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I did not need to be guided to the well-known room,
我不必由人領往那個熟識的房間，
to which I had so often been summoned for chastisement or reprimand in former days.
因為以前我總是被叫到那里挨罵和受罰。
I hastened before Bessie. I softly opened the door.
我趕在貝茜之前。我輕輕推開了門。
A shaded light stood on the table, for it was now getting dark.
桌子上點著一盞有罩的燈，天色已漸漸暗下來。
There was the great four-post bed with amber hangings as of old.
像往昔一樣，還是那張琥珀色帳幔罩著四根大床柱的床。
There the toilet-table, the armchair, and the footstool,
還是那張梳妝臺，那把安樂椅，那條腳凳。
at which I had a hundred times been sentenced to kneel, to ask pardon for offences by me uncommitted.
在這條腳凳上，我成百次地被罰跪，請求寬恕我并不存在的過錯。
I looked into a certain corner near, half-expecting to see the slim outline of a once dreaded switch which used to lurk there,
我窺視了一下附近的墻角，多少希望看到曾使我膽戰心驚的細長木條的影子，過去它總是潛伏在那兒，
waiting to leap out imp-like and lace my quivering palm or shrinking neck.
伺機象魔鬼一般竄出來，鞭撻我顫抖的手掌或往后縮的脖子。
I approached the bed. I opened the curtains and leant over the high-piled pillows.
我走近床榻。撩開帳幔，俯身向著高高疊起的枕頭。
Well did I remember Mrs. Reed's face, and I eagerly sought the familiar image.
我清楚地記得里德太太的面容，所以急切要尋找那熟悉的形象。
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion.
令人高興的是，時光消蝕了復仇的念頭，驅散了泛起的憤怒與厭惡之情。
I had left this woman in bitterness and hate,
過去我帶著苦澀與憎恨離開了這個女人，
and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings,
現在又回到了她身邊，僅僅是出于對她極度痛苦的同情，
and a strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries -- to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.
出于不念舊惡、握手言和的強烈愿望。
The well-known face was there: stern, relentless as ever.
那里是一張熟悉的面孔，依舊那樣嚴厲和無情。
there was that peculiar eye which nothing could melt, and the somewhat raised, imperious, despotic eyebrow.
難以打動的眼睛和微微揚起的專橫獨斷的眉毛。
How often had it lowered on me menace and hate!
曾有多少次俯視我，射來恫嚇和仇視的目光！
And how the recollection of childhood's terrors and sorrows revived as I traced its harsh line now!
此刻重睹那冷酷的線條，我童年時恐怖與悲傷的記憶又統統復活了！
