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Chapter 21
第二十一章
Presentiments are strange things!
預感真是個怪物！
And so are sympathies, and so are signs,
還有感應，還有征兆，都無不如此，
and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.
三者合一構(gòu)成了人類至今無法索解的秘密。
I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because I have had strange ones of my own.
我平生從未譏笑過預感，因為我自己也有過這種奇怪的經(jīng)歷。
Sympathies, I believe, exist
我相信心靈感應是存在的
(for instance, between far-distant, long-absent, wholly estranged relatives asserting,
（例如在關(guān)系甚遠、久不往來、完全生疏的親戚之間，
notwithstanding their alienation, the unity of the source to which each traces his origin)
盡管彼此疏遠，但都認不有著同一個淵源），
whose workings baffle mortal comprehension.
心靈感應究竟如何產(chǎn)生，卻不是人類所能理解的。
And signs, for aught we know, may be but the sympathies of Nature with man.
至于征兆，也許不過是自然與人的感應。
When I was a little girl, only six years old,
我還只是一個六歲的小女孩時，
I one night heard Bessie Leaven say to Martha Abbot that she had been dreaming about a little child.
一天夜里聽見貝茜·利文對馬撒·艾博特說，她夢見了一個小孩。
And that to dream of children was a sure sign of trouble, either to one's self or one 's kin.
而夢見孩子無論對自己還是對親人，肯定是不祥之兆。
The saying might have worn out of my memory, had not a circumstance immediately followed which served indelibly to fix it there.
要不是緊接著發(fā)生的一件事給我留下了難以磨滅的印象，這種說法也許早就淡忘了。
The next day Bessie was sent for home to the deathbed of her little sister.
第二天貝茜被叫回家去看她咽氣的小妹妹。
Of late I had often recalled this saying and this incident,
近來，我常常憶起這種說法和這件事情。
for during the past week scarcely a night had gone over my couch that had not brought with it a dream of an infant,
因為上個星期，我?guī)缀趺客矶荚诖采蠅粢娨粋€嬰孩，
which I sometimes hushed in my arms, sometimes dandled on my knee,
有時抱在懷里哄它安靜下來；有時放在膝頭擺弄；
sometimes watched playing with daisies on a lawn, or again, dabbling its hands in running water.
有時看著它在草地上摸弄雛菊，或者伸手在流水中戲水。
It was a wailing child this night, and a laughing one the next.
一晚是個哭著的孩子，另一晚是個笑著的孩子。
Now it nestled close to me, and now it ran from me.
一會兒它緊偎著我，一會又逃得遠遠的。
