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"Your examination of Mr. Darcy is over, I presume," said Miss Bingley; "and pray what is the result?"
“你考問達西先生考問好了吧，我想，”彬格萊小姐說。“請問結論如何？”
"I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has no defect. He owns it himself without disguise."
“我完全承認達西先生沒有一些缺點。他自己也承認了這一點，并沒有掩飾。”
"No" said Darcy, "I have made no such pretension. I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is I believe too little yielding certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost is lost for ever."
“不，”達西說，“我并沒有說過這種裝場面的話。我有夠多的毛病，不過這些毛病與頭腦并沒有關系。至于我的性格，我可不敢自夸。我認為我的性格太不能委曲求全，這當然是說我在處世方面太不能委曲求全地隨和別人。別人的愚蠢和過錯我本應該趕快忘掉，卻偏偏忘不掉；人家得罪了我，我也忘不掉。說到我的一些情緒，也并不是我一打算把它們去除掉，它們就會煙消云散。我的脾氣可以說是夠叫人厭惡的。我對于某個人一旦沒有了好感，就永遠沒有好感。”
"That is a failing indeed!" cried Elizabeth. "Implacable resentment is a shade in a character. But you have chosen your fault well. I really cannot laugh at it; you are safe from me."
“這倒的的確確是個大缺點！”伊麗莎白大聲說道。“跟人家怨恨不解，的確是性格上的一個陰影可是你對于自己的缺點，已經挑剔得很嚴格。我的確不能再譏笑你了。你放心好啦。”
"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
“我，相信一個人不管是怎樣的脾氣，都免不了有某種短處，這是一種天生的缺陷，即使受教育受得再好，也還是克服不了。”
"And your defect is a propensity to hate every body."
“你有一種傾向，──對什么人都感到厭惡，這就是你的缺陷。”
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them."
“而你的缺陷呢，”達西笑著回答。“就是故意去誤解別人。”
"Do let us have a little music," cried Miss Bingley, tired of a conversation in which she had no share. "Louisa, you will not mind my waking Mr. Hurst."
彬格萊小姐眼見這場談話沒有她的份，不禁有些厭倦，便大聲說道：“讓我們來聽聽音樂吧，露薏莎，你不怕我吵醒赫斯脫先生嗎？”
Her sister made not the smallest objection, and the pianoforte was opened, and Darcy, after a few moments recollection, was not sorry for it. He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.
她的姐姐毫不反對，于是鋼琴便打開了。達西想了一下，覺得這樣也不錯。他開始感覺到對伊麗莎白似乎已經過分親近了一些。
