The Necklace
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Instruction.
训导.
She dressed plainly because she could not dress well, but she was unhappy as if she had really fallen from a higher station; since with women there is neither caste nor rank, for beauty, grace and charm take the place of family and birth.
她穿得很平凡,因为她不能穿好衣服,但她很不高兴,好像她真的从一个更高的位置上掉下来了;因为与妇女相比,既没有种姓,也没有等级,因为美丽、优雅和魅力取代了家庭和出生。
Natural ingenuity, instinct for what is elegant, a supple mind are their sole hierarchy, and often make of women of the people the equals of the very greatest ladies.
自然的才智,对优雅事物的本能,一个萌芽的心智是他们唯一的等级,并且经常使人民的女性成为最伟大的女士们的平等.
Mathilde suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born to enjoy all delicacies and all luxuries.
玛蒂尔德无休止地受苦受难,感到自己天生就享受了所有的美味和奢侈.
She was distressed at the poverty of her dwelling, at the bareness of the walls, at the shabby chairs, the ugliness of the curtains.
她对住所的贫困、墙壁的赤裸、沙发的椅子和窗帘的丑陋感到悲痛。
All those things, of which another woman of her rank would never even have been conscious, tortured her and made her angry.
所有这些事情,她这个级别的另一个女人甚至永远不会意识到,折磨她并让她生气.
The sight of the little Breton peasant who did her humble housework aroused in her despairing regrets and bewildering dreams.
做她卑微家务的小布雷顿农民的目光激起她绝望的遗憾和困惑的梦想.
She thought of silent antechambers hung with Oriental tapestry, illumined by tall bronze candelabra, and of two great footmen in knee breeches who sleep in the big armchairs, made drowsy by the oppressive heat of the stove.
她想到了寂静的安提肯伯斯与东方的挂毯被高高的青铜罐头所闪烁,以及两个伟大的脚手被膝盖穿在大臂椅上睡觉,被炉子被压抑的热量所打昏.
She thought of long reception halls hung with ancient silk, of the dainty cabinets containing priceless curiosities and of the little coquettish perfumed reception rooms made for chatting at five o’clock with intimate friends, with men famous and sought after, whom all women envy and whose attention they all desire.
她想到了与古来丝绸挂起的长长的接待大厅、装有无价奇物的花柜以及五点钟与亲密朋友、有名有名并追求的男子(所有女人都羡慕她们,她们都希望得到她们的注意)为聊天而制作的小康克蒂克香水接待室。
When she sat down to dinner, before the round table covered with a tablecloth in use three days, opposite her husband, who uncovered the soup tureen and declared with a delighted air, “ Ah, the good soup!
当她坐下来吃晚饭时,在圆桌用桌布用三天前,她的丈夫对面,他揭开汤皮并用一股愉快的空气宣布,“啊,好的汤!
I don’t know anything better than that,” she thought of dainty dinners, of shining silverware, of tapestry that peopled the walls with ancient personages and with strange birds flying in the midst of a fairy forest; and she thought of delicious dishes served on marvelous plates and of the whispered gallantries to which you listen with a sphinxlike smile while you are eating the pink meat of a trout or the wings of a quail.
我不知道比这更好的是什么,“她想到了美味的晚餐、闪亮的银器、用古老的名人和在仙子林中飞起的奇特鸟在墙上铺设的挂毯;她想到了美味的盘子,以及你在吃鳟鱼的粉红色肉或 qua的翅膀时,用像狮身人面像的微笑聆听的低语的英勇事迹。
She had no gowns, no jewels, nothing.
她没有长袍,没有珠宝,什么都没有
And she loved nothing but that.
她只爱这个
She felt made for that.
她觉得自己是天生的
She would have liked so much to please, to be envied, to be charming, to be sought after.
她会非常喜欢被取悦 被羡慕 有魅力 被追求
She had a friend, a former schoolmate at the convent, who was rich, and whom she did not like to go to see any more because she felt so sad when she came home.
她有一个朋友,曾是修道院的同学,她很有钱,她不想再去见她,因为她回家后觉得很伤心.
But one evening her husband reached home with a triumphant air and holding a large envelope in his hand.
但有一天晚上,她丈夫带着胜利的气息回到家,手里拿着一个大的信封。
“There,” said he, “there is something for you.”
他说,“那里有你需要的东西。 “
She tore the paper quickly and drew out a printed card which bore these words: Instead of being delighted, as her husband had hoped, she threw the invitation on the table crossly, muttering, “What do you wish me to do with that?”
她迅速撕了纸,拿出一张印有这些字的纸牌: 她不但没有像她丈夫所希望的那样感到高兴,反而把邀请放在桌子上,胡言乱语地说,“你希望我用它做什么? “
The Minister of Public Instruction and Madame Georges Ramponneau request the honor of M.
公共教育部长和Georges Ramponneau夫人要求获得M.的荣誉。
and Madame Loisel’s company at the palace of the Ministry on Monday evening, January 18th.
和露意丝夫人的公司 在1月18日的星期一晚上
“Why, my dear, I thought you would be glad.
“亲爱的,我以为你会很高兴。
You never go out, and this is such a fine opportunity.
你从不出去 这是个好机会
I had great trouble to get it.
我很难得到它。
Everyone wants to go; it is very select, and they are not giving many invitations to clerks.
每个人都想走;这是非常有选择的,他们没有向书记员发出许多邀请。
The whole official world will be there.”
整个官方世界都会在那里。 “
She looked at him with an irritated glance and said impatiently, “ And what do you wish me to put on my back?”
她怒目相视地看着他,不耐烦地说:“你想让我把什么放在我的背上? “
He had not thought of that.
他没有想到这一点。
He stammered, “Why, the gown you go to the theatre in.
他说:“为什么,你进剧院的礼服。
It looks very well to me.”
对我来说很好 “
He stopped, distracted, seeing that his wife was weeping.
他停下来了,分心了,看着他老婆在哭.
Two great tears ran slowly from the corners of her eyes toward the corners of her mouth.
两个巨大的眼泪从她眼角向口角缓慢地跑去.
“What’s the matter?
" 这是怎么回事?
What’s the matter?”
为何如此? “
he answered.
他回答说,
By a violent effort she conquered her grief and replied in a calm voice, while she wiped her wet cheeks, “Nothing.
通过暴力努力,她克服了悲痛,用冷静的声音回答,同时她擦去她湿脸颊,“什么都没有。
Only I have no gown, and, therefore, I can’t go to this ball.
我无法参加这个舞会。
Give your card to some colleague whose wife is better equipped than I am.”
把你的名片交给一个同事 他的妻子比我更有能力 “
He was in despair.
他在绝望中。
He resumed, “Come, let us see, Mathilde.
他接着说:“来吧,让我们看看,马蒂尔德。
How much would it cost, a suitable gown, which you could use on other occasions— something very simple?”
需要多少钱, 一件合适的礼服, 你可以在其他场合使用—— 非常简单的东西? “
She reflected several seconds, making her calculations and wondering also what sum she could ask without drawing on herself an immediate refusal and a frightened exclamation from the economical clerk.
她反映了几秒钟,做了计算,还想知道她可以要求多少钱,而她却不从自己身上提取立即的拒绝和对经济职员的惊恐的感叹。
Finally she replied, hesitating, “I don’t know exactly, but I think I could manage it with four hundred francs.”
她最后回答说,犹豫不决地说,“我并不确切知道,但我想我可以用400法郎来管理它。 “
He grew a little pale, because he was laying aside just that amount to buy a gun and treat himself to a little shooting next summer on the plain of Nanterre, with several friends who went to shoot larks there of a Sunday.
他变得有点苍白,因为他只留了这么多钱买起枪来治疗自己,明年夏天在南特尔平地上发生了一起小枪击案,几个朋友到那里去拍摄一个星期天的"云雀".
But he said, “Very well.
但他说,“很好。
I will give you four hundred francs.
我给你四百法郎
And try to have a pretty gown.”
并尝试有一个漂亮的长袍。 “
The day of the ball drew near and Madame Loisel seemed sad, uneasy, anxious.
舞会的那天快到了 露意丝夫人似乎很悲伤 不安 焦虑
Her frock was ready, however.
不过她已经准备好了
Her husband said to her one evening, “What is the matter?
她的丈夫对她说:“怎么了?
Come, you have seemed very queer these last three days.”
来吧,你看起来很怪 这三天。 “
And she answered, “It annoys me not to have a single piece of jewelry, not a single ornament, nothing to put on.
她回答说,“没有一件首饰,没有一件首饰,没有一件饰品,没有一件饰品,这让我不高兴。
I shall look poverty-stricken.
我看起来很穷
I would almost rather not go at all.”
我差点就不想去 “
“You might wear natural flowers,” said her husband.
她丈夫说,“你可能戴天然花”。
“They’re very stylish at this time of year.
“在每年的这个时候,
For ten francs you can get two or three magnificent roses.”
要十法郎,你可以得到 二到三个美丽的玫瑰。 “
She was not convinced.
她不认为
“No; there’s nothing more humiliating than to look poor among other women who are rich.”
“没有,没有什么比在其他富人中寻找穷人更丢人了。 “
“How stupid you are!”
“你有多蠢!”
her husband cried.
她丈夫哭着
“Go look up your friend, Madame Forestier, and ask her to lend you some jewels.
“去找你的朋友,Forestier夫人,请她借给你一些珠宝。
You’re intimate enough with her to do that.”
你和她足够亲密, “
She uttered a cry of joy.
她发出欢快的叫声
“True!
“对!
I never thought of it.”
我从没想过 “
The next day she went to her friend and told her of her distress.
第二天她去找她的朋友,告诉她她的痛苦。
Madame Forestier went to a wardrobe with a mirror, took out a large jewel box, brought it back, opened it and said to Madame Loisel, “Choose, my dear.”
Forrestier夫人带着一面镜子去衣柜取出一个大珠宝盒,把它带回来,打开后对Loisel夫人说,“亲爱的,不要这样。 “
She saw first some bracelets, then a pearl necklace, then a Venetian gold cross set with precious stones, of admirable workmanship.
她首先看到一些手镯,然后是一条珍珠项链,然后是威尼斯金十字架用宝石,令人钦佩的工作作风.
She tried on the ornaments before the mirror, hesitated and could not make up her mind to part with them, to give them back.
她试了镜子前的装饰品,犹豫不决,无法决定与它们分开,还给它们.
She kept asking, “Haven’t you any more?”
她不停地问道, “
“Why, yes.
“为什么是的。
Look further; I don’t know what you like.”
仔细看看,我不知道你喜欢什么。 “
Suddenly she discovered, in a black satin box, a superb diamond necklace, and her heart throbbed with an immoderate desire.
突然她发现,在一个黑色的塞丁盒子里, 一个超大的钻石项链, 和她的心脏被一个平缓的欲望所打碎。
Her hands trembled as she took it.
她拿起它时手会颤抖
She fastened it round her throat, outside her high-necked waist, and was lost in ecstasy at her reflection in the mirror.
她将它围在喉咙上,高颈腰外,被她倒入镜子后迷倒在迷幻中.
Then she asked, hesitating, filled with anxious doubt, “Will you lend me this, only this?”
她犹豫不决地问,“你只借我这个吗? “
“Why, yes, certainly.”
“当然是的。 “
She threw her arms round her friend’s neck, kissed her passionately, then fled with her treasure.
她把手臂扔到她朋友的脖子上,热情地吻了她,然后带着她的宝藏逃走了。
The night of the ball arrived.
舞会的那个晚上到了
Madame Loisel was a great success.
露意丝夫人非常成功
She was prettier than any other woman present, elegant, graceful, smiling and wild with joy.
她比在场的其他女人都漂亮 优雅 优雅 有喜悦的微笑和狂野
All the men looked at her, asked her name, sought to be introduced.
所有的男人看着她,问她的名字, 试图被介绍。
All the attaches of the Cabinet wished to waltz with her.
所有内阁成员都希望和她一起走华尔兹.
She was remarked by the minister himself.
她被部长本人说出。
She danced with rapture, with passion, intoxicated by pleasure, forgetting all in the triumph of her beauty, in the glory of her success, in a sort of cloud of happiness comprised of all this homage, admiration, these awakened desires and of that sense of triumph which is so sweet to woman’s heart.
她充满了激情,充满了激情,充满了快感,忘记了一切在她的美丽之胜中,在她成功的荣耀中,在一种幸福的云雾中,这些快乐的云云包括了所有这些赞美,钦佩,这些被唤醒的欲望和对女性的心怀如此甜蜜的胜利感.
She left the ball about four o’clock in the morning.
她早上4点左右离开了球。
Her husband had been sleeping since midnight in a little anteroom with three other gentlemen whose wives were enjoying the ball.
她丈夫从午夜起就睡在 一个小前厅里 和另外三位先生一起睡觉 他们的妻子喜欢舞会
He threw over her shoulders the wraps he had brought, the modest wraps of common life, the poverty of which contrasted with the elegance of the ball dress.
他将他带来的包裹,普通生活的温和包裹从她肩膀上扔下,这与球衣的优雅形成了对比.
She felt this and wished to escape so as not to be remarked by the other women, who were enveloping themselves in costly furs.
她感觉到这一点,想逃跑,以免被其他妇女说出,她们身穿昂贵的皮毛。
Loisel held her back, saying, “Wait a bit.
露意丝拦住她说:“等一下。
You will catch cold outside.
外面会冷的
I will call a cab.”
我去叫辆出租车 “
But she did not listen to him and rapidly descended the stairs.
但她没有听他的话,迅速下楼梯。
When they reached the street they could not find a carriage and began to look for one, shouting after the cabmen passing at a distance.
当他们到达街道时,他们找不到一辆马车,并开始寻找一辆马车,在驾驶员远道而来后喊叫。
They went toward the Seine in despair, shivering with cold.
他们绝望地走向塞纳河,在寒冷中颤抖.
At last they found on the quay one of those ancient night cabs which, as though they were ashamed to show their shabbiness during the day, are never seen round Paris until after dark.
他们终于在石上找到了一辆古老的夜行车 仿佛在白天羞愧地表现了自己的暴躁 但直到天黑后才在巴黎圆形
It took them to their dwelling in the Rue des Martyrs, and sadly they mounted the stairs to their flat.
他们被送入烈士路的住所,可悲的是,他们把楼梯抬到他们的公寓。
All was ended for her.
对她来说一切都结束了
As to him, he reflected that he must be at the ministry at ten o’clock that morning.
至于他,他反映,他必须在当天上午10点在该部。
She removed her wraps before the glass so as to see herself once more in all her glory.
她在玻璃前取出包裹,以便再次看到自己在她所有的荣耀中.
But suddenly she uttered a cry.
但突然她喊了一声
She no longer had the necklace around her neck!
她脖子上已经没有项链了!
“What is the matter with you?”
“你怎么了? “
demanded her husband, already half undressed.
她丈夫已经脱了一半衣服
She turned distractedly toward him.
她向着他分心了
“I have—I have—I’ve lost Madame Forestier’s necklace,” she cried.
" 我 -- -- 我 -- -- 我失去了Forestier夫人的项链, " 她哭了。
He stood up, bewildered.
他站起来,困惑。
“What!
" 何谓!
—How?
怎样?
Impossible!”
这不可能!”
They looked among the folds of her skirt, of her cloak, in her pockets, everywhere, but did not find it.
他们从她的裙子、外衣、口袋里 到处看,但没有找到
“You’re sure you had it on when you left the ball?”
"你确定你离开球的时候穿了? “
he asked.
他问。
“Yes, I felt it in the vestibule of the minister’s house.”
" 是的,我在部长府的院子里感觉到了这一点。 “
“But if you had lost it in the street we should have heard it fall.
“但是,如果你在街上丢了它,我们就应该听到它倒下的声音。
It must be in the cab.”
一定是在出租车里 “
“Yes, probably.
“大概是的。
Did you take his number?”
你拿走他的号码了吗? “
“No.
“否。
And you—didn’t you notice it?”
你没注意到吗? “
“No.”
“没有。”
They looked, thunderstruck, at each other.
他们看着,雷克,互相看
At last Loisel put on his clothes.
终于露意丝穿上了衣服
“I shall go back on foot,” said he, “over the whole route, to see whether I can find it.”
他说,“我将步行回去,在整个路线上,看看我能否找到它。 “
He went out.
他出门了
She sat waiting on a chair in her ball dress, without strength to go to bed, overwhelmed, without any fire, without a thought.
她穿着球衣坐在椅子上等,没有力量去睡觉,被打倒了,没有起火,没有思想.
Her husband returned about seven o’clock.
她的丈夫大约七点钟返回。
He had found nothing.
他什么也没发现
He went to police headquarters, to the newspaper offices to offer a reward; he went to the cab companies—everywhere, in fact, whither he was urged by the least spark of hope.
他去了警察总部,去报社报社报赏;他去了计程车公司——事实上,他在那里受到最小的希望的敦促。
She waited all day, in the same condition of mad fear before this terrible calamity.
她等了一整天,在同样的 疯狂的恐惧状态下 在这场可怕的灾难之前。
Loisel returned at night with a hollow, pale face.
露意丝晚上带着一副空洞而苍白的脸相回来了.
He had discovered nothing.
他什么也没发现。
“You must write to your friend,” said he, “that you have broken the clasp of her necklace and that you are having it mended.
他说,“你必须写信给你朋友,”他说,“你打破了她项链的缝隙,正在修改。
That will give us time to turn round.”
这将给我们时间转身。 “
She wrote at his dictation.
她写在他的口述。
At the end of a week they had lost all hope.
一周后,他们失去了所有的希望。
Loisel, who had aged five years, declared, “We must consider how to replace that ornament.”
5岁的露意丝宣称,“我们必须考虑如何取而代之。 “
The next day they took the box that had contained it and went to the jeweler whose name was found within.
第二天,他们拿走了装有盒子的盒子,并去见在其中找到名字的珠宝商。
He consulted his books.
他查阅了他的书。
“It was not I, madame, who sold that necklace; I must simply have furnished the case.”
“不是我,夫人,卖了那条项链;我一定是提供了这个案子。 “
Then they went from jeweler to jeweler, searching for a necklace like the other, trying to recall it, both sick with chagrin and grief.
后来他们从珠宝商到珠宝商,去寻找一条和另一条一样的项链,试图回忆起,两人都病了查格林和悲伤.
They found, in a shop at the Palais Royal, a string of diamonds that seemed to them exactly like the one they had lost.
他们在皇家宫的一家商店里 发现了一串钻石 看上去和他们失去的钻石完全一样
It was worth forty thousand francs.
价值四万法郎。
They could have it for thirty-six.
他们可以拥有它 36。
So they begged the jeweler not to sell it for three days yet.
所以他们求珠宝商不要卖了三天
And they made a bargain that he should buy it back for thirty-four thousand francs, in case they should find the lost necklace before the end of February.
他们做了一个交易,他应该用三万四千法郎买回来, 以防二月底前找到丢失的项链.
Loisel possessed eighteen thousand francs which his father had left him.
露意丝拥有他父亲留给他的一万八千法郎
He would borrow the rest.
他会借其他的
He did borrow, asking a thousand francs of one, five hundred of another, five louis here, three louis there.
他确实借了钱, 问了一千法郎一,五百法郎另一, 五卢伊在这里, 三卢伊在那里。
He took up ruinous obligations.
他承担了毁灭性的义务。
He compromised all the rest of his life, risked signing a note without even knowing whether he could meet it; and, frightened by the trouble yet to come, by the black misery that was about to fall upon him, by the prospect of all the physical privations and moral tortures that he was to suffer, he went to get the new necklace, laying upon the jeweler’s counter thirty-six thousand francs.
他牺牲了余生,冒着签署一张纸条的风险,甚至不知道他能否见到这张纸条;而且,他为尚未到来的麻烦所惊恐,为即将降临于他身上的黑色苦难所惊恐,为他将要遭受的所有身体匮乏和道德折磨所想,他去取取了新项链,并用珠宝商的柜台铺设了三万六千法郎。
When Madame Loisel took back the necklace, Madame Forestier said to her with a chilly manner, “You should have returned it sooner; I might have needed it.”
当Loisel夫人收回项链时,Forestier夫人对她说,“你应该早日归还;我也许需要它。 “
She did not open the case, as her friend had so much feared.
她没有像她朋友所担心的那样打开这个案子。
If she had detected the substitution, what would she have thought, what would she have said?
如果她发现了这个替代品 她会怎么想 她会说什么?
Would she not have taken Madame Loisel for a thief?
她会不会把露意丝夫人当小偷?
Thereafter Madame Loisel knew the horrible existence of the needy.
之后露意丝夫人知道 穷人的可怕存在
She bore her part, however, with sudden heroism.
然而,她却以突然的英雄主义为己任。
That dreadful debt must be paid.
这可怕的债务必须偿还。
She would pay it.
她会付钱的
They dismissed their servant; they changed their lodgings; they rented a garret under the roof.
他们解雇了他们的仆人,他们换了自己的住所,在屋顶下租了一套洋装。
She came to know what heavy housework meant and the odious cares of the kitchen.
她知道重活意味着什么 和厨房的讨厌的关心。
She washed the dishes, using her dainty fingers and rosy nails on greasy pots and pans.
她洗了盘子,用她的花样手指和玫瑰指甲在油锅和锅上.
She washed the soiled linen, the shirts and the dishcloths, which she dried upon a line; she carried the slops down to the street every morning and carried up the water, stopping for breath at every landing.
她洗了被取土的被子、衬衫和菜布,用一行干;她每天早晨将斜坡抬到街上并取出水来,每次着陆时都停下来呼吸。
And dressed like a woman of the people, she went to the fruiterer, the grocer, the butcher, a basket on her arm, bargaining, meeting with impertinence, defending her miserable money, sou by sou.
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Every month they had to meet some notes, renew others, obtain more time.
他们每个月都得见一些笔记,更新其他笔记,争取更多的时间.
Her husband worked evenings, making up a tradesman’s accounts, and late at night he often copied manuscript for five sous a page.
她的丈夫在晚上工作,编造了一个商人的帐号,而深夜他经常为5个苏斯一页复制手稿.
This life lasted ten years.
这一生延续了十年.
At the end of ten years they had paid everything, everything, with the rates of usury and the accumulations of the compound interest.
在十年末,他们付出了一切,一切, 利率和复合利息的积累。
Madame Loisel looked old now.
露意丝夫人看起来老了
She had become the woman of impoverished households— strong and hard and rough.
她成为了贫穷家庭的妇女——强而硬而粗暴。
With frowsy hair, skirts askew and red hands, she talked loud while washing the floor with great swishes of water.
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But sometimes, when her husband was at the office, she sat down near the window and she thought of that gay evening of long ago, of that ball where she had been so beautiful and so admired.
但有时,当她丈夫在办公室的时候, 她坐在窗户附近, 她想到了那个同志的夜晚 很久以前, 在那个舞会上,她一直 如此美丽,是如此的钦佩。
What would have happened if she had not lost that necklace?
如果她没有丢掉项链会怎么样?
Who knows?
谁知道呢?
Who knows?
谁知道呢?
How strange and changeful is life!
生活是多么奇怪和变化!
How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!
制造或毁灭我们需要多么小的东西!
But one Sunday, having gone to take a walk in the Champs Élysées to refresh herself after the labors of the week, she suddenly perceived a woman who was leading a child.
但有一个星期天,她去 香榭丽丝酒吧散步, 在一周的劳动之后,她突然发现一个女人 正在领导一个孩子。
It was Madame Forestier, still young, still beautiful, still charming.
是Forestier夫人 年轻 美丽 迷人
Madame Loisel felt moved.
露意丝夫人觉得很感动
Should she speak to her?
她应该和她说话吗?
Yes, certainly.
当然
And now that she had paid, she would tell her all about it.
现在她已经付钱了 她会告诉她一切
Why not?
为什么?
She went up.
她上楼了
“Good-day, Jeanne.”
“日安,贞德。 “
The other, astonished to be familiarly addressed by this plain good-wife, did not recognize her at all and stammered, “But—madame!
另一人被这位普通的好妻子所熟知,却完全不认得她,并僵持地说: " 但是,母亲!
—I do not know —You must have mistaken.”
我不知道 你一定搞错了 “
“No.
“否。
I am Mathilde Loisel.”
我是玛蒂德·露意丝 “
Her friend uttered a cry.
她的朋友喊了一声
“Oh, my poor Mathilde!
“哦,可怜的玛蒂尔德!
How you are changed!”
你变了! “
“Yes, I have had a pretty hard life, since I last saw you, and great poverty—and that because of you!”
“是的,自从我上次见到你以来,我的生活相当艰难,而且极度地贫穷——那是因为你! “
“Of me!
“我!
How so?”
为什么? “
“Do you remember that diamond necklace you lent me to wear at the ministerial ball?”
“你还记得你借我穿的钻石项链吗? “
“Yes.
“对。
Well?”
怎么样? “
“Well, I lost it.”
“嗯,我失去了它。 “
“What do you mean?
“你是什么意思?”
You brought it back.”
你把它带回来了。 “
“I brought you back another exactly like it.
“我又给你带回了同样的东西。
And it has taken us ten years to pay for it.
我们花了十年的时间来支付这笔费用。
You can understand that it was not easy for us, for us who had nothing.
你可以理解,这对我们来说并不容易,对于一无所有的人来说。
At last it is ended, and I am very glad.”
终于结束了 我很高兴 “
Madame Forestier had stopped.
福斯尼尔夫人停下来了
“You say that you bought a necklace of diamonds to replace mine?”
“你说你买了一串钻石项链来取而代之? “
“Yes.
“对。
You never noticed it, then!
你从来没有注意到它,那么!
They were very similar.”
他们非常相似。 “
And she smiled with a joy that was at once proud and ingenuous.
她以一时的荣耀和智慧来微笑。
Madame Forestier, deeply moved, took her hands.
福斯妮尔夫人,深深地感动,抓住了她的手.
“Oh, my poor Mathilde!
“哦,可怜的玛蒂尔德!
Why, my necklace was paste!
我的项链被糊了!
It was worth at most only five hundred francs!”
最多只值500法郎! “
Glossary caste (n.)
词汇种姓(n.)
a social position assigned on the basis of birth, wealth, status, or job (p.
根据出生、财富、地位或工作分配的社会地位(第2页)。
3) chagrin (n.)
3) 查克林 (n.
a feeling of distress caused by disappointment or humiliation (p.
失望或屈辱造成的痛苦感(p.
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