[不朽的短篇]红死魔的假面舞会--带你领略爱伦坡式的悬念小说（解说＋全文＋赏析)(4)
It was near the end of their fifth month there that Prospero asked his friends to all to come together for a dancing party, a masquerade. Everyone was asked to come dressed in fine clothes and with his eyes, or perhaps his whole face, covered by a cloth mask.
就在这种隔离生活的第五个月或第六个月将近之时，也就是墙外的瘟疫最猖獗的时候，普洛斯佩罗亲王为他的一千名追随者举行了一场异常豪华的假面舞会。
It was a scene of great richness, that masquerade. There were seven rooms in which Prospero's friends danced. In many old palaces, the doors can be opened in such a way that rooms like these seven can be seen all at the same time. In this palace, it was different. Little more than one of them could be seen at one time. There was a turn every 20 or 30 yards.
那假面舞会的场面真可谓骄奢淫逸。不过先容我讲讲举行舞会的场所。那一共是七个房间--一组富丽堂皇的套房。但在一半宫殿里这样的套房只须把各间的双扇门推开到墙边便能形成一条笔直的长廊，整个套房也就几乎一览无遗。可这组套房的情况却迥然不同，正如从亲王追奇逐异的嗜好中就可以料到一样。这七个房间的布局极不规则，所以一眼只能看到一个房间。套房中每隔二三十米便是一个转角，每拐过一个转角都有一种新的效果。
To the right and left, in the middle of each wall, was a tall pointed window. The windows were of colored glass, of the same color that was used in each room. The first room had blue cloth hangings on the wall — and blue were its windows. The second room had wall hangings of that blue-red known as purple, and here the windows were purple. The third was green, and so was the glass of the windows.
就在这种隔离生活的第五个月或第六个月将近之时，也就是墙外的瘟疫最猖獗的时候，普洛斯佩罗亲王为他的一千名追随者举行了一场异常豪华的假面舞会。
It was a scene of great richness, that masquerade. There were seven rooms in which Prospero's friends danced. In many old palaces, the doors can be opened in such a way that rooms like these seven can be seen all at the same time. In this palace, it was different. Little more than one of them could be seen at one time. There was a turn every 20 or 30 yards.
那假面舞会的场面真可谓骄奢淫逸。不过先容我讲讲举行舞会的场所。那一共是七个房间--一组富丽堂皇的套房。但在一半宫殿里这样的套房只须把各间的双扇门推开到墙边便能形成一条笔直的长廊，整个套房也就几乎一览无遗。可这组套房的情况却迥然不同，正如从亲王追奇逐异的嗜好中就可以料到一样。这七个房间的布局极不规则，所以一眼只能看到一个房间。套房中每隔二三十米便是一个转角，每拐过一个转角都有一种新的效果。
To the right and left, in the middle of each wall, was a tall pointed window. The windows were of colored glass, of the same color that was used in each room. The first room had blue cloth hangings on the wall — and blue were its windows. The second room had wall hangings of that blue-red known as purple, and here the windows were purple. The third was green, and so was the glass of the windows.
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