人鼠之间（Of Mice And Men），美国小说，1937年出版，是美国作家 约翰·斯坦贝克的作品。
故事情节简单，涵盖的时间不超过三天，地点是一个美国加州的一个牧场。描写两个相互扶持的好朋友（George曾骗老板他们是表兄弟）——一位是精明的乔治（George），一位是轻度智障儿雷尼（Lennie）。雷尼因为社会适应较差，老是犯错，搞的两人无奈地到处换工作。在富人奥谢（Tyler Ranch）的牧场里，他们努力工作编织梦想，乔治答应雷尼如果他听话不要闯祸，将来就可以为自己照顾一窝的兔子，眼看着梦想就要成真。有一次雷尼失手勒死了奥谢儿子柯利的太太梅，铸成大错，为了躲避的农场伙计们的追打，雷尼逃跑了。当伙计们争先恐后地追杀雷尼时，乔治为了不让雷尼被农场伙计们杀死并受到侮辱，抢先找到雷尼。他举起枪来，把枪口挨近雷尼的后脑杓，将他射杀。
这部小说用来讽刺社会对弱者的歧视，反而不如雷尼对老鼠的疼惜，《人鼠之间》曾因“语言亵渎，带攻击性，并有种族主义倾向”被视为禁书。1962年史坦贝克因这部小说获得诺贝尔文学奖。
Of Mice and Men 人鼠之间
Chapter 1
few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Gabilan Mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees—willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter’s flooding; and sycamores with mottled, white, recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool. On the sandy bank under the trees the leaves lie deep and so crisp that a lizard makes a great skittering if he runs among them. Rabbits come out of the brush to sit on the sand in the evening, and the damp flats are covered with the night tracks of 'coons, and with the spreadpads of dogs from the ranches, and with the split-wedge tracks of deer that come to drink in the dark.
从梭利戴德往南没几里的工夫，夏连那斯河靠着山边的崖岸绿而深地流，流。水还是暖的，因为它湍急地从被阳光晒得热辣辣的黄沙上穿过，才到达这狭窄的潭。河的一边，金色的山坡蜿蜒地伸向那崚嶒而巍峨的加比兰群山，而在洼谷的这一边，水树相接———每年春天杨柳都长得又苍翠又鲜妍，把它们长得靠下面的一簇簇的叶子卷进冬潮冲来的浮渣中去；长着白色的、斑驳的低斜枝桠，足有合抱那么粗的槭树从这水潭上空弯拱而过。沙滩上树底下，落叶积得厚厚一层，而且是那么干脆，一条晰蜴走过就会嗄嗄的大声响起来。一到傍晚，兔子便从丛树林走出来，坐在沙上。渍湿的洼地被浣熊夜行的足迹盖过，还有散落在各处的从农场里出来的狗的脚印，和黑夜里跑来饮水的鹿楔子般裂开的足痕。
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Chapter 2
he bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe. And there were medicines on the shelves, and little vials, combs; and from nails on the box sides, a few neckties. Near one wall there was a black cast-iron stove, its stovepipe going straight up through the ceiling. In the middle of the room stood a big square table littered with playing cards, and around it were grouped boxes for the players to sit on.
工人宿舍是一间矩形的、长长的屋子。里边，地板没有上油漆。墙壁是刷白了的。三面墙上都开有一个方形的小窗户，第四面有一道结实的上面有木闩的门。八个铺位靠墙摆着，五个是铺上了毛毡的，剩下的三个看去只是麦杆裹上麻布的垫子。每个铺位上头的壁上都钉牢一只苹果箱，箱子开口的那一面向外并做成两格，让睡这个铺位的人放置他的私人物品。这些格子里经常摆满了洗衣枧、剃刀、滑石粉之类的零星物件，还有那些农场庄稼人爱读的、私心信仰并能从中得到乐趣的西部杂志。格子里还塞满了各种各样的小药水瓶，药，梳子；几条领带被挂在苹果箱侧的铁钉上。靠近一扇墙旁，有一座烟囱直从天花板上穿过的生铁火炉。一张大方桌在屋子正中摆着，桌面上是一堆乱七八糟的扑克牌，桌子四周有用苹果箱叠成的专供玩牌的人们坐的凳子。
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Chapter 3
lthough there was evening brightness showing through the windows of the bunk house, inside it was dusk. Through the open door came the thuds and occasional clangs of a horseshoe game, and now and then the sound of voices raised in approval or derision.
Slim and George came into the darkening bunk house together. Slim reached up over the card table and turned on the tin-shaded electric light. Instantly the table was brilliant with light, and the cone of the shade threw its brightness straight downward, leaving the corners of the bunk house still in dusk. Slim sat down on a box and George took his place opposite.
虽然有着黄昏的亮光从工寮的窗户里透了进来，但室内仍是暗黑的。由敞开着的门传来玩马蹄铁戏的粗钝的嗒嗒声，间或又是口当口当声，不时还会有嘲弄或喝采的声音扬起来。
佐治和施琳一道走进了正在暗淡下来的宿舍。施琳走到玩牌的桌子旁，将盖着灯罩的电灯打开。桌面霎时间给照得灿亮起来。圆锥体的光柱直往下照。留下宿舍的四个角落仍然是昏暗的。施琳坐在了一只苹果箱上，佐治则坐在他对面。
Chapter 4
rooks, the Negro stable buck, had his bunk in the harness room; a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn. On one side of the little room there was a square four-paned window, and on the other, a narrow plank door leading into the barn. Crooks’ bunk was a long box filled with straw, on which his blankets were flung. On the wall by the window there were pegs on which hung broken harness in process of being mended; strips of new leather; and under the window itself a little bench for leather-working tools, curved knives and needles and balls of linen thread, and a small hand riveter. On pegs were also pieces of harness, a split collar with the horsehair stuffing sticking out, a broken hame, and a trace chain with its leather covering split. Crooks had his apple box over his bunk, and in it a range of medicine bottles, both for himself and for the horses. There were cans of saddle soap and a drippy can of tar with its paint brush sticking over the edge. And scattered about the floor were a number of personal possessions; for, being alone, Crooks could leave his things about, and being a stable buck and a cripple, he was more permanent than the other men, and he had accumulated more possessions than he could carry on his back.
库鲁克斯，这黑鬼，马房长工，有一个铺位在马具房里；这马具房是一间斜靠着畜舍墙壁的小小的棚屋。这小棚屋的一边，开着一扇四块玻璃合起来的方形窗户，另一边是一道通往畜舍的木板门。库鲁克斯的床是一个给麦杆塞满了的匣子，他的铺盖就在那上面摊开着。有很多的挂钉被钉在靠窗口的墙上，在那上面挂着须逐一修理的马具，新的皮带；窗子下面是一张小小的工作台，上面摆满了加工皮革的工具，缝针呀，弯刀呀，麻线捆呀，还有一副手动的钉皮机。挂钉上也有许多诸如此类的马具：一根折断了的轭上的曲棒，一只马鬃毛插了出来的裂了的轭，一条皮包裂开了的挽链。库鲁克斯的铺位上头也有一只小箱子，一排预备给自己和马匹用的药水瓶在那里面摆着。柏油罐旁边搁着好几罐洗马鞍的肥皂水，一小罐柏油，漆帚。散在地板上的是些私人物件；因为在这儿他是一个人住，所以也就用不着收拾东西，可以乱丢；又加上他是个残废的马房长工，和别人比起来总要呆得久长，因此他积集下来的什物，已经把他自己能背得起来的限度超过了。
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Chapter 5
ne end of the great barn was piled high with new hay and over the pile hung the four-taloned Jackson fork suspended from its pulley. The hay came down like a mountain slope to the other end of the barn, and there was a level place as yet unfilled with the new crop. At the sides the feeding racks were visible, and between the slats the heads of horses could be seen.
新的麦秆在宽阔的畜舍的一端堆得高高的，一个四叉抓草器在麦秆堆上吊着，悬在它的吊车上面。麦秆象山坡似的倾斜向畜舍另一端，那儿有着一块还不曾被新收获物堆满的平地。可以在畜舍的四边看见喂草的木槽，打一条条栏栅间望去，可以看出马匹的头来。
Chapter 6
he deep green pool of the Salinas River was still in the late afternoon. Already the sun had left the valley to go climbing up the slopes of the Gabilan Mountains, and the hilltops were rosy in the sun. But by the pool among the mottled sycamores, a pleasant shade had fallen.
A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shallows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.
在傍晚时夏连那斯河深绿的水潭是寂静的。太阳已经从洼谷离开，爬上加比兰群山的斜坡去了，夕阳给大大小小的峰峦染上了玫瑰般的色彩。但在那些靠近潭边的斑驳的槭树中间，一片怡人的暮色已经降临了下来。
一条水蛇平滑地从潭面溜过，不住地将它那潜望镜般的头左右扭摆着；它游过了潭的纵长，来到一只一动不动的在浅滩上站着的鹭的脚边。突然鹭的一截不声不响的头嘴戳下来，朝着蛇头一嘴攫去，接着那嘴甲就开始吞噬起那小蛇，而蛇尾巴这时还在发狂地摆动着。
