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What my sensations were no language can describe.
我的感觸非語言所能形容。
But just as they all rose, stifling my breath and constricting my throat, a girl came up and passed me.
但是正當全體起立，使我呼吸困難，喉頭緊縮的時候，一位姑娘走上前來。
In passing, she lifted her eyes.
從我身邊經過。她在走過時抬起了眼睛。
What a strange light inspired them!
那雙眼睛閃著多么奇怪的光芒！
What an extraordinary sensation that ray sent through me!
那道光芒使我渾身充滿了一種多么異乎尋常的感覺！
How the new feeling bore me up!
這種新感覺給予我多大的支持！
It was as if a martyr, a hero, had passed a slave or victim, and imparted strength in the transit.
仿佛一位殉道者、一個英雄走過一個奴隸或者犧牲者的身邊，剎那之間把力量也傳給了他。
I mastered the rising hysteria, lifted up my head, and took a firm stand on the stool.
我控制住了正待發作的歇斯底里，抬起頭來，堅定地站在凳子上。
Helen Burns asked some slight question about her work of Miss Smith, was chidden for the triviality of the inquiry,
海倫.彭斯問了史密斯小姐某個關于她作業的小問題，因為問題瑣碎而被申斥了一通。
returned to her place, and smiled at me as she again went by.
她回到自己的位置上去時，再次走過我，對我微微一笑。
What a smile!
多好的微笑！
I remember it now, and I know that it was the effluence of fine intellect, of true courage.
我至今還記得，而且知道，這是睿智和真正的勇氣的流露。
It lit up her marked lineaments, her thin face, her sunken grey eye, like a reflection from the aspect of an angel.
它像天使臉上的反光一樣，照亮了她富有特征的面容、瘦削的臉龐和深陷的灰眼睛。
Yet at that moment Helen Burns wore on her arm "the untidy badge;"
然而就在那一刻，海倫.彭斯的胳膊上還佩戴著“不整潔標記”。
Scarcely an hour ago I had heard her condemned by Miss Scatcherd to a dinner of bread and water on the morrow because she had blotted an exercise in copying it out.
不到一小時之前我聽見斯卡查德小姐罰她明天中飯只吃面包和清水，就因為她在抄寫習題時弄臟了練習簿。
Such is the imperfect nature of man!
人的天性就是這樣的不完美！
Such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet.
即使是最明亮的行星也有這類黑斑。
And eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.
而斯卡查德小姐這樣的眼睛只能看到細微的缺陷，卻對星球的萬丈光芒視而不見。
