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"Whereas I am hot, and fire dissolves ice.
“而我很熱，火要把冰融化。
The blaze there has thawed all the snow from your cloak; by the same token, it has streamed on to my floor, and made it like a trampled street.
那邊的火已經化掉了你斗篷上的所有的雪，由于同樣原因，雪水淌到了我地板上，弄得像踩踏過的銜道。
As you hope ever to be forgiven, Mr. Rivers, the high crime and misdemeanour of spoiling a sanded kitchen, tell me what I wish to know."
里弗斯先生，正因為你希望我寬恕你毀我砂石廚房的彌天大罪和不端行為，那你就把我想知道的告訴我吧。”
"Well, then," he said,
“那么好吧，”他說，
"I yield; if not to your earnestness, to your perseverance: as stone is worn by continual dropping.
“我讓步了，要不是向你的真誠屈服，就是向你滴水穿石的恒心投降。
Besides, you must know some day, -- as well now as later.
另外，有一天你還得知道，早知晚知都一樣。
Your name is Jane Eyre?"
你的名字是叫簡·愛嗎？”
"Of course: that was all settled before."
“當然，這以前已全解決了。”
"You are not, perhaps, aware that I am your namesake? --
“你也許沒有意識到我跟你同姓？
that I was christened St. John Eyre Rivers?"
我施洗禮時被命名為圣·約翰·愛·里弗斯？”
"No, indeed!
“確實沒有！
I remember now seeing the letter E. comprised in your initials written in books you have at different times lent me;
現在可記起來了，我曾在你不同時間借給我的書里，看到你名字開頭的幾個字母中有一個Ｅ，
but I never asked for what name it stood.
但我從來沒有問過它代表什么。
But what then? Surely" ----
不過那又怎么樣？當然——”
I stopped: I could not trust myself to entertain, much less to express, the thought that rushed upon me --
我打住了。我不能相信自己會產生這樣的想法，更說不上加以表達。
that embodied itself, -- that, in a second, stood out a strong, solid probability.
但是這想法闖入了我腦海——它開始具體化——頃刻之間，變成了確確實實可能的事情。
Circumstances knit themselves, fitted themselves, shot into order:
種種情況湊合起來了，各就各位，變成了一個有條有理的整體，一根鏈條。
the chain that had been lying hitherto a formless lump of links was drawn out straight, -- every ring was perfect, the connection complete.
以前一直是一堆沒有形狀的鏈環，現在被一節節拉直了——每一個鏈都完好無缺，鏈與鏈之間的聯結也很完整。
I knew, by instinct, how the matter stood, before St. John had said another word;
圣·約翰還沒有再開口，我憑直覺就已經知道是怎么回事了。
but I cannot expect the reader to have the same intuitive perception, so I must repeat his explanation.
不過我不能期望讀者也有同樣的直覺，因此我得重復一下他的說明。
