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I found the mess to consist of indifferent potatoes and strange shreds of rusty meat, mixed and cooked together.
我發(fā)現這亂糟糟的東西，是爛土豆和幾小塊不可思議的臭肉攪在一起煮成的。
Of this preparation a tolerably abundant plateful was apportioned to each pupil.
每個學生都分到了相當滿的一盤。
I ate what I could, and wondered within myself whether every day's fare would be like this.
我盡力而吃。心里暗自納悶，是否每天的飯食都是這付樣子。
After dinner, we immediately adjourned to the schoolroom.
吃罷午飯，我們立則去教室。
Lessons recommenced, and were continued till five o' clock.
又開始上課，一直到五點鐘。
The only marked event of the afternoon was, that I saw the girl with whom I had conversed in the verandah
下午只有一件事引人注目，我看到了在游廊上跟我交談過的姑娘丟了臉，
dismissed in disgrace by Miss Scatcherd from a history class, and sent to stand in the middle of the large schoolroom.
被斯卡查德小姐逐出歷史課，責令站在那個大教室當中。
The punishment seemed to me in a high degree ignominious, especially for so great a girl.
在我看來，這種懲罰實在是奇恥大辱，特別是對像她這樣一個大姑娘來說。
She looked thirteen or upwards.
她看上去有十三歲了，或許還更大。
I expected she would show signs of great distress and shame.
我猜想她會露出傷心和害臊的表情。
But to my surprise she neither wept nor blushed. Composed, though grave, she stood, the central mark of all eyes.
但使我詫異的是，她既沒哭泣，也沒臉紅，她在眾目睽睽之下，站在那里，雖然神情嚴肅，卻非常鎮(zhèn)定。
"How can she bear it so quietly — so firmly?"I asked of myself.
"她怎么能那么默默地而又堅定地忍受呢？"我暗自思忖。
"Were I in her place, it seems to me I should wish the earth to open and swallow me up."
"要是我，巴不得地球會裂開，把我吞下去。"
She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment — beyond her situation, of something not round her nor before her.
而她看上去仿佛在想懲罰之外的什么事，與她處境無關的事情，某種既不在她周圍也不在她眼的的東西。
I have heard of day-dreams. Is she in a day-dream now?
我聽說過白日夢。難道她在做白日夢。
Her eyes are fixed on the floor, but I am sure they do not see it.
她的眼晴盯著地板，但可以肯定她視而不見。
Her sight seems turned in, gone down into her heart.
她的目光似乎是向內的，直視自己的心扉。
She is looking at what she can remember, I believe. Not at what is really present.
我想她注視著記憶中的東西，而不是眼前確實存在的事物。
I wonder what sort of a girl she is — whether good or naughty."
我不明白她屬于哪一類姑娘，好姑娘，還是淘氣鬼。"
Soon after five p. m. we had another meal, consisting of a small mug of coffee, and half-a-slice of brown bread.
五分鐘剛過，我們又用了另一頓飯，吃的是一小杯咖啡和半片黑面包。
I devoured my bread and drank my coffee with relish.
我狼吞虎咽地吃了面包，喝了咖啡，吃得津津有味。
But I should have been glad of as much more - I was still hungry.
不過要是能再來一份，我會非常高興，因為我仍然很餓。
Half-an-hour's recreation succeeded, then study; then the glass of water and the piece of oat-cake, prayers, and bed.
吃完飯后是半小時的娛樂活動，然后是學習，再后是一杯水，一個燕麥餅，禱告，上床。
Such was my first day at Lowood.
這就是我在羅沃德第一天的生活。
