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His wife represented to him how absolutely necessary such an attention would be from all the neighbouring gentlemen, on his returning to Netherfield.
他太太又說，那位貴人一回到尼日斐花園，鄰居們都少不了要去拜候他。
"'Tis an etiquette I despise," said he. "If he wants our society, let him seek it. He knows where we live. I will not spend my hours in running after my neighbours every time they go away and come back again."
他說：“我恨透了這一類的禮節，要是他想跟我們來往，讓他自己找上門來好了。他又不是不知道我們的住址。鄰居們每次來來去去，都得要我來迎送，我可沒有這種功夫。”
"Well, all I know is, that it will be abominably rude if you do not wait on him. But, however, that shan't prevent my asking him to dine here, I am determined. We must have Mrs. Long and the Gouldings soon. That will make thirteen with ourselves, so there will be just room at table for him."
“唔，你不去拜訪他，那就是太不知禮。不過，我還是可以請他到這兒來吃飯，我已經決定要請他來。我們本當早些請郎格太太和戈丁一家人來，加上我們自己家里的人，一共是十三個，所以正好留個位子給他。”
Consoled by this resolution, she was the better able to bear her husband's incivility; though it was very mortifying to know that her neighbours might all see Mr. Bingley, in consequence of it, before they did. As the day of his arrival drew near.
她決定了這么做，心里就覺得快慰了些，因此丈夫的無理也就叫她好受了些；然而，這樣一來，結果就會使鄰居們比他們先看到彬格萊先生。他來的日子迫近了。
"I begin to be sorry that he comes at all," said Jane to her sister. "It would be nothing; I could see him with perfect indifference, but I can hardly bear to hear it thus perpetually talked of. My mother means well; but she does not know, no one can know, how much I suffer from what she says. Happy shall I be, when his stay at Netherfield is over!"
吉英對她妹妹說：“我現在反而覺得他還是不要來的好，其實也無所謂；我見到他也可以裝得若無其事；只是聽到人家老是談起這件事，我實在有些受不了。媽媽是一片好心，可是她不知道（誰也不知道）她那些話使我多么難受。但愿他不要在尼日斐花園再住下去，我就滿意了！”
"I wish I could say any thing to comfort you," replied Elizabeth; "but it is wholly out of my power. You must feel it; and the usual satisfaction of preaching patience to a sufferer is denied me, because you have always so much."
伊麗莎白說：“我真想說幾句話安慰安慰你，可惜一句也說不出。你一定明白我的意思。我不愿意象一般人那樣，看到人家難受，偏偏勸人家有耐性───因為你一向就有極大的耐性。”
Mr. Bingley arrived. Mrs. Bennet, through the assistance of servants, contrived to have the earliest tidings of it, that the period of anxiety and fretfulness on her side might be as long as it could. She counted the days that must intervene before their invitation could be sent; hopeless of seeing him before. But on the third morning after his arrival in Hertfordshire, she saw him, from her dressing-room window, enter the paddock and ride towards the house.
彬格萊先生終于來了。班納特太太多虧了傭人們加以協助，獲得消息最早，因此煩神也煩得最久。既然及早去拜望他的計劃已告失望，她便屈指計算著日子，看看還得再隔多少天才能送請貼。幸虧他來到哈福德郡的第三天，班納特太太便從化妝室的窗口看見他騎著馬走進圍場，朝她家里走來。
