5 Jonathan Explores the Chapel

CHAPTER 5 Jonathan Explores the Chapel The next day Jonathan heard a commotion outside his window and rushed to it. This time he saw not Gypsies but Slovaks, two of them, wearing dirty sheepskins and high boots and driving two great wagons drawn by eight sturdy horses. Jonathan screamed down as loud as he could, until he was hoarse, but they would not look up at him. Jonathan could see that the wagons held large square boxes,

第二天，乔纳森听到窗外一阵骚动，赶紧跑过去。 这一次他看到的不是吉卜赛人，而是斯洛伐克人，其中有两个，穿着肮脏的羊皮和高筒靴，驾着两辆由八匹健壮的马拉着的大马车。 约拿单拼命往下尖叫，直到声音嘶哑，但他们就是不抬头看他。 乔纳森看见马车上装着方方正正的大箱子，

resembling coffins, each bound by handles of thick rope. From the ease with which the Slovaks unloaded the boxes into the castle yard, Jonathan knew they were empty. After unloading the last box, the Slovaks touched their whips to their horses and were gone. Over the next few days other men came. From what Jonathan could tell, the boxes were brought somewhere deep into the basement of the castle. Throughout the house, from down below, could be heard the muffled work noises of shovels digging through soil and rocks. What was going on? One night Jonathan saw the count climb out his bedroom window and down the wall like a lizard again, only this time the count was wearing the suit of clothes that had been taken from Jonathan's room! Jonathan realized in dismay that the count wanted people to think they had seen Jonathan himself, to create further evidence to support

形似棺材的，每一个都用粗绳把捆住。 从斯洛伐克人轻松地把箱子卸到城堡院子里的样子，乔纳森知道箱子是空的。 卸下最后一个箱子后，斯洛伐克人用鞭子抽了抽马就走了。 在接下来的几天里，又来了一些人。 据乔纳森所说，这些盒子被带到城堡地下室深处的某个地方。 整个房子，从下面都可以听到铲子在泥土和岩石上挖洞的沉闷声音。 发生了什么事？一天晚上，乔纳森看见伯爵又像条蜥蜴一样从他卧室的窗户爬出来，从墙上爬下来，只不过这次伯爵穿着从乔纳森房间里偷来的那套衣服！乔纳森沮丧地意识到，伯爵想让人们以为他们看到了乔纳森本人，以便制造进一步的证据来支持他

the fake letters. It also frightened Jonathan that any wickedness the count might do while in town would be blamed on him. Later that night Jonathan was awakened by the sound of an agonized cry in the courtyard below. Rushing to the window, he saw a woman with messy hair, gasping from the effort of crying and running. When she saw Jonathan's face at the window, the woman lurched forward, pointed at him, and shouted, "You! Monster, give me my dog! Please! I beg you!" Before Jonathan could respond to her, somewhere high overhead, probably in the castle's tower, he heard the harsh metallic whisper of the count, as though he was calling something. Jonathan watched in horror as the count's call seemed to be answered from far and wide, throughout the valley, by the howling of wolves. Within minutes a pack of them poured through the

假信。这也使乔纳森感到害怕，因为伯爵在城里做的任何坏事都会被怪罪到他头上。 那天晚上晚些时候，乔纳森被楼下院子里传来的痛苦的哭声惊醒了。 他跑到窗前，看见一个头发乱糟糟的女人，拼命地哭着跑着，喘着粗气。 妇人从窗口看见约拿单的脸，就俯身向前，指着他说：“你！怪物，把我的狗还给我！拜托!我求你了！”约纳森还没来得及回答她，他就听见伯爵在头顶高处的什么地方，大概是城堡的塔楼上，发出刺耳的金属声，好像在呼唤什么。 乔纳森惊恐地看着，伯爵的呼唤似乎从四面八方，从整个山谷传来了狼的嚎叫。 几分钟之内，一群狗涌了进来

wide entrance into the courtyard like a pent- up dam that had broken. Jonathan closed his eyes. He couldn't bear to watch. He didn't need to shut his ears, however, because there was no cry from the woman; there wasn't time. After only a few minutes the wolves streamed away. They moved quietly, licking their lips. The next day was the date of the last of the letters the count had forced Jonathan to write. He didn't have much time. He had to come up with a plan! He had not yet seen the count in daylight, he realized. Could it be that the count slept when others were awake? If only he could get into the count's room! Surely the answers to some of his questions could be found there. But how? The door was always locked. He had an idea. If the count climbed out his window, maybe Jonathan could climb in that very same way and, somewhere in there,

宽阔的入口进入庭院，就像一个被堵住的堤坝决堤了。 乔纳森闭上了眼睛。他看不下去了。 然而，他不需要闭上耳朵，因为没有女人的哭声；没有时间了。 只过了几分钟，狼群就流走了。 他们静静地移动着，舔着嘴唇。 第二天是伯爵强迫乔纳森写的最后一封信的日期。 他没有多少时间。他必须想出一个计划！他意识到，他还没有在白天见过伯爵。 难道是伯爵在别人醒着的时候睡着了吗？ 要是他能进伯爵的房间就好了！当然，他的一些问题的答案可以在那里找到。 但如何?门总是锁着的。 他有了一个主意。如果伯爵从窗户爬出去，也许乔纳森也可以用同样的方法爬出去，

find the key to the front door. Of course, he could not scale walls like a lizard, but there were ledges on the castle's outside walls, and other stones that were roughly cut. Both could possibly offer a few nooks and crannies for human toes. Later that day he found an open window that was on the same level as the count's and shared a ledge. Jonathan climbed out. While crawling slowly sideways, he looked down, but was so overcome by the height that he kept his eyes up after that. Upon reaching the count's window and slipping inside, Jonathan looked quickly around, in fear, for the count. The room was empty. In fact, the room was barely furnished and covered in dust, as if it had never been used. In one corner was a heap of gold, also covered in dust, and all of which must have been hundreds of years old. At the far end of the room was a heavy door, behind which lay

找到前门的钥匙。 当然，他不能像蜥蜴一样爬墙，但城堡的外墙上有壁架，还有一些石头被粗略地切割过。 两者都可能为人类的脚趾提供一些角落和缝隙。 那天晚些时候，他发现了一扇开着的窗户，这扇窗户和伯爵的窗户在同一水平面上，并且共用一个窗台。 乔纳森爬了出来。当他慢慢地向旁边爬的时候，他向下看了看，但是他被高度征服了，所以他一直抬着眼睛。 乔纳森一走到伯爵的窗口，溜了进去，他惊恐地迅速环顾四周，寻找伯爵。 房间是空的。事实上，这个房间几乎没有家具，满是灰尘，好像从来没有使用过一样。 在一个角落里有一堆金子，也被灰尘覆盖着，这些金子肯定有几百年的历史了。 房间的另一头有一扇沉重的门，门后躺着

a circular stairway leading steeply down deep into the earth. Holding his breath, Jonathan pushed forward. There, at the bottom of the stairs and through another long, stone passage, Jonathan found himself in an old, ruined chapel. The floor was made of soil, and seemed to have been used as a graveyard. There, all around him, were the boxes that the Slovaks had brought. Now, however, they were filled with freshly dug earth. And in one of the boxes, of which there were fifty in all (Jonathan quickly counted), on a pile of newly dug earth, lay the count! He was either dead or asleep, Jonathan could not tell which. His eyes were open and his lips were as red as ever, but there was no sign of movement—no pulse, breath, or beating heart. Glancing one last time at the count's cold deadish eyes, Jonathan turned and ran back

通往地下深处的陡峭的圆形楼梯。 乔纳森屏住呼吸，向前推进。 在那里，在楼梯的底部，穿过另一条长长的石头通道，乔纳森发现自己进入了一个破旧的小教堂。 地板是用泥土铺成的，似乎曾被用作墓地。 在他周围，摆满了斯洛伐克人带来的箱子。 然而，现在它们被新挖的土填满了。 在其中一个箱子里，总共有五十个（乔纳森很快数了一下），在一堆新挖的土上，躺着一个伯爵！他不是死了就是睡着了，乔纳森看不出是哪一个。 他的眼睛睁着，嘴唇和以前一样红，但没有任何活动的迹象——没有脉搏，没有呼吸，也没有跳动的心脏。 乔纳森最后看了一眼伯爵那冰冷而死气沉沉的眼睛，转身往回跑去