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Bernard dashed to meet them. He waved his arms; and it was action, he was doing something.
伯納沖上去迎接他們，向他們招手。他畢竟在行動(dòng)，在做著什么。
He shouted "Help!" several times, more and more loudly so as to give himself the illusion of helping. Help! Help! HELP!
他連叫了幾聲，“救命！救命！”一聲比一聲高，他有一種自己在幫忙的幻覺(jué)，救命！救命！救命！
The policemen pushed him out of the way and got on with their work.
警察把他推到了一邊，自己去執(zhí)行任務(wù)。
Three men with spraying machines buckled to their shoulders pumped thick clouds of soma vapour into the air.
三個(gè)肩上扛著噴霧器的警察向空中噴出了濃濃的唆麻氣；
Two more were busy round the portable Synthetic Music Box.
另外兩個(gè)則在手提合成音箱前忙碌。
Carrying water pistols charged with a powerful anesthetic, four others had pushed their way into the crowd and were methodically laying out,
還有四個(gè)警察沖進(jìn)了人群，扛著裝滿強(qiáng)麻醉劑的水槍，
squirt by squirt, the more ferocious of the fighters.
對(duì)打得難解難分的人一股一股很技巧地噴射著。
"Quick, quick!" yelled Bernard. "They'll be killed if you don't hurry. They'll … Oh!"
“快！快！，”伯納大叫，“再不快點(diǎn)他們就要給殺死了。要給……哦！”
Annoyed by his chatter, one of the policemen had given him a shot from his water pistol.
他那嘰嘰喳喳惹惱了一個(gè)警察，對(duì)準(zhǔn)他射了一麻醉槍。
Bernard stood for a second or two wambling unsteadily on legs that seemed to have lost their bones, their tendons, their muscles,
伯納的兩腿似乎失去了骨頭、筋腿和肉，他只搖晃了一兩秒鐘，便垮到了地上，癱瘓了。
to have become mere sticks of jelly, and at last not even jelly-water: he tumbled in a heap on the floor.
變成了兩根膠凍，后來(lái)甚至連膠凍也不是，而成了水。
Suddenly, from out of the Synthetic Music Box a Voice began to speak.
突然，一個(gè)聲音在合成音樂(lè)音箱里說(shuō)起話來(lái)。
The Voice of Reason, the Voice of Good Feeling.
那是理智的聲音，善意的聲音。
The sound-track roll was unwinding itself in Synthetic Anti-Riot Speech Number Two (Medium Strength).
合成音樂(lè)錄音帶正在播放二號(hào)（中等強(qiáng)度）反騷亂演說(shuō)。
Straight from the depths of a non-existent heart,
是從一個(gè)不存在的心靈的深處直接發(fā)出來(lái)的，
"My friends, my friends!" said the Voice so pathetically, with a note of such infinitely tender reproach that, behind their gas masks,
“朋友們，我的朋友們！”那聲音帶著無(wú)限溫柔的責(zé)備，非常動(dòng)情地說(shuō)了起來(lái)，
even the policemen's eyes were momentarily dimmed with tears,
就連戴了防毒面具的警察的眼睛一時(shí)都淚眼模糊了：
what is the meaning of this? Why aren't you all being happy and good together?
你們這是什么意思？你們?yōu)槭裁床荒艽蠹倚腋Ｉ屏嫉卦谝黄穑?/div>
Happy and good,the Voice repeated. "At peace, at peace."
幸福善良，那聲音重復(fù)道，“和平，和平。”
It trembled, sank into a whisper and momentarily expired.
那聲音顫抖起來(lái)，降成了耳語(yǔ)，暫時(shí)消失了。
