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"Indeed you are mistaken. I have no such injuries to resent, It is not of peculiar, but of general evils, which I am now complaining.
“你完全弄錯了我的意思。我并不是因為吃了虧才來埋怨。我也說不出我究竟是在埋怨哪一種害處，只覺得害處很多。
Our importance, our respectability in the world, must be affected by the wild volatility, the assurance and disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia's character.
麗迪雅這種放蕩不羈、無法無天的性格，確實對我們體面攸關，一定會影響到我們的社會地位。
Excuse me -- for I must speak plainly. If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment.
我說話爽直，千萬要請你原諒。好爸爸，你得想辦法管教管教她這種撒野的脾氣，叫她明白，不能夠一輩子都這樣到處追逐，否則她馬上就要無可救藥了。一旦她的性格定型以后，就難得改過來。
Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself and her family ridiculous.
她才不過十六歲，就成了一個十足的浪蕩女子，弄得她自己和家庭都惹人笑話，而且她還輕佻浪蕩到極端下賤無恥的地步。
A flirt, too, in the worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and from the ignorance and emptiness of her mind, wholly unable to ward off any portion of that universal contempt which her rage for admiration will excite. In this danger Kitty is also comprehended.
她只不過年紀還輕，略有幾分姿色，此外就一無可取。她愚昧無知，頭腦糊涂，只知道搏得別人愛慕，結果到處叫人看不起。吉蒂也有這種危險。麗迪雅要她東就東，西就西。
She will follow wherever Lydia leads. -- Vain, ignorant, idle, and absolutely uncontrolled! Oh! my dear father, can you suppose it possible that they will not be censured and despised wherever they are known, and that their sisters will not be often involved in the disgrace?"
她既無知，又愛虛榮，生性又懶惰，完全是沒有一點家教的樣子！哎喲，我的好爸爸呀，她們隨便走到什么地方，只要有人認識她們，她們就會受人指責，受人輕視，還時常連累到她們的姐姐們也丟臉，難道你還以為不會這樣嗎？”
