Part 3 Chapter 13

LOVE AFFAIRS OF THE EXILES.

The stove had burned up and got warm, the tea was made and poured out into mugs and cups, and milk was added to it; rusks, fresh rye and wheat bread, hard-boiled eggs, butter, and calf's head and feet were placed on the cloth. Everybody moved towards the part of the shelf beds which took the place of the table and sat eating and talking. Rintzeva sat on a box pouring out the tea. The rest crowded round her, only Kryltzoff, who had taken off his wet cloak and wrapped himself in his dry plaid and lay in his own place talking to Nekhludoff.

After the cold and damp march and the dirt and disorder¹ they had found here, and after the pains they had taken to get it tidy, after having drunk hot tea and eaten, they were all in the best and brightest of spirits.

The fact that the tramp of feet, the screams and abuse of the criminals, reached them through the wall, reminding them of their surroundings, seemed only to increase the sense of coziness. As on an island in the midst of the sea, these people felt themselves for a brief interval² not swamped by the degradation³ and sufferings which surrounded them; this made their spirits rise, and excited them. They talked about everything except their present position and that which awaited them. Then, as it generally happens among young men, and women especially, if they are forced to remain together, as these people were, all sorts of agreements and disagreements and attractions, curiously⁴ blended, had sprung up among them. Almost all of them were in love. Novodvoroff was in love with the pretty, smiling Grabetz. This Grabetz was a young, thoughtless girl who had gone in for a course of study, perfectly⁵ indifferent to revolutionary questions, but succumbing⁶ to the influence of the day, she compromised herself in some way and was exiled. The chief interest of her life during the time of her trial in prison and in exile was her success with men, just as it had been when she was free. Now on the way she comforted herself with the fact that Novodvoroff had taken a fancy to her, and she fell in love with him. Vera Doukhova, who was very prone⁷ to fall in love herself, but did not awaken⁸ love in others, though she was always hoping for mutual⁹ love, was sometimes drawn¹⁰ to Nabatoff, then to Novodvoroff. Kryltzoff felt something like love for Mary Pavlovna. He loved her with a man's love, but knowing how she regarded this sort of love, hid his feelings under the guise¹¹ of friendship and gratitude¹² for the tenderness with which she attended to his wants. Nabatoff and Rintzeva were attached to each other by very complicated ties. Just as Mary Pavlovna was a perfectly chaste¹³ maiden¹⁴, in the same way Rintzeva was perfectly chaste as her own husband's wife. When only a schoolgirl of sixteen she fell in love with Rintzeff, a student of the Petersburg University, and married him before he left the university, when she was only nineteen years old. During his fourth year at the university her husband had become involved in the students' rows, was exiled from Petersburg, and turned revolutionist. She left the medical courses she was attending, followed him, and also turned revolutionist. If she had not considered her husband the cleverest and best of men she would not have fallen in love with him; and if she had not fallen in love would not have married; but having fallen in love and married him whom she thought the best and cleverest of men, she naturally looked upon life and its aims in the way the best and cleverest of men looked at them. At first he thought the aim of life was to learn, and she looked upon study as the aim of life. He became a revolutionist, and so did she. She could demonstrate very clearly that the existing state of things could not go on, and that it was everybody's duty to fight this state of things and to try to bring about conditions in which the individual could develop freely, etc. And she imagined that she really thought and felt all this, but in reality she only regarded everything her husband thought as absolute truth, and only sought for perfect agreement, perfect identification of her own soul with his which alone could give her full moral satisfaction. The parting with her husband and their child, whom her mother had taken, was very hard to bear; but she bore it firmly and quietly, since it was for her husband's sake and for that cause which she had not the slightest doubt was true, since he served it. She was always with her husband in thoughts, and did not love and could not love any other any more than she had done before. But Nabatoff's devoted¹⁵ and pure love touched and excited her. This moral, firm man, her husband's friend, tried to treat her as a sister, but something more appeared in his behaviour to her, and this something frightened them both, and yet gave colour to their life of hardship.

So that in all this circle only Mary Pavlovna and Kondratieff were quite free from love affairs.

炉子生好，房间里暖和起来。茶烧开了，倒在玻璃杯和带把的杯子里，加上牛奶，变成白色。面包圈、精白粉面包、普通面包、煮老的鸡蛋、牛奶、牛头、牛蹄都摆了出来。大家凑着那个当桌子用的板铺吃喝，谈天。艾米丽雅坐在木箱上，给大家倒茶。其余的人都围着她，只有克雷里卓夫不在。他脱掉湿漉漉的皮袄，用烤干的毛毯裹着身子，躺在铺上，跟聂赫留朵夫谈话。

经历了一天又冷又湿的长途跋涉，他们发现这地方又脏又乱，就不辞辛劳把它收拾整齐。如今吃了些好东西，喝了热茶，大家都觉得精神焕发，心情愉快。

隔墙传来刑事犯跺脚、叫嚷和咒骂的声音，提醒他们外面是个什么世界。这样，待在屋里就感到格外舒适。他们仿佛处在大海的孤岛上，不会受到周围屈辱和痛苦浪潮的侵袭，因此情绪昂扬，兴高采烈。他们海阔天空无所不谈，但对他们的处境和前途则避而不谈。除此以外，他们也象一般青年男女那样，朝夕相处，自然产生错综复杂的爱情，有情投意合的，也有勉强结合的。几乎每个人都在谈恋爱。诺伏德伏罗夫迷恋长得漂亮而又总是笑脸相迎的格拉别茨。格拉别茨原是个高等女校的学生，年纪很轻，思想单纯，对革命漠不关心。但她也受到时代潮流的冲击，卷入某个案件，被判处流放。入狱以前，她生活上的主要兴趣就是博得男人的欢心。后来在受审期间，在监狱里，在流放途中，这种兴趣始终保持不变。如今在流放途中，由于诺伏德伏罗夫迷恋她，她感到安慰，同时也爱上了他。薇拉是个多情的女人，但引不起人家对她的爱情。不过，她一会儿爱上纳巴托夫，一会儿爱上诺伏德伏罗夫，总是指望对方也能对她发生感情。克雷里卓夫对谢基尼娜的态度近似恋爱。他象一般男人爱女人那样爱她，但他知道她的恋爱观，就用友谊和感激来掩盖自己的真情，而他之所以感激她，是因为她对他照顾得特别周到。纳巴托夫和艾米丽雅之间的爱情关系十分微妙。就象谢基尼娜是个十分贞洁的处女那样，艾米丽雅是个对丈夫十分忠贞的妻子。

艾米丽雅十六岁念中学的时候，就爱上彼得堡大学学生兰采夫；十九岁那年就同他结婚，当时他还在大学念书。她丈夫四年级的时候，卷进学潮，被驱逐出彼得堡，从此成了革命者。她就放弃医学院课程，跟丈夫一起出走，也成了革命者。如果她的丈夫在她心目中不是天下最优秀最聪明的人，她也不会爱上他；如果她没有爱上他，自然也不会嫁给他了。既然她爱上她认为天下最优秀最聪明的人，同他结了婚，她自然就按天下最优秀最聪明的那个人的看法来理解生活和生活的目的。他起初认为生活就是读书，她也就这样看待生活。后来他成了革命者，她也就成了革命者。她能有力证明，现行制度不合理，人人有责任反对它，并建立一种新的政治和经济制度，在那种制度下，个性可以获得自由发展，等等。她自以为确实这样想，这样感觉，其实只是把丈夫的想法看作绝对真理。她所追求的，无非就是在精神上同丈夫和谐一致，水乳交融。只有这样，她在精神上才感到满足。

她同丈夫离别，同她的孩子离别——孩子由她母亲领去抚养——感到痛苦。但分手时她坚强而镇定，因为知道她忍受这种痛苦是为了丈夫，为了事业，——那个事业无疑是正义的，因为她丈夫在为它奋斗。她在精神上永远同丈夫在一起。她以前没有爱过任何人，如今除了丈夫，也不可能爱上任何人。然而纳巴托夫对她的一片诚意和纯洁的爱，却打动了她的心，使她不能平静。他为人正直而坚强，又是她丈夫的朋友，竭力象对待姐妹那样对待她，可是他对她的感情却超过兄妹情谊。这使他们两人都感到不安，但却使他们目前艰苦的生活变得好过些。

因此，在这个小集体里，同恋爱完全不沾边的，只有谢基尼娜和玛尔凯两人。

1 disorder   

n.紊乱，混乱；骚动，骚乱；疾病，失调

参考例句：

• When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后，他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
• It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。

2 interval   

n.间隔，间距；幕间休息，中场休息

参考例句：

• The interval between the two trees measures 40 feet.这两棵树的间隔是40英尺。
• There was a long interval before he anwsered the telephone.隔了好久他才回了电话。

3 degradation   

n.降级；低落；退化；陵削；降解；衰变

参考例句：

• There are serious problems of land degradation in some arid zones.在一些干旱地带存在严重的土地退化问题。
• Gambling is always coupled with degradation.赌博总是与堕落相联系。

4 curiously   

adv.有求知欲地；好问地；奇特地

参考例句：

• He looked curiously at the people.他好奇地看着那些人。
• He took long stealthy strides. His hands were curiously cold.他迈着悄没声息的大步。他的双手出奇地冷。

5 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

6 succumbing   

不再抵抗（诱惑、疾病、攻击等）( succumb的现在分词 )； 屈从； 被压垮； 死

参考例句：

• Mrs. Smith washed and ironed clothes for him, succumbing to him. 史密斯太太被他迷住了，愿意为他洗衣烫衣。
• They would not in the end abandon their vital interests by succumbing to Soviet blandishment. 他们最终决不会受苏联人的甜言蜜语的诱惑，从而抛弃自己的切身利益。

7 prone   

adj.(to)易于…的，很可能…的；俯卧的

参考例句：

• Some people are prone to jump to hasty conclusions.有些人往往作出轻率的结论。
• He is prone to lose his temper when people disagree with him.人家一不同意他的意见,他就发脾气。

8 awaken   

vi.醒，觉醒；vt.唤醒，使觉醒，唤起，激起

参考例句：

• Old people awaken early in the morning.老年人早晨醒得早。
• Please awaken me at six.请于六点叫醒我。

9 mutual   

adj.相互的，彼此的；共同的，共有的

参考例句：

• We must pull together for mutual interest.我们必须为相互的利益而通力合作。
• Mutual interests tied us together.相互的利害关系把我们联系在一起。

10 drawn   

v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的

参考例句：

• All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
• Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。

11 guise   

n.外表，伪装的姿态

参考例句：

• They got into the school in the guise of inspectors.他们假装成视察员进了学校。
• The thief came into the house under the guise of a repairman.那小偷扮成个修理匠进了屋子。

12 gratitude   

adj.感激，感谢

参考例句：

• I have expressed the depth of my gratitude to him.我向他表示了深切的谢意。
• She could not help her tears of gratitude rolling down her face.她感激的泪珠禁不住沿着面颊流了下来。

13 chaste   

adj.贞洁的；有道德的；善良的；简朴的

参考例句：

• Comparatively speaking,I like chaste poetry better.相比较而言，我更喜欢朴实无华的诗。
• Tess was a chaste young girl.苔丝是一个善良的少女。

14 maiden   

n.少女，处女；adj.未婚的，纯洁的，无经验的

参考例句：

• The prince fell in love with a fair young maiden.王子爱上了一位年轻美丽的少女。
• The aircraft makes its maiden flight tomorrow.这架飞机明天首航。

15 devoted   

adj.忠诚的，忠实的，热心的，献身于...的

参考例句：

• He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
• We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。