Pride and Prejudice — Page 12
我不承认这位无价之人的任何一句话或任何一个行为无法与现实相调和，而且如果他的许多言行在历史上确有其事，我也不会感到惊讶。
I will not admit that one speech or one action of this inestimable man is incapable of being reconciled with reality, and I should not wonder if many of these words and actions are historically true.
但如果柯林斯先生的创造者没有如此巧妙地为他配置班纳特先生和凯瑟琳·德·包尔夫人这两个人物，他的伟大之处便无法得到如此令人满意的展现。
But the greatness of Mr. Collins could not have been so satisfactorily exhibited if his creatress had not adjusted so artfully to him the figures of Mr. Bennet and of Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
后者，与柯林斯先生本人一样，曾被指责为夸张失真。
The latter, like Mr. Collins himself, has been charged with exaggeration.
这一指责也许有极淡薄的依据，但在我看来确实极为淡薄。
There is, perhaps, a very faint shade of colour for the charge; but it seems to me very faint indeed.
即便在今天，我也不认为找到这样的人是不可能的——尤其是女性——她们未必出身贵族，却同凯瑟琳夫人一样盛气凌人、以自我为中心、不顾礼仪。
Even now I do not think that it would be impossible to find persons, especially female persons, not necessarily of noble birth, as overbearing, as self-centred, as neglectful of good manners, as Lady Catherine.
一百年前，一位伯爵之女，身为偏僻乡村教区里权势熏天（若非慷慨好施）的贵妇，家财万贯，长期摆脱了夫权束缚，如此种种，使她有充分机会养成这些令人"愉快"的特质——而这样的机会如今已难得一见。
A hundred years ago, an earl's daughter, the Lady Powerful (if not exactly Bountiful) of an out-of-the-way country parish, rich, long out of marital authority, and so forth, had opportunities of developing these agreeable characteristics which seldom present themselves now.
至于班纳特先生，我倾向于认为，奥斯汀小姐、达西先生，乃至伊丽莎白小姐本人，都对他行为上的"失当"过于苛责了。
As for Mr. Bennet, Miss Austen, and Mr. Darcy, and even Miss Elizabeth herself, were, I am inclined to think, rather hard on him for the "impropriety" of his conduct.
他的妻子显然是个无可救药的蠢女人，过去如此，将来亦然；对于一个有理智、有骨气的男人而言，除了以讽刺的态度处之，别无他法——除非他一枪打死她或者自己。
His wife was evidently, and must always have been, a quite irreclaimable fool; and unless he had shot her or himself there was no way out of it for a man of sense and spirit but the ironic.
Vocabulary
- will
- 助动词，表示将来时或意愿
- not
- 否定词，表示否定意义
- admit
- 承认，同意某事属实
- that
- 代词或连词，指代或连接句子
- one
- 数字一，或泛指某个人或物
- speech
- 演讲，发言，或言论
- or
- 连词，表示选择或并列关系
- action
- 行动，动作，或行为
- of
- 介词，表示属有或关系
- this
- 指示代词，指代近处或前文提到的东西
- man
- 男人，成年男性
- is
- 动词be的第三人称单数现在式
- being
- 存在，或动名词形式
- with
- 介词，表示伴随或关系
- reality
- 现实，事实，真实情况
- and
- 连词，表示并列或承接
- should
- 情态动词，表示应该或可能
- wonder
- 想知道，或奇迹
- if
- 连词，表示条件或是否
- many
- 许多的，数量很多
- these
- 指示代词，指代近处的复数事物
- words
- 词，话语，言论
- are
- 动词be的复数现在式
- true
- 真实的，正确的
- But
- 连词，表示转折或对比
- the
- 定冠词，用于特指
- Mr
- 先生，用于男性名字前
- could
- 情态动词，表示可能或能够
- have
- 有，或助动词
- been
- 动词be的过去分词
- so
- 如此，这样，程度副词
- his
- 他的，男性物主代词
- had
- 有，或过去式助动词
- adjusted
- 调整，适应
- to
- 介词或不定式标记
- him
- 他，男性宾格代词
- figures
- 人物，形象，或数字
- Lady
- 女士，贵妇人
- The
- 定冠词，用于特指
- like
- 喜欢，或像
- herself
- 她自己，女性反身代词
- There
- 那里，或存在句开头
- perhaps
- 也许，可能
- very
- 非常，很
- faint
- 微弱的，淡淡的
- shade
- 阴影，或程度
- colour
- 颜色，或色彩
- for
- 介词，表示原因或目的
- charge
- 指控，控告，或收费
- but
- 但是，表示转折
- it
- 它，非人称代词
- seems
- 似乎，看起来
- me
- 我，宾格代词
- indeed
- 确实，的确
- Even
- 甚至，即使
- now
- 现在，目前
- do
- 做，或强调助动词
- think
- 认为，思考
- would
- 会，过去将来时助动词
- be
- 是，动词be原形
- impossible
- 不可能的，无法做到的
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