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What then?
那么是什么呢？
Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how He acts, make His word your rule, and His conduct your example.
讀一讀《新約全書》，注意一下基督的言行，把他的話當作你的準繩，把他的行為當你的榜樣吧。
What does He say?
他怎么說？
Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you and despitefully use you.
你們的仇敵要愛他，咒詛你們的要為他祝福，恨你們、凌辱你們的要待他好。
Then I should love Mrs. Reed, which I cannot do. I should bless her son John, which is impossible.
那我應當愛里德太太了，這我可做不到；我應當祝福他兒子約翰了，但那根本不可能。
In her turn, Helen Burns asked me to explain, and I proceeded forthwith to pour out, in my own way, the tale of my sufferings and resentments.
這回輪到海倫·彭斯要求我解釋明白了。我便以自己特有的方式，一五一十地向她訴說了自己的痛苦和憤懣。
Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening.
心里一激動，說話便尖酸刻薄，但我怎么感覺就怎么說，毫不保留，語氣也不婉轉(zhuǎn)。
Helen heard me patiently to the end. I expected she would then make a remark, but she said nothing.
海倫耐心地聽完了我的話，我以為她會發(fā)表點感想，但她什么也沒說。
"Well," I asked impatiently, "is not Mrs. Reed a hard-hearted, bad woman?"
"好吧，"我耐不住終于問，"難道里德太太不是一個冷酷無情的壞女人嗎？"
She has been unkind to you, no doubt.
毫無疑問，她對你不客氣。
Because you see, she dislikes your cast of character, as Miss Scatcherd does mine.
因為你瞧，她不喜歡你的性格，就像斯卡查德小姐不喜歡我的脾性一樣。
But how minutely you remember all she has done and said to you!
可是她的言行你卻那么耿耿于懷！
What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart!
她的不公好像已經(jīng)在你心坎里留下了特別深刻的印象！
No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings.
無論什么虐待都不會在我的情感上烙下這樣的印記。
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited?
要是你忘掉她對你的嚴厲，忘掉由此而引起的憤慨，你不就會更愉快嗎？
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
對我來說，生命似乎太短暫了，不應用來結(jié)仇和記恨。
We are, and must be, one and all, burdened with faults in this world.
人生在世，誰都會有一身罪過，而且必定如此。
But the time will soon come when, I trust, we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies.
但我相信，很快就會有這么一天，我們在擺脫腐壞軀體的同時，也會擺脫這些罪過。
When debasement and sin will fall from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh, and only the spark of the spirit will remain,
到那時，墮落與罪過將會隨同累贅的肉體離開我們，只留下精神的火花
— the impalpable principle of light and thought, pure as when it left the Creator to inspire the creature.
—生命和思想的本源，它像當初離開上帝使萬物具有生命時那么純潔。
