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Two offences of a very different nature, and by no means of equal magnitude, you last night laid to my charge.
你昨夜曾把兩件性質不同、輕重不等的罪名加在我頭上。
The first mentioned was, that, regardless of the sentiments of either, I had detached Mr. Bingley from your sister; and the other, that I had, in defiance of various claims, in defiance of honour and humanity, ruined the immediate prosperity, and blasted the prospects of Mr. Wickham.
你第一件指責我折散了彬格萊先生和令姐的好事，完全不顧他們倆之間如何情深意切，你第二件指責我不顧 體面，喪盡人道，蔑視別人的權益，毀壞了韋翰先生那指日可期的富貴，又破來了他美好的前途。
Wilfully and wantonly to have thrown off the companion of my youth, the acknowledged favourite of my father, a young man who had scarcely any other dependence than on our patronage, and who had been brought up to expect its exertion, would be a depravity to which the separation of two young persons, whose affection could be the growth of only a few weeks, could bear no comparison.
我竟無情無義，拋棄了自己小時候的朋友，一致公認的先父生前的 寵幸，一個無依無靠的青年，從小起就指望我們施恩──這方面的確是我的一種遺憾；至于那一對青年男女，他們不過只有幾星期的交情，就算我拆散了他們，也不 能同這件罪過相提并論。
But from the severity of that blame which was last night so liberally bestowed, respecting each circumstance, I shall hope to be in future secured, when the following account of my actions and their motives has been read. If, in the explanation of them which is due to myself, I am under the necessity of relating feelings which may be offensive to your's, I can only say that I am sorry. The necessity must be obeyed and farther apology would be absurd.
現在請允許我把我自己的行為和動機一一剖白一下，希望你弄明白了其中的原委以后，將來可以不再象昨天晚上那樣對我嚴詞苛責。在解釋 這些必要的事情時，如果我迫不得已，要述述我自己的情緒，因而使你情緒不快，我只得向你表示歉意。既是出于迫不得已，那么再道歉未免就嫌可笑了。
