It was the second week in May, in which the three young ladies set out together from Gracechurch Street for the town of ……, in Hertfordshire; and, as they drew near the appointed inn where Mr. Bennet's carriage was to meet them, they quickly perceived, in token of the coachman's punctuality, both Kitty and Lydia looking out of a dining-room upstairs. These two girls had been above an hour in the place, happily employed in visiting an opposite milliner, watching the sentinel on guard, and dressing a salad and cucumber.
五月已经到了第二个星期，三位年轻小姐一块儿从天恩寺街出发，到哈德福郡的某某镇去，班纳特先生事先就跟她们约定了一个小客店，打发了马车在那儿接她们，刚一到那儿，她们就看到吉蒂和丽迪雅从楼上的餐室里望着她们，这表明车夫已经准时到了。这两位姑娘已经在那儿待了一个多钟头，高高兴兴地光顾过对面的一家帽子店，看了看站岗的哨兵，又调制了一些胡瓜色拉。

After welcoming their sisters, they triumphantly displayed a table set out with such cold meat as an inn larder usually affords, exclaiming, "Is not this nice? Is not this an agreeable surprise?"
她们欢迎了两位姐姐之后，便一面得意洋洋地摆出一些菜来（都是小客店里常备的一些冷盆），一面嚷道：这多么好？你们想也没有想到吧？

"And we mean to treat you all, " added Lydia, "but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there. " Then, showing her purchases--"Look here, I have bought this bonnet. I do not think it is very pretty; but I thought I might as well buy it as not. I shall pull it to pieces as soon as I get home, and see if I can make it up any better. "
丽迪雅又说：我们存心做东道，可是要你们借钱给我们，我们自己的钱都在那边铺子里花光了。说到这里，她便把买来的那些东西拿给她们看。瞧，我买了这顶帽子。我并不觉得太漂亮；可是我想，买一顶也好。一到家我就要把它拆开来重新做过，你们看我会不会把它收拾得好一些。

And when her sisters abused it as ugly, she added, with perfect unconcern, "Oh! but there were two or three much uglier in the shop; and when I have bought some prettier-coloured satin to trim it with fresh, I think it will be very tolerable. Besides, it will not much signify what one wears this summer, after the ----shire have left Meryton, and they are going in a fortnight. "
姐姐们都说她这顶帽子很难看，她却毫不在乎地说：噢，那家铺子里还有两三顶，比这一顶还要难看得多；待我去买点儿颜色漂亮的缎子来，把它重新装饰一下，那就过得去了。再说，某某郡的民兵团，两星期之内就要开走了，他们一离开麦里屯之后，夏季随便你穿戴些什么都无所谓。

1.coachman n.赶马车人
They hired a coachman to drive them to London.
他们雇了一个马车夫赶车到伦敦去。

2.agreeable adj. 愉快的, 和蔼可亲的
I found him most agreeable.
我觉得他极易相处.

3.as soon as 一……就……
I'll write you as soon as I get there.
我一到那儿，就给你写信。

4.tolerable adj.可忍受的;可容忍的
The pain has become tolerable.
疼痛变得可以忍受了。