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When the twenty minutes had elapsed and the time had come for the old prince to get up, Tíkhon came to call the young prince to his father.
老公爵起床通常需要二十分钟。过了这段时间，季洪过来叫小公爵去见父亲。
The old man made a departure from his usual routine in honor of his son's arrival: he gave orders to admit him to his apartments while he dressed for dinner.
老公爵破例改变了一下生活习惯以欢迎儿子：他吩咐在他饭前更衣时就让儿子进屋来。
The old prince always dressed in old-fashioned style, wearing an antique coat and powdered hair; and when Prince Andrew entered his father's dressing room (not with the contemptuous look and manner he wore in drawing rooms, but with the animated face with which he talked to Pierre), the old man was sitting on a large leather-covered chair, wrapped in a powdering mantle, entrusting his head to Tíkhon.
老公爵穿一件乡下长袍，头发上扑了粉，一副老式打扮。安德烈公爵（他的神态不像在交际场上那样傲慢，却像同皮埃尔谈话时那样兴奋）走进父亲房里时，老头子正坐在梳妆室那张宽大的山羊皮安乐椅上，披着梳头罩衫，把头伸给季洪扑粉。
"Ah! here's the warrior! Wants to vanquish Buonaparte?" said the old man, shaking his powdered head as much as the tail, which Tíkhon was holding fast to plait, would allow.
“啊！军人来了！你想去打败拿破仑吗？”老头儿说，由于季洪手里握住他的发辫，他只能在一定范围内摇动扑过粉的头。
"You at least must tackle him properly, or else if he goes on like this he'll soon have us, too, for his subjects! How are you?" And he held out his cheek.
“你得好好收拾他，不然他就要逼着我们做他的顺民了。你好！”他把自己的脸颊凑给儿子吻。
The old man was in a good temper after his nap before dinner. (He used to say that a nap "after dinner was silver -- before dinner, golden.")
老头儿在午饭前睡了一会儿，情绪很好（他常说，饭后睡觉赛过银子，饭前睡觉赛过金子）。
He cast happy, sidelong glances at his son from under his thick, bushy eyebrows. Prince Andrew went up and kissed his father on the spot indicated to him.
他从倒挂的浓眉下高兴地斜睨了一下儿子。安德烈公爵上前一步，吻了吻父亲让他吻的地方。
He made no reply on his father's favorite topic -- making fun of the military men of the day, and more particularly of Bonaparte.
他不理父亲所喜欢的话题--嘲笑当代军人，特别是嘲笑拿破仑。
"Yes, Father, I have come to you and brought my wife who is pregnant," said Prince Andrew, following every movement of his father's face with an eager and respectful look. "How is your health?"
“爹，我来看看您，把怀孕的媳妇也带来了，”安德烈公爵说，兴奋而恭敬地注视着父亲脸上每块肌肉的活动，“您身体好吗？”
"Only fools and rakes fall ill, my boy. You know me: I am busy from morning till night and abstemious, so of course I am well."
“孩子啊，只有傻子和浪子才会生病。你知道，我从早忙到晚，生活有节制，身体当然健康了。”
"Thank God," said his son smiling.
“感谢上帝！”儿子含笑说。
"God has nothing to do with it! Well, go on," he continued, returning to his hobby; "tell me how the Germans have taught you to fight Bonaparte by this new science you call 'strategy.'"
“这与上帝不相干。哦，你说说，”他又回到他心爱的话题上，“德国人怎样教你们用新科学，就是用所谓战略，同拿破仑作战的。”
Prince Andrew smiled. "Give me time to collect my wits, Father," said he, with a smile that showed that his father's foibles did not prevent his son from loving and honoring him. "Why, I have not yet had time to settle down!"
安德烈公爵微微一笑。“您让我想想，爹，”安德烈说时的笑容表示，父亲的毛病并不妨碍他对他的敬爱，“我还没安置好呢。”
"Nonsense, nonsense!" cried the old man, shaking his pigtail to see whether it was firmly plaited, and grasping his by the hand.
“胡说，胡说，”老头儿摇摇发辫，看编得结实不结实，接着抓住儿子的手，大声说道，
"The house for your wife is ready. Princess Mary will take her there and show her over, and they'll talk nineteen to the dozen. That's their woman's way! I am glad to have her.
“你媳妇的房间已准备好了。玛丽雅公爵小姐会领她去看的，她们会啰唆个没完。这是她们娘儿们的事。她来，我很高兴。
Sit down and talk. About Mikhelson's army I understand -- Tolstóy's too, a simultaneous expedition. But what's the southern army to do? Prussia is neutral. I know that. What about Austria?" said he, rising from his chair and pacing up and down the room followed by Tíkhon, who ran after him, handing him different articles of clothing. "What of Sweden? How will they cross Pomerania?"
你坐下来谈吧。米海逊的军队我是知道的，托尔斯泰的军队我也知道，同时登陆。南方的军队将做什么呢？普鲁士，守中立。这我知道。奥地利怎么样？”他从椅子上站起来，一面说，一面来回踱步，季洪跟在后面一面走，一面把一件件衣服递给他，“瑞典怎么样？他们怎样越过波美拉尼亚？”
Prince Andrew, seeing that his father insisted, began -- at first reluctantly, but gradually with more and more animation, and from habit changing unconsciously from Russian to French as he went on -- to explain the plan of operation for the coming campaign.
安德烈公爵看到父亲一定要他谈，就讲起当前战役的作战计划来，起初有点勉强，但越说越起劲，而且习惯成自然地从俄语改为法语。
He explained how an army, ninety thousand strong, was to threaten Prussia so as to bring her out of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was to join some Swedish forces at Stralsund; how two hundred and twenty thousand Austrians, with a hundred thousand Russians, were to operate in Italy and on the Rhine; how fifty thousand Russians and as many English were to land at Naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand men was to attack the French from different sides.
他说，要使普鲁士放弃中立，必须用九万军队对它施加压力，还说这支军队一部分要在施特拉尔松同瑞典军队会师，又说二十二万奥军要会同十万俄军在意大利和莱茵河流域作战，五万俄军和五万英军要在那不勒斯登陆，总共要有五十万军队从四面八方围攻法军。
The old prince did not evince the least interest during this explanation, but as if he were not listening to it continued to dress while walking about, and three times unexpectedly interrupted.
老公爵对儿子讲的事毫无兴趣，仿佛根本没听，继续边走边穿衣服，有三次突然打断儿子的话。
Once he stopped it by shouting: "The white one, the white one!"
有一次他让儿子停住，大声叫道：“白的！白的！”
This meant that Tíkhon was not handing him the waistcoat he wanted.
这是说季洪递给他的背心不是他要的那一件。
Another time he interrupted, saying: "And will she soon be confined?" and shaking his head reproachfully said: "That's bad! Go on, go on."
另一次他站住，问：“她快分娩啦？”接着责怪似的摇摇头说，“不好！说下去，说下去。”
The third interruption came when Prince Andrew was finishing his description. The old man began to sing, in the cracked voice of old age: "Malbrook s'en va-t-en guerre. Dieu sait quand reviendra."
第三次是当安德烈公爵快讲完时，老头子竟用年老走腔的嗓子唱起来：“马伯禄去从军，天知道几时才归来。”
His son only smiled. "I don't say it's a plan I approve of," said the son; "I am only telling you what it is. Napoleon has also formed his plan by now, not worse than this one."
儿子只微微一笑。“我并没说我赞成这个计划，”儿子说，“我只告诉您有这么一回事。拿破仑已制订好计划，不会比这个差。”
"Well, you've told me nothing new," and the old man repeated, meditatively and rapidly: "Dieu sait quand reviendra. Go to the dining room."
“唔，你并没告诉我什么新东西。”接着老头儿又像说绕口令似的哼着，“天知道几时才归来。你到餐厅去吧。”
