Letters Live丨英國版《見字如面》——史蒂芬·弗萊讀信:馬克·吐溫的一封信(2)

《Letters Live》(見信如晤) ，又稱英國版《見字如面》。節(jié)目邀請音樂、影視、文藝界的名人,如卷福、抖森等,現(xiàn)場朗讀近一個(gè)世紀(jì)以來令人難忘的書信。以下是Letters Live丨英國版《見字如面》——史蒂芬·弗萊讀信:馬克·吐溫的一封信(2)的資料，希望對你有所幫助！

 

It puzzles me to make out how the same hand could have constructed your letter and your advertisements.

我十分疑惑，寫這封信以及這些廣告的竟然是出自同一人之手。

Puzzles fret me, puzzles annoy me, puzzles exasperate me; and always, for a moment, they arouse in me an unkind state of mind toward the person who has puzzled me.

這一疑惑令我煩躁、窩火、氣急，也往往會(huì)讓我對制造這一疑惑的人一時(shí)間產(chǎn)生不友善的情緒。

A few moments from now my resentment will have faded and passed and I shall probably even be praying for you;

過一陣子，我的憤懣情緒會(huì)消散，我或許還會(huì)為您真摯地祈禱；

 

but while there is yet time I hasten to wish that you may take a dose of your own poison by mistake,

不過既然現(xiàn)在還有時(shí)間，我得趕緊許愿，祝您誤服一劑您自己賣的毒藥，

and enter swiftly into the damnation which you and all other patent medicine assassins have so remorselessly earned and do so richly deserve.

并迅速墮入地獄，這是對您以及其他制造專利藥殺手的殘忍行徑的報(bào)應(yīng)，是你們咎由自取的。

Adieu, adieu, adieu!

別了，別了，永別了!

Mark Twain

馬克·吐溫謹(jǐn)啟