英文名著分集阅读 儒勒·凡尔纳《地心游记》part1

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

单词提示

1.laboratory 实验室

2.velvet curtains 天鹅绒窗帘

3.alphabet 字母

4.volcano 火山

原文

Chapter 1: A Strange Message

Otto Lidenbrock is the famous professor of geology at the University of Hamburg, in Germany.

He is also my uncle.

He is sixty-five years old, not very tall, with grey hair.

He wears small round gold glasses that make him look very serious.

I'm Axel. I'm only nineteen and the professor's personal assistant.

I watch my uncle very carefully when he works.

That's why I know so much about our planet – Earth.

My uncle, the professor, is a hard worker.

He spends most of his day in his laboratory at the University, so he never comes home before two o'clock for lunch.

But yesterday, he came home very early.

This surprised Martha, our cook.

The poor old girl did not have the lunch ready and she was a little upset.

"Professor,you're early!"

"Never mind, Martha. I don't want lunch today."

"But,professor, you must eat!"

The professor looked excited.

"Martha,food is not important."

Then he turned to me. "Axel, come with me."

He took me into his library.

It was a big room with lots of bookcases against the walls and heavy velvet curtains in front of the windows.

In the middle of the room, there was a desk where my uncle spent most of his evenings.

He took an old book out of his coat pocket.

He looked at me.

"Axel,look at this! Look at this!"

I took it from his hand.

Its cover was hard and it looked very old.

"Why,what is it professor?"

"I found it today in an old bookshop. It's seven hundred years old."

"What's it about?"

"It's about the old princes from Norway who came to live in Iceland."

"Why is that so special?"

He smiled and said, "Because it is written in a language that no one uses anymore."

I opened the book and saw strange letters from a strange alphabet.

I did not understand any of it.

I turned its yellow pages and a piece of paper fell out of the book onto the floor.

The professor jumped on it.

"What's this?"

It was an old yellow piece of paper with the same strange letters on it.

The professor knew many languages, but he could not read this old language from Iceland.

He took a thick book from one of the shelves.

It was a dictionary for all the old languages in the world which people do not speak today.

Then,he gave me a piece of paper and a pencil.

"Axel,write down these letters as I read them to you."

The professor read each letter to me and I wrote them down.

When we finished, this is what they said: Go into the volcano at Sneffells Yokul. Before the first of July, the sun will show you the way to the center of the earth.

Make this journey. It is fantastic. The name under this strange message was 'Arne Saknussemm'.

"Arne Saknussemm! I don't believe it!"

"Who'she?"

"He was a famous scientist. He wrote many strange things about the earth, but no one believed him. They said he was crazy. This must be the answer to the things he said. He left this piece of paper in the old book for someone to find. Do you understand, Axel, how lucky we are?"

Then,he turned to the library door. "Martha!"

I couldn't understand any of the things my uncle said. "What do you mean, we?"

Martha opened the door to the library. "Did you want me, sir?"

"Yes,Martha. I want you to buy us two train tickets to Denmark. Master Axel and I are going to Iceland."

This was the biggest surprise of my life! "What?! Uncle, I can't go."

The professor looked at me calmly. "You can and you will."

翻译

第一章：一个奇怪的消息

奥托·黎登布洛克是德国汉堡大学著名的地质学教授。
他也是我的叔叔。
他六十五岁，个子不高，头发灰白。
他戴着一副金色的小圆眼镜，使他看起来很严肃。
我叫阿克塞尔。我只有十九岁，是教授的私人助理。
当我叔叔工作时，我非常仔细地看着他。
这就是为什么我对我们的星球——地球了解这么多。
我的叔叔，那位教授，是个勤奋的人。
他大部分时间都在大学的实验室里度过，所以他从不在两点钟以前回家吃午饭。
但是昨天，他很早就回家了。
这让我们的厨师玛莎很吃惊。
可怜的老太太没有准备好午餐，她有点心烦意乱。
“教授，你来早了！”
“没关系，玛莎。我今天不想吃午饭。”
“可是，教授，你必须吃东西！”
教授看起来很兴奋。
“玛莎，食物不重要。”
然后他转向我。“阿克塞尔，跟我来。”
他带我进了他的图书馆。
这是一个大房间，靠墙摆着许多书柜，窗前挂着厚厚的天鹅绒窗帘。
在房间的中央，有一张桌子，我叔叔在那里度过了大部分的夜晚。
他从大衣口袋里拿出一本旧书。
他看着我。
“阿克塞尔，看这个！看这个!”
我从他手里把它拿过来。
它的封面很硬，看起来很旧。
“怎么了，教授？”
“我今天在一家旧书店里找到的。它有七百年的历史了。”
“是关于什么的？”
“讲的是挪威来冰岛生活的老王子的故事。”
“这有什么特别的？”
他笑着说：“因为它是用一种已经没人用的语言写的。”
我打开书，看到了奇怪字母表里的奇怪字母。
我一点也不懂。
我翻开它的黄页，一张纸从书里掉到了地板上。
教授立刻扑了上去。
“这是什么?”
那是一张黄色的旧纸，上面写着同样奇怪的字母。
教授懂很多语言，但他看不懂这种来自冰岛的古老语言。
他从一个书架上拿了一本厚厚的书。
它是一本收录了世界上所有现在人们不讲的古老语言的字典。
然后，他给了我一张纸和一支铅笔。
“阿克塞尔，我念给你听，你把这些信写下来。”
教授把每封信都读给我听，我把它们记下来。
当我们结束时，他们是这样说的：去斯奈菲尔尤库尔的火山。在七月一日之前，太阳会告诉你去地心的路。
踏上这段旅程。太棒了。这条奇怪的信息下面的名字是“阿恩·萨克努塞姆”。
“阿恩·萨克努塞姆 !我不相信！”
“他是谁?”
“他是一位著名的科学家。他写了许多关于地球的怪事，但没有人相信他。他们说他疯了。这一定是他说的那些话的答案。他把这张纸留在旧书里，让别人去找。阿克塞尔，你知道我们有多幸运吗？”
然后，他转向图书馆的门。“玛莎!”
我叔叔说的话我一点也听不懂。“你说我们是什么意思？”
玛莎打开了图书馆的门。“你找我吗，先生？”
“是的,玛莎。我想让你给我们买两张去丹麦的火车票。阿克塞尔少爷和我要去冰岛。”
这是我一生中最大的惊喜！“什么? !叔叔，我不能去。”
教授平静地看着我。“你可以，你会的。”