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While disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood, and death its frequent visitor.
就這樣，疾病在羅沃德安了家，死亡成了這里的常客。
While there was gloom and fear within its walls.
圍墻之內籠罩著陰郁和恐怖。
While its rooms and passages steamed with hospital smells, the drug and the pastille striving vainly to overcome the effluvia of mortality,
房間里和過道上散發著醫院的氣味，香錠徒勞地掙扎著要鎮住死亡的惡臭。
that bright May shone unclouded over the bold hills and beautiful woodland out of doors.
與此同時，五月的明媚陽光從萬里無云的天空，灑向陡峭的小山和美麗的林地。
Its garden, too, glowed with flowers:
羅沃德的花園花兒盛開，燦爛奪目。
Hollyhocks had sprung up tall as trees, lilies had opened, tulips and roses were in bloom;
一丈紅拔地而起，高大如林，百合花已開，郁金香和玫瑰爭妍斗艷。
The borders of the little beds were gay with pink thrift and crimson double daisies;
粉紅色的海石竹和深紅的雙瓣雛菊，把小小花壇的邊緣裝扮得十分鮮艷。
The sweetbriars gave out, morning and evening, their scent of spice and apples;
香甜的歐石南，在清晨和夜間散發著香料和蘋果的氣味。
And these fragrant treasures were all useless for most of the inmates of Lowood,
但這些香氣撲鼻的寶貝，
except to furnish now and then a handful of herbs and blossoms to put in a coffin.
除了時時提供一捧香草和鮮花放進棺材里，對羅沃德的人來說已毫無用處。
But I, and the rest who continued well, enjoyed fully the beauties of the scene and season.
不過我與其余仍然健康的人，充分享受著這景色和季節的美妙動人之處。
They let us ramble in the wood, like gipsies, from morning till night.
他們讓我們像吉卜賽人一樣，從早到晚在林中游蕩。
We did what we liked, went where we liked: we lived better too.
愛干什么就干什么，愛上哪里就上哪里。我們的生活也有所改善。
Mr. Brocklehurst and his family never came near Lowood now.
布羅克赫斯特先生和他的家人現在已從不靠近羅沃德。
Household matters were not scrutinised into; the cross housekeeper was gone, driven away by the fear of infection;
家常事也無人來有問，啤氣急躁的管家己逃之夭夭，生怕受到傳染。
Her successor, who had been matron at the Lowton Dispensary, unused to the ways of her new abode, provided with comparative liberality.
她的后任原本是洛頓診所的護士長，并未習慣于新地方的規矩，因此給得比較大方。
Besides, there were fewer to feed. The sick could eat little.
此外，用飯的人少了，病人又吃得不多。
Our breakfast-basins were better filled.
于是我們早飯碗里的東西也就多了一些。
When there was no time to prepare a regular dinner, which often happened, she would give us a large piece of cold pie, or a thick slice of bread and cheese,
新管家常常沒有時間準備正餐，干脆就給我們一個大冷餅，或者一厚片面包和乳酪，
and this we carried away with us to the wood, where we each chose the spot we liked best, and dined sumptuously.
我們會把這些東西隨身帶到樹林里，各人找個喜歡的地方，來享受一頓盛宴。
My favourite seat was a smooth and broad stone,
我最喜歡坐在一塊光滑的大石頭上。
rising white and dry from the very middle of the beck, and only to be got at by wading through the water.
這塊石頭兒立在小溪正中，又白又干燥，要淌水過河才到得那里。
A feat I accomplished barefoot.
我每每赤了腳來完成這一壯舉。
The stone was just broad enough to accommodate, comfortably, another girl and me,
這塊石頭正好夠舒舒服服地坐上兩個人，我和另一位姑娘。
At that time my chosen comrade - one Mary Ann Wilson.
她是我當時選中的伙伴，名叫瑪麗.安.威爾遜
