大学英语精读3双语版 (9)

元首才步出私室，出现在用餐的大过道上。这里聚集着大约２０个人。
mostly the women members of his group of associates,were assembled.
大部颁是他那君同僚中的女性。
. He walked down the line shaking hands with each and mumbling a few words that were inaudible.
至今无人知晓，墨索里尼的可耻下场有多少具体细节传到了元首的耳里。
One can only guess that if he heard many of them he was only strengthened in his resolve not to allow himself or his bride to be made a spectacle-- not their live selves or their bodies.
然后，他把他仅剩的两名女秘书传来，递给她们毒药胶囊，以备节节逼近的俄国人打进来的时候服用，如果她们想用的话。
He was sorry, he said, not to be able to give them a better farewell gift,
他说，他很抱歉，不能送给她们更好的告别礼，
地堡里一直不断加剧的几乎令人无法忍受的紧张气氛突然间被打破了，
and several persons went to the canteen-- to dance.
好几个人走进食堂—跳起舞来，
The weird party soon became so noisy that word was sent from the Fuehrer s quarters requesting more quiet.
they would seek pleasure where and how they could find it.
他们也要及时行乐。
The sense of relief among these people seems to have been enormous,
这些人如释重负，
and they danced on through the night.
阿道夫·希特勒实现其决心的时刻已到。
His bride apparently had no appetite for lunch that day,
Unit nine Text
第九课，课文
In the last days of World War II,
第二次世界大战的最后几天里，
Adolf Hitler and his closest associates had sought shelter in a command bunker before the fall of Berlin.
they lay in the gutter.
他们就躺在阴沟里。
On May Day Benito Mussolini was buried beside his mistress in the paupers' plot of a Milan cemetery.
五一节那天，本尼托·墨索里尼和他的情妇被一起埋在米兰公墓的乞丐坟场里。
He instructed Mrs. Junge,
他指示他的秘书荣格夫人
one of his secretaries, to destroy the remaining papers in his files,
将他档案里的剩余文件销毁，
and he sent out word that no one in the bunker was to go to bed until further orders.
消息传到了阿道夫·希特勒和爱娃·勃劳恩居住的与外界隔绝的地堡里。
Mussolini, Hitler's fellow fascist dictator and partner in aggression,
希特勒的同类，法西斯独裁者和侵略伙伴墨索里，
had met his end, and it had been shared by his mistress, Clara Petacci.
直到午夜后很久，
at about 2:30 AM of April 30, as several witnesses recall,
根据几个见证回忆，在４月３０日凌晨２时３０分左右，
that the Fuehere emerged from his private quarters and appeared in the general dining passage where some 20 persons,
他们翩翩起舞，通宵达旦。
Berlin was no longer defensible.
柏林的防守已经崩溃。
The Russians already had occupied almost all of the city.
俄国人已经占领了几乎整个城市。
It was now merely a question of the defense of the Chancellery.
The next day they were strung up by the heels from lampposts and later cut down so that throughout the rest of Sunday,
次日他们被用绳子倒挂在灯柱上，后来有人将绳子割断，于是在那个星期天剩下的时间里，
已经寿终正寝，他的情妇克拉拉·贝塔西也落得个同样下场。
On the Saturday night of April 28 the bodies were brought to Milan in a truck and dumped on the town square.
４月２８日的那个星期六夜里，两具尸体被卡车运到米兰，扔在市广场上。
俄国人说不定几小时之内就要打进来，将他们统统杀死—尽管他们中间大部分人已在考虑如何逃命—但此时此刻，
for a brief spell, now that the Fuehrer's strict control of their lives was over,
既然元首对他们生活的严格控制已告结束，虽是短暂的片刻。
现在的问题仅是如何保卫总理府。
It too was doomed, as Hitler and Bormann learned at the situation conference at noon on April 30,
然而，正如希特勒和鲍曼在４月３０日中午最后一次形势分析上所获悉的那样，
他走过列队，与人们一一握手，嘴里咕哝着几句什么话，谁也听不清。
There was a heavy film of moisture on his eyes and,
他的眼睛像是蒙着一层厚厚的泪水。
as Mrs. Junge remembered "They seemed to be looking far away,
怪诞的舞会不久变得吵吵嚷嚷，以至于元首的住处传出话来，要大家安静一些。
The Russians might come in a few hours and kill them all-- though most of them were already thinking of how they could escape-- but in the meantime,
并传出命令，地堡里任何人不得就寝，等待下一步命令。
This was interpreted by all as meaning that he judged the time had come to make his farewells.
所有的人都认为，这意味着希特勒的诀别的时刻到了。
But it was not until long after midnight,
In such a horrible climax of degradation Mussolini and Fascism passed into history.
就在这样的奇耻大辱中，墨索里尼和法西斯主义被扫进了历史的垃圾堆。
It is not known how many of the details of Mussolini's shabby end were communicated to the Fuehrer.
便开始为他自己的末日作最后的准备。
He had his favorite Alsatian dog poisoned and two other dogs in the household shot.
他命令将他心爱的阿尔萨斯狼犬毒死，将家中的另两条狗击毙。
Then he called in his two remaining women secretaries and handed them capsules of poison to use if they wished to when the advancing Russians broke in.
and he expressed his appreciation for their long and loyal service.
他还对她们长期忠诚的服务表示感谢。
Evening had now come, the last of Adolf Hitler's life.
夜晚已经来临，这是阿道夫·希特勒生命中最后的一个夜晚。