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A strange wish, Mrs. Reed, why do you hate her so?
一個奇怪的愿望，里德太太，你為什么竟會這么恨她呢？
I had a dislike to her mother always, for she was my husband's only sister, and a great favourite with him.
我一直討厭她母親，因為她是我丈夫唯一的妹妹，很討他喜歡。
He opposed the family's disowning her when she made her low marriage.
家里因為她下嫁而同她脫離了關系，他堅決反對。
And when news came of her death, he wept like a simpleton.
她的死訊傳來時，他哭得像個傻瓜。
He would send for the baby, though I entreated him rather to put it out to nurse and pay for its maintenance.
他要把孩子去領來，盡管我求他還是送出去讓人喂養，付養育費好。
I hated it the first time I set my eyes on it -- a sickly, whining, pining thing!
我頭一回見了便討厭她--完全是個哭哭啼啼身體有病的東西！
It would wail in its cradle all night long -- not screaming heartily like any other child, but whimpering and moaning.
她會在搖籃里整夜哭個不停--不像別的孩子那樣放開喉嚨大哭，而是咿咿呀呀，哼哼唧唧。
Reed pitied it, and he used to nurse it and notice it as if it had been his own.
里德憐她，親自喂她，仿佛自己孩子似地關心她。
More, indeed, than he ever noticed his own at that age.
說實在，自己的孩子在那個年紀他還沒有那么花心思呢。
He would try to make my children friendly to the little beggar.
他要我的孩子跟這個小討飯友好相處。
The darlings could not bear it, and he was angry with them when they showed their dislike.
寶貝們受不了，露出對她的討厭，里德為此非常生氣。
In his last illness, he had it brought continually to his bedside.
他病重的日子，還不住地叫人把她抱到他床邊，
And but an hour before he died, he bound me by vow to keep the creature.
而臨終前一小時讓我立誓撫養她。
I would as soon have been charged with a pauper brat out of a workhouse, but he was weak, naturally weak.
我情愿養育一個從濟貧院里出來的小叫化子。可是他軟弱，生性軟弱。
John does not at all resemble his father, and I am glad of it.
約翰一點不像他父親，我為此感到高興。
John is like me and like my brothers.
約翰像我，像我的兄弟們。
