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Elizabeth felt herself growing more angry every moment; yet she tried to the utmost to speak with composure when she said, "You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner."
伊麗莎白愈來愈忿怒，然而她還是盡量平心靜氣地說出了下面這段話：“達西先生，倘若你有禮貌一些，我拒絕了你以后，也許會覺得過意不去，除此以外，倘若你以為這樣向我表白一下，會在我身上起別的作用，那你可想錯了。”
She saw him start at this, but he said nothing, and she continued, "You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it."
他聽到這番話，吃了一驚，可是沒有說什么，于是她又接著說下去：“你用盡一切辦法，也不能打動我的心，叫我接受你的求婚。”
Again his astonishment was obvious; and he looked at her with an expression of mingled incredulity and mortification. She went on. "From the very beginning, from the first moment I may almost say, of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form that ground-work of disapprobation, on which succeeding events have built so immoveable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry."
他又顯出很驚訝的樣子，他帶著痛苦和詫異的神氣望著她。她繼續說下去：“從開頭認識你的時候起，幾乎可以說，從認識你的那一剎那起，你的舉止行動，就使我覺得你十足狂妄自大、自私自利、看不起別人，我對你不滿的原因就在這里，以后又有了許許多多事情，使我對你深惡痛絕；我還沒有認識你一個月，就覺得象你這樣一個人，哪怕天下男人都死光了，我也不愿意嫁給你。”
"You have said quite enough, madam. I perfectly comprehend your feelings, and have now only to be ashamed of what my own have been. Forgive me for having taken up so much of your time, and accept my best wishes for your health and happiness."
“你說得夠了，小姐，我完全理解你的心情，現在我只有對我自己那些顧慮感到羞恥。請原諒我耽擱了你這么多時間，請允許我極其誠懇地祝你健康和幸福?！?/p>
