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Would to heaven that any thing could be either said or done on my part, that might offer consolation to such distress! -- But I will not torment you with vain wishes, which may seem purposely to ask for your thanks. This unfortunate affair will, I fear, prevent my sister's having the pleasure of seeing you at Pemberley today."
天哪，我但愿能夠說幾句什么話，或是盡我一份力量，來安慰安慰你這樣深切的痛苦！可是我不愿意說些空洞的漂亮話，讓你受罪，這樣做倒好象是我故意要討你的好。我恐怕這樁不幸的事，會使得你們今天不能到彭伯里去看我妹妹了。”
"Oh, yes. Be so kind as to apologize for us to Miss Darcy. Say that urgent business calls us home immediately. Conceal the unhappy truth as long as it is possible. -- I know it cannot be long."
“哦！是呀，請你替我們向達西小姐道個歉吧。就說我們有緊要的事，非立刻回家不可。請你把這一樁不幸的事盡可能多隱瞞一些時候。不過我也知道隱瞞不了多久。”
He readily assured her of his secrecy -- again expressed his sorrow for her distress, wished it a happier conclusion than there was at present reason to hope, and, leaving his compliments for her relations, with only one serious, parting, look, went away.
他立刻答應替她保守秘密，又重新說他非常同情她的苦痛，希望這一件事會得到比較圓滿的結局，不至于象現在所想象的這樣糟糕，又請她代為問候她家里人，然后鄭重地望了她一眼便告辭了。
As he quitted the room, Elizabeth felt how improbable it was that they should ever see each other again on such terms of cordiality as had marked their several meetings in Derbyshire; and as she threw a retrospective glance over the whole of their acquaintance, so full of contradictions and varieties, sighed at the perverseness of those feelings which would now have promoted its continuance, and would formerly have rejoiced in its termination.
他一走出房門，伊麗莎白就不禁想到；這一次居然能和他在德比郡見面，而且好幾次見面都蒙他竭誠相待，這簡直是出人意料。她又回想了一下他們整個一段交情，真是矛盾百出，千變萬化，她以前曾經巴不得斷絕這一段交情，如今卻又希望能繼續下去，想到這種顛三倒四的地方，不由得嘆了口氣。
If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty.
如果說，大凡一個人愛上一個人，都是因為先有了感激之心，器重之意，那么，伊麗莎白這次感情的變化當然既合情理，又叫人無可非議。
