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But I wonder no wealthy nobleman or gentleman has taken a fancy to her.
不過我覺得很奇怪，為什么沒有富裕的貴族或紳士看中她。
Mr. Rochester, for instance. He is rich, is he not?
譬如羅切斯特先生，他很有錢，不是嗎，
Oh! yes. But you see there is a considerable difference in age.
唉！是呀，不過你瞧，年齡差別很大。
Mr. Rochester is nearly forty; she is but twenty-five.
羅切斯特先生已快四十，而她只有二十五歲。
What of that? More unequal matches are made every day.
那有什么關系？比這更不般配的婚姻每天都有呢。
True. Yet I should scarcely fancy Mr. Rochester would entertain an idea of the sort.
那是事實，但我不會認為羅切斯特先生會抱有那種想法。
But you eat nothing. You have scarcely tasted since you began tea.
可是你什么也沒吃，從開始吃茶點到現在，你幾乎沒有嘗過一口。
No. I am too thirsty to eat. Will you let me have another cup?
不，我太渴了，吃不下去。讓我再喝一杯行嗎？
I was about again to revert to the probability of a union between Mr. Rochester and the beautiful Blanche,
我正要重新將話題扯到羅切斯特先生和漂亮的布蘭奇小姐有沒有結合的可能性上，
but Adèle came in, and the conversation was turned into another channel.
阿黛勒進來了，談話也就轉到了別的方面。
When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got, looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings,
當我復又獨處時，我細想了聽到的情況，窺視了我的心靈，審察了我的思想和情感，
and endeavoured to bring back with a strict hand such as had been straying through imagination's boundless and trackless waste, into the safe fold of common sense.
努力用一雙嚴厲的手，把那些在無邊無際、無路可循的想象荒野上徘徊的一切，納入常識的可靠規范之中。
Arraigned at my own bar, memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night
我在自己的法庭上受到了傳訊。記憶出來作證，陳述了從昨夜以來我所懷的希望、意愿和情感，
— of the general state of mind in which I had indulged for nearly a fortnight past.
陳述了過去近兩周我所沉溺的一般思想狀態。
Reason having come forward and told, in her own quiet way a plain, unvarnished tale,
理智走到前面，不慌不忙地講了一個樸實無華的故事，
showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal.
揭示了我如何拒絕了現實，狂熱地吞下了理想。
I pronounced judgment to this effect.
我宣布了大致這樣的判決。
