第一章CHAPTERI CHILDHOOD (81) 頁81-84 陳志忠 20200519
Campbell Naismith Moody was born at Benvue, Bothwell, in Lanarkshire, on the eve of St. Martin, November 10, in the year 1865. He was the second son of Robert Moody, Writer, of Moody, McClure and Hannay, a well-known firm of solicitors in Glasgow. His mother was Mary Ewing Naismith, a member of an old Hamilton family. Campbell had two older sisters, Maggie and Mary, and two brothers, one older and one younger than himself, who both followed their father's profession, Robert Andrew in Glasgow, and George Alexander in Ayr.
Campbell·奈史密斯·梅監霧牧師(Campbell Naismith Moody)於1865年11月10日,在聖馬丁的前夕,生於拉納克郡,博特韋爾的本韋。他是作家勞勃慕迪(Robert Moody),麥克盧爾(McClure)和漢娜(Hannay)的次子,漢斯是格拉斯哥的著名律師事務所。他的母親是瑪麗·尤因·奈史密斯,是位於老漢密爾頓的一戶人家。Campbell有兩個姐姐,分別為瑪姬和瑪麗,還有兩個兄弟,一個比自己大,一個比自己年輕。他們兩個都遵循父親的職業,羅伯特·安德魯居住在格拉斯哥的,喬治·亞歷山大在艾爾。
It was a lovely home into which Campbell was born. The house, Benvue, so named because of the distant glimpse it gave of Ben Lomond, stood at the head of an avenue of trees, its back windows overlooking a garden of two and a half acres. Bothwell, with its ancient castle, Roman Bridge, old church and famous Brig, was a fine background for sturdy youth. What pictures the boys conjured up of pageantry and romance as they wandered round the red-stone towers of the castle, the finest ruin of its kind in Scotland.
Campbell出生在一個美好的家中。班維(Benvue)的家之所以這樣命名,是因為它遠眺本·洛蒙德(Ben Lomond),而它坐落在一條林蔭大道的起頭,後窗俯瞰著兩英畝半的花園。博斯韋(Bothwell)擁有古老的城堡、羅馬橋、古老的教堂和著名的布里格(Brig),這是健壯青年的良好成長背景。當他們在城堡的紅石塔附近漫步時,男孩們驚嘆不已,因為這裡充滿了浪漫氣氛,這是蘇格蘭最好的古蹟。