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"It was with me; and I did not like it.
“我是曾有這個想法，但我并不喜歡這么做。
It was a grovelling fashion of existence: I should never like to return to it.
這是一種茍旦偷生的生活，我決不想走回頭路了。
Hiring a mistress is the next worse thing to buying a slave:
雇一個情婦之壞僅次于買一個奴隸，
both are often by nature, and always by position, inferior: and to live familiarly with inferiors is degrading.
兩者就本性和地位而言都是低下的，同下人廝混是墮落，
I now hate the recollection of the time I passed with Céline, Giacinta, and Clara."
現在我討厭回憶同塞莉納、嘉辛塔和克萊拉一起的日子?！?/div>
I felt the truth of these words; and I drew from them the certain inference,
我覺得這番話很真實，并從中作出了推斷：
that if I were so far to forget myself and all the teaching that had ever been instilled into me,
要是我忘了自己，忘了向來所受的教導，
as -- under any pretext -- with any justification -- through any temptation
在任何借口，任何理由和任何誘惑之下
to become the successor of these poor girls,
重蹈這些可憐姑娘的復轍，
he would one day regard me with the same feeling which now in his mind desecrated their memory.
有朝一日，他會以此刻回憶起來時褻瀆她們的同樣心情，來對待我。
I did not give utterance to this conviction: it was enough to feel it.
我并沒有把這個想法說出來，感受到了也就夠了。
I impressed it on my heart, that it might remain there to serve me as aid in the time of trial.
我把它印在心坎里，讓它在考驗的時刻對我有所幫助。
