CHAPTER 16 第十六章-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《简·爱Jane Eyre》

CHAPTER 16 ... I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr Rochester: I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me-because I might pass hours in his presence and he would never once turn his eyes in my direction-because I saw all his attentions appropriated by a great lady, who scorned^{} to touch me with the hem② of her robes as she passed; who, if ever her dark and imperious③ eye fell on me by chance, would withdraw④ it instantly as from an object too mean to merit observation. I could not unlove him, because I felt sure he would soon marry this very lady-because I read daily in her a proud security in his intentions respecting her-because I witnessed hourly in him a style of courtship}which, if careless and choosing rather to be sought than to seek, was yet, in its very carelessness, captivating^{}, and in its very pride, irresistible{③. There was nothing to cool or banish②} love in these circumstances, though much to create despair. Much too, you will think, reader, to engender{} jealousy: if a woman in my position could presume to be jealous of a woman in Miss Ingram's. But I was not jealous, or very ·096. 第十六章 ._.... 我曾告诉过你,读者,我已经学会爱上罗 切斯特先生,现在我已不能自拔了,仅仅因为 我发现他不注意我了--仅仅因为我在他面前 待几小时,而他却连朝我这个方向票都不票一 ① scom /sko:n/ v. 轻蔑,不屑 眼一一因为我看到他被一位漂亮的姑娘吸引, 做 ② hem/hem/ n. 边缘 这位姑娘经过我时连长袍的边都不屑碰我一 ③ imperious /im'plarias/ a. 下,如果她那阴沉专横的目光碰巧看到我,会 傲慢的,专横的 ④ withdraw /wlò'dro:/ v. 撤 马上移走,仿佛我太卑微而不值一顾。我不可 回,取回:撤退 能不爱他,因为我断定他很快会要这位小 5merit/merit/n 功绩,价信 姐--仅仅因为我每天觉察到她为自已能左右 他的注意而感到骄傲;仅仅因为我时时刻刻看 courtship/ka:t fpn. 求爱 求婚, 着他的求婚方式尽管漫不经心,且又表现出宁 captivating /'kaeptrveitn a.迷人的,有魅力的 愿被人追求而不追求别人,然而,正是由于漫 ⑧ irresistible /art'zistabl/ a. 不经心,才显得富有魅力,正是由于傲慢,才 不可抵抗的,不能压制的 banish/baenf/ v. 驱逐 愈是不可抗拒。 o engender /tn'dgenda/ . 产 生,引起 这种情况虽然很容易出现绝望,但丝毫没 有什么能够让爱情冷却或消失。读者,你可能 认为这非常容易引起妒忌,例如说处于我这样 ·097· JaneFyre rarely; the nature of the pain I suffered could not be explained by that word. Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite the feeling. Pardon the seeming paradox; I mean what I say. She was very showy, but she was not genuine; she had a fine person, many brilliant attainments^①}, but her mind was poor, her heart barren{②}by nature; nothing bloomed spontaneously on that soil; no unforced natural fruit delighted by its freshness. She was not good; she was not original: she used to repeat sounding phrases from books: she never offered, nor had, an opinion of her own. She advocated③} a high tone of sentiment, but she did not know the sensations of sympathy and pity; tenderness and truth were not in her. Too often she betrayed④ this, by the undue vent} she gave to a spiteful antipathy she had conceived against little Adèle, pushing her away with some contumelious} epithet{}if she happened to approach her; sometimes ordering her from the room, and always treating her with coldness and acrimony{}. Other eyes besides mine watched these manifestations^{} of character-watched them closely, keenly, shrewdly. Yes; the future bridegroom, Mr Rochester himself, exercised over his intended a ceaseless surveillance }: and it was from this sagacity ②-this guardedness of his-this perfect, clear consciousness of his fair one's defects-this obvious absence of passion in his sentiments towards her. that my ever-torturing pain arose. .. 098. 简·爱) 地位的女人妒忌像英格拉姆小姐这样地位的女 人。但我并不妒忌,或者说很少妒忌,因为我 承受的痛苦的本质想法用“妒忌”那个词来加 以解释。英格拉姆小姐不值得妒忌;她太差了 ① attainment /'teinmant/ n. 以至于难以激起我那种感情。请原谅这似是而 成就,造诣 非的评论,我说的意思是:她好卖弄自己,但 ② bamren /baeran/a. 贫瘠的 并不真诚。她长得很好,又多才多艺,但大脑 贫乏,心灵天生贫瘠;在那片土地上是不会有 花朵自动开放,没有哪种不需外力而自然结出 ③ advocate / aedvakrt/ v: 主 张,提倡 的果实会喜欢这种新土。她并不善良,没有独 ④betray /betrer/ v. 出卖,背 叛 创性,她惯于重复书本中的雅句,她从不提 umdue/An'dju:/a过分的 出、也从来没有自己的见解。她鼓吹高尚的情 不适当的 vent /vent/ n. 发泄 操,但并不知道同情和怜悯,在她身上丝毫没 contumelious 有温柔和真诚。她对小阿黛勒心怀恶意,并无 /kpntju:'mi:lras/a 无礼 的,傲慢的 端发泄,常常使她的这种性格暴露无遗,要是 ⑧epithet /'epioet/n. 浑名,绰 号 小阿黛勒恰巧走近她,她会用恶言毒语把她撵 ② acrimony /aekrimoni/ n. 严 走,有时命令她离开房间,总是冷淡刻毒地对 厉,辛棘 o manifestation 待她。除了我,还有别人也注视着这些个性的 /maenfes'teifon/n. 显示 证明 流露一-密切、急迫而敏锐地注视着。是的, n surveillance /so:'veilons/ n. 就是未来的新郎罗切斯特先生,他也无时无刻 监视,监督 sagacity /sa'qaesiti/ n. 精 不在监视着他的意中人。正是这种洞察力- 明,有远见 他所存的戒心一这种对自已美人缺陷的清醒 全面的认识-一正是他在感情上对她明显缺乏 热情这一点,引起了我无休止的痛苦 ..... ·099·