Anna Karenina — Page 2

她在孩子们身上感到满足和快乐；我从不在任何事上干涉她；我让她按自己的心意管理孩子和家务。

She was contented and happy in her children; I never interfered with her in anything; I let her manage the children and the house just as she liked.

不错，她曾经是我们家的家庭教师，这确实不好。

It's true it's bad her having been a governess in our house.

这很不好！与自家的家庭教师调情，这是件低俗、粗鄙的事。

That's bad! There's something common, vulgar, in flirting with one's governess.

但那是个多好的家庭教师啊！

But what a governess!

（他清晰地回想起罗兰小姐那双淘气的黑眼睛和她的微笑。）

(He vividly recalled the roguish black eyes of Mlle. Roland and her smile.)

但不管怎样，她在家里的时候，我还是克制了自己。

But after all, while she was in the house, I kept myself in hand.

而最糟糕的是，她已经……似乎厄运偏偏要这样降临！

And the worst of it all is that she's already ... it seems as if ill-luck would have it so!

唉，唉！可是，该怎么办，怎么办呢？

Oh, oh! But what, what is to be done?

没有什么解决之道，只有生活给一切问题——哪怕是最复杂、最无解的问题——所给出的那个普遍答案。

There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble.

那答案就是：必须活在当下的需求之中——也就是忘却自我。

That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day—that is, forget oneself.

在睡眠中忘却自我，眼下是不可能的，至少要等到夜晚；他现在也无法回到那些酒瓶女人所唱的音乐中去；于是他只得在日常生活的梦幻中忘却自我。

To forget himself in sleep was impossible now, at least till nighttime; he could not go back now to the music sung by the decanter-women; so he must forget himself in the dream of daily life.

"到时候再看吧，"斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇自言自语道，起身穿上一件镶蓝色丝绸衬里的灰色晨袍，将流苏打了个结，深深吸了一口气吸入他宽阔裸露的胸膛，

"Then we shall see," Stepan Arkadyevitch said to himself, and getting up he put on a gray dressing-gown lined with blue silk, tied the tassels in a knot, and, drawing a deep breath of air into his broad, bare chest,

迈着他一贯自信的步伐走向窗口，脚尖向外，轻松地托起他那健硕的身躯。

he walked to the window with his usual confident step, turning out his feet that carried his full frame so easily.