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● quizzically：开玩笑的样子。那红脸汉已经猜到那男人的心事了。
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● Michael：这个名字第一次出现。女的对于那个男的，已有好感，可是不知道他的名字。她恐怕非常想知道他的名字，可是作者对于这种心理状态，决不用一字描写（一写恐怕就“俗”）。但是她听见了这个名字，脸就红到耳朵根（spreading over her face），还轻轻地自言自语念这个名字——这种暗示，不就够了吗？（这种暗示的写法，中国旧诗里很常见。）最后还说了这么一句话：天神总算把一件大秘密让凡人知道了。为什么是“大秘密”呢？她的亟于想知道那人的名字，不言可喻。从此以后，那人不再是the figure beside the tiller，而是Michael了。
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● gods：想是爱尔兰古时的神，不是基督教的神。基督教的神应该用大写G，而且也没有复数形式的。delivered up：交出，献出（不再吝啬）。
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She watched The Golden Barque until two square slits in the stern that served as port holes looked like two little Japanese eyes. Then she heard a horn blowing. It was the horn they blew to apprise lock-keepers of the approach of a boat. But the nearest lock was a mile off. Besides, it was a long, low sound the horn made, not the sharp, commanding blast they blew for lock-keepers. Mary listened to the low sound of the horn, smiling to herself. Afterwards the horn always blew like that whenever The Goldn Barque was passing the solitary hawthorn.
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● 船又驶远，她还是以目遥送。slits：孔；通常指“长条的裂口”，但是这里是“正方形的”。stern：船尾。port holes：船上的窗洞。船走远了，船尾的两个窗洞也渐缩小，最后看来只像日本人的两只小眼睛。西洋人通常以为东方人的眼睛小，好像东方人以为“高鼻子”是西洋人的特征一样。
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● horn：号角，喇叭。they blew的they泛指“那船上的人”。这种用法为语法家所不取，但是很常见。apprise：通知。
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● lock：运河中由水闸控制的一段水道。运河是人造的河，水面可能有几段高，有几段低。高低水道间，有水闸控制。船行至高低水道差异之处，先得用信号（如吹喇叭）通知管闸的人（lock-keeper）把水闸放开。
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● 船上忽然吹起喇叭来了，那是为什么呢？水闸还远得很呢，再则，要通知开闸，喇叭的声音是尖锐短促，带着命令（commanding）的意味，这是Mary所知道的；但是现在喇叭的声音是悠长迟缓，这种低声的喇叭是吹给谁听的呢？Mary笑起来了。
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● 以后船还在那棵树下过，行到那地方，船上就轻轻地吹起喇叭。男方的情感，作者也不直接描写，只是用暗示。笔墨如此经济，而情感已跃然纸上，作者真写情好手也。
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Mary thought it was very wonderful that The Golden Barque should be in the lock the one day that she was travelling with her basket to the market in the distant village. She stood a little hesitantly by the lock. Michael looked at her, a welcome in his eyes.
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“Going to Bohermeen?” the red-faced man asked.
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“Ay, to Bohermeen,” Mary answered.
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Mary hesitated, as he held out a big hand to help her to the boat. He saw the hesitation and turned to Michael.
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“Now, Michael.” he said.
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● 后来又有一天，Mary提了篮子到远处村庄的市场上去，路过水闸，船恰好停在那边，Mary觉得真巧（wonderful）。看见了船，她踌躇了一下，脚步停住了。Michael对她看，眼睛里表示欢迎。可是他还不好意思开口，由那红脸汉代表发言的。
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● Bohermeen想必就是那distant village的名字。
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● 红脸汉要扶她上船，送她一程，可是Mary不要他扶。这里hesitate，hesitantly，hesitation三种形式都用上了。
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Michael came to the side of the boat, and held out his hand. Mary took it and stepped on board. The red-faced man laughed a little. She noticed that the dark man who stood by the crooked funnel never took his eyes from the stretch of water before him. The driver was already urging the horse to the start on the bank. The brute was gathering his strength for the pull, the muscles standing out on his haunches. They glided out of the lock.
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● 红脸汉来扶，她不要；Michael伸手过来，她就接住了上船（on board）。其中必有文章，无怪红脸汉要笑了。
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● 到了船上，她又看看四周的人。烟囱是弯曲的（crooked），她这才注意到。站在烟囱边上的黑汉子，想必是负航行之责，所以眼睛老是看着前面那条水道。
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● 现在又要开船了，所以赶马的在岸上赶马动身。
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● 马（The brute）起步之前，先鼓足了劲，后股（haunches）上的肌肉都凸了起来。前面描写过马的距毛（见前面本文）。据我臆测，这种大动物的“雄姿”，对于春情业已发动的Mary多少有点挑逗作用。当然这都是“暗示”，无丝毫恶俗之气也。
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It was half a mile from one lock to another. Michael had bidden her stand beside him at the tiller. Once she looked up at him and she thought the face shy but very eager, the most eager face that ever came across the bog from the great world.
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● 别人都看过了，最后向Michael抬头一望。Michael的脸是羞涩的，可是很eager，Michael是从外乡来的（是从“广大的世界”来的），行船经过她家乡的泥炭地，这种人Mary以前也见过，可是论到脸上神情的热烈，那是要数Michael第一了。
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Afterwards, whenever Mary had the time, she would make a cross-cut through the bog to the lock. She would step in and make the mile journey with Michael on The Golden Barque. Once, when they were journeying together, Michael slipped something into her hand. It was a quaint trinket, and shone like gold.
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