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1、大赛原文一：The central figure in the story, the satanic Dr Mallako, lives in Mortlake, where he wreaks havoc on the lives of his respectable suburban neighbors by encouraging them to develop to the full the less respectable sides of their nature: the destructive jealousies, hatreds and ambitions, which p
2、reviously they have kept hidden and unexpressed and the existence of which they have denied even to themselves. The nameless narrator of the story is a scientist, who, seeing what has become of his neighbors under the influence of Dr Mallako, tries to resist the strange urge he himself has to become
3、 one of the doctors clients. In an effort to shake off what he feels to be an insane and dangerous obsession with Dr Mallako, he plunges himself feverishly into “a very abstruse scientific investigation”. But it is no good. Driven underground, the urge yet remains, and the doctor appears to him in h
4、is nightmares: “Each night I would wake in a cold sweat, hearing the ghostly voice saying COME!” 故事的主人公，邪恶的马拉科医生住在莫特莱克庄园，在那里他肆意地蹂 躏着那些普通郊区居民的生活，怂恿他们暴露出自身本性的每一面：阴暗的猜 忌心，仇恨和野心，而此前他们只是深埋于心从未表露，甚至对自己否认其存 在。故事的叙述者是位不愿透漏姓名的科学家，他看到了在马拉科医生的影响 下邻居们的变化，他试图抗拒这种强烈的欲望，但还是不可避免地成为了马拉 科医生的牺牲品之一。他感觉自己就要深陷于马拉科医生的荒唐与危
5、险之中， 为了摆脱这种困扰，他疯狂地将自己沉浸在“一个深奥的科学研究”之中。但 这却于事无补，那种难以抗拒的欲望在内心深处被驱使着，仍旧存在，而且马 卡科医生总会在他的噩梦当中出现：“我每天晚上醒来都会一身冷汗，听到这 个幽灵般的呼唤来吧！ ”From talking to his neighbors, the narrator realizes that the doctors power lies in his ability to read “secret thoughts” and to bring them out into the open, “like monsters of t
6、he deep emerging from their dark caves to bring horror to the crews of whalers”. The realization is a challenge to his hitherto optimistic view of human nature, and he begins to despair at the thought that all people, even the most conventional and respectable, have a dark side; that each and every
7、one of them has some nasty secret about themselves that they keep hidden. Reflecting on this, he becomes “increasingly filled with a general detestation of mankind”. Dr Mallako, he realizes, is not a uniquely evil person, but simply the catalyst for the evil that lies within all of us:在同他邻居的谈话中，科学家得
8、知马拉科医生的能力在于他可以读出人的 “秘密思想” ，并将其唤醒， “就像是从黑暗洞穴深处醒来的怪兽，给一船捕鲸 者带来了恐惧” 。这种意识挑战了他迄今为止原本乐观的人类本性，他开始感到 绝望，因为他知道，即使最普通最体面的人也有他阴暗的一面，因为他知道， 他们每个人内心深处都隐藏着一些肮脏的秘密。想到这里，他变得“越来越对 人类充满了厌恶” 。他明白了，马拉科医生并不是唯一的邪恶化身，他只不过是 唤醒我们内心深处邪恶的一副催化剂。 in his malignant mind, in his cold destructive intellect, are concentrated in qui
9、ntessential form all the baseness, all the cruelty, all the helpless rage of feeble men aspiring to be Titansin many who are timidly respectable there lurks the hope of splendid sin, the wish to dominate and the urge to destroy.在他恶毒的心里，在他冷酷无情的破坏性思想之中，充斥着所有纯粹 的卑鄙行为，所有的残暴，以及那些一心渴望成为泰坦却意志薄弱的人心中所 有无助的怨愤
10、在那些胆怯的所谓高贵的人心中，潜藏着犯下滔天罪孽的冲 动，潜藏着想要主宰万物的念头，潜藏着意图破坏一切的欲望。Eventually, the narrator becomes completely possessed with the desire to punish the sinful, that is, the entire human race. He thus invents and builds a device designed to boil all the water on the earth, contemplating with satisfaction as he do
11、es so the vision of the world getting hotter and drier and the unbearable thirst of mankind growing until, at last, “in a universal shriek of madness, they will perish”. After that, he reasons, “there will be no more Sin”, the planet will become dead like the moon, “and it will then be as beautiful and as innocent”.最终，这个科学家着了魔，他决定惩罚罪恶之源，也就是整个人类，因此， 他发明并创造了一种机器，可以使全世界的水变得滚烫，他得意的盘算着，由 于他的所作所为，世界变得愈发炎热干燥，人类愈发口渴难忍，直到最后， “在 一声疯狂的嘶吼之中，人类将灭亡” 。在那之后，他分析道， “世界将不再有罪 恶” ，地球将变得死寂如月亮， “然后万物一切犹如纯洁之美” 。
