高级英语no_signposts_in_the_sea翻译

In the dining-saloon I sit at a table with three other men; Laura sits some way oft with a married couple and their daughter. I can observe her without her knowing, and this gives me pleasure, for it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures, whether she raises a glass of wine to her lips or turns with a remark to one of her neighbours or takes a cigarette from her case with those slender fingers. I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women, but I get the impression that Laura is always in grey and white by day, looking cool when other people are flushed and shiny in the tropical heat; in the evening she wears soft rich colours, dark red, olive green, midnight blue, always of the most supple flowing texture. I ventured to say something of the kind to her, when she laughed at my clumsy compliment and said I had better take to writing fashion articles instead of political leaders.在餐厅里，我同另外三个男人围坐在一张桌子旁，而劳拉同一对夫妇及他们的女儿一块儿坐在离我不远的地方。

EXERCISES 15Ⅻ.Translate the following into English(using the following words or expressions： to have an eye for， to recede，to relieve a touch of， to read sb， to venture， to take to， if not…，to the exclusion of，to pile up，to beguile with)：1)他对水彩画很有鉴赏能力。

He has a good eye for water-colours.2)女儿大胆地表示不同意父母对她婚事的安排。

The daughter ventured to object to her parents's arrangement of her marriage.3)由于贫困的逼迫，他开始进行偷窃活动。

Pressed by poverty, he took to stealing.4)在旅途中，我看小说，以消磨时间。

My long journey was beguiled with novels.5)我想你一定读过马克?吐温的书。

I suppose you have read Mark Twain.6)他的全部注意力都集中在这个问题上，而不顾其他的问题。

He concentrated all his attention on this problem to the exclusion of all others.7)不立刻做出正确的决定将会使整个事情很困难，如果不是不可能的话。

Failure to make the right decision at once will make the whole thing very difficult if not impossible.8)问题堆积如山，我们必须尽快地解决。

o Signposts in the SeaIn the dining-saloon I sit at a table with three other men; Laura sits some way off with a married couple and their daughter. I can observe her without her knowing, and this gives me pleasure, for it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures, whether she raises a glass of wine to her lips or turns with a remark to one of her neighbours or takes a cigarette from her case with those slender fingers. I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women, but I get the impression that Laura is always in grey and white by day, looking cool when other people are flushed and shiny in the tropical heat; in the evening she wears soft rich colours, dark red, olive green, midnight blue, always of the most supple flowing texture. I ventured to say something of the kind to her, when she laughed at my clumsy compliment and said I had better take to writing fashion articles instead of political leaders.The tall Colonel whose name is Dalrymple seems a nice chap. He and I and Laura and a Chinese woman improbably galled Mme Merveille have made up a Bridge-tour and thus beguile ourselves for an hour or so after dinner while others dance on deck. The Colonel, who is not too offensively an Empire-builder, sometimes tries to talk to me about public affairs; he says he used to read me, and is rather charmingly deferential, prefacing his remarks by “Of course it’s not for me to suggest to you…” and then proceeding to tell me exactly how he thinks some topical item of our dome, the or foreign policy should be handled. He is by no means stupid or ill-informed; a little opinionated perhaps, and just about as far to the Right as anybody could go, but I like him, and try not to tease him by putting forward views which would only bring a puzzled look to his face. Besides, I do not want to become involved in discussion. I observe with amusement how totally the concerns of the world, which once absorbed me to the exclusion of all else except an occasional relaxation with poetry or music, have lost interest for me eve to the extent of a bored distaste. Doubtless some instinct impels me gluttonously to cram these the last weeks of my life with the gentler things I never had time for, releasing some suppressed inclination which in fact was always latent. Or maybe Laura’s unwitting influence has called it out.Dismissive as Pharisee, I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane. Protests about damage to natural beauty froze me with contempt, for I believed in progress and could spare no regrets for a lake dammed into hydraulic use for the benefit of an industrial city in the Midlands. And so it was for all things. A hard materialism was my creed, accepted as a law of progress; any ascription of disinterested motives aroused not only my suspicion but my scorn.And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water-colour s of sunsets! I once flattered myself that I was an adult man; I now perceive that I am gloriously and adolescently silly. A new Clovis, loving what I have despised, and suffering from calf-love into the bargain, I want my till of beauty before I go. Geographically I did not care and scarcely know where I am. There are no signposts in the sea.The young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in the tropics, and as, I think, is suitable if not seemly for a virgin. Not a star but might not shoot down and accept the invitation to become her lover. When all my fellow-passengers have finally dispersed to bed, I creep up again to the deserted deck and slip into the swimming pool and float, no longer what people believe me to be, a middle-aged journalist taking a holiday on an ocean-going liner, but a liberated being, bathed in mythological waters, an Endymion young and strong, with a god for his father and a vision of theworld inspired from Olympus. All weight is lifted from my limbs; 1 am one with the night; I understand the meaning of pantheism. How my friends would laugh if they knew I had come to this! To have discarded , as I believe, all usual frailties , to have become incapable of envy, ambition, malice , the desire to score off my neighbour, to enjoy this purification even as I enjoy the clean voluptuousness of the warm breeze on my skin and the cool support of the water. Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleansed on leaving the confessional after the solemnity of absolution.Sometimes Laura and I lean over the taffrail, and that is happiness. It may be by daylight, looking at the sea, rippled with little white ponies, or with no ripples at all but on-ly the lazy satin of blue, marbled at the edge where the passage of our ship has disturbed it. Or it may be at night, when the sky surely seems blacker than ever at home and the stars more golden. I recall a phrase from the diary of a half-literate soldier, “The stars seemed little cuts in the black cover, through which a bright beyond was seen.” Sometimes these untaught scribblers have a way of putting things.The wireless told us today that there is fog all over England.Sometimes we follow a coastline, it may be precipitous bluffs of grey limestone rising sheer out of the sea, or a low-lying arid stretch with miles of white sandy beach, and no sign of habitation, very bleached and barren. These coasts remind me of people; either they are forbidding and unapproachable , or else they present no mystery and show all they have to give at a glance, you feel the country would continue to be flat and featureless however far you penetrated inland. What I like best are the stern cliffs, with ranges of mountains soaring behind them, full of possibilities, peaks to be scaled only by the most daring. What plants of the high altitudes grow unravished among their crags and valleys? So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura’s Character, so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the venturesome.My fellow-passengers apparently do not share my admiration.“Drearee sorter cowst,” said an Australian. “Makes you Iong for a bit of green.”Darkness falls, and there is nothing but the intermittent g1eam of a 1iahthouse on a solitary promontory.We rounded just such a cape towards sunset, the most easterly point of a continent, dramatically high and lonely, a great purple mountain overhung by a great purple cloud. The sea had turned to a corresponding dusk of lavender. Aloof and on the top, the yellow 1iaht revolved, steady, warning; I wondered what mortal controlled it, in what must be one of the loneliest, most forbidding spots on Earth. Haunted too, for many wrecks had piled up on the reefs in the past, when there was no beacon to guide them.The Colonel joined us.“How would you care for that man’s job?” he said.“I suppose he gets relieved every so often?”“On the contrary, he refuses ever to leave. He is an Italian, and he has been there for years and years, with a native woman for his only company. Most people would think him crazy, but I must say I find it refreshing to think there are still a few odd fish left in the world.”This is the unexpected kind of remark that makes me like the Colonel; there is a touch of roughpoetry about him. I like also the out-of-the-way information which he imparts from time to time without insistence; he has traveled much, and has used his eyes and kept his ears open. I have discovered also that he knows quite a lot about sea-birds; he puts me right about the different sorts of gull, and tells me very nicely that that couldn’t possibly be an albatross, not in these waters. The albatross, it appears, follows a ship only to a certain latitude and then turns back; it knows how far it should go and no farther. How wise is the albatross! We might all take a lesson from him, knowing the latitude we can permit ourselves. Thus, and no farther, can I foIlow Laura. I suspect also that there is quite a lot of lore stored away in the Colonel’s otherwise not very interesting mind. Laura likes him too, and although I prefer having her to myself I don’t really resent it when he lounges up to make a third.In all this great serenity of ocean it is seldom that we espy so much as another ship; the jolly dolphins and the scratchy little flying-fish have the vast circle all to themselves; the Flying Fish, who has a part with the birds, doubtless are glad to see the last of the monster which bears us into and out of sight. Our wake closes up and we might never have been. But it does happen from time to “Time that an island appears on the horizon, nameless to us and full of mystery, the peak of a submarine mountain range, lonely, unblemished, remote. Does one like islands because one unconsciously appropriates them, a small manageable domain in a large unmanageable world? I cannot tell why it should give me such a queer sensation to reflect that that island has always been there (unless indeed it be no more than the work of the patient coral and will be there still, should I return to find it waiting for me. It is the same sensation as I have experienced in looking at a photograph of, say, some river valley of innermost China, and seen a boulder, and thought that if I could find myself transported to that spot I could touch the reality of that particular piece of rock ... It is there. For me. I could sit on that very boulder. I explain myself badly, and it is not a sensation I could expect anyone save Laura to understand, but of such incommunicable quirks is the private mind made up.Well, the islands. I divert myself by inventing the life upon them, and am amused to find my imagination always turning towards the idyllic. This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance. If we have seen a skiff sailing close in shore, I follow the fisherman as he beaches his craft in the little cove and gives a cry like a sea-bird to announce his coming. His woman meets him; they are young, and their skins of a golden-brown; she takes his catch from him. In their plaited hut there is nothing but health and love.One night we passed two islands, steeply humped against faint reflected moonlight; and on each of them, high up, shone a steady yellow gleam.“Not lighthouses.” I said to Laura. “Villages.”We gazed, as the ship slid by and the humps receded into darkness and even the lights were obscured by the shoulder of a hill, never to be seen by us again. So peaceful and secret; so self-contained.One of the ship’s officers joined us, off duty.“Yes,” he said, following our gaze. “‘One of them is a leper colony and the other a penal settlement.”God, is there no escape from suffering and sin?Laura and I amuse ourselves by watching for the green flash which comes at the instant the sundisappears below the line of the horizon. This does not happen every day, for sky must be entirely clear of cloud and clouds seem very liable to gather along the path of the setting sun, but we are as pleased as children when our game succeeds. Laura claps her hands. Only a second does it last, that streak of green light; we wait for it while the red ball, cut in half as though by a knife, sinks to its daily doom . Then come the twilight colours of sea and heaven (we have discovered the fallacy of saying that darkness falls suddenly in these latitudes, at any rate on sea level), the wine pink width of water merging into lawns of aquamarine, and the sky a tender of pink and blue. But the green flash is our chief delight.“creme de menthe ,” says Laura.“Jade,” I say.“Emerald,” says Laura. “Jade is too opaque.”“icious viridian,” I say, not to be outdone.“You always did lose yourself in the pleasure of words.”“Edmund, say green as jealousy and be done with it.”“I have never known the meaning of jealousy.”I am sorry to see the sun go, for one of the pleasures I have discovered is the warmth of his touch on my skin. At home in London I never noticed the weather, unless actually inconvenienced by fog or rain; I had no temptation to take a flying holiday to the South and understood little when people spoke or wrote of sunlight on white walls. Now the indolence of southern latitudes has captured me. I like to see dusky men sitting about doing nothing. I like the footfall of naked feet in the dust, silent as a oat passing. I like turning a corner from the shade of a house into the full torrid glare of an open space. I put my hand on metal railings and snatch it away, burnt. But it is seldom that I go ashore.I would never have believed in the simple bliss of being, day after day, at sea. Our ports of call are few, and when they do occur I resent them. I should like this empty existence to be prolonged beyond calculation. In the ship’s library stands a large globe whose function so far as I am concerned is to reveal the proportion of ocean to the landmasses of the troubled would; the Pacific alone dwarfs all the continents put together. Blue, the colour of peace. And then I like all the small noises of a ship: the faint creaking, as of the saddle-leather to a horseman riding across turf, the slap of a rope, the hiss of sudden spray. I have been exhilarated by two days of storm, but above all I love these long purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been.(from o Signposts in the Se a, 1961)。

No Signposts in the Sea一、In the dining-saloon I sit at a table with three other men, Laura sits some way off with a married couple and their daughter. I can observe her without her knowing and this gives me pleasure, for it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures,①whether she raises a glass of wine to her lips or②turns with a remark to one of her neighbors or takes a cigarette from her casewith those slender fingers（loose sentense松散句）.I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women, but I get the impression Laura is always in grey and white by day, looking cool when other people are flushed and shinyin the tropical heat; in the evening, she wears soft rich colors（metonymy借代）, dark red, olive green, midnight blue, always of the most supple flowing texture. I ventured to say something of the kind to her, when she laughed at my clumsy compliment and said. I had better take to writing fashion articles instead of political leaders.PS：①soft：ADJ Something that is soft is very gentle and has no force. For example, a soft sound or voice is quiet and not harsh. A soft light or colour is pleasant to look at because it is not bright. (声音、光线或色彩) 柔和的；②rich:Rich smells are strong and very pleasant. Rich colours and sounds are deep and very pleasant. 浓郁的(气味); 浓厚的(色彩)因此soft和rich这里的修辞手法是：oxymoron n. （修词中的）矛盾修饰法在餐厅里我同另外三个男人围坐在一张桌子旁，而劳拉同一对夫妇及他们的女儿一块儿坐在离我不远的地方。

N o S i g n p o s t s i n t h e S e aBackground Information1. About the authorVictoria Mary Sackville- West (1892-1962) was an English poet and novelist, a member of the Bloomsbury group【布鲁姆伯利(英国伦敦中北部的居住区, 因在20世纪初期与知识界的人物, 包括弗吉尼亚·沃尔夫、E.M.福斯特及约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯的关系而闻名于世)】, an informal group of literary and artistic friends, a close friend of Virginia Woolf.Her poems include The Land (1926), Solitude (1938), The Garden (1946), All Passion Spent (1931).Her poetry is traditional in form, reminiscent（怀旧的，使人想起的）of the work of the English nature poets of the age of romanticism.A prolific（多产的）writer, Victoria Sackville-West is the author of15 novels, as well as biographies and travel books.2. About the novel No Signposts in the SeaThis novel is writen in the form of a journal kept by a man called Edmund Carr, 50, an influential political columnist and bachelor. He learns that he has a limited time to live--- a few days or weeks, a month or two at most. How shall he spend them? In this quandary（dilemma）, he learns that a widow who he has lately met at random （unplanned/unexpected）social occasions has booked passage on a cruise(漫游) to the Far East. Her qualities, her intelligence and warmth stiffened（strengthened）by a deep reserve（矜持coolness of manner or emotional retraint）, have struck him as uncommon; he decided to be abroad. His contact with Laura, the widow, gives Carr an unfamiliar peace and a profound change in perspective ( particular evaluation of sth. , especially from one person’s point of view). Power, prestige(威望、威信), practicality（state of being practical）--- the former watchwords of his career--- lose their ring （echo）. Illusion, which he had adhered（追随）, and the natural world, uninvaded by civilization, begin to seem transcendent（超然的、超验的independent of the world or beyond the limits of experience）. And a third-some Colonel arouses his all-too-human ignominy(羞辱、屈辱disgrace，dishonor) of jealousy,despair, meanness（自私,吝啬）and outbursts（感情迸发）of disappointment against his “rival”.C h a r a c t e r s•L a u r a E d m u n d C a r r T h e C o l o n e lL a u r a•t h e g r a c e o f h e r g e s t u r e s•s l e n d e r f i n g e r s•a l w a y s i n g r e y a n d w h i t e b y d a y•I n t h e e v e n i n g s h e w e a r s s o f t r i c h c o l o u r s,…a l w a y s o f t h e m o s t s u p p l e f l o w i n g t e x t u r ee l e g a n t,b e a u t if u l,i n t e l l ig e n tN a r r a t o r:E d m u n d C a r r•…a n d s a i d I h a d b e t t e r t a k e t o w r i t i n g f a s h i o n a r t i c l e si n s t e a d o f p o l i t i c a l l e a d e r s.a n i n f l u e n t i a l p o l i t i c a l c o l o m n i s t•I o b s e r v e w i t h a m u s e m e n t h o w t o t a l l y t h e c o n c e r n s o f t h e w o r l d,w h i c h o n c e a b s o r b e d m e t o t h e e x c l u s i o n o f a l l e l s e e x c e 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词汇(Vocabulary):a post bearing a sign；guidepost广告柱；路标----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:able to bend and move easily and nimbly；lithe；limber柔软的；可塑的；能轻易弯曲的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:cause(time)to pass without being noticed消磨(时间----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:showing deference；very respectful表示敬意的，恭敬的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:holding unreasonably or obstinatedly to one’s own opinions固执己见的；固守成见的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:inclined to eat too much and greedily贪食的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------: present but invisible or inactive；lying hidden and undeveloped within a person or thing，as a quality or power；potential潜在的；潜伏的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:not intended；unintentional无意的；非有意的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:haughty or contemptuous傲慢的，目中无人的；轻蔑的，轻视的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------: operated by the movement and force of liquid水力的；液压的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:regarding as belonging to or coming from someone归属；归因、；归咎----------------------------------------------------------------------------------: of characteristic of adolescence；youthful，exuberant，immature，unsettled，young，etc．青春期的，青年的；发育未全的；未成熟的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:immature love that adolescent boys and girls may feel for each other；puppy love雏恋，幼恋----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:break up and move in different directions;scatter分散，散开；散去----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:the doctrine that God is not a personality(as in Christianity)but thata11 laws，forces. manifestations, etc.，of the self-existing universe are God泛神论----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:active ill will；desire to harm another or to do mischief；spite敌意；怨恨----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:giving a fine delight to the senses; giving a satisfying feeling of restand enjoyment令人舒服的；安逸的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:showing religious devotion and zealous in the performance of religious obligations虔诚的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:a small，enclosed place in a church. where a priest hears confessions(教堂中神父听取忏悔的)忏悔室----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:remission(of sin or penalty for it)：specif., in some churches，such remission formally given by a priest in the sacrament of penance(罪或惩罚的)赦免----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:the rail around the stern of a ship or boat船尾栏杆----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:cause to ripple使起细浪；使波动(或飘动)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:a small horse矮种马；小马----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:a kind or very fine smooth cloth mainly of silk. which is shiny on the front and dull on the back缎子----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:stain or color to look like mottled or streaked marble把……弄上大理石花纹----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:a person who writes illegibly or carelessly 笔迹潦草的人----------------------------------------------------------------------------------: dangerously steep：frighteningly high above the ground陡峭的；险峻的；悬崖峭壁般的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:a high，steep，broad—faced bank or cliff陡坡；悬崖----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:(of land or a country)having so little rain as to be very dry and unproductive(土地等)干旱的；贫脊的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:(cause to)become white or whiter(使)变白，漂白----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:take 0r carry away by force；rape强抢；强夺；强奸----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:(often pl.)a secluded，withdrawn，or inner place(常用复数)深处；幽深之处----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:having a severe or stern look，manner，etc．；forbidding严厉的，严峻的；严肃的；苛刻的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:happening，then stopping，then happening again，with pauses inbetween；not continuous断断续续的，间断的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:a peak or high land that juts out into a body of water；headland岬(角)；海角----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:a pale purple colour淡紫色----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:any of various large strong，mostly white seabirds famous for their ability to fly long distances信天翁----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:knowledge or wisdom，especially of an unscientific kind，about a certain subject学问；知识(尤指某门学科知识)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:stand，move，sit，lie，etc．in a relaxed or lazy way；loll(懒散地)站(走，坐，躺)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:the quality or state of being serene；calmness；tranquillity宁静；晴朗----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:catch sight of；make out；spy；descry(偶尔)看见；发现；探出；窥见----------------------------------------------------------------------------------:a type of toothed sea—animal 2-3 metres long，which swims about very quickly in groups。

Lesson 13 No Signposts in the Sea (Excerpts)一、词汇短语1. signpost n. a post bearing a sign; guidepost路标：Wedrove past a signpost which I couldn’t read.我们驶过一块路标，可是我读不懂。

2. saloon n. (British)a large room or hall esp. in a hotel or a publicbuilding大会客室，公共大厅，酒吧间3. supple adj. moving and bending with ease; limber柔软的，可塑的；灵活的：a supple mind灵活的大脑4. colonel n. 陆军上校, 团长5. beguile vt. to pass (time) pleasantly消磨（时间）：Our travel wasbeguiled with pleasant talk.我们在旅行途中以愉快的谈话来消磨时间。

6. deferential adj. marked by or exhibiting deference;very respectful表示敬意的，尊敬的：a deferential manner恭敬的举止7. opinionated adj. expressing very strong opinionsabout things固执己见的，极自负的：He is too opinionated to listen toanyone else.他太固执己见，听不进别人的意见。

8. Right n. (political) a group or section favoring conservatism (originallythe more conservative section of a continental legislature, seated on thepresident’s right); such conservatives collectively右派，保守党9. tease vt. to annoy or pester; to make fun of; mock playfully使烦恼；取笑，捉弄：Don’t tease the dog.不要捉弄那条狗。

In the dining-saloon I sit at a table with three other men; Laura sits some way oft with a married couple and their daughter. I can observe her without her knowing, and this gives me pleasure, for it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures, whether she raises a glass of wine to her lips or turns with a remark to one of her neighbours or takes a cigarette from her case with those slender fingers. I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women, but I get the impression that Laura is always in grey and white by day, looking cool when other people are flushed and shiny in the tropical heat; in the evening she wears soft rich colours, dark red, olive green, midnight blue, always of the most supple flowing texture. I ventured to say something of the kind to her, when she laughed at my clumsy compliment and said I had better take to writing fashion articles instead of political leaders.在餐厅里，我同另外三个男人围坐在一张桌子旁，而劳拉同一对夫妇及他们的女儿一块儿坐在离我不远的地方。