品书中文 通过搜索各大小说站为您自动抓取各类小说的最快更新供您阅读!

《邪恶的王子》,1840 年

the wicked prince, 1840

从前有一个邪恶的王子,他一心想要征服世界上所有的国家,并且恐吓人民;他用火与剑蹂躏他们的国家,他的士兵践踏田野里的庄稼,放火烧毁农民的茅屋,以至于火焰舔舐着树枝上的绿叶,果实干枯地挂在烧焦的黑树上。

there lived once upon a time a wicked prince whose heart and mind were set upon conquering all the countries of the world, and on frightening the people; he devastated their countries with fire and sword, and his soldiers trod down the crops in the fields and destroyed the peasants’ huts by fire, so that the flames licked the green leaves off the branches, and the fruit hung dried up on the singed black trees.

许多可怜的母亲怀里抱着赤裸的婴儿,逃到她那小屋仍在冒烟的墙壁后面;但士兵们也追到了那里,当他们找到她时,她就成了他们恶魔般享乐的新养料;魔鬼也不可能比这些士兵干出更坏的事了!而王子却认为这一切都是对的,认为事情就该如此发展。

many a poor mother fled, her naked baby in her arms, behind the still smoking walls of her cottage; but also there the soldiers followed her, and when they found her, she served as new nourishment to their diabolical enjoyments; demons could not possibly have done worse things than these soldiers! the prince was of opinion that all this was right, and that it was only the natural course which things ought to take.

他的权势与日俱增,所有人都惧怕他的名字,而且命运也眷顾他的所作所为。

his power increased day by day, his name was feared by all, and fortune favoured his deeds.

他从被征服的城镇带回了巨额财富,逐渐在他的住所积累了别处无法比拟的财富。

he brought enormous wealth home from the conquered towns, and gradually accumulated in his residence riches which could nowhere be equalled.

他建造了宏伟的宫殿、教堂和大厅,所有看到这些壮丽建筑和巨额财宝的人都赞叹道:“多么强大的王子啊!” 但他们并不知道他给其他国家带来了无尽的苦难,也没有听到从那些被摧毁城市的废墟中传来的叹息和哀号。

he erected magnificent palaces, churches, and halls, and all who saw these splendid buildings and great treasures exclaimed admiringly: “what a mighty prince!” but they did not know what endless misery he had brought upon other countries, nor did they hear the sighs and lamentations which rose up from the debris of the destroyed cities.

王子常常欣喜地看着他的金子和宏伟的建筑,并且像众人一样想道:“多么强大的王子啊!但我必须拥有更多 —— 多得多。

世上没有任何力量能与我相当,更别说超过我了。”

the prince often looked with delight upon his gold and his magnificent edifices, and thought, like the crowd: “what a mighty prince! but I must have more — much more.

No power on earth must equal mine, far less exceed it.”

他与所有邻国开战,并打败了他们。

he made war with all his neighbours, and defeated them.

当他驾车驶过自己城市的街道时,被征服的国王们被用金链子拴在他的战车上。

the conquered kings were chained up with golden fetters to his chariot when he drove through the streets of his city.

这些国王们在王子和他的朝臣们进餐时,必须跪在他们脚下,靠他们吃剩的食物过活。

these kings had to kneel at his and his courtiers’ feet when they sat at table, and live on the morsels which they left.

最后,王子让人在公共场所竖起了自己的雕像,并把雕像安放在王宫上;不仅如此,他甚至希望把雕像放置在教堂的祭坛上,但在这件事上,牧师们反对他,说道:“王子,您确实很强大,但上帝的力量比您大多了;我们不敢遵从您的命令。”

At last the prince had his own statue erected on the public places and fixed on the royal palaces; nay, he even wished it to be placed in the churches, on the altars, but in this the priests opposed him, saying: “prince, you are mighty indeed, but God’s power is much greater than yours; we dare not obey your orders.”

“好吧,” 王子说。

“well,” said the prince.

“那我也要征服上帝。”

“then I will conquer God too.”

于是,在他的傲慢与愚蠢的狂妄中,他下令建造一艘华丽的大船,凭借它他可以在空中航行;船装饰得极其华丽,五彩斑斓;它像孔雀的尾巴一样,布满了成千上万只眼睛,但每只眼睛都是一门炮的炮筒。

And in his haughtiness and foolish presumption he ordered a magnificent ship to be constructed, with which he could sail through the air; it was gorgeously fitted out and of many colours; like the tail of a peacock, it was covered with thousands of eyes, but each eye was the barrel of a gun.

王子坐在船的中央,只需触动一个弹簧,就能让成千上万颗子弹朝四面八方飞射出去,而与此同时,枪炮会立刻重新装填弹药。

the prince sat in the centre of the ship, and had only to touch a spring in order to make thousands of bullets fly out in all directions, while the guns were at once loaded again.

数百只鹰被系在这艘船上,船如箭一般迅速地朝着太阳升起。

hundreds of eagles were attached to this ship, and it rose with the swiftness of an arrow up towards the sun.

大地很快就被远远地抛在了下面,它的山峦和树林看上去就像一块耕地,犁铧在其间耕出了一道道垄沟,把绿色的草地分隔开来;很快它看上去就只像一张有着模糊线条的地图了;最后它完全消失在了云雾之中。

the earth was soon left far below, and looked, with its mountains and woods, like a cornfield where the plough had made furrows which separated green meadows; soon it looked only like a map with indistinct lines upon it; and at last it entirely disappeared in mist and clouds.

老鹰越飞越高,直入云霄;这时上帝派了他无数天使中的一位来对付这艘船。

higher and higher rose the eagles up into the air; then God sent one of his numberless angels against the ship.

邪恶的王子向他射出了成千上万颗子弹,但子弹从他闪亮的翅膀上弹了回来,像普通的冰雹一样落了下来。

the wicked prince showered thousands of bullets upon him, but they rebounded from his shining wings and fell down like ordinary hailstones.

天使翅膀上的白色羽毛渗出了一滴血,仅仅一滴,落在了王子所坐的船上,烧穿了船身,并且像数千英担重的东西一样压在船上,迅速把船又拖向了地面;老鹰强健的翅膀支撑不住了,风在王子头顶呼啸,周围的云 —— 它们是由被烧毁城市升起的浓烟形成的吗?

one drop of blood, one single drop, came out of the white feathers of the angel’s wings and fell upon the ship in which the prince sat, burnt into it, and weighed upon it like thousands of hundredweights, dragging it rapidly down to the earth again; the strong wings of the eagles gave way, the wind roared round the prince’s head, and the clouds around — were they formed by the smoke rising up from the burnt cities?

—— 呈现出奇异的形状,像许多许多英里长的螃蟹,它们伸出爪子朝他抓来,又像巨大的岩石一样耸立起来,从上面滚落下来的巨石变成了喷火的巨龙。

— took strange shapes, like crabs many, many miles long, which stretched their claws out after him, and rose up like enormous rocks, from which rolling masses dashed down, and became fire-spitting dragons.

当船最终伴随着可怕的撞击声,沉入树林里一棵大树的树枝间时,王子已经半死不活地躺在船上了。

the prince was lying half-dead in his ship, when it sank at last with a terrible shock into the branches of a large tree in the wood.

“我要征服上帝!” 王子说。

“I will conquer God!” said the prince.

“我已经发过誓了:我的意愿必须实现!”

“I have sworn it: my will must be done!”

于是他花了七年时间建造能在空中航行的奇妙船只,还打造了用最坚硬的钢铁制成的飞镖,用来打破天堂的墙壁。

And he spent seven years in the construction of wonderful ships to sail through the air, and had darts cast from the hardest steel to break the walls of heaven with.

他从各国召集武士,人数多得他们并排站在一起能占好几英里的地方。

he gathered warriors from all countries, so many that when they were placed side by side they covered the space of several miles.

他们登上了船,王子正要走向自己的船时,上帝派来了一群蚋 —— 就是一群小小的蚋。

they entered the ships and the prince was approaching his own, when God sent a swarm of gnats — one swarm of little gnats.

它们围着王子嗡嗡叫,叮咬他的脸和手;他愤怒地拔出剑挥舞着,但只是砍到了空气,根本没碰到蚋。

they buzzed round the prince and stung his face and hands; angrily he drew his sword and brandished it, but he only touched the air and did not hit the gnats.

然后他命令仆人拿来贵重的遮盖物,把他裹在里面,这样蚋就再也够不着他了。

then he ordered his servants to bring costly coverings and wrap him in them, that the gnats might no longer be able to reach him.

仆人们执行了他的命令,但有一只蚋自己钻进了其中一块遮盖物里,爬进王子的耳朵并叮了他一下。

the servants carried out his orders, but one single gnat had placed itself inside one of the coverings, crept into the prince’s ear and stung him.

那个地方像着了火一样灼痛,毒液进入了血液。

the place burnt like fire, and the poison entered into his blood.

疼得发狂的他扯掉了遮盖物,也脱掉了衣服,把它们远远地扔开,在他那些凶残的士兵眼前手舞足蹈起来,那些士兵现在都嘲笑他,这个想和上帝开战却被一只小小的蚋打败的疯狂王子。

mad with pain, he tore off the coverings and his clothes too, flinging them far away, and danced about before the eyes of his ferocious soldiers, who now mocked at him, the mad prince, who wished to make war with God, and was overe by a single little gnat.

品书中文推荐阅读:玄幻:老婆绝世仙子,我却要逃婚绑定变美系统,绿茶在位面杀疯了快穿:挖野菜系统崩溃了四合院:生那么多孩子!怪我咯灵轩心动快穿之疯批反派在线作死快穿:钓系美人穿成黑月光之后开局策反病娇女BOSS的我无敌原神获得造物主系统的诸天之旅异世界:种地摆烂,怎么成领主了傅同学,我知道你暗恋我结婚两年未见面,军医老公回来了恶魂觉醒后,全宗门哭着求我原谅太师祖在下,孽徒桀桀桀!穿越年代文:工具人拒绝剧情哼,老娘才不想当什么丘比特火行天下末世向导:四大哨兵争着宠霹出个天尊化神老祖作香童是认真的豪门奶爸开局,养个外挂小奶娃穿成小炮灰的姐姐,改变命运摸一摸就能修仙,还要脸干什么!快穿:洗白的郎君他最宠夫国运:扮演张麒麟,我是女版小哥真千金驻岛开荒,嫁禁欲军官赢麻神卦狂妃又在撩人了世界与尔青云仙梦张悦的逆袭没错,我哥和我爹都是大佬末日重生:鬼观音她畸变成神抗战:从远征军开始亮剑:之超级军工系统从模拟开始成为诡异神灵小孕妻齁甜,被绝嗣大佬抱回家宠快穿之云华真君圆满之旅快穿:我家宿主超厉害的,嗷呜盗墓:修仙修到青铜门碎裂掌控被未婚夫送去和亲后,我把他刀了快穿之改变be世界一夜情后,穆总失控刑侦六组全家读我心后杀麻了,我负责吐槽原神:从摸鱼开始出轨爹,爱赌妈,重生我笑呵呵一吻唤醒前世爱人爱错一人,毁了一生我在古代当开山大王60后婆婆与80后儿媳
品书中文搜藏榜:异兽迷城半相热恋快穿:我在异界客串路人甲家外火影世界的修士开局逃荒,女尊小混子她吃喝不愁和狂野总裁同房后他说我只是陌生人墓虎带着两宝去逃荒,我逃成了首富穿越乱世,我有空间我怕谁秦老六的生活日常奥特次元:羁绊之力全能站姐变爱豆后成顶流了高嫁京圈大佬,渣前任悔疯了!末世,女主她拿百亿物资杀疯了孤独摇滚!属于老兵的孤独!穿越知否之我是墨兰末世,恋爱脑杀了最后一位神性转魔王的异世界冒险脑叶公司:逐渐离谱的员工我,AI凡人闯仙界首辅肥妻有空间小宫女娇软妩媚,一路荣宠成太后后妈恶毒后妈爽,后妈日子过得好陆爷的闪婚新妻明日方舟:构史学主演她是一池春水文昭皇后传邪祟复苏,我为阴世主综漫:作品太刀,雪乃让我别写了玄学直播间,大佬又算命攒功德啦八零软妻人间清醒,首长别茶了!孤爱的哥哥居然是敌国皇亲快穿:战神大人只想找lp贴贴嫡女谋略:妖孽夫君请上门百字日记白日深诱职业魅魔,青梅校花不放过沈氏家族美人祭莫爷养的小公主我用重生埋葬他勾魂的眼神方舟里的后勤官快穿之鼠鼠我呀,太上进了四合院:我何雨柱,国之栋梁斗破:天命反派,云韵哭惨了皇后,你逃不掉的重生成草,我修妖也修仙我花钱超猛,系统嘎嘎宠我!
品书中文最新小说:大航海:灵魂囚禁的惊天秘地我撞碎了另一个自己数主万道四合院:六零反派,专坑禽兽HP:拉文克劳的怪才优等生盛唐赘婿:从种田到镇山河即使是骷髅,也需要被肯定海贼:海军恶霸鉴骨娇宠:皇弟的追妻路人在灵摆,赵立是我好哥们儿镇渊战神从罪徒到万界主宰一人:六道汤姆,就问你们怕不怕绑定万兽系统后,我每天都在吃瓜我当库管遇到的邪乎事海棠依旧之镜花奇谭废材老祖请留步困影之渊:绝境求生探秘录全家都是重生怪地理游记神仙不仙修仙,从小花小草开始云老二一家的传奇故事药香入画惊!乡下来的真千金是医门老祖宗斩龙:葬天棺年代之出生五八快穿:步步为营!白眼狼拔我氧气管,重生八零改嫁了海贼:我真没想到篡国如此简单六六云顺唯凝是从我来少林寺出家了霓虹年代沉陷私吻恶毒后娘逃荒逆袭之路长生从燃烧寿元开始神仙宝宝下凡之人间纪检委!假痴傻真狠人混沌算法:玄穹重构录快穿任务失败后,主神把我救活了总裁追妻:马甲娇妻超甜宠重生农家女玩转锦鲤系统再次遇到平凡的你!穿书后,我成了极品好婆婆大师兄是万人迷,师弟他魂牵梦萦网王:神之子与神使舔狗八年,分手二天她领证了穿成邪魅反派的炮灰徒弟清冷仙尊被蓄谋已久的魔尊捡回家快穿之一线生机贰