Black Beauty

《黑骏马（Black Beauty）》是安娜·塞维尔一生中写的唯一一本书，1877年一经出版就获得了巨大成功，被誉为“第一部真正的动物小说”。那时她的肝炎和肺结核已经非常严重，一年之后就去世了。虽然现在这本书如今被划分为青少年经典书籍，安娜·塞维尔的初衷却是写给长期与马儿打交道的人们，希望马儿能得到他们的理解以及友善的对待。安娜曾经说：

“My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt”

如果我们看到我们有力量去制止的残忍之行和不义之事，而没有制止，我们也就参与了共同犯罪。（可见她是十分反感人类对动物的虐待行为的）

本书的主人公“我”名叫Darkie，是一匹颇具颜值的优种黑马，从小生活在贵族人家，受过良好的训练，性格温顺，聪明机智，深得主人喜欢。后来几经易主，历经世间冷暖。作品揭示了马的内心世界，也有作为马冷眼旁观人类社会的描写。黑骏马通过自己的眼睛，用惟妙惟肖的语言，讲述了一个个娓娓动听的故事，让我们每个读故事的人都感到：动物通人性，我们怎样对待动物，动物就会怎样对待我们。

主人为什么要给马儿们吃燕麦（oat）呢？

其实早在公元476年，人们就已经用燕麦来喂马了，而日耳曼军队还率先用燕麦做军粮，挥师南下灭了西罗马帝国。在其他文学作品里面，也有对马吃燕麦的描述。1735年出版的小说《格列佛游记》中，格列佛在一个叫慧骃国（Houyhnhnms）的地方遇到了一群会说话的马，它们就以燕麦为待客的高级食品。在《包法利夫人》中，卡尼韦博士去病人家做手术，第一件事就是去亲自走进马棚，看看病人家喂马有没有用燕麦，因为不想让自己的坐骑饿着。可见，燕麦在过去一直是喂马的上乘之选。

人类为了驯化马儿，发明了一系列马具，这里先给大家铺垫一些专有名词帮助理解：

bit是马嚼子，金属制，是马笼头bridle的一部分。马儿把它含在嘴里，在骑手勒紧缰绳时起到良好的“刹车”作用。

主人公Darkie吐槽：it is a smelly thing! 马嚼子确实是臭臭的（毕竟上面都是马口水），驯马师每次和马儿练习完，都会把它们头上的马笼头取下来，清洗一下马嚼子。

人们需要骑马或是让马儿拉车的时候，会在马厩里为马儿开始一系列“穿衣”流程：首先，给马刷毛（brush the loose hair and dirt off the horse's back）。这一步非常重要，因为如果不刷掉马代谢掉的毛发，一旦马的汗水将毛打湿，马会想要抖落它，骑手会很酸爽。然后，在马的头上套上马笼头，再安装马鞍（saddle），如果马蹄没有钉铁片（iron shoes），要检查是否有泥巴、杂草之类的塞在马蹄缝里（hoof care）。在整个过程中，马儿可能会觉得不舒服，所以要温柔的抚摸它们，和它们交流来calm them down。

一词多义/熟词生义

1「stroke」：常见的意思是“打、击、中风”等，在这里的意思是“轻抚”。

原句：He would pat and stroke her and say, “Well, old Pet, and how is your little Darkie”

2「still」：此处still做副词，但不是表示“仍然”，而是表示“静止不动地”。

原句：he has to learn to wearand stand still while people put them on him

3「drive」：此处drive做动词，不是“驾驶、推动”，而是表示一种“打、敲、拧、戳”的动作，在文中是指钉钉子。

原句：Next, he drove some nails through the shoe quite into my foot so that the shoe was firmly on

4 「rather」:常见的意思是“与其”等，在这里的意思是表示程度“相当地”，类似 very。

原句：Sometimes we played rather roughly

句子解析

1 Sometimes we played rather roughly They would often bite and kick as well as run

「roughly」：use too much force and not enough care or gentleness 这里的「roughly」是「gently」的反义词，意为“粗野地，（举止）粗俗地”。

联系下文可知，妈妈觉得Darkie玩得太野了，一边狂奔还彼此又踢又咬的，于是教育他要做一头绅士马。

2 I have never forgotten my mother’s advice I knew she was a wise old horse, and our master thought a great deal of her

「think a great deal of」: think highly of; value/regard…as important 对……有很高的评价，反义词可以说「think poorly of」~

Darkie发现主人都对她妈妈颇为器重。所以妈妈的教诲要听呀！

a great deal of 常见的意思是大量的，a great deal of time。

3 I was already used to being led about the fields and lanes with reins and a head harness

「be/get/become used to sth/doing sth」习惯于……（做）某事；我们来举两个栗子：

After I moved to UK for a couple of years, I have been used to the rainy weather 我搬去英国几年后，习惯了那里的天气。

The colleagues are all very kind, making me get used to working with them very quickly 同事们人都很好，让我很快就习惯了和他们一起工作。

注意：「be/get used to doing sth」与「used to do sth」的区别，后者表示“过去经常做某事”。前文中的My mother used to go out to work after the sun came out and come back in the evening 就是说Darkie的妈妈过去常常日出而作，日落而息。再举个例子：We used to be good friends, but fell apart about a year ago 我们过去曾经是好朋友，但一年前关系破裂了。

4 Next came the saddle, but that was not nearly so bad

「not nearly」: far from远非，根本不；来个栗子：He has not nearly enough time to buy a flat in downtown London 他远没有足够的钱在伦敦市中心买一套公寓。

有同学可能要问了，为什么这个Next要放在句首呢？因为这里是由Next引起的倒装句，还原语序为：The saddle came next… 同理，here，there，now，then也能放在句首引起倒装，比如：Here/Now comes the special guest of this party 下面这位是本次聚会的特别来宾。

这句话就是说，下一步就是上马鞍，不过那个根本不痛苦。为什么呀？因为后文说啦，主人对“我”很温柔~

5 He then took a piece of iron the shape of my foot, and suddenly put it on my foot

「the shape of my foot」修饰前面的「iron」，意思是“和我的蹄子同样形状的马蹄铁”。这里就是说，主人拿出一块和我的蹄子同样形状的马蹄铁，快速给我套上。

6 I never felt more like kicking, but of course I could not kick such a good master

「feel like doing sth」想做某事，这里加上never和more，就是强调：我从来没有（never）这么想（feel more like）踢人，当然我不能踢我可爱的主人。

7 He must never be startled (受惊的) by what he sees, nor speak to other horses, nor bite, nor kick, nor have any will of his own

「nevernor」绝不也不

8 One day, when there was a good deal of kicking

a good deal of 大量的

kicking 踢来踢去

今日短语

live upon sth 依靠……生活

as soon as 一就

well off 处境好的

round and round 一圈又一圈

stand still 一动不动

in time 迟早

think a great deal of 对……评价很高

be/get/become used to sth/doing sth 习惯于……

used to do sth 过去常常

be fond of 喜爱

not nearly 远非

feel like doing sth 想做某事

by the small trees 在小树近旁

about the filed about=around

in time 最后，表将来的一个时间点

文化常识补充

Quaker是基督教的一个教派贵格会，又称教友派或者公谊会，是基督教新教的一个派别。该派成立于17世纪，创始人为乔治·福克斯，因一名早期领袖的号诫“听到上帝的话而发抖”而得名QUAKER，中文意译为“震颤者”(tremble)，音译贵格会。

最重要的是，她们相信每个信教的人与上帝之间建立直接的联系，不通过教会和牧师:

They based their message on the religious belief that "Christ has come to teach his people himself", stressing the importance of a direct relationship with God through Jesus Christ, and a direct religious belief in the universal priesthood of all believers They emphasized a personal and direct religious experience of Christ, acquired through both direct religious experience and the reading and studying of the Bible

a breathtaking beauty

一个惊人的美丽

双语对照

例句:

1

It had been a four-hour journey, in part through the breathtaking beauty of plumasnational forest

这是一次四小时的旅行，路上经过了风景秀丽令人叹为观止的帕拉马国家森林。

2

Now the driftwood hut is a relic of a bygone age, in a wilderness of breathtaking beauty

如今这个浮木搭建的小屋已经成为一处过去时代的遗迹，矗立在美得令人惊叹的荒野中。

                                                                                             The Origin of this book

I have little use for the past and rarely think about it;However,I would briefly like to tell you how I came to be a spiritual teacher and how this book came into existence

我从不依靠，也从不考虑过去的一切；然而，我将要简要地告诉你我是如何成为一个精神导师以及这本书是因何而存在的。

Util my thirtieth year, I lived in a state of almost continuous anxiety interspersed with periods of suicidal depression It feels now as if I am talking about some past lifetime or somebody else's lfe

我在一个几乎满布不间断的焦虑，有一段时间甚至是被令人想自杀的沮丧中的州中生活了30年。此刻看来，我好像在聊及一段尘封的往事，甚至是于己无关的生活。

One night not long after my twenty-ninth birthday,I woke up in the early hours with a feeling of absolute dreadI had woken up with such a feeling many times before, but this time it was more intense than it had ever beenThe silence of the night,the vague outlines of the furniture in thedark room,the distant noise of a passing train everything felt so alien,so hostile,and so utterly mean-ningless that it created in me a deep loathing of the worldThe most loathsome thing of all,however,was my own existenceWhat was the point my continuing to live with this burden of miseryWhy carry on with this continuous struggleI could feel that a deep longing for annihilation,for nonexistence,was now becoming much stronger than the instinctive desire to continue to live

在我过完29岁生日不久后的一个夜晚，我比以往提前了几个小时醒来，一种极度的恐惧向我侵袭而来。我以前也曾这样醒来过，但是，这次，这种感觉比以前要更加强烈。静寂无声的深夜，黑夜中家具模糊不清的轮廓，随着火车离去的远去的噪音，所有的一切都如此的陌生与格格不入。如此的敌意满满，如此的毫无意义。以致于这使我对这个世界充满了深深的厌恶。然而，最令我感到憎恶的是我的存在。到底是什么让我在精神的痛苦的压力下坚持活着？为什么还要这样勉强支撑下去？我能感受到一股极度的渴望毁灭，渴望消失在我心底油然而生。它变得比生存的本能更加的强烈。

"I can not live with myself any longer"This was the thought that kept repeating itself in my mindThen suddenly I became aware of what a peculiar thought it was"Am I one or two" If I can not live with myself, there must be two of me:the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with"Maybe," I thought,"only one of them is real" I was so stunned by this strange realization that my mind stopped I was fully conscious, but there were no more thoughts Then I felt drawn into what seemed like a vortex of energy It was a slow movement at first and then accelerated I was gripped by an intense fear,and my body started to shake I   heard the words "resist nothing," as if spoken inside my chestI could feel myself being sucked into a void It felt as if the void was inside myself rather then outside Suddenly,there was no more fearand I let myself fall into that void I have no recollection of what happened after that  

“我再也无法与自我相伴。”这种想法不受控制地在我的脑海中回响着。突然，我意识到这是多么异常的想法啊。“我是一个完整体还是两部分组成？”如果我无法与我自己相依存，那么，我必然是两个单位组成的：自我与本我（无法与自我相依存）。“或许”，我想，“它们当中只有一个是真实的”。我对自己的想法大吃一惊以致于我停止了思考。我完全是有意识的，但是我的大脑一片空白。然后我感觉自己被拉扯进了一个精神风暴当中。开始时，很缓慢，然后不断加速。我被一种剧烈的恐惧紧紧抓住，我的身体开始颤抖。我听到一种声音“放弃抵抗”在我的胸膛中咆哮，我感觉我自己被卷入一种虚无当中。而且，这种虚无似乎是我内心产生的，而不是外界的影响所导致。突然，我感到无所畏惧，我让自己陷入虚无当中，然后，我对接下来发生的事情毫无记忆。

I was awakened by the chirping of a bird outside the windowI had never heard such a sound beforeMy eyes were still closed,and I saw the image of a precious diamondYes,if a diamond could make a sound, this is what it would like be likeI opened my eysThe first light of dawn was filtering through the curtainsWithout any thought,I felt,I knew,that there is infinitely more to light than we realizeThat soft luminosity filtering through the curtains was love itselfTears came into my eyes, I got up and walked arond the room,I recognized the room,and yet i know that i had never truely seen it beforeEverything was fresh and pristine,as if it had just came into existenseI picked up things,a pencil,an empty bottle,marveling at the beauty and aliveness of it all

我被窗外的鸟叫声吵醒，我以前从未听过这样动听的声音，我依然闭着双眸，然后我的脑海中浮现出珍贵的宝石的景象，如果宝石能够发出声音，那么这就应当是它发出的声音，我睁开了眼，黎明的第一道光线从窗帘中透过，毫无疑问，我明白，比我们意识到的光线要多的多。这从窗户当中透过的，柔软的光就是爱啊！我的眼眶中饱含泪水，我翻身起床，在房间中渡步，我开始正视这个房间，到现在我意识到，我以前从未看见它的真面目。一切都那么新颖与原始，好像它们刚刚诞生不久，我拾起一支铅笔，一个空瓶，惊叹于它们的美丽与活力。

That day i walked around the city in utter amazement at the miracle of life on earth,as if i had been born into this worldtine

For the next five months, i lived in a state of uninterrupted deep peace and blissAfter that, it diminished somewhat in intensity,or perhaps it just seemed to because it became my natural statei could still function in the world,although i realized that nothing i ever did could possibly add anything to what i already had

那天，我漫步在城市中，十分震惊于地球上生物的奇迹，仿佛我刚刚来到这个世界一般。

接下来的五个月中，我生活在一个永远充满和平与快乐的州，那之后，强度有所降低，或许仅仅是因为它已经成为了我的自然状态，我在这个世界上依旧能够正常尽我的责任，尽管我意识到，我过去所做的任何事可能无法对现在的我所拥有的东西有任何裨益。

i knew,of ccourse,that something profoundly significant had happened to me,but i didn't understand it at all it wasn't until several years later,after i had read spiritual texts and spent time with spiritual teachers,that i realized that what everybody was looking for had already happened to me i understod that the intense pressure of suffering taht night must have forced my consciousness to whitdraw from the indentification with the unhappy and deeply fearful self,which is ultimately a fiction of the mindthis withdrawal must have been so complete that this false, suffering self immediately collapsed,just as if a plug had been pulled out of an inflatable toywhat was left then was my true nature as the ever-present i am: consiciousness in its pure state prior to identification with formlater i also learned to go into that inner timeless and deathless realm that i had originally perceived  as a void and remain fully consciousi dwelt in states of such indescrible bliss and scaredness that even the original experence i just described pales in comparisonA time came when ,for a while, i was left with nothing on the physical plane i had no relationships,no job,no home,no socially defined identity i spent almost two years sitting on park benches in a state of the most intense joy

我意识到，有一些深刻且重大的事情必然发生在我身上，但是我根本一点都不能理解它。直到很多年之后，在我阅读了一些精神方面的文章以及和精神导师呆了一段时间后，我意识到，世人所追求的事物发生在了已经我的身上，我明白了，这种强烈的来自黑夜压力已经迫使我的意识原理不快乐和深深的恐惧。归根结底是对心灵的虚构。这种撤退一定是十分成功的，以致于这种错误，痛苦立刻就得到了缓解，就好像拔掉了充气玩具的气门芯一样。剩下的就是我永远存在的本性：在形式定义下之前，意识处于纯净状态。之后，我也学会了进入那种深层次的无限时间的么有死亡的领域，以致我下意识的领会到一种虚无，并且一直保持着完全意识状态。我停留在如此的不可描述的极乐与神圣的状态，相比之下，我刚刚描述的原始的感受显得苍白。有一段时间，我在物理层面上一无所有，我无社会关系，无工作，无家可归，没有社会定义的身份，我几乎有两年时间，坐在公园的长椅上，保持着精神的强烈快感。

but even the most beautiful experiences come and gomore fundamental,perhaps,than any experiences is the undercurrent of peace that has never left me since thensometimes it is very strong,almost palpable,and other times it is somewhere in the background,like a distant melody

但即使是最美好的经历也不会停留，比任何经历更根本的是，或许从那以后，我再也未曾离开我的和平的暗流。有时，它非常强烈，几乎触手可及，又有时，它隐于背后，就像远方传来的旋律。

later people would occasionally come up to me and say:"i want what you have can you give it to me,or show me how to get it"and i would say:"you have it already"you just can't feet it because your mind is making too much noise"that answer later grew into the book that you are holding in your hands

before i knew it,i had an external identity againi had become a spiritual teacher

之后，人们间或来问我：“我想得到你所拥有的，你能把它赠与我嘛？或者告诉我如何才能得到它”我总是会说：“你已经拥有它了，你只是感受不到，因为你的思维当中有太多的杂念”这个答案之后也被我写在了你现在手中的书中。

在不知不觉中，我又有了外在的身份，我成为了一个精神导师。

A

固定搭配，make up 是补妆，化妆的意思。根据前面的句意说那个女生喜欢炫耀她的美貌，所以选A。

虽然do up 也有修葺、装饰的意思，但一般它后面是接物的，如：do up one's hair，梳头。

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Oh love

All together now Hey baby when I'm looking at you

I know it's fact is true

There is hope for love

There is beauty in the world

Hey baby

Hey baby when I'm looking at you

I know this vibe is true

There's love

There's hope for love

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我是一名英语专业的老师，在我们的日常教学中，经常会对since now和from now有做区分，虽然两者都可以表示从现在开始，但是两者还是存在区别的，具体如下：

一：含义解释

since now 英 [sɪns naʊ]   美 [sɪns naʊ] 从现在开始

from now 英 [frəm naʊ]   美 [frəm naʊ]   从现在

相同点：都可以表示从现在开始

不同点：from表示从什么时间开始，不表示持续；since表示从什么时间一直到现在持续，通常与完成时一起用。

二：用法区分

1、from只表示某事的起点，要表示起止需用fromto〔until〕结构。

例：Great changes have taken place in Beijing from 1990 to 2000

从1990年到2000年，北京发生了巨大的变化

2、since是指延续到说话时刻的动作或情况开始于何时,是站在动作中止的时间点往过去追溯计算。

例：Great changes have taken place in Beijing since 1990

自1990 年以来北京发生了很大的变化。

三：典型例句

1、since now

——However, since we now live in a worldwide society, people's views about beauty are always changing  

然而，由于我们现在生活在一个全球化的社会，人们对美的看法总是在变化的。

——Parents may pick up some the cost of this change, though, since many will now need to stay home with their kids 

不过,家长们可能会为这种改变付出一些代价,因为这样很多人就需要和孩子们待在家里。

——The lovers in love forget each other since now  

相爱的情人从此两两相忘？

2、from now

——You should look out for yourself from now on  

从现在起你应该多为自己着想。

——Perhaps it would be best not to see much of you from now on  

也许从现在起我们最好少见面。

——You're going to have to shift for yourself from now on  

从今以后，你就得独自谋生了。