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I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester.
我曾告訴過你，讀者，我意識到自己愛上了羅切斯特先生。
I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.
如今我不可能不管他，僅僅因為發現他不再注意我了。
Because I might pass hours in his presence, and he would never once turn his eyes in my direction.
僅僅因為我在他面前度過幾小時，而他朝我瞟都不瞟一眼。
Because I saw all his attentions appropriated by a great lady,
僅僅因為我看到他的全部注意力被一位貴婦人所吸引，
who scorned to touch me with the hem of her robes as she passed,
而這位貴婦路過我身邊時連長袍的邊都不屑碰我一下，
who, if ever her dark and imperious eye fell on me by chance,
陰沉專橫的目光碰巧落在我身上時
would withdraw it instantly as from an object too mean to merit observation.
會立即轉移，仿佛我太卑微而不值一顧。
I could not unlove him, because I felt sure he would soon marry this very lady.
我不可能不愛他，僅僅因為斷定他很快會娶這位小姐。
Because I read daily in her a proud security in his intentions respecting her.
僅僅因為我每天覺察到，她高傲地覺得自己在他心目中的地位己經非常穩固。
Because I witnessed hourly in him a style of courtship which, if careless and choosing rather to be sought than to seek,
僅僅因為我時時刻刻看著他的求婚方式盡管漫不經心，且又表現出寧愿被人追求而不追求別人，
was yet, in its very carelessness, captivating, and in its very pride, irresistible.
卻由于隨意而顯得富有魅力，由于傲慢而愈是不可抗拒。
There was nothing to cool or banish love in these circumstances, though much to create despair.
這種情況雖然很可能造成灰心失望，但絲毫不會使愛情冷卻或消失。
Much too, you will think, reader, to engender jealousy.
讀者呀，要是處于我這樣地位的女人，
If a woman, in my position, could presume to be jealous of a woman in Miss Ingram's.
敢于妒嫉像英格拉姆小姐這樣地位的女人的話，你會認為這件事很可以引起妒嫉。
But I was not jealous, or very rarely. The nature of the pain I suffered could not be explained by that word.
但是我不嫉妒，或者說幾乎不會。我所經受的痛苦是無法用那兩個字來解釋的。
Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy.
英格拉姆小姐不值得妒嫉。
She was too inferior to excite the feeling.
她太低下了，激不起我那種感情。
Pardon the seeming paradox; I mean what I say.
請原諒這表面的評論：我是表里一致的。
She was very showy, but she was not genuine.
她好賣弄、但并不真誠。
She had a fine person, many brilliant attainments, but her mind was poor, her heart barren by nature.
她風度很好，而又多才多藝，但頭腦浮淺，心靈天生貧瘠。
Nothing bloomed spontaneously on that soil.
在那片土地上沒有花朵會自動開放。
No unforced natural fruit delighted by its freshness.
沒有哪種不需外力而自然結出的果實會喜歡這種新土。
