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"Sit," he said, the bench is long enough for two.
“坐下吧，”他說，這條長凳夠兩個人坐的。
You don't hesitate to take a place at my side, do you? Is that wrong, Jane?
你不會是為要不要坐在我旁邊而猶豫不決吧？難道那錯了嗎，簡？
I answered him by assuming it.
我坐了下來，等于是對他的回答。
To refuse would, I felt, have been unwise.
我覺得謝絕是不明智的。
Now, my little friend, while the sun drinks the dew — while all the flowers in this old garden awake and expand,
好吧，我的小朋友，當太陽吸吮著雨露—當老園子里的花統統蘇醒并開放，
and the birds fetch their young ones' breakfast out of the Thornfield, and the early bees do their first spell of work —鳥兒飛越桑菲爾德為雛鳥送來早餐，早起的蜜蜂開始了它們第一陣勞作時 —
I'll put a case to you, which you must endeavour to suppose your own.
我要把這件事訴說給你聽，你務必要努力把它設想成自己的。
But first, look at me, and tell me you are at ease, and not fearing that I err in detaining you, or that you err in staying.
不過先看著我，告訴我你很平靜，并不擔心我把你留著是錯的，或者你呆著是不對的。
No, sir. I am content.
不，先生，我很情愿。
Well then, Jane, call to aid your fancy.
那么好吧，簡，發揮你的想象力吧。
Suppose you were no longer a girl well reared and disciplined, but a wild boy indulged from childhood upwards.
設想你不再是受過精心培養和教導的姑娘，而是從幼年時代起就是一個放縱任性的男孩。
Imagine yourself in a remote foreign land.
想象你身處遙遠的異國。
Conceive that you there commit a capital error, no matter of what nature or from what motives,
假設你在那里鑄成了大錯，不管其性質如何，出于什么動機，
but one whose consequences must follow you through life and taint all your existence.
它的后果殃及你一生，玷污你的生活。
Mind, I don't say a crime.
注意，我沒有說‘犯罪’。
I am not speaking of shedding of blood or any other guilty act, which might make the perpetrator amenable to the law.
不是說流血或是其他犯罪行為，那樣的話肇事者會被繩之以法。
My word is error.
我用的字是‘錯誤’。
