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We took supper and champagne and ate and drank on the grass. And while we were eating the coachman came up. 'Have a dill pickle,' he said. He wanted to share with us: That seemed to me so right, so—you know what I mean?"
我們帶了晚餐和香檳，在草地上吃著喝著。而正當我們吃東西時，車夫走了過來，他說：‘來點兒蒔蘿泡菜吧。’他想和我們一起分享。那對我來說簡直太合乎心意了，所以——你知道我的意思嗎？”
And she seemed at that moment to be sitting on the grass beside the mysteriously Black Sea, black as velvet, and rippling against the banks in silent, velvet waves. She saw the little group on the grass, their faces and hands white in the moonlight. Apart from them, with his supper in a cloth on his knees, sat the coachman. "Have a dill pickle," said he, and although she was not certain what a dill pickle was, she saw the greenish glass jar with a red chili like a parrot's beak.
她此時此刻仿佛就坐在黑海岸邊的草地上，大海充滿了神秘感，黑得仿佛天鵝絨一般，那天鵝絨般的海浪靜靜地拍打著岸邊。她看見了草地上的那一小群人，他們的臉和手在月光下泛著白光。除他們之外，還坐著那位馬車夫，他的晚餐放在他膝蓋上的一塊布里面。“來點蒔蘿泡菜吧。”他說。盡管她并不十分清楚蒔蘿泡菜是什么，但她看到了淡綠色的玻璃罐里有個鸚鵡嘴似的紅辣椒。
Yes, I know perfectly what you mean, she said.
“是的，我完全明白你的意思。”她說。
In the pause that followed they looked at each other. In the past when they had looked at each other like that they had felt that their souls had, as it were, put their arms round each other and dropped into the same sea, content, to be drowned, like mournful lovers. But now, he said: "What a marvelous listener you are. When you look at me with those wild eyes I feel that I could tell you things that I would never breathe to another human being."
之后是短暫的沉默，他們注視著對方。在過去，當他們那樣相互注視的時候，他們能夠感受到彼此的靈魂會張開雙臂，擁抱著對方，然后共同墜入同一片海洋，就像悲傷的情侶一樣心甘情愿被大海所吞沒。可現在他卻說你真是一個極好的聽眾。當你用那雙狂熱的眼睛注視著我時，我就覺得我可以告訴你那些永遠都不會對別人說起的事情。”
Was there just a hint of mockery in his voice? She could not be sure.
他的聲音中是不是有一絲嘲笑？她不確定。
How well I remember one night, the night that I brought you the little Christmas tree, telling you all about my childhood. And of how I was so miserable that I ran away and lived under a cart in our yard for two days without being discovered.
“我十分清楚地記得那個晚上，我給你帶了一棵小圣誕樹。我告訴了你有關我童年的一切。我告訴你我是如何痛苦地跑出來，在我們家后院的一輛馬車下住了兩天，并且沒被人發現。
