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● to have done with：了结，结束。（注意：do一定要用perfect tense，才可作这个解释。）well（动词）：喷出，涌出。battalions：单数原作“营”解，复数即指军队。他们感觉到他们的生命已经了结，现在正走向一个新的天地，（something new此两字甚难译，是不是指“死”呢？）。这种去旧就新的感觉在出征军队里面，沛然而兴。于是欢呼声大作矣。
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They left the harbor very, very slowly; this tumult of cheering lasted a long time; no one who heard it will ever forget it, or think of it unshaken. Presently all were out, and the fleet stood across for Tenedos, and the sun went down with marvelous color, lighting island after island and the Asian peaks, and those left behind in Mudros trimmed their lamps knowing that they had been for a little brought near to the heart of things.
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● tumult：骚嚷，鼓噪。unshaken：没有震栗之感；没有一个人想起了这种欢呼之声，会不大受感动的。
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● Tenedos为在Lemnos以东的一个岛屿，舰队朝这个方向开去。stood并非“站住不动”，而指船照固定方向航行。
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● 载运五师军队当需大量船只，一一出海想必很费时间。如今夕阳西垂，霞光奇艳，反照爱琴海诸岛，并亚洲诸峰，而Mudros市上已是上灯时分。
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● those left behind：没有随军队出发的人。trimmed their lamps：修剪灯心，此三字见马太福音二十五章七节，按：“修拾灯”喻指迎接天国或真理而言。for a little=for a little while。had been brought near to the heart of things：更进一步地认识了宇宙间的奥妙。刚才壮士出征，那种欢呼鼓舞、视死如归的精神，真够得上说是“正气浩然”；说到“正气”，不免牵涉到宇宙的神秘，“正气”可以说是宇宙秩序之所以赖以维持者，或者说是“万物的中心”（heart of things）；看了刚才那种景象，谁都有几分钟的感动，若问为什么感动？“感动”本身又是个什么东西？我们只好说：受感动的人是接近了正气，他们亲证了万物的中心；至少在这短时间内，他们被推送（brought）得和宇宙的神秘更近一步了。
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现代英文选评注 The Treasure Game觅宝
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H. E. Bates (1905—1974)
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本文选自《大西洋月刊》（The Atlantic Monthly）1953年7月号。作者贝茨生于英国之Rushden，所著长短篇小说甚多。贝茨以观察精微、笔触轻灵见称于世。本文叙一母亲与其盈盈长成之女儿间的微妙关系，故事甚平淡，然描写女性心理，丝丝入扣，简洁细腻，玲珑透剔，不愧名家之作也。
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From the calm of her place under the acacia tree, on the swinging canopy seat, Mrs. Fairfax listened with growing impatience to the loud chock of croquet balls cracking the silence of afternoon, each stroke like the chime of a wooden clock setting off peals of senseless and exhausting laughter. She did not know how anyone, even the young, could be so energetic or so furiously amused in the three o’clock heat of July.
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“Children—please! Couldn’t you please? Melanie!—Fay!—couldn’t you please shout a little less? It sounds like a madhouse—please!”
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● calm当名词用，英文中颇常见，但似和中国人思想习惯不合。我们常常只把它当形容词用：“安静的环境”或“安静的地方”，很少会说“从那个地方的安静里面听来”这一类的话。
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● acacia：树名，译名金合欢。swinging canopy seat：上有天幕遮阳的悬空摇椅。这篇小说的背景甚简单，一开头点明了大树和摇椅，全文的活动范围即不离此大树之下与摇椅之上。
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● with growing impatience：愈听愈难受。croquet balls：槌球。chock似为槌击球之声音，普通字典上并无此义，但按上下文语气，似应作此解。cracking the silence：打破沉寂。cracking之意义，除“打破”之外，在修辞上同chock一样另有“模声作用”（onomatopoeia），即模仿实际的“噼拍”之声。
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● chime：（钟之）鸣声。wooden clock：木钟（槌球之槌与球皆为木制）。setting off：引起（笑声）。peals：钟声；连续的洪亮的响声。exhausting：伤人精神的。这里恐怕并不指使笑的人伤精神，而是使听的人伤精神，因为一切心理活动，皆由这位太太出发也。
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● how anyone could be so energetic or so furiously amused：竟然有人（在这种大热天气）会如此精神焕发，如此狂欢高兴。即使年轻人有这种精神，她也无法理解。heat与第一句calm相类似，中国人惯说the hot month或hot afternoon的。
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● Couldn’t you please？加重前面的please（请）。Melanie和Fay当是她的children的名字。
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● 用斜体字排印的两个字应重读。shout：瞎叫。madhouse：疯人院。
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She supposed that if they could hear her they were taking no notice. Or if they were taking no notice it was because of that old habit of hers of calling them children when they were nineteen and twenty.
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“Fay—don’t shriek like that! I won’t have that shrieking, Melanie—stop her!”
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● 母亲要安静，厉声告诫之后，孩子们还在闹。这可能是她们没有听见她的话，也许是她们听见了，故意不作理会（taking no notice）。她也知道她们为什么不理会。女儿已经一个十九，一个二十（至于哪一个十九，哪一个是二十，下文自有分晓），做母亲的习惯（habit）不改，还是叫她们。“孩子们”。她们自己不承认是孩子们了，无怪她们只当不听见。
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● shriek：尖声怪叫。stop her之her指Fay；母亲命令Melanie去制止Fay的怪叫。
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She was cut off from the main lawn of the house by a semicircular bank of azaleas and guelder-rose, so that she could not see the figures of her daughters and the three young men. She did not think she had ever been allowed to shriek like that as a girl. It irritated her exactly as if someone had started to fire off rockets in midafternoon.
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