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Georgiana, when not unburdening her heart to me, spent most of her time in lying on the sofa,
喬治亞娜不向我吐露心聲的時候大都躺在沙發(fā)上，
fretting about the dulness of the house,
為家里的乏味而發(fā)愁，
and wishing over and over again that her aunt Gibson would send her an invitation up to town.
一再希望吉卜森舅媽會寄來邀請信，請她上城里去。
"It would be so much better," she said, "if she could only get out of the way for a month or two, till all was over."
她說要是她能避開一、兩個月，等一切都過去，那是再好不過了。
I did not ask what she meant by "all being over,"
我并沒有問她“一切都過去”的含意，
but I suppose she referred to the expected decease of her mother and the gloomy sequel of funeral rites.
但我猜想她指的是意料中母親的死，以及陰沉的葬禮余波。
Eliza generally took no more notice of her sister's indolence and complaints
伊麗莎對妹妹的懶散和怨言并不在意，
than if no such murmuring, lounging object had been before her.
仿佛她面前并不存在這個嘰嘰咕咕、無所事事的家伙。
One day, however, as she put away her account-book and unfolded her embroidery, she suddenly took her up thus.
不過有一天，她放好帳冊，打開繡花活計時，突然責(zé)備起她來。
Georgiana, a more vain and absurd animal than you was certainly never allowed to cumber the earth.
喬治亞娜，在地球上過日子的動物中，沒有比你更愛虛榮更荒唐了。
You had no right to be born, for you make no use of life.
你沒有權(quán)利生下來，因為你空耗了生命。
Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought,
你沒有象一個有理智的人該做的那樣，為自己生活，安分守己地生活，
you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
而是仰仗別的人力量來支撐你的軟弱。
If no one can be found willing to burden her or himself with such a fat, weak, puffy, useless thing,
要是找不到誰愿意背這個肥胖、嬌弱、自負、無用的包袱，
you cry out that you are ill-treated, neglected, miserable.
你會大叫，說人家虧待了你，冷落了你，使你痛苦不堪。
Then, too, existence for you must be a scene of continual change and excitement, or else the world is a dungeon.
而且，在你看來，生活該是變化無窮，激動非凡的一幕，不然世界就是監(jiān)獄。
You must be admired, you must be courted, you must be flattered
你要人家愛慕你，追求你，恭維你
you must have music, dancing, and society -- or you languish, you die away.
你得有音樂、舞會和社交活動--要不你就神衰力竭，一天天憔悴。
Have you no sense to devise a system which will make you independent of all efforts, and all wills, but your own?
難道你就沒有頭腦想出一套辦法來，不依賴別人的努力，別人的意志，而只靠你自己？
