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What tale do you like best to hear?
你最喜歡聽什么故事？
Oh, I have not much choice!
呵，我沒有多大選擇的余地。
They generally run on the same theme -- courtship, and promise to end in the same catastrophe -- marriage.
它們一般奏的都是同一主題 -- 求婚，而且都預示著同一災難性的結局 -- 結婚。
And do you like that monotonous theme?
你喜歡這單調的主題嗎？
Positively, I don't care about it. It is nothing to me.
我一點也不在乎，這與我無關。
Nothing to you? When a lady, young and full of life and health,
與你無關？有這樣一位小姐，她既年輕活潑健康，
charming with beauty and endowed with the gifts of rank and fortune, sits and smiles in the eyes of a gentleman you...
又美麗動人，而且財富和地位與生俱來，坐在一位紳士的面前，笑容可掬，而你...
I what? You know -- and perhaps think well of.
我怎么樣？你認識 -- 而且也許還有好感。
I don't know the gentlemen here.
我并不了解這兒的先生們。
I have scarcely interchanged a syllable with one of them.
我幾乎同誰都沒有說過一句話。
And as to thinking well of them, I consider some respectable, and stately, and middle-aged,
至于對他們有沒有好感，我認為有幾位高雅莊重，已到中年；
and others young, dashing, handsome, and lively.
其余幾位年青、瀟灑、漂亮、活躍。
But certainly they are all at liberty to be the recipients of whose smiles they please,
當然他們有充分自由，愛接受誰的笑就接受誰的笑，
without my feeling disposed to consider the transaction of any moment to me.
我不必把感情介入進去，考慮這件事對我是否至關重要。
You don't know the gentlemen here?
你不了解這兒的先生們嗎？
You have not exchanged a syllable with one of them?
你沒有同誰說過一句話？
Will you say that of the master of the house!
你對屋里的主人也這么說嗎？
He is not at home. A profound remark! A most ingenious quibble!
他不在家。講得多玄妙！多么高明的詭辯！
He went to Millcote this morning, and will be back here tonight or tomorrow.
今天早上他上米爾科特去了，要到夜里或者明天早上才回來。
