有声双语经典:堂吉诃德

第1章 身披盔甲的骑士 从前，有个人书读得太多，结果发了疯。他只读有关骑士的书，这正是问题所在。这些书讲述了身披盔甲的骑士的冒险之旅——他们与恶龙、怪兽、巨人、巫师，甚至其他骑士的奇遇。书里也谈情说爱，因为每个骑士都有一位梦中情人。 这人很快就对那些离奇的故事信以为真。有一天，他决定要当一名骑士，因为他想惩恶扬善。他独自在屋里头练习骑马比武。砰！砰！砰！就像书里的英雄似的，他总是赢。 这一切都发生在拉曼查省的一个小村庄里，该省位于西班牙中心。这个人同他的祖祖辈辈一样，一辈子都生活在这个小地方。他五十来岁，又高又瘦，留着撮小胡子。从没有人觉得他会做坏事，也没人觉得他不好，因为他是个体面人，是位完美的绅士。他家里还住着两个人，一个是他漂亮快活、天真无邪的侄女，约莫二十岁；另一个是胖乎乎的管家，大概四十岁，心地善良，对什么事情都很有主见。还有个男孩负责做家务。 这位绅士究竟姓甚名谁，尚不清楚。有人说他叫阿隆索?? 奎萨诺，但说不定姓奎萨达、克萨达或者克萨诺。他出身名门——这就是他被称为堂?? 阿隆索的原因。他继承了一小块土地，但其他的寥寥无几。当他病了，他卖掉好些良田，全部去买自己爱看的小说。 有一天，他展开做骑士的实际准备。家里头翻出来一套盔甲，是他曾祖父的。他又是清洗，又是抛光，还尽可能地把它修整好。头盔破烂不堪，得捆起来才行。他已经有了一匹马——虽然垂垂老矣，瘦骨嶙峋，根本算不上是匹马，但也算有个坐骑了。他花了整整四天工夫，寻思着给它取个好名字。就叫它罗西纳特吧，这名字可真不错！“罗西”是个西班牙词，意思是“马”或者“驮马”，“纳特”意思是“以前”。对大多数人来说，这个名字的意思是“这以前是一匹马”，但是对堂?? 阿隆索而言，它意味着骏马良驹，世间无有出其右者！ 而他自己的名字，堂?? 阿隆索，对一位骑士来说还不够好。他改名成堂吉诃德——又添上“拉曼查的”几个字，这下大家伙儿都能知道他打哪儿来。拉曼查的堂吉诃德——不愧是位骑士的堂堂大名！ 然而，他还是需要一位小姐，一位能让他魂牵梦萦，接受溃败敌人之效忠的小姐。没人知道他已坠入爱河，可他的确如此……他藏着掖着，似乎连那位女士都不知道他喜欢她！她是附近埃尔托巴索的一个农家女，毫不起眼、举止粗野、平淡无奇，名叫阿尔堂莎?? 洛伦索。他这辈子只见过她一次。在她一无所知的情况下，堂吉诃德宣称她是自己的“小姐”，管她叫埃尔托巴索的杜尔西内娅。跟其他名头一样，她的名字也是经过精挑细选的：它出自西班牙词语“杜尔塞”，意思是“甜美的”。 做好准备后，堂吉诃德满意极了。 CHAPTER 1 A Knight in Armor Once, there was a man who went crazy from too much reading. He only read books about knighthood; that was the problem. Those books told about the adventures of knights in armor—their fantastic encounters with dragons, monsters, giants, wizards, and even other knights. There was also talk of love, because each knight had a lady of his dreams. Soon the man came to believe that all those fantastic tales were true. One day, he decided to become a knight, for he wanted to right all that was wrong in the world, and punish evil. Alone in his room, he practiced jousting. Wham wham wham! Like the heroes in his books, he always won. All this happened in a little village in a province called La Mancha, in the heart of Spain. The man had lived in the same place all his life, as his parents and grandparents had before him. He was about fifty, tall and thin, and he had a small beard. No one would ever expect anything bad from him or think anything wrong about him, for he was an honorable man, a perfect gentleman. Two other people lived in his home; they were his pretty, cheerful, innocent niece, about twenty, and his plump housekeeper, about forty, who was a good, friendly soul, with strong opinions about everything. A boy did chores around the house. It is not clear what the gentleman’s real name was. Some think it was Alonso Quixano, but the last name could have been Quixada, Quesada, or Quexana. He came from a respectable family—that’s why he was called Don Alonso. He had inherited a little land, but very little else. When he became ill, he sold many acres of good farmland to buy more of his favorite books. One day he began the actual preparations to become a knight. Somewhere in the house there was an old suit of armor that had belonged to his great-grandfather. He cleaned it, polished it, and fixed it up as best he could. The helmet was in such bad shape that it had to be tied together. A horse he already had—old and bony, not much of a horse, but a mount nonetheless. He spent four whole days thinking of a good name for his horse. It would be Rocinante. And what a good name it was! Rocín is a Spanish word that means “nag” or “workhorse”； and antes means “before.” To most people, the name means “This was once a horse,” but to Don Alonso, it meant a steed above and beyond all other horses in the world! His own name, Don Alonso, didn’t seem good enough for a knight. He changed it to Don Quixote, and added de la Mancha so everyone would know where he came from. Don Quixote de la Mancha. What a fine-sounding name for a knight! But he still needed a lady, a lady to dream about, a lady to receive homage from his defeated enemies. No one knew he was in love, but he was ... so secretly, it seems, that even the lady herself didn’t know he liked her! She was a farm girl from nearby El Toboso, and she was plain, rough, ordinary. Her name was Aldonza Lorenzo. He had seen her only once in his life. Without her knowledge, Don Quixote pronounced her his “lady” and called her Dulcinea del Toboso. Her name, like the others, was well chosen: it comes from the Spanish word dulce, which means “sweet”. Don Quixote was very pleased with his preparations.