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LESSON 24 The bells
第二十四課 塵世之音
Hear the sledges with the bells—silver bells!
聽，雪橇聲——那是銀鈴鐺發出的聲音！
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
那旋律勾勒的是一個充滿歡聲笑語的國度！
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, in the icy air of night!
那鈴聲叮當、叮當、叮當地響著，劃破了夜的寂靜！
while the stars, that oversprinkle all the heavens, seem to twinkle with a crystalline delight;
那天空中灑落的點點星辰，也似在發出水晶般的清脆笑聲；
keeping time, time, time, in a sort of Runic rhyme,
和著拍子，不停地，響著，以某種神秘的古老旋律，
to the tintinnabulation that so musically wells from the bells,
伴著那叮叮當當悅耳的鈴聲，
bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells,
叮鈴鈴，叮鈴鈴，叮鈴鈴，叮鈴鈴，叮鈴鈴，叮鈴鈴
from the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
美妙無比。
Hear the mellow wedding bells—golden bells!
聽，柔和的婚禮進行曲——那是金鈴鐺發出的聲音！
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
預示著幸福和諧！
Through the balmy air of night how they ring out their delight!
聲音穿透那溫柔愜意的夜滲出濃濃喜悅！
From the molten-golden notes, and all in tune, what a liquid ditty floats to the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats on the moon!
那熾熱的金色音符，飄進了那只正忘我賞著月兒的斑鳩的耳朵里！
Oh, from out the sounding cells what a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
啊，那聲元里涌出的音色是那么地悅耳和動聽！
How it swells, how it dwells on the future!
越來越響，越來越響，熱情地訴說著彼此幸福美好的未來！
How it tells of the rapture that impels to the swinging and the ringing of the bells,
它滿心歡舞，帶得鈴聲叮叮當當，響個不停，
bells, bells, of the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells—
叮叮，叮叮，叮叮，叮叮，叮叮，叮叮，叮叮，叮叮，叮叮——
to the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
押韻和諧！
Hear the loud alarum bells—brazen bells!
聽，刺耳的警報聲——那是銅鈴發出的聲音！
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
這吵鬧的鐘聲訴說的是恐懼和噩夢！
In the startled ear of night how they scream out their affright!
在不安的夜晚凄厲地嚎叫！
Too much horrified to speak, they can only shriek, shriek, out of tune;
驚恐不已，無法言語，只能尖叫、尖叫、失聲；
in a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, in a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
在發狂和耳聾的烈火前苦苦哀求，大聲地祈求它的仁慈，
leaping higher, higher, higher, with a resolute endeavour now—
火焰越來越高、越來越烈，現在，它要孤注一擲、燃燒自我
now to sit or never, by the side of the pale-faced moon.
現在，在蒼白的月色下端坐吧，否則再無時機。
Oh, the bells, bells, bells! what a tale their terror tells of despair!
噢，鈴聲響著，不停地，響著！恐懼訴說著一個絕望的故事！
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
它們發著鏗鏘聲、碰撞聲和咆哮聲！
What a horror they outpour on the bosom of the palpitating air!
連空氣都要怕地瑟瑟發抖！
Yet the ear it fully knows, by the twanging and the clanging, how the danger ebbs and flows:
耳朵洞察了這一切，通過那叮叮當當的鈴聲，知道了危險的此起彼伏：
yet the ear distinctly tells, in the jangling and the wrangling,
在那刺耳的嘈雜聲里，耳朵能清晰明辨
how the danger sinks and swells, by the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells,
通過鈴聲的高低緩和，感受危險的漸近漸遠，
of the bells, of the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells—
呲呲，呲呲，呲呲，呲呲，呲呲，呲呲，呲呲，呲呲——
in the clamour and the clangour of the bells!
喧囂嘈雜！
Hear the tolling of the bells—iron bells!
聽，幽幽的喪鐘聲——那是鐵鐘發出的聲音！
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
哀婉的悼詞，氣氛莊嚴肅穆！
In the silence of the night how we shiver with affright at the melancholy menace of their tone;
寂靜的夜幕下，那憂郁的聲音響起，人們不寒而栗；
for every sound that floats from the rust within their throats is a groan.
只因鐵銹里發出的，是一聲聲悲傷的呻吟。
And the people—ah, the people—they that dwell up in the steeple all alone, and who, tolling, tolling, tolling,
那些人——啊，那些人——那些住在塔尖上形單影只的人，是他們敲響了這怨鐘，敲著，不停地敲著，
in that muffled monotone, feel a glory in so rolling on the human heart a stone—
那沉悶枯燥的聲音在人們的心靈上滾動著一塊巨石，而那些人啊，卻在沾沾自喜——
they are neither man nor woman—they are neither brute nor human—they are Ghouls!
他們不是男人，不是女人——不是牲畜，也不是人類——他們是食尸鬼！
And their king it is who tolls;
敲響喪鐘的是他們的國王；
and he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls a paean from the bells!
他敲著鐘，敲著，敲著，敲的是一首贊歌！
And his merry bosom swells with the paean of the bells!
他那愉悅的胸膛隨著贊歌膨脹~膨脹~
And he dances and he yells; keeping time, time, time,
他跳著舞，歡呼雀躍；伴著那鈴聲，興奮，舞動，
in a sort of Runic rhyme, to the paean of the bells—of the bells:
以某種神秘的古老旋律，敲著贊歌，敲著：
keeping time, time, time, in a sort of Runic rhyme,
和著拍子，不停地，敲著，以某種神秘的古老旋律，
to the throbbing of the bells—of the bells, bells, bells—to the sobbing of the bells;
伴著鐘聲的悸動——不停地，響著，響著——和著那哀怨的呻吟聲；
keeping time, time, time, as he knells, knells, knells,
和著拍子，不停地，起舞，雀躍，敲著鐘，不停地，敲著，
in a happy Runic rhyme, to the rolling of the bells—of the bells, bells, bells—to the tolling of the bells,
伴著那歡快地神秘旋律，伴著那此起彼伏的哀怨鐘聲——響著，不停地，響著——伴著那敲響的鈴聲，
of the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells—
叮鈴，叮鈴，叮鈴，叮鈴，叮鈴，叮鈴，叮鈴——
to the moaning and the groaning of the bells.
伴著哽咽和呻吟。
