Not the slightest. I can remember no symptom of affection on either side; and had any thing of the kind been perceptible, you must be aware that ours is not a family on which it could be thrown away. When first he entered the corps, she was ready enough to admire him; but so we all were. Every girl in or near Meryton was out of her senses about him for the first two months; but he never distinguished her by any particular attention, and consequently, after a moderate period of extravagant and wild admiration, her fancy for him gave way, and others of the regiment who treated her with more distinction again became her favourites.
“根本沒想到。我記得他們誰都沒有流露出相愛的意思，要知道，當初只要看出了一點形跡，在我們那樣的一個家庭里是不會不談論的。他剛到部隊里來的時候，她就對他十分愛慕，當時我們大家都是那樣。在開頭一兩個月里面，麥里屯一帶的姑娘們沒有哪一個不為他神魂顛倒；可是他對她卻不曾另眼相看。后來那一陣濫愛狂戀的風氣過去了，她對他的幻想也就消失了，因為民兵團里其他的軍官們更加看重她，于是她的心又轉到他們身上去了。”
It may be easily believed that, however little of novelty could be added to their fears, hopes, and conjectures, on this interesting subject by its repeated discussion, no other could detain them from it long, during the whole of the journey. From Elizabeth's thoughts it was never absent. Fixed there by the keenest of all anguish, self-reproach, she could find no interval of ease or forgetfulness.
他們一路上把這個有趣的話題翻來復去地談論，談到哪些地方值得顧慮，哪些地方還可以寄予希望；揣想起來又是如何如何；實在再也談不出什么新意來了，只得暫時住口。可是隔了不多一會兒，又談到這件事上面來了；這是可想而知的。伊麗莎白的腦子里總是擺脫不開這件事。她為這件事自怨自艾，沒有一刻能夠安心，也沒有一刻能夠忘懷。
They travelled as expeditiously as possible; and, sleeping one night on the road, reached Longbourn by dinner-time the next day. It was a comfort to Elizabeth to consider that Jane could not have been wearied by long expectations.
他們匆匆忙忙趕著路，在中途住宿了一夜，第二天吃飯的時候就到了浪搏恩。伊麗莎白感到快慰的是，總算沒有讓吉英等得心焦。
The little Gardiners, attracted by the sight of a chaise, were standing on the steps of the house as they entered the paddock; and when the carriage drove up to the door, the joyful surprise that lighted up their faces, and displayed itself over their whole bodies in a variety of capers and frisks, was the first pleasing earnest of their welcome.
他們進了圍場，嘉丁納舅舅的孩子們一看見一輛馬車，便趕到臺階上來站著；等到馬車趕到門口的時候，孩子們一個個驚喜交集，滿面笑容，跳來蹦去，這是大人們回來時第一次受到的愉快熱誠的歡迎。
Elizabeth jumped out; and, after giving each of them an hasty kiss, hurried into the vestibule, where Jane, who came running down stairs from her mother's apartment, immediately met her.
伊麗莎白跳下馬車，匆匆忙忙把每個孩子親吻了一下便趕快向門口奔去，吉英這時候正從母親房間里跑下樓來，在那兒迎接她。
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