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这部书信体小说讲述了年轻的英国事务律师乔纳森·哈克前往偏远的喀尔巴阡山脉，为一位神秘贵族办理房产交易的最后手续。随着他深入这片与世隔绝的地区，他感到越来越不安，当地的种种迷信也暗示着，在幽僻的德古拉城堡里，一场黑暗的威胁正等待着他。
开篇
How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them.
这些文件是如何按顺序排列的，读者在阅读时自会明白。
All needless matters have been eliminated,
所有不必要的内容都已删去，
so that a history almost at variance with the possibilities of later-day belief may stand forth as simple fact.
这样，一段几乎与后世人们所能相信的可能性相悖的历史，便可以作为简单的事实呈现出来。
There is throughout no statement of past things wherein memory may err, for all the records chosen are exactly contemporary,
通篇没有任何关于往事的陈述是记忆可能出错的，因为所选的所有记录都完全是当时所写，
given from the standpoints and within the range of knowledge of those who made them.
是从记录者的立场出发、在他们所知的范围之内给出的。
CHAPTER I JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
第一章 乔纳森·哈克的日记
(Kept in shorthand.)
（用速记写成。）
3 May.
5月3日。
Bistritz.—
比斯特里茨。——
Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning;
5月1日晚上8点35分离开慕尼黑，第二天一大早到达维也纳；
should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.
本应在6点46分到达，但火车晚了一个小时。
Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse
布达佩斯似乎是个很美妙的地方，从我在火车上
which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets.
瞥见的一眼和我能在街上走走的那一点点来看。
I feared to go very far from the station,
我不敢离车站太远，
as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.
因为我们到得晚，而又要尽可能按准点出发。
The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East;
我的印象是，我们正在离开西方，进入东方；
the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube,
多瑙河上那些壮丽桥梁中最西边的一座，
which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.
在这里河面宽阔、河水深沉，把我们带进了土耳其统治的传统之中。
We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh.
我们相当准时地出发了，入夜后来到了克劳森堡。
Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale.
我在这里的皇家旅馆过夜。