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That night I never thought to sleep; but a slumber fell on me as soon as I lay down in bed.
那天晚上我絕沒有想到要睡，但我一躺到床上便睡著了。
I was transported in thought to the scenes of childhood:
我在想象中又回到了孩提時代的情景。
I dreamt I lay in the red-room at Gateshead;
我夢見自己躺在蓋茨黑德的紅房子里，
that the night was dark, and my mind impressed with strange fears.
夜很黑，我的腦子里印著奇奇怪怪的恐懼。
The light that long ago had struck me into syncope, recalled in this vision,
很久以前弄得我昏厥的光，又出現在這情景中，
seemed glidingly to mount the wall, and tremblingly to pause in the centre of the obscured ceiling.
似乎溜上了墻，抖動著停在模糊的天花板中間。
I lifted up my head to look: the roof resolved to clouds, high and dim;
我抬頭去看，只見屋頂已化解成了云彩，又高又暗。
the gleam was such as the moon imparts to vapours she is about to sever.
那光線像月亮沖破霧氣時照在濃霧上的光。
I watched her come -- watched with the strangest anticipation;
我看著月亮過來--帶著奇怪的期待注視著，
as though some word of doom were to be written on her disk.
仿佛某種判決詞將要刻寫在圓圓的臉上。
She broke forth as never moon yet burst from cloud: a hand first penetrated the sable folds and waved them away;
她從云層中沖了出來，從來沒有什么月亮像她那么穿云破霧的。一只手伸進了她黑色的皺擱，把它揮走。
then, not a moon, but a white human form shone in the azure, inclining a glorious brow earthward.
隨后碧空中出現了一個白色的人影，而不是月亮了，那人光芒四射的額頭傾向東方。
It gazed and gazed on me. It spoke to my spirit:
盯著我看了又看，并對我的靈魂說起話來，
immeasurably distant was the tone, yet so near, it whispered in my heart...
聲音既遠在天邊，又近在咫尺。它在我耳朵里悄聲說：
"My daughter, flee temptation." "Mother, I will."
“我的女兒，逃離誘惑吧！” “母親，我會的?！?/p>
