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"Don't trouble yourself to give her a character," returned Mr. Rochester.
"別忙著給她作鑒定了，"羅切斯特先生回答說。
Eulogiums will not bias me. I shall judge for myself. She began by felling my horse.
歌功頌德并不能使我偏聽偏信，我會自己作出判斷。她是以把我的馬弄倒在地開始給我產生印象的。
"Sir?" said Mrs. Fairfax.
"先生？"費爾法克斯太太說。
I have to thank her for this sprain.
我得感謝她使我扭傷了腳。
The widow looked bewildered.
這位寡婦一時莫名其妙。
Miss Eyre, have you ever lived in a town?
愛小姐，你在城里住過嗎？
No, sir.
沒有，先生。
Have you seen much society?
見過很多社交場合嗎？
None but the pupils and teachers of Lowood, and now the inmates of Thornfield.
除了羅沃德的學生和教師，什么也沒有。如今還有桑菲爾德府里的人。
Have you read much?
你讀過很多書嗎？
Only such books as came in my way, and they have not been numerous or very learned.
碰到什么就讀什么，數量不多，也不高深。
You have lived the life of a nun. No doubt you are well drilled in religious forms.
你過的是修女的生活，毫無疑問，在宗教禮儀方面你是訓練有素的。
Brocklehurst, who I understand directs Lowood, is a parson, is he not?
布羅克赫斯特，我知道是他管轄著羅沃德，他是位牧師，是嗎？
Yes, sir.
是的，先生。
And you girls probably worshipped him, as a convent full of religieuses would worship their director.
你們姑娘們也許都很崇拜他，就像住滿修女的修道院，崇拜她們的院長一樣。
Oh, no.
啊，沒有。
You are very cool! No! What! a novice not worship her priest! That sounds blasphemous.
你倒很冷靜！不！一位見習修女不崇拜她的牧師？那聽起來有些褻瀆神靈。
I disliked Mr. Brocklehurst, and I was not alone in the feeling.
我不喜歡布羅克赫斯特先生，有這種感覺的不只我一個。
He is a harsh man, at once pompous and meddling.
他是個很嚴酷的人，既自負而又愛管閑事。
He cut off our hair, and for economy's sake bought us bad needles and thread, with which we could hardly sew.
他剪去了我們的頭發，而為節省，給我們買了很差的針線，大家差點都沒法兒縫。
"That was very false economy," remarked Mrs. Fairfax, who now again caught the drift of the dialogue.
"那是種很虛假的節省，"費爾法克斯太太議論道，此刻她又聽到了我們的一陣交談。
"And was that the head and front of his offending?" demanded Mr. Rochester.
"而這就是他最大的罪狀？"羅切斯特先生問。
He starved us when he had the sole superintendence of the provision department, before the committee was appointed.
他還讓我們挨餓，那時他單獨掌管供應部，而委員會還沒有成立。
And he bored us with long lectures once a week,
他弄得我們很厭煩，一周一次作長篇大論的講道，
and with evening readings from books of his own inditing, about sudden deaths and judgments, which made us afraid to go to bed.
每晚要我們讀他自己編的書，寫的是關于暴死呀，報應呀，嚇得我們都不敢去睡覺。
What age were you when you went to Lowood?
你去羅沃德的時候幾歲？
About ten.
十歲左右。
And you stayed there eight years. You are now, then, eighteen?
你在那里待了八年，那你現在是十八歲羅？
I assented.
我表示同意。
Arithmetic, you see, is useful.
你看，數學還是有用的。
Without its aid, I should hardly have been able to guess your age.
沒有它的幫助，我很難猜出你的年紀。
It is a point difficult to fix where the features and countenance are so much at variance as in your case.
像你這樣五官與表情相差那么大，要確定你的年紀可不容易。
And now what did you learn at Lowood? Can you play?
好吧，你在羅沃德學了些什么？會彈鋼琴嗎？
A little.
會一點。
Of course. That is the established answer.
當然，都會這么回答的。
Go into the library — I mean, if you please. — Excuse my tone of command; I am used to say, 'Do this,' and it is done.
到書房去 — 我的意思是請你到書房去 — 請原諒我命令的口氣，我已說慣了‘你作這事’，于是他就去作了。
I cannot alter my customary habits for one new inmate.
我無法為一個新來府上的人改變我的老習慣。
Go, then, into the library; take a candle with you; leave the door open; sit down to the piano, and play a tune.
那么，到書房去，帶著你的蠟燭，讓門開著，坐在鋼琴面前，彈一個曲子。
