美丽新世界Brave New World 第5章(3)

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　　两人进了场。龙涎香和檀香的气味不知道怎么使空气似乎又热又闷。

　　On the domed² ceiling of the hall, the colour organ had momentarily painted a tropical sunset.

　　设色器在大厅的圆拱形天花板上画出了一幅赤道落日的景象。

　　The Sixteen Sexophonists were playing an old favourite: "There ain't no Bottle in all the world like that dear little Bottle of mine."

　　十六位色唆风手正演奏着一支人们喜爱的老曲子：“全世界呀，就没有这样的瓶子，能够比上你呀，我亲爱的小瓶子。

　　Four hundred couples were five-stepping round the polished floor.

　　四百对舞伴在光滑的地板上跳着五步舞。

　　Lenina and Henry were soon the four hundred and first.

　　列宁娜和亨利立即结成了第四百零一对。

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　　The saxophones wailed³ like melodious⁴ cats under the moon, moaned in the alto and tenor⁵ registers as though the little death were upon them.

　　色唆风呜咽着，像猫在月光下和谐地对叫；女中音和男高音呻吟着，仿佛经历着那小小的死亡。

　　Rich with a wealth of harmonics, their tremulous chorus mounted towards a climax⁶, louder and ever louder–until at last, with a wave of his hand, the conductor let loose the final shattering note of ether-music and blew the sixteen merely human blowers clean out of existence.

　　双方的颤抖的和鸣有着丰富的和声，逐渐升向高潮，越升越高，越升越高——终于，指挥一挥手，最后的粉碎性的仙乐软了下来，直叫那十六个尘世的号手魄散魂销。

　　Thunder in A flat major.

　　A降调雷霆怒吼，

　　And then, in all but silence, in all but darkness, there followed a gradual deturgescence, a diminuendo sliding gradually, through quarter tones, down, down to a faintly whispered dominant⁷ chord that lingered on (while the five-four rhythms still pulsed below) charging the darkened seconds with an intense expectancy⁸.

　　随即逐渐下落，以四分之一音的梯级逐渐下滑，下滑，几乎没有了声音和亮光，下滑为极轻柔的耳语奏出的主和弦。那和弦回还往复（四五拍子的旋律仍在背后搏动），把强烈的企盼赋予了昏沉中的每一秒钟。

　　And at last expectancy was fulfilled. There was a sudden explosive sunrise, and simultaneously⁹, the Sixteen burst into song: "Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted!

　　最终，企盼满足了，突然爆发出了旭日东升，十六个声音同时炸出歌唱：“我的瓶子呀，我永远需要的瓶子！

　　Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted¹⁰?

　　我的瓶子呀，我为何要换瓶出世？

　　Skies are blue inside of you,The weather's always fine; For There ain't no Bottle in all the world Like that dear little Bottle of mine."

　　在你的怀里呀，天空一片蔚蓝，在你的怀里呀，永远有和风丽日；因为全世界呀，就没有这样的瓶子能够比上你呀，我亲爱的小瓶子。”

　　Five-stepping with the other four hundred round and round Westminster Abbey, Lenina and Henry were yet dancing in another world–the warm, the richly coloured, the infinitely¹¹ friendly world of soma-holiday.

　　列宁娜和亨利跟别的四百对舞伴一起在西敏寺转着圈跳着五步舞时，也漫舞于另外一个世界——那温馨的、绚丽的、友爱缠绵的唆麻假日的世界。

　　How kind, how good-looking, how delightfully¹² amusing every one was!

　　每一个人是多么和善，多么漂亮，多么风趣可爱呀！

　　"Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted …"

　　“我的瓶子呀，我永远需要的瓶子……”

　　But Lenina and Henry had what they wanted …

　　可是列宁娜和亨利已经得到了他们所需要的东西……

　　They were inside, here and now-safely inside with the fine weather, the perennially¹³ blue sky.

　　他们此时此地已经在瓶子里，在安安稳稳的瓶子里，那里永远和煦，天空四季蔚蓝。

　　And when, exhausted¹⁴, the Sixteen had laid by their saxophones and the Synthetic¹⁵ Music apparatus¹⁶ was producing the very latest in slow Malthusian Blues¹⁷, they might have been twin embryos¹⁸ gently rocking together on the waves of a bottled ocean of blood-surrogate.

　　在十六个人筋疲力尽，放下色唆风之后，合成乐音箱放起了最新的马尔萨斯忧伤曲，此时他俩差不多就是一对孪生的胚胎，在瓶里的代血剂的海浪中轻轻地起伏澹荡。

　　"Good-night, dear friends. Good-night, dear friends."

　　“晚安，亲爱的朋友们。晚安，亲爱的朋友们。”

　　The loud speakers veiled their commands in a genial¹⁹ and musical politeness. "Good-night, dear friends …"

　　大喇叭用亲切悦耳的礼貌掩盖着它们的命令。“晚安，亲爱的朋友们……。”

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