酷兔英语

Brokeback Mountain

《断臂山》(完美中文版)



Ennis Del Mar wakes before five, wind rocking the trailer, hissing in around the aluminum door and window frames. The shirts hanging on a nail shudder slightly in the draft. He gets up, scratching the grey wedge of belly and pubic hair, shuffles to the gas burner, pours leftover coffee in a chipped enamel pan; the flame swathes it in blue. He turns on the tap and urinates in the sink, pulls on his shirt and jeans, his worn boots, stamping the heels against the floor to get them full on.



埃尼斯德玛尔不到五点就醒了,猛烈的风摇动着拖车,嘶嘶作响地从铝制门窗缝儿钻进来,吹得挂在钉子上的衬衣微微抖动。他爬起来,挠了挠下体和 阴 毛,慢腾腾地走到煤气灶前,把上次喝剩的咖啡倒进缺了个口儿的搪瓷锅子里。蓝色的火焰登时裹住了锅子。他打开水龙头在小便槽里撒了泡尿,穿上衬衣牛仔裤和他那破靴子,用脚跟在地板上蹬了蹬把整个脚穿了进去。



The wind booms down the curved length of the trailer and under its roaring passage he can hear the scratching of fine gravel and sand. It could be bad on the highway with the horse trailer. He has to be packed and away from the place that morning. Again the ranch is on the market and they've shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, "Give em to the real estate shark, I'm out a here," dropping the keys in Ennis's hand. He might have to stay with his married daughter until he picks up another job, yet he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream.



风沿着拖车的轮廓呼啸着打转,他都能听到沙砾在风中发出刮擦声。在公路上开着辆破拖车赶路可真够糟糕的,但是今天早上他就必须打好包,离开此地。农场被卖掉了,最后一匹马也已经运走了,前天农场主就支付了所有人的工钱打发他们离开。他把钥匙扔给埃尼斯,说了句"农场交给房地产经纪吧,我走了"。看来,在找到下一份活儿之前,埃尼斯就只好跟他那已经嫁了人的闺女呆在一起了。但是他心里头美滋滋的,因为在梦里,他又见到了杰克。



The stale coffee is boiling up but he catches it before it goes over the side, pours it into a stained cup and blows on the black liquid, lets a panel of the dream slide forward. If he does not force his attention on it, it might stoke the day, rewarm that old, cold time on the mountain when they owned the world and nothing seemed wrong.



咖啡沸了。没等溢出来他就提起了锅子,把它倒进一个脏兮兮的杯子里。他吹了吹这些黑色的液体,继续琢磨那个梦。稍不留神,那梦境就把他带回了以往的辰光,令他重温那些寒冷的山中岁月那时候他们拥有整个世界,无忧无虑,随心所欲......



The wind strikes the trailer like a load of dirt coming off a dump truck, eases, dies, leaves a temporary silence.



风还在吹打着拖车,那情形就像把一车泥土从运沙车上倾倒下来似的,由强到弱,继而留下片刻的寂静。



They were raised on small, poor ranches in opposite corners of the state, Jack Twist in Lightning Flat up on the Montana border, Ennis del Mar from around Sage, near the Utah line, both high school dropout country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered, rough-spoken, inured to the stoic life. Ennis, reared by his older brother and sister after their parents drove off the only curve on Dead Horse Road leaving them twenty-four dollars in cash and a two-mortgage ranch, applied at age fourteen for a hardship license that let him make the hour-long trip from the ranch to the high school. The pickup was old, no heater, one windshield wiper and bad tires; when the transmission went there was no money to fix it. He had wanted to be a sophomore, felt the word carried a kind of distinction, but the truck broke down short of it, pitching him directly into ranch work.



他们都生长在蒙大拿州那种又小又穷的农场里,杰克来自州北部边境的赖特宁平原,埃尼斯则来自离犹他州边境不远的塞奇郡附近;两人都是高中没读完就辍学了,前途无望,注定将来得干重活、过穷日子;两人都举止粗鲁、满口脏话,习惯了节俭度日。埃尼斯是他哥哥和姐姐养大的。他们的父母在"鬼见愁"唯一的拐弯处翻了车,给他们留下了二十四块钱现金和一个被双重抵押的农场。埃尼斯十四岁的时候申请了执照,可以从农场长途跋涉去上高中了。他开的是一辆旧的小货车,没有取暖器,只有一个雨刷,轮胎也挺差劲儿;好不容易开到了,却又没钱修车了。他本来计划读到高二,觉得那样听上去体面。可是这辆货车破坏了他的计划,把他直接铲回农场干起了农活。



In 1963 when he met Jack Twist, Ennis was engaged to Alma Beers. Both Jack and Ennis claimed to be saving money for a small spread; in Ennis's case that meant a tobacco can with two five-dollar bills inside. That spring, hungry for any job, each had signed up with Farm and Ranch Employment -- they came together on paper as herder and camp tender for the same sheep operation north of Signal. The summer range lay above the tree line on Forest Service land on Brokeback Mountain. It would be Jack Twist's second summer on the mountain, Ennis's first. Neither of them was twenty.



1963年遇到杰克时,埃尼斯已经和阿尔玛比尔斯订了婚。两个男人都想攒点钱将来结婚时能办个小酒宴。对埃尼斯来说,这意味着香烟罐里得存上个10美元。那年春天,他们都急着找工作,于是双双和农场签了合同,一起到斯加纳北部牧羊。合同上两人签的分别是牧羊人和驻营者。夏日的山脉横亘在断背山林业局外面的林木线上,这是杰克在山上第二次过夏天,埃尼斯则是第一次。当时他们都还不满二十岁。


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  • trailer [´treilə] 移动到这儿单词发声 n.拖车;跟踪者 六级词汇
  • aluminum [,ælju´miniəm, ,ælə´miniəm] 移动到这儿单词发声 n.铝 四级词汇
  • burner [´bə:nə] 移动到这儿单词发声 n.烧制...的人;灯光 四级词汇
  • enamel [i´næm(ə)l] 移动到这儿单词发声 n.搪瓷;珐琅 四级词汇
  • montana [mɔn´tænə] 移动到这儿单词发声 n.蒙大拿 四级词汇
  • applied [ə´plaid] 移动到这儿单词发声 a.实用的,应用的 六级词汇
  • transmission [trænz´miʃən, træns-] 移动到这儿单词发声 n.传送;播送;发射 六级词汇