People said “The Evening Bell is sounding, the sun is setting.” For a strange wondrous tone was heard in the narrow streets of a large town. It was like the sound of a church-bell: but it was only heard for a moment, for the rolling of the carriages and the voices of the multitude made too great a noise.
人们说：“晚钟已响，夕阳西下”。对于一个 在一座大城市的狭窄街道上，传来了奇怪奇妙的声音。 这就像教堂钟声：但只听到了一会儿 此刻，马车的滚动和人群的声音 发出太大的噪音。
Those persons who were walking outside the town, where the houses were farther apart, with gardens or little fields between them, could see the evening sky still better, and heard the sound of the bell much more distinctly. It was as if the tones came from a church in the still forest; people looked thitherward, and felt their minds attuned most solemnly.
那些在房屋所在的城镇外行走的人们 距离较远，中间有花园或小田野，可以看到 傍晚的天色还好，钟声也多了 更明显。就好像这些声音是从寂静的教堂里传来的 森林；人们向那边看去，感觉他们的心最合拍 郑重地。
A long time passed, and people said to each other--“I wonder if there is a church out in the wood? The bell has a tone that is wondrous sweet; let us stroll thither, and examine the matter nearer.” And the rich people drove out, and the poor walked, but the way seemed strangely long to them; and when they came to a clump of willows which grew on the skirts of the forest, they sat down, and looked up at the long branches, and fancied they were now in the depth of the green wood. The confectioner of the town came out, and set up his booth there; and soon after came another confectioner, who hung a bell over his stand, as a sign or ornament, but it had no clapper, and it was tarred over to preserve it from the rain. When all the people returned home, they said it had been very romantic, and that it was quite a different sort of thing to a pic-nic or tea-party. There were three persons who asserted they had penetrated to the end of the forest, and that they had always heard the wonderful sounds of the bell, but it had seemed to them as if it had come from the town. One wrote a whole poem about it, and said the bell sounded like the voice of a mother to a good dear child, and that no melody was sweeter than the tones of the bell. The king of the country was also observant of it, and vowed that he who could discover whence the sounds proceeded, should have the title of “Universal Bell-ringer,” even if it were not really a bell.
过了很长一段时间，人们互相说——“我不知道是否有 树林里有教堂吗？钟声的声音美妙悦耳； 我们去那里走走，走近一点看看这件事吧。”还有富人 人们开车出去，穷人步行，但路看起来很奇怪 向往他们；当他们来到生长在河边的一丛柳树时 森林的边缘，他们坐下来，抬头看着长长的 树枝，想象着它们现在已经进入了绿色树林的深处。的 镇上的糕点商出来了，在那里设立了摊位。很快 随后是另一位糖果商，他在摊位上挂了一个铃铛， 一个标志或装饰品，但它没有拍板，而且被涂了柏油 保护它免受雨淋。当所有人回到家后，他们说 这是非常浪漫的，而且是完全不同的一种 野餐或茶会的事情。有3人声称 他们已经深入到了森林的尽头，而且他们总是 听到美妙的钟声，但对他们来说，仿佛 它是从城里来的。有人为此写了一整首诗，并说 铃声听起来就像母亲对一个好心的孩子发出的声音， 没有什么旋律比钟声更甜美了。的国王 国家也遵守这一规定，并发誓谁能发现 声音从何而来，标题应为“Universal 敲钟人”，即使这并不是真正的铃声。
Many persons now went to the wood, for the sake of getting the place, but one only returned with a sort of explanation; for nobody went far enough, that one not further than the others. However, he said that the sound proceeded from a very large owl, in a hollow tree; a sort of learned owl, that continually knocked its head against the branches. But whether the sound came from his head or from the hollow tree, that no one could say with certainty. So now he got the place of “Universal Bell-ringer,” and wrote yearly a short treatise “On the Owl”; but everybody was just as wise as before.
现在很多人都去树林里，为了得到这个地方， 但一个人只返回了一种解释；因为没有人走得很远 够了，那一个不比其他的更远。不过，他表示 声音是从一棵空心树上的一只很大的猫头鹰发出的。一种 学识渊博的猫头鹰，不断地用头撞树枝。但是 无论声音是从他的头上发出还是从空心树发出来，都没有关系。 可以肯定地说。所以现在他得到了“环球”的位置 敲钟人”，并每年写一篇短文“论猫头鹰”；但是 每个人都像以前一样聪明。
It was the day of confirmation. The clergyman had spoken so touchingly, the children who were confirmed had been greatly moved; it was an eventful day for them; from children they become all at once grown-up-persons; it was as if their infant souls were now to fly all at once into persons with more understanding. The sun was shining gloriously; the children that had been confirmed went out of the town; and from the wood was borne towards them the sounds of the unknown bell with wonderful distinctness. They all immediately felt a wish to go thither; all except three. One of them had to go home to try on a ball-dress; for it was just the dress and the ball which had caused her to be confirmed this time, for otherwise she would not have come; the other was a poor boy, who had borrowed his coat and boots to be confirmed in from the innkeeper's son, and he was to give them back by a certain hour; the third said that he never went to a strange place if his parents were not with him--that he had always been a good boy hitherto, and would still be so now that he was confirmed, and that one ought not to laugh at him for it: the others, however, did make fun of him, after all.
那天是确认的日子。牧师的讲话非常感人， 得到证实的孩子们深受感动；原来是 对他们来说是多事的一天；他们从孩子们一下子变成了所有人 成年人；就好像他们的婴儿灵魂现在要飞翔了 立刻变成更有理解力的人。阳光明媚 光荣地;被确认的孩子们已经出城了； 树林里传来不知名的钟声 具有奇妙的清晰度。他们都立刻想去 那里；除了三个之外的所有。其中一人不得不回家试穿 舞会礼服；因为正是这件衣服和舞会让她 这次要得到证实，否则她就不会来了； 另一个是个穷孩子，他借了外套和靴子来 旅馆老板的儿子确认了这一点，他将在 某个时间；第三个说他从来没有去过陌生的地方 如果他的父母不在他身边——他一直都是个好孩子 迄今为止，现在他得到确认后仍然如此，而且那个人 不应该因此而嘲笑他：然而，其他人确实取笑了 毕竟是他。
There were three, therefore, that did not go; the others hastened on. The sun shone, the birds sang, and the children sang too, and each held the other by the hand; for as yet they had none of them any high office, and were all of equal rank in the eye of God.
因此，有三个人没有去。其他人也赶紧上路。 阳光明媚，鸟儿歌唱，孩子们也歌唱，每个人都抱着 另一个是用手；因为到目前为止他们还没有担任过任何高级职务， 在上帝眼中，所有人都是平等的。
But two of the youngest soon grew tired, and both returned to town; two little girls sat down, and twined garlands, so they did not go either; and when the others reached the willow-tree, where the confectioner was, they said, “Now we are there! In reality the bell does not exist; it is only a fancy that people have taken into their heads!”
但两个最小的孩子很快就累了，两人都回到了城里。两个 小女孩们坐下来，缠绕着花环，所以她们也没有去。 当其他人到达糖果店所在的柳树时， 他们说：“现在我们到了！事实上，钟并不存在；它只是 只是人们脑子里的幻想而已！”
At the same moment the bell sounded deep in the wood, so clear and solemnly that five or six determined to penetrate somewhat further. It was so thick, and the foliage so dense, that it was quite fatiguing to proceed. Woodroof and anemonies grew almost too high; blooming convolvuluses and blackberry-bushes hung in long garlands from tree to tree, where the nightingale sang and the sunbeams were playing: it was very beautiful, but it was no place for girls to go; their clothes would get so torn. Large blocks of stone lay there, overgrown with moss of every color; the fresh spring bubbled forth, and made a strange gurgling sound.
与此同时，树林深处的钟声响起，那么清脆。 那五六个人庄严地决定进一步深入。它 这么茂密，树叶又这么茂密，让人很累 继续。伍德屋顶和海葵长得几乎太高了；盛开 空心菜和黑莓灌木丛挂在长长的花环上，从树到 树上，夜莺歌唱，阳光嬉戏：那是 很漂亮，但不是什么女孩子该去的地方；他们的衣服会 变得如此撕裂。那里堆满了大块的石头，上面长满了青苔。 每种颜色；新鲜的泉水涌出，发出奇怪的汩汩声 声音。
“That surely cannot be the bell,” said one of the children, lying down and listening. “This must be looked to.” So he remained, and let the others go on without him.
“那肯定不是铃声，”其中一个孩子躺着说道。 和倾听。 “这必须引起重视。”所以他留下来，让 其他人在没有他的情况下继续生活。
They afterwards came to a little house, made of branches and the bark of trees; a large wild apple-tree bent over it, as if it would shower down all its blessings on the roof, where roses were blooming. The long stems twined round the gable, on which there hung a small bell.
随后，他们来到了一座用树枝和树皮搭建的小房子。 树木；一棵巨大的野苹果树向它俯身，仿佛要倾盆而下 它所有的祝福都在屋顶上，那里玫瑰盛开。长长的茎 缠绕在山墙上，山墙上挂着一个小铃。
Was it that which people had heard? Yes, everybody was unanimous on the subject, except one, who said that the bell was too small and too fine to be heard at so great a distance, and besides it was very different tones to those that could move a human heart in such a manner. It was a king's son who spoke; whereon the others said, “Such people always want to be wiser than everybody else.”
是人们听到的吗？是的，大家一致认为 主题，除了一个，他说钟太小太细 能在这么远的距离听到，而且很不一样 那些能够以这种方式打动人心的音调。这是一个 说话的是国王的儿子；其他人则说：“这样的人总是想要 比其他人都聪明。”
They now let him go on alone; and as he went, his breast was filled more and more with the forest solitude; but he still heard the little bell with which the others were so satisfied, and now and then, when the wind blew, he could also hear the people singing who were sitting at tea where the confectioner had his tent; but the deep sound of the bell rose louder; it was almost as if an organ were accompanying it, and the tones came from the left hand, the side where the heart is placed. A rustling was heard in the bushes, and a little boy stood before the King's Son, a boy in wooden shoes, and with so short a jacket that one could see what long wrists he had. Both knew each other: the boy was that one among the children who could not come because he had to go home and return his jacket and boots to the innkeeper's son. This he had done, and was now going on in wooden shoes and in his humble dress, for the bell sounded with so deep a tone, and with such strange power, that proceed he must.
现在他们让他独自前行。当他走的时候，他的胸膛充满了更多 更多的是森林的孤独；但他还是听到了小铃声 其他人对此非常满意，时不时地，当 风吹过，他还能听到坐在茶座上的人在唱歌 糖果商的帐篷就在那里；但低沉的钟声响起 更响亮；几乎就像有风琴在伴奏一样，而且音调 来自左手，即心脏所在的一侧。沙沙作响 灌木丛中传来了声音，一个小男孩站在国王的儿子面前， 男孩穿着木鞋，夹克很短，人们可以看到什么 他的手腕很长。两人互相认识：男孩就是其中之一 由于他必须回家归还他的孩子而不能来的孩子们 夹克和靴子给了旅店老板的儿子。他已经做到了这一点，现在 穿着木鞋和简陋的衣服，因为铃声响起了 他必须以如此低沉的语气和如此奇怪的力量继续下去。
“Why, then, we can go together,” said the King's Son. But the poor child that had been confirmed was quite ashamed; he looked at his wooden shoes, pulled at the short sleeves of his jacket, and said that he was afraid he could not walk so fast; besides, he thought that the bell must be looked for to the right; for that was the place where all sorts of beautiful things were to be found.
“那我们可以一起去吗？”国王的儿子说道。但穷人 得到证实的孩子很羞愧；他看着他的木头 鞋子，拉扯他夹克的短袖，说他是 担心他走不了那么快；此外，他认为钟声一定 向右寻找；因为那是各种各样的地方 美丽的事物将会被发现。
“But there we shall not meet,” said the King's Son, nodding at the same time to the poor boy, who went into the darkest, thickest part of the wood, where thorns tore his humble dress, and scratched his face and hands and feet till they bled. The King's Son got some scratches too; but the sun shone on his path, and it is him that we will follow, for he was an excellent and resolute youth.
“但我们不会在那里见面，”王子说，同时点点头。 那个可怜的男孩的时间到了，他进入了最黑暗、最厚重的部分 树林里，荆棘撕破了他简陋的衣服，划伤了他的脸， 手脚直到流血为止。国王的儿子也受了一些擦伤。 但阳光照耀着他的道路，我们将追随他，因为他 是一位优秀而坚毅的青年。
“I must and will find the bell,” said he, “even if I am obliged to go to the end of the world.”
“我必须而且一定会找到钟声，”他说，“即使我不得不去 世界末日。”
The ugly apes sat upon the trees, and grinned. “Shall we thrash him?” said they. “Shall we thrash him? He is the son of a king!”
丑陋的猩猩们坐在树上，咧着嘴笑。 “我们要打他吗？” 他们说。 “我们要打他吗？他是国王的儿子！”
But on he went, without being disheartened, deeper and deeper into the wood, where the most wonderful flowers were growing. There stood white lilies with blood-red stamina, skyblue tulips, which shone as they waved in the winds, and apple-trees, the apples of which looked exactly like large soapbubbles: so only think how the trees must have sparkled in the sunshine! Around the nicest green meads, where the deer were playing in the grass, grew magnificent oaks and beeches; and if the bark of one of the trees was cracked, there grass and long creeping plants grew in the crevices. And there were large calm lakes there too, in which white swans were swimming, and beat the air with their wings. The King's Son often stood still and listened. He thought the bell sounded from the depths of these still lakes; but then he remarked again that the tone proceeded not from there, but farther off, from out the depths of the forest.
但他并没有灰心丧气，继续往前走，越陷越深。 树林里，生长着最美丽的花朵。那里站着白色 血红色耐力的百合花，挥舞时闪闪发光的天蓝色郁金香 在风中，还有苹果树，苹果看起来一模一样 大肥皂泡：所以只要想一想树上的树一定会闪闪发光 阳光！在最美的绿色草地周围，鹿在那里嬉戏 草地上长满了雄伟的橡树和山毛榉；如果其中之一的树皮 树木开裂，长满青草和长长的匍匐植物 缝隙。那里也有平静的大湖，湖里有白色的湖水。 天鹅在游泳，用翅膀拍打着空气。国王的儿子 常常站着不动听。他以为钟声是从 这些平静的湖泊的深处；但随后他又说，语气 不是从那里出发，而是从更远的地方，从世界的深处出发。 森林。
The sun now set: the atmosphere glowed like fire. It was still in the woods, so very still; and he fell on his knees, sung his evening hymn, and said: “I cannot find what I seek; the sun is going down, and night is coming--the dark, dark night. Yet perhaps I may be able once more to see the round red sun before he entirely disappears. I will climb up yonder rock.”
太阳落山了：气氛像火一样闪闪发光。当时还是在 树林里，非常寂静；他跪下，唱起了晚祷， 并说道：“我找不到我想要的东西；太阳正在落山，夜晚 即将来临——漆黑的夜晚。但也许我可以再次 在他完全消失之前看到圆形的红日。我会爬上去 那边的岩石。”
And he seized hold of the creeping-plants, and the roots of trees--climbed up the moist stones where the water-snakes were writhing and the toads were croaking--and he gained the summit before the sun had quite gone down. How magnificent was the sight from this height! The sea--the great, the glorious sea, that dashed its long waves against the coast--was stretched out before him. And yonder, where sea and sky meet, stood the sun, like a large shining altar, all melted together in the most glowing colors. And the wood and the sea sang a song of rejoicing, and his heart sang with the rest: all nature was a vast holy church, in which the trees and the buoyant clouds were the pillars, flowers and grass the velvet carpeting, and heaven itself the large cupola. The red colors above faded away as the sun vanished, but a million stars were lighted, a million lamps shone; and the King's Son spread out his arms towards heaven, and wood, and sea; when at the same moment, coming by a path to the right, appeared, in his wooden shoes and jacket, the poor boy who had been confirmed with him. He had followed his own path, and had reached the spot just as soon as the son of the king had done. They ran towards each other, and stood together hand in hand in the vast church of nature and of poetry, while over them sounded the invisible holy bell: blessed spirits floated around them, and lifted up their voices in a rejoicing hallelujah!
他抓住了匍匐植物和植物的根部 树上——爬上水蛇扭动的潮湿石头 蟾蜍在呱呱叫——他在太阳出来之前就到达了山顶 已经完全下降了。从这个高度看下去，景象是多么壮观啊！的 大海——伟大、光荣的大海，用长长的波浪拍击着大海。 海岸——就在他面前展开。在那儿，大海与天空交汇的地方， 太阳矗立着，像一座闪亮的大祭坛，所有的一切都融化在了 最发光的颜色。树林和大海唱起了欢乐的歌， 他的心与其他人一起歌唱：整个大自然都是一座巨大的神圣教堂， 其中树木和浮云是柱子，花朵和 天鹅绒地毯上铺着青草，巨大的冲天炉则是天堂。红色 上面的颜色随着太阳的消失而消失，但一百万颗星星却在 点亮，百万盏灯闪耀；国王的儿子张开双臂 向着天堂、树林和海洋；当在同一时刻，经过 穷人穿着木鞋和木夹克，出现了一条向右走的路 和他确认过的男孩。他一直走着自己的路， 国王的儿子刚一到达目的地。他们 彼此奔向，手牵手站在茫茫人海中 自然与诗歌的教堂，而在它们上方，传来无形的声音 圣钟：受祝福的灵魂漂浮在他们周围，并举起他们的 欢呼声哈利路亚！