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SOME time in the afternoon I raised my head,
下午某個時候，我抬起頭來，
and looking round and seeing the western sun gilding the sign of its decline on the wall, I asked, "What am I to do?"
向四周瞧了瞧，看見西沉的太陽正在墻上涂上金色的落日印記，我問道，“我該怎么辦？”
But the answer my mind gave -- "Leave Thornfield at once" -- was so prompt, so dread, that I stopped my ears.
我心靈的回答--“立即離開桑菲爾德”--是那么及時，又那么可怕，我立即捂住了耳朵。
I said I could not bear such words now.
我說，這些話我現在可受不了。
"That I am not Edward Rochester's bride is the least part of my woe," I alleged:
“我不當愛德華·羅切斯特先生的新娘，是我痛苦中最小的一部份，”我斷言，
"that I have wakened out of most glorious dreams, and found them all void and vain, is a horror I could bear and master;
“我從一場美夢中醒來，發現全是竹籃打水一場空，這種恐懼我既能忍受，也能克服。
but that I must leave him decidedly, instantly, entirely, is intolerable. I cannot do it."
不過要我義無反顧地馬上離他而去卻讓我受不了，我不能這么做。”
But, then, a voice within me averred that I could do it and foretold that I should do it.
但是，我內心的另一個聲音卻認為我能這樣做，而且預言我應當這么做。
I wrestled with my own resolution:
我斟酌著這個決定，
I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me;
希望自己軟弱些，以躲避已經為我鋪下的可怕的痛苦道路。
and Conscience, turned tyrant, held Passion by the throat, told her tauntingly,
而良心己變成暴君，抓住激情的喉嚨，嘲弄地告訴她，
she had yet but dipped her dainty foot in the slough,
她那美麗的腳已經陷入了泥沼，
and swore that with that arm of iron he would thrust her down to unsounded depths of agony.
還發誓要用鐵臂把她推入深不可測的痛苦深淵。
