双语名著无障碍阅读丛书:消失的地平线(英汉对照)

Prologue Cigars had burned low, and we were beginning to sample the disillusionment① that usually afflicts② old school friends who have met again as men and found themselves with less in common than they had believed they had. Rutherford wrote novels; Wyland was one of the Embassy secretaries; he had just given us dinner at Tempelhof — not very cheerfully, I fancied③, but with the equanimity④ which a diplomat must always keep on tap for such occasions. It seemed likely that nothing but the fact of being three celibate⑤ Englishmen in a foreign capital could have brought us together, and I had already reached the conclusion that the slight touch of priggishness⑥ which I remembered in Wyland Tertius had not diminished⑦ with years and an M.V.O. Rutherford I liked more; he had ripened⑧ well out of the skinny, precocious⑨ infant whom I had once alternately bullied⑩ and patronized?. The probability? that he was making much more money and having a more interesting life than either of us gave Wyland and me our one mutual? emotion — a touch of envy. ① disillusionment [disi'lu:??nm?nt] n. 幻灭 ② affl ict [?'fl ikt] v. 困扰；折磨 ③ fancy ['f?nsi] v. 设想；认为 ④ equanimity ['i:kw?'nimiti] n. 平静；镇定 ⑤ celibate ['selibit] a. 独身的 ⑥ priggishness ['priɡi?n?s] n. 一本正经；傲慢 ⑦ diminish [di'mini?] v. 减少；缩小 ⑧ ripen ['raip?n] v. 成熟 ⑨ precocious [pri'k?u??s] a. 早熟的 ⑩ bully ['buli] v. 欺负 ? patronize ['p?tr?,naiz] v. 保护；屈尊对待 ? probability [,pr?b?'biliti] n. 概率；可能性 ? mutual ['mju:t?u?l] a. 相互的 引子 成年后的昔日同窗好友重逢时会发现，彼此间少了他们先前相信有的心气相通的感觉，因此，他们通常会焦躁烦恼，深感失望。手上的雪茄烟即将燃尽时，我们的心里也开始有了那种失望的感觉。拉瑟福德成了作家。怀兰当了大使馆的秘书。后者刚在滕佩尔霍夫酒店设宴招待了我们——我心里觉得，他情绪并不是很高昂，倒是自始至终保持着外交官在此类场合应该有的镇定自若。看起来，我们三个英国人之所以聚集在一起，似乎没有别的原因，只是因为我们茕茕孑立，客居于一座异国他乡的首都城市。我记得，怀兰·特蒂厄斯身上有种略显自命不凡的气质。我已经认定，尽管多年过去了，他也成了皇家维多利亚勋章的获得者，但他的那种气质并没有因此而有所减弱。相比之下，我更加喜欢拉瑟福德。他成熟了，变成了堂堂男子汉，没有了昔日那个瘦骨嶙峋大男孩的身影。想当初，我对他刚柔相济，又是欺凌又是庇护。我们三个人中，拉瑟福德可能是*财大气粗的，而且生活也过得*有滋有味。对此，我和怀兰滋生了一种共有的情感——一丝妒意。