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听力原文及翻译

I leaned over and began pushing aside the pile of bones against the wall. Under the bones was a basket of stone blocks, some cement, and a small shovel. I had hidden the materials there earlier. I began to fill the doorway of the tiny room with stones and cement. By the time I lay the first row of stones, Fortunato was no longer drunk. I heard him moaning inside the tiny room for 10 minutes, then there was a long silence. I finished the second and third rows of stone blocks. As I began the fourth row, I heard Fortunato begin to shake the chains that held them to the wall. 

我俯下身子，开始把墙边的一堆骨头推开。骨头下面是一篮石块、一些水泥和一把小铲子。我之前把材料藏在那里。我开始用石头和水泥填满小房间的门口。当我铺好第一排石头时，福图纳托已经不再醉了。我听到他在小房间里呻吟了 10 分钟，然后是长时间的沉默。我完成了第二排和第三排石块。当我开始铺第四排时，我听到福图纳托开始摇晃把石块固定在墙上的铁链。

He was trying to pull them out of the granite wall. I smiled to myself and stopped working so that I could better enjoy listening to the noise. After a few minutes, he stopped. I finished the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh rows of stones. The wall I was building in the doorway was now almost up to my shoulders. Suddenly, loud screams burst from the throat of the chained man. For a moment I worried, what if someone heard him? 

他正试图把它们从花岗岩墙上拔出来。我暗自一笑，停下工作，以便更好地欣赏声音。几分钟后，他停了下来。我完成了第五排、第六排和第七排石头。我在门口砌的墙现在几乎到我的肩膀了。突然，被锁链锁住的男人喉咙里爆发出一声尖叫。有一刻，我担心，如果有人听到他的声音怎么办？

Then I placed my hand on the solid rock of the walls and felt safe. I looked into the tiny room, where he was still screaming, and I began to scream too. My screams grew louder than his, and he stopped. It was now almost midnight. I finished the eighth, the ninth, and the 10th row. All that was left was a stone for the last hole in the wall. I was about to push it in when I heard a low laugh from behind the stones. 

然后我把手放在墙上的坚硬岩石上，感到安全了。我看着那个小房间，他还在尖叫，我也开始尖叫。我的尖叫声比他的大，他停了下来。现在快到午夜了。我完成了第八、第九和第十排。只剩下一块石头，用来填补墙上的最后一个洞。我正要把它推进去，突然听到石头后面传来一声低沉的笑声。

The laugh made the hair on my head stand up. Then Fortunato spoke, in a sad voice that no longer sounded like him. He said, "Well, you have played a good joke on me. We will laugh about it soon over a glass of that amontillado. But isn't it getting late? My wife and my friends will be waiting for us. Let us go." "Yes," I replied, "let us go." I waited for him to say something else. I heard only my own breathing. "Fortunado," I called. No answer. I called again, "Fortunado." Still no answer. 

笑声让我的头发都竖了起来。然后福图纳托说话了，声音悲伤，不再像他了。他说：“好吧，你跟我开了个好玩的玩笑。我们很快就会一边喝着阿蒙蒂拉多酒一边笑。但现在不是太晚了吗？我的妻子和朋友会等我们的。我们走吧。”“是的，”我回答，“我们走吧。”我等着他说别的话。我只听到自己的呼吸声。“福图纳多，”我叫道。没有回答。我又叫了一声，“福图纳多。”还是没有回答。

I hurried to put the last stone into the wall and put the cement around it. Then I pushed the pile of bones in front of the new wall I had built. That was 50 years ago. For half a century now, no one has touched those bones. May he rest in peace.

我匆忙把最后一块石头放进墙里，并在周围抹上水泥。然后我把那堆骨头推到我新修的墙前。那是 50 年前的事了。半个世纪以来，没有人碰过那些骨头。愿他安息。

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