Pride and Prejudice — Page 14

《傲慢与偏见》中次要人物的出色之处已经被提及过，这使得在任何篇幅中详细描述他们的精妙之处都很困难，在本文中更是不可能做到。

The goodness of the minor characters in Pride and Prejudice has been already alluded to, and it makes a detailed dwelling on their beauties difficult in any space, and impossible in this.

我们已经简略提到了班内特太太，很难说她究竟是更加妙趣横生，还是更加真实得令人不寒而栗。

Mrs. Bennet we have glanced at, and it is not easy to say whether she is more exquisitely amusing or more horribly true.

关于凯蒂和莉迪亚，大致也可以这样说；但并非每一位作者，即便是天才作者，都能如此精准地刻画出愚蠢与粗俗的思想性情，在不同年龄段的女性共同弱点上所产生的各异效果。

Much the same may be said of Kitty and Lydia; but it is not every author, even of genius, who would have differentiated with such unerring skill the effects of folly and vulgarity of intellect and disposition working upon the common weaknesses of woman at such different ages.

对于玛丽，奥斯汀小姐花费的心思相对少些，尽管她对玛丽甚至更为苛刻；不仅体现在正文之中，而且正如我们从奥斯汀·利先生所提供的那些颇具价值的传统附记中得知的，她私下里将玛丽的命运定为嫁给'菲利普斯先生的一名书记员'。

With Mary, Miss Austen has taken rather less pains, though she has been even more unkind to her; not merely in the text, but, as we learn from those interesting traditional appendices which Mr. Austen Leigh has given us, in dooming her privately to marry "one of Mr. Philips's clerks."

习惯于先抄录再转述道德格言，以及在公众场合弹奏演唱时间过长，这些固然是令人厌烦的恶习；但也许可怜的玛丽不过是那个深受福代斯说教影响的时代里，女性才学之风种种罪责的替罪羊。

The habits of first copying and then retailing moral sentiments, of playing and singing too long in public, are, no doubt, grievous and criminal; but perhaps poor Mary was rather the scapegoat of the sins of blue stockings in that Fordyce-belectured generation.

无论如何，当玛丽就莉迪亚的堕落加以道德评述时，我们很难不将对柯林斯先生所怀有的那种尊重与喜爱（当然是一种特殊的喜爱与尊重），分出一份来给予她。

It is at any rate difficult not to extend to her a share of the respect and affection (affection and respect of a peculiar kind; doubtless), with which one regards Mr. Collins, when she draws the moral of Lydia's fall.