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“听我说一句，”费金将手按在门锁上，说道，“你不会--” 'Well,' replied the other. “说。”对方回答。 'You won't be--too--violent, Bill?' “比尔，你不会--太--莽撞吧？” The day was breaking, and there was light enough for the men to see each other's faces. They exchanged one brief glance; there was a fire in the eyes of both, which could not be mistaken. 天将破晓，门口的亮光尽够让他们看清彼此的面孔。他俩相互瞥了一眼，两个人眼睛里都燃着一团火，这一点是不会看错的。 'I mean,' said Fagin, showing that he felt all disguise was now useless, 'not too violent for safety. Be crafty, Bill, and not too bold.' “我的意思是，”费金说道，他显然意识到眼下一切花言巧语都已无济于事，“为了安全起见，别太莽撞。利索些，比尔，别太冒失。” 
赛克斯没有答腔，这功夫老犹太已经拧开了门锁，他管自拉开大门，向静悄悄的街上冲去。 Without one pause, or moment's consideration; without once turning his head to the right or left, or raising his eyes to the sky, or lowering them to the ground, but looking straight before him with savage resolution: his teeth so tightly compressed that the strained jaw seemed starting through his skin; the robber held on his headlong course, nor muttered a word, nor relaxed a muscle, until he reached his own door. He opened it, softly, with a key; strode lightly up the stairs; and entering his own room, double-locked the door, and lifting a heavy table against it, drew back the curtain of the bed. 这强盗一步也没有停留，没有考虑片刻，既没有左顾右盼，没有朝天空抬起目光，也没有将目光投向地面。他横下一条心，两眼直瞪瞪地望着前方，牙齿紧紧地咬在一起，绷紧的下巴像是快要戳穿皮肤似的。他没有嘀咕一句，也没有放松一条肌肉，一路狂奔，来到了家门口。他用钥匙轻轻地打开门，快步跨上楼梯，走进自己的房间，又在门上加了双锁。他把一张很沉的桌子推上去顶住门，然后掀开床帘。 The girl was lying, half-dressed, upon it. He had roused her from her sleep, for she raised herself with a hurried and startled look. 南希姑娘衣装不整地躺在床上。赛克斯将她从睡梦中惊醒了，她吃惊地睁开眼睛，慌忙支起身来。 'Get up!' said the man. “起来！”那家伙说道。 'It is you, Bill!' said the girl, with an expression of pleasure at his return. “原来是你啊，比尔。”姑娘见他回来，显得很高兴。 
“是我，”赛克斯应了一声，“起来。” There was a candle burning, but the man hastily drew it from the candlestick, and hurled it under the grate. Seeing the faint light of early day without, the girl rose to undraw the curtain. 房间里点着一支蜡烛，汉子劈手从烛台上拔下蜡烛，扔到炉栅底下。见窗外已是晨曦初露，姑娘跳下床来，打算把窗帘拨到一边。 'Let it be,' said Sikes, thrusting his hand before her. 'There's enough light for wot I've got to do.' “由它去，”赛克斯伸手拦住了她，说道，“这点光线够我办事儿的了。” 'Bill,' said the girl, in the low voice of alarm, 'why do you look like that at me!' “比尔，”姑娘惊慌地压低声音说道，“你干吗那样瞧着我？” The robber sat regarding her, for a few seconds, with dilated nostrils and heaving breast; and then, grasping her by the head and throat, dragged her into the middle of the room, and looking once towards the door, placed his heavy hand upon her mouth. 那强盗坐下来，鼓着鼻孔，胸口一起一伏，照她打量了几秒钟，接着，他卡住姑娘的头和脖子，将她拖到屋子中央，朝门口看了一眼，把一只大巴掌捂在她的嘴上。 
“比尔，比尔。”姑娘透不过气来，拼命挣扎，死亡的威胁给她带来了力气--“我--我不会喊叫的--一声也不叫--听我--你讲吧--你说我到底干了什么。” 'You know, you she devil!' returned the robber, suppressing his breath. 'You were watched to-night; every word you said was heard.' “你心里有数，你这个鬼婆娘。”那强盗尽量不让自己大声喘气，回答道，“今儿晚上你给盯上了，你说的话句句都有人听着呢。” 'Then spare my life for the love of Heaven, as I spared yours,' rejoined the girl, clinging to him. 'Bill, dear Bill, you cannot have the heart to kill me. Oh! think of all I have given up, only this one night, for you. You SHALL have time to think, and save yourself this crime; I will not loose my hold, you cannot throw me off. Bill, Bill, for dear God's sake, for your own, for mine, stop before you spill my blood! I have been true to you, upon my guilty soul I have!' “那么，看在老天爷分上，你就饶我一命吧，就像我也饶了你的命一样。”姑娘搂住他，答道，“比尔，亲爱的比尔，你不会忍心杀我的。噢，想想吧，单是这一个晚上，为了你，我放弃了一切。你照理还有时间考虑，免得你犯下大罪。我绝不松手，你别想甩开我。比尔，比尔，看在仁慈的上帝分上，为了你自己，也为了我，不要让你的手沾上我的血。我凭着自己有罪的灵魂担保，我对得起你。” The man struggled violently, to release his arms; but those of the girl were clasped round his, and tear her as he would, he could not tear them away. 汉子暴跳如雷，想挣脱自己的手，但姑娘的双臂紧紧地抱着他，不管他怎么扭扯，也没法掰开她的胳膊。 'Bill,' cried the girl, striving to lay her head upon his breast, 'the gentleman and that dear lady, told me to-night of a home in some foreign country where I could end my days in solitude and peace. Let me see them again, and beg them, on my knees, to show the same mercy and goodness to you; and let us both leave this dreadful place, and far apart lead better lives, and forget how we have lived, except in prayers, and never see each other more. It is never too late to repent. They told me so--I feel it now--but we must have time--a little, little time!' “比尔，”姑娘哭喊着，竭力把头贴在他的胸前，“今晚那位老先生，还有那位可爱的小姐，答应替我在外国安一个家，让我清静安宁地过完这一辈子。我再去找他们，跪下求他们对你也发发这样的慈悲和善心，让我们俩离开这个可怕的地方，你我离得远远的，过干净一些的日子，除了祷告的时候以外，忘掉我们以前过的日子，彼此永不见面。悔过永远不会太晚，他们对我就是这样说的--眼下我才知道--可我们需要时间--只要一点点时间。” 
那个强盗终于腾出一条胳臂，握住了他的手枪。尽管正在火头上，他脑海里也闪过了这样一个念头：只要一开枪，肯定倾刻败露。他使出浑身力气，照着姑娘仰起的面孔（差一点儿就触到他自己的脸了），用枪柄猛击了两下。 She staggered and fell: nearly blinded with the blood that rained down from a deep gash in her forehead; but raising herself, with difficulty, on her knees, drew from her bosom a white handkerchief--Rose Maylie's own--and holding it up, in her folded hands, as high towards Heaven as her feeble strength would allow, breathed one prayer for mercy to her Maker. 她身子一晃倒了下去，鲜血从额上一道深深的伤口里涌出，几乎糊住了她的眼睛，但她吃力地挺身跪起来，从怀里掏出一张白色的手绢--露丝·梅莱的一张手绢--强撑着软软的身子，双手十指交叉，握着手绢，高高地朝天举起，向创造了她的上帝低声祈祷，恳求宽恕。 It was a ghastly figure to look upon. The murderer staggering backward to the wall, and shutting out the sight with his hand, seized a heavy club and struck her down. 这幅景象看上去太可怕了。凶手跌跌撞撞地退到墙边，一只手遮住自己的视线，另一只手抓起一根粗大的棒子，将她击倒。 Of all bad deeds that, under cover of the darkness, had been committed with wide London's bounds since night hung over it, that was the worst. Of all the horrors that rose with an ill scent upon the morning air, that was the foulest and most cruel. 夜幕降临以后，偌大一个伦敦城内，在一切以黑暗为掩护发生的诸般劣迹之中，最下作的莫过于此了。在清晨的空气中散发着血腥味的种种惨状里，最恶心最惨烈的就是这一件。 The sun--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray. It lighted up the room where the murdered woman lay. It did. He tried to shut it out, but it would stream in. If the sight had been a ghastly one in the dull morning, what was it, now, in all that brilliant light! 太阳--明朗的太阳，不仅给人类带来光明，还带来新的生命、期望与朝气--辉煌灿烂地展现在这座人烟稠密的都市上空，阳光一视同仁地穿透艳丽的彩色玻璃和纸糊的窗格，穿透教堂的圆顶和腐朽的缝隙。阳光照亮了横放着那个遇害女子的房间。确实照亮了。赛克斯曾妄想把光明挡在窗外，可阳光还是会照射进来的。如果说，这副情景即便是在阴暗的早晨也令人骇然，那么现在，当一切都披上了灿烂的日光，这又是一副什么光景啊！ 
他一动不动，连走动一下都不敢。遇害者曾发出一声呻吟，手动了一下。他带着火头上新添的恐惧，又给了她一击，又是一击。他一度扔下一张毯子将尸体盖住，然而一想到那双眼睛，想像它们冲着自己转过来，比起看见它们直瞪瞪地朝上看着，仿佛在看天花板上那一摊血迹的倒影在阳光下摇曳起舞似的，情况更糟。他又把毯子扯掉了。尸体躺在那里--无非是血和肉，只此而已--可那是什么样的肉，多么多的血啊！ He struck a light, kindled a fire, and thrust the club into it. There was hair upon the end, which blazed and shrunk into a light cinder, and, caught by the air, whirled up the chimney. Even that frightened him, sturdy as he was; but he held the weapon till it broke, and then piled it on the coals to burn away, and smoulder into ashes. He washed himself, and rubbed his clothes; there were spots that would not be removed, but he cut the pieces out, and burnt them. How those stains were dispersed about the room! The very feet of the dog were bloody. 他划着火柴，生起炉子，将木棒扔在里边。木棒梢头上带着的头发烧着了，蜷缩成一小片薄灰，微风抓起它来，飘飘悠悠地飞进烟囱，就连这一点也把他吓坏了，尽管他是那样身强体壮。他抓住这件凶器，直到它断裂开来，随即扔在煤上，让它慢慢烧尽，化成了灰。他洗了洗手，把衣服擦擦干净，衣服上有几处血迹怎么也擦不掉，他索性把那几块剪下来，烧掉了。房间里的血迹怎么到处都是？连狗爪子上也都是血。
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