Hush! say nothing -- my heart is full of delight -- my senses are entranced -- let the time I marked pass in peace."

嘘！别张嘴！一—我欣喜万分——我神魂颠倒—让我平静地度过我所规定的时间。”

I humoured him: the watch ticked on: he breathed fast and low: I stood silent.

我满足了他。手表嘀嗒嘀嗒响着，他的呼吸时紧时慢，我默默地站着。

Amidst this hush the quartet sped;

在一片静谧中一刻钟过去了。

he replaced the watch, laid the picture down, rose, and stood on the hearth.

他拿起手表，放下画，立起来，站在壁炉边。

"Now," said he, "that little space was given to delirium and delusion.

“行啦，”他说，“在那一小段时间中我己沉溺于痴心妄想了。

I rested my temples on the breast of temptation, and put my neck voluntarily under her yoke of flowers.

我把脑袋靠在诱惑的胸口，心甘情愿地把脖子伸向她花一般的枷锁。

I tasted her cup.

我尝了她的酒杯，

The pillow was burning: there is an asp in the garland:

枕头还燃着火，花环里有一条毒蛇，

the wine has a bitter taste: her promises are hollow -- her offers false:

酒有苦味，她的允诺是空的——建议是假的。

I see and know all this."

这一切我都明白。”

I gazed at him in wonder.

我惊诧不己地瞪着他。

"It is strange," pursued he, "that while I love Rosamond Oliver so wildly --

“事情也怪，”他说下去，“我那么狂热地爱着罗莎蒙德．奥利弗——

with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which is exquisitely beautiful, graceful, fascinating --

说真的怀着初恋的全部热情，而恋上的对象绝对漂亮、优雅、迷人——

I experience at the same time a calm, unwarped consciousness that she would not make me a good wife;

与此同时我又有一种宁静而不偏不倚的感悟，觉得她不会当个好妻子，

that she is not the partner suited to me; that I should discover this within a year after marriage;

不是适合我的伴侣，婚后一年之内我便会发现。

and that to twelve months' rapture would succeed a lifetime of regret.

十二个月销魂似的日子之后，接踵而来的是终身遗憾。

This I know."

这我知道。”

"Strange indeed!" I could not help ejaculating.

“奇怪，真奇怪！”我禁不住叫了起来。

"While something in me," he went on, "is acutely sensible to her charms, something else is as deeply impressed with her defects:

“我内心的某一方面，”他说下去，对她的魅力深为敏感，但另一方面对她的缺陷，印象也很深。

they are such that she could sympathise in nothing I aspired to -- co-operate in nothing I undertook.

那就是她无法对我所追求的产生共鸣——不能为我所做的事业携手合作。