Dracula (1897) --- Bram Stoker

a lonely feeling come over me

it is no use making my ideas known to the Count

to keep my knowledge and my fears to myself

in his own smooth, resistless無法抵抗的;無抵抗力的 way

I am in fear, in awful fear, and there is no escape
for me. I am encompassed about with terrors that I dare not think of.

Whilst I live on here there is but one thing to hope for, that
I may not go mad, if, indeed, I be not mad already.

I closed my eyes in
languorous令人倦怠的 ecstasy and waited, waited with beating heart

with a laugh of ribald猥褻的;下流的coquetry

second father

Sincerity! It seems like a profanation of the word to write it in connection with such a monster

such a soft, smooth, diabolical惡魔的;殘忍的smile that I knew there was
some trick behind his smoothness.

A terrible desire came upon me to rid the world of such a monster.

He has a curious habit of looking one straight in the face, as if trying to read one's thoughts.

imagining themselves injured and slighted輕視;藐視;怠慢 if in their very first day at home they did not get six at least

He was very cool冷靜的,沈著的outwardly外表上;表面上, but was nervous all the same.

to wring強迫取得[(+out of/from)] my confidence from me, but only to know, because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.

your honesty and pluck勇氣,意志 have made me a friend

to absorb as many lives as he can, and he
has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative漸增的;蓄積的 way.

congenitally天生地

sultry (女子等)撩人的;淫蕩的---She gave him a sultry look. 她撩撥春心地看了他一眼。

in their troughs低谷;低谷期,蕭條階段

in close proximity

pique刺激,激起(好奇心等) general curiosity

the legal tongues are wagging饒舌

Backsheesh (埃及、印度等地的)小費

-I cannot help feeling terribly excited as the time draws near for the visit of Dr. Van Helsing

throw some light upon Jonathan's sad experience

My life is a barren荒漠and lonely one, and so full of work that I have
not had much time for friendships

He was surprised at my knowledge of the trains offhand即席地,不假思索地,未經準備地

A thousand thanks for your kind letter, which has taken a great weight off my mind.

A man does not like to prove such a truth, Byron
excepted from the category, jealousy.

"And prove the very truth he most abhorred."

There was something diabolically sweet in her tones

But there was no love in my own
heart, nothing but loathing for the foul Thing which had taken Lucy's
shape without her soul.

nosferatu, as they call it in Eastern Europe,

from the bottom of my broken heart

be ready to all our work show and our plans unfold展開,攤開;打開.

Naivete

The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.

it derogatory to his manhood.

for days and nights past, weary days and sleepless nights, he had been
unable to speak with any one,

She has man's brain, a brain that a man should have were he much gifted, and a woman's heart.

though sympathy can't alter facts, it can make them more bearable.

apropos of關於;至於

My journey is all mapped out安排, and my luggage ready.

for a strong man with homicidal and religious mania at once might be dangerous. The combination is a dreadful one.

I could only tell him that I was
the happiest woman in all the wide world, and that I had nothing to
give him except myself, my life, and my trust, and that with these
went my love and duty for all the days of my life.

Oceans of love and millions of kisses

"The expected always happens." How well Disraeli knew life.

I hadn't the spirit to try to be cheerful

As soon as the door was closed, however, the mask fell from her
face, and she sank down into a chair with a great sigh, and hid her
eyes with her hand.

He is a seemingly表面上;似乎是arbitrary隨心所欲的,武斷的man

We learn from failure, not from success!

I was dog極度地,非常tired,

"That," I said, "is the crux.

is a real blow to me

it is too hard that a sweet, simple, noble, strong nature such as his, a nature… should be so injured that the very essence of its strength is gone.

and I have no one here that I can confide in向...吐露祕密.

"Oh, Jack! Jack! What shall I do? The whole of life seems gone from me all at once, and there is nothing in the wide world for me to live for."

chivalrous有騎士風範的;俠義的;殷勤的;正直的care of me

Manlike有男子氣概的;雄赳赳的, they had told me to go to bed and sleep,

it all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly無情地;殘酷地to some destined end.

I shall put a bold face on, and if I do feel weepy, he shall never see
it. I suppose it is just one of the lessons that we poor women have
to learn . . .

I wanted to secure a friend, and not to make an enemy

reincarnate使化身;使轉世

euthanasia安樂死;安樂死術

minutely examine them

Scholomance: The Scholomance was a legendary school of black magic said to have been run by the Devil. It was supposedly located near an unnamed lake in the mountains south of the city of Hermannstadt (called Sibiu in Romanian) in the Transylvania region of Romania.

Perhaps grief and trouble are dulling my brain.

God does not purchase souls in this wise, and the Devil, though he may purchase, does not keep faith

We had a sort of perfunctory敷衍的,馬虎的;得過且過的 supper together,

a ruin tomb in a forgotten land.

the Vampire's baptism of blood

A cold shiver ran through me to find my worst fears thus endorsed贊同;認可.

Winchesters溫徹斯特式連發(來福)槍

but is at any rate at stake在危急關頭,

he read the simple and beautiful service from the Burial of the Dead

telling the Captain to give him every facility in doing whatever he chose on board the ship

the Count is hurrying to his destination. To his doom, I trust!

I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we
believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not
as we should know that they will be. Transcendentalism is a beacon to
the angels, even if it be a will-o'-the-wisp to man.