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"Jane, I will not trouble you with abominable details: some strong words shall express what I have to say.
“簡，我不想用討厭的細節(jié)來打擾你了，我要說的話可以用幾句激烈的話來表達。
I lived with that woman upstairs four years, and before that time she had tried me indeed:
我跟那個女人在樓上住了四年，在那之前她折磨得我夠嗆。
her character ripened and developed with frightful rapidity;
她的性格成熟了，并可怕地急劇發(fā)展；
her vices sprang up fast and rank: they were so strong, only cruelty could check them, and I would not use cruelty.
她的劣跡層出不窮，而且那么嚴重，只有使用殘暴的手段才能加以制止，而我又不忍心，
What a pigmy intellect she had, and what giant propensities!
她的智力那么弱，而她的沖動又何等之強呵！
How fearful were the curses those propensities entailed on me!
那些沖動給我造成了多么可怕的災禍！
Bertha Mason, the true daughter of an infamous mother,
伯莎·梅森--一個聲名狼藉的母親的真正的女兒
dragged me through all the hideous and degrading agonies which must attend a man bound to a wife at once intemperate and unchaste.
把我拉進了墮落駭人的痛苦深淵，一個男人同一個既放縱又鄙俗的妻子結合，這必定是在劫難逃的。
My brother in the interval was dead, and at the end of the four years my father died too.
“在這期間我的哥哥死了，四年之后我父親相繼去世。
I was rich enough now -- yet poor to hideous indigence:
從此我夠富有的了--同時又窮得可怕。
a nature the most gross, impure, depraved I ever saw, was associated with mine,
我所見過的最粗俗、最骯臟、最下賤的屬性同我聯(lián)系在一起，
and called by the law and by society a part of me.
被法律和社會稱作我的一部分。
And I could not rid myself of it by any legal proceedings:
而我開法通過任何法律程序加以擺脫，
for the doctors now discovered that my wife was mad -- her excesses had prematurely developed the germs of insanity.
因為這時醫(yī)生們發(fā)覺我的妻子瘋了--她的放肆已經使發(fā)瘋的種子早熟。
Jane, you don't like my narrative; you look almost sick -- shall I defer the rest to another day?"
簡，你不喜歡我的敘述，你看上去幾乎很厭惡--其余的話是不是改日再談？”
