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第二章
The young men went down to the river Moskva and walked along its bank. There was a breath of freshness from the water, and the soft plash of tiny waves caressed the ear.
这两个年轻人来到莫斯科河边，沿河岸走着。河面上吹来一阵新鲜的风，水波轻微的荡漾声缓缓摩挲着他们的耳膜。
'I would have another bathe, ' said Shubin, 'only I' m afraid of being late. Look at the river; it seems to beckon us. The ancient Greeks would have beheld a nymph in it. But we are not Greeks, O nymph! we are thick—skinned Scythians. '
“我又想游泳了，” 舒宾说， “只是我怕会迟到。看那河水，它好像在召唤我们呢。古希腊人相信每条河中都有一个女神。但我们不是希腊人，哦，我的女神！我们是粗鲁的西塞亚人。”
'We have roussalkas, ' observed Bersenyev.
“但我们有美人鱼啊。” 别尔谢涅夫讲道。
'Get along with your roussalkas! What's the use to me—a sculptor—of those children of a cold, terror—stricken fancy, those shapes begotten in the stifling hut, in the dark of winter nights? I want light, space…. Good God, when shall I go to Italy? When—’
“算了吧，还美人鱼呢！那些满脑袋都是冰冷恐怖幻想的孩子，那些在漆黑冬夜中沉闷的小木屋里幻想出来的形象，对于我——一个雕塑家——能有什么用呢？我想要的是光线，空间……博爱的上帝啊，我什么时候才能去意大利啊？什么时候？”
'To Little Russia, I suppose you mean? '
“我想你的意思是说要去小俄罗斯？”
'For shame, Andrei Petrovitch, to reproach me for an act of unpremeditated folly, which I have repented bitterly enough without that. Oh, of course, I behaved like a fool; Anna Vassilyevna most kindly gave me the money for an expedition to Italy, and I went off to the Little Russians to eat dumplings and—’
“安德烈? 彼得罗维奇，你是不好意思当面指责我粗心大意吧，就算你不说，我也已经为自己的愚蠢懊悔不已。哦，是的，我简直就是个傻瓜，以前安娜? 瓦西里耶夫娜曾好心资助我去意大利，但我却跑去小俄罗斯吃饺子，然后——”
'Don't let me have the rest, please, ' interposed Bersenyev.
“算了，请你别再接着说了。” 别尔谢涅夫打断了他的话。
'Yet still, I will say, the money was not spent in vain. I saw there such types, especially of women…. Of course, I know; there is no salvation to be found outside of Italy!’
“不过，我还是要说，那些钱并没有被浪费掉。我在那里见到了许多不同的事物，尤其是女人……当然，我知道，如果不去意大利的话，人就永远得不到救赎！”
'You will go to Italy, ' said Bersenyev, without turning towards him, 'and will do nothing. You will always be pluming your wings and never take flight. We know you! '
“就算你去了意大利，” 别尔谢涅夫说着，看都没看他一眼， “你也不会有什么成就。你只会不停地拍打着翅膀，却永远都飞不起来。我们太了解你啦！”
'Stavasser has taken flight…. And he's not the only one. If I don't fly, it will prove that I' m a sea penguin, and have no wings. I am stifled here, I want to be in Italy, 'pursued Shubin, 't here is sunshine, there is beauty. '
“斯塔瓦瑟尔倒是飞起来了，而且他不是唯一能飞起来的那个人。如果我飞不起来，那只能说明我是海里的一只企鹅，没有翅膀而已。呆在这里我简直就要闷死了，我想去意大利，” 舒宾接着说道， “那里有阳光，那里有美女。”
A young girl in a large straw hat, with a pink parasol on her shoulder, came into sight at that instant, in the little path along which the friends were walking.
此时，一个头戴大草帽，肩上抵着粉色太阳伞的少女出现在他们视野里，走在他们所在的小径上。
'But what do I see? Even here, there is beauty—coming to meet us! A humble artist's compliments to the enchanting Zoya!’ Shubin cried at once, with a theatrical flourish of his hat.
“瞧，我看到什么了？即便在这里，也有美女——她朝我们这边走过来了！美丽的卓娅小姐，一个谦卑的艺术家向你致敬！” 舒宾立刻叫了起来，滑稽地挥了挥他的帽子。
The young girl to whom this exclamation referred, stopped, threatening him with her finger, and, waiting for the two friends to come up to her, she said in a ringing voice:
那个女孩停了下来，用手指指着大喊的舒宾，等到他俩走近时，她用银铃般的声音说道：
'Why is it, gentlemen, you don't come in to dinner? It is on the table. '
“怎么回事，先生们，你们怎么不去吃饭？饭都已经准备好了。”
'What do I hear? ' said Shubin, throwing his arms up. 'Can it be that you, bewitching Zoya, faced such heat to come and look for us? Dare I think that is the meaning of your words? Tell me, can it be so? Or no, do not utter that word; I shall die of regret on the spot. '
“我听到了什么？” 舒宾举起了他的胳膊，说， “难道你，迷人的卓娅，顶着大太阳出门就是来找我们吗？我可以这样理解你的意思吗？告诉我，可以吗？或者，等一下，请你不要告诉我真是这样的，不然我就要后悔死了。”
'Oh, do leave off, Pavel Yakovlitch, ' replied the young girl with some annoyance. 'Why will you never talk to me seriously? I shall be angry, ' she added with a little coquettish grimace, and she pouted.
“哦，不要这样，帕维尔? 雅克夫利奇，” 那个少女有些懊恼地说， “你为什么就不能正经些和我说话呢？我可要生气啦。” 她有点儿轻佻地做着鬼脸，还撅着嘴巴。
'You will not be angry with me, ideal Zoya Nikitishna; you would not drive me to the dark depths of hopeless despair. And I can't talk to you seriously, because I' m not a serious person. '
“你可别生我气呀，完美的卓娅? 尼基季什娜，你千万别让我陷入到绝望的深渊里。我本来就是个放荡不羁的人，所以才常与你开玩笑。”
The young girl shrugged her shoulders, and turned to Bersenyev.
少女耸了耸肩，转向别尔谢涅夫。
'There, he's always like that; he treats me like a child; and I am eighteen. I am grown—up now. '
“你看，他一直都是那样，他总是把我当成小孩子，可我都十八岁了。现在我已经是大人了。”
'O Lord! ' groaned Shubin, rolling his eyes upwards; and Bersenyev smiled quietly.
“哦，上帝！” 舒宾叹了口气，翻了个白眼，而别尔谢涅夫则轻轻地笑了。
The girl stamped with her little foot.
少女使劲地跺了跺她的小脚。
'Pavel Yakovlitch, I shall be angry! Helene was coming with me, ' she went on, 'but she stopped in the garden. The heat frightened her, but I am not afraid of the heat. Come along. '
“帕维尔? 雅克夫利奇，我可真要生气啦！埃琳娜本来要和我一起的，” 她说， “但后来她却去花园了。她很怕热，但我却不怕。走吧。”
She moved forward along the path, slightly swaying her slender figure at each step, and with a pretty black—mittened little hand pushing her long soft curls back from her face.
她沿着小径向前走去，每挪一步，那纤细的身体都会轻轻地摇摆一下，还不时用戴着黑色手套的小手把挡在脸上、柔顺卷曲的长发拨到后面去。
The friends walked after her (Shubin first pressed his hands, without speaking, to his heart, and then flung them higher than his head), and in a few instants they came out in front of one of the numerous country villas with which Kuntsovo is surrounded. A small wooden house with a gable, painted a pink colour, stood in the middle of the garden, and seemed to be peeping out innocently from behind the green trees. Zoya was the first to open the gate; she ran into the garden, crying: 'I have brought the wanderers! ' A young girl, with a pale and expressive face, rose from a garden bench near the little path, and in the doorway of the house appeared a lady in a lilac silk dress, holding an embroidered cambric handkerchief over her head to screen it from the sun, and smiling with a weary and listless air.
两个年轻人跟在她的后面（舒宾先是一言不发地把双手用力地按在胸前，接着又把它们举过头顶），没过多久他们就来到了一幢别墅前，这座房子位于孔佐沃周边的别墅区里。在花园中间，坐落着一幢带有顶楼的木制小房子，墙被刷成了粉色，看上去它就像躲在绿树林后面无辜地窥探着外面的世界。卓娅第一个打开了大门，她跑到花园里，大声叫道： “我把那两个出去闲逛的人带回来了！” 一个面色苍白却表情丰富的少女从小路旁边的一个长椅上站了起来，在房门口，一个身穿紫色丝绸连衣裙的夫人站在那里，用一条麻布绣花手绢放在额头上挡太阳，面色疲倦地笑着。