James Thurber - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 原文 翻译

沃尔特·米蒂的隐秘生活(白日梦想家), 詹姆斯·瑟伯

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

James Thurber

沃尔特·米蒂的隐秘生活（白日梦想家）

詹姆斯·瑟伯

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"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," first published in 1941, is one of James Thurber's most well-known and beloved stories. Its famous protagonist holds a place in the cultural lexicon, meriting his own entry in English-language dictionaries. In 1947, Norman McLeod directed an MGM Technicolor musical with the same title based on Thurber's story. The film, which extends Mitty's imaginary adventures over a two-day period, stars Danny Kaye as the affable daydreamer.

《沃尔特·米蒂的隐秘生活》（白日梦想家）首次于1941年出版，是詹姆斯·瑟伯最为人知和喜爱的故事之一。其著名的主角在文化词典中占有一席，值得在英语词典中拥有一个词条。1947年，诺曼·麦克劳德执导了一部米高梅彩色印片的基于瑟伯的故事的同题音乐剧。这部将米蒂的幻想冒险扩展到两天时长的电影，由丹尼·凯出演这位和蔼的白日梦想家。

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沃尔特·米蒂的隐秘生活(白日梦想家), 詹姆斯·瑟伯

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"We're going through!" The Commander's voice was like thin ice breaking. He wore his full-dress uniform, with the heavily braided white cap pulled down rakishly over one cold gray eye. "We can't make it, sir. It's spoiling for a hurricane, if you ask me." "I'm not asking you, Lieutenant Berg," said the Commander. "Throw on the power lights! Rev her up to 8,500! We're going through!" The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa. The Commander stared at the ice forming on the pilot window. He walked over and twisted a row of complicated dials. "Switch on No. 8 auxiliary!" he shouted. "Switch on No. 8 auxiliary!" repeated Lieutenant Berg. "Full strength in No. 3 turret!" shouted the Commander. "Full strength in No. 3 turret!" The crew, bending to their various tasks in the huge, hurtling eight-engined Navy hydroplane, looked at each other and grinned. "The old man will get us through" they said to one another. "The Old Man ain't afraid of

Hell!" . . .

“我们要穿过去！”指挥官的声音就像薄冰破碎一样。他穿着他的礼服军装（*军装按场合分礼服和常服），那顶有厚厚镶边的白帽不拘地斜压在一只冷峻灰色的眼睛上。“我们做不到的，长官。飓风马上就要到来了，如果你问我意见的话。”“我不是在问你，伯格中尉，”指挥官说道。“让动力指示灯亮起来！将她抬升到8500英尺！我们要穿过去！”气缸的冲击声增大了：扑哧扑哧扑哧。指挥官看了眼驾驶舱玻璃上正在凝结的冰。他走过去扭了下一排复杂的按钮。“开启8号备用引擎！”他喊道。“开启8号备用引擎！”伯格中尉复述道。“3号炮塔满负荷！（*此处的turret理论上是炮塔，考虑到作者后面还犯了几个错误，此处可结合上下文推断出是引擎不是炮塔）”指挥官喊道。“3号炮

塔满负荷！”机组成员们，俯身投入在各自的任务中，在巨大的飞驰着的八引擎海军水上飞机里，彼此相视一笑。“老头儿会带我们穿过去”他们对互相说道。“这个老头儿一点儿都不怕死！”。。。

"Not so fast! You're driving too fast!" said Mrs. Mitty. "What are you driving so fast for?"

“不要这么快！你开得太快了！”米蒂太太说道。“你开这么快做什么？”

"Hmm?" said Walter Mitty. He looked at his wife, in the seat beside him, with shocked astonishment. She seemed grossly unfamiliar, like a strange woman who had yelled at him in a crowd. "You were up to fifty-five," she said. "You know I don't like to go more than forty. You were up to fifty-five." Walter Mitty drove on toward Waterbury in silence, the roaring of the SN202 through the worst storm in twenty years of Navy flying fading in the remote, intimate airways of his mind.

“嗯？”沃尔特·米蒂说。他惊讶地看着坐在他边上位置的老婆。她看起来似乎不太熟悉，像个在人群中大声吼了他的陌生女人。“你快开到55迈了，”她说。“你知道我不喜欢比40迈更快。你刚才快到55迈了。”沃尔特·米蒂一言不发，继续向沃特伯里开去，在海军飞行史上二十年一遇的最糟糕的风暴中穿越的SN202引擎的咆哮声，从他熟悉的航线上，渐渐消失在远方。

"You're tensed up again," said Mrs. Mitty. "It's one of your days. I wish you'd let Dr. Renshaw look you over."

“你又紧张了，”米蒂太太说道。“今天你又这样（犯病）。我希望你能让伦肖医生给检查下。”

Walter Mitty stopped the car in front of the building where his wife went to have her hair done. "Remember to get those overshoes while I'm having my hair done," she said. "I don't need overshoes," said Mitty. She put her mirror back into her bag. "We've been all through that," she said, getting out of the car. "You're not a young man any longer." He raced the engine a little. "Why don't you wear your gloves? Have you lost your gloves?" Walter Mitty reached in a pocket and brought out the gloves. He put them on, but after she had turned and gone into the building and he had driven

to a red light, he took them off again. "Pick it up, brother!" snapped a cop as the light changed, and Mitty hastily pulled on his gloves and lurched ahead. He drove around the streets aimlessly for a time, and then he drove past the hospital on his way to the parking lot.

沃尔特·米蒂将车停在他老婆要去做头发的那幢大楼前。“在我做头发的空当，记得去把那套鞋买来，”她说。“我不需要套鞋，”米蒂说。她把镜子放回手袋里。“我们不是已经讲好了的，”她说着，走下车。“你已经不是一个小孩子了。”他踩了踩油门。“为什么你不戴上手套？你把手套弄丢了吗？”沃尔特·米蒂手伸进口袋掏出了手套。他戴上它们，但在她转身离开进入大楼后，开到一个红绿灯时，他又把手套摘掉了。“赶紧地，兄弟！”交通灯变绿的时候一个警察急促喊道，米蒂慌忙把手套戴上，蹒跚前行。他漫无目的地在街道绕了一段时间，然后途径一家医院前往停车场。

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