【英中对照】The Green Door 绿门 欧·亨利(9)
The look stung the adventurer. He read in it a silent accusation that he had been found wanting. Whatever the mysterious written words on the cards might mean, the black had selected him twice from the throng for their recipient; and now seemed to have condemned him as deficient in the wit and spirit to engage the enigma.
这神情刺痛了冒险家。他从中感受到一种无声的控诉，仿佛自己是个白痴。不管卡片上写着的神秘文字到底意味着什么，黑人已经两次从接受的人群选中了他；而他现在仿佛在谴责自己缺乏解开谜题的智慧和勇气。
Standing aside from the rush, the young man made a rapid estimate of the building in which he conceived that his adventure must lie. Five stories high it rose. A small restaurant occupied the basement.
站在匆忙的人流之外，年轻人迅速打量了一下眼前的建筑，他认定他的冒险就在其中。这楼有五层高，一家小餐馆占据了地下室。
The first floor, now closed, seemed to house millinery or furs. The second floor, by the winking electric letters, was the dentist's. Above this a polyglot babel of signs struggled to indicate the abodes of palmists, dressmakers, musicians and doctors. Still higher up draped curtains and milk bottles white on the window sills proclaimed the regions of domesticity.
这神情刺痛了冒险家。他从中感受到一种无声的控诉，仿佛自己是个白痴。不管卡片上写着的神秘文字到底意味着什么，黑人已经两次从接受的人群选中了他；而他现在仿佛在谴责自己缺乏解开谜题的智慧和勇气。
Standing aside from the rush, the young man made a rapid estimate of the building in which he conceived that his adventure must lie. Five stories high it rose. A small restaurant occupied the basement.
站在匆忙的人流之外，年轻人迅速打量了一下眼前的建筑，他认定他的冒险就在其中。这楼有五层高，一家小餐馆占据了地下室。
The first floor, now closed, seemed to house millinery or furs. The second floor, by the winking electric letters, was the dentist's. Above this a polyglot babel of signs struggled to indicate the abodes of palmists, dressmakers, musicians and doctors. Still higher up draped curtains and milk bottles white on the window sills proclaimed the regions of domesticity.
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