【生活常识教科书】The_Underdogs(下等人).pdfVIP

更多好书请点击 The Underdogs The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela A Novel of the Mexican Revolution Translated by E. Munguia, Jr. Original Title: LOS DE ABAJO 1 更多好书请点击 The Underdogs PART ONE How beautiful the revolution! Even in its most barbarous aspect it is beautiful, Solis said with deep feeling. I Thats no animal, I tell you! Listen to the dog bark- ing! It must be a human being. The woman stared into the darkness of the sierra. What if theyre soldiers? said a man, who sat In- dian-fashion, eating, a coarse earthenware plate in his right hand, three folded tortillas in the other. The woman made no answer, all her senses directed outside the hut. The beat of horses hoofs rang in the quarry nearby. The dog barked again, louder and more angrily. Well, Demetrio, I think you had better hide, all the same. Stolidly, the man finished eating; next he reached for a cantaro and gulped down the water in it; then he stood up. Your rifle is under the mat, she whispered. A tallow candle illumined the small room. In one cor- ner stood a plow, a yoke, a goad, and other agricultural implements. Ropes hung from the roof, securing an old adobe mold, used as a bed; on it a child slept, covered with gray rags. Demetrio buckled his cartridge belt about his waist and picked up his rifle. He was tall and well built, with a sanguine face and beardless chin; he wore shirt and trousers of white cloth, a broad Mexican hat and leather sandals. With slow, measured step, he left the room, vanishing into the impenetrable darkness of the night. The dog, excited to the point of madnes