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That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life;
世上還不曾有過比簡·愛更大的傻瓜，
that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.
還沒有一個更異想天開的白癡，那么輕信甜蜜的謊言、把毒藥當作美酒吞下。
"Yoou," I said, "a favourite with Mr. Rochester?
"你，"我說，"得寵于羅切斯特先生嗎？
You gifted with the power of pleasing him?
你有討他歡心的天賦嗎？
You of importance to him in any way?
你有哪一點對他來說舉足輕重嗎？
Go! Your folly sickens me.
滾開！你的愚蠢讓我厭煩。
And you have derived pleasure from occasional tokens of preference
而你卻因為人家偶爾表示了喜歡便樂滋滋的，殊不知這是一個出身名門的紳士，
equivocal tokens shown by a gentleman of family and a man of the world to a dependent and a novice.
一個精于世故的人對一個下屬、一個初出毛廬的人所作的曖昧表示。
How dared you? Poor stupid dupe!
你好大的膽子，愚蠢得可憐的受騙者。
Could not even self-interest make you wiser?
難道想到自身的利益都不能讓你聰明些嗎？
You repeated to yourself this morning the brief scene of last night?
今天早上你反復叨念著昨夜的短暫情景啦？
Cover your face and be ashamed!
蒙起你的臉，感到羞愧吧。
He said something in praise of your eyes, did he?
他說了幾句稱贊你眼晴的話，是嗎？
Blind puppy! Open their bleared lids and look on your own accursed senselessness!
盲目的自命不凡者，睜開那雙模糊的眼睛，瞧瞧你自己該死的糊涂勁兒吧！
It does good to no woman to be flattered by her superior, who cannot possibly intend to marry her.
受到無意與她結(jié)婚的上司的恭維，對隨便哪個女人來說都沒有好處。
And it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them,
愛情之火悄悄地在內(nèi)心點燃，得不到回報，
which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it.
不為對方所知，必定會吞沒煽起愛的生命。
And, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.
要是被發(fā)現(xiàn)了，得到了回報，必定猶如鬼火，將愛引入泥濘的荒地而不能自拔。對所有的女人來說，那簡直是發(fā)瘋。
Listen, then, Jane Eyre, to your sentence, tomorrow, place the glass before you,
那么，簡·愛，聽著對你的判決：明天，把鏡子放在你面前，
and draw in chalk your own picture, faithfully, without softening one defect;
用粉筆繪出你自己的畫像，要照實畫，
omit no harsh line, smooth away no displeasing irregularity;
不要淡化你的缺陷，不要省略粗糙的線條，不要抹去令人討厭的不勻稱的地方，
write under it, 'Portrait of a Governess, disconnected, poor, and plain.'
并在畫像下面書上‘孤苦無依、相貌平庸的家庭女教師肖像'。
