阅读经典名著<呼啸山庄>学英语口译(第六章)

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Perceiving myself in a blunder, I attempted to correct it. I might have seen there was too great a disparity between the ages of the parties to make it likely that they were man and wife. One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years. The other did not look seventeen.

　　认识到自己弄巧成拙，我就试着去纠正错误。我早就该看出年龄上有如此大的差距的两个人怎么会是夫妻呢?一个大约四十岁，正值精力旺盛的时期。这个年龄段的男人很少会有被与年轻女子相爱并成婚的幻想：这种梦是留到我们年老时聊以慰藉的。而另外那个却还不到十七岁。

　　Then it flashed on me - 'The clown at my elbow, who is drinking his tea out of a basin and eating his broad with unwashed hands, may be her husband: Heathcliff junior, of course. Here is the consequence of being buried alive: she has thrown herself away upon that boor from sheer ignorance that better individuals existed! A sad pity - I must beware how I cause her to regret her choice.' The last reflection may seem conceited; it was not. My neighbour struck me as bordering on repulsive; I knew, through experience, that I was tolerably attractive.

　　然后我突然灵光一动，“那个坐在我旁边的粗笨的，把茶喝得见底的，用没洗过的手抓面包吃的那个家伙，可能是她的丈夫，当然也是希斯克利夫的儿子。这就是隐居的结果：她把自己胡乱嫁给了一个粗俗的农民，全然不知还有更好的人存在!真是令人伤心啊。我一定要意识到我是如何让她对她的选择感到后悔的。”最后一个念头看上去可能有些自负，但是不是的。我的旁边的人简直就把我当作厌恶的标志;我知道，凭经验，我还是有些许魅力的。

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