《乞力马扎罗的雪》双语解读第3期

梗概

在这一讲当中，我们将开始领略到大多数评论家认为的所谓意识流的写法，那更像是一个接一个的镜头。越是接近死亡，人就越容易回顾自己的一生。哈里的脑海中略过了那些自己想写但却没能写下来的片段。那里有卡拉加奇的火车站，保加利亚群山上的积雪，雪天匆忙躲藏的逃兵，马德伦的小屋里的赌博等等。

金句

There was always gambling then. When there was no snow you gambled and when there was too much you gambled. He thought of all the time in his life he had spent gambling.
那时候赌局不断。不下雪的时候赌，雪下得太大了也赌。他在想这一生他把多少时间花在了赌博上。

But it was the snow all right and he sent them on into it when he evolved exchange of populations. And it was snow they tramped along in until they died that winter.

但那确实是雪，在他促成的那个难民交换行动中，是他把她们送进了雪地。在那个冬天，她们正是踏着那些积雪走向死亡的。

They slept on mattresses filled with beech leaves, the time the deserter came with his feet bloody in the snow.
当那个在雪地上留下血脚印的逃兵进来时，他们正睡在填满山毛榉树叶的床垫上。

But it was their vacation time and they were ignorant and had no fear of avalanches. They arrived at Lech and Herr Lent refused to take them out. One man called him a coward and they said they would ski by themselves. 

但那会儿正赶上他们的假期，他们对雪崩一无所知，也无所畏惧。他们到了莱希镇，但伦特先生拒绝带他们出去。其中一个人骂他懦夫，他们说要自己去滑雪。

They were snow-bound a week in the Madlener-haus that time in the blizzard playing cards in the smoke by the lantern light and the stakes were higher all the time as Herr Lent lost more.
那次在马德伦的小屋里，被暴风雪困了一周，他们在马灯冒出的烟雾中玩牌，输得越多，伦特先生的赌注就下得越大。