As no objection was made to the young people's engagement with their aunt, and all Mr. Collins's scruples of leaving Mr. and Mrs. Bennet for a single evening during his visit were most steadily resisted, the coach conveyed him and his five cousins at a suitable hour to Meryton; and the girls had the pleasure of hearing, as they entered the drawing-room, that Mr. Wickham had accepted their uncle's invitation, and was then in the house.
年輕的小姐們跟她們姨媽的約會，并沒有遭受到反對。柯林斯只覺得來此作客，反而把班納特夫婦整晚丟在家里，未免有些過意不去，可是他們叫他千萬不要放在心上。于是他和他的五個表妹便乘著馬車，準時到了麥里屯。小姐們一走進客廳，就聽說韋翰先生接受了她們姨爹的邀請，而且已經駕到，覺得很是高興。
When this information was given, and they had all taken their seats, Mr. Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might almost have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first convey much gratification; but when Mrs. Philips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor, when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine's drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds, she felt all the force of the compliment, and would hardly have resented a comparison with the housekeeper's room.
大家聽到這個消息之后，便都坐了下來。柯林斯先生悠閑自在地朝四下望望，瞻仰瞻仰一切；屋子的尺寸和里面的家具使他十分驚羨，他說他好象進了咖苔琳夫人在羅新斯的那間消夏的小飯廳。這個比喻開頭并不怎么叫主人家滿意，可是接下來腓力普太太弄明白了羅新斯是一個什么地方，它的主人是誰，又聽他說起咖苔琳夫人的一個會客間的情形，光是一只壁爐架就要值八百英鎊，她這才體會到他那個譬喻實在太恭維她了，即使把她家里比作羅新斯管家奶奶的房間，她也不反對了。
In describing to her all the grandeur of Lady Catherine and her mansion, with occasional digressions in praise of his own humble abode and the improvements it was receiving, he was happily employed until the gentlemen joined them; and he found in Mrs. Philips a very attentive listener, whose opinion of his consequence increased with what she heard, and who was resolving to retail it all among her neighbours as soon as she could. To the girls, who could not listen to their cousin, and who had nothing to do but to wish for an instrument, and examine their own indifferent imitations of china on the mantlepiece, the interval of waiting appeared very long. It was over at last, however. The gentlemen did approach; and when Mr. Wickham walked into the room, Elizabeth felt that she had neither been seeing him before, nor thinking of him since, with the smallest degree of unreasonable admiration. The officers of the --- shire were in general a very creditable, gentlemanlike set, and the best of them were of the present party; but Mr. Wickham was as far beyond them all in person, countenance, air, and walk, as they were superior to the broad-faced stuffy uncle Philips, breathing port wine, who followed them into the room.
柯林斯在講述咖苔琳夫人和她公館的富麗堂皇時，偶然還要穿插上幾句話，來夸耀他自己的寒舍，說他的住宅正在裝璜改善中等，他就這樣自得其樂地一直扯到男客們進來為止。他發覺腓力普太太很留心聽他的話，她愈聽就愈把他看得了不起，而且決定一有空就把他的話傳播出去。至于小姐們，實在覺得等得太久了，因為她們不高興聽她們表兄的閑扯，又沒事可做，想彈彈琴又不成，只有照著壁爐架上那些瓷器的樣子，漫不經心地畫些小玩藝兒消遺消遺。等待的時間終于過去了，男客們來了。韋翰先生一走進來，伊麗莎白就覺得，無論是上次看見他的時候也好，從上次見面以來想起他的時候也好，她都沒有錯愛了他。某某郡的軍官們都是一批名譽很好的紳士氣派的人物，參加這次宴會的尤其是他們之中的精華。韋翰先生無論在人品上，相貌上，風度上，地位上，都遠遠超過他們，正如他們遠遠超過那位姨爹一樣──瞧那位肥頭大耳，大腹便便的姨爹，他正帶著滿口葡萄酒味，跟著他們走進屋來。
Mr. Wickham was the happy man towards whom almost every female eye was turned, and Elizabeth was the happy woman by whom he finally seated himself; and the agreeable manner in which he immediately fell into conversation, though it was only on its being a wet night, and on the probability of a rainy season, made her feel that the commonest, dullest, most threadbare topic might be rendered interesting by the skill of the speaker.
韋翰先生是當天最得意的男子，差不多每個女人的眼睛都朝著他看；伊麗莎白是當天最得意的女子，韋翰終于在她的身旁坐了下來。他馬上就跟她攀談，雖然談的只是些當天晚上下雨和雨季可能就要到來之類的話，可是他那么和顏悅色，使她不禁感覺到即使最平凡、最無聊、最陳舊的話，只要說話的人有技巧，還是一樣可以說得動聽。
With such rivals for the notice of the fair, as Mr. Wickham and the officers, Mr. Collins seemed likely to sink into insignificance; to the young ladies he certainly was nothing; but he had still at intervals a kind listener in Mrs. Philips, and was, by her watchfulness, most abundantly supplied with coffee and muffin.
說起要博得女性的青眼，柯林斯先生遇到象韋翰先生和軍官們這樣的勁敵，真變得無足輕重了。他在小姐們眼睛里實在算不上什么，幸虧好心的腓力普太太有時候還聽聽他談主，她又十分細心，盡量把咖啡和松餅敬給他吃。
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