【英中对照】The Green Door 绿门 欧·亨利(17)
他伸出手,她握住了。她说:“晚安。”不过她的眼神是那么明白无误又楚楚可怜,他不得不用话语回应。
"Oh, I'm coming back to-morrow to see how you are getting along. You can't get rid of me so easily."
“哦,我明天再来看你。别想轻易摆脱我哟。”
Then, at the door, as though the way of his coming had been so much less important than the fact that he had come, she asked: "How did you come to knock at my door?"
在门口,她终于问出了那个问题:“你为啥敲我门?”似乎他为什么来已经不重要了,重要的是他已经来了。
He looked at her for a moment, remembering the cards, and felt a sudden jealous pain. What if they had fallen into other hands as adventurous as his? Quickly he decided that she must never know the truth. He would never let her know that he was aware of the strange expedient to which she had been driven by her great distress.
他盯着她看了一会儿,想起那些卡片,陡然泛出几分妒忌,心里隐隐作痛。如果卡片落到别的像他一样的冒险家手中呢?他很快下定决心,永远都不告诉她真相。他永远不会让她知道:他早已看穿这一切都是她异想天开般的急中生智。
"One of our piano tuners lives in this house," he said. "I knocked at your door by mistake."
“我们有个钢琴调音师住在这里,”他说,“我走错门了。”
The last thing he saw in the room before the green door closed was her smile.
绿门关上前,他在屋内最后看到的是她的笑脸。
"Oh, I'm coming back to-morrow to see how you are getting along. You can't get rid of me so easily."
“哦,我明天再来看你。别想轻易摆脱我哟。”
Then, at the door, as though the way of his coming had been so much less important than the fact that he had come, she asked: "How did you come to knock at my door?"
在门口,她终于问出了那个问题:“你为啥敲我门?”似乎他为什么来已经不重要了,重要的是他已经来了。
He looked at her for a moment, remembering the cards, and felt a sudden jealous pain. What if they had fallen into other hands as adventurous as his? Quickly he decided that she must never know the truth. He would never let her know that he was aware of the strange expedient to which she had been driven by her great distress.
他盯着她看了一会儿,想起那些卡片,陡然泛出几分妒忌,心里隐隐作痛。如果卡片落到别的像他一样的冒险家手中呢?他很快下定决心,永远都不告诉她真相。他永远不会让她知道:他早已看穿这一切都是她异想天开般的急中生智。
"One of our piano tuners lives in this house," he said. "I knocked at your door by mistake."
“我们有个钢琴调音师住在这里,”他说,“我走错门了。”
The last thing he saw in the room before the green door closed was her smile.
绿门关上前,他在屋内最后看到的是她的笑脸。