Days and weeks passed away, then months — dantes still waited; he at first expected to be freed in a fortnight.
日子一天天,一个星期一个星期地过去了,后来是一个月一个月地过去了,唐太斯仍然处在期待之中。他最初预计可在两个星期以内释放。
Thus dantes, who but three months before had no desire but liberty had now not liberty enough, and panted for wealth.
三个月之前,唐太斯除了自由以外原是别无所求的,现在,光有自由已不够了,他还渴望财富。
The following morning Jacopo set sail for Marseilles, with directions from dantes to join him at the Island of Monte Cristo.
第二天早晨,雅格布扬帆向马赛驶去,唐太斯和他约好在基督山岛相会。
This would have been a favorable occasion to secure his dinner; but dantes feared lest the report of his gun should attract attention.
他如果想得到一顿午餐,这本来是一个很好的机会的,但唐太斯深怕他的枪声会引起注意。
This time the jailer might not be as silent as usual, but speak to dantes, and seeing that he received no reply, go to the bed, and thus discover all.
这次,狱卒或许不会象往常那样沉默,他或许会同唐太斯讲话,而当看到他不回答时,或许会走到床边去看看,这样可就全露馅了。
Giving the sailor a piece of money in return for his civility, dantes proceeded onwards; but ere he had gone many steps he heard the man loudly calling him to stop.
唐太斯给了那水手一枚金币,以答谢他提供的情况,然后继续向前走去。但他还没走出几步远,就听到那个人又追上了他。
Finally ten months and a half had gone by and no favorable change had taken place, and dantes began to fancy the inspector's visit but a dream, an illusion of the brain.
在这么长一段时间里,没有发生任何有利的转变。于是唐太斯开始幻想,认为巡查员的视察只不过是一个梦,是脑子里的一个幻想而已。
"Yes, as you see, neighbor Caderousse; and ready to be agreeable to you in any and every way," replied dantes, but ill-concealing his coldness under this cloak of civility.
“是的,我回来了,卡德·鲁斯邻居,我正准备着想使你高兴一下呢。”唐太斯回答道,答话虽彬彬有礼,却仍掩饰不住他内心的冷淡。
For a moment dantes was speechless; then he remembered that these caves might have been filled up by some accident, or even stopped up, for the sake of greater security, by Cardinal Spada.
唐太斯顿时惊得连话都说不出来了。但他转念一想,这些洞窟大概是由于某种意外的事故而被填没了,或许是红衣主教斯帕达为了更加小心而故意填没了的。
He looked at Dantes with hatred.
他怀着仇恨瞧着丹特斯。
Dantes listened to these melancholy tidings with outward calmness.
丹特斯听取这些伤心的消息时外表很镇静。
Dantes ran down the rocks at the risk of being himself dashed to pieces.
邓蒂斯冒着粉身碎骨的危险奔下岩石。
All Villefort's influence barely enabled him to stifle the secret Dantes had so nearly divulged.
维尔福用尽全部力量才刚刚能封住那几乎被邓蒂斯所泄漏的秘密。
Dantes declared, however, that he would rather die where he was than undergo the agony which the slightest movement cost him.
可唐太斯却说他情愿死在那儿,也不愿意受因最轻微的搬动而引起的痛苦。
Dantes listened to these melancholy tidings with outward calmness; but, leaping lightly ashore, he signified his desire to be quite alone.
唐太斯神态很镇静地听完了这些伤心的消息,但当他上岸去的时候,他示意不愿有人去打扰他。
Dantes listened to these melancholy tidings with outward calmness; but, leaping lightly ashore, he signified his desire to be quite alone.
唐太斯神态很镇静地听完了这些伤心的消息,但当他上岸去的时候,他示意不愿有人去打扰他。
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