PART THREE - A YOUNG WOMAN AT THORNFIELD
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
I return to Gateshead
"Well, if you're going to go, you'll need some money. I haven't paid you yet! How much money have you got, Jane?" he asked, smiling at me. [-----1-----]
"Here is 50 pounds," he said.
"But sir, that's too much! You only owe me 15 pounds for my teaching!" I cried.
"You're right. Give me that money back. If you had 50 pounds, you might stay away for months! Here's 10 pounds. Is that enough?"
"But now you owe me five pounds, sir."
"you'll have to come back and get it then," he said, laughing.
"[-----2-----] "You have told me you're going to marry Miss Ingram soon, and that Adele should go away to school. So I must get ready to find another job somewhere. I will begin looking."
"Don't do that!" he said. "[-----3-----]"
I didn't understand him at all, but he looked so worried that I said, "I promise, sir."
"Good! And now I must go back to my guests. They are waiting for me."
"Goodbye, Mr. Rochester," I said.
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答案:
1、I showed him the few coins that I had and he laughed. Then took out some money.
我把我僅有的幾枚硬幣拿給他看,他笑了,然后他掏出一些錢(qián)。
2、There's something else I want to talk to you about, sir," I said. This was not going to be easy for me to say.
“先生,我還有別的事想跟你談一談?!蔽艺f(shuō),這對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)還真難以啟齒。
3、Promise me, Jane, not to look for another job. I'll take care of everything.
“答應(yīng)我,Jane,不要找別的工作,一切由我來(lái)處理。”
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Vocabulary Focus
owe me 15 pounds:欠我15英鎊。欠某人多少錢(qián)可用“owe+人+錢(qián)”或用“owe+錢(qián)+to+人”,因而原文可以改為“owe 15 pounds to me”。