THETELL-TALEHEART中英对照版.pdf

THE TELL-TALE HEART by Edgar Allan Poe 1843 1 真的——紧张——非常紧张，极度紧张，以前，现 TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been 在，都是这样。可你为什么硬说我疯了呢？这毛病 and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease 反倒把我的感觉弄得更灵敏了——没失灵——也 had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. 没麻木。特别是听觉，最好不过了。天上人间的一 Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things 切声息尽在我的耳鼓里，我还听见地狱中的许多事 in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. 物。那么，我疯了吗？听着！你看我气色多好—— How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily 多么镇定自若地把这一切给你和盘托出。 --how calmly I can tell you the whole story. 这点子最初怎么进入我的脑海的，是说不上来了， It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; 但这点子一出现，就日夜萦绕着我，没啥目的，没 but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. 啥觊觎。我喜欢那个老头，他从没伤害过我，从没 侮辱过我。对他的金子，我更无非分之想。我想是 He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. 由于他的那只眼睛吧！眼睛，就是这东西！他的一 For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it 只眼睛酷似鹰眼——一只淡蓝色的眼睛，覆以一层 was this! He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with 薄翳。只要这只眼睛看到我，我就不寒而栗。于是， a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; 渐渐地——一来二去——我便拿定主意要他的命， and so by degrees --very gradually --I made up my mind to 这样就可以使自己永远摆脱那只眼睛。 take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever. 你看，这就是问题的关键。你以为我疯了，可疯子 是啥都不懂的。可惜你没看见我，可惜你没看到我 干得多漂亮——那么审慎，那么周详，伪装得多么 Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know 巧妙。杀死老头之前的那一周里，我对他是体贴备 nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have 至。每天夜里，大约午夜时分，我转动门闩，把门 seen how wisely I proceeded --with what ca