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Chapter 20
第二十章
I had forgotten to draw my curtain, which I usually did, and also to let down my window-blind.
平常我是拉好帳幔睡覺的，而那回卻忘了，也忘了把百葉窗放下來。
The consequence was, that when the moon, which was full and bright (for the night was fine) ,
結果，一輪皎潔的滿月（因為那天夜色很好），
came in her course to that space in the sky opposite my casement,
沿著自己的軌道，來到我窗戶對面的天空，
and looked in at me through the unveiled panes, her glorious gaze roused me.
透過一無遮攔的窗玻璃窺視著我，用她那清麗的目光把我喚醒。
Awaking in the dead of night, I opened my eyes on her disk — silver-white and crystal clear.
夜深人靜，我張開眼睛，看到了月亮澄凈的銀白色圓臉。
It was beautiful, but too solemn.
它美麗卻過于肅穆。
I half rose, and stretched my arm to draw the curtain.
我半欠著身子，伸手去拉帳幔。
Good God! What a cry!
天吶！多可怕的叫聲！
The night — its silence — its rest,
夜晚的寧靜和安逸，
was rent in twain by a savage, a sharp, a shrilly sound that ran from end to end of Thornfield Hall.
被響徹桑菲爾德府的一聲狂野、刺耳的尖叫打破了。
My pulse stopped. My heart stood still. My stretched arm was paralysed.
我的脈搏停止了，我的心臟不再跳動，我伸出的胳膊僵住了。
The cry died, and was not renewed.
叫聲消失，沒有再起。
Indeed, whatever being uttered that fearful shriek could not soon repeat it.
說實在，無論誰發出這樣的喊聲，那可怕的尖叫無法立即重復一遍。
Not the widest-winged condor on the Andes could, twice in succession,
就是安第斯山上長著巨翅的禿鷹，
send out such a yell from the cloud shrouding his eyrie.
也難以在白云繚繞的高處，這樣連叫兩聲。
The thing delivering such utterance must rest ere it could repeat the effort.
那發出叫聲的東西得緩過氣來才有力氣再次喊叫。
It came out of the third storey, for it passed overhead.
這叫聲來自三樓，因為正是我頭頂上響起來的。
