Around the World in Eighty Days

an enigmatical如謎的; 難以理解的personage大人物, 要人

pernicious有害的, 有毒的; 惡性的, 致命的 insects

He was not lavish非常慷慨的; 浪費的, 濫花的, nor, on the contrary, avaricious貪婪的, 貪得無厭的

his taciturn沈默寡言的; 無言的manner

playing whist (類似橋牌的)惠斯特牌戲

Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing.

The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.

his sherry, his port, and his cinnamon-spiced claret紅葡萄酒

I quitted France five years ago, and, wishing to taste the sweets of
domestic life, took service as a valet here in England.

you are in my service

"Faith," muttered Passepartout, somewhat flurried慌張的; 激動的, "I've seen people at Madame Tussaud's as lively as my new master!"

a man about forty years of age

physiognomists人相學者; 相士

"repose in action," a quality of those who act rather than talk

Calm and phlegmatic鎮定的

Phileas Fogg was, indeed, exactitude personified

outside of every social relation

serviceable【古】樂於助人的

His eyes were blue, his complexion rubicund透紅的; 紅潤的, his figure almost portly【婉】【幽】肥胖的; 個頭大的and well-built, his body muscular, and his physical powers fully developed by the exercises of his younger days.

turn out as absolutely methodical辦事有條不紊的; 講究方法的; 有條理的; 秩序井然的as his master required

he found his masters invariably whimsical反覆無常的and irregular,
constantly running about the country, or on the look-out for adventure.

Passepartout, desirous of respecting the gentleman whom he served, ventured a mild remonstrance抗議; 進諫; 告誡 on such conduct; which, being ill-received, he took his leave.

home overnight, he felt sure that this would be the place he was after.
He presented himself, and was accepted, as has been seen.

must have been a very temple of disorder and unrest under the illustrious著名的, 傑出的, 卓越的but dissipated沈迷於酒色的; 閒遊浪蕩的Sheridan

What a domestic and regular gentleman!

an imposing壯觀的; 氣勢宏偉的; 莊嚴的; 給人深刻印象的edifice in Pall
Mall (a street in the City of Westminster, London, and parallel to The Mall, from St. James's Street across Waterloo Place to the Haymarket; while Pall Mall East continues into Trafalgar Square.)

His breakfast consisted of a side-dish, a broiled fish with Reading sauce, a scarlet slice of roast beef garnished裝飾; 添加配菜於with mushrooms, a rhubarb and gooseberry tart, and a morsel of Cheshire cheese, the whole being washed down with several cups of tea, for which the Reform is famous.

a fellow who makes off (To depart in haste; run away) with fifty-five thousand pounds

functionary (尤指政府, 政黨等的)官員; 公務員

who must be a shrewd精明的; 狡猾的fellow

"But that doesn't take into account bad weather, contrary
winds, shipwrecks, railway accidents, and so on."

pillage搶劫, 掠奪the luggage-vans, and scalp欺騙, 劫奪the passengers!"

"All included," calmly retorted反駁, 回嘴說Fogg

Phileas Fogg preserved a stoical堅忍的; 禁慾的composure

they had some scruples顧慮, 顧忌, 良心上的不安about betting under conditions so difficult to their friend

mournfully asked for alms施舍(物), 救濟(品); 施舍金

his master's action touched his susceptible易被感動的, 易動感情的; 多情的heart.

snugly暖和舒適地, 安適地ensconced安頓/置好的; 安居的in his corner

not yet recovered from his stupefaction
mental aberration【醫】精神錯亂; 心理失常of its proposer.


could he rely beyond misgiving擔憂, 不安, 疑慮[C][P1] upon accomplishing his task?


The effect of this dispatch派遣; 發送; 快遞was instantaneous.

it betrayed (無意中)暴露, 顯示, feature by feature, the description
of the robber which had been provided to the police

We don't often have such windfalls意外的收穫; 意外之財, 橫財.

The minarets清真寺的尖塔of the town loomed隱約地出現; 陰森地逼近above the houses in the pale rays of the sun.

her gigantic hull船身; 船殼appeared

after vigorously pushing his way through the importunate纏擾不休的; 討厭的; 強求的crowd of porters


"Oh, is that necessary?"
"Quite indispensable必不可少的, 必需的[(+to/for)]."

I hope you will not visa在(護照等)上簽證 the passport.

Ah, that's your lookout 【口】關心的事; 擔心的事[C] (That's your lookout. 那是你自己的事。)

repaired去 to the quay

Mr. Fogg always knew whether he was behind-hand遲的; 慢的or in advance of his time.

chatting volubly喋喋不休地; 口若懸河地


cogitating仔細考慮; 謀劃a project

quite recovered his equanimity平靜; 鎮定

I have spotted my man.

He passes himself off消失as an odd stick


THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN PROVE PROPITIOUS吉祥的, 吉利的, 順利的; 有利的; 適合的TO THE DESIGNS OF PHILEAS FOGG

the Sepoy (英國殖民印度時代)英國陸軍隊中的印度兵troops

the ladies scrupulously小心翼翼地; 多顧慮地changed their toilets twice a day

the Red Sea is full of caprice多變; 反覆無常; 怪念頭[C][U], and often boisterous狂暴的, 猛烈的

the disorderly raging of the billows巨浪, 波濤

force the Mongolia to slacken減緩; 減弱her speed

the ancient navigators never ventured without propitiating撫慰; 勸解; 取悅the gods by ample sacrifices.

indefatigably不厭倦地; 不屈不撓地

consoled himself with the delusion that his master's whim奇想, 怪念頭; 幻想; 突然的念頭, 一時的興致would end at Bombay

the obliging樂於助人的; 有禮貌的 person

"If I am not mistaken," said he, "…"

Mosques, minarets, temples, fakirs苦行者, pagodas (東方寺院的)塔; (公園等的)涼亭, tigers, snakes, elephants!

a man of sound sense ought not to spend his life jumping from a steamer upon a railway train, and from a railway train upon a steamer again, pretending to make the tour of the world in eighty days!

he hasn't the least curiosity

which Passepartout never failed to accept with graceful alacrity樂意, 欣然, mentally pronouncing Fix the best of good fellows

The visa procured (努力)取得, 獲得; 採辦; 為...獲...

The Mongolia slowly moved out of the roadstead【海】(開放)錨地; (港外)停泊處

On the Indian Ocean

Passepartout was enchanted with the congenial意氣相投的; 性格相同的[(+to)] companion

rubber (橋牌)三局勝負制[C]

by a bold stroke (幸運等的)機緣, 意想不到的事

the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces
fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally
a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls

The British Crown exercises a real and despotic暴君的; 暴虐的, 專橫的dominion統治, 管轄; 統治權 over the larger portion of this vast country


Certain ferocious rajahs (印度等的)王公; 首領in the interior

The celebrated East India Company was all-powerful from 1756, when the
English first gained a foothold據點, 立足點; 穩固的基礎on the spot where now stands the city of Madras, down to the time of the great Sepoy insurrection起義; 暴動; 造反; 叛亂.

But the East India Company has now passed away, leaving the British possessions in India directly under the control of the Crown.

Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cumbrous累贅的methods of going on foot or on horseback, in palanquins (=palankeen轎; 肩輿) or unwieldy笨重的, 龐大的coaches; now fast steamboats ply定期往返於on the Indus and the Ganges, and a great railway, with branch lines joining the main line at many points on its route, traverses the peninsula from Bombay to Calcutta in three days.


He would not deign降低身分, 屈尊俯就to examine even the masterpieces of Elephanta

the landlord especially recommended a certain giblet (常用複)雞、鴨的內臟of "native rabbit," on which he prided himself

found it far from palatable美味的

and that the journey would be extended
crowds of people of many nationalities--Europeans, Persians with pointed caps, Banyas with round turbans, Sindes with square bonnets, Parsees with black mitres, and long-robed Armenians

Parsee祆教徒; 印度拜火教徒festival

descendants of the sect of Zoroaster

processions列隊行進

Indian dancing-girls, clothed in rose-coloured gauze薄紗; 網紗, looped up with gold and silver

his countenance was that of the greenest booby呆子, 傻子, 笨蛋imaginable

seized with an irresistible desire to see its interior

who forthwith立即, 馬上, 毫不猶豫地fell upon him

in the squabble (為瑣事)爭吵; 口角

crestfallen氣餒的; 低頭的

the train had passed the viaducts高架橋; 高架道路

entered the defiles (山間)隘道, 狹路of the mountains

limpid清澈的; 透明的streams

sectaries門徒of the goddess Kali

though the Thuggees謀財害命 still exist

with evident vanity

His old vagabond nature returned to him; the fantastic ideas of his youth once more took possession of him.

uttering maledictions詛咒; 壞話when the train stopped

regulated on the Greenwich meridian子午線, 經線[C]

conductor【美】(火車的)隨車服務員

wagons drawn by zebus犛牛, 瘤牛

go afoot

made a wry grimace (表示厭惡、不滿等)面部肌肉扭曲的

impart分給; 給予; 傳授to him a ferocity兇猛; 殘暴[U][S] not in his nature,

in default不履行, 違約, 拖欠of any other means of conveyance

he refused point-blank斷然的; 直截了當的

a bet of twenty thousand pounds was at stake (ready to be won or lost; at risk; hanging in the balance; in danger of being lost; 在危急關頭; 把...押下打賭, 拿...冒險)

Passepartout,usually so rubicund透紅的; 紅潤的, was fairly white with suspense.

howdahs(印度的)象轎

a proceeding that seemed to deprive剝奪, 從...奪走; 使喪失[(+of)... poor Passepartout of his vitals (人體的)重要器官.

Passepartout got astride跨(馬等), 兩腿分開著the saddle-cloth between them.

was mounted on the beast's back, and received the direct force of each concussion震動; 衝擊as he trod along

without in the least slackening his regular trot.

quenching熄滅; 撲滅; 平息; 壓制(慾望等), 抑制; 解(渴) his thirst at a
neighbouring spring

have not been able to secure complete dominion統治, 管轄; 統治權[U][(+over)] over this territory

bolstering支撐; 加固; 援助; 支持himself against the trunk of a large tree

"The goddess Kali; the goddess of love and death."

The Parsee祆教徒; 印度拜火教徒made a motion to keep silence.

a woman who faltered蹣跚, 踉蹌; 搖晃 at every step

suttee妻子的殉節(印度古時習俗為寡婦與丈夫屍體同焚); 殉夫自焚的妻子

"A suttee," returned the general, "is a human sacrifice, but a
voluntary one. The woman you have just seen will be burned to-morrow
at the dawn of day."

die in some corner, like a scurvy dog

religious fanaticism狂熱; 盲信; 著迷[U]

"Why, you are a man of heart!"
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly; "when I have the time."

The project was a bold one, full of difficulty, perhaps impracticable.

His master's idea charmed him; he perceived a heart, a soul, under that
icy exterior. He began to love Phileas Fogg.

her funeral pyre火葬用的柴堆

make a reconnaissance偵察; 勘察; 事先考查around the pagoda

the Indians were in the act of plunging themselves into the drunkenness caused by liquid opium mingled with hemp

The pagoda, whose minarets清真寺的尖塔loomed above the trees in the deepening dusk, stood a hundred steps away.

the silence around was only broken by the low murmuring of the wind among the branches.


In the background, among the trees, the pagoda of Pillaji loomed隱約地出現; 陰森地逼近distinctly.

Much to the guide's disappointment

They stopped, and engaged in a whispered colloquy談話; 討論.

the guide ever and anon (now and then; occasionally. (Literary and archaic.) e.g. Ever and anon the princess would pay a visit to the sorcerer in the small walled garden directly behind the castle.) left them to take an observation on the edge of the wood

It remained to ascertain whether the priests were watching by the side of their victim as assiduously勤勉地; 不懈地as were the soldiers at the door.

"The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment."

Thinking thus, he slipped, with the suppleness of a serpent, to the lowest branches

not daring to lift their eyes and behold such a prodigy奇蹟, 奇事; 奇觀.

the young woman being still in a state of complete prostration衰弱; 意志消沈

Phileas Fogg replied that he would reflect upon the matter.

Passepartout started off forthwith立即, 馬上, 毫不猶豫地

the streets of Allahabad, that is, the City of God, one of the most venerated in India, being built at the junction of the two sacred rivers, Ganges and Jumna, the waters of which attract pilgrims from every part of the peninsula. The Ganges, according to the legends of the Ramayana, rises in heaven, whence, owing to Brahma's agency, it descends to the earth.

an elderly, crusty粗暴的; 易怒的 Jew

of Scotch stuff, a large mantle, and a fine otter-skin pelisse

The influence to which the priests of Pillaji had subjected Aouda began
gradually to yield, and she became more herself, so that her fine eyes
resumed all their soft Indian expression.

the bow of Kama【印神】迦摩天,愛神 the god of love

Passepartout, abashed窘的, 尷尬的, 羞慚的, kept repeating that "it wasn't worth telling."

Hong Kong, which is wholly an English city, though on an island on the Chinese coast.

were performing solemnly their pious ablutions洗禮

you must leave me to my fate! It is on my account that you receive
this treatment, it is for having saved me!"

the clerk proceeded to read in a loud voice a complaint of sacrilege褻瀆聖物against Phileas Fogg and his servant, who were accused of having violated a place held consecrated神聖的by the Brahmin religion.

rewarded by seeing Mr. Fogg and Passepartout arrive, accompanied by a young woman, whose presence he was wholly at a loss to explain.

Had Passepartout been a little less preoccupied, he would have espied
the detective ensconced安置好的; 安居的in a corner of the court-room, watching the proceedings


inasmuch因為, 由於, 鑑於,因…之故

s not done by the connivance默許; 縱容of the master with the servant

Just as the clerk was calling the next case, he rose, and said, "I offer bail."
"You have that right," returned the judge.

"This sum will be restored to you upon your release from prison," said
the judge. "Meanwhile, you are liberated on bail."

crestfallen氣餒的; 低頭的; 羞愧的Passepartout

gave evidence of her deep gratitude for what he had done.

The phlegmatic鎮定的gentleman listened to her, apparently at least, with coldness, neither his voice nor his manner betraying the slightest emotion;

Fogg essayed作嘗試; 試圖to calm her anxieties

forests of palms, arecs, bamboo, teakwood, of the gigantic mimosa【植】含羞草, and tree-like ferns covered the foreground


if worst came to worst

divulge洩露; 暴露any more facts concerning Mr. Fogg

his inveterate根深的habit, took a hand at whist

Passepartout might have cudgelled his brain for a century without
hitting upon the real object which the detective had in view.

thing, either, to be spying Mr. Fogg, who is so honourable a man! Ah,
gentlemen of the Reform, this shall cost you dear!"

But he determined to chaff戲弄, 逗弄Fix, when he had the chance, with mysterious allusions

But Passepartout persisted in chaffing him by asking him if he made much by his present occupation.

He was passing methodically in his orbit around the world, regardless of the lesser stars which gravitated around him.

he was leaning on the railing

The Rangoon reefed縮(桅); 收進(舟首斜桁等) all her sails

Phileas Fogg gazed at the tempestuous sea, which seemed to be
struggling especially to delay him, with his habitual tranquillity.

it seemed as if the storm were a part of his programme, and had been foreseen

It mattered not that they made him sea-sick--he made no account of this
inconvenience; and, whilst his body was writhing under their effects,
his spirit bounded with hopeful exultation.

Passepartout was enraged beyond expression by the unpropitious不吉利的; 惡運的, 不順遂的; 不宜的weather.

Everything had gone so well till now! Earth and sea had seemed to be at his master's service; steamers and railways obeyed him; wind and steam united to speed his journey. Had the hour of adversity come?

he longed to lash the obstinate sea into obedience.

"Ought she not to have gone yesterday?"

"Yes, sir; but they had to repair one of her boilers, and so her
departure was postponed till to-morrow."

"Thank you," returned Mr. Fogg, descending mathematically to the saloon.

Passepartout clasped the pilot's hand and shook it heartily in his
delight, exclaiming, "Pilot, you are the best of good fellows!"

The pilot probably does not know to this day why his responses won him
this enthusiastic greeting. He remounted the bridge, and guided the
steamer through the flotilla of junks, tankas, and fishing boats which
crowd the harbour of Hong Kong.

At one o'clock the Rangoon was at the quay, and the passengers were
going ashore.

Chance had strangely favoured Phileas Fogg, for had not the Carnatic
been forced to lie over for repairing her boilers, she would have left
on the 6th of November, and the passengers for Japan would have been
obliged to await for a week the sailing of the next steamer. Mr. Fogg
was, it is true, twenty-four hours behind his time; but this could not
seriously imperil the remainder of his tour.

The steamer which crossed the Pacific from Yokohama to San Francisco
made a direct connection with that from Hong Kong, and it could not
sail until the latter reached Yokohama; and if Mr. Fogg was twenty-four
hours late on reaching Yokohama, this time would no doubt be easily
regained in the voyage of twenty-two days across the Pacific. He found
himself, then, about twenty-four hours behind-hand, thirty-five days
after leaving London.

The Carnatic was announced to leave Hong Kong at five the next morning.
Mr. Fogg had sixteen hours in which to attend to his business there,
which was to deposit Aouda safely with her wealthy relative.

On landing, he conducted her to a palanquin, in which they repaired to
the Club Hotel. A room was engaged for the young woman, and Mr. Fogg,
after seeing that she wanted for nothing, set out in search of her
cousin Jeejeeh. He instructed Passepartout to remain at the hotel
until his return, that Aouda might not be left entirely alone.

Mr. Fogg repaired to the Exchange, where, he did not doubt, every one
would know so wealthy and considerable a personage as the Parsee
merchant. Meeting a broker, he made the inquiry, to learn that Jeejeeh
had left China two years before, and, retiring from business with an
immense fortune, had taken up his residence in Europe--in Holland the
broker thought, with the merchants of which country he had principally
traded. Phileas Fogg returned to the hotel, begged a moment's
conversation with Aouda, and without more ado, apprised her that
Jeejeeh was no longer at Hong Kong, but probably in Holland.

Aouda at first said nothing. She passed her hand across her forehead,
and reflected a few moments. Then, in her sweet, soft voice, she said:
"What ought I to do, Mr. Fogg?"

"It is very simple," responded the gentleman. "Go on to Europe."

"But I cannot intrude--"

"You do not intrude, nor do you in the least embarrass my project.
Passepartout!"

"Monsieur."

"Go to the Carnatic, and engage three cabins."

Passepartout, delighted that the young woman, who was very gracious to
him, was going to continue the journey with them, went off at a brisk
gait to obey his master's order.

Hong Kong is an island which came into the possession of the English by
the Treaty of Nankin, after the war of 1842; and the colonising genius
of the English has created upon it an important city and an excellent
port. The island is situated at the mouth of the Canton River, and is
separated by about sixty miles from the Portuguese town of Macao, on
the opposite coast. Hong Kong has beaten Macao in the struggle for the
Chinese trade, and now the greater part of the transportation of
Chinese goods finds its depot at the former place. Docks, hospitals,
wharves, a Gothic cathedral, a government house, macadamised streets,
give to Hong Kong the appearance of a town in Kent or Surrey
transferred by some strange magic to the antipodes.

in a large room handsomely decorated, at the end of which was a large camp-bed furnished with cushions. Several persons lay upon this bed in a deep sleep.

in a smoking-house haunted by those wretched, cadaverous, idiotic creatures to whom the English merchants sell every year the miserable drug called opium

so he resolved to make a clean breast of it

"Bah!" retorted Passepartout, with an air of raillery開玩笑; 逗趣.

"Mr. Fogg's wager," resumed Fix, "is only a pretext, of which you and the gentlemen of the Reform are dupes欺騙, 詐騙, 愚弄 . He had a motive for securing your innocent complicity."

You must help me to keep him here in Hong Kong--"

I will never betray him--not for all the gold in the world. I come
from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread!

"What!" responded Fix, feigning裝作, 假裝surprise. "Is he not with you?"

four hardy能吃苦耐勞的; 強壯的; 堅強的mariners

John Bunsby, himself, a man of forty-five or thereabouts, vigorous, sunburnt, with a sprightly expression of the eye, and energetic and self-reliant countenance, would have inspired confidence in the most timid.

The detective had a feeling akin to humiliation in profiting by the
kindness of Mr. Fogg.

cast a last glance at the quay, in the hope of espying發現(意外的東西) Passepartout

taking the wind under her brigantine (前桅為橫帆, 後桅為縱帆的)雙桅帆船, foresail

The Chinese seas are usually boisterous狂暴的, 猛烈的

during the equinoxes晝夜平分時(春分或秋分)[C]

the Tankadere, impelled推進, 推動by favourable winds, conducted
herself admirably.

The young woman, who was seated aft在船尾, 向船尾, 近船尾, was profoundly affected