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Remedios the Beauty was the only one who was immune to the banana plague. She was becalmed in a magnificent adolescence, more and more impenetrable to formality, more and more indifferent to malice and suspicion, happy in her own world of simple realities. She did not understand why women complicated their lives with corsets and petticoats, so she sewed herself a coarse cassock that she simply put over her and without further difficulties resolved the problem of dress, without taking away the feeling of being naked, which according to her lights was the only decent way to be when at home. They bothered her so much to cut the rain of hair that already reached to her thighs and to make rolls with combs and braids with red ribbons that she simply shaved her head and used the hair to make wigs for the saints. The startling thing about her simplifying instinct was that the more she did away with fashion in a search for comfort and the more she passed over conventions as she obeyed spontaneity, the more disturbingher incredible beauty became and the more provocative she became to men. When the sons of Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía were in Macon-do for the first time, úrsula remembered that in their veins they bore the same blood as her great-granddaughter and she shuddered with a forgotten fright. "Keep your eyes wide open," she warned her. "With any of them your children will come out with the tail of a pig." The girl paid such little attention to the warning that she dressed up as a man and rolled around in the sand in order to climb the greased pole, and she was at the point of bringing on a tragedy among the seventeen cousins, who were driven mad by the unbearable spectacle. That was why none of them slept at the house when they visited the town and the four who had stayed lived in rented rooms at úrsula's insistence. Remedios the Beauty, however, would have died laughing if she had known about that precaution. Until her last moment on earth she was unaware that her irreparable fate as a disturbing woman was a daily disaster. Every time she appeared in the dining room, against úrsula's orders, she caused a panic of exasperation among the outsiders. It was all too evident that she was completely naked underneath her crude nightshirt and no one could understand that her shaved and perfect skull was not some kind of challenge, and that the boldness with which she uncovered her thighs to cool off was not a criminal provocation, nor was her pleasure when she sucked her fingers after. eating. What no member of the family ever knew was that the strangers did not take long to realize that Remedios the Beauty gave off a breath of perturbation, a tormenting breeze that was still perceptible several hours after she had passed by. Men expert in the disturbances of love, experienced all over the world, stated that they had never suffered an anxiety similar to the one produced by the natural smell of Remedios the Beauty. On the porch with the begonias, in the parlor, in any place in the house, it was possible to point out the exactplace where she had been and the time that had passed since she had left it. It was a definite, unmistakable trace that no one in the family could distinguish because it had been incorporated into the daily odors for a long time, but it was one that the outsiders identified immediately. They were the only ones, therefore, who understood how the young commander of the guard had died of love and how a gentleman from a faraway land had been plunged into desperation. Unaware of the restless circle in which she moved, of the unbearable state of intimate calamity that she provoked as she passed by, Remedios the Beauty treated the men without the least bit of malice and in the end upset them with her innocent complaisance. When úrsula succeeded in imposing the command that she eat with Amaranta in the kitchen so that the outsiders would not see her, she felt more comfortable, because, after all, she was beyond all discipline. In reality, it made no difference to her where she ate, and not at regular hours but according to the whims of her appetite. Sometimes she would get up to have lunch at three in the morning, sleep all day long, and she spent several months with her timetable all in disarray until some casual incident would bring her back into the order of things. When things were going better she would get up at eleven o'clock in the morning and shut herself up until two o'clock, completely nude, in the bathroom, killing scorpions as she came out of her dense and prolonged sleep. Then she would throw water from the cistern over herself with a gourd. It was an act so prolonged, so meticulous, so rich in ceremonial aspects that one who did not know her well would have thought that she was given over to the deserved adoration of her own body. For her, however, that solitary rite lacked all sensuality and was simply a way of passing the time until she was hungry. One day, as she began to bathe herself, a stranger lifted a tile from the roof and was breathless at the tremendous spectacle of her nudity. She saw his desolate eyes through the broken tiles and had no reaction of shame but rather one of alarm.

俏姑娘雷麦黛丝是唯一没有染上“香蕉热”的人。她仿佛停留在美妙的青春期,越来越讨厌各种陈规,越来越不在乎别人的嫌厌和怀疑,只在自己简单的现实世界里寻求乐趣。她不明白娘儿们为什么要用乳罩和裙子把自己的生活搞得那么复杂,就拿粗麻布缝了一件肥大的衣服,直接从头上套下去,一劳永逸地解决了穿衣服的问题,这样既穿了衣服,又觉得自己是裸体的,因为她认为裸体状态在家庭环境里是唯一合适的。家里的人总是劝她把长及大腿的蓬松头发剪短一些,编成辫子,别上篦子,扎上红色丝带;她听了腻烦,干脆剃光了头,把自己的头发做成了圣像的假发。她下意识地喜欢简单化,但最奇怪的是,她越摆脱时髦、寻求舒服,越坚决反对陈规、顺从自由爱好,她那惊人之美就越动人,她对男人就越有吸引力。奥雷连诺上校的儿子们第一次来到马孔多的时候,乌苏娜想到他们的血管里流着跟曾孙女相同的血,就象从前那样害怕得发抖。“千万小心啊,”她警告俏姑娘雷麦黛丝。“跟他们当中的任何一个人瞎来,你的孩子都会有猪尾巴。”俏姑娘雷麦黛丝不太重视曾祖母的话,很快穿上男人的衣服,在沙地上打了打滚,想爬上抹了油脂的竿子,这几乎成了十二个亲戚之间发生悲剧的缘由,因为他们都给这种忍受不了的景象弄疯了。正由于这一点,他们来到的时候,乌苏娜不让他们任何一个在家里过夜,而留居马孔多的那四个呢,按照她的吩咐,在旁边租了几个房间。如果有人向俏姑娘雷麦黛丝说起这些预防措施,她大概是会笑死的。直到她在世上的最后一刻,她始终都不知道命运使她成了一个扰乱男人安宁的女人,犹如寻常的天灾似的。每一次,她违背乌苏娜的禁令,出现在饭厅里的时候,外国人中间都会发生骚乱。一切都太显眼了,除了一件肥大的粗麻布衣服,俏姑娘雷麦黛丝是赤裸裸的,而且谁也不能相信,她那完美的光头不是一种挑衅,就象她露出大腿来乘凉的那种无耻样儿和饭后舔手指的快活劲儿不是罪恶的挑逗。布恩蒂亚家中没有一个人料到,外国人很快就已发觉:俏姑娘雷麦黛丝身上发出一种引起不安的气味,令人头晕的气味,在她离开之后,这些气味还会在空气中停留几个小时。在世界各地经历过情场痛苦的男人认为,俏姑娘雷麦黛丝的天生气味在他们身上激起的欲望,他们从前是不曾感到过的。在秋海棠长廊上,在客厅里,在房中的任何一个角落里,他们经常能够准确地指出俏姑娘雷麦黛丝呆过的地方,断定她离开之后过了多少时间,她在空气中留下了清楚的痕迹,这种痕迹跟任何东西都不会相混:家里的人谁也没有觉出它来,因为它早已成了家中日常气味中的一部分,可是外人立刻就把它嗅出来了。所以只有他们明白,那个年轻的军官为什么会死于爱情,而从远地来的那个绅士为什么会陷于绝望。俏姑娘雷麦黛丝由于不知道自己身上有一种引起不安的自然力量,她在场时就会激起男人心中难以忍受的慌乱感觉,所以她对待他们是没有一点虚假的,她的天真热情终于弄得他们神魂颠倒起来。乌苏娜为了不让外国人看见自己的曾孙女,要她跟阿玛兰塔一起在厨房里吃饭,这一点甚至使她感到高兴,因为她毕竟用不着服从什么规矩了。其实,什么时候在哪几吃饭,她是不在乎的,她宁愿不按规定的时间吃饭,想吃就吃。有时,她会忽然在清晨三点起来吃点东西,然后一直睡到傍晚,连续几个月打乱作息时间表,直到最后某种意外的情况才使她重新遵守家中规定的制度。然而,即使情况有了好转,她也早上十一点起床,一丝不挂地在浴室里呆到下午两点,一面打蝎子,一面从深沉和长久的迷梦中逐渐清醒过来。然后,她才用水瓢从贮水器里舀起水来,开始冲洗身子。这种长时间的、细致的程序,夹了许多美妙的动作,不大了解俏姑娘雷麦黛丝的人可能以为她在理所当然地欣赏自己的身姿。然而,实际上,这些奇妙的动作没有任何意义,只是俏姑娘雷麦黛丝吃饭之前消磨时光的办法。有一次,她刚开始冲洗身子,就有个陌生人在屋顶上揭开一块瓦:他一瞅见俏姑娘雷麦黛丝赤身露体的惊人景象,连气都喘不过来人她在瓦片之间发现了他那凄凉的眼睛,并不害臊,而是不安。
"Be careful," she exclaimed. "You'll fall."“当心,”她惊叫一声。“你会掉下来的。”
"I just wanted to see you," the foreigner murmured.“我光想瞧瞧你,”陌生人咕噜说。

Remedios the Beauty was the only one who was immune to the banana plague. She was becalmed in a magnificent adolescence, more and more impenetrable to formality, more and more indifferent to malice and suspicion, happy in her own world of simple realities. She did not understand why women complicated their lives with corsets and petticoats, so she sewed herself a coarse cassock that she simply put over her and without further difficulties resolved the problem of dress, without taking away the feeling of being naked, which according to her lights was the only decent way to be when at home. They bothered her so much to cut the rain of hair that already reached to her thighs and to make rolls with combs and braids with red ribbons that she simply shaved her head and used the hair to make wigs for the saints. The startling thing about her simplifying instinct was that the more she did away with fashion in a search for comfort and the more she passed over conventions as she obeyed spontaneity, the more disturbingher incredible beauty became and the more provocative she became to men. When the sons of Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía were in Macon-do for the first time, úrsula remembered that in their veins they bore the same blood as her great-granddaughter and she shuddered with a forgotten fright. "Keep your eyes wide open," she warned her. "With any of them your children will come out with the tail of a pig." The girl paid such little attention to the warning that she dressed up as a man and rolled around in the sand in order to climb the greased pole, and she was at the point of bringing on a tragedy among the seventeen cousins, who were driven mad by the unbearable spectacle. That was why none of them slept at the house when they visited the town and the four who had stayed lived in rented rooms at úrsula's insistence. Remedios the Beauty, however, would have died laughing if she had known about that precaution. Until her last moment on earth she was unaware that her irreparable fate as a disturbing woman was a daily disaster. Every time she appeared in the dining room, against úrsula's orders, she caused a panic of exasperation among the outsiders. It was all too evident that she was completely naked underneath her crude nightshirt and no one could understand that her shaved and perfect skull was not some kind of challenge, and that the boldness with which she uncovered her thighs to cool off was not a criminal provocation, nor was her pleasure when she sucked her fingers after. eating. What no member of the family ever knew was that the strangers did not take long to realize that Remedios the Beauty gave off a breath of perturbation, a tormenting breeze that was still perceptible several hours after she had passed by. Men expert in the disturbances of love, experienced all over the world, stated that they had never suffered an anxiety similar to the one produced by the natural smell of Remedios the Beauty. On the porch with the begonias, in the parlor, in any place in the house, it was possible to point out the exactplace where she had been and the time that had passed since she had left it. It was a definite, unmistakable trace that no one in the family could distinguish because it had been incorporated into the daily odors for a long time, but it was one that the outsiders identified immediately. They were the only ones, therefore, who understood how the young commander of the guard had died of love and how a gentleman from a faraway land had been plunged into desperation. Unaware of the restless circle in which she moved, of the unbearable state of intimate calamity that she provoked as she passed by, Remedios the Beauty treated the men without the least bit of malice and in the end upset them with her innocent complaisance. When úrsula succeeded in imposing the command that she eat with Amaranta in the kitchen so that the outsiders would not see her, she felt more comfortable, because, after all, she was beyond all discipline. In reality, it made no difference to her where she ate, and not at regular hours but according to the whims of her appetite. Sometimes she would get up to have lunch at three in the morning, sleep all day long, and she spent several months with her timetable all in disarray until some casual incident would bring her back into the order of things. When things were going better she would get up at eleven o'clock in the morning and shut herself up until two o'clock, completely nude, in the bathroom, killing scorpions as she came out of her dense and prolonged sleep. Then she would throw water from the cistern over herself with a gourd. It was an act so prolonged, so meticulous, so rich in ceremonial aspects that one who did not know her well would have thought that she was given over to the deserved adoration of her own body. For her, however, that solitary rite lacked all sensuality and was simply a way of passing the time until she was hungry. One day, as she began to bathe herself, a stranger lifted a tile from the roof and was breathless at the tremendous spectacle of her nudity. She saw his desolate eyes through the broken tiles and had no reaction of shame but rather one of alarm.
"Be careful," she exclaimed. "You'll fall."
"I just wanted to see you," the foreigner murmured.


俏姑娘雷麦黛丝是唯一没有染上“香蕉热”的人。她仿佛停留在美妙的青春期,越来越讨厌各种陈规,越来越不在乎别人的嫌厌和怀疑,只在自己简单的现实世界里寻求乐趣。她不明白娘儿们为什么要用乳罩和裙子把自己的生活搞得那么复杂,就拿粗麻布缝了一件肥大的衣服,直接从头上套下去,一劳永逸地解决了穿衣服的问题,这样既穿了衣服,又觉得自己是裸体的,因为她认为裸体状态在家庭环境里是唯一合适的。家里的人总是劝她把长及大腿的蓬松头发剪短一些,编成辫子,别上篦子,扎上红色丝带;她听了腻烦,干脆剃光了头,把自己的头发做成了圣像的假发。她下意识地喜欢简单化,但最奇怪的是,她越摆脱时髦、寻求舒服,越坚决反对陈规、顺从自由爱好,她那惊人之美就越动人,她对男人就越有吸引力。奥雷连诺上校的儿子们第一次来到马孔多的时候,乌苏娜想到他们的血管里流着跟曾孙女相同的血,就象从前那样害怕得发抖。“千万小心啊,”她警告俏姑娘雷麦黛丝。“跟他们当中的任何一个人瞎来,你的孩子都会有猪尾巴。”俏姑娘雷麦黛丝不太重视曾祖母的话,很快穿上男人的衣服,在沙地上打了打滚,想爬上抹了油脂的竿子,这几乎成了十二个亲戚之间发生悲剧的缘由,因为他们都给这种忍受不了的景象弄疯了。正由于这一点,他们来到的时候,乌苏娜不让他们任何一个在家里过夜,而留居马孔多的那四个呢,按照她的吩咐,在旁边租了几个房间。如果有人向俏姑娘雷麦黛丝说起这些预防措施,她大概是会笑死的。直到她在世上的最后一刻,她始终都不知道命运使她成了一个扰乱男人安宁的女人,犹如寻常的天灾似的。每一次,她违背乌苏娜的禁令,出现在饭厅里的时候,外国人中间都会发生骚乱。一切都太显眼了,除了一件肥大的粗麻布衣服,俏姑娘雷麦黛丝是赤裸裸的,而且谁也不能相信,她那完美的光头不是一种挑衅,就象她露出大腿来乘凉的那种无耻样儿和饭后舔手指的快活劲儿不是罪恶的挑逗。布恩蒂亚家中没有一个人料到,外国人很快就已发觉:俏姑娘雷麦黛丝身上发出一种引起不安的气味,令人头晕的气味,在她离开之后,这些气味还会在空气中停留几个小时。在世界各地经历过情场痛苦的男人认为,俏姑娘雷麦黛丝的天生气味在他们身上激起的欲望,他们从前是不曾感到过的。在秋海棠长廊上,在客厅里,在房中的任何一个角落里,他们经常能够准确地指出俏姑娘雷麦黛丝呆过的地方,断定她离开之后过了多少时间,她在空气中留下了清楚的痕迹,这种痕迹跟任何东西都不会相混:家里的人谁也没有觉出它来,因为它早已成了家中日常气味中的一部分,可是外人立刻就把它嗅出来了。所以只有他们明白,那个年轻的军官为什么会死于爱情,而从远地来的那个绅士为什么会陷于绝望。俏姑娘雷麦黛丝由于不知道自己身上有一种引起不安的自然力量,她在场时就会激起男人心中难以忍受的慌乱感觉,所以她对待他们是没有一点虚假的,她的天真热情终于弄得他们神魂颠倒起来。乌苏娜为了不让外国人看见自己的曾孙女,要她跟阿玛兰塔一起在厨房里吃饭,这一点甚至使她感到高兴,因为她毕竟用不着服从什么规矩了。其实,什么时候在哪几吃饭,她是不在乎的,她宁愿不按规定的时间吃饭,想吃就吃。有时,她会忽然在清晨三点起来吃点东西,然后一直睡到傍晚,连续几个月打乱作息时间表,直到最后某种意外的情况才使她重新遵守家中规定的制度。然而,即使情况有了好转,她也早上十一点起床,一丝不挂地在浴室里呆到下午两点,一面打蝎子,一面从深沉和长久的迷梦中逐渐清醒过来。然后,她才用水瓢从贮水器里舀起水来,开始冲洗身子。这种长时间的、细致的程序,夹了许多美妙的动作,不大了解俏姑娘雷麦黛丝的人可能以为她在理所当然地欣赏自己的身姿。然而,实际上,这些奇妙的动作没有任何意义,只是俏姑娘雷麦黛丝吃饭之前消磨时光的办法。有一次,她刚开始冲洗身子,就有个陌生人在屋顶上揭开一块瓦:他一瞅见俏姑娘雷麦黛丝赤身露体的惊人景象,连气都喘不过来人她在瓦片之间发现了他那凄凉的眼睛,并不害臊,而是不安。
“当心,”她惊叫一声。“你会掉下来的。”
“我光想瞧瞧你,”陌生人咕噜说。
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commander [kə'mɑ:ndə]

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