海底兩萬里 第102期 第8章 動(dòng)中之動(dòng)(5)

　　One was short and stocky, powerfully muscled, broad shouldered, robust of limbs, the head squat, the hair black and luxuriant.

　　一個(gè)是身材短小，筋肉發(fā)達(dá)，兩肩寬闊，軀體壯健，堅(jiān)強(qiáng)的頭顱，蓬蓬的黑發(fā)。

　　the mustache heavy, the eyes bright and penetrating, and his whole personality stamped with that southern-blooded zest that, in France, typifies the people of Provence.

　　濃濃的胡須，犀利的眼光，他的風(fēng)度帶有法國普羅丈斯省人所特有的那種南方人的氣概。

　　The philosopher Diderot has very aptly claimed that a man's bearing is the clue to his character, and this stocky little man was certainly a living proof of this claim.

　　狄德羅認(rèn)為人的手勢是富于譬喻的，真是說的對，現(xiàn)在這個(gè)短小的人正是這句活的活證據(jù)。

　　You could sense that his everyday conversation must have been packed with such vivid figures of speech as personification, symbolism, and misplaced modifiers.

　　可以感覺到，在他慣用的語言中，一定是充滿了修辭學(xué)中的各種譬喻詞匯。

　　But I was never in a position to verify this because, around me, he used only an odd andutterly incomprehensible dialect.

　　當(dāng)然我并役有機(jī)會(huì)證實(shí)這事，因?yàn)樗麑ξ抑v的是一種特異的、聽不懂的話。

　　The second stranger deserves a more detailed description.

　　第二個(gè)來人更值得詳細(xì)地加以描寫。