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From the entrance hall, of which Mr. Collins pointed out, with a rapturous air, the fine proportion and finished ornaments, they followed the servants through an antechamber, to the room where Lady Catherine, her daughter, and Mrs. Jenkinson were sitting.
進了穿堂，柯林斯先生就帶著一副喜極欲狂的神氣，指出這屋子的堂皇富麗，然后由傭人們帶著客人走過前廳，來到咖苔琳夫人母女和姜金生太太的起坐間。夫人極其謙和地站起身來迎接他們。
Her ladyship, with great condescension, arose to receive them; and as Mrs. Collins had settled it with her husband that the office of introduction should be her's, it was performed in a proper manner, without any of those apologies and thanks which he would have thought necessary.
根據柯林斯太太事先跟她丈夫商量好的辦法，當場由太太出面替賓主介紹，因此介紹得很得體，凡是柯林斯先生認為必不可少的那些道歉和感激的話，都一概免了。
In spite of having been at St. James's, Sir William was so completely awed by the grandeur surrounding him, that he had but just courage enough to make a very low bow, and take his seat without saying a word; and his daughter, frightened almost out of her senses, sat on the edge of her chair, not knowing which way to look. Elizabeth found herself quite equal to the scene, and could observe the three ladies before her composedly.
威廉爵士雖說當年也曾進宮覲見過皇上，可是看到四周圍這般的富貴氣派，也不禁完全給嚇住了，只得彎腰一躬，一聲不響，坐了下來；再說他的女兒，簡直嚇得喪魂失魄一般，兀自坐在椅子邊上，眼睛也不知道往哪里看才好。伊麗莎白倒是完全安然自若，而且從容不迫地細細瞧著那三位女主人。
Lady Catherine was a tall, large woman, with stronglymarked features, which might once have been handsome. Her air was not conciliating, nor was her manner of receiving them such as to make her visitors forget their inferior rank. She was not rendered formidable by silence; but whatever she said was spoken in so authoritative a tone as marked her selfimportance, and brought Mr. Wickham immediately to Elizabeth's mind; and from the observation of the day altogether, she believed Lady Catherine to be exactly what he had represented.
咖苔琳夫人是位高大的婦人，五官清楚，也許年輕時很好看。她的樣子并不十分客氣，接待賓客的態度也不能使賓客忘卻自己身份的低微。她嚇人的地方倒不是默不作聲，而是她出言吐語時聲調總是那么高高在上，自命不凡，這叫伊麗莎白立刻想起了韋翰先生的話。經過這一整天的察言觀色之后，她覺得咖苔琳夫人的為人，果然和韋翰所形容的完全一樣。
