美麗新世界 Brave New World 第3章(9)

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling,the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: itdepends on the force of the current, the height andstrength of the barrier.

沖動受到阻礙就會橫流放肆，那橫流放肆的是感覺，是激情，甚至是瘋狂：究竟是什么呢?這得決定于水流的力量和障礙的高度與強度。

The unchecked stream flows smoothly down itsappointed channels into a calm well-being.

沒有受到阻礙的水流就沿著既定的渠道和平地流人靜謐的幸福。

(The embryo is hungry; day in, day out, the blood-surrogate pump unceasingly turns its eighthundred revolutions a minute.

胚胎餓了，代血劑泵就日夜不停地轉(zhuǎn)，每分鐘八百次。

The decanted infant howls; at once a nurse appears with a bottle of external secretion.

換了瓶的胎兒哭了，護士立即拿來外分泌瓶。

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

感情就在欲望與滿足的間歇里隱藏。

Shorten that interval, break down all those old unnecessary barriers.

間歇要縮短，打倒不必要的舊障礙。

"Fortunate boys!" said the Controller. "No pains have been spared to make your livesemotionally easy–to preserve you, so far as that is possible, from having emotions at all."

“幸運的孩子們!”總統(tǒng)說，“為了減輕你們生活中的感情折磨我們不辭一切辛勞——只要有可能，決不讓你們產(chǎn)生感情沖動。”

"Ford's in his flivver," murmured the D.H.C. "All's well with the world."

“福帝在車，”主任念念有詞，“天下太平。”

"Lenina Crowne?" said Henry Foster, echoing the Assistant Predestinator's question as hezipped up his trousers.

“列寧娜·克朗嗎?”亨利·福斯特拉上褲子拉鏈，回答局長助理說。

"Oh, she's a splendid girl. Wonderfully pneumatic. I'm surprised you haven't had her."

“哦，她是個非常好的姑娘，極有靈氣?？赡憔尤粵]有得到過她，我很意外。”

"I can't think how it is I haven't," said the Assistant Predestinator.

“我想不出我怎么會沒有得到過她，”命運預定局局長助理說，

"I certainly will. At the first opportunity."

“有機會我肯定會的。”

From his place on the opposite side of the changing-room aisle, Bernard Marx overheard whatthey were saying and turned pale.

換瓶室走道那邊的伯納·馬克思偷聽到兩人的談話，臉色蒼白了。

"And to tell the truth," said Lenina, "I'm beginning to get just a tiny bit bored with nothing butHenry every day."

“說實話，”列寧娜說，“每天都跟亨利一起，再沒有別的東西，我也覺得厭倦。”

She pulled on her left stocking. "Do you know Bernard Marx?"

她拉上了左腳的襪子。“你認得伯納·馬克思嗎?”

she asked in a tone whose excessive casualness was evidently forced.

她說話時口氣過分隨便，顯然是裝出來的。

Fanny looked startled. "You don't mean to say …?"

范尼露出吃驚的神色。“你不會是說……。”

"Why not? Bernard's an Alpha Plus. Besides, he asked me to go to one of the SavageReservations with him.

“為什么不行?伯納是個阿爾法加，而且他約過我和他一起到野蠻人保留地去。

I've always wanted to see a Savage Reservation."

那地方我一直就想去看看呢。”

"But his reputation?"

“可是他那名聲?”

"What do I care about his reputation?"

“我為什么非得要管他的什么名聲?”

"They say he doesn't like Obstacle Golf."

“據(jù)說他不喜歡玩障礙高爾夫。”

"They say, they say," mocked Lenina.

“據(jù)說，據(jù)說。”列寧娜嘲笑范尼。

"And then he spends most of his time by himself–alone." There was horror in Fanny's voice.

“而且他大部分時間都一個人過——孤獨。”范尼的口氣帶著害怕。

"Well, he won't be alone when he's with me. And anyhow, why are people so beastly to him?

“晤，可他跟我在一起就不會孤獨了。而且，大家對他為什么那么惡劣?

I think he's rather sweet." She smiled to herself; how absurdly shy he had been!

我倒覺得他挺可愛的。”她悄悄地笑了。伯納那羞澀的態(tài)度多么荒謬!

Frightened almost–as though she were a World ControUer and he a Gamma-Minus machineminder.

幾乎是害怕——就好像她是世界總統(tǒng)，而伯納卻是個管理機器的伽瑪減似的。

"Consider your own lives," said Mustapha Mond. "Has any of you ever encountered aninsurmountable obstacle?"

“想一想你們自己的生活吧，”穆斯塔法·蒙德說，“你們有誰遇到過無法克服的困難沒有?”

The question was answered by a negative silence.

回答是沉默，表示否定。