自考_英语阅读(一)_0595 第一单元_课文及翻译

Unit1 1 A Day s Wait E Hemingway He came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill He was shivering his face was white and he walked slowly as though it ached to move What s the matter Schatz I ve got a headache You better go back to bed No I m all righ t You go to bed I ll be you when I m dressed But when I came downstairs he was dressed sitting by the fire looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever You go up to bed I said You re sick I m all right he said When the doctor came be took the boy s temperature What s is it I asked him One hundred and two Downstairs the doctor left three different medicines in different colored capsules with instructio n for giving them One was to bring down the fever another a purgative the third to overcome a n acid condition The germs of influenza can only exist in an acid condition he explained He see med to know all about influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the fever did not g o above one hundred and four degrees This was a light epidemic of flu and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia Back in the room I wrote the boy s temperature down and made a note of the time to give the va rious capsules Do you want me to read to you All right If you want to said the boy His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached from what was going on I read aloud from Howard Pyle s Book of pirates but I could see he was not following what I was reading How do you feel Schatz I asked him Just the same so far he said I sat at the foot of the bed and read to myself while I waited for it to be time to give another caps ule It would have been natural for him to go to sleep but when I looked up he was looking at th e foot of the bed looking very strangely Why don t you try to sleep I ll make you up for the medicine I d rather stay awake After a while he said to me You don t have to stay in here with me Papa if it bothers you It doesn t bother me No I mean you don t have to stay if it s going to bother you I though perhaps he was a little lightheaded and after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleve n o clock I went out for a while It was a bright cold day the ground covered with a sleet that ha d frozen so that it seemed as if all the bare trees the bushes the cut brush and all the grass and t he bare ground had been varnished with ice I took the young Irish setter for a walk up the road a nd along a frozen creek but it was difficult to stand or walk on the glassy surface and the red dog slipped and slithered and I fell twice hard once dropping my gun and having it slide away over t he ice We flushed a covey of quail under a high clay bank with overhanging brush and I killed two as the y went out of sight over the top of the blank Some of the covey lit in trees but most of them sca ttered into brush piles and it was necessary to jump on the ice coated mounds of brush several times before they would flush Coming out while you were poise d unsteadily on the icy springy brush they made difficult shooting and I killed two missed five a nd started back pleased to have found a covey close to the house and happy there were so many left to find on another day At the house they said the boy had refused to let anyone come into the room You can t come in he said You mustn t get what I have I went up to him and found him in exactly the position I had left him white faced but with the tops of his cheeks flushed by the fever staring still as he had stared at the fo ot of the bed I took his temperature What is it Something like a hundred I said It was one hundred and two and four tenths It was a hundred and two he said Who said so The doctor Your temperature is all right I said It s nothing to worry about I don t worry he said but I can t keep from thinking Don t think I said Just take it easy I m taking it easy he said and looked straight ahead He was evidently holding tight onto himse lf about something Take this with water Do you think it will do any good Of course it will I sat down and opened the Pirate book and commenced to read but I could see he was not follo wing so I stooped About what time do you think I m going to die he asked What About how long will it be before I die You aren t going die What s the matter with you Oh yes I am I heard him say a hundred an d two People don t die with a fever of one hundred and two That s a silly way to talk I know they do At school in France the boys told me you can t live with forty four degrees I ve got a hundred and two He had been waiting to die all day ever since nine o clock in the morning You poor Schatz I said Poor old Schatz It s like miles and kilometers You aren t going to die That s different thermometer On that thermometer thirty seven is normal On this kind it s ninety eight Are you sure Absolutely I said It s like miles and kilometers You know like how many kilometers we make when we do seventy miles in the car Oh he said But his gaze at the foot of the bed relaxed slowly The hold over himself relaxed too finally and t he next day it was very slack and he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance 1 一天的等待 我们还没起床时 走进房间关窗 我注意到他看起来病了 他颤抖着 脸色苍白 走得很 慢 似乎一动就疼 怎么了 我的宝贝 我头疼 你最好回去睡觉 不 我没事 你睡觉去 我穿好衣服去看你 等我下了楼 他已经穿好了衣服 坐在火炉旁 看起来就是一个病的不轻很痛苦的九岁男 孩 我把手放在他的额头上 知道他在发烧 上楼睡觉去 我说 你病了 我没事 他说 医生来了 良好了孩子的体温 多少度 我问 102 下了楼 医生留下了三种不同颜色胶囊的药 并告知如何服用 一种是退烧的 一种是泻 药 另一种是用来去酸的 流感菌只能在酸性环境中生存 他解释说 他们似乎对流感无 所不知 说如果没烧到 104 度以上 就没什么可担心的 这不过是流感轻微症状 如果避 免了肺炎就没有危险 回到屋里 我写下孩子的温度 记下了服用各种药的时间 想让我给你念点什么吗 恩 如果你愿意 孩子说 他的脸苍白 眼窝下有黑晕 他静静地躺在床上 对发生的 一切漠不关心 我大声的朗读着霍华德 派尔的 海盗的故事 但我看得出他没有在听我读什么 你感 觉怎么样了 宝贝 我问他 现在还那样 他说 我坐在床脚 等着他服用另一种胶囊 自己看了一会儿书 正常来说 他该入睡了 可我 抬起头时 他正盯着床脚 看上去很怪异 你为什么不睡呢 吃药时我会叫醒你的 我宁可醒着 过了一会 他对我说 爸 如果这样打搅你 你不必和我在一起 这不打搅我 不是 我是说如果这将打搅你 你不比待着 我想或许他有点神志不清 11 点钟给他服过开出的药后 我出去了一会 这是一个晴朗而 寒冷的日子 地上覆盖着雨水结成的冰 看上去好像所有光秃秃的树 灌木丛 砍下的树 枝 所有的草和空地都用冰漆过似地 我带着那条幼小的爱尔兰猎犬上了路 沿着一条结 冰的小溪走着 但是站立行走在这玻璃般的路面上真不容易 红毛狗 又是跃又是滑 我重 重的摔倒了两次 一次还摔掉了枪 枪在冰面上滑出老远 我们从被垂着的树枝掩盖着的一个高高的土堤下惊起了一群鹌鹑 当它们从堤顶上飞出来 时 我打死了两只 但大部分都飞散进了灌木丛里 要想惊起这些鹌鹑 得在被冰包裹着 的树丛上跳上好几次 但还没等你在这又滑又有弹性的树丛上站稳 它们已经飞了出去 很难击中 我打中两只 五只飞掉了 回去的路上 我很高兴地发现离家不远有一群鹌鹑 改日可以再去猎取 回到家 他们说孩子不让任何人进房间 我上楼去看他 发现他还是我离开时的那个姿势 脸苍白 上颊烧得发红 仍象早上那样 盯着床脚 我量了量他的体温 几度 大约 100 度 我说 102 4 度 102 吧 他说 谁说的 医生 你的温度没什么 我说 不必害怕 我不害怕 他说 但我忍不住要想 别想 了 我说 别紧张 我不紧张 他说 直看着前方 虽然他有心事 但在努力克制着自己 把这水喝了 你觉得这会有用吗 当然了 我坐下来 打开 海盗故事 开始读起来 但我看得出他没在听 所以我停了下来 你觉得我大概什么时候会死 他问 什么 大约多长时间我就要死 你不会死的 你怎么了 噢 不 我会死的 我听见医生说 102 度了 烧到 102 度 人不会死的 这话真傻 我知道会的 在法国学校里 伙伴们告诉我 44 度人就不能活的 我已经 102 度了 从早上 9 点起 整天他都在等着死亡 可怜的宝贝 我说 可怜的宝贝 这就像英里和公里一样 你不会死的 那是一种不 同的温度计量 用那种计量法 37 度是正常的温度 这种则是 98 度 你肯定吗 绝对肯定 我说 这就像英里和公里 你知道乘汽车 70 英里相当于多少公里 噢 他说 但是他对床脚的盯视逐渐松弛了下来 他不在控制自己了 终于 第二天他更加松弛了 有什么大不了的事情他都会很容易的哭出来 2 The Open Window After Saki My aunt will come down very soon Mr Nettle said a very calm young lady of fifteen years of a ge meanwhile you must try to bear my company Frampton Nettle tried to say something which would please the niece now present without ann oying the aunt that was about to come He was supposed to be going through a cure for his nerv es but he doubted whether these polite visits to a number of total strangers would help much I know how it will be his sister had said when he was preparing to go away into the country y ou will lose yourself down there and not speak to a living soul and your nerves will be worse tha n ever through loneliness I shall just give you letters of introduction to all the people I know ther e Some of them as far as I can remember were quite nice Frampton wondered whether Mrs Sappleton the lady to whom he was bringing one of the lett ers of introduction one of the nice ones Do you know many of the people round here asked the niece when she thought that they ha d sat long enough in silence Hardly one said Frampton My sister was staying here you know about four years ago and she gave me letters of introduction to some of the people here He made the last statement in a sad voice Then you know almost nothing about my aunt continued the calm young lady Only her name and address Frampton admitted He was wondering whether Mrs Sappleton w as married perhaps she had been married and her husband was dead But there was something o f a man in the room Her great sorrow came just three years ago said the child That would be after your sister s ti me Her sorrow asked Frampton Somehow in this restful country place sorrows seemed far aw ay You may wonder why we keep that window wide open on an October afternoon said the niec e pointing to a long window that opened like a door on to the grass outside It is quite warm for the time of the year said Frampton but has that window got anything to do with your aunt s sorrow Out through that window exactly three years ago her husband and her two young brothers w ent off for their day s shooting They never came back In crossing the country to the shooting ground they were all three swallowed in a bog It had been that terrible wet summer you know and places that were safe in other years became suddenly dangerous Their bodies were never fo und That was the worst part of it Here the child s voice lost its calm sound and became almost human Poor aunt always thinks that they will come back someday they and the little brown do g that was lost with them and walk in at that window just as they used to do That is why the win dow is kept open every evening till it is quite dark Poor dear aunt she has often told me how the y went out her husband with his white coat over his arm and Ronnie her youngest brother sing ing a song as he always did to annoy her because she said it affected her nerves Do you know s ometimes on quiet evenings like this I almost get a strange feeling that they will all walk in throu gh the window She stopped and trembled It was a relief to Frampton when the aunt came busily into the room and apologized for being late I hope Vera has been amusing you she said She has been very interesting said Frampton I hope you don t mind the open window said Mrs Sappleton brightly my husband and broth ers will be home soon from shooting and they always come in this way They ve been shooting bi rds today near the bog so they ll make my poor carpets dirty All you men do that sort of thing d on t you She talked on cheerfully about the shooting and the scarcity of birds and the hopes of shooting in the winter To Frampton it was all quite terrible He made a great effort which was only partly successful to turn the talk on to a more cheerful subject He was conscious that his hostess was giving him only a part of her attention and her eyes were frequently looking past him to the ope n window and the grass beyond It was certainly unfortunate that he should have paid his visit on this sorrowful day The doctors agree in ordering me complete rest no excitement and no bodily exercise said F rampton who had the common idea that total strangers want to know the least detail of one s ill nesses their cause and cure On the matter of food they are not so much in agreement he co ntinued No said Mrs Sappleton in a tired voice Then she suddenly brightened into attention but not to what Frampton was saying Here they are at last she cried Just in time for tea and don t they Look as if they were mu ddy up to the eyes Frampton trembled slightly and turned towards the niece with a look intended to show sympat hetic understanding The child was looking out through the open window with fear in her eyes With a shock Frampton turned round in his seat and looked in the same direction In the increasing darkness three figures were walking across the grass towards the window the y all carried guns under their arms and one of them had also a white coat hung over his shoulder s A tired brown dog kept close at their heels Noiselessly they drew near to the house and then a young voice started to sing in the darkness Frampton wildly seized his hat and stick he ran out through the front door and through the gat e He nearly ran into a man on a bicycle Here we are my dear said the bearer of the white coat coming in through the window fairl y muddy but most of it s dry Who was that who ran out as we came up A most extraordinary man a Mr Nettle said Mrs Sappleton he could only talk about his illn esses and ran off without a word of good bye or apology when you arrived One would think he had seen a ghost I expect it was the dog said the niece calmly he told me he had a terrible fear of dogs He was once hunted into a graveyard somewhere in India by a lot of wild dogs and had to spend the nig ht in a newly dug grave with the creatures just above him Enough to make anyone lose their nerve She was very clever at making up stories quickly 2 敞开的窗户 努特尔先生 我婶婶很快就回来了 一个颇自负的十五岁小姑娘说道 那时候您可 得多包涵点 弗兰顿 努特尔设法说上几句阿谀的话 恭维一下这位侄女和那位很快就回家的婶婶 他越来越疑心 对这么一大群毫不相识的人作正式拜访 于他的正在治疗的神经病究竟有 何益处 当他做好准备到乡下去时 姐姐对他说 我看 你要是老不合群 不跟人打交道 整天在家郁闷 病情会越来越严重 我写封信 给你带去 和那边我的熟人认识 我记得 他们当中有不少热情的好人 弗兰顿想 萨伯莱顿夫人 就是他正在拜访的这位女主人 是不是也在 好人 之列呢 小侄女觉得他们静坐太久了 于是打破沉默 问道 这儿的人您认识多不多 几乎没一个 弗兰顿道 我姐姐在邻近的教区长家里住过 那可能是四年前的事 情 她给我信 让我和这儿的人认识 说完 他不可掩饰地流露出后悔的心情 这么说 您一点也不知道我婶婶的事啦 自负的少女又问道 弗兰顿承认 我只知道她的名字和地址 他不知道萨伯莱顿的丈夫是否还健在 但 屋子里的摆设使他觉得夫人不可能是个寡妇 她有个大大的悲剧 发生在三年前 女孩说 那时候您姐姐已经搬走了 大 悲剧 弗兰顿反问 在这个幽寂僻静的小乡村 悲剧 一词根本不可思议 您不觉得奇怪 为啥这样冷的十月天气 下午我们还把窗户敞开着 侄女手指向 一扇开向草坪的巨大落地玻璃窗 是啊 这时节 天气已经有