英语翻译The story centres on Charles Marlow,who narrates most of

英语翻译
The story centres on Charles Marlow,who narrates most of the book.He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river-boat captain in Africa.Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of Belgian colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the protagonist,Marlow,encounters:the darkness of the Congo wilderness,the darkness of the Belgians' cruel treatment of the African natives,and the unfathomable darkness within every human being for committing heinous acts of evil.[2] Although Conrad does not give the name of the river,at the time of writing the Congo Free State,the location of the large and important Congo River,was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II.In the story,Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver.However,his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz,another ivory trader,to civilization,in a cover-up.Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.
This symbolic story is a story within a story or frame narrative.It follows Marlow as he recounts from dusk through to late night,to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary,his Congolese adventure.The passage of time and the darkening sky during the fictitious narrative-within-the-narrative parallel the atmosphere of the story.

本书的故事情节以Charles Marlow为中心,并且本书的大部分内容也是以他的口吻进行叙述的.Charles Marlow是一个英国人,受雇于一家比利时贸易公司在非洲做一艘内河船舶的船长.《黑暗之心》在揭露比利时殖民统治的黑暗一面的同时,在三个层次上探索了本书主人公Marlow所遭遇的“黑暗”：首先是刚果的荒野环境中真实的黑暗,其次是比利时人对非洲土著暗无天日的残酷压迫,最后则是每个人内心深藏的足以犯下滔天罪行的黑暗一面.尽管Conrad在本书中没有给出河流的名称,在本书写作的年代,刚果河这条重要的大河所在的刚果自由邦就正是属于比利时国王Leopold二世的私人殖民地.在故事中,Marlow是被雇佣来向河流下游运输象牙的.然而,对他而言更为紧迫的一项任务却是秘密地将另一位象牙商人Kurtz带回文明世界.Kurtz在整个地区之中是颇有名气的.
这一富于象征意义的故事是用“故事中的故事”这种形式来叙述的.故事跟随着Marlow在一艘抛锚在泰晤士河口的船上对着一群人描述他在刚果的冒险经历,从黄昏一直讲到了深夜.在这一虚构的“叙述中的叙述”里,随着时间的流逝,天色也逐渐变暗,这恰好与整个故事的气氛形成了对照.