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“I wonder why he always wants to jump fences when he’s had a few drinks,” she thought. “And after that fall he had right here last year when he broke his knee. You’d think he’d learn. Especially when he promised Mother on oath he’d never jump again.”
“我不明白他為什么一旦喝了點酒便要跳籬笆，"思嘉心想。"而且去年他就是在這里把膝頭摔壞的呀。你以為他會記住這教訓吧，尤其是他還對母親發過誓，答應再不跳了。"
Scarlett had no awe of her father and felt him more her contemporary than her sisters, for jumping fences and keeping it a secret from his wife gave him a boyish pride and guilty glee that matched her own pleasure in outwitting Mammy. She rose from her seat to watch him.
思嘉不怕父親，并且覺得他比他的姐妹們更像是一個同輩，因為跳籬笆和向他妻子保密這件事使他感到一種孩子氣的驕傲和略帶內疚的愉悅，而這是可以和思嘉干了壞事瞞過嬤嬤時的高興心情相比的。現在她從樹樁上站起身來看他。
The big horse reached the fence, gathered himself and soared over as effortlessly as a bird, his rider yelling enthusiastically, his crop beating the air, his white curls jerking out behind him. Gerald did not see his daughter in the shadow of the trees, and he drew rein in the road, patting his horse’s neck with approbation.
那匹大馬跑到籬笆邊，彎著前腿縱身一躍，便像只鳥兒般毫不費力地飛了過去，它的騎手也高興地叫喊著，將鞭子在空中抽得噼啪響，長長的白發在腦后飛揚。杰拉爾德并沒有看見在樹木黑影中的女兒，他在大路上勒住韁繩，贊賞地輕拍著馬的頸項。
“There’s none in the County can touch you, nor in the state,” he informed his mount, with pride, the brogue of County Meath still heavy on his tongue in spite of thirty-nine years in America. Then he hastily set about smoothing his hair and settling his ruffled shirt and his cravat which had slipped awry behind one ear. Scarlett knew these hurried preenings were being made with an eye toward meeting his wife with the appearance of a gentleman who had ridden sedately home from a call on a neighbor. She knew also that he was presenting her with just the opportunity she wanted for opening the conversation without revealing her true purpose.
“在咱們縣里沒有誰比得上你，就是州里也沒有，"他得意洋洋地對自己的馬說。他那愛爾蘭米思地方的口音依然很重，盡管到美國了３９年了。接著他趕快理了理頭發，把揉皺的襯衫和扭到耳背后的領結也整理好。思嘉知道這些修整工夫是為了讓自己像個講究的上等人模樣去見母親，假裝是拜訪鄰居以后安安穩穩騎馬回來的。她知道自己的機會到了，她可以開始同他談話而不必擔心泄露真實的用意了。
