美丽新世界Brave New World 第14章(2)

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　　“她是我的母亲。”他用几乎听不见的声音说。

　　The nurse glanced at him with startled, horrified¹ eyes; then quickly looked away.

　　一听这词护士用惊讶、恐怖的眼光看了他一眼，随即看向别处。

　　From throat to temple she was all one hot blush.

　　她脸红了，从太阳穴一直红到了脖子根。

　　"Take me to her," said the Savage², making an effort to speak in an ordinary tone.

　　“带我到她那儿去。”野蛮人竭力用平常的口气说。

　　Still blushing, she led the way down the ward³.

　　她红着脸领他来到了病室。

　　Faces still fresh and unwithered (for senility galloped⁴ so hard that it had no time to age the cheeks—only the heart and brain) turned as they passed.

　　穿过病室时那些仍然年轻的，尚未衰老的脸（因为衰老发展极为迅速，心脏和脑子老化了，面孔还没有来得及老化）向他们转了过来。

　　Their progress was followed by the blank, incurious eyes of second infancy⁵.

　　第二度婴儿期的茫然的、没有好奇心的眼神追随着他们路过的身影。

　　The Savage shuddered⁶ as he looked.

　　野蛮人看见他们的样子不禁打了个寒噤。

　　Linda was lying in the last of the long row of beds, next to the wall.

　　琳妲躺在她那一排的最后一张床上，

　　Propped⁷ up on pillows, she was watching the Semi-finals of the South American Riemann-Surface Tennis Championship,

　　靠着垫子看着南美瑞曼式球场网球冠军赛半决赛。

　　which were being played in silent and diminished reproduction on the screen of the television box at the foot of the bed.

　　那情景在床脚的电视屏幕上无声地放映着，画面缩小了。

　　Hither and thither⁸ across their square of illuminted glass the little figures noiselessly darted⁹, like fish in an aquarium¹⁰—the silent but agitated¹¹ inhabitants of another world.

　　在发光的方形荧屏上小小的人形不出声地跑来跑去，像水族馆里的鱼——全是另一个世界里的激动却不出声的人。

　　Linda looked on, vaguely¹² and uncomprehendingly smiling. Her pale, bloated face wore an expression of imbecile happiness.

　　琳妲继续看着电视，发出似懂非懂的暧昧的微笑，苍白浮肿的脸上绽出白痴般的欢喜。

　　Every now and then her eyelids¹³ closed,and for a few seconds she seemed to be dozing¹⁴.

　　眼皮不时地闭一闭，似乎打了几秒钟盹，

　　Then with a little start she would wake up again–wake up to the aquarium antics of the Tennis Champions,

　　微微一惊，又醒了过来，看见了水族馆里的奇怪的网球运动员；

　　to the Super-Vox-Wurlitzeriana rendering¹⁵ of "Hug me till you drug me, honey,"

　　听见了超高音歌唱家伍丽策的歌“拥抱我直到我迷醉，亲亲”；

　　to the warm draught¹⁶ of verbena that came blowing through the ventilator above her head—would wake to these things,

　　嗅到了她头上通风机送来的新鲜马鞭草香——她醒过来时感觉到了这些东西，

　　or rather to a dream of which these things,transformed and embellished¹⁷ by the soma in her blood, were the marvellous constituents¹⁸,

　　毋宁说是感觉到了一个梦，一个经过她血液里的唆麻改造过，打扮成的辉煌事物构成的梦。

　　and smile once more her broken and discoloured smile of infantile contentment.

　　她再次露出婴儿似的满足的微笑。那微笑残破而暗淡。

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