经典小说:《傲慢与偏见》第50章(4)
日期:2015-06-04 17:11

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Her husband allowed her to talk on without interruption while the servants remained. But when they had withdrawn, he said to her, "Mrs. Bennet, before you take any or all of these houses for your son and daughter, let us come to a right understanding. Into one house in this neighbourhood, they shall never have admittance. I will not encourage the impudence of either by receiving them at Longbourn."
每当有佣人在跟前的时候,她丈夫总是让她讲下去,不去岔断她的话。可是佣人一出去,他可老实不客气地跟她说了:“我的好太太,你要为你的女儿和女婿租房子,不管你要租一幢也好,或是把所有的房子都租下来也好,都得让我们事先把问题谈谈清楚。邻近的房子,一幢也不许他们来住。他们不要梦想,认为我会在浪搏恩招待他们!”


A long dispute followed this declaration, but Mr. Bennet was firm; it soon led to another, and Mrs. Bennet found, with amazement and horror, that her husband would not advance a guinea to buy clothes for his daughter. He protested that she should receive from him no mark of affection whatever on the occasion. Mrs. Bennet could hardly comprehend it. That his anger could be carried to such a point of inconceivable resentment, as to refuse his daughter a privilege without which her marriage would scarcely seem valid, exceeded all that she could believe possible. She was more alive to the disgrace which the want of new clothes must reflect on her daughter's nuptials, than to any sense of shame at her eloping and living with Wickham a fortnight before they took place.
这话一出口,两人便争吵不休;可是班纳特先生说一不二,于是又吵了起来;后来班纳特太太又发觉丈夫不肯拿出一文钱来给女儿添置一些衣服,不禁大为惊骇。班纳特先生坚决声明,丽迪雅这一次休想得到他半点疼爱,这实在叫他太太弄不懂。他竟会气愤到这样深恶痛绝的地步,连女儿出嫁都不肯优待她一番,简直要把婚礼弄得不成体统,这确实太出乎她的意料。她只知道女儿出嫁而没有嫁妆是件丢脸的事情,至于她的私奔,她没有结婚以前就跟韦翰同居了两个星期,她倒丝毫不放在心上。
Elizabeth was now most heartily sorry that she had, from the distress of the moment, been led to make Mr. Darcy acquainted with their fears for her sister; for since her marriage would so shortly give the proper termination to the elopement, they might hope to conceal its unfavourable beginning from all those who were not immediately on the spot.
伊丽莎白目前非常后悔,当初实在不应该因为一时痛苦,竟让达西先生知道了她自己家里为她妹妹担忧的经过,因为妹妹既然马上就可以名正言顺地结婚,了却那一段私奔的风流孽债,那么,开头那一段不体面的事情,她们当然希望最好不要让局外人知道。

重点讲解


1. talk on说话

例句:Talk on nothing is pretty cheap.
空口说白话有个屁用。


2. led to导致

例句:The President's assassination led to political convulsion.
总统遇刺引起了政治骚乱。


3.no mark of了无痕

例句:The building showed no mark of the flames that had consumed its upper floors.
这个建筑没有大火的痕迹了,尽管大火烧掉了它的最上面的几层楼。


4. on the spot当场; 在现场; 马上

例句:The police were on the spot within a few minutes of my telephone call.
我打电话几分钟後警察就赶到了现场。


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