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I sit in the shade — if any shade there be in this brilliantly-lit apartment. The window-curtain half hides me.
要是這個燈火輝煌的房間還有什么幽暗所在的話，那我就坐在暗處。窗簾半掩著我。
Again the arch yawns; they come.
拱門的帳幔再次撩起，他們進來了。
The collective appearance of the gentlemen, like that of the ladies, is very imposing.
男士們一起登場時的情景，同女賓們一樣氣派非凡。
They are all costumed in black;
他們齊煞煞的都著黑色服裝。
Most of them are tall, some young.
多數身材高大，有的十分年輕。
Henry and Frederick Lynn are very dashing sparks indeed.
亨利·林恩和弗雷德里克·林恩確實精神抖擻，生氣勃勃。
And Colonel Dent is a fine soldierly man.
登特上校一身英武之氣。
Mr. Eshton, the magistrate of the district, is gentleman-like.
地方法官埃希頓先生一付紳士派頭。
His hair is quite white, his eyebrows and whiskers still dark,
頭發相當白，眉毛和絡腮胡子卻依然烏黑，
which gives him something of the appearance of a "pere noble de theatre."
使他有幾分"佩雷高尚德劇院"。
Lord Ingram, like his sisters, is very tall.
英格拉姆勛爵同他的姐妹們一樣高挑個子。
Like them, also, he is handsome, but he shares Mary's apathetic and listless look.
同她們一樣漂亮，但有著瑪麗那種冷漠、倦怠的神色。
He seems to have more length of limb than vivacity of blood or vigour of brain.
他似乎四肢瘦長有余，血氣或腦力不足。
And where is Mr. Rochester? He comes in last.
那么，羅切斯特先生在哪兒呢？他最后一個進來。
I am not looking at the arch, yet I see him enter.
雖然我沒有朝拱門張望，但看到他進來了。
I try to concentrate my attention on those netting-needles, on the meshes of the purse I am forming
我竭力要把注意力集中在鉤針上，集中在編織出來的手提包網眼上
I wish to think only of the work I have in my hands, to see only the silver beads and silk threads that lie in my lap.
真希望自己只想手頭的活計，只看見膝上的銀珠和絲線。
Whereas, I distinctly behold his figure, and I inevitably recall the moment when I last saw it.
而我卻清清楚楚地看到了他的身影，禁不住憶起了上次見到這身影時的情景。
Just after I had rendered him, what he deemed, an essential service, and he, holding my hand, and looking down on my face,
那是在他所說的幫了他大忙以后，他拉住我的手，低首看著我的臉，細細端詳著我，
surveyed me with eyes that revealed a heart full and eager to overflow, in whose emotions I had a part.
眼神里露出一種千言萬語急于一吐為快的心情，而我也有同感。
How near had I approached him at that moment!
在那一瞬間我同他靠得多近！
What had occurred since, calculated to change his and my relative positions?
自那以后，什么事情刻意使他和我的地位起了變化呢？
Yet now, how distant, how far estranged we were!
而現在，我們之間的關系變得多么疏遠，多么陌生呀！
So far estranged, that I did not expect him to come and speak to me.
我們己那么隔膜，因此我并不指望他過來同我說話。
I did not wonder, when, without looking at me,
我也并不感到詫異，他居然連看都不看我一眼
he took a seat at the other side of the room, and began conversing with some of the ladies.
就在房間另一頭坐下，開始同一些女士們交談起來。
