評論
打印
This is a gentle delineation, is it not, reader?
這是一幅線條柔和的寫生，是不是，讀者？
Yet he whom it describes scarcely impressed one with the idea of a gentle,
然而畫中的人給人的印象卻并不屬于那種溫和、
a yielding, an impressible, or even of a placid nature.
忍讓、容易打動甚至十分平靜的個性。
Quiescent as he now sat, there was something about his nostril, his mouth, his brow, which, to my perceptions,
雖然他此刻默默地坐著，但我覺察到，他的鼻孔、嘴巴、額頭有著某種東西，
indicated elements within either restless, or hard, or eager.
表現出內心的不安、冷酷或急切。
He did not speak to me one word, nor even direct to me one glance, till his sisters returned.
他的妹妹們回來之前、他還沒有同我說過一個字，或者朝我看過一眼。
Diana, as she passed in and out, in the course of preparing tea, brought me a little cake, baked on the top of the oven.
黛安娜走進走出，準備著茶點，給我帶來了一塊在爐頂上烤著的小餅。
"Eat that now," she said: "you must be hungry. Hannah says you have had nothing but some gruel since breakfast."
“這會兒就把它吃掉吧，”她說。“你準餓了。漢娜說從早飯到現在，你只喝了點粥，什么也沒吃。”
I did not refuse it, for my appetite was awakened and keen.
我沒有謝絕，我的胃口恢復了，而且很好。
Mr. Rivers now closed his book, approached the table,
這時里弗斯先生合上書，走到桌子旁邊，
and, as he took a seat, fixed his blue pictorial-looking eyes full on me.
他就座時，那雙畫一般的藍眼晴緊盯著我。
There was an unceremonious directness, a searching, decided steadfastness in his gaze now,
目光里有一種不拘禮節的直率，一種銳利、明確的堅定，
which told that intention, and not diffidence, had hitherto kept it averted from the stranger.
說明他一直避開陌生人不是出于靦腆，而是故意的。
