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"She is far better as she is," concluded Adèle, after musing some time:
“那她現在這樣要好得多，”阿黛勒沉思片刻后斷言道。
"besides, she would get tired of living with only you in the moon.
“另外，在月亮上只跟你生活在一起，她會覺得厭煩的。
If I were mademoiselle, I would never consent to go with you."
要我是小姐，就決不會同意跟你去。”
"She has consented: she has pledged her word."
“她已經同意了，還許下了諾言。”
"But you can't get her there; there is no road to the moon: it is all air; and neither you nor she can fly."
“但是你不可能把她弄到那兒，沒有道路通月亮，全都是空氣。而且你與她都不會飛。”
"Adèle, look at that field." We were now outside Thornfield gates,
“阿黛勒，瞧那邊的田野，”這會兒我們已經出了桑菲爾德大門，
and bowling lightly along the smooth road to Millcote, where the dust was well laid by the thunderstorm,
沿著通往米爾科特平坦的道路，平穩而輕快地行駛著，暴風雨已經把塵土洗滌干凈，
and, where the low hedges and lofty timber trees on each side glistened green and rain-refreshed.
路兩旁低矮的樹籬和挺拔的大樹，雨后吐翠，分外新鮮。
"In that field, Adèle, I was walking late one evening about a fortnight since
“在那邊田野上，阿黛勒，兩星期前的一個晚上，我溜達得晚了，
the evening of the day you helped me to make hay in the orchard meadows;
就是你幫我在果園草地里曬干草的那天晚上。
and, as I was tired with raking swaths, I sat down to rest me on a stile;
我耙著干草，不覺累了，便在一個草堆上躺下來休息一會。
and there I took out a little book and a pencil, and began to write about a misfortune that befell me long ago,
當時我取出一本小書和一枝鉛筆，開始寫起很久以前落到我頭上的不幸，
and a wish I had for happy days to come: I was writing away very fast, though daylight was fading from the leaf,
和對未來幸福日子的向往。我寫得很快，但陽光從樹葉上漸漸隱去，
when something came up the path and stopped two yards off me. I looked at it.
這時一個東西順著小徑走來，在離我兩碼遠的地方停了下來。我看了看它。
It was a little thing with a veil of gossamer on its head.
原來是個頭上罩了薄紗的東西。
I beckoned it to come near me; it stood soon at my knee.
我招呼它走近我，它很快就站到了我的膝頭上。
I never spoke to it, and it never spoke to me, in words;
我沒有同它說話，它也沒有同我說話，
but I read its eyes, and it read mine; and our speechless colloquy was to this effect.
我猜透它的眼神，它也猜透了我的眼神。我們之間無聲的談話大致的意思是這樣。
