本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇 | 朗讀《登雪敦山》

》》》》》》一鍵領(lǐng)取入口《《《《《《

It was a close, warm, breezeless summer night. Wan, dull, and glaring, with a dripping fog, low-hung and thick that covered all the sky. But undiscouraged, we began to climb the mountain-side.

那是個(gè)悶熱、無風(fēng)的夏夜，陰沉、昏暗、潮濕、濃重低懸的水霧遮去全部的天宇。但我們并未灰心喪氣，開始在山腰上攀登。

The mist soon girt us round. And, after ordinary travellers’ talk with our conductor, pensively we sank each into commerce with his private thoughts.

很快，濃霧將我們纏繞其中。與向?qū)д勥^游人的話題，我們陷入沉悶，開始了與個(gè)人心緒的交流。

Thus did we breast the ascent, and by myself was nothing either seen or heard that checked those musings or diverted, save that once the shepherd’s lurcher, who, among the crags had to his joy unearthed a hedgehog, teased his coiled-up prey with barkings turbulent.

在如此沉默中，大家向上爬著，我所看見或聽到的一切，都未能打斷或分散那綿密的冥思，只有片刻的間斷。牧人的那只雜種獵犬在巖石間捉到一只刺猬，十分得意，于是一個(gè)勁地狂叫。一邊逗弄著那卷成一團(tuán)的獵物。

This small adventure, for even such it seemed in that wild place and at the dead of night, being over and forgotten, on we wound in silence as before. With forehead bent earthward, as if in opposition set against an enemy, I panted up with eager pace, and no less eager thoughts.

在這荒僻的地方，死寂的夜晚，這件事確像一次小小的奇遇，但很快被遺忘，我們又像先前那樣默默攀援。我的額頭垂向地面，似抗擊一位敵手。就這樣一路喘著粗氣，腳步與心情卻是同樣的急切。

Thus might we wear a midnight hour away, ascending at loose distance each from each, and I, as chanced, the foremost of the band when at my feet the ground appeared to brighten. And with a step or two seemed brighter still.

我們相互隔開，并無固定的距離。我走在前面，也并非預(yù)先的安排。本欲就這樣挨過午夜的時(shí)光，但腳踩的地面忽然明亮起來。又走了幾步，似更加明亮。

Nor was time given to ask or learn the cause, for instantly a light upon the turf fell like a flash, and lo! as I looked up, The Moon hung naked in a firmament of azure without cloud, and at my feet rested a silent sea of hoary mist.

還未來得及問知是何原因，剎那間，一道光芒射在草坡上，猶如閃電，我抬頭仰望，瞧，蒼茫的天宇中沒有云朵，高懸著一個(gè)赤裸的月亮，而腳下蒼白的云霧卻鋪開一片寂靜的海洋。

A hundred hills their dusky backs upheaved all over this still ocean, and beyond, far, far beyond, the solid vapours stretched, in headlands, tongues, and promontory shapes,Into the main Atlantic, that appeared to dwindle, and give up his majesty. Usurped upon far as the sight could reach.

無數(shù)的丘山在這靜波中隆起它們黝黑的脊背，在遠(yuǎn)處，遙邈的遠(yuǎn)處，霧靄如實(shí)在的幻象，變出山岬、地角或半島的形狀，伸進(jìn)阿特拉斯【大西洋】的海域，將視野所及之處的海面全占領(lǐng)，讓它變得渺小，似要棄讓其權(quán)威。

Not so the ethereal vaul, encroachment none was there, nor loss, only the inferior stars had disappeared, or shed a fainter light. In the clear presence of the full-orbed Moon, who, from her sovereign elevation, gazed upon the billowy ocean, as it lay all meek and silent, save that through a rift - Not distant from the shore whereon we stood.

而超拔的上蒼則不然，未受其侵犯，也未所虧失，只是在一輪明月的銀輝中，一些卑微的星星已黯然隱去，或只發(fā)出暗淡的微光。圓月從至高無上的位置俯瞰著巨濤起伏的云海，此刻它這般柔順、靜默，只是距我們立足的岸邊不遠(yuǎn)處裂開一個(gè)云縫——咆哮的水聲穿過它，升上天空。

A fixed, abysmal, gloomy, breathing-place - Mounted the roar of waters, torrents, streams. Innumerable, roaring with one voice! Heard over earth and sea, and, in that hour. For so it seemed, felt by the starry heavens.

它是云潮的間歇—凝止、幽暗、無底，傳出同一個(gè)聲音！是百脈千川的齊語，在下面?zhèn)鞅殛懙嘏c大海。似在此時(shí)，讓銀光燦爛的天宇一同感知。

When into air had partially dissolvedthat vision, given to spirits of the night. And three chance human wanderers, in calm thought. Reflected, it appeared to me the type of a majestic intellect, its acts, and its possessions, what it has and craves. What in itself it is, and would become.

看到這景象的是星夜的幽靈，與三個(gè)幸運(yùn)的凡間游人。當(dāng)它部分地消失在空中，當(dāng)我在平靜中回想它，似感到它象征著威儀浩蕩的心智，展示出它的作為、它的財(cái)富、它現(xiàn)有的一切。和它的渴求、它本身的質(zhì)素，以及它將要達(dá)到的狀態(tài)。

There I beheld the emblem of a mind that feeds upon infinity, that broodsover the dark abyss, intent to hear. Its voices issuing forth to silent lightin one continuous stream, a mind sustained. By recognitions of transcendent power. In sense conducting to ideal form, in soul of more than mortal privilege.

我在那兒看見心靈的表征表現(xiàn)那吞食無極的心靈，她孵擁著幽暗的淵洞，專心致志，為傾聽底下的喧聲升起，形成一股連續(xù)的聲流，觸及上方的靜輝。她認(rèn)識到，有超驗(yàn)的能力，為超凡的靈魂所獨(dú)有。能將感官引向理想之形，而有此認(rèn)識又使她本身的存在獲得支撐。

One function, above all, of such a mind had Nature shadowed there, by putting forth, ’Mid circumstances awful and sublime, that mutual domination which she loves to exert upon the face of outward things, so moulded, joined, abstracted, so endowed. With interchangeable supremacy.

最重要的是，此時(shí)此刻大自然揭示了如此心靈的一種特有的功能，她借助一個(gè)超然可畏的環(huán)境展現(xiàn)了她樂于讓事物的外表擁有的相互支配力，讓它們變形、結(jié)合、分離，讓它們互有君主般的控制權(quán)。

That men, least sensitive, see, hear, perceive And cannot choose but feel. The power, which all acknowledge when thus moved, which Nature thus to bodily sense exhibits, is the express resemblance of that glorious faculty that higher minds bear with them as their own.

讓最最遲鈍的人都能看到、聽到、領(lǐng)悟到不可能不啟用其感受的功能。大自然以如此方式將這支配力展示給人的感官，受觸動(dòng)者都會(huì)承認(rèn)它的作用，而它恰似一幅逼真的肖像。

This is the very spirit in which they deal ith the whole compass of the universe. They from their native selves can send abroad Kindred mutations, for themselves create a like existence; and, whene’er it dawns created for them, catch it, or are caught by its inevitable mastery. Like angels stopped upon the wing by sound of harmony from Heaven’s remotest spheres.

描繪出心智超卓的人們所擁有的那種輝煌的才能，因?yàn)榻艹龅娜藗冋且匀绱俗藨B(tài)與宇宙萬物交流，他們亦能讓天然的原我向外界輸出相同的異變，為自己創(chuàng)造出類似的顯示。而且，一旦這造物初露端倪，能立即感悟到其存在，或是不可避免得被它迷住，宛如飛行的天使駐翼于空中，聆聽傳自最高天層的樂聲。

Them the enduring and the transient both serve to exalt, they build up greatest things from least suggestions, ever on the watch, willing to work and to be wrought upon. They need not extraordinary calls.

持久的或無常的事物都能夠激發(fā)他們的靈念，最微末的誘因也能讓他們構(gòu)筑最宏大的景象。他們時(shí)刻警醒、樂于創(chuàng)造，也甘愿被激發(fā)。因此，喚醒他們無需不同凡響的鳴叫。

To rouse them, in a world of life they live, by sensible impressions not enthralled. But by their quickening impulse made more prompt to hold fit converse with the spiritual world. And with the generations of mankind Spread over time, past, present, and to come, age after age, till Time shall be no more.

生活在富有活力的世界，并未被感官印象所奴役，而是借其激勵(lì)，更迅捷地與精神世界進(jìn)行恰切的交流，也與各時(shí)代的人類，過去的、現(xiàn)在的、未來的，一代接一代，直至?xí)r間不再延存。