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"Don't talk any more of those days, sir," I interrupted, furtively dashing away some tears from my eyes;
“別再談那些日子了，先生，”我打斷了他，偷偷地抹去了幾滴眼淚。
his language was torture to me; for I knew what I must do -- and do soon
他的話對我無異于折磨，因為我知道自己該做什么--并且馬上做，
and all these reminiscences, and these revelations of his feelings only made my work more difficult.
所有這一切回憶和他情感的袒露只會使我更加為難。
"No, Jane," he returned: "what necessity is there to dwell on the Past,
“不，簡，”他回答說，“當現在已那么肯定，
when the Present is so much surer -- the Future so much brighter?"
未來又那么光明的時候，談論過去又有什么必要呢?”
I shuddered to hear the infatuated assertion.
我一聽這番神魂顛倒的話，打了個寒噤。
"You see now how the case stands -- do you not?" he continued.
“你明白是怎么回事--是不是？”他繼續說，
"After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude,
“在一半是難以言傳的痛苦和一半是意氣消沉的孤獨中，
I have for the first time found what I can truly love -- I have found you.
度過了我的少年和成年時期后，我第一次發現我可以真正愛的東西--我找到了你。
You are my sympathy -- my better self -- my good angel.
你是我的共鳴體--我的更好的一半--我的好天使
I am bound to you with a strong attachment.
我與你緊緊地依戀著。
I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart;
我認為你很出色，有天份，很可愛，一種熱烈而莊嚴的激情隱藏在我內心。
it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wraps my existence about you,
這種激情向著你，把你吸引到我的中心和生命的春天，把我的存在包裹在你的周圍，
and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.
并且燃起純潔、猛烈的火焰，把你我熔合在一起。”
