Part 2 Chapter 61

Don Quixote passed three days and three nights with Roque, and had he passed three hundred years he would have found enough to observe and wonder at in his mode of life. At daybreak they were in one spot, at dinner-time in another; sometimes they fled without knowing from whom, at other times they lay in wait, not knowing for what. They slept standing², breaking their slumbers⁴ to shift from place to place. There was nothing but sending out spies and scouts⁵, posting sentinels and blowing the matches of harquebusses, though they carried but few, for almost all used flintlocks. Roque passed his nights in some place or other apart from his men, that they might not know where he was, for the many proclamations the viceroy of Barcelona had issued against his life kept him in fear and uneasiness, and he did not venture to trust anyone, afraid that even his own men would kill him or deliver him up to the authorities; of a truth, a weary miserable⁶ life! At length, by unfrequented roads, short cuts, and secret paths, Roque, Don Quixote, and Sancho, together with six squires⁷, set out for Barcelona. They reached the strand⁸ on Saint John’s Eve during the night; and Roque, after embracing Don Quixote and Sancho (to whom he presented the ten crowns he had promised but had not until then given), left them with many expressions of good-will on both sides.

Roque went back, while Don Quixote remained on horseback, just as he was, waiting for day, and it was not long before the countenance⁹ of the fair Aurora¹⁰ began to show itself at the balconies of the east, gladdening the grass and flowers, if not the ear, though to gladden that too there came at the same moment a sound of clarions and drums, and a din¹ of bells, and a tramp, tramp, and cries of “Clear the way there!” of some runners, that seemed to issue from the city.

 

The dawn made way for the sun that with a face broader than a buckler began to rise slowly above the low line of the horizon; Don Quixote and Sancho gazed all round them; they beheld¹¹ the sea, a sight until then unseen by them; it struck them as exceedingly spacious¹² and broad, much more so than the lakes of Ruidera which they had seen in La Mancha. They saw the galleys¹³ along the beach, which, lowering their awnings¹⁴, displayed themselves decked with streamers and pennons that trembled in the breeze and kissed and swept the water, while on board the bugles¹⁵, trumpets¹⁶, and clarions were sounding and filling the air far and near with melodious¹⁷ warlike notes. Then they began to move and execute a kind of skirmish upon the calm water, while a vast number of horsemen on fine horses and in showy liveries, issuing from the city, engaged on their side in a somewhat similar movement. The soldiers on board the galleys kept up a ceaseless fire, which they on the walls and forts of the city returned, and the heavy cannon¹⁸ rent the air with the tremendous noise they made, to which the gangway guns of the galleys replied. The bright sea, the smiling earth, the clear air — though at times darkened by the smoke of the guns — all seemed to fill the whole multitude with unexpected delight. Sancho could not make out how it was that those great masses that moved over the sea had so many feet.

And now the horsemen in livery came galloping¹⁹ up with shouts and outlandish cries and cheers to where Don Quixote stood amazed and wondering; and one of them, he to whom Roque had sent word, addressing him exclaimed, “Welcome to our city, mirror, beacon²⁰, star and cynosure²¹ of all knight²²-errantry in its widest extent! Welcome, I say, valiant²³ Don Quixote of La Mancha; not the false, the fictitious²⁴, the apocryphal²⁵, that these latter days have offered us in lying histories, but the true, the legitimate²⁶, the real one that Cide Hamete Benengeli, flower of historians, has described to us!”

Don Quixote made no answer, nor did the horsemen wait for one, but wheeling again with all their followers²⁷, they began curvetting round Don Quixote, who, turning to Sancho, said, “These gentlemen have plainly recognised us; I will wager²⁸ they have read our history, and even that newly printed one by the Aragonese.”

The cavalier who had addressed Don Quixote again approached him and said, “Come with us, Senor Don Quixote, for we are all of us your servants and great friends of Roque Guinart’s ;” to which Don Quixote returned, “If courtesy breeds courtesy, yours, sir knight, is daughter or very nearly akin³ to the great Roque’s ; carry me where you please; I will have no will but yours, especially if you deign²⁹ to employ it in your service.”

 

The cavalier replied with words no less polite, and then, all closing in around him, they set out with him for the city, to the music of the clarions and the drums. As they were entering it, the wicked one, who is the author of all mischief³⁰, and the boys who are wickeder than the wicked one, contrived³¹ that a couple of these audacious irrepressible urchins³² should force their way through the crowd, and lifting up, one of them Dapple’s tail and the other Rocinante’s, insert a bunch of furze under each. The poor beasts felt the strange spurs and added to their anguish³³ by pressing their tails tight, so much so that, cutting a multitude of capers³⁴, they flung their masters to the ground. Don Quixote, covered with shame and out of countenance, ran to pluck the plume³⁵ from his poor jade’s tail, while Sancho did the same for Dapple. His conductors tried to punish the audacity³⁶ of the boys, but there was no possibility of doing so, for they hid themselves among the hundreds of others that were following them. Don Quixote and Sancho mounted once more, and with the same music and acclamations reached their conductor’s house, which was large and stately, that of a rich gentleman, in short; and there for the present we will leave them, for such is Cide Hamete’s pleasure.

 

以及其他不新奇但却真实的事情

唐吉诃德同罗克一起度过了三天三夜。不过，即使他同罗克一起度过三百年，罗克的生活也总是那么变化无穷：早晨还在这儿，吃饭时就跑到别处去了；有时不知要躲避什么人，有时又不知在等待什么人。他们睡觉时都站着，睡到一半又转移地方。他们所做的就是站岗放哨，吹旺火枪的引火绳，尽管他们并没有几只火枪，大部分人只是用燧石枪。罗克不同他的部下一同过夜，总是独处一地，谁也不准打听他在哪儿。巴塞罗那总督已经发布了很多布告，悬赏捉拿他，因此罗克总是忐忑不安，心惊胆战，怕他的部下把他杀了或者把他送交官府。他这种生活真是可怜而又可悲。

罗克、唐吉诃德、桑乔和另外六个随从沿着荒凉的小路，一路披荆斩棘地赶赴巴塞罗那，在圣约翰日前夜来到了巴塞罗那的海滩。罗克拥抱了唐吉诃德和桑乔，把前面曾许给桑乔的十个盾交给了桑乔。几个人客气一番，罗克便告别了。

罗克走了以后，唐吉诃德仍留在原地，骑在马上等待天明。东方很快就露出了晨曦，乳白色的晨光为绿草鲜花带来了愉悦。人们可以听到笛声、鼓声和铃销声，以及从城里来的脚夫“让一下！让一下！”的吆喝声。晨曦又迎来了太阳。

太阳就像一块大护胸盾，从地平线冉冉升起。

唐吉诃德和桑乔放眼向四方望去，看到了他们从未见过的大海。大海浩瀚无垠，比他们在曼查看到的鲁伊德拉湖大得多了。他们还看到，停泊于海岸的几艘船已经降下了船篷。船上无数彩带和三角旗迎风飘动，还不时地垂掠水面。船上鼓号齐鸣，悠扬而又雄壮的音调远近可闻。那几艘船摆开战斗的阵势，开始在平静的水面上缓缓移动。地面上与之呼应的是无数身着艳丽服装的骑手，骑着英俊的马匹从城内奔出。船上的士兵连连射击，城墙上和堡垒里的士兵放炮回敬，炮声隆隆，划破了天空。船上的士兵也不甘示弱，开炮作答。大海起舞，大地欢腾，空气清新，只有炮火的烟雾偶尔混浊了晴空。此情此景仿佛让所有人都感到了一种从未有过的兴致。只有桑乔无论如何也想象不出，为什么那些在海上移动的庞然大物竟有那么多只脚①。

①指船桨。

那些高喊着“雷里里”的骑马人已经冲到了唐吉诃德面前，把唐吉诃德吓得不知所措。其中一个骑马人就是罗克通知的那个人。他对唐吉诃德说道：

“欢迎您到我们城市来，游侠骑士的楷模、明灯和北斗星，还有您的其他数不尽的英名。欢迎您，曼查的英勇的唐吉诃德，我说的不是我们最近看到的那部伪作里的假唐吉诃德，而是史学家精英锡德·哈迈德·贝嫩赫利描述的那个真正的唐吉诃德。”

唐吉诃德并不答话。那几个骑马人也不等他答话，便同一起来的那些人围着唐吉诃德绕起圈来。唐吉诃德转身对桑乔说道：

“他们认识我。我敢打赌，他们一定读过写咱们的书，连刚刚出版的阿拉贡人写的那本也读过。”

刚才同唐吉诃德说话的那个骑马人又转回来对唐吉诃德说道：

“请您跟我们走吧，唐吉诃德大人。我们是罗克·吉纳德的老朋友，都是您的仆人。”

唐吉诃德答道：

“如果礼貌能够带动礼貌，那么骑士大人，您的盛情源于伟大的罗克对我的盛情。您随意带我到任何地方去吧，我愿意尊崇您的意志，而且只要您乐意，我愿意为您效劳。”

那位骑马人也同样客套了一番。然后，那些人簇拥着唐吉诃德，随着鼓乐的伴奏，一起走向城里。他们刚进城，就有两个坏得不能再坏的顽童挤进了人群里，一个掀起灰驴的尾巴，另一个掀起罗西南多的尾巴，把两束棘豆分别插进两头牲口的屁股。两头牲口感到疼痛，可是越夹尾巴越难受，便尥起蹶子来，把两个主人摔到了地上。唐吉诃德又羞又气，赶紧把插进马屁股的东西拔了出来，桑乔也把驴屁股里的东西扯了出来。伴随唐吉诃德的那些人想惩罚那两个顽童，可是已经不可能了，两个孩子早已混进了数以千计的人群之中。

唐吉诃德和桑乔又骑上牲口，仍然在鼓乐声的伴奏下来到了那个引路的骑马人的家。那是个高门大宅，看样子是个富裕人家。这些咱们暂且不提吧，因为这是锡德·哈迈德的意思。

1 din   

n.喧闹声，嘈杂声

参考例句：

• The bustle and din gradually faded to silence as night advanced.随着夜越来越深，喧闹声逐渐沉寂。
• They tried to make themselves heard over the din of the crowd.他们力图让自己的声音盖过人群的喧闹声。

2 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

3 akin   

adj.同族的，类似的

参考例句：

• She painted flowers and birds pictures akin to those of earlier feminine painters.她画一些同早期女画家类似的花鸟画。
• Listening to his life story is akin to reading a good adventure novel.听他的人生故事犹如阅读一本精彩的冒险小说。

4 slumbers   

睡眠，安眠( slumber的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His image traversed constantly her restless slumbers. 他的形象一再闯进她的脑海，弄得她不能安睡。
• My Titan brother slumbers deep inside his mountain prison. Go. 我的泰坦兄弟就被囚禁在山脉的深处。

5 scouts   

侦察员[机，舰]( scout的名词复数 )； 童子军； 搜索； 童子军成员

参考例句：

• to join the Scouts 参加童子军
• The scouts paired off and began to patrol the area. 巡逻人员两个一组，然后开始巡逻这个地区。

6 miserable   

adj.悲惨的，痛苦的；可怜的，糟糕的

参考例句：

• It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他，这是可耻的。
• Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。

7 squires   

n.地主，乡绅( squire的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The family history was typical of the Catholic squires of England. 这个家族的历史，在英格兰信天主教的乡绅中是很典型的。 来自辞典例句
• By 1696, with Tory squires and Amsterdam burghers complaining about excessive taxes. 到1696年，托利党的乡绅们和阿姆斯特丹的市民都对苛捐杂税怨声载道。 来自辞典例句

8 strand   

vt.使（船）搁浅，使（某人）困于（某地）

参考例句：

• She tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ears.她把一缕散发夹到了耳后。
• The climbers had been stranded by a storm.登山者被暴风雨困住了。

9 countenance   

n.脸色，面容；面部表情；vt.支持，赞同

参考例句：

• At the sight of this photograph he changed his countenance.他一看见这张照片脸色就变了。
• I made a fierce countenance as if I would eat him alive.我脸色恶狠狠地，仿佛要把他活生生地吞下去。

10 aurora   

n.极光

参考例句：

• The aurora is one of nature's most awesome spectacles.极光是自然界最可畏的奇观之一。
• Over the polar regions we should see aurora.在极地高空,我们会看到极光。

11 beheld   

v.看，注视( behold的过去式和过去分词 )；瞧；看呀；（叙述中用于引出某人意外的出现）哎哟

参考例句：

• His eyes had never beheld such opulence. 他从未见过这样的财富。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The soul beheld its features in the mirror of the passing moment. 灵魂在逝去的瞬间的镜子中看到了自己的模样。 来自英汉文学 - 红字

12 spacious   

adj.广阔的，宽敞的

参考例句：

• Our yard is spacious enough for a swimming pool.我们的院子很宽敞，足够建一座游泳池。
• The room is bright and spacious.这房间很豁亮。

13 galleys   

n.平底大船，战舰( galley的名词复数 )；（船上或航空器上的）厨房

参考例句：

• Other people had drowned at sea since galleys swarmed with painted sails. 自从布满彩帆的大船下海以来，别的人曾淹死在海里。 来自辞典例句
• He sighed for the galleys, with their infamous costume. 他羡慕那些穿着囚衣的苦工。 来自辞典例句

14 awnings   

篷帐布

参考例句：

• Striped awnings had been stretched across the courtyard. 一些条纹雨篷撑开架在院子上方。
• The room, shadowed well with awnings, was dark and cool. 这间屋子外面有这篷挡着，又阴暗又凉快。

15 bugles   

妙脆角，一种类似薯片但做成尖角或喇叭状的零食； 号角( bugle的名词复数 )； 喇叭； 匍匐筋骨草； （装饰女服用的）柱状玻璃（或塑料）小珠

参考例句：

• Blow, bugles, blow, set the wild echoes flying. "响起来，号角，响起来，让激昂的回声在空中震荡"。
• We hear the silver voices of heroic bugles. 我们听到了那清亮的号角。

16 trumpets   

喇叭( trumpet的名词复数 )； 小号； 喇叭形物； （尤指）绽开的水仙花

参考例句：

• A wreath was laid on the monument to a fanfare of trumpets. 在响亮的号角声中花圈被献在纪念碑前。
• A fanfare of trumpets heralded the arrival of the King. 嘹亮的小号声宣告了国王驾到。

17 melodious   

adj.旋律美妙的，调子优美的，音乐性的

参考例句：

• She spoke in a quietly melodious voice.她说话轻声细语，嗓音甜美。
• Everybody was attracted by her melodious voice.大家都被她悦耳的声音吸引住了。

18 cannon   

n.大炮，火炮；飞机上的机关炮

参考例句：

• The soldiers fired the cannon.士兵们开炮。
• The cannon thundered in the hills.大炮在山间轰鸣。

19 galloping   

adj. 飞驰的, 急性的 动词gallop的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• The horse started galloping the moment I gave it a good dig. 我猛戳了马一下，它就奔驰起来了。
• Japan is galloping ahead in the race to develop new technology. 日本在发展新技术的竞争中进展迅速，日新月异。

20 beacon   

n.烽火，（警告用的）闪火灯，灯塔

参考例句：

• The blink of beacon could be seen for miles.灯塔的光亮在数英里之外都能看见。
• The only light over the deep black sea was the blink shone from the beacon.黑黢黢的海面上唯一的光明就只有灯塔上闪现的亮光了。

21 cynosure   

n.焦点

参考例句：

• Let faith be your cynosure to walk by.让信仰成为你生活中的灯塔。
• The princess,dressed head to foot in gold,was the cynosure of all eyes.公主全身上下披金戴银，是众目注视的焦点。

22 knight   

n.骑士，武士；爵士

参考例句：

• He was made an honourary knight.他被授予荣誉爵士称号。
• A knight rode on his richly caparisoned steed.一个骑士骑在装饰华丽的马上。

23 valiant   

adj.勇敢的，英勇的；n.勇士，勇敢的人

参考例句：

• He had the fame of being very valiant.他的勇敢是出名的。
• Despite valiant efforts by the finance minister,inflation rose to 36%.尽管财政部部长采取了一系列果决措施，通货膨胀率还是涨到了36%。

24 fictitious   

adj.虚构的，假设的；空头的

参考例句：

• She invented a fictitious boyfriend to put him off.她虚构出一个男朋友来拒绝他。
• The story my mother told me when I was young is fictitious.小时候妈妈对我讲的那个故事是虚构的。

25 apocryphal   

adj.假冒的，虚假的

参考例句：

• Most of the story about his private life was probably apocryphal.有关他私生活的事可能大部分都是虚构的。
• This may well be an apocryphal story.这很可能是个杜撰的故事。

26 legitimate   

adj.合法的，合理的，合乎逻辑的；v.使合法

参考例句：

• Sickness is a legitimate reason for asking for leave.生病是请假的一个正当的理由。
• That's a perfectly legitimate fear.怀有这种恐惧完全在情理之中。

27 followers   

追随者( follower的名词复数 )； 用户； 契据的附面； 从动件

参考例句：

• the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
• The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。

28 wager   

n.赌注；vt.押注，打赌

参考例句：

• They laid a wager on the result of the race.他们以竞赛的结果打赌。
• I made a wager that our team would win.我打赌我们的队会赢。

29 deign   

v. 屈尊, 惠允 ( 做某事)

参考例句：

• He doesn't deign to talk to unimportant people like me. 他不肯屈尊和像我这样不重要的人说话。
• I would not deign to comment on such behaviour. 这种行为不屑我置评。

30 mischief   

n.损害，伤害，危害；恶作剧，捣蛋，胡闹

参考例句：

• Nobody took notice of the mischief of the matter. 没有人注意到这件事情所带来的危害。
• He seems to intend mischief.看来他想捣蛋。

31 contrived   

adj.不自然的，做作的；虚构的

参考例句：

• There was nothing contrived or calculated about what he said.他说的话里没有任何蓄意捏造的成分。
• The plot seems contrived.情节看起来不真实。

32 urchins   

n.顽童( urchin的名词复数 )；淘气鬼；猬；海胆

参考例句：

• Some dozen barefooted urchins ganged in from the riverside. 几十个赤足的顽童从河边成群结队而来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• People said that he had jaundice and urchins nicknamed him "Yellow Fellow." 别人说他是黄胆病，孩子们也就叫他“黄胖”了。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说

33 anguish   

n.(尤指心灵上的)极度痛苦，烦恼

参考例句：

• She cried out for anguish at parting.分手时，她由于痛苦而失声大哭。
• The unspeakable anguish wrung his heart.难言的痛苦折磨着他的心。

34 capers   

n.开玩笑( caper的名词复数 )；刺山柑v.跳跃，雀跃( caper的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• I like to fly about and cut capers. 我喜欢跳跳蹦蹦闹着玩儿。 来自辞典例句
• He always leads in pranks and capers. 他老是带头胡闹和开玩笑。 来自辞典例句

35 plume   

n.羽毛；v.整理羽毛，骚首弄姿，用羽毛装饰

参考例句：

• Her hat was adorned with a plume.她帽子上饰着羽毛。
• He does not plume himself on these achievements.他并不因这些成就而自夸。

36 audacity   

n.大胆，卤莽，无礼

参考例句：

• He had the audacity to ask for an increase in salary.他竟然厚着脸皮要求增加薪水。
• He had the audacity to pick pockets in broad daylight.他竟敢在光天化日之下掏包。