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Bilingual Edition (English - Italian)

Jerome Klapka Jerome (Autor)

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2018 | 1. Auflage
8300 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-0-00-012072-4 (ISBN)

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Textauszug

Stave Two The First of the Three Spirits

Strofa Seconda Il primo dei tre Spiriti

When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber. He was endeavouring to pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes, when the chimes of a neighbouring church struck the four quarters. So he listened for the hour.

Quando Scrooge si destò, era così fitto il buio, che guardando dal letto, ei distingueva appena la finestra trasparente dalle pareti opache della camera. Ficcava nelle tenebre i suoi occhi da furetto, quando all’orologio di una chiesa vicina suonarono i quattro quarti. Scrooge stette in ascolto per sentir l’ora.

To his great astonishment the heavy bell went on from six to seven, and from seven to eight, and regularly up to twelve; then stopped. Twelve! It was past two when he went to bed. The clock was wrong. An icicle must have got into the works. Twelve!

Con suo grande stupore, la grave campana passò dai sei colpi ai sette agli otto, e così fino a dodici. Allora tacque. Mezzanotte! erano le due passate quando s’era messo a letto. L’orologio andava male. Qualche ghiacciuolo s’era insinuato nelle ruote. Mezzanotte!

He touched the spring of his repeater, to correct this most preposterous clock. Its rapid little pulse beat twelve: and stopped.

Premette la molla del suo orologio a ripetizione per correggere lo sproposito di quell’altro. Il rapido polso della macchinetta batté dodici colpi e s’arrestò.

“Why, it isn’t possible,” said Scrooge, “that I can have slept through a whole day and far into another night. It isn’t possible that anything has happened to the sun, and this is twelve at noon!”

– Eh via, non può essere – disse Scrooge – ch’io abbia dormito tutta una giornata e una seconda notte. Non può essere che gli abbia pigliato qualche malanno al sole e che sia mezzanotte quando è mezzogiorno! -

The idea being an alarming one, he scrambled out of bed, and groped his way to the window. He was obliged to rub the frost off with the sleeve of his dressing-gown before he could see anything; and could see very little then. All he could make out was, that it was still very foggy and extremely cold, and that there was no noise of people running to and fro, and making a great stir, as there unquestionably would have been if night had beaten off bright day, and taken possession of the world. This was a great relief, because “three days after sight of this First of Exchange pay to Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge or his order,” and so forth, would have become a mere United States’ security if there were no days to count by.

L’idea era allarmante, sicché egli tiratosi fuori del letto andò brancolando verso la finestra. Fregò con la manica della veste da camera sui vetri per veder qualche cosa; ma un gran che non arrivò a vedere. Vide che la nebbia era fitta e sentì un freddo indiavolato; nessun rumore per la via, nessuno strepito di gente che corresse su e giù, come senz’altro doveva essere se mai la notte avesse ammazzato il giorno e preso possesso del mondo. Questo fu un gran sollievo, perché, con la soppressione dei giorni, se n’andava in fumo l’eloquenza di certi suoi fogli: "A tre giorni data pagherete per questa mia prima di cambio all’ordine del signor Ebenezer Scrooge…"

Scrooge went to bed again, and thought, and thought, and thought it over and over and over, and could make nothing of it. The more he thought, the more perplexed he was; and the more he endeavoured not to think, the more he thought.

Scrooge se ne tornò a letto, e messosi a pensare, a ruminare, a mulinare, a stillarsi il cervello sulla stranezza del caso, non ne cavò niente di niente. Più ci pensava, più s’imbrogliava; e più si sforzava di non pensare, più forte ci pensava.

Marley’s Ghost bothered him exceedingly. Every time he resolved within himself, after mature inquiry, that it was all a dream, his mind flew back again, like a strong spring released, to its first position, and presented the same problem to be worked all through, “Was it a dream or not?”

Lo spettro di Marley lo turbava assai. Quante volte, dopo maturo esame, risolveva in mente sua che tutto era stato un sogno, subito, come una molla che scattasse, il pensiero tornava indietro e gli ripresentava lo stesso problema da sciogliere: "Era stato o non era stato un sogno? "

Scrooge lay in this state until the chime had gone three quarters more, when he remembered, on a sudden, that the Ghost had warned him of a visitation when the bell tolled one. He resolved to lie awake until the hour was passed; and, considering that he could no more go to sleep than go to Heaven, this was perhaps the wisest resolution in his power.

Stette così fino a che l’orologio ebbe battuto altri tre quarti, e gli sovvenne allora, di colpo, che lo Spettro gli aveva annunziata una certa visita allo scocco dell’una. Risolvette di star desto fino a che l’ora fosse passata; e, considerando che oramai gli era così facile addormentarsi come volare nella luna, era quello il più saggio partito cui si potesse appigliare.

The quarter was so long, that he was more than once convinced he must have sunk into a doze unconsciously, and missed the clock. At length it broke upon his listening ear.

Quest’ultimo quarto gli sembrò così lungo, che più di una volta sospettò di essersi appisolato e di non aver sentito suonar l’ora. Alla fine uno squillo gli percosse l’orecchio.

“Ding, dong!”

– Din, don!

“A quarter past,” said Scrooge, counting.

– Un quarto – disse Scrooge contando.

“Ding, dong!”

– Din, don!

“Half-past!” said Scrooge.

– Mezz’ora – disse Scrooge.

“Ding, dong!”

– Din, don!

“A quarter to it,” said Scrooge.

– Tre quarti – disse Scrooge.

“Ding, dong!”

– Din, don!

“The hour itself,” said Scrooge, triumphantly, “and nothing else!”

– Il tocco – esclamò Scrooge trionfante – e nient’altro! -

He spoke before the hour bell sounded, which it now did with a deep, dull, hollow, melancholy One. Light flashed up in the room upon the instant, and the curtains of his bed were drawn.

Avea parlato prima che il colpo battesse, il quale seguì subito con un suono profondo, cupo, dolente. Una luce improvvisa balenò nella camera e le cortine del letto furono tirate.

The curtains of his bed were drawn aside, I tell you, by a hand. Not the curtains at his feet, nor the curtains at his back, but those to which his face was addressed. The curtains of his bed were drawn aside; and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them: as close to it as I am now to you, and I am standing in the spirit at your elbow.

Dico che le cortine furono tirate da una mano: non già a capo od a piedi, ma proprio in quel punto dove egli avea volta la faccia. Le cortine furono tirate da parte; e Scrooge, balzando a sedere, si trovò faccia a faccia con l’essere soprannaturale che le avea tirate, così vicino come io a voi, io che sto in ispirito al vostro fianco.

It was a strange figure — like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a child’s proportions. Its hair, which hung about its neck and down its back, was white as if with age; and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it, and the tenderest bloom was on the skin. The arms were very long and muscular; the hands the same, as if its hold were of uncommon strength. Its legs and feet, most delicately formed, were, like those upper members, bare. It wore a tunic of the purest white; and round its waist was bound a lustrous belt, the sheen of which was beautiful. It held a branch of fresh green holly in its hand; and, in singular contradiction of that wintry emblem, had its dress trimmed with summer flowers. But the strangest thing about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which all this was visible; and which was doubtless the occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap, which it now held under its arm.

Era una strana figura, un che tra il bambino ed il vecchio. Per un’arcana lontananza pareva ridotto alle proporzioni infantili. Aveva canuti i capelli, fluenti sul collo e giù per le spalle; ma non una ruga sul viso anzi il rigoglio più fresco. Lunghe le braccia e muscolose; e così pure le mani, come se dotate di una forza non comune. Di forme delicatissime le gambe e i piedi, nudi a pari delle braccia. Portava una tunica candidissima stretta alla vita da una cintura lucente. In mano teneva un ramoscello di verde agrifoglio; e, per uno strano contrasto a cotesto emblema invernale, avea la tunica tutta adorna di fiori d’estate. Ma la cosa più singolare era questa, che dal capo gli sprizzava un getto di luce viva pel quale tutte quelle cose si vedevano; ed era per questo senz’altro ch’egli si dovea servire, nei suoi momenti cattivi, di un cappellone a foggia di spegnitoio che ora si teneva sotto il braccio.

Even this, though, when Scrooge looked at it with increasing steadiness, was not its strangest quality. For as its belt sparkled and glittered now in one part and now in another, and...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.10.2018
• Übersetzer: Baccio Emanuele Maineri
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 0-00-012072-3 / 0000120723
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-012072-4 / 9780000120724