Of Human Bondage 人性的枷锁 Chapter 23

Philip thought occasionally of the King's School at Tercanbury, and laughed to himself as he remembered what at some particular moment of the day they were doing. Now and then he dreamed that he was there still, and it gave him an extraordinary satisfaction, on awaking, to realise that he was in his little room in the turret ¹. From his bed he could see the great cumulus clouds that hung in the blue sky. He revelled ² in his freedom. He could go to bed when he chose and get up when the fancy took him. There was no one to order him about. It struck him that he need not tell any more lies., ,It had been arranged that Professor Erlin should teach him Latin and German; a Frenchman came every day to give him lessons in French; and the Frau Professor had recommended for mathematics an Englishman who was taking a philological ³ degree at the university. This was a man named Wharton. Philip went to him every morning. He lived in one room on the top floor of a shabby house. It was dirty and untidy, and it was filled with a pungent ⁴ odour made up of many different stinks ⁵. He was generally in bed when Philip arrived at ten o'clock, and he jumped out, put on a filthy ⁶ dressing-gown and felt slippers ⁷, and, while he gave instruction, ate his simple breakfast. He was a short man, stout ⁸ from excessive beer drinking, with a heavy moustache and long, unkempt hair. He had been in Germany for five years and was become very Teutonic. He spoke ⁹ with scorn of Cambridge where he had taken his degree and with horror of the life which awaited him when, having taken his doctorate ¹⁰ in Heidelberg, he must return to England and a pedagogic career. He adored the life of the German university with its happy freedom and its jolly companionships. He was a member of a Burschenschaft, and promised to take Philip to a Kneipe. He was very poor and made no secret that the lessons he was giving Philip meant the difference between meat for his dinner and bread and cheese. Sometimes after a heavy night he had such a headache that he could not drink his coffee, and he gave his lesson with heaviness of spirit. For these occasions he kept a few bottles of beer under the bed, and one of these and a pipe would help him to bear the burden of life., ,'A hair of the dog that bit him,' he would say as he poured out the beer, carefully so that the foam ¹¹ should not make him wait too long to drink., , ,'Look here, we've not done anything today. You needn't pay me for the lesson.', ,'Oh, it doesn't matter,' said Philip., ,The soldier scaled the wall of the fortress by turret.士兵通过塔楼攀登上了要塞的城墙 。,The foreign guests revelled in the scenery of the lake. 外宾们十分喜爱湖上的景色。 来自辞典例句