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"No, no, sir! think of other subjects, and speak of other things, and in another strain.
“不，不，先生，想想別的話題，講講別的事情，換種口氣談談吧。
Don't address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain, Quakerish governess."
不要當我美人似的同我說話，我不過是你普普通通，象貴格會教徒一樣的家庭教師。”
"You are a beauty in my eyes, and a beauty just after the desire of my heart, delicate and aerial."
“在我眼里，你是個美人。一位心向往之的美人，嬌美而空靈。”
"Puny and insignificant, you mean. You are dreaming, sir, or you are sneering. For God's sake don't be ironical!"
“你的意思是瘦小而無足輕重吧。你在做夢呢，先生，不然就是有意取笑。看在老天面上，別挖苦人了！”
"I will make the world acknowledge you a beauty, too," he went on,
“我還要全世界都承認，你是個美人，”他繼續說，
while I really became uneasy at the strain he had adopted,
而我確實對他說話的口氣感到不安，
because I felt he was either deluding himself or trying to delude me.
覺得他要不是自欺欺人，就是存心騙我。
"I will attire my Jane in satin and lace, and she shall have roses in her hair;
“我要讓我的簡愛穿上緞子和花邊衣服，頭發上插玫瑰花，
and I will cover the head I love best with a priceless veil."
我還要在我最喜愛的頭上，罩上無價的面紗。”
"And then you won't know me, sir; and I shall not be your Jane Eyre any longer,
“那你就不認識我了，先生，我不再是你的簡愛，
but an ape in a harlequin's jacket -- a jay in borrowed plumes.
而是穿了丑角衣裝的猴子--一只披了別人羽毛的八哥。
I would as soon see you, Mr. Rochester, tricked out in stage-trappings, as myself clad in a court-lady's robe;
那樣倒不如看你羅切斯特先生，一身戲裝打扮，而我自己則穿上宮庭貴婦的長袍。
and I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me."
先生，我并沒有說你漂亮，盡管我非常愛你，太愛你了，所以不愿吹捧你。你就別捧我了。”
