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"When they all removed to Brighton, therefore, you had no reason, I suppose, to believe them fond of each other.''
“那么說，他們開拔到白利屯去的時候，你還是毫不在意，沒想到他們倆已經愛上了吧？”
"Not the slightest. I can remember no symptom of affection on either side; and had any thing of the kind been perceptible, you must be aware that ours is not a family on which it could be thrown away. When first he entered the corps, she was ready enough to admire him; but so we all were. Every girl in or near Meryton was out of her senses about him for the first two months; but he never distinguished her by any particular attention, and consequently, after a moderate period of extravagant and wild admiration, her fancy for him gave way, and others of the regiment who treated her with more distinction again became her favourites.''
“根本沒想到。我記得他們誰都沒有流露出相愛的意思，要知道，當初只要看出了一點形跡，在我們那樣的一個家庭里是不會不談論的。他剛到部隊里來的時候，她就對他十分愛慕，當時我們大家都是那樣。在開頭一兩個月里面，麥里屯一帶的姑娘們沒有哪一個不為他神魂顛倒；可是他對她卻不曾另眼相看。后來那一陣濫愛狂戀的風氣過去了，她對他的幻想也就消失了，因為民兵團里其他的軍官們更加看重她，于是她的心又轉到他們身上去了。”
It may be easily believed that, however little of novelty could be added to their fears, hopes, and conjectures, on this interesting subject by its repeated discussion, no other could detain them from it long, during the whole of the journey. From Elizabeth's thoughts it was never absent. Fixed there by the keenest of all anguish, self-reproach, she could find no interval of ease or forgetfulness.
他們一路上把這個有趣的話題翻來復去地談論，談到哪些地方值得顧慮，哪些地方還可以寄予希望；揣想起來又是如何如何；實在再也談不出什么新意來了，只得暫時住口。可是隔了不多一會兒，又談到這件事上面來了；這是可想而知的。伊麗莎白的腦子里總是擺脫不開這件事。她為這件事自怨自艾，沒有一刻能夠安心，也沒有一刻能夠忘懷。
