CHAPTER 15 第十五章-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《简·爱Jane Eyre》

CHAPTER 15 He comes in last:I am not looking at the arch,yet I see him enter.I try to concentrate my attention on those netting-needles,on the meshes2 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 inevitably 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 ·092· 第十五章 年年 他最后一个进来，我没有朝拱门看，但却知 ①arch la:tf/n拱门 道他进来了。我竭力要把注意力集中在织东西的 ②mesh /mef/n.网孔，网丝 针上，集中在正编织的钱包的网眼上一我真 希望自己只想手头的活计，只看见放在裙兜里 ③bead /bi:d/m.珠子，滴 4inevitably /in'evitabli/ad. 的银珠和丝线：而我却清清楚楚地看到了他的身 不可避免地 影，禁不住想起了上次见到他的情景，那是在他 认为我帮了他大忙以后，一他拉住我的手， essential'senfal/a重要 低头看着我的脸，细细端详着我，眼神里露出一 的，本质的 种激情，而我也有同感。在那时刻我同他靠得多 6overflow /'auva'flou/v. 近！自那以后发生了什么事情刻意使他和我的地 滥，溢出，充溢 位发生变化了呢？而现在，我们之间的关系变得 ⑦calculate/kaelkjoleit/.计 算，考虑 多么疏远，多么陌生呀！那么隔膜以至于我都不 指望他过来同我说话。我也并不感到诧异，他居 然连看都没看我一眼就在房间另一头坐下，开 始同一些女士们交谈起来 我看见他的注意力全部集中在她们身上， 于是我可以盯着他而不被觉察，我的目光便不 rivet'rivit/.注目 由自主地被吸引到了他的脸上。我无法控制我 ·093· JaneEyre involuntarily to his face;I could not keep their lids under control:they would rise,and the irides would fix on him.I looked,and had an acute pleasure in lookinga precious yet poignant pleasure;pure gold,with a steely point of agony:a pleasure like what the thirst- perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned,yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless. Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.'My master's colourless,olive face,aquare,massive brow,broad and jetty eyebrows,deep eyes,strong features,firm,grim mouth-all energy, decision,will-were not beautiful,according to rule;but they were more than beautiful to me:they were full of an interest,an influence that quite mastered me-that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his.I had not intended to love him;the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected;and now,at the first renewed view of him,they spontaneously revived,green and strong!He made me love him without looking at me. ·094· 简·爱 的眼皮，它们硬要张开，眼珠自然要盯着他。 ①irides /mdz/n.(复数虹 膜 我看着，给了我一种极度的欢乐，一一种珍 ②acute /a'kju:t/a敏锐的， 贵而刺激的欢乐：是纯金，却又夹杂着痛苦的 激烈的 3 poignant/"ppln3nt/a.剧烈 钢尖。像一个渴得快死的人明知道自己爬近的 的 泉水已经下了毒，却偏要俯身去喝那圣水，这 ④steely/stil/a.钢铁的，钢 铁一般的 就是我体会到的欢乐。 5 draught/dra:ft/n.汲取 nevertheless /inevao'les/ “情人眼里出西施，”说得千真万确。我主 d仍然，不过 人那苍白的、橄榄色的脸、宽大的额头、粗黑 浓重的眉毛、深沉的眼睛、粗线条的五官、坚 毅而严厉的嘴巴一全部都透出活力、果断和 意志一按常理并不漂亮，但对我来说远不止 是漂亮。它们充溢着一种情趣和影响，足以制 ⑦feuer /'feto/r.加脚镣，束 服我，使我的感情脱离我的控制，而受制于 缚 8 wrought/r:t/.工作 他。我本无意去爱他。读者知道，我努力从自 0 extirpate /'eksta:peit/r. 尽，灭绝 己心灵深处剪除刚刚萌发的爱的幼芽，而此 0gem/d33m/n.微生物，细 刻，重新看见他的第一眼，那萌芽又自动复活 a spontancously 了，变得碧绿粗壮！他连看都不用看我就使我 /spnn'teiniasl/awd.自发地 爱上了他。 ·095·