这个词 在监视 的伪警队。
In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.
在下面的院子里有一个信箱,没有信入,还有一个电动按钮,任何活人手指都无法从中取出一个戒指。
Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name “Mr.
上面还有一张牌,上面写着“Mr.
James Dillingham Young.”
詹姆斯·迪林汉姆·杨。”
The “Dillingham” had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week.
“Dillingham”号在前一个繁荣时期被风吹倒,其拥有者每周领取30美元。
Now, when the income was shrunk to $20, though, they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming “D.”
现在,当收入缩减到20美元时,他们正认真考虑将收入缩减到一个微小且不假定为“D”的水平。
But whenever Mr.
但无论何时 先生
James Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he was called “Jim” and greatly hugged by Mrs.
詹姆斯·迪林汉姆 杨回到了家,来到他上方的公寓,被叫作"Jim"并被夫人大为拥抱.
James Dillingham Young, already introduced to you as Della.
詹姆斯·迪林汉姆 年轻 已经把你介绍成了Della了
Which is all very good.
这都很好
Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag.
黛拉完成了她的哭声,并用粉布照顾她的脸颊.
She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard.
她站在窗边 看着一只灰猫 在灰色后院走着灰色围栏
Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.
明天是圣诞节 她只有一美元
87 with which to buy Jim a present.
87,用它给吉姆买礼物
She had been saving every penny she could for months, with this result.
几个月来,她一直在节省所有钱 结果如此。
Twenty dollars a week doesn’t go far.
每周20美元不会走远。
Expenses had been greater than she had calculated.
支出高于她计算。
They always are.
他们总是。
Only $1.
只有一块钱。
87 to buy a present for Jim.
87去给吉姆买礼物
Her Jim.
她的吉姆 她的妈妈
Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him.
她花了很多时间为他准备好东西
Something fine and rare and sterling—something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being with Jim.
一件精美而珍稀而珍贵的... 一件差一点就值得和吉姆在一起
There was a pier glass between the windows of the room.
房间窗户之间有一个码头玻璃.
Perhaps you have seen a pier glass in an $8 flat.
也许你看到一个码头玻璃 在一个8美元平房。
A very thin and very agile person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks.
一个非常瘦和非常敏捷的人,通过观察他快速地在纵向条纹中进行反射,可以得到相当准确的外观概念.
Della, being slender, had mastered the art.
迪拉,苗条, 已经掌握了艺术。
Suddenly she whirled from the window and stood before the glass.
她突然从窗户上呼啸,站在玻璃前.
Her eyes were shining brilliantly, but her face had lost its color within twenty seconds.
她的眼睛闪耀光辉,但她的脸在20秒内就失去了颜色.
Rapidly she pulled down her hair and let it fall to its full length.
很快地她把头发拉下来, 并让它完全落下。
Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a mighty pride.
现在,詹姆斯·迪林汉姆·杨斯有两个财产 他们都非常自豪
One was Jim’s gold watch that had been his father’s and his grandfather’s.
其中一个是Jim的金表,
The other was Della’s hair.
另一个是Della的发型。
Had the queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty’s jewels and gifts.
如果谢巴王后住在隔空的平地上,德拉有一天会让她的头发被挂出窗外干燥去腐烂女王陛下的珠宝和礼物.
Had King Solomon been the janitor, with all his treasures piled up in the basement, Jim would have pulled out his watch every time he passed, just to see him pluck at his beard from envy.
如果所罗门国王是看门人 他所有的宝藏都堆到地下室了 吉姆每次过世都会拔出他的手表 只是为了看到他从嫉妒中拔出胡子
So now Della’s beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters.
所以现在Della的美丽发型在她被撕裂并像一连串棕色水一样闪耀。
It reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her.
它伸到她膝盖下 几乎为她做了一身衣服
And then she did it up again nervously and quickly.
然后她又紧张而迅速地做了
Once she faltered for a minute and stood still while a tear or two splashed on the worn red carpet.
有一次她摇摇晃晃地站了一会儿,一边一两滴眼泪洒在被磨损的红地毯上。
On went her old brown jacket; on went her old brown hat.
继续她的旧棕色外套 继续她的旧棕色帽子
With a whirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street.
带着一丝花裙和辉煌的闪光 在她的眼睛里,她挥出门来 从楼梯上走到街上。
Where she stopped the sign read: “Mme.
在她拦住的标志上写道:“Mme,
Sofronie.
索弗罗妮
Hair Goods of All Kinds.”
所有种类的发型 “
One flight up Della ran, and collected herself, panting.
德拉飞来一次, 收集自己,喘气。
Madame, large, too white, chilly, hardly looked the “Sofronie.”
夫人,大,太白,寒冷,几乎不看“Sofronie”。 “
“Will you buy my hair?”
"你会买我的头发吗? “
asked Della.
问黛拉。
“I buy hair,” said Madame.
夫人说:“我买发型。”
“Take yer hat off and let’s have a sight at the looks of it.”
「摘下你的帽子, “
Down rippled the brown cascade.
下拉出棕色级联
“Twenty dollars,” said Madame, lifting the mass with a practised hand.
夫人说,“二十美元”用手举起弥撒。
“Give it to me quick,” said Della.
Della说,“快给我。”
Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings.
哦,接下来两个小时, 绊倒了玫瑰花翼。
Forget the hashed metaphor.
忘记了散列的比喻.
She was ransacking the stores for Jim’s present.
她为Jim的礼物洗劫了商店。
She found it at last.
她终于找到了
It surely had been made for Jim and no one else.
肯定是给吉姆和别人做的
There was no other like it in any of the stores, and she had turned all of them inside out.
店里没有别的东西了 她把店里的东西都翻了
It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation—as all good things should do.
它在设计上是一种白金的花果链,简单而贞洁,仅通过物质本身就适当地宣布了它的价值,而不是像所有好东西应该做的那样仅仅通过装饰。
It was even worthy of The Watch.
它甚至值得观察。
As soon as she saw it she knew that it must be Jim’s.
她一看见,就知道一定是吉姆的。
It was like him.
就像他一样
Quietness and value—the description applied to both.
沉默和价值——这种描述适用于两者。
Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home with the 87 cents.
他们从她那里拿走了21美元 她带着87分钱匆匆回家
With that chain on his watch Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company.
吉姆可能很担心任何公司的时间
Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly on account of the old leather strap that he used in place of a chain.
和手表一样大,他有时会偷偷地看它,因为他用旧皮带来取而代之的链子.
When Della reached home her intoxication gave way a little to prudence and reason.
黛拉到家时 她的醉意让位给了谨慎和理智
She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love.
她拿出了卷发的铁,并点燃了煤气,去修复被慷慨加进爱心所制造的破坏.
Which is always a tremendous task, dear friends—a mammoth task.
这始终是一项艰巨的任务,亲爱的朋友——一项庞大的任务。
Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy.
在40分钟内,她的头被细小的,相近的卷发所覆盖,使她长得像一个逃学的男孩.
She looked at her reflection in the mirror long, carefully, and critically.
她仔细地看着镜子里的反射,
“If Jim doesn’t kill me,” she said to herself, “before he takes a second look at me, he’ll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl.
“如果吉姆不杀我,”她对自己说,“在他再次看着我之前,他会说,我看起来像一个科尼岛合唱团的女孩。
But what could I do—oh!
但我能怎么办?
what could I do with a dollar and eighty-seven cents?”
我拿一块钱八十七分钱怎么办? “
At 7 o’clock the coffee was made and the frying-pan was on the back of the stove hot and ready to cook the chops.
7:00时,咖啡被煮出,煎锅被放在炉子后边,热得要命,准备煮出牛排来.
Jim was never late.
吉姆从来没有迟到。
Della doubled the fob chain in her hand and sat on the corner of the table near the door that he always entered.
黛拉将她手上的花果链翻了一番,并坐在桌子的一角靠近他一直走入的门.
Then she heard his step on the stair away down on the first flight, and she turned white for just a moment.
之后她听到他踏上楼梯走下第一班飞机,她瞬间就变白了.
She had a habit of saying a little silent prayer about the simplest everyday things, and now she whispered: “Please God, make him think I am still pretty.”
她习惯于对最简单的日常事物默默地祷告,现在她低语道: “请上帝让他认为我仍然漂亮。 “
The door opened and Jim stepped in and closed it.
门打开了,吉姆走进来关上.
He looked thin and very serious.
他看起来很瘦,很严肃。
Poor fellow, he was only twenty-two—and to be burdened with a family!
可怜的家伙,他只有二十二岁,而且要负担一个家庭!
He needed a new overcoat and he was without gloves.
他需要一副新的外衣 而且他没有手套。
Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a setter at the scent of quail.
吉姆停在了门内, 作为不可移动的安装器 在 qua的气味。
His eyes were fixed upon Della, and there was an expression in them that she could not read, and it terrified her.
他的眼睛被固定在德拉身上,里面有一种她无法阅读的表达,这吓坏了她.
It was not anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the sentiments that she had been prepared for.
这不是愤怒,也不是惊讶,也不是不赞同,也不是恐怖,也不是她所准备的任何感情。
He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar expression on his face.
他只是盯着她固定的表情 在他脸上。
Della wriggled off the table and went for him.
黛拉从桌子上摔了下来 然后去找他
“Jim, darling,” she cried, “don’t look at me that way.
“Jim,亲爱的,”她哭道:“不要那样看着我。
I had my hair cut off and sold because I couldn’t have lived through Christmas without giving you a present.
我头发被剪掉卖了,
It’ll grow out again—you won’t mind, will you?
你不介意吧?
I just had to do it.
我只是必须这样做。
My hair grows awfully fast.
我的头发长得很快
Say ‘Merry Christmas!’
说"圣诞快乐!" " ; "
Jim, and let’s be happy.
吉姆,
You don’t know what a nice— what a beautiful, nice gift I’ve got for you.”
我为你们准备的礼物真好看, “
“You’ve cut off your hair?”
"你剪了头发? “
asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor.
费尽心力地问吉姆, 好像他还没有到达 专利的事实 即使最困难的精神劳动。
“Cut it off and sold it,” said Della.
Della说,
“Don’t you like me just as well, anyhow?
“你不喜欢我,
I’m me without my hair, ain’t I?”
我没有头发, “
Jim looked about the room curiously.
吉姆好奇地看了房间
“You say your hair is gone?”
"你说你的头发不见了? “
he said, with an air almost of idiocy.
他说, 空气几乎是愚蠢的。
“You needn’t look for it,” said Della.
Della说,
“It’s sold, I tell you—sold and gone, too.
“我告诉你,它已经售出,也已经售出。
It’s Christmas Eve, boy.
今天是平安夜,
Be good to me, for it went for you.
对我好点,因为那是为了你
Maybe the hairs of my head were numbered,” she went on with sudden serious sweetness, “but nobody could ever count my love for you.
或许我头上的头发被点了个数,”她突然变得很甜,“但没人能算得上我对你的爱。
Shall I put the chops on, Jim?”
吉姆,我应该把切口吗? “
Out of his trance Jim seemed quickly to wake.
突然醒过来
He enfolded his Della.
他把Della封了起来
For ten seconds let us regard with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential object in the other direction.
十秒钟来,让我们谨慎地审视一下另一个方向的一些无关物体。
Eight dollars a week or a million a year—what is the difference?
每周八美元或一年一百万美元——有什么区别?
A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer.
数学家或智慧会给你错误的答案。
The magi brought valuable gifts, but that was not among them.
法警带了宝贵的礼物,但不是其中之一。
This dark assertion will be illuminated later on.
这个黑暗的论断稍后将会被揭露.
Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table.
吉姆从他外衣口袋里画出一个包裹并扔到桌子上.
“Don’t make any mistake, Dell,” he said, “about me.
" 别犯任何错误,戴尔, " 他说, " 关于我。
I don’t think there’s anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that could make me like my girl any less.
我觉得剪发、刮胡子、洗发水不会让我更喜欢我的女孩。
But if you’ll unwrap that package you may see why you had me going a while at first.”
如果你能拆掉包裹, 你可能会明白为什么你让我去一阵子。 “
White fingers and nimble tore at the string and paper.
白指和柔软的撕裂 在弦和纸。
And then an ecstatic scream of joy; and then, alas!
然后欢快地尖叫,然后痛哭!
a quick feminine change to hysterical tears and wails, necessitating the immediate employment of all the comforting powers of the lord of the flat.
迅速女性化为歇斯底里的眼泪和哀号 需要立即利用公寓主的一切安慰力量
For there lay The Combs—the set of combs, side and back, that Della had worshipped long in a Broadway window.
因为有铺 戴拉在百老汇的窗户上崇拜了很久的梳子
Beautiful combs, pure tortoise shell, with jewelled rims—just the shade to wear in the beautiful vanished hair.
美丽的梳子,纯正的龟壳 有被珠宝镶嵌的轮圈—— 只是在美丽的消失的头发上穿戴的遮荫.
They were expensive combs, she knew, and her heart had simply craved and yearned over them without the least hope of possession.
她知道,这些梳子很贵 她的心只是渴望着这些梳子, 却对它毫无希望。
And now, they were hers, but the tresses that should have adorned the coveted adornments were gone.
现在,她们是她的, 但是那些本该给所爱戴的花纹装饰的花纹不见了。
But she hugged them to her bosom, and at length she was able to look up with dim eyes and a smile and say: “My hair grows so fast, Jim!”
但是她抱着她们到她的胸口,她用淡淡的眼睛和一笑一笑地向上看,说道:"我的头发长得这么快,吉姆!
And then Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried, “Oh, oh!”
然后黛拉跳起来,像一只小歌唱的猫,并哭道:"哦!
Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present.
吉姆还没有看到 他美丽的礼物。
She held it out to him eagerly upon her open palm.
她急切地用手握住他的手
The dull precious metal seemed to flash with a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit.
沉闷的珍贵金属似乎闪烁着她明亮而热情的精神.
“Isn’t it a dandy, Jim?
" 吉姆,这难道不是件蠢事吗?
I hunted all over town to find it.
我到处打猎找它
You’ll have to look at the time a hundred times a day now.
现在, 你必须每天看一百次时间。
Give me your watch.
把表给我
I want to see how it looks on it.”
我想看看它看起来怎么样 “
Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch and put his hands under the back of his head and smiled.
吉姆没有服从,反而倒倒在沙发上,把双手放在后脑勺下并微笑.
“Dell,” said he, “let’s put our Christmas presents away and keep ’em a while.
" 戴尔说, " 让我们把圣诞礼物放一边,
They’re too nice to use just at present.
他们太好,
I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs.
我卖了手表来买你的梳子
And now suppose you put the chops on.”
现在假设你把 切。 “
The magi, as you know, were wise men— wonderfully wise men—who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger.
法师,你们知道,是聪明的,是聪明的,是聪明的,是给马桶里的婴儿送来礼物的。
They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
他们发明了送圣诞礼物的艺术
Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication.
他们的天赋是明智的,无疑是明智的,有可能在出现重复时具有交换的特权。
And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house.
在这里,我和你们有不平凡的关系 两个愚蠢的孩子在一个平地上 最不明智地为彼此牺牲 他们家最伟大的财富
But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest.
但在最后一句话中,对今天的智者来说,应该说,所有赠送礼物的人中,这两个是最明智的.
Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest.
凡所赠与受受之事,如来最上智.
Everywhere they are wisest.
他们最聪明的地方
They are the magi.
他们是女主人