美國(guó)語(yǔ)文第五冊(cè) 第212期：波士頓慘案（01）

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The evening of the fifth came on.

第五個(gè)晚上降臨了。

The young moon was shining brightly in a cloudless winter sky, and its light was increased by a new-fallen snow.

冬夜，天上無(wú)云，月牙的明亮清輝撒落大地。天，剛下過(guò)雪，月光更為清冷亮麗。

Parties of soldiers were driving about the streets, making a parade of valor, challenging resistance,

街上成群的英軍士兵耀武揚(yáng)威，波士頓居民怒火中燒集聚起來(lái)，抗議抵制英軍，

and striking the inhabitants indisCRIminately with sticks or sheathed cutlasses.

不少當(dāng)?shù)鼐用癫挥煞终f(shuō)地拿起刀棍參與聚會(huì)。

A band, which poured out from Murray's barracks, in Brattle Street,

從布拉特大街穆雷兵營(yíng)里跑出一群暴徒，

armed with clubs, cutlasses, and bayonets, provoked resistance, and a fray ensued.

他們?nèi)蔽溲b地配備刺刀、棍棒還有彎刀，激怒了那些參與集聚的抵制者，雙方隨即發(fā)生了毆斗。

Ensign Maul, at the gate of the barrack yard, CRIed to the soldiers:

此刻，在穆雷兵營(yíng)門(mén)口，莫爾少尉正對(duì)那些士兵高聲叫喊：

Turn out, and I will stand by you; kill them; stick them; knock them down; run your bayonets through them.

沖出去！我將和你們一起戰(zhàn)斗；殺死這些暴徒，將他們打翻在地，用刺刀挑翻。

One soldier after another leveled a firelock, and threatened to “make a lane” through the crowd.

士兵們逐一校準(zhǔn)毛瑟槍，群情激奮地瘋狂叫囂，將在人群中“殺出一條血路”。

Just before nine, as an officer crossed King Street, now State Street, a barber's lad CRIed after him:

眼看快到九點(diǎn)，一位軍官穿過(guò)國(guó)王大街，走到州立大街，一位理發(fā)店少年在他身后大聲叫喊，

There goes a mean fellow who hath not paid my father for dressing his hair;

那個(gè)卑鄙的家伙走過(guò)來(lái)了，他理發(fā)沒(méi)給我爸付錢(qián)。

on which, the sentinel stationed at the westerly end of the customhouse, on the corner of King Street and Exchange Lane, left his post,

聽(tīng)到少年的話，守衛(wèi)在國(guó)王大街與皇家兌換巷拐角的海關(guān)處西端哨兵離開(kāi)哨崗，

and with his musket gave the boy a stroke on the head, that made him stagger and cry for pain.

用毛瑟槍猛擊少年頭部，少年踉蹌幾步，痛苦地叫喚起來(lái)。

The street soon became clear, and nobody troubled the sentry,

街道上很快變得空蕩無(wú)人，沒(méi)有人去騷擾那位哨兵。

when a party of soldiers issued violently from the main guard, their arms glittering in the moonlight,

突然，一群士兵突然從駐防軍總部方向沖過(guò)來(lái)，手中槍支在月光下發(fā)出凜冽寒光，

and passed on, hallooing: “Where are they? where are they? Let them come.”

他們一邊跑，一邊不停高叫，“那些暴徒在哪里？究竟在哪里？讓他們站出來(lái)。”