"If you think so, you must have a strange opinion of me;
“要是你这样想，你准对我抱有成见了，
you must regard me as a plotting profligate
你一定认为我是一个诡计多端的浪子
a base and low rake who has been simulating disinterested love in order to draw you into a snare deliberately laid,
低俗下贱的恶棍，煽起没有真情的爱，把你拉进预先设置好的圈套，
and strip you of honour and rob you of self-respect.
剥夺你的名誉，打消你的自尊。
What do you say to that?
你对这有什么看法？
I see you can say nothing in the first place, you are faint still, and have enough to do to draw your breath;
我看你无话可说，首先你身子依然虚弱，还得花好些工夫才能喘过气来；

in the second place, you cannot yet accustom yourself to accuse and revile me,
其次，你还不习惯于指控我，辱骂我；
and besides, the flood-gates of tears are opened, and they would rush out if you spoke much;
此外眼泪的闸门大开着，要是你说得太多，泪水会奔涌而出，
and you have no desire to expostulate, to upbraid, to make a scene:
你没有心思来劝说，来责备，来大闹一场。
you are thinking how to act -- talking you consider is of no use. I know you -- I am on my guard."
你在思索着怎样来行动--你认为空谈无济于事。我知道你--我戒备着。”
"Sir, I do not wish to act against you," I said; and my unsteady voice warned me to curtail my sentence.
“先生，我不想与你作对，”我说，我那发抖的嗓音警告我要把话缩短。