第 66 节
作者:指环王      更新:2024-01-24 16:00      字数:9322
  per or dan sos bausalara la loria y des…queros gulas; muquelando
  los romares bifaos per dajiralo de las buchis sos costune abillaran
  a saro or surdete; persos los solares de los otarpes quesan sar…
  chalabeaos; y oclinde dicaran a or Chaboro e Manu abillar costune
  yesque minrricla sar baro asislar y Chimusolano:  bus presimelaren
  a chundear caba buchis; dicad; y sustinad bros jeros; persos pajes
  soscabela bras redencion。
  And whilst looking he saw the rich who cast their treasures into
  the treasury; and he saw also a poor widow; who cast two small
  coins; and he said:  In truth I tell you; that this poor widow has
  cast more than all the others; because all those have cast; as
  offerings to God; from that which to them abounded; but she from
  her poverty has cast all the substance which she had。  And he said
  to some; who said of the temple; that it was adorned with fair
  stones; and with gifts:  These things which ye see; days shall
  come; when stone shall not remain upon stone; which shall not be
  demolished。  And they asked him and said:  Master; when shall this
  be? and what sign shall there be when this begins?  He said:  See;
  that ye be not deceived; because many shall come in my name;
  saying:  I am (he); and the time is near:  beware ye of going after
  them:  and when ye shall hear (of) wars and revolts do not fear;
  because it is needful that this happen first; for the end shall not
  be immediately。  Then he said to them:  Nation shall rise against
  nation; and country against country; and there shall be great
  tremblings of earth among the towns; and pestilences and famines;
  and there shall be frightful things; and great signs in the heaven:
  but before all this they shall make ye captive; and shall
  persecute; delivering ye over to the synagogue; and prisons; and
  they shall carry ye to the kings; and the governors; on account of
  my name:  and this shall happen to you for truth。  Keep then firm
  in your hearts; not to think before how ye have to answer; for I
  will give you mouth and wisdom; which all your enemies shall not be
  able to resist; or contradict。  And ye shall be delivered over by
  your fathers; and brothers; and relations; and friends; and they
  shall put to death some of you; and all shall hate you for my name;
  but not one hair of your heads shall perish。  With your patience ye
  shall possess your souls:  but when ye shall see Jerusalem
  surrounded; then know that its fall is near; then those who are in
  Judea; let them escape to the mountains; and those who are in the
  midst of her; let them go out; and those who are in the fields; let
  them not enter into her; because those are days of vengeance; that
  all the things which are written may happen; but alas to the
  pregnant and those who give suck in those days; for there shall be
  great distress upon the earth; and it shall move onward against
  this people; and they shall fall by the edge of the sword; and they
  shall be carried captive to all the countries; and Jerusalem shall
  be trodden by the nations; until are accomplished the times of the
  nations; and there shall be signs in the sun; and in the moon; and
  in the stars; and in the earth trouble of nations from the fear
  which the sea and its billows shall cause; leaving men frozen with
  terror of the things which shall come upon all the world; because
  the powers of the heavens shall be shaken; and then they shall see
  the Son of Man coming upon a cloud with great power and glory:
  when these things begin to happen; look ye; and raise your heads;
  for your redemption is near。
  THE ENGLISH DIALECT OF THE ROMMANY
  'TACHIPEN if I jaw 'doi; I can lel a bit of tan to hatch:  N'etist
  I shan't puch kekomi wafu gorgies。'
  The above sentence; dear reader; I heard from the mouth of Mr。
  Petulengro; the last time that he did me the honour to visit me at
  my poor house; which was the day after Mol…divvus; (109) 1842:  he
  stayed with me during the greatest part of the morning; discoursing
  on the affairs of Egypt; the aspect of which; he assured me; was
  becoming daily worse and worse。  'There is no living for the poor
  people; brother;' said he; 'the chok…engres (police) pursue us from
  place to place; and the gorgios are become either so poor or
  miserly; that they grudge our cattle a bite of grass by the way
  side; and ourselves a yard of ground to light a fire upon。  Unless
  times alter; brother; and of that I see no probability; unless you
  are made either poknees or mecralliskoe geiro (justice of the peace
  or prime minister); I am afraid the poor persons will have to give
  up wandering altogether; and then what will become of them?
  'However; brother;' he continued; in a more cheerful tone; 'I am no
  hindity mush; (110) as you well know。  I suppose you have not
  forgot how; fifteen years ago; when you made horse…shoes in the
  little dingle by the side of the great north road; I lent you fifty
  cottors (111) to purchase the wonderful trotting cob of the
  innkeeper with the green Newmarket coat; which three days after you
  sold for two hundred。
  'Well; brother; if you had wanted the two hundred; instead of the
  fifty; I could have lent them to you; and would have done so; for I
  knew you would not be long pazorrhus to me。  I am no hindity mush;
  brother; no Irishman; I laid out the other day twenty pounds in
  buying rupenoe peam…engries; (112) and in the Chong…gav; (113) have
  a house of my own with a yard behind it。
  'AND; FORSOOTH; IF I GO THITHER; I CAN CHOOSE A PLACE TO LIGHT A
  FIRE UPON; AND SHALL HAVE NO NECESSITY TO ASK LEAVE OF THESE HERE
  GENTILES。'
  Well; dear reader; this last is the translation of the Gypsy
  sentence which heads the chapter; and which is a very
  characteristic specimen of the general way of speaking of the
  English Gypsies。
  The language; as they generally speak it; is a broken jargon; in
  which few of the grammatical peculiarities of the Rommany are to be
  distinguished。  In fact; what has been said of the Spanish Gypsy
  dialect holds good with respect to the English as commonly spoken:
  yet the English dialect has in reality suffered much less than the
  Spanish; and still retains its original syntax to a certain extent;
  its peculiar manner of conjugating verbs; and declining nouns and
  pronouns。  I must; however; qualify this last assertion; by
  observing that in the genuine Rommany there are no prepositions;
  but; on the contrary; post…positions; now; in the case of the
  English dialect; these post…positions have been lost; and their
  want; with the exception of the genitive; has been supplied with
  English prepositions; as may be seen by a short example:…
  Hungarian Gypsy。(114) English Gypsy。    English。
  Job                   Yow               He
  Leste                 Leste             Of him
  Las                   Las               To him
  Les                   Los               Him
  Lester                From leste        From him
  Leha                  With leste        With him
  PLURAL。
  Hungarian Gypsy     English Gypsy。    English
  Jole                Yaun              They
  Lente               Lente             Of them
  Len                 Len               To them
  Len                 Len               Them
  Lender              From Lende        From them
  The following comparison of words selected at random from the
  English and Spanish dialects of the Rommany will; perhaps; not be
  uninteresting to the philologist or even to the general reader。
  Could a doubt be at present entertained that the Gypsy language is
  virtually the same in all parts of the world where it is spoken; I
  conceive that such a vocabulary would at once remove it。
  English Gypsy。       Spanish Gypsy。
  Ant       Cria                 Crianse
  Bread     Morro                Manro
  City      Forus                Foros
  Dead      Mulo                 Mulo
  Enough    Dosta                Dosta
  Fish      Matcho               Macho
  Great     Boro                 Baro
  House     Ker                  Quer
  Iron      Saster               Sas
  King      Krallis              Cralis
  Love(I)   Camova               Camelo
  Moon      Tchun                Chimutra
  Night     Rarde                Rati
  Onion     Purrum               Porumia
  Poison    Drav                 Drao
  Quick     Sig                  Sigo
  Rain      Brishindo            Brejindal
  Sunday    Koorokey             Curque
  Teeth     Danor                Dani
  Village   Gav                  Gao
  White     Pauno                Pa