簡愛中的經典英文段落

　　簡愛很長時間以來一直被視為一個充滿力量的追求平等、自由和愛情的女性。下面是小編帶來的，歡迎閱讀!

　　精選

　　If you think so, you must have a strange opinion of me; you must regard me as a plotting profligate -- a base and low rake who has been simulating disinterested love in order to draw you into a snare deliberately laid, and strip you of honour and rob you of self- respect. What do you say to that? I see you can say nothing in the first place, you are faint still, and have enough to do to draw your breath; in the second place, you cannot yet accustom yourself to accuse and revile me, and besides, the flood-gates of tears are opened, and they would rush out if you spoke much; and you have no desire to expostulate, to upbraid, to make a scene: you are thinking how TO ACT -- TALKING you consider is of no use. I know you -- I am on my guard.

　　“要是你這樣想，你準對我抱有成見了，你一定認為我是一個詭計多端的浪子——低俗下賤的惡棍，煽起沒有真情的愛，把你拉進預先設定好的圈套，剝奪你的名譽，打消你的自尊。你對這有什麼看法?我看你無話可說，首先你身子依然虛弱，還得花好些工夫才能喘過氣來;其次，你還不習慣於指控我，辱罵我;此外眼淚的閘門大開著，要是你說得太多，淚水會奔湧而出，你沒有心思來勸說，來責備，來大鬧一常你在思索著怎樣來行動——你認為空談無濟於事。我知道你—一我戒備著。”

　　Sir, I do not wish to act against you, I said; and my unsteady voice warned me to curtail my sentence.

　　“先生，我不想與你作對，”我說，我那發抖的嗓音警告我要把話縮短。

　　Not in your sense of the word, but in mine you are scheming to destroy me. You have as good as said that I am a married man -- as a married man you will shun me, keep out of my way: just now you have refused to kiss me. You intend to make yourself a complete stranger to me: to live under this roof only as Adele's governess; if ever I say a friendly word to you, if ever a friendly feeling inclines you again to me, you will say, -- 'That man had nearly made me his mistress: I must be ice and rock to him;' and ice and rock you will accordingly become.

　　“不按你理解的字義而按我理解的字義來說，你正謀劃著毀滅我。你等於已經說，我是一個已婚男子——正因為這樣，你躲著我，避開我。剛才你已拒絕吻我，你想跟我完全成為陌路人，只不過作為阿黛勒的家庭教師住在這座房子裡。要是我對你說了句友好的話，要是一種友好的感情使你再次向著我，你會說‘那個人差點讓我成了他的情婦，我必須對他冷若冰霜’，於是你便真的冷若冰霜了。”

　　閱讀

　　I cleared and steadied my voice to reply: All is changed about me, sir; I must change too -- there is no doubt of that; and to avoid fluctuations of feeling, and continual combats with recollections and associations, there is only one way -- Adele must have a new governess, sir.

　　我清了清喉嚨穩住了嗓子回答他，“我周圍的一切都改變了，先生。我也必須改變——這是毫無疑問的，為了避免感情的波動，免得不斷抵制回憶和聯想，那就只有一個辦法——阿黛勒得另請家庭教師，先生。”

　　Oh, Adele will go to school -- I have settled that already; nor do I mean to torment you with the hideous associations and recollections of Thornfield Hall -- this accursed place -- this tent of Achan -- this insolent vault, offering the ghastliness of living death to the light of the open sky -- this narrow stone hell, with its one real fiend, worse than a legion of such as we imagine. Jane, you shall not stay here, nor will I. I was wrong ever to bring you to Thornfield Hall, knowing as I did how it was haunted. I charged them to conceal from you, before I ever saw you, all knowledge of the curse of the place; merely because I feared Adele never would have a governess to stay if she knew with what inmate she was housed, and my plans would not permit me to remove the maniac elsewhere -- though I possess an old house, Ferndean Manor, even more retired and hidden than this, where I could have lodged her safely enough, had not a scruple about the unhealthiness of the situation, in the heart of a wood, made my conscience recoil from the arrangement. Probably those damp walls would soon have eased me of her charge: but to each villain his own vice; and mine is not a tendency to indirect assassination, even of what I most hate.

　　“噢，阿黛勒要上學去——我已作了安排。我也無意拿桑菲爾德府可怕的聯想和回憶來折磨你一—這是個可詛咒的地方——這個亞乾的營帳——這個傲慢的墓穴，向著明亮開闊的天空，顯現出生不如死的鬼相——這個狹窄的石頭地獄，一個真正的魔鬼，抵得上我們想象中的一大批——簡，你不要呆在這兒，我也不呆。我明知道桑菲爾德府鬼影憧憧，卻把你帶到這兒來，這是我的過錯。我還沒有見你就已責令他們把這個地方的禍害都瞞著你，只是因為我怕你一知道與誰同住在一個屋簷下，阿黛勒就找不到肯呆在這裡的女教師了。而我的計劃又不允許我把這瘋子遷往別的地方，一—儘管我擁有一個比這裡更幽靜，更隱蔽的老房子，叫做芬丁莊園。要不是考慮到那裡地處森林中心，環境很不衛生，我良心上羞於作這樣的安排，我是很可以讓她安安穩穩地住在那兒的。那裡潮溼的牆壁可能會很快從我肩上卸下她這個包袱。不過惡棍種種，惡行各有不同，我的並不在於間接謀殺，即便是對付對我恨之入骨的人。

　　學習

　　Concealing the mad-woman's neighbourhood from you, however, was something like covering a child with a cloak and laying it down near a upas-tree: that demon's vicinage is poisoned, and always was. But I'll shut up Thornfield Hall: I'll nail up the front door and board the lower windows: I'll give Mrs. Poole two hundred a year to live here with MY WIFE, as you term that fearful hag: Grace will do much for money, and she shall have her son, the keeper at Grimsby Retreat, to bear her company and be at hand to give her aid in the paroxysms, when MY WIFE is prompted by her familiar to burn people in their beds at night, to stab them, to bite their flesh from their bones, and so on --

　　“然而，把瘋女人的住處瞞著你，不過是像用斗篷把一個孩子蓋起來，把它放在一棵箭毒樹旁邊，那魔鬼把四周都毒化了，而只毒氣不散，不過我將關閉桑菲爾德府，我要用釘子封住前門，用板條蓋沒矮窗。我要給普爾太太二百英鎊一年，讓她同我的妻子一—你稱之為可怕的女巫，一起生活。只要給錢，格雷斯願意幹很多事，而且她可以讓她在格里姆斯比收容所看門的兒子來作伴，我的妻子發作的時候，譬如受妖精的啟發要把人們夜晚燒死在床上，用刀刺他們，從骨頭上把肉咬下來的時候，格雷斯身邊好歹也有個幫手。”

　　Sir, I interrupted him, you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady: you speak of her with hate -- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel -- she cannot help being mad.

　　“先生，”我打斷他說，“對那個不幸的女人來說，你實在冷酷無情。你一談起她就恨恨地——勢不兩立。那很殘酷一一她發瘋也是身不由己的。”

　　Jane, my little darling ***so I will call you, for so you are***, you don't know what you are talking about; you misjudge me again: it is not because she is mad I hate her. If you were mad, do you think I should hate you?