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Cruel? Not at all! She is severe. She dislikes my faults.
兇狠？一點也沒有！她很嚴格。她不喜歡我的缺點。
And if I were in your place I should dislike her. I should resist her.
如果我是你，我會討厭她的，我會抵制。
If she struck me with that rod, I should get it from her hand. I should break it under her nose.
要是她用那束木條打我，我會從她手里奪過來，當著她的面把它折斷。
Probably you would do nothing of the sort.
興許你根本不會干那類事。
But if you did, Mr. Brocklehurst would expel you from the school. That would be a great grief to your relations.
但要是你干了，布羅克赫斯特先生會把你攆出學校的，那會使你的親戚感到難過。
It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
耐心忍受只有自己感到的痛苦，
than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.
遠比草率行動，產(chǎn)生連累親朋的惡果要好。
And besides, the Bible bids us return good for evil.
更何況《圣經(jīng)》上囑咐我們要以德報怨。
But then it seems disgraceful to be flogged, and to be sent to stand in the middle of a room full of people.
可是挨鞭子，罰站在滿屋子是人的房間當中，畢竟是丟臉的呀！
And you are such a great girl.
而且你己經(jīng)是那么個大姑娘了。
I am far younger than you, and I could not bear it.
我比你小得多還受不了呢。
Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it.
不過，要是你無法避免，那你的職責就是忍受。
It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
如果你命里注定需要忍受，那么說自己不能忍受就是軟弱，就是犯傻。
I heard her with wonder.
我聽了感到不勝驚訝。
I could not comprehend this doctrine of endurance, and still less could I understand or sympathise with the forbearance she expressed for her chastiser.
我不能理解這"忍受"信條，更無法明白或同情她對懲罰者所表現(xiàn)出的寬容。
Still I felt that Helen Burns considered things by a light invisible to my eyes.
不過我仍覺得海倫·彭斯是根據(jù)一種我所看不見的眼光來考慮事情的。
I suspected she might be right and I wrong, but I would not ponder the matter deeply, like Felix.
我懷疑可能她對，我不對。但是我對這事不想再去深究，像費利克斯一樣。
I put it off to a more convenient season.
我將它推遲到以后方便的時候去考慮。
You say you have faults, Helen, what are they? To me you seem very good.
你說你有缺陷，海倫，什么缺陷？我看你很好嘛。
Then learn from me, not to judge by appearances.
那你就聽我說吧，別以貌取人。
I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly.
像斯卡查德小姐說的那樣，我很邋遢。
I seldom put, and never keep, things, in order.
我難得把東西整理好，永遠那么亂糟糟。
I am careless. I forget rules.
我很粗心，總把規(guī)則忘掉。
I read when I should learn my lessons.
應(yīng)當學習功課時卻看閑書。
I have no method, and sometimes I say, like you, I cannot bear to be subjected to systematic arrangements.
我做事沒有條理。有時像你一樣會說，我受不了那種井井有條的管束。
This is all very provoking to Miss Scatcherd, who is naturally neat, punctual, and particular.
這一樁樁都使斯卡查德小姐很惱火，她天生講究整潔，遵守時刻，一絲不茍。
"And cross and cruel," I added, but Helen Burns would not admit my addition, she kept silence.
"而且脾氣急躁，強橫霸道，"我補充說，但海論并沒有附和，卻依然沉默不語。
