Sense and Sensibility — Page 4
但这笔来得如此迟缓的财富，他只享用了短短一年。他在叔父去世后也未能久活；加上近期的遗赠，留给他遗孀和女儿们的，不过区区一万英镑。
But the fortune, which had been so tardy in coming, was his only one twelvemonth. He survived his uncle no longer; and ten thousand pounds, including the late legacies, was all that remained for his widow and daughters.
儿子得知父亲病危，便被急召回来。达什伍德先生以病中所能调动的全部力量与迫切之情，嘱托他务必照顾好继母和几个妹妹。
His son was sent for as soon as his danger was known, and to him Mr. Dashwood recommended, with all the strength and urgency which illness could command, the interest of his mother-in-law and sisters.
约翰·达什伍德先生不像家中其他人那般情感深厚；但在这样的时刻，面对这样一番嘱托，他也深受触动，承诺将尽己所能让她们生活舒适。父亲因这番保证而得以安心，约翰·达什伍德先生这才有暇细想，自己究竟能审慎地为她们做些什么。
Mr. John Dashwood had not the strong feelings of the rest of the family; but he was affected by a recommendation of such a nature at such a time, and he promised to do every thing in his power to make them comfortable. His father was rendered easy by such an assurance, and Mr. John Dashwood had then leisure to consider how much there might prudently be in his power to do for them.
他并非一个心存恶意的年轻人——除非冷漠和自私本身便是恶意的话；但他总体上颇受人尊重，因为他在履行日常职责时行事得体。倘若他娶了一位性情更为可亲的妻子，他或许会更加令人敬重；甚至他自己也可能变得可亲起来——毕竟他婚时年纪尚轻，对妻子一往情深。然而约翰·达什伍德太太不过是他本人的一幅夸张漫画——心胸更为狭隘，自私更为突出。
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected; for he conducted himself with propriety in the discharge of his ordinary duties. Had he married a more amiable woman, he might have been made still more respectable than he was:—he might even have been made amiable himself; for he was very young when he married, and very fond of his wife. But Mrs. John Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself;—more narrow-minded and selfish.
Vocabulary
- fortune
- 财富；命运；大量金钱
- tardy
- 迟缓的，来得太晚的
- twelvemonth
- 一年，十二个月的时间
- survived
- 比某人活得更长，存活下来
- pounds
- 英镑，英国货币单位
- including
- 包括，包含在内
- late
- 已故的；晚的；最近的
- legacies
- 遗产，遗赠的财物或遗留影响
- remained
- 剩余，保留；仍然存在
- widow
- 寡妇，丈夫已去世的女性
- danger
- 危险，威胁到生命的情况
- recommended
- 推荐，建议；嘱托某人照顾
- strength
- 力气，力量；强调程度
- urgency
- 紧迫性，急切的需要
- illness
- 疾病，生病的状态
- command
- 命令；掌控，运用（能力等）
- interest
- 兴趣；利益；关注
- mother-in-law
- 岳母或婆婆，配偶的母亲
- feelings
- 感情，情感，情绪
- affected
- 受到影响，被感动；影响到
- recommendation
- 推荐，建议；嘱托
- nature
- 性质，本质；自然
- promised
- 许诺，承诺，答应做某事
- power
- 能力，权力，力量
- comfortable
- 舒适的，舒服的，安逸的
- rendered
- 使变得；提供；给予
- assurance
- 保证，承诺；自信
- leisure
- 闲暇，空闲时间，休闲
- consider
- 考虑，思考，权衡
- prudently
- 谨慎地，明智地行事
- ill-disposed
- 心存恶意的，态度不友善的
- unless
- 除非，如果不，连词
- rather
- 相当，有几分；宁可
- selfish
- 自私的，只考虑自身利益的
- general
- 总体上，一般地；普遍的
- respected
- 受到尊重的，受人敬重的
- conducted
- 行为，表现；conduct的过去式
- propriety
- 得体，礼节，行为规范
- discharge
- 履行（职责），完成（义务）
- ordinary
- 普通的，日常的，一般的
- duties
- 职责，义务，本分
- amiable
- 和蔼可亲的，友善讨人喜欢的
- respectable
- 值得尊敬的，体面的
- fond
- 喜爱的，钟情的，溺爱的
- caricature
- 讽刺漫画；夸张的滑稽模仿
- narrow-minded
- 心胸狭窄的，思想保守偏执的
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