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What do you mean by it?
你的話是什么意思？
Sir, I was too plain; I beg your pardon.
先生，怪我太直率了，請你原諒。
I ought to have replied that it was not easy to give an impromptu answer to a question about appearances; that tastes mostly differ.
我本應當說，像容貌這樣的問題，不是輕易可以當場回答的；應當說人的審美趣味各有不同。
And that beauty is of little consequence, or something of that sort.
應當說漂亮并不重要，或者諸如此類的話。
You ought to have replied no such thing.
你本來就不應當這樣來回答。
Beauty of little consequence, indeed!
漂亮并不重要，確實如此！
And so, under pretence of softening the previous outrage, of stroking and soothing me into placidity, you stick a sly penknife under my ear!
原來你是假裝要緩和一下剛才的無禮態度，撫慰我使我心平氣和，而實際上你是在我耳朵下面狡猾地捅了一刀。
Go on. What fault do you find with me, pray?
講下去，請問你發現我有什么缺點？
I suppose I have all my limbs and all my features like any other man?
我想我像別人一樣有鼻子有眼睛的。
Mr. Rochester, allow me to disown my first answer. I intended no pointed repartee. It was only a blunder.
羅切斯特先生，請允許我收回我第一個回答。我并無妙語傷人的意思，只不過是失言而已。
Just so. I think so. And you shall be answerable for it. Criticise me. Does my forehead not please you?
就是這么回事，我想是這樣。而你要對此負責。你就挑我的毛病吧，我的前額使你不愉快嗎？
He lifted up the sable waves of hair which lay horizontally over his brow, and showed a solid enough mass of intellectual organs, but an abrupt deficiency where the suave sign of benevolence should have risen.
他抓起了橫貼在額前的波浪似的黑發，露出一大塊堅實的智力器官，但是卻缺乏那種本該有的仁慈敦厚的跡象。
Now, ma' am, am I a fool?
好吧，小姐，我是個傻瓜嗎？
Far from it, sir. You would, perhaps, think me rude if I inquired in return whether you are a philanthropist?
絕對不是這樣，先生。要是我反過來問你是不是一個慈善家，你也會認為我粗暴無禮嗎？
There again! Another stick of the penknife, when she pretended to pat my head.
你又來了！又捅了我一刀，一面還假裝拍拍我的頭。
And that is because I said I did not like the society of children and old women (low be it spoken! ).
那是因為我曾說我不喜歡同孩子和老人在一起（輕聲點兒！）。
No, young lady, I am not a general philanthropist, but I bear a conscience;
不，年輕小姐，我不是一個一般意義上的慈善家，不過我有一顆良心。
And he pointed to the prominences which are said to indicate that faculty, and which, fortunately for him, were sufficiently conspicuous, giving, indeed, a marked breadth to the upper part of his head.
于是他指了指據說是表示良心的突出的地方。幸虧對他來說，那地方很顯眼，使他腦袋的上半部有著引人注目的寬度。
"And, besides, I once had a kind of rude tenderness of heart.
“此外，我曾有過一種原始的柔情。
