Coniston — Volume 01 — Page 13
「我不知道我是否能理解它，」他犹豫地说。
"Don't know as I'd understand it," he demurred.
「我会尽力解释你不明白的地方，」辛西娅说，她一想到这个，心就跳得飞快。
"I'll try to explain what you don't understand," said Cynthia, and her heart gave a bound at the very idea.
「真的吗？」他热切地望着她说，「真的吗？你是认真的？」
"Will you?" he said, looking at her eagerly. "Will you? You mean it?"
「当然，」她回答道，不知为何脸红了起来。「我——我得走了，」说着她拾起了缰绳。
"Certainly," she answered, and blushed, not knowing why. "I-I must be going," and she gathered up the reins.
「你什么时候把它给我？」
"When will you give it to me?"
「我从布兰普顿回来时会在制革厂停一下，」她说完便驾车离去。
"I'll stop at the tannery when I come back from Brampton," she said, and drove on.
她曾短暂地回头望了一眼，他仍然站在她离开时的那个地方。
Once she gave a fleeting glance over her shoulder, and he was still standing where she had left him.
当她在黄昏的午后阳光中归来，那光芒流淌在树林和牧场之上，他从制革厂的门里走了出来。
When she returned, in the yellow afternoon light that flowed over wood and pasture, he came out of the tannery door.
杰克·惠勒或是「快嘴」贝茨——那位走街串巷的女裁缝，几乎什么都逃不过她的眼睛——也说不出这是有意安排的，事实上她对这一点根本没有多想。
Jake Wheeler or Speedy Bates, the journeyman tailoress, from whom little escaped, could not have said it was by design--thought nothing, indeed, of that part of it.
「天哪！」快嘴从窗口朝躺在床上的露西·普雷斯科特姨妈喊道，「辛西娅给了他一本书，大得像圣经一样！」
"As I live!" cried Speedy from the window to Aunt Lucy Prescott in the bed, "if Cynthy ain't givin' him a book as big as the Bible!"
露西姨妈首先希望那是一本圣经，其次希望杰思罗会去读它。
Aunt Lucy hoped, first, that it was the Bible, and second, that Jethro would read it.
露西姨妈，以及整个科尼斯顿的国教会信徒，都相信要将迷途之人从烈火中拯救出来，而在这种拯救上，谁又能比辛西娅更心灵手巧呢！
Aunt Lucy, and Established Church Coniston in general, believed in snatching brands from the burning, and who so deft as Cynthia at this kind of snatching!
就这样，辛西娅自己有生以来第一次成了一个伪君子，却浑然不知。
So Cynthia herself was a hypocrite for once, and did not know it.
那个时候，杰思罗的罪过大多是疏于行善，而非主动作恶。
At that time Jethro's sins were mostly of omission.
Vocabulary
- Don
- 穿上；戴上衣服或帽子等
- know
- 知道；了解；认识某人或某事
- as
- 作为；当...时候；因为；像...一样
- understand
- 理解；明白；懂得某事的含义
- it
- 它；代词，指前面提到的事物
- he
- 他；男性人称代词
- try
- 尝试；努力做某事；试图
- to
- 到；向；朝向；不定式标记
- explain
- 解释；说明；阐述原因或含义
- what
- 什么；询问事物或内容
- you
- 你；你们；第二人称代词
- said
- 说；讲话；过去式的say
- and
- 和；与；连接词
- her
- 她的；她；女性人称代词
- heart
- 心脏；心；感情中枢
- gave
- 给；过去式的give
- bound
- 跳跃；跳动；急速移动
- at
- 在；位置或时间介词
- the
- 定冠词；表示特定的人或物
- very
- 非常；很；极其
- idea
- 主意；想法；概念
- Will
- 威尔；男性人名；意愿
- looking
- 看；观看；显得像
- eagerly
- 热切地；渴望地；迫不及待
- You
- 你；你们；第二人称代词
- mean
- 意思是；表示；吝啬的
- Certainly
- 当然；肯定；一定
- she
- 她；女性人称代词
- answered
- 回答；应答；过去式的answer
- blushed
- 脸红；羞红了脸；过去式的blush
- not
- 不；否定词
- knowing
- 知道；了解；现在分词形式
- why
- 为什么；原因；疑问词
- must
- 必须；一定；必然
- be
- 是；存在；系动词
- going
- 去；离开；现在分词
- gathered
- 聚集；收集；拿起；过去式
- up
- 向上；起来；方向副词
- When
- 什么时候；当...时候；疑问词
- will
- 将；会；情态动词
- give
- 给；赠送；提供
- me
- 我；我的；第一人称代词
- stop
- 停止；停留；阻止
- come
- 来；到达；到来
- back
- 回来；后面；支持
- from
- 从；来自；起点介词
- drove
- 驾驶；开车；过去式的drive
- on
- 继续；向前；在...上面
- Once
- 一次；曾经；从前
- fleeting
- 短暂的；瞬间的；转瞬即逝
- glance
- 一瞥；匆匆一看；瞥见
- over
- 越过；在...上方；介词
- shoulder
- 肩膀；肩部；身体部位
- was
- 是；过去式的be
- still
- 仍然；还是；静止的
- standing
- 站立；正在站着；现在分词
- where
- 哪里；在...地方；疑问词
- had
- 有；过去式的have
- left
- 左边；离开；过去式的leave
- him
- 他；男性人称代词宾格
- returned
- 返回；归来；过去式的return
- in
- 在...里面；在...中
- yellow
- 黄色的；黄色；颜色
- afternoon
- 下午；午后；时间概念
- light
- 光；光线；灯；不重的
- that
- 那个；那；指示代词
- flowed
- 流动；流淌；过去式的flow
- wood
- 木头；森林；树林
- came
- 来；到达；过去式的come
- out
- 出来；向外；在...外
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