Sense and Sensibility — Page 5
当他向父亲许下承诺时，他心中暗自盘算，要给每位姐妹一千英镑，以增加她们的财富。
When he gave his promise to his father, he meditated within himself to increase the fortunes of his sisters by the present of a thousand pounds a-piece.
他当时确实认为自己有能力做到这一点。
He then really thought himself equal to it.
每年四千英镑的前景，加上他现有的收入，以及他亡母遗产的剩余一半，让他心中涌起一阵暖意，感到自己慷慨大方。
The prospect of four thousand a-year, in addition to his present income, besides the remaining half of his own mother's fortune, warmed his heart, and made him feel capable of generosity.
"是的，他要给她们三千英镑：这将是慷慨而体面的！
"Yes, he would give them three thousand pounds: it would be liberal and handsome!
这足以让她们过得十分宽裕。
It would be enough to make them completely easy.
三千英镑！他可以毫不费力地拿出这笔可观的钱。"
Three thousand pounds! he could spare so considerable a sum with little inconvenience."
他整日都在想这件事，连续想了好几天，并未后悔。
He thought of it all day long, and for many days successively, and he did not repent.
他父亲的葬礼刚一结束，约翰·达什伍德太太便未向婆婆发出任何通知，就带着孩子和仆从们到来了。
No sooner was his father's funeral over, than Mrs. John Dashwood, without sending any notice of her intention to her mother-in-law, arrived with her child and their attendants.
没有人能否认她来此的权利；从父亲去世的那一刻起，这所房子便属于她丈夫所有；
No one could dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father's decease;
然而她行为的失礼程度因此更甚，对于像达什伍德太太这样处境的女性而言，哪怕只有普通的情感，也必定会感到十分不快；
but the indelicacy of her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood's situation, with only common feelings, must have been highly unpleasing;
然而在她（达什伍德太太）的内心深处，有一种强烈的荣誉感，以及一种近乎浪漫的慷慨之情，使得任何此类冒犯，无论来自何人或针对何人，对她来说都是一种难以释怀的厌恶。
but in her mind there was a sense of honor so keen, a generosity so romantic, that any offence of the kind, by whomsoever given or received, was to her a source of immovable disgust.
Vocabulary
- promise
- 承诺，誓言，保证做某事
- meditated
- 深思，仔细考虑某件事情
- within
- 在...内部，在内心里
- increase
- 增加，提升某事物的数量或程度
- fortunes
- 财富，命运，钱财
- present
- 赠送，给予礼物或金钱
- pounds
- 英镑，英国货币单位
- a-piece
- 每人，各自一份
- equal
- 等于，足够，相当于某事
- prospect
- 前景，展望，未来可能性
- a-year
- 每年，按年计算
- addition
- 额外增加，补充，附加部分
- income
- 收入，定期获得的钱财
- besides
- 除此之外，另外，还有
- remaining
- 剩余的，留下来的部分
- fortune
- 财富，大笔钱财，运气
- warmed
- 温暖了，使某人感到高兴感动
- capable
- 有能力的，能够做某事
- generosity
- 慷慨，大方，乐于给予他人
- liberal
- 慷慨大方的，思想开明的
- handsome
- 英俊的，也指大方慷慨的
- completely
- 完全地，彻底地，全部地
- spare
- 匀出，节省，腾出多余的钱财
- considerable
- 相当大的，数量可观的
- sum
- 总数，一笔钱，金额
- inconvenience
- 不便，麻烦，给人带来困扰
- successively
- 连续地，接连不断地
- repent
- 后悔，悔恨，对之前行为感到遗憾
- Sooner
- 更早，no sooner than表示刚一...就...
- funeral
- 葬礼，丧礼，安葬仪式
- notice
- 通知，告知，事先的提醒
- intention
- 意图，打算，目的
- mother-in-law
- 婆婆，岳母，配偶的母亲
- attendants
- 随从，仆人，侍候人员
- dispute
- 争议，质疑，对某事提出异议
- right
- 权利，正确的，有资格做某事
- moment
- 时刻，瞬间，某个具体时间点
- decease
- 死亡，去世，正式用语
- indelicacy
- 无礼，不体面，粗鲁失礼的行为
- conduct
- 行为，举止，行动方式
- situation
- 处境，状况，所处的环境
- common
- 普通的，一般的，常见的
- highly
- 非常，极其，程度很高地
- unpleasing
- 令人不快的，不悦的，令人难受的
- mind
- 思想，心智，内心
- sense
- 感觉，意识，理智
- honor
- 荣誉，尊严，道德准则
- keen
- 强烈的，敏锐的，热切的
- romantic
- 浪漫的，感情强烈的，理想主义的
- offence
- 冒犯，侮辱，触怒他人的行为
- whomsoever
- 无论对谁，任何人，宾格形式
- source
- 来源，根源，起因
- immovable
- 不可动摇的，坚定不移的
- disgust
- 厌恶，反感，强烈的不满情绪
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