6 The Storm Brings a Strange Ship to Whitby

CHAPTER 6 The Storm Brings a Strange Ship to Whitby Mina Murray, Jonathan's fiancée, was worried. He had been away for so long now, and had written her only a few times, which was very unlike him. Also unusual was the way he had written—stiffly, formally, and in longhand, instead of the shorthand he usually used. He was probably just busy, she figured, and she tried not to worry. Besides, Jonathan's

第六章风暴把一艘奇怪的船带到惠特比乔纳森的未婚妻米娜·默里很担心。 他离开了那么久，只给她写过几封信，这很不像他。 他写作的方式也不同寻常——生硬、正式，而且是手写的，而不是他通常使用的速记。 他可能只是很忙，她想，她尽量不去担心。 此外,乔纳森的

last letter did state quite clearly that he was well and would be returning in about a week. She couldn't wait to hear all about his adventures in Transylvania. In the meantime, today Mina would be distracted by a welcome visit from her good friend Lucy Westenra. Lucy had recently been presented with not one but three marriage proposals, and she was eager to tell Mina all about it. The first proposal was from a Dr. John Seward, a kind and smart man who managed a small lunatic asylum in a home in town, where he lived as well. She did not love him and so she had told him no. The second proposal was from a very nice American from Texas, a Mr. Quincey P. Morris. Perhaps because he was so jolly, it had been easier to reject Mr. Morris than Dr. Seward. The third proposal was from Mr. Arthur

最后一封信确实说得很清楚，他身体很好，大约一周后会回来。 她迫不及待地想听听他在特兰西瓦尼亚的冒险经历。 与此同时，今天米娜会因为她的好朋友露西·韦斯特拉的欢迎来访而分心。 露西最近收到了不止一个，而是三个求婚，她急于把这一切都告诉米娜。 第一个提议来自一位博士。 约翰·苏厄德，一个善良而聪明的人在镇上的一所房子里经营着一家小型疯人院，他也住在那里。 她不爱他，所以她拒绝了他。 第二个提议来自一个非常好的美国人，来自德克萨斯州，昆西P。 莫里斯。也许是因为他太快活了，拒绝莫里斯先生比拒绝莫里斯医生容易。 苏厄德。第三个建议来自亚瑟先生

Holmwood. Tall, handsome, and curly- haired, and a longtime friend of the family, Mr. Holmwood had actually introduced Lucy to the other two men. It was he, however, who had stolen her heart. His was the only proposal that she could accept. To celebrate, and to plan the wedding, the women were going away on a little vacation. They would be staying in Whitby, an old whaling village, in a little inn with a view of the harbor and the bay. Whitby was a beautiful, gloomy old town. By the bay, part of an old cemetery on a cliff had slipped into the sea, leaving some of the headstones askew, like a sad sculpture garden. Being somewhat dramatic in nature, Lucy was particularly drawn to the old cemetery. The two women sat there for hours, using one of the sideways-pushed headstones as a seat, sometimes not even speaking, so content were they with their

Holmwood。霍姆伍德先生高大英俊，一头卷发，是这家人的老朋友，实际上是他把露西介绍给另外两个人的。 然而，是他偷走了她的心。 他是她唯一能接受的求婚。 为了庆祝，也为了筹备婚礼，女人们要去度个小假。 他们将住在惠特比，一个古老的捕鲸村，住在一个可以看到港口和海湾的小客栈里。 惠特比是一个美丽而阴暗的古镇。 在海湾边，悬崖上一座古老的墓地的一部分已经滑入大海，留下一些歪歪斜斜的墓碑，像一个悲伤的雕塑花园。 露西生性有点戏剧性，对那座古老的墓地特别感兴趣。 两个女人在那里坐了几个小时，用一块侧推的墓碑作为座位，有时甚至不说话，因为她们对自己的工作非常满意

thoughts and their books. Other times they would have company, in the form of the occasional interesting town character. Some of these people shared superstitious tales. If a bell rang, for example, they said it meant a ship was lost at sea. One old man, a Mr. Swales, would always scoff at such things, dismissing them as silly ghost stories. As their vacation progressed, however, instead of relaxing, both women seemed to grow more stressed. To begin with, after the last of his three strangely brief and formal letters, there had been no further word from Jonathan. What's worse, contrary to what he had promised in his letters, he had not yet returned to London. Lucy, too, was making Mina uneasy. She had reverted to her old childhood habit of sleepwalking. Mina forced herself to try to sleep lightly so that she would awaken at the

思想和他们的书。其他时候，他们会有同伴，以偶尔有趣的城镇人物的形式出现。 其中一些人分享迷信故事。 例如，如果铃声响起，他们说这意味着一艘船在海上失踪了。 一位名叫斯韦尔斯先生的老人总是对这类事情嗤之以鼻，认为它们是愚蠢的鬼故事。 然而，随着假期的进行，两位女士非但没有放松，反而似乎压力越来越大。 首先，乔纳森写了三封出奇地简短而正式的信的最后一封信之后，就再也没有什么消息了。 更糟的是，与他在信中所承诺的相反，他还没有回到伦敦。 露西也使米娜感到不安。 她又恢复了童年时梦游的习惯。 米娜强迫自己尽量睡得轻一点，这样她就能在凌晨醒来

sound of her friend wandering around and could gently lead Lucy back to her own bed. Even the weather seemed to be growing worried. The local fishermen predicted they were in for a storm. Even old Mr. Swales had to admit it. Pointing out to sea one day, he shivered and said, "There is something in the wind that sounds, looks, and tastes like death." Perhaps it was the strange ship out there, which many in the town had lately noticed, steering very curiously and changing course with every puff of wind. The fishermen were right, and the storm that eventually came into Whitby was one of the greatest storms ever recorded. On the day the tempest swept into town, the sunset had been simply glorious, and most of the townspeople had come out to the cliffs to take in the splendid colors. All present also noticed the strange ship still out there in the

她的朋友四处游荡的声音，可以轻轻地把露西带到她自己的床上。 就连天气似乎也越来越担心了。 当地渔民预测他们将遭遇暴风雨。 就连老斯韦尔斯先生也不得不承认。 一天，他指着大海，颤抖着说：“风里有什么东西，听起来、看起来、尝起来都像死亡。” 也许这就是那艘奇怪的船，最近镇上的许多人都注意到了，它很奇怪地转向，每一阵风就改变航线。 渔民们是对的，最终来到惠特比的风暴是有史以来最大的风暴之一。 在暴风雨席卷小镇的那天，日落非常壮观，大多数镇上的人都来到悬崖上欣赏这绚丽的色彩。 在场的人也都注意到那艘奇怪的船还在外面

harbor and still flying full sails, which was extremely dangerous in the rapidly building wind. Shortly after midnight a strange sound came from out over the sea. Without warning, the sky exploded. The waves rose furiously and turned the sea into a devouring monster. Masses of heavy sea fog came rolling inland. Wet white clouds danced like ghosts. Thunder boomed, lightning flashed, and the townspeople huddled together and held their breath as, one by one, the boats still at sea made it safely to port, to cheers. Eventually, only the strange boat remained out there, sails still fully set. It now seemed in danger of missing the harbor entirely and splintering into pieces on the sharp reef just beyond. Then, miraculously, the wind shifted and the ship was blown into the harbor, driving itself violently up onto a sand barge but otherwise remaining intact.

停泊在港口，仍然满帆飞行，这在迅速形成的风中是极其危险的。 午夜过后不久，海上传来一阵奇怪的声音。 毫无征兆，天空爆炸了。 巨浪汹涌而起，把大海变成了一个吞噬人的怪物。 大量的海雾向内陆滚滚而来。 湿漉漉的白云像幽灵一样翩翩起舞。 雷声隆隆，电闪雷鸣，镇上的人挤在一起，屏住呼吸，看着仍在海上的船只一个接一个安全地抵达港口，欢呼雀跃。 最后，只剩下那艘奇怪的船，风帆依然张得紧紧的。 现在，它似乎有完全驶离港口的危险，并在远处尖锐的礁石上碎成碎片。 然后，奇迹般的是，风向改变了，船被吹进了港口，猛烈地把自己吹到一艘沙船上，但除此之外还完好无损。