🔊 When he got home, Vronsky found there a note from Anna. She wrote, "I am ill and unhappy. I cannot come out, but I cannot go on longer without seeing you. Come in this evening. Alexey Alexandrovitch goes to the council at seven and will be there till ten." Thinking for an instant of the strangeness of her bidding him come straight to her, in spite of her husband’s insisting on her not receiving him, he decided to go.

弗龙斯基回到家,发现安娜留了一张便条。她写道:“我病了,很不开心。我出不去,但再不见你,我实在撑不下去了。今晚来吧。阿列克谢·亚历山德罗维奇七点去议会,要到十点才回来。”想到她明知丈夫不许她接待自己,却仍叫他直接前来,这有些古怪,但他沉吟片刻,还是决定前往。

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council /ˈkaʊnsəl/

n. 委员会；理事会；地方议会➕

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strangeness /ˈstreɪndʒnəs/

n. 陌生；奇怪；奇异➕

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bidding /ˈbɪdɪŋ/

n. 命令；吩咐；出价➕

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insisting /ɪnˈsɪstɪŋ/

v. 坚持；坚决要求➕

🔊 Vronsky had that winter got his promotion, was now a colonel, had left the regimental quarters, and was living alone. After having some lunch, he lay down on the sofa immediately, and in five minutes memories of the hideous scenes he had witnessed during the last few days were confused together and joined on to a mental image of Anna and of the peasant who had played an important part in the bear hunt, and Vronsky fell asleep.

那年冬天,弗龙斯基晋升为上校,搬出了军营,独自居住。他吃过午饭,立刻躺在沙发上,不出五分钟,这几天目睹的那些可怕场景便与安娜的身影、以及那个在猎熊中扮演重要角色的农民交织在一起,弗龙斯基沉沉睡去。

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promotion /prəˈməʊʃn/

n. 晋升,提升➕

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colonel /ˈkɜːnəl/

n. 上校➕

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regimental /ˌredʒɪˈmentl/

adj. 团的,军团的➕

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hideous /ˈhɪdiəs/

adj. 可怕的,极其丑陋的➕

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witnessed /ˈwɪtnəst/

v. 目睹（witness的过去式）➕

🔊 He waked up in the dark, trembling with horror, and made haste to light a candle. "What was it? What? What was the dreadful thing I dreamed? Yes, yes; I think a little dirty man with a disheveled beard was stooping down doing something, and all of a sudden he began saying some strange words in French. Yes, there was nothing else in the dream," he said to himself. "But why was it so awful?" He vividly recalled the peasant again and those incomprehensible French words the peasant had uttered, and a chill of horror ran down his spine.

他在黑暗中惊醒,吓得浑身发抖,急忙点上蜡烛。“那是什么？什么？我梦见了什么可怕的东西？对了,对了:一个胡子拉碴的小个子男人弯着腰在干什么,忽然他说起一些奇怪的法语词。没错,梦里没有别的了,”他对自己说。“可为什么那么可怕？”他又清晰地想起那个农民,以及农民说的那些莫名其妙的话,一股恐惧的凉意顺着脊背蹿上来。

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trembling /ˈtremblɪŋ/

v. 颤抖（tremble的现在分词）➕

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disheveled /dɪˈʃevəld/

adj. 凌乱的,不整洁的➕

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stooping /ˈstuːpɪŋ/

v. 弯腰,俯身（stoop的现在分词）➕

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uttered /ˈʌtəd/

v. 说出（utter的过去式）➕

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chill /tʃɪl/

n. 寒冷,寒意➕

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spine /spaɪn/

n. 脊柱,脊椎➕

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vividly /ˈvɪvɪdli/

adv. 生动地,清晰地➕

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incomprehensible /ˌɪnkɒmprɪˈhensɪbl/

adj. 无法理解的,难懂的➕

🔊 "What nonsense!" thought Vronsky, and glanced at his watch. It was half-past eight already. He rang up his servant, dressed in haste, and went out onto the steps, completely forgetting the dream and only worried at being late.

“简直胡说八道！”弗龙斯基心想,看了一眼表,已经八点半了。他按铃叫来仆人,匆忙穿好衣服,走到台阶上,完全忘了那个梦,只担心自己迟到。

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nonsense /ˈnɒnsəns/

n. 胡说,废话➕

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glanced /ɡlɑːnst/

v. 瞥视,扫视（glance的过去式）➕

🔊 As he drove up to the Karenins’ entrance he looked at his watch and saw it was ten minutes to nine. A high, narrow carriage with a pair of grays was standing at the entrance. He recognized Anna’s carriage. "She is coming to me," thought Vronsky, "and better she should. I don’t like going into that house. But no matter; I can’t hide myself," he thought, and with that manner peculiar to him from childhood, as of a man who has nothing to be ashamed of, Vronsky got out of his sledge and went to the door. The door opened, and the hall-porter with a rug on his arm called the carriage. Vronsky, though he did not usually notice details, noticed at this moment the amazed expression with which the porter glanced at him. In the very doorway Vronsky almost ran up against Alexey Alexandrovitch. The gas jet threw its full light on the bloodless, sunken face under the black hat and on the white cravat, brilliant against the beaver of the coat. Karenin’s fixed, dull eyes were fastened upon Vronsky’s face. Vronsky bowed, and Alexey Alexandrovitch, chewing his lips, lifted his hand to his hat and went on. Vronsky saw him without looking round get into the carriage, pick up the rug and the opera-glass at the window and disappear. Vronsky went into the hall. His brows were scowling, and his eyes gleamed with a proud and angry light in them.

马车驶到卡列宁家门口时,他看了看表,差十分九点。门口停着一辆高高的窄马车,套着两匹灰马。他认出那是安娜的马车。“她是来找我的,”弗龙斯基想,“这样更好。我不喜欢进这所房子。不过没关系；我没什么好躲的,”他想着,带着自幼形成的那种问心无愧的神情,下了雪橇,走到门前。门开了,门房手上搭着毛毯,正在叫马车。弗龙斯基平时不太注意细节,但这会儿却留意到门房看他时那惊讶的表情。就在门口,弗龙斯基差点与阿列克谢·亚历山德罗维奇撞个满怀。煤气灯的光线完全照亮了黑帽子下那张毫无血色、凹陷的脸,以及白色领带--那领带在皮大衣的毛领映衬下格外刺眼。卡列宁那双呆滞无神的眼睛紧盯着弗龙斯基的脸。弗龙斯基鞠了一躬,阿列克谢·亚历山德罗维奇咬着嘴唇,抬手碰了碰帽檐便走了过去。弗龙斯基见他头也不回地上了马车,在车窗边拿起毛毯和望远镜,随即消失在视线中。弗龙斯基走进门厅,眉头紧锁,眼里闪着骄傲而愤怒的光芒。

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peculiar /pɪˈkjuːliə/

adj. 独特的,奇怪的➕

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sunken /ˈsʌŋkən/

adj. 凹陷的,沉没的➕

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scowling /ˈskaʊlɪŋ/

v. 皱眉,怒视（scowl的现在分词）➕

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gleamed /ɡliːmd/

v. 闪烁,发光（gleam的过去式）➕

🔊 "What a position!" he thought. "If he would fight, would stand up for his honor, I could act, could express my feelings; but this weakness or baseness.... He puts me in the position of playing false, which I never meant and never mean to do."

“这是什么处境！”他想。“他要是决斗,要维护自己的名誉,我还能有所行动,能表达我的感情；可这种软弱或卑劣……他把我置于欺骗的位置上,这我从未想过,也永远不会去做。”

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baseness /ˈbeɪsnəs/

n. 卑鄙,低劣➕

🔊 Vronsky’s ideas had changed since the day of his conversation with Anna in the Vrede garden. Unconsciously yielding to the weakness of Anna-who had surrendered herself up to him utterly, and simply looked to him to decide her fate, ready to submit to anything-he had long ceased to think that their tie might end as he had thought then. His ambitious plans had retreated into the background again, and feeling that he had got out of that circle of activity in which everything was definite, he had given himself entirely to his passion, and that passion was binding him more and more closely to her.

自从那天在弗列德花园与安娜交谈过后,弗龙斯基的想法已经变了。安娜完全委身于他,只指望他来决定她的命运,准备服从一切；弗龙斯基不知不觉顺应了安娜的软弱,早已不再认为他们的关系会像他当初想的那样结束。他的雄心壮志再次退居次要地位,他觉得自己已经脱离了那个一切都很明确的圈子,完全沉溺于自己的激情,而这激情正把他与她越来越紧密地绑在一起。

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unconsciously /ʌnˈkɒnʃəsli/

adv. 无意识地,不知不觉地➕

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yielding /ˈjiːldɪŋ/

v. 屈服,让出（yield的现在分词）➕

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surrendered /səˈrendəd/

v. 投降,放弃（surrender的过去式）➕

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utterly /ˈʌtəli/

adv. 完全地,彻底地➕

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submit /səbˈmɪt/

v. 提交,服从➕

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ceased /siːst/

v. 停止,终止（cease的过去式）➕

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ambitious /æmˈbɪʃəs/

adj. 有雄心的,野心勃勃的➕

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retreated /rɪˈtriːtɪd/

v. 撤退,后退（retreat的过去式）➕

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binding /ˈbaɪndɪŋ/

v. 捆绑,约束（bind的现在分词）➕

🔊 He was still in the hall when he caught the sound of her retreating footsteps. He knew she had been expecting him, had listened for him, and was now going back to the drawing-room. "No," she cried, on seeing him, and at the first sound of her voice the tears came into her eyes. "No; if things are to go on like this, the end will come much, much too soon."

他还在门厅时,就听到了她远去的脚步声。他知道她一直在等他,一直在倾听他的动静,这时正走回客厅。“不,”她看见他时喊道,话音未落,泪水已涌上眼眶。“不；如果事情继续这样下去,结局会来得太快、太快了。”

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retreating /rɪˈtriːtɪŋ/

v. 撤退,后退（retreat的现在分词）➕

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drawing-room /ˈdrɔːɪŋ ruːm/

n. 客厅,起居室➕

🔊 "What is it, dear one?"

“怎么了,亲爱的？”

🔊 "What? I’ve been waiting in agony for an hour, two hours ... No, I won’t ... I can’t quarrel with you. Of course you couldn’t come. No, I won’t." She laid her two hands on his shoulders, and looked a long while at him with a profound, passionate, and at the same time searching look. She was studying his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She was, every time she saw him, making the picture of him in her imagination (incomparably superior, impossible in reality) fit with him as he really was.

“什么？我痛苦地等了一个小时、两个小时……不,我不想……我不能跟你吵架。你当然来不了。不,我不怪你。”她把双手搭在他肩上,久久地凝视着他,目光深邃、炽烈,同时又带着审视。她在仔细研究他的脸,以弥补没见到他的那段时间。每次见到他,她都会把自己脑海中他的形象（那形象无比完美,现实中不可能达到）与他真实的面貌相对照。

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agony /ˈæɡəni/

n. 极大的痛苦,折磨➕

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profound /prəˈfaʊnd/

adj. 深刻的,深远的➕

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searching /ˈsɜːtʃɪŋ/

adj. 仔细的,锐利的（目光）➕

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incomparably /ɪnˈkɒmpərəbli/

adv. 无比地,无可比拟地➕