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The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a frightful nightmare,
我隨后記得，醒過來時仿佛做了一場可怕的惡夢，
and seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed with thick black bars.
看到眼前閃爍著駭人的紅光，被一根根又粗又黑的條子所隔斷。
I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow sound, and as if muffled by a rush of wind or water.
我還聽到了沉悶的說話聲，仿佛被一陣風聲或水聲蓋住了似的。
Agitation, uncertainty, and an all-predominating sense of terror confused my faculties.
激動不安以及壓倒一切的恐怖感，使我神智模糊了。
Ere long, I became aware that some one was handling me, lifting me up and supporting me in a sitting posture,
不久，我明白有人在擺弄我。把我扶起來，讓我靠著他坐著。
and that more tenderly than I had ever been raised or upheld before.
我覺得以前從來沒有被人這么輕乎輕腳地抱起過。
I rested my head against a pillow or an arm, and felt easy.
我把頭倚在一個枕頭上或是一條胳膊上，感到很舒服。
In five minutes more the cloud of bewilderment dissolved.
五分鐘后，心頭的疑云消散了。
I knew quite well that I was in my own bed, and that the red glare was the nursery fire.
我完全明白我在自己的床上，那紅光是保育室的爐火。
It was night. A candle burnt on the table.
時候是夜間，桌上燃著蠟燭。
Bessie stood at the bed-foot with a basin in her hand, and a gentleman sat in a chair near my pillow, leaning over me.
貝茵端著臉盆站在床腳邊，一位老先生坐在我枕邊的椅子上，俯身向著我。
I felt an inexpressible relief, a soothing conviction of protection and security,
這時，我感到了一種難以言表的寬慰，一種確信受到庇護而覺得安全的欣慰之情。
when I knew that there was a stranger in the room, an individual not belonging to Gateshead, and not related to Mrs. Reed.
我知道房間里有一個生人，一個不屬于蓋茨黑德府、也不與里德太太拈親帶故的人。
Turning from Bessie (though her presence was far less obnoxious to me than that of Abbot, for instance, would have been) ,
我的目光離開貝茜（盡管她在身邊遠沒有艾博特那么討厭），
I scrutinised the face of the gentleman.
細細端詳這位先生的面容。
I knew him; it was Mr. Lloyd, an apothecary, sometimes called in by Mrs. Reed when the servants were ailing.
我認識他，他是芳埃德先生，是個藥劑師，有時里德太太請他來給傭人們看病。
or herself and the children she employed a physician.
但她自己和孩子們不舒服時，請的是位內(nèi)科醫(yī)生。
“Well, who am I?” he asked.
“瞧，我是誰？”他問。
I pronounced his name, offering him at the same time my hand.
我說出了他的名字，同時把手伸給他。
He took it, smiling and saying, “We shall do very well by-and-by.”
他握住了我的手、微微一笑說：“慢慢會好起來的。”
Then he laid me down, and addressing Bessie, charged her to be very careful that I was not disturbed during the night.
隨后他扶我躺下，并吩咐貝茜千萬小心，在夜里別讓我受到打擾。
Having given some further directions, and intimates that he should call again the next day, he departed.To my grief,
他又叮囑了一番，說了聲第二天再來后，便走了。我非常難過。
I felt so sheltered and befriended while he sat in the chair near my pillow.
有他坐在我枕邊的椅子上，我感到既溫暖又親近
And as he closed the door after him, all the room darkened and my heart again sank, inexpressible sadness weighed it down.
而他一走，門一關(guān)上，整個房間便暗了下來，我的心再次沉重起來，一種無可名狀的哀傷威壓著我。
