When the ladies were separating for the toilette, he said to Elizabeth,"Do not make yourself uneasy, my dear cousin, about your apparel. Lady Catherine is far from requiring that elegance of dress in us, which becomes herself and daughter. I would advise you merely to put on whatever of your clothes is superior to the rest, there is no occasion for any thing more. Lady Catherine will not think the worse of you for being simply dressed. She likes to have the distinction of rank preserved."
當娘兒們正要各自去打扮的時候，他又對伊麗莎白說：“不要為衣裝擔心思，親愛的表妹。咖苔琳夫人才不會要我們穿得華麗呢，這只有她自己和她的女兒才配。我勸你只要在你自己的衣服里面，揀一件出色的穿上就行，不必過于講究。珈苔琳夫人決不會因為你衣裝樸素就瞧你不起。她喜歡各人守著自己的本份，分得出一個高低。”
While they were dressing, he came two or three times to their different doors, to recommend their being quick, as Lady Catherine very much objected to be kept waiting for her dinner. -- Such formidable accounts of her ladyship, and her manner of living, quite frightened Maria Lucas, who had been little used to company, and she looked forward to her introduction at Rosings with as much apprehension, as her father had done to his presentation at St. James's.
娘兒們整裝的時候，他又到各個人的房門口去了兩三次，勸她們快一點，因為咖苔琳夫人請人吃飯最恨客人遲到。瑪麗亞·盧卡斯聽說她老人家的為人處事這樣可怕，不由得嚇了一跳，因為她一向不大會應酬。她一想起要到羅新斯去拜望，就誠惶誠恐，正如她父親當年進宮覲見一樣。
As the weather was fine, they had a pleasant walk of about half a mile across the park. -- Every park has its beauty and its prospects; and Elizabeth saw much to be pleased with, though she could not be in suchraptures as Mr. Collins expected the scene to inspire, and was but slightly affected by his enumeration of the windows in front of the house, and his relation of what the glazing altogether had originally cost Sir Lewis De Bourgh.
天朗氣清，他們穿過花園，作了一次差不多半英里的愉快的散步。一家家的花園都各有美妙，伊麗莎白縱目觀賞，心曠神怡，可是并不如柯林斯先生所預期的那樣，會被眼前的景色陶醉得樂而忘形。盡管他數(shù)著屋前一扇扇窗戶說，光是這些玻璃，當初曾一共花了劉威斯·德·包爾爵士多大一筆錢，她可并不為這些話動心。
When they ascended the steps to the hall, Maria's alarm was every moment increasing, and even Sir William did not look perfectly calm. -- Elizabeth's courage did not fail her. She had heard nothing of Lady Catherine that spoke her awful from any extraordinary talents or miraculous virtue, and the mere stateliness of money and rank she thought she could witness without trepidation.
他們踏上臺階走進穿堂的時候，瑪麗亞一分鐘比一分鐘來得惶恐，連威廉爵士也不能完全保持鎮(zhèn)定。倒是伊麗莎白不畏縮。無論是論才論德，她都沒有聽到咖苔琳夫人有什么了不起的地方足以引起她敬畏，光憑著有錢有勢，還不會叫她見到了就膽戰(zhàn)心驚。
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