CHAPTER 14 第十四章-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《简·爱Jane Eyre》

CHAPTER 14 I BOTH wished and feared to see Mr Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night: I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye. During the early part of the morning I momentarily expected his coming; he was not in the frequent habit of entering the schoolroom, but he did step in for a few minutes sometimes, and I had the impression that he was sure to visit it that day. ._ When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavoured ① to bring back with a strict hand such as had been straying②} through imagination's boundless and trackless waste, into the safe fold of common sense. 1③ at my own bar, Memory having Arraigned given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night -of the general state of mind in which I had indulged④ for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told, in her own quiet way, a plain,unvarnished} tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rapidly devoured the ideal; -I pronounced .088. 第十四章 那个不眠之夜后的第二天,我既希望见到 罗切斯特先生,而又害怕见到他。我很想再次 倾听他的声音,而又害怕与他的目光相遇。上 午的前半响,我时时刻刻都盼着他的到来。他 没有经常进读书室的习惯,但他有时进来待上 几分钟。我有这样的预感,那天他一定会来。 ...... 当我又一次独处时,我回想了一下听到的 情况,解剖了自已的内心世界,审查了我的思 ① endeavour /in'deva/ t. 努 想和情感,努力用一双严厉的手,把那些在无 力,尽力 ②stray /strev/ v. 迷路,彷徨 边无际、无路可循的想象荒野上徘徊的一切 纳入常识的可靠规范之中 我在自已的法庭上受审,记忆出来作证 ③arraig /a'rein/ t. 提讯,传 证明了从昨夜以来我所怀的希望、意愿和情 ④ indulge /tn'dAld/ v. 纵情 感,证明了过去两周我所沉漏的一般思想状 于,放任 态。理智首先走到前面,以其独有的平静的方 unvarnishcd /An'va:nrft 法讲了一个朴实的、未加修饰的故事,揭示了 a.无装饰的,原样的 我如何拒绝了现实,狂热地吞下空想。我宣布 .o89. JaneFyre judgement to this effect: - That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited{} herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar②. 'You,' I said, 'a favourite with Mr Rochester? You gifted with the power of pleasing him? You of importance to him in any way? Go! Your folly sickens me. And you have derived pleasure from ③ occasional tokens ④ of preference-equivocal tokens shown by a gentleman of family and a man of the world to a dependant and a novice}. How dared you? Poor stupid dupe! Could not even self- interest make you wiser? You repeated to yourself this morning the brief scene of last night? Cover your face and be ashamed! He said something in praise of your eyes, did he? Blind puppy! Open their bleared lids and look on your own accursed}senselessness! It does good to no woman to be flattered by her superior, who cannot possibly intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead ignis-fatuus-like, into miry③} wilds whence there is no extrication{}. .__ Ere long, I had reason to congratulate myself on the course of wholesome discipline to which I had thus forced my feelings to submit{}: thanks to it, I was able to meet subsequent^{①} occurrences with a decent calm; which, had they found me unprepared, I should probably have been unequal to maintain, even externally{}. ... .090. 简·爱) 了大致这样的判决 没有比简·爱更大的傻瓜呼吸过生活的气 ① surfeit /sa:fit/.. 使服,吃 息,还没有一个更异想天开的白痴,那么轻信 过份 ② nectar /nekta/ n. 花密,甜 甜密的荒言、把毒药当做美酒吞下。 美的饮料 “你,”我说,“是罗切斯特先生喜欢的人 吗?你有讨他欢心的天赋吗?你哪儿对他重要 ③ derive from得到,获得 吗?滚开!你的愚蠢让我恶心。你却从他偶尔 的喜欢中得到满足,这是一个名门绅土、精于 ④ token /taukan n. 表征 世故的人对一个受雇于他、一个初出茅庐的人 novice /npvIs/n. 新手,初 所作的暖昧表示。你好大的胆子,愚蠢的可怜 学者 虫。--难道连自私都不能让你聪明些吗?今 dupe /dju:p/n. 受骗的人 上当者 天早上你反复叨念着昨夜的短暂的一幕啦? --蒙起你的脸,感到羞愧吧,他说了几句称 赞你眼睛的话是吗?瞎了眼睛的傻瓜,睁开那 7 accursed /'ka:sid a. 被诈 咒的,可憎的 双模糊的烂眼,仔细面对自已该死的无知吧! 受到无意与她结婚的上司的恭维,对哪个女人 来说都没有好处。如果没有回报或不为人所知 就让爱情之火在内心燃烧会吞没掉培育爱的生 命;要是被发现了,得到了回报,必定像鬼火 ⑧ miry /marori/a. 泥泞的 ② extrication /ekstriketfan 一样把人引入泥泞的荒地而不能自拔,这对所 n.救出,解脱 有的女人来说都简直是发疯。” ..... 0 submit /sob'mit/ v. 屈服 在迫使我的情感接受有益的纪律约束后, 没过多长时间,我就有理由庆贺。就是因为它 n subsequent /sAbstkwant a. 随后的,后来的 我才能够平静地面对后来发生的事情,要是我 D externally /eks'ta:nalv/ ad 外部地 毫无准备,那么哪怕连表面的镇静都是无法保 持的。 ...... ·091· CHAPTER 15 .. He comes in last: I am not looking at the arch①}, yet I see him enter. I try to concentrate my attention on those netting-needles,on the meshes{②} of the purse I am forming-I wish to think only of the work I have in my hands, to see only the silver beads③} and silk threads that lie in my lap; whereas, I distinctly behold his figure, and I inevitably④ recall the moment when I last saw it: just after I had rendered him what he deemed an essential service, and he, holding my hand, and looking down on my face, surveyed me with eyes that revealed a heart full and eager to overflow-in whose emotions I had a part. How near had I approached him at that moment! What had occurred since, calculated{}to change his and my relative positions? Yet now, how distant, how far estranged we were! So far estranged, that I did not expect him to come and speak to me. I did not wonder, when, without looking at me, he took a seat at the other side of the room, and began conversing with some of the ladies. No sooner did I see that his attention was riveted{ on them, and that I might gaze without being observed, than my eyes were drawn 002.