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"'This life,' said I at last, 'is hell: this is the air -- those are the sounds of the bottomless pit!
“‘這種生活，’我終于說，‘是地獄！這就是無底深淵里的空氣和聲音！
I have a right to deliver myself from it if I can.
要是我能夠，我有權解脫自己。
The sufferings of this mortal state will leave me with the heavy flesh that now cumbers my soul.
人世的痛苦連同拖累我靈魂的沉重肉體會離我而去。
Of the fanatic's burning eternity I have no fear:
對狂熱者信奉的地獄之火，我并不害怕。
there is not a future state worse than this present one -- let me break away, and go home to God!'"
將來的狀況不會比現在的更糟--讓我擺脫，回到上帝那兒去吧！’”
"I said this whilst I knelt down at, and unlocked a trunk which contained a brace of loaded pistols:
“我一面說，一面蹲在一只箱子旁邊，把鎖打開，箱子里放著一對上了子彈的手槍。
I mean to shoot myself. I only entertained the intention for a moment;
我想開槍自殺。但這一念頭只轉了一會兒，
for, not being insane, the crisis of exquisite and unalloyed despair, which had originated the wish and design of self-destruction, was past in a second."
由于我沒有發瘋，那種激起自殺念頭并使我萬念俱灰的危機，剎那間過去了。”
"A wind fresh from Europe blew over the ocean and rushed through the open casement:
“剛剛來自歐洲的風吹過洋面，穿過寬敞的窗戶。
the storm broke, streamed, thundered, blazed, and the air grew pure.
暴風雨到來了，大雨滂沱，雷鳴電閃，空氣變得清新了。
I then framed and fixed a resolution.
隨后我設想并下定了決心。
While I walked under the dripping orange-trees of my wet garden,
我在濕漉漉的園子里水珠滴嗒的桔子樹下，
and amongst its drenched pomegranates and pine-apples,
在濕透的石榴和菠蘿樹中間漫步，
and while the refulgent dawn of the tropics kindled round me -- I reasoned thus, Jane
周圍燃起了燦爛的熱帶黎明--于是我思考著，簡。
and now listen; for it was true Wisdom that consoled me in that hour, and showed me the right path to follow."
噢，聽著，在那一時刻真正的智慧撫慰了我，向我指明了正確的道路。”
