美丽新世界Brave New World 第13章(1)

Henry Foster loomed up through the twilight of theEmbryo Store.

亨利·福斯特在胚胎仓库的昏暗之中逐渐露出身影。

Like to come to a feely this evening?

今天晚上愿意去看看感官电影吗?

Lenina shook her head without speaking.

列宁娜没有说话，摇了摇头。

"Going out with some one else?" It interested him toknow which of his friends wasbeing had by whichother.

“要跟别人出去吗?”他对什么姑娘在跟他的什么朋友来往感到兴趣。

"Is it Benito?" he questioned.She shook her head again.

“是本尼托吗?”他问道。她又摇摇头。

Henry detected the weariness in those purple eyes, the pallor beneath that glaze of lupus,

亨利从她那红眼睛里，从她那红斑狼疮式的光线下的苍白里看出了厌倦，

the sadness at the corners of the unsmiling crimson mouth.

从她那没有笑意的鲜红的嘴角看出了悲哀。

"You're not feeling ill, are you?" he asked, a trifle anxiously,

“你该不是生病了吧?”他问道，有几分着急。

afraid that she might be suffering from one of the few remaining infectious diseases.

有几种疾病还没有消灭，他担心她染上了其中之一。

Yet once more Lenina shook her head.

可是列宁娜再一次摇了摇头。

"Anyhow, you ought to go and see the doctor," said Henry. "A doctor a day keeps the jim-jamsaway,"

“总之你应该去看看医生，”亨利说，“每天看医生，百病不担心。”

he added heartily, driving home his hypnopaedic adage with a clap on the shoulder.

他高高兴兴地说，拍了拍她的肩膀，把他那睡眠教育的格言拍进她心里。

"Perhaps you need a Pregnancy Substitute," he suggested.

“也许你需要一点代妊娠素，”他建议，

Or else an extra-strong V.P.S. treatment. Sometimes, you know, the standard passionsurrogate isn't quite...

再不然就做一次超量的代强烈情素治疗。你知道标准的代动情素并不十分……

"Oh, for Ford's sake," said Lenina, breaking her stubborn silence, "shut up!" And she turnedback to her neglected embryos.

“啊，为了福帝的缘故!”一直沉默的列宁娜现在说话了，“别讲了!”她转身又去弄她刚才忽略了的胚胎。

A V.P.S. treatment indeed! She would have laughed, if she hadn't been on the point of crying.

哼，做什么代强烈情素治疗，如果不是痛苦得想哭，她几乎要笑出声来。

As though she hadn't got enough V. P. of her own! She sighed profoundly as she refilled hersyringe.

好像她自己的强烈情绪还不够多似的。她发出了一声深沉的叹息，再吸满了针。

"John," she murmured to herself, "John ..." Then "My Ford," she wondered,

“约翰，”她喃喃地自语道，“约翰……”然后，“福帝呀!”她糊涂了，

have I given this one its sleeping sickness injection, or haven't I? She simply couldn'tremember.

这个胚胎的昏睡病预防针打了没有?没有吗?她简直不记得了。

In the end, she decided not to run the risk of letting it have a second dose, and moved downthe line to the next bottle.

最后她决定不让它冒挨第二针的危险，便往下做，去打另外一瓶。

Twenty-two years, eight months, and four days from that moment,

从那时刻起，二十二年八个月零四天之后，

a promising young Alpha-Minus administrator at Mwanza-Mwanza was to die oftrypanosomiasis–the first case for over half a century.

木旺擦木旺擦的一个前途远大的阿尔法减官员将会因患昏睡病死去，那将是半世纪内的第一例。

Sighing, Lenina went on with her work.

列宁娜叹了一口气，继续工作。