美國(guó)語(yǔ)文第五冊(cè) 第315期：論烤豬（06）

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In a few days his lordship's townhouse was observed to be on fire.

不幾天，法官大人官邸火光眼見(jiàn)紅了半邊天。

The thing took wing, and now there was nothing to be seen but fire in every direction.

這樣稀罕之事簡(jiǎn)直像長(zhǎng)了翅膀。這下好了，城里不時(shí)有此起彼伏的火光冒出，

Fuel and pigs grew enormously dear all over the district.

劈柴與豬崽價(jià)格眼見(jiàn)突突地漲個(gè)不停，

The insurance offices one and all shut up shop.

保險(xiǎn)當(dāng)鋪一家家倒閉關(guān)門(mén)；

People built slighter and slighter every day,

日復(fù)一日，居民窩棚越發(fā)粗制潦草，

until it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the world.

甚至有人開(kāi)始擔(dān)憂(yōu)，這門(mén)蓋房技藝無(wú)需良久就會(huì)失傳，無(wú)人承繼。

Thus this custom of firing houses continued till in process of time,

于是，焚燒房屋的習(xí)俗延續(xù)下來(lái)，直到后來(lái)的文明進(jìn)步才得以廢除。

says my manusCRIpt, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal,

一位類(lèi)似西方洛克的圣人橫空出世，我的那本手抄本如此描述，那位睿者發(fā)現(xiàn)，不管豬肉，還是其他動(dòng)物的肉，

might be cooked (burnt, as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it.

無(wú)須點(diǎn)燃整座房屋，同樣可通過(guò)烹制為食（或如中國(guó)人所說(shuō)的炙烤）。

Then first began the rude form of a gridiron.

由此，粗陋的食物烤架最先問(wèn)世，

Roasting by the string or spit came in a century or two later; I forget in whose dynasty.

一兩百年后，成行成串的炙烤烹制方法開(kāi)始流行，我可真忘了這些事發(fā)生在哪朝哪代。

By such slow degrees, concludes the manusCRIpt, do the most useful, and seemingly the most obvious, arts make their way among mankind.

不過(guò)，那部手抄本給出以下結(jié)論，伴隨緩慢的文明進(jìn)步，那些人類(lèi)生活中最為實(shí)用、似乎最為顯見(jiàn)的生存技藝，就是這樣逐漸地完善起來(lái)。

Without placing too implicit faith in the account above given,

無(wú)須對(duì)上述歷史塵封過(guò)分當(dāng)真，

it must be agreed that if a worthy pretext for so dangerous an experiment as setting houses on fire (especially in these days)

然而，對(duì)于那種放火燃盡茅舍窩棚的危險(xiǎn)實(shí)驗(yàn)（尤其在原始蠻荒時(shí)期），

could be assigned in favor of any culinary object that pretext and excuse might be found in Roast Pig.

我們還是深以為然；因?yàn)椋绻f(shuō)這類(lèi)冒險(xiǎn)價(jià)有所值，那么，烹飪史上的烤乳豬顯然值得一書(shū)。