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In other people's presence I was, as formerly, deferential and quiet;
別人在場的時候，我照例顯得恭敬文雅，
any other line of conduct being uncalled for: it was only in the evening conferences I thus thwarted and afflicted him.
其他舉動都沒有必要。只有在晚上交談時，才那么沖撞他，折磨他。
He continued to send for me punctually the moment the clock struck seven;
他仍然那么鐘一敲七點便準時把我叫去，
though when I appeared before him now, he had no such honeyed terms as "love" and "darling" on his lips:
不過在他跟前時，他不再滿嘴“親愛的”、“惡毒的精靈”、“寶貝兒”那樣的甜蜜稱呼了。
the best words at my service were "provoking puppet," "malicious elf," "sprite," "changeling," etc.
用在我身上最好的字眼是“令人惱火的木偶”、“小妖精”、“小傻瓜”等等。
For caresses, too, I now got grimaces; for a pressure of the hand, a pinch on the arm;
如今我得到的不是撫慰，而是鬼臉；不是緊緊握手，而是擰一下胳膊；
for a kiss on the cheek, a severe tweak of the ear.
不是吻一下臉頰，而是使勁拉拉耳朵。
It was all right: at present I decidedly preferred these fierce favours to anything more tender.
這倒不錯。眼下我確實更喜歡這種粗野的寵愛，而不喜歡什么溫柔的表露。
Mrs. Fairfax, I saw, approved me: her anxiety on my account vanished; therefore I was certain I did well.
我發現費爾法克斯太太也贊成，而且已不再為我擔憂了，因此我確信自己做得很對。
Meantime, Mr. Rochester affirmed I was wearing him to skin and bone,
與此同時，羅切斯特先生卻口口聲聲說我把他折磨得皮包皮骨頭了，
and threatened awful vengeance for my present conduct at some period fast coming.
并威脅在即將到來的某個時期，對我現在的行為狠狠報復。
I laughed in my sleeve at his menaces.
他的恫嚇，我暗自覺得好笑。
"I can keep you in reasonable check now," I reflected;
“現在我可以讓你受到合乎情理的約束，”我思忖道，
"and I don't doubt to be able to do it hereafter: if one expedient loses its virtue, another must be devised."
“我并不懷疑今后還能這么做，要是一種辦法失效了，那就得另外再想出一種來。”
Yet after all my task was not an easy one; often I would rather have pleased than teased him.
然而，我的擔子畢竟并不輕松，我總是情愿討他喜歡而不是捉弄他。
My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven.
我的未婚夫正成為我的整個世界，不僅是整個世界，而且幾乎成了我進入天堂的希望。
He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun.
他把我和一切宗教觀念隔開，猶如日蝕把人類和太陽隔開一樣。
I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.
在那些日子里，我把上帝的造物當作了偶像，并因為他，而看不見上帝了。
