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We'd gone riding up one of those revolting mountains, and it was horribly hot and oppressive, and after lunch we went to sleep. Or at least I did. She must have gone for a walk, alone.
我们俩在那些叫人恶心的山上骑马玩，天热得可怕，又闷。午饭后我们去睡了。至少我是睡了。她肯定是一个人散步去了。
At any rate, when I woke up, she wasn't there.
总而言之，我醒来时她不在家。
And the most frightful thunderstorm I've ever seen was just bursting on us.
而那时我所遇到过的最可怕的风暴正在我们头上暴发。
And it poured and roared and flashed; and the horses broke loose and ran away;
雷声隆隆，电光闪闪，倾盆大雨。我们的马挣脱缰绳逃掉了。
and I fell down, trying to catch them, and hurt my knee, so that I could hardly walk.
我想抓住马，却摔倒了，伤了膝盖，几乎不能走路。
Still, I searched and I shouted and I searched. But there was no sign of her.
我仍然一边喊一边找，一边喊一边找。可是什么迹象都没有找到。
Then I thought she must have gone back to the rest-house by herself. So I crawled down into the valley by the way we had come.
我猜想她说不定已经一个人回去了，又沿着来时的路爬下山谷。
My knee was agonizingly painful, and I'd lost my soma.
我的膝盖痛得要命，却又弄丢了唆麻。
It took me hours. I didn't get back to the rest-house till after midnight. And she wasn't there; she wasn't there," the Director repeated. There was a silence. "Well," he resumed at last, "the next day there was a search.
我走了好几个小时，直到半夜才回到住处，可是她仍然不在。”主任重复道，沉默了一会儿。“喏，”他终于说了下去，‘黎二天又找。
But we couldn't find her. She must have fallen into a gully somewhere; or been eaten by a mountain lion.
仍然找不到。她一定是在什么地方摔下了山沟里，或是叫山上的狮子吃了。
Ford knows. Anyhow it was horrible. It upset me very much at the time.
福帝知道！总之，那是很可怕的，我心里难过极了，
More than it ought to have done, I dare say.
肯定超过了应有的限度——
Because, after all, it's the sort of accident that might have happened to any one; and, of course, the social body persists although the component cells may change."
因为那种意外毕竟可能发生在任何人身上；而尽管构成社会的细胞可能变化，社会群体却万古长青。”
But this sleep-taught consolation did not seem to be very effective.
但是这种睡眠教育的安慰似乎不大起作用。
Shaking his head, "I actually dream about it sometimes," the Director went on in a low voice.
他摇摇头，“‘实际上我有时候会梦见这事，”主任语调低沉地说下去，
"Dream of being woken up by that peal of thunder and finding her gone; dream of searching and searching for her under the trees."
“梦见被隆隆的雷声惊醒，发现她不见了；梦见自己在树下找呀，找呀。”
He lapsed into the silence of reminiscence.
他沉默了，堕入了回忆。
"You must have had a terrible shock," said Bernard, almost enviously.
“你一定是吓坏了。”伯纳几乎要羡慕他了，说。
