有聲名著《格列佛游記》31：第7章 在王宮里(1)
Chapter 7 At the King's palace
第7章 在王宮里
Although Glumdalclitch tried to make things as comfort- able aspossible for me，such an exhausting life was beginning to havea bad effect on my health.I was becoming thinner andthinner.When my master noticed this，he thought I wouldnot live much longer.But it was clear that he wanted to makeas much money out of me as he could.
盡管葛蘭達(dá)克利赤盡可能使一切對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)舒適些，如此使人精疲力盡的生活對(duì)我的健康還是開始產(chǎn)生了不良影響，我越來(lái)越瘦了。當(dāng)主人注意到這點(diǎn)，他認(rèn)為我活不長(zhǎng)了，但是他顯然想從我身上撈到盡可能多的錢。
While he was thinking how to do this，he was asked to bring me to the palace.The Queen andher ladies had heard about me and wanted to see me.When we arrived in front of the Queen，Ifell on my knees and begged to be allowed to kiss her foot.But she kindly held out her hand tome.I took her little finger in both my arms，and put it very politely to my lips.She seemed verypleased with me，and finally she said，Would you enjoy living here in the palace，do you think?
他正在考慮怎么做到這一點(diǎn)時(shí)，他被要求帶我進(jìn)官。王后和她的貴婦聽說(shuō)了我，想見見我。當(dāng)我們到達(dá)王后的面前，我雙膝跪下，請(qǐng)求吻她的腳，但是她仁慈地把手伸給了我。我雙臂抱著她的小指，非常禮貌地放到我的雙唇上。她似乎對(duì)我很高興，最后她說(shuō)，你覺得，你會(huì)喜歡住在宮里嗎?
Great queen，I answered，I must do what my master wants，but if I were free，I would want tospend my whole life obeying your orders.She immediately arranged to buy me from mymaster.He was delighted to receive a good price for me，especially as he felt sure I would notlive longer than a month.
偉大的王后，我回答說(shuō)，我必須按我主人的要求做，不過要是我是自由的話，我愿意一生都聽從您的使喚。她馬上安排從我的主人那兒買過我。他非常高興我能賣到好價(jià)錢，特別是他很肯定我活不過一個(gè)月。
I also begged the Queen to let Glumdalclitch stay with me，because she had always taken suchgood care of me.The Queen agreed，and Glumdalclitch could not hide her happiness.
我也請(qǐng)求王后讓葛蘭達(dá)克利赤留下來(lái)陪我，因?yàn)樗樟衔乙恢闭樟系煤芎?。王后同意了，葛蘭達(dá)克利赤也掩飾不住她的喜悅。
關(guān)于《格列佛游記》
格列佛回到馬爾多納達(dá)—航行至拉格奈格王國(guó)—格列佛被拘禁—被押解到朝廷—他被接見的情形—國(guó)王對(duì)臣民十分寬大。
