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Miss Pross came in with little Lucie.
普羅絲小姐和小路茜一起走了進來。
'Is that his child? 'asked Madame Defarge, stopping her knitting to stare.
“那是他的孩子嗎? ”得法熱夫人問，同時停下了編織的活兒，拿眼盯著小路茜。
'Yes, Madame, 'said Mr Lorry. 'That is our poor prisoner's little daughter. '
“是的，夫人，”勞里先生說，“那是我們可憐的囚犯的小女兒。”
'It is enough, my husband, 'said Madame Defarge.
“這就夠了，我的丈夫，”得法熱夫人說。
'We can go now. 'Her voice was as cold as her hand.
“我們現在可以走了。”她的聲音像她的手一樣冰冷。
'You will be good to my husband? 'asked Lucie, afraid.
“您會善待我的丈夫嗎? ”路茜害怕地問，
'I beg you, as a wife and mother. '
“我懇求您，以一個妻子和母親的名義。”
'We have known many wives and mothers, 'said Madame Defarge.
“我們知道很多的妻子和母親，”得法熱夫人說，
'And we have seen many husbands and fathers put in prison, for many years.
“并且我們也見過很多的丈夫和父親被送進監獄關押了好多年。
What is one more, among so many? '
有這么多的人，再多一個又算得了什么呢? ”
As the Defarges left, Lucie turned to Mr Lorry.
當得法熱夫婦走后，路茜沖勞里先生轉過身去。
'I am more afraid of her than of any other person in Paris, 'she whispered.
“在巴黎，沒有比她更使我害怕的人了，”她小聲說。
Mr Lorry held her hands；he did not say anything, but he was also very worried.
勞里先生抓住她的手，什么也沒說，但是也很擔心。
The Doctor did not come back from La Force for several days.
已有好幾天了醫生還沒從拉弗爾斯回來。
During that time eleven hundred prisoners were killed by the people.
就在那段時間里有1100名囚犯被人殺死了。
Inside the prison Dr Manette had come before a Tribunal,
在監獄里馬內特醫生曾前去見一個審判團，
which was a group of judges appointed by the people.
是一組由人民指定的法官。
These judges made their own laws
這些法官們制定了自己的法律，
and threw prisoners out into the streets to be murdered by the crowds.
并把罪犯們扔到大街上讓人們處死。
Dr Manette told the Tribunal that he had been a prisoner in the Bastille for eighteen years,
馬內特醫生告訴審判團他曾經在巴士底獄當了18年的囚徒，
and that his son－in－law was now a prisoner in La Force.
而現在他的女婿在拉弗爾斯蹲監獄。
The Tribunal had agreed to keep Charles Darnay safe from the murdering crowds,
審判團同意保護查爾斯·代爾那不受街上人群的傷害。
but they would not let him leave the prison.
但他們不準他離開監獄。
人物形象分析:
當她丈夫因準備革命的時間太長久而感到疲乏和灰心時，她精辟地指出：“復仇和報應必須有一個長時間；這是定規。但是……它時常在準備之中的。”當暗探來到酒館時，她機智勇敢，應付自如。她編織毛線時，把貴族階級處決革命者的暴行和名單織進去，革命時就成了起訴書。當革命爆發后，她手里握著斧頭，腰間別著手槍，率領婦女沖鋒陷陣，毫不含糊地砍下敵人的腦袋。
