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"Oh, Adèle will go to school -- I have settled that already;
“噢，阿黛勒要上學去--我已作了安排。
nor do I mean to torment you with the hideous associations and recollections of Thornfield Hall -- this accursed place
我也無意拿桑菲爾德府可怕的聯想和回憶來折磨你--這是個可詛咒的地方
this tent of Achan -- this insolent vault,
這個亞干的營帳--這個傲慢的墓穴，
offering the ghastliness of living death to the light of the open sky
向著明亮開闊的天空，顯現出生不如死的鬼相，
this narrow stone hell, with its one real fiend, worse than a legion of such as we imagine.
這個狹窄的石頭地獄，一個真正的魔鬼，抵得上我們想象中的一大批。
Jane, you shall not stay here, nor will I.
簡，你不要呆在這兒，我也不呆。
I was wrong ever to bring you to Thornfield Hall, knowing as I did how it was haunted.
我明知道桑菲爾德府鬼影憧憧，卻把你帶到這兒來，這是我的過錯。
I charged them to conceal from you, before I ever saw you, all knowledge of the curse of the place;
我還沒有見你就已責令他們把這個地方的禍害都瞞著你，
merely because I feared Adèle never would have a governess to stay if she knew with what inmate she was housed,
只是因為我怕你一知道與誰同住在一個屋檐下，阿黛勒就找不到肯呆在這里的女教師了。
and my plans would not permit me to remove the maniac elsewhere
而我的計劃又不允許我把這瘋子遷往別的地方，
though I possess an old house, Ferndean Manor, even more retired and hidden than this,
盡管我擁有一個比這里更幽靜，更隱蔽的老房子，叫做芬丁莊園。
where I could have lodged her safely enough,
我是很可以讓她安安穩穩地住在那兒的，
had not a scruple about the unhealthiness of the situation, in the heart of a wood, made my conscience recoil from the arrangement.
要不是考慮到那里地處森林中心，環境很不衛生，我良心上羞于作這樣的安排。
Probably those damp walls would soon have eased me of her charge:
那里潮濕的墻壁可能會很快從我肩上卸下她這個包皮袱。
but to each villain his own vice; and mine is not a tendency to indirect assassination, even of what I most hate.
不過惡棍種種，惡行各有不同，我的并不在于間接謀殺，即便是對付對我恨之入骨的人。
