本人喜欢英文，更喜欢红楼梦，希望在简书，中英文的红楼梦能给你带来别样的阅读体验~
After playing with her for a while at his desk, he carried her out to the front of the house to watch the bustle in the street. He was about to go in again when he saw a monk and a Taolist tousle-haired and limping. They were behaving like madmen, shouting with laughter and gesticulating wildly as they walked along.
士隐意欲也跟了过去，方举步时，忽听一声霹雳，有若山崩地陷。士隐大叫一声，定睛一看，只见烈日炎炎，芭蕉冉冉，所梦之事便忘了大半。又见奶母正抱了英莲走来。士隐见女儿越发生得粉妆玉琢，乖觉可喜，便伸手接来，抱在怀内，斗他顽耍一回，又带至街前，看那过会的热闹。
When this strange pair reached Shi-yin's door and saw him standing there holding Ying-lian, the monk burst into loud sobs. "Parton", he said, addressing Shi-Yin, "what are you doing, holding in your arms that ill-fated creature who is destined to involve both her parents in her own misfortune?"
方欲进来时，只见从那边来了一僧一道：那僧则癞头跣脚，那道则跛足蓬头，疯疯癫癫，挥霍谈笑而至。及至到了他门前，看见士隐抱着英莲，那僧便大哭起来，又向士隐道：“施主，你把这有命无运、累及爹娘之物，抱在怀内作甚？”
Shi-yin relized that he was listening to the words of a madman and took no notice. But the monk persisted:
"Give her to me! Give her to me!"
那僧还说：“舍我罢，舍我罢！”
Shi-yin was beginning to lose patience and, clasping his little girl more tightly to him, turned on his heel and was about to re-enter the house when the monk pointed his finger at him, roared with laughter, and then proceeded to intone the follwing verses:
士隐不耐烦，便抱女儿撤身要进去，那僧乃指着他大笑，口内念了四句言词道：
"Fond man, your pampered child to cherish so that clatrop-glass which shines on melting snow! Beware the high feast of the fifteenth day, When all in smoke and fire shall pass away!"
惯养娇生笑你痴，菱花空对雪澌澌。好防佳节元宵后，便是烟消火灭时。
#Vocabulary#
sob
This adjective means the opposite of playful or drunk. When attending a funeral, you are expected to be sober in both senses.
The most common meaning of sober is "not drunk" — people who drive need to be sober. Sober sounds a lot like somber, and it often means sad and quiet too, or sometimes too serious. Another meaning is to be logical or realistic about something. Sometimes sober means drab: a grey station wagon is a more sober vehicle than a hot red convertible. All of these meanings are quiet and restrained — unlike a person who has had a lot to drink.
清醒最常见的意思是“没有喝醉”——开车的人需要保持清醒。清醒听起来很像somber，它通常意味着悲伤和安静，或者有时太严肃了。另一个意思是对某事的逻辑或现实。有时清醒意味着单调:一辆灰色旅行车比一辆火红的敞篷车更清醒。所有这些意思都是安静和克制的——不像一个喝了很多酒的人。
tousle-haired 头发蓬乱的；
To intone is to to chant in a flat voice. When you recite a poem you had to memorize in English class, you're likely to intone the lines without much expression.
You might intone bad news over the phone, bluntly and unemotionally, and librarians often intone a low command to keep the noise down in the library. People reciting prayers usually intone them as well. In the fourteenth century, the word was entunen, "sing, chant or recite," from a Latin root, intonare, "sing according to tone."
你可能会在电话里直言不讳地说出坏消息，而图书管理员通常会用低沉的语调来压低图书馆里的噪音。诵读祈祷文的人通常也会吟诵祷文。在14世纪，这个词被改成了entunen，意为“唱歌、吟诵或背诵”，源自拉丁语词根intonare，意为“根据音调歌唱”。
2022-10-7
