第62章 老路灯 The Old Street Lamp (第2/15页)

red very much whether he would then be able to remember that he had once been a street lamp, and it troubled him exceedingly.

不管会发生什么，有一件事似乎是确定的，那就是它会和那个守夜人以及他的妻子分开，它把他们一家当作自己的亲人。

whatever might happen, one thing seemed certain, that he would be separated from the watchman and his wife, whose family he looked upon as his own.

这盏路灯最初被挂起来的那个晚上，那个守夜人当时还是一个身强力壮的年轻人，刚刚开始履行他的职责。

the lamp had first been hung up on that very evening that the watchman, then a robust young man, had entered upon the duties of his office.

啊，是啊，从一个人变成守夜人，另一个变成路灯，那已经是很久以前的事了。

Ah, well, it was a very long time since one became a lamp and the other a watchman.

那时他妻子有点傲气；除了晚上路过时，她很少屈尊看一眼路灯，白天就更不会了。

his wife had a little pride in those days; she seldom condescended to glance at the lamp, excepting when she passed by in the evening, never in the daytime.

但在后来的岁月里，当守夜人、他妻子和路灯都变老了的时候，她就会照料路灯，擦拭它，给它添油。

but in later years, when all these, — the watchman, the wife, and the lamp — had grown old, she had attended to it, cleaned it, and supplied it with oil.

这对老夫妻非常诚实，他们从未克扣过给路灯的哪怕一滴油。

the old people were thoroughly honest, they had been never cheated the lamp of a single drop of the oil provided for it.

这是路灯在街上的最后一晚，明天它就得去市政厅了 —— 这两件事想想都够让人郁闷的。

this was the lamp’s last night in the street, and to-morrow he must go to the town-hall, — two very dark things to think of.

难怪它的灯光不那么明亮了。

No wonder he did not burn b