Chapter I.

第一章

Five Years Later

五年之后

Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-

台尔森银行的圣殿酒吧是一个老

fashioned place, even in the year one

老式的地方，甚至在今年一

thousand seven hundred and eighty.

一千七百八十。

It was very small, very dark, very ugly,

这是非常小，很阴暗，很丑陋，

very incommodious.

很不方便。

It was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in

这是一个老式的地方，此外，

the moral attribute that the partners in

道德属性的合作伙伴

the House were proud of its smallness,

众议院是它的渺小感到自豪，

proud of its darkness, proud of its

在黑暗自豪，骄傲的

ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness.

丑陋，其incommodiousness自豪。

They were even boastful of its eminence in

他们甚至在它的隆起自负

those particulars, and were fired by an

这些资料，并发射了一

express conviction that, if it were less

表示坚信，如果不是少

objectionable, it would be less

反感的，它会少些

respectable.

可敬。

This was no passive belief, but an active

这不是被动的信仰，而是一种积极的

weapon which they flashed at more

更多的武器，他们在闪现

convenient places of business.

业务方便的地方。

Tellson's (they said) wanted no elbow-room,

台尔森（他们说）希望没肘室，

Tellson's wanted no light, Tellson's wanted

台尔森的希望没有光，台尔森的希望

no embellishment.

没有点缀。

Noakes and Co.'s might, or Snooks Brothers'

诺阿克斯和公司的可能，或斯努克斯兄弟

might; but Tellson's, thank Heaven--!

可能，但台尔森，谢谢老天爷 - ！

Any one of these partners would have

这些合作伙伴的任何人会

disinherited his son on the question of

被剥夺继承权的问题上他的儿子

rebuilding Tellson's.

重建台尔森。

In this respect the House was much on a par

在这方面，许多房子被一杆

with the Country; which did very often

随着国家，哪也常常

disinherit its sons for suggesting

为表明其儿子继承权

improvements in laws and customs that had

法律和习俗的改善，有

long been highly objectionable, but were

长久以来强烈反对，但

only the more respectable.

只有更可敬。

Thus it had come to pass, that Tellson's

因此，它已成为过去，这台尔森

was the triumphant perfection of

是胜利的完善

inconvenience.

不便。

After bursting open a door of idiotic

爆破后，打开门的白痴

obstinacy with a weak rattle in its throat,

用弱固执拨浪鼓在它的喉咙，

you fell into Tellson's down two steps, and

你掉进台尔森了两个步骤，

came to your senses in a miserable little

来到你的感官在一个可怜的小

shop, with two little counters, where the

店，有两个，其中小柜台

oldest of men made your cheque shake as if

最古老的男性作出如果您的支票动摇

the wind rustled it, while they examined

它在风中簌簌作响，而他们检查

the signature by the dingiest of windows,

通过签名的Windows dingiest，

which were always under a shower-bath of

其中下总是淋浴浴

mud from Fleet-street, and which were made

泥浆从舰队街，并提出了

the dingier by their own iron bars proper,

用他们自己的铁棒适当dingier，

and the heavy shadow of Temple Bar.

圣殿酒吧和沉重的阴影。

If your business necessitated your seeing

如果你看到你的企业必要

"the House," you were put into a species of

“房子，”你把一个物种的

Condemned Hold at the back, where you

死刑犯保持在后面，在那里你

meditated on a misspent life, until the

思索着一个misspent生活，直到

House came with its hands in its pockets,

房子后来在其口袋里的手，

and you could hardly blink at it in the

和你很难在它在眨眼

dismal twilight.

凄凉的黄昏。

Your money came out of, or went into, wormy

你的钱跑了出来，或进，去虫蛀

old wooden drawers, particles of which flew

旧的木制抽屉，其中飞往颗粒

up your nose and down your throat when they

你的鼻子和喉咙时

were opened and shut.

被打开和关闭。

Your bank-notes had a musty odour, as if

您的钞票有霉味，仿佛

they were fast decomposing into rags again.

他们很快分解成破布了。

Your plate was stowed away among the

你的盘子中被塞进了

neighbouring cesspools, and evil

邻近的污水池，与邪恶

communications corrupted its good polish in

通讯损坏其良好波兰

a day or two.

一两天。

Your deeds got into extemporised strong-

您的事迹上了extemporised强

rooms made of kitchens and sculleries, and

厨房和sculleries作出室，

fretted all the fat out of their parchments

焦躁所有的羊皮纸发了

into the banking-house air.

纳入银行内部的空气。

Your lighter boxes of family papers went

您的家庭文件盒打火机去

up-stairs into a Barmecide room, that

上楼到Barmecide室，即

always had a great dining-table in it and

它一直在一个大餐厅桌子

never had a dinner, and where, even in the

从来没有吃饭，在那里，甚至在

year one thousand seven hundred and eighty,

年一千七百八十，

the first letters written to you by your

写信给你通过你的第一个字母

old love, or by your little children, were

老爱，或者是你的孩子们，被

but newly released from the horror of being

但最新公布的从被恐怖

ogled through the windows, by the heads

ogled透过窗户，由校长

exposed on Temple Bar with an insensate

暴露一无知觉的圣殿酒吧

brutality and ferocity worthy of Abyssinia

残暴和凶猛的阿比西尼亚值得

or Ashantee.

或Ashantee。

But indeed, at that time, putting to death

但事实上，在那个时候，把死

was a recipe much in vogue with all trades

配方更是在与各行业时尚

and professions, and not least of all with

和专业，而不是所有最不与

Tellson's.

台尔森。

Death is Nature's remedy for all things,

死亡是自然的补救措施的一切事物，

and why not Legislation's?

为什么不立法的？

Accordingly, the forger was put to Death;

因此，伪造者处死​​;

the utterer of a bad note was put to Death;

一个坏值得注意的是处死说话人;

the unlawful opener of a letter was put to

一封信的非法大开眼界的是付诸

Death; the purloiner of forty shillings and

死亡;的四十零先令purloiner和

sixpence was put to Death; the holder of a

六便士被治死一个人

horse at Tellson's door, who made off with

马在台尔森的门，谁做了与

it, was put to Death; the coiner of a bad

它，是治死了一个坏创造者

shilling was put to Death; the sounders of

先令被治死的发声器的

three-fourths of the notes in the whole

四分之三的音符，在整个

gamut of Crime, were put to Death.

犯罪域，被处死。

Not that it did the least good in the way

不在于它做了最良好的方式

of prevention--it might almost have been

预防 - 它几乎可以被

worth remarking that the fact was exactly

值得的议论，事实正是

the reverse--but, it cleared off (as to

相反的 - 但是，它清除了（以

this world) the trouble of each particular

这个世界）的每一个特定的麻烦

case, and left nothing else connected with

情况下，什么都没有留下联系在一起

it to be looked after.

它是照顾。

Thus, Tellson's, in its day, like greater

因此，台尔森在其天，如大

places of business, its contemporaries, had

营业场所，其同时代人，曾

taken so many lives, that, if the heads

采取了这么多人的生命，那，如果磁头

laid low before it had been ranged on

它奠定了前低的范围分别在

Temple Bar instead of being privately

圣殿酒吧，而不是由私人

disposed of, they would probably have

处理掉，他们可能已经

excluded what little light the ground floor

小光什么排除地下

had, in a rather significant manner.

曾在一个相当大的方式。

Cramped in all kinds of dim cupboards and

在昏暗拥挤，各种橱柜

hutches at Tellson's, the oldest of men

在台尔森hutches，最古老的男人

carried on the business gravely.

在业务开展严重。

When they took a young man into Tellson's

当他们把台尔森是一个年轻的男子

London house, they hid him somewhere till

伦敦的房子，他们藏在某处，直到他

he was old.

他老了。

They kept him in a dark place, like a

他们不停地在黑暗的地方他，就像一个

cheese, until he had the full Tellson

奶酪，直到他完全台尔森

flavour and blue-mould upon him.

味道和蓝后，他的模具。

Then only was he permitted to be seen,

然后，他不仅是允许看出，

spectacularly poring over large books, and

壮观竟能在大书，

casting his breeches and gaiters into the

投在他的裤子和绑腿

general weight of the establishment.

总重量的建立。

Outside Tellson's--never by any means in

外Tellson's - 从未以任何方式

it, unless called in--was an odd-job-man,

它，除非叫 - 是一个奇怪的在职男人，

an occasional porter and messenger, who

偶尔波特和使者，谁

served as the live sign of the house.

担任这所房子的活招牌。

He was never absent during business hours,

他从不在工作时间缺席，

unless upon an errand, and then he was

除非在一个差事，然后他

represented by his son: a grisly urchin of

代表他的儿子：一个可怕的海胆

twelve, who was his express image.

十二，谁是他的一模一样。

People understood that Tellson's, in a

者了解，台尔森的，在

stately way, tolerated the odd-job-man.

庄严的方式，容忍的奇数工作的人。

The house had always tolerated some person

这房子一直容忍某些人

in that capacity, and time and tide had

曾在该身份，时间和潮流

drifted this person to the post.

漂流此人的职位。

His surname was Cruncher, and on the

克朗彻他的姓，并在

youthful occasion of his renouncing by

青春之际，他放弃了

proxy the works of darkness, in the

代理黑暗的作品，在

easterly parish church of Hounsditch, he

东风教区教堂Hounsditch，他

had received the added appellation of

收到了补充称谓

Jerry.

杰里。

The scene was Mr. Cruncher's private

场面克朗彻先生的私人

lodging in Hanging-sword-alley,

倒伏悬剑胡同，

Whitefriars: the time, half-past seven of

怀特夫赖尔斯：时间，七点半的

the clock on a windy March morning, Anno

上一刮风日上午，安诺时钟

Domini seventeen hundred and eighty.

多米尼一千七百八十。

(Mr. Cruncher himself always spoke of the

（克朗彻先生谈到了他自己总是

year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes:

今年我们的主安娜骨牌：

apparently under the impression that the

显然下的印象是，

Christian era dated from the invention of a

公元日期从一个发明

popular game, by a lady who had bestowed

流行的游戏有一位小姐，谁赐予

her name upon it.)

她的名字后，它。）

Mr. Cruncher's apartments were not in a

克朗彻先生的公寓中没有一

savoury neighbourhood, and were but two in

美味的街区，一共只有两个

number, even if a closet with a single pane

数目，即使具有单一窗格衣橱

of glass in it might be counted as one.

在它的玻璃可能被算作一个。

But they were very decently kept.

但是，他们一直都非常得体。

Early as it was, on the windy March

早在它是，在多风的三月

morning, the room in which he lay abed was

上午，他在屋子里躺在卧床

already scrubbed throughout; and between

已经擦洗全境;之间

the cups and saucers arranged for

杯子和碟子安排

breakfast, and the lumbering deal table, a

早餐，笨拙的处理表，

very clean white cloth was spread.

很干净的白布被传播。

Mr. Cruncher reposed under a patchwork

克朗彻先生寄予拼凑下

counterpane, like a Harlequin at home.

床罩，就像在家里丑角。

At first, he slept heavily, but, by

起初，他睡了巨资，但是，通过

degrees, began to roll and surge in bed,

度，开始在床上滚浪涌，

until he rose above the surface, with his

直到他升到表面，与他

spiky hair looking as if it must tear the

高低不平的头发看上去好像是要撕裂

sheets to ribbons.

以丝带表。

At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice

在这时刻，他感叹道，在一个声音

of dire exasperation:

可怕的恼怒：

"Bust me, if she ain't at it agin!"

“胸围我，如果她不是在它阿恩！”

A woman of orderly and industrious

一个有秩序和勤劳的女人

appearance rose from her knees in a corner,

外观上升到一个角落里她的膝盖，

with sufficient haste and trepidation to

有足够的匆忙和不安到

show that she was the person referred to.

表明她是人提及。

"What!" said Mr. Cruncher, looking out of

“什么！”克朗彻先生说，看着外面的

bed for a boot.

床的启动。

"You're at it agin, are you?"

“你在它阿恩，是吗？”

After hailing the morn with this second

经过第二次的欢呼与黎明

salutation, he threw a boot at the woman as

称呼，他完全拜倒在女人作为启动

a third.

三分之一。

It was a very muddy boot, and may introduce

这是一个非常泥泞的启动，可能会推出

the odd circumstance connected with Mr.

奇怪的情况下连先生

Cruncher's domestic economy, that, whereas

克朗彻的国内经济，从前

he often came home after banking hours with

回家后，他经常与银行营业时间

clean boots, he often got up next morning

干净的靴子，他经常第二天早上起床

to find the same boots covered with clay.

找到与粘土覆盖相同的靴子。

"What," said Mr. Cruncher, varying his

“什么，”克朗彻先生说，他的变化

apostrophe after missing his mark--"what

撇号失踪后他的标志 - “什么

are you up to, Aggerawayter?"

你去，他奶奶的？“

"I was only saying my prayers."

“我只是说我的祈祷。”

"Saying your prayers!

“说你祈祷！

You're a nice woman!

你是个不错的女人！

What do you mean by flopping yourself down

你是什​​么意思假摔自己打倒

and praying agin me?"

祈福阿恩我吗？“

"I was not praying against you; I was

“我没有向你祈祷，我是

praying for you."

为你祈祷。“

"You weren't.

“你不是。

And if you were, I won't be took the

如果你是，我不会代为

liberty with.

与自由。

Here! your mother's a nice woman, young

在这里！您mother'sa好女人，年轻

Jerry, going a praying agin your father's

杰里，去祷告的阿恩你父亲的

prosperity.

繁荣。

You've got a dutiful mother, you have, my

你已经有了一个尽职的母亲，你有，我

son.

儿子。

You've got a religious mother, you have, my

你已经有了一个宗教的母亲，你有，我

boy: going and flopping herself down, and

男孩：要和自己扑腾下来，

praying that the bread-and-butter may be

祈祷，面包和奶油可能

snatched out of the mouth of her only

抢走了她唯一的嘴

child."

孩子。“

Master Cruncher (who was in his shirt) took

克朗彻硕士（谁在他的衬衫）注意到

this very ill, and, turning to his mother,

这个病了，转身对他的母亲，

strongly deprecated any praying away of his

强烈不推荐任何剥夺他的祈祷

personal board.

个人板。

"And what do you suppose, you conceited

“那么，你想，你骄傲

female," said Mr. Cruncher, with

女性，“克朗彻先生说，随着

unconscious inconsistency, "that the worth

无意识的不一致“，即价值

of _your_ prayers may be?

祈祷的_your_可能呢？

Name the price that you put _your_ prayers

名的代价，你把_your_祈祷

at!"

在！“

"They only come from the heart, Jerry.

“他们只是发自内心，杰里。

They are worth no more than that."

他们没有比这更值得。“

"Worth no more than that," repeated Mr.

“值得仅此而已，”重复先生

Cruncher.

克朗彻。

"They ain't worth much, then.

“他们是不值钱，然后。

Whether or no, I won't be prayed agin, I

不管你信不信，我不会等到再祷告，我

tell you.

告诉你。

I can't afford it.

我买不起它。

I'm not a going to be made unlucky by

我不是一个将要作出不幸：

_your_ sneaking.

_your_鬼鬼祟祟。

If you must go flopping yourself down, flop

如果你必须自己去扑腾下来，翻牌

in favour of your husband and child, and

在你的丈夫和孩子，和青睐

not in opposition to 'em.

不反对他们。

If I had had any but a unnat'ral wife, and

如果我有什么，而是unnat'ral妻子，

this poor boy had had any but a unnat'ral

这个可怜的孩子有过什么，但一unnat'ral

mother, I might have made some money last

妈妈，我可能已经取得了一些钱最后

week instead of being counter-prayed and

周而不是被反祷告

countermined and religiously circumwented

countermined和宗教circumwented

into the worst of luck.

进入运气最差。

B-u-u-ust me!" said Mr. Cruncher, who all

布欧，乌斯我！“克朗彻先生说，谁所有

this time had been putting on his clothes,

这时候已经把他的衣服，

"if I ain't, what with piety and one blowed

“如果我不是，用虔诚和一个什么炸飞

thing and another, been choused this last

事情和其他事情，最后被choused

week into as bad luck as ever a poor devil

运气不好作为本周将一如既往一个可怜的家伙

of a honest tradesman met with!

一个诚实的生意人会见了！

Young Jerry, dress yourself, my boy, and

年轻的杰里，打扮自己，我的孩子，

while I clean my boots keep a eye upon your

当我清理我的靴子保持在你的眼睛

mother now and then, and if you see any

母亲现在，然后，如果你看到任何

signs of more flopping, give me a call.