警察与赞美诗英文英文简介

警察与赞美诗英文英文简介
警察与赞美诗英文英文简介

警察与赞美诗英文英文简介
警察与赞美诗
O.Henry
欧·亨利 作 周式中 译注
At length Soapy reached an avenue where the glitter and turmoil was but faint.But on an unusually quiet corner he came to a stand-still.Here was an old church.Through one violet-stained window a soft light glowed,where,no doubt,the organist played the Sabbath anthem.For there drifted out to Soapy's ears sweet music that caught and held him transfixed against the iron fence.⑴
The moon was above,lustrous and serene; vehicles and
pedestrians were few; sparrows twittered sleepily in the eaves.And the anthem he had known well in the days when his life contained such things as mothers ⑵and roses and ambitions and friends and immaculate thoughts and collars.
The conjunction of Soapy's receptive state of mind and the influences about the old church wrought⑶ a sudden and wonderful change in his soul.He viewed with swift horror the pit into which he had tumbled,the degraded days,unworthy desires,dead hopes,wrecked faculties and base motives that made up his existence.
And also in a moment his heart responded thrillingly to this novel mood.An instantaneous and strong impulse moved him to battle with his desperate fate.He would pull himself out of the mire; he would make a man of himself again; he would conquer the evil that had taken possession of him.There was time; he was comparatively young yet; he would resurrect his eager ambitions and pursue them without faltering.Those solemn but sweet organ notes had set up a revolution in him.Tomorrow he would go and find work.A fur importer had once offered him a place as driver.He would be somebody in
the world.He would — Soapy felt a hand laid on his arm.He looked quickly around into the broad face of a policeman.
"What are you doin' here?" asked the officer.
"Nothing," said Soapy.
"Then come along," said the policeman.
"Three months on the island," said the Magistrate in the police Court the next morning.
索比终于来到了一条灯光暗淡、环境幽静的大道.在一个异常宁静的角落,他止住了脚步.这里有一座古老的教堂.从它的一个紫色的玻璃窗里,透出了一束柔和的光.教堂里面,有一个弹风琴的人在弹奏安息日赞美诗曲.优美的音乐传到了索比的耳中,深深地吸引了他,使他靠在铁栏杆上一动不动.
天上的月亮,皎洁而宁静；街上的车辆和行人都很稀少；昏昏欲睡的燕子在屋檐下唧唧低鸣.而那赞美诗,早在他的生活里还有母爱、玫瑰花、雄心壮志、朋友、纯洁的思想和干净的衣领的时候,他就已经熟悉了.
那座古老教堂的氛围,触动了索比,使他的心灵产生了一种突然的、奇妙的变化.突然间,他恐惧地看见了他陷身其中的深渊,他堕落的生活,他卑俗的欲望,他已死灭了的希望,他遭毁损了的能力,他卑鄙的动机—— 这一切就是现在的他.
霎时间,他的这种新意识激发了他内心的一阵冲动.这种突发的强烈冲动促使他起来与他的绝望命运作斗争.他要从堕落的泥潭里自拔,他要重新成为自己,他要战胜将他引入歧途的邪恶.还有时间,他还比较年轻.他要重新确立他从前曾经热切追求的目标,并且坚定不移地去实现他的目标.那支庄严而优美的乐曲在他的心中引发了一场革命.明天,他就要去找工作.有个裘皮进口商曾经要聘他做司机.明天他就可以去找他要这份工作.他就要在这个世界上活出个模样来了.他就要……
索比感觉到有一只手抓住了他的胳膊.他立即转过身,看见了一张警察的大脸.“你在这儿干什么?”警察问道.
“没干什么,”索比答道.
“那就跟我走吧,”警察说道.
“岛上关三个月,”第二天上午在治安法庭上法官作了判决.
Notes:⒈ 此句倒装,主语为sweet music,that带引的从句是它的定语从句.⒉意为“母爱”.⒊及物动词 work的过去式,意思是“产生”.
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警察与赞美诗是The cop and the anthem

To- By Percy Bysshe Shelley One word is too often profaned For me to profan it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it; One hope is too like despair For prudence to smother, And pity...

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To- By Percy Bysshe Shelley One word is too often profaned For me to profan it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it; One hope is too like despair For prudence to smother, And pity from thee more dear Than that from another. I can give not what man call love; But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not,- The desire of the moth for star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?《警察和赞美诗》--一无所有、露宿街头的流浪汉索比为了应对即将来临的严冬，千方百计地想犯点法，以求达到他的企图：去布莱克维尔监狱度过寒冷的冬天。令人忍俊不禁的是，往往事与愿违，他屡次故意犯法，但警察都不抓他，而当他忽然良心发现，准备洗心革面重新做人之时，警察却不由分说地将他逮捕了。终于达到了他去布莱克维尔监狱度过严冬的梦想。

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