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This gave him an odd look, such as I never remembered to have seen.
這使他露出一付我從未見過的怪相。
For a handsome and not an unamiable-looking man, he repelled me exceedingly.
這樣一個漂亮而且看來也并非不和藹的男人，卻使我極為討厭。
There was no power in that smooth-skinned face of a full oval shape,
在那光滑的鵝蛋形臉蛋上沒有魄力，
no firmness in that aquiline nose and small cherry mouth.
在那個鷹鉤鼻和那張櫻桃小口上缺少堅毅。
There was no thought on the low, even forehead, no command in that blank, brown eye.
在那低平的額頭上沒有思想；在那空洞的褐色眼睛里沒有控制力。
As I sat in my usual nook, and looked at him with the light of the girandoles on the mantelpiece beaming full over him--
我坐在往常的角落里，打量著他，借著壁爐上把他渾身照得透亮的枝形燭架上的光--
for he occupied an arm-chair drawn close to the fire, and kept shrinking still nearer,
因為他坐在靠近火爐的一把安樂椅上，還不住地挨近爐火，
as if he were cold, I compared him with Mr. Rochester.
仿佛怕冷似的--我把他同羅切斯特先生作了比較。
I think (with deference be it spoken) the contrast could not be much greater between a sleek gander and a fierce falcon,
我想（但愿我這么說并無不敬）一只光滑的雄鵝和一只兇猛的獵鷹，
between a meek sheep and the rough-coated keen-eyed dog, its guardian.
一頭馴服的綿羊和看守著它毛粗眼尖的獵狗之間的反差，也不見得比他們兩者之間大。
He had spoken of Mr. Rochester as an old friend.
他說羅切斯特先生是他的故友。
A curious friendship theirs must have been — a pointed illustration, indeed, of the old adage that "extremes meet."
那必定是種奇怪的友誼，是古訓"相反相成"的一個極好說明。
Two or three of the gentlemen sat near him, and I caught at times scraps of their conversation across the room.
兩三位男士坐在他旁邊，我聽到了他們在房間另一頭談話的片斷。
At first I could not make much sense of what I heard;
起初我聽不大懂，因為路易莎。
for the discourse of Louisa Eshton and Mary Ingram, who sat nearer to me,
埃希頓和瑪麗·英格拉姆離我更近，
confused the fragmentary sentences that reached me at intervals.
她們的談話使斷斷續續到我耳邊的片言只語模糊不清。
These last were discussing the stranger.
路易莎和瑪麗兩人在談論著陌生人。
They both called him "a beautiful man."
都稱他為"美男子"。
Louisa said he was "a love of a creature," and she "adored him;"
路易莎說他是位"可愛的家伙"而且"喜歡他"，
and Mary instanced his "pretty little mouth, and nice nose," as her ideal of the charming.
瑪麗列舉了"他的小嘴巴和漂亮鼻子"，認為是她心目中理想的魅力所在。
"And what a sweet-tempered forehead he has!" cried Louisa.
"塑造得多好的額角！"路易莎叫道。
