True 真

Nervous 神经

very nervous 很紧张

   

Madman 狂人

   

Why will you say that I am mad 为什么你会说我疯了

The disease has sharpened my senses 该病已削尖我的感觉

not destroyed 不被破坏

not dulled them 没有他们迟钝

   

Madman 狂人

   

The eye of a vulture 一只秃鹰的眼睛

a pale blue eye 淡蓝色的眼睛

with a film overit 有一部电影overit

   

Listen 听

observe how healthily 观察如何健康

and how calmly I tell this story 如何冷静，我告诉这个故事

   

He had no passion for the old man 他对老头没有激情

He was never insulted 他从来没有侮辱

   

He loved him 他爱他

   

It was the eye the eye the eye 这是眼睛的眼的眼

   

I made up my mind 我打定了主意

To take his life forever 把他的一生

   

Passionless 感情的

   

The eye of a vulture 一只秃鹰的眼睛

   

You should have seen me 你应该已经看到了我

   

How wisely I proceeded 如何明智地我继续

   

To rid himself of the eye forever 为了摆脱眼睛的自己永远

   

With what dissimulation I went to work 用什么掩饰我去上班

   

Caution 注意事项

   

I turned the latch on his door 我打开了锁在他的门

and opened it 打开了它

   

To work 工作

   

To practice 练习

   

I opened his door 我推开他的门

and put in a dark lantern 并把在黑暗的灯笼

   

Dark 黑暗

   

Slowly I put my head in 慢慢的，我把我的头

Slowly I thrust it until in time Ientered 慢慢的我推它，直到在一次Ientered

I was in so far 我是在至今

   

He was in so far 他是迄今

he could see the old man sleep 他能看到老人的睡眠

   

And then I undid the lantern so a thin ray 然后我解开灯笼这么薄线

fell upon the eye 在眼睛下跌

   

The vulture eye 秃鹫的眼睛

   

He did this for seven days 他这样做了七天

   

Seven days 七天

   

But always the eye was closed 但总是眼睛被关闭

and so I could not do the work 所以我不能做的工作

   

And in the day he would greet the old man 而在这一天，他将迎接老男人

calmly in his chamber 冷静地在他的室

   

Calmly 退一万步

   

Nothing is wrong and all is well 没有什么是错的，一切都很好

   

Knock, knock 叩，叩

who's there 谁在那里

   

Came night eight 来晚8

   

Night eight 晚上8

   

I was slower than a watch minute hand 我是不是一只手表分针慢

The power that I had with the old man 我曾与老男人的权力

not to even dream my secret thoughts 不要连做梦我的秘密的想法

   

Secret thoughts 秘密的想法

   

My sagacity 我的卓识

I could barely conceal my feelings of triumph 我几乎无法掩饰自己的感情凯旋

   

When suddenly the body moved 当突然身体移动

   

The body moved 身体移动

   

But I went in even further 但我去进一步

pushing the door open even further 推开门，甚至进一步

   

Who's there 谁在那里

   

Who's there 谁在那里

   

I did not move a muscle 我没有动一下

I kept quiet and still 我不声不响，仍然

   

The old man sat up in bed 这位老人从床上坐起来

   

In his bed 在他的床上

   

Who's there 谁在那里

   

I heard a groan 我听到了呻吟声

and knew it was a groan of mortal terror 并知道这是致命的恐怖的呻吟声

not pain or grief 没有疼痛或悲伤

   

Oh no 哦，不

   

It was the low stifled sound that arises 这是低窒息的声音，出现

from the bottom of the soul 从灵魂的底部

when overcharged with awe 当有敬畏乱收费

I felt such awe welling up in my own bosom 我觉得这样的敬畏之心溢满了我自己的怀中

deepening with its echo the terrors that distracted me 深化与它的反响，我心烦意乱的恐惧

Knowing what the old man felt and 知道什么是老人感到和

   

Pitying him 怜悯他

   

Although it made me laugh 虽然它让我发笑

   

Ha ha 哈哈

   

He'd been lying awake since the first slight noise 因为第一轻微的响声，他一直躺在清醒

He'd been lying awake thinking 他一直躺在清醒的思考

   

Thinking 思考

   

It is nothing but the wind 它只不过是风

   

The wind 风

   

It is nothing but the house settling 这不过是房子沉降

   

The old man stalked with his black shadow 这位老人大步，他黑色的影子

   

Death approaching 死亡逼近

   

The mournful presence of the unperceived 在未被察觉的悲伤的存在

causing him to feel my presence 使他感觉到我的存在

   

Open the lantern 打开灯笼

   

I saw the ray fall on the eye 我看到了对眼睛的光线秋天

   

On the eye 对眼睛