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I laughed at him as he said this. "I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
我笑他這么說話。“我不是天使，”我斷言，“就是到死也不會是。我是我自己。
Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me
羅切斯特先生，你不該在我身上指望或強求天上才有的東西。
for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate."
你不會得到的，就像我無法從你那兒得到一樣，而且我是一點也不指望的。”
"What do you anticipate of me?"
“那你指望我什么呢？”
"For a little while you will perhaps be as you are now, a very little while;
“在短期內，你也許會同現在一樣--很短的時期，
and then you will turn cool; and then you will be capricious;
隨后你會冷靜下來，你會反復無常，
and then you will be stern, and I shall have much ado to please you:
又會嚴厲起來，而我得費盡心機，使你高興，
but when you get well used to me, you will perhaps like me again, like me, I say, not love me.
不過等你完全同我習慣了，你也許又會喜歡我--我說喜歡我，而不是愛我。
I suppose your love will effervesce in six months, or less.
我猜想六個月后、或者更短一些，你的愛情就會化為泡影。
I have observed in books written by men, that period assigned as the farthest to which a husband's ardour extends.
在由男人撰寫的書中，我注意到，那是一個丈夫的熱情所能保持的最長時期。
Yet, after all, as a friend and companion, I hope never to become quite distasteful to my dear master."
不過畢竟作為朋友和伙伴，我希望決不要太討我親愛主人的嫌。”
"Distasteful! and like you again! I think I shall like you again, and yet again
“討厭？又會喜歡你呢！我想我會一而再，再而三地喜歡你。
and I will make you confess I do not only like, but love you -- with truth, fervour, constancy."
我會讓你承認，我不僅喜歡你，而且愛你--真摯、熱情、始終如一。”
