🔊 Vronsky had never had a real home life. His mother had been in her youth a brilliant society woman, who had had during her married life, and still more afterwards, many love affairs notorious in the whole fashionable world. His father he scarcely remembered, and he had been educated in the Corps of Pages.

弗龙斯基从未有过真正的家庭生活。他的母亲年轻时是个出色的社交界女人,婚后--尤其在后来的岁月里--有许多风流韵事,在整个上流社会尽人皆知。他几乎记不得父亲的样子,从小在贵族军官学校接受教育。

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brilliant /ˈbrɪliənt/

adj. 杰出的；明亮的；光辉的➕

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notorious /nəʊˈtɔːriəs/

adj. 臭名昭著的；声名狼藉的➕

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fashionable /ˈfæʃnəbl/

adj. 时尚的；流行的➕

🔊 Leaving the school very young as a brilliant officer, he had at once got into the circle of wealthy Petersburg army men. Although he did go more or less into Petersburg society, his love affairs had always hitherto been outside it. In Moscow he had for the first time felt, after his luxurious and coarse life at Petersburg, all the charm of intimacy with a sweet and innocent girl of his own rank, who cared for him. It never even entered his head that there could be any harm in his relations with Kitty. At balls he danced principally with her. He was a constant visitor at their house. He talked to her as people commonly do talk in society-all sorts of nonsense, but nonsense to which he could not help attaching a special meaning in her case. Although he said nothing to her that he could not have said before everybody, he felt that she was becoming more and more dependent upon him, and the more he felt this, the better he liked it, and the tenderer was his feeling for her. He did not know that his mode of behavior in relation to Kitty had a definite character, that it is courting young girls with no intention of marriage, and that such courting is one of the evil actions common among brilliant young men such as he was. It seemed to him that he was the first who had discovered this pleasure, and he was enjoying his discovery.

他年纪轻轻就以出色军官的身份离开学校,立刻跻身于富有的彼得堡军人圈子。尽管他也或多或少出入彼得堡上流社会,但他的风流韵事向来与之无关。在莫斯科,经过彼得堡那种放纵粗野的生活之后,他第一次感受到与一位同阶层、甜美纯真、又关心他的女孩亲密相处的全部魅力。他压根儿没想过自己与基蒂的关系会有什么不妥。舞会上,他主要和她跳舞；他常去她家做客；他跟她说些社交场上人们常说的废话--但这些废话在她面前,他总不由自主地赋予特殊含义。虽然他没说过任何不能当众讲的话,但他感觉到她越来越依赖他,而他越有这种感觉就越喜欢,对她的感情也越发温柔。他不知道自己对基蒂的这种行为方式有着确定的性质--那是在向年轻姑娘献殷勤却没有结婚的打算,而这种献殷勤正是像他这样出色的年轻人当中常见的恶行之一。在他看来,他是第一个发现这种乐趣的人,并且正沉浸在发现的喜悦中。

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hitherto /ˌhɪðəˈtuː/

adv. 迄今为止；到目前为止➕

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luxurious /lʌɡˈʒʊəriəs/

adj. 奢侈的；豪华的➕

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intimacy /ˈɪntɪməsi/

n. 亲密；亲近➕

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innocent /ˈɪnəsnt/

adj. 天真的；无辜的；清白的➕

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courting /ˈkɔːrtɪŋ/

v. 追求（异性）；求爱➕

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intention /ɪnˈtenʃn/

n. 意图；目的➕

🔊 If he could have heard what her parents were saying that evening, if he could have put himself at the point of view of the family and have heard that Kitty would be unhappy if he did not marry her, he would have been greatly astonished, and would not have believed it. He could not believe that what gave such great and delicate pleasure to him, and above all to her, could be wrong. Still less could he have believed that he ought to marry. Marriage had never presented itself to him as a possibility. He not only disliked family life, but a family, and especially a husband, was, in accordance with the views general in the bachelor world in which he lived, conceived as something alien, repulsive, and, above all, ridiculous.

假如他能听到那天晚上她父母说的话,假如他能站在家庭的立场上,听说如果他不娶她,基蒂会很不幸,他一定会大吃一惊,而且不会相信。他无法相信,对他来说--尤其对她来说--如此美妙而细腻的乐趣,会是错误的。他更不可能相信他应该结婚。结婚这件事从未在他脑海中成为可能。他不仅不喜欢家庭生活,而且根据他所处的单身世界的普遍观点,一个家庭--特别是丈夫--被看作某种陌生的、令人反感的、尤其是滑稽可笑的东西。

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astonished /əˈstɒnɪʃt/

adj. 惊讶的；吃惊的➕

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delicate /ˈdelɪkət/

adj. 精致的；微妙的；柔和的➕

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possibility /ˌpɒsəˈbɪləti/

n. 可能性；可能的事➕

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bachelor /ˈbætʃələr/

n. 单身汉；学士➕

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repulsive /rɪˈpʌlsɪv/

adj. 令人反感的；厌恶的➕

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ridiculous /rɪˈdɪkjələs/

adj. 荒谬的；可笑的➕

🔊 But though Vronsky had not the least suspicion what the parents were saying, he felt on coming away from the Shtcherbatskys' that the secret spiritual bond which existed between him and Kitty had grown so much stronger that evening that some step must be taken. But what step could and ought to be taken he could not imagine.

虽然弗龙斯基对父母说的话毫无察觉,但他从谢尔巴茨基家出来时,感觉到他和基蒂之间那种隐秘的精神纽带在那个晚上变得如此强烈,以至于必须采取某种行动了。但他想不出自己能够或应该采取什么行动。

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suspicion /səˈspɪʃn/

n. 怀疑；嫌疑➕

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spiritual /ˈspɪrɪtʃuəl/

adj. 精神的；心灵的➕

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bond /bɒnd/

n. 纽带；联系；债券➕

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step /step/

n. 步骤；措施；脚步➕

🔊 "What is so exquisite," he thought, as he returned from the Shtcherbatskys', carrying away with him, as he always did, a delicious feeling of purity and freshness, arising partly from the fact that he had not been smoking for a whole evening, and with it a new feeling of tenderness at her love for him--"what is so exquisite is that not a word has been said by me or by her, but we understand each other so well in this unseen language of looks and tones, that this evening more clearly than ever she told me she loves me. And how secretly, simply, and most of all, how trustfully! I feel myself better, purer. I feel that I have a heart, and that there is a great deal of good in me. Those sweet, loving eyes! When she said: 'Indeed I do....'

“多么美妙啊,”他从谢尔巴茨基家回来时想道--他像往常一样,带着一种由于整晚没抽烟而产生的纯净清新的愉悦感觉,以及对她爱意的新鲜的温柔感--“多么美妙啊,我和她什么话都没说,但我们通过眼神和语调这种无形的语言如此了解彼此,以至于今晚她比以往更清楚地告诉我她爱我。而且多么隐秘、简单,最主要的是多么信任！我觉得自己更好了,更纯净了。我觉得自己有颗心,而且内心有许多美好的东西。那双甜美、充满爱意的眼睛！当她说‘我真的……’的时候……”

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exquisite /ɪkˈskwɪzɪt/

adj. 精致的；高雅的；强烈的➕

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purity /ˈpjʊərəti/

n. 纯洁；纯净➕

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tenderness /ˈtendənəs/

n. 温柔；柔情➕

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unseen /ʌnˈsiːn/

adj. 看不见的；未被察觉的➕

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trustfully /ˈtrʌstfəli/

adv. 信任地；信赖地➕

🔊 "Well, what then? Oh, nothing. It's good for me, and good for her." And he began wondering where to finish the evening.

“嗯,然后呢？哦,没什么。这对我好,对她也好。”他开始琢磨这个晚上该去哪里结束。

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wondering /ˈwʌndərɪŋ/

v. 想知道；感到好奇➕

🔊 He passed in review the places he might go to. "Club? a game of bezique, champagne with Ignatov? No, I'm not going. Château des Fleurs; there I shall find Oblonsky, songs, the cancan. No, I'm sick of it. That's why I like the Shtcherbatskys', that I'm growing better. I'll go home." He went straight to his room at Dussot's Hotel, ordered supper, and then undressed, and as soon as his head touched the pillow, fell into a sound sleep.

他逐一审视可能去的地方。“俱乐部？打盘别济克牌,跟伊格纳托夫喝香槟？不,我不去。花堡？在那里会碰到奥布隆斯基,听唱歌,看康康舞。不,我厌烦了。这就是为什么我喜欢谢尔巴茨基家--我在那里变得更好。我回家吧。”他径直回到迪索酒店的房间,点了夜宵,然后脱衣,头刚碰到枕头,就沉沉睡去。

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review /rɪˈvjuː/

n. 回顾；检查；评论➕

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champagne /ʃæmˈpeɪn/

n. 香槟酒➕

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straight /streɪt/

adv. 径直地；直接地➕

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pillow /ˈpɪləʊ/

n. 枕头➕

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sound /saʊnd/

adj. 酣畅的；健全的；可靠的➕

Part 1 – Chapter sixteen (第十六章)

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