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The chamber looked such a bright little place to me as the sun shone in between the gay blue chintz window curtains,
陽光從藍色鮮艷的印花布窗簾縫隙中射進來，照出了糊著墻紙的四壁和鋪著地毯的地板，
showing papered walls and a carpeted floor,
與羅沃德光禿禿的樓板和跡痕斑駁的灰泥全然不同。
so unlike the bare planks and stained plaster of Lowood, that my spirits rose at the view.
相形之下，這房間顯得小巧而明亮，眼前的情景使我精神為之一振。
Externals have a great effect on the young.
外在的東西對年輕人往往有很大影響。
I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me,
我于是想到自己生涯中更為光明的時代開始了，
one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as well as its thorns and toils.
這個時代將會有花朵和歡愉，也會有荊棘和艱辛。
My faculties, roused by the change of scene, the new field offered to hope, seemed all astir.
由于這改變了的環境，這充滿希望的新天地，我的各種官能都復活了，變得異常活躍。但它們究 竟期望著什么。
I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant.
我一時也說不清楚，反正是某種令人愉快的東西。
Not perhaps that day or that month, but at an indefinite future period.
也許那東西不是降臨在這一天，或是這個月，而是在不確定的未來。
I rose; I dressed myself with care.
我起身了，小心穿戴了一番。
Obliged to be plain — for I had no article of attire that was not made with extreme simplicity
無奈只能簡樸，因為我沒有一件服飾不是縫制得極其樸實的
I was still by nature solicitous to be neat.
但渴求整潔依然是我的天性。
It was not my habit to be disregardful of appearance or careless of the impression I made.
習慣上我并不無視外表，不注意自己留下的印象。
On the contrary, I ever wished to look as well as I could,
相反，我一向希望自己的外觀盡可能標致些，
and to please as much as my want of beauty would permit.
并希望在我平庸的外貌所允許的情況下，得到別人的好感。
I sometimes regretted that I was not handsomer.
有時候，我為自己沒有長得漂亮些而感到遺憾。
I sometimes wished to have rosy cheeks, a straight nose, and small cherry mouth.
有時巴不得自己有紅潤的雙頰、挺直的鼻梁和櫻桃般的小口。
I desired to be tall, stately, and finely developed in figure.
我希望自己修長、端莊、身材勻稱。
I felt it a misfortune that I was so little, so pale, and had features so irregular and so marked.
我覺得很不幸，長得這么小，這么蒼白，五官那么不端正而又那么顯眼。
And why had I these aspirations and these regrets?
為什么我有這些心愿卻又有這些遺憾？
It would be difficult to say.
這很難說清楚。
I could not then distinctly say it to myself, yet I had a reason, and a logical, natural reason too.
當時我自己雖然說不上來，但我有一個理由，一個合乎邏輯的、自然的理由。
However, when I had brushed my hair very smooth, and put on my black frock,
然而，當我把頭發梳得溜光，穿上那件黑色的外衣 ，
which, Quakerlike as it was, at least had the merit of fitting to a nicety,
雖然看上去確實像貴格會教派的人，但至少非常合身 ，
and adjusted my clean white tucker,
換上了干凈潔白的領布時，
I thought I should do respectably enough to appear before Mrs. Fairfax,
我想我可以夠體面地去見費爾法克斯太太了，
and that my new pupil would not at least recoil from me with antipathy.
我的新學生至少不會因為厭惡而從我面前退縮。
Having opened my chamber window,
我打開了房間的窗戶，
and seen that I left all things straight and neat on the toilet table, I ventured forth.
并注意到已把梳妝臺上的東西收拾得整整齊齊，便大著膽子走出門去了。
