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Chapter 1 Pip meets a stranger
第1章 匹普與一位陌生人相遇
My first name was Philip，but when I was a small child I could only manage to say Pip．
我的教名叫菲利普，但是在我小時候，我僅會說匹普。
So Pip was what every-body called me．
因此，匹普就成了大家叫我的名字。
I lived in a small village in Essex with my sister，who was over twenty years older than me，and married to Joe Gargery，the village blacksmith．
我與姐姐住在埃森克斯的一個小村莊，姐姐比我大20多歲，她與村里的鐵匠喬·葛吉瑞結了婚。
My parents had died when I was a baby，so I could not remember them at all，but quite often I used to visit the churchyard，abut a mile from the village，to look at their names on their gravestones．
當我還是一個嬰兒時，父母就離開了人間，所以我記不得他們的一切情況，但是，我常常去離村莊大約1英里的教堂墓地，瞻仰墓碑上他們的名字。
My first memory is of sitting on a gravestone in that church-yard one cold，grey，December afternoon，looking out at the dark，flat，wild marshes divided by the black line of the River Thames，and listening to the rushing sound of the sea in the distance．
我的最初記憶是在十二月份一個寒冷的、天色陰沉的下午，正坐在那個教堂墓地的一塊墓石上?？吹降氖潜荒呛谏┪钍亢臃指畛傻囊黄趬簤旱恼訚苫牡?，聽到的是從遠處大海刮來的嗖嗖呼嘯聲。
Don't say a word！cried a terrible voice，as a man jumped up from among the graves and caught hold of me．
別出聲！一個兇惡的聲音大喊起來，這時，從墓地里竄出一個人來，一把抓住我，
If you shout I'll cut your throat！
安靜點，不然我割斷你的喉嚨！
He was a big man，dressed all in grey，with an iron chain on his leg．
他身材高大，穿著一身灰色衣服，腿上拴著一副腳鐐。
His clothes were wet and torn．He looked exhausted，and hungry，and very fierce．
他的衣服濕淋淋的并且破爛不堪，看上去筋疲力盡、饑寒交迫、十分兇殘的樣子，
I had never been so frightened in my whole life．
在我一生中從沒有見過如此可怕的人。
關于《遠大前程》
《遠大前程》，又譯《孤星血淚》，是英國作家查爾斯·狄更斯晚年寫成的教育小說。故事背景為1812年耶誕節前夕至1840年冬天，主角孤兒皮普（Pip）以自傳式手法，敘述從7歲開始的三個人生階段。
