Sense and Sensibility — Page 7
她慷慨大方，性情温和，令人着迷，唯独欠缺审慎。她与母亲的相似之处令人惊叹。
She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent. The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great.
埃利诺忧心地看着妹妹情感过于强烈；然而达什伍德太太却对此珍视呵护。
Elinor saw, with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility; but by Mrs. Dashwood it was valued and cherished.
她们如今相互激励，沉溺于悲痛之中。
They encouraged each other now in the violence of their affliction.
起初将她们压垮的锥心之痛，被她们主动重新唤起，一再寻觅，反复制造。
The agony of grief which overpowered them at first, was voluntarily renewed, was sought for, was created again and again.
她们将自己完全沉浸在悲伤之中，在每一个能加深痛苦的念头中寻求更多的苦楚，并下定决心永不接受任何安慰。
They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
埃利诺同样深感悲痛；然而她仍能振作，仍能自持。
Elinor, too, was deeply afflicted; but still she could struggle, she could exert herself.
她能与兄长商议，能在嫂子抵达时迎接她，并以应有的礼待相待；还能努力唤起母亲同样奋起，鼓励母亲同样克制忍耐。
She could consult with her brother, could receive her sister-in-law on her arrival, and treat her with proper attention; and could strive to rouse her mother to similar exertion, and encourage her to similar forbearance.
另一个妹妹玛格丽特是个性情温顺、心地善良的女孩；但由于她已沾染了不少玛丽安的浪漫气质，却远不及其聪慧，因此在十三岁时，看来难以在日后与姐姐们比肩。
Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored, well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life.
Vocabulary
- generous
- 慷慨大方的，乐于给予他人的
- amiable
- 和蔼可亲的，令人喜爱的
- interesting
- 有趣的，引人注意的
- prudent
- 谨慎的，明智而深思熟虑的
- resemblance
- 相似之处，外貌或性格上的相像
- strikingly
- 显著地，引人注目地
- concern
- 担忧，对某人或某事的关切
- excess
- 过度，超出正常范围的程度
- sensibility
- 敏感性，对情感的强烈感受能力
- valued
- 被珍视，被认为有价值的
- cherished
- 被珍爱，被深情地重视
- encouraged
- 鼓励，促使某人做某事
- violence
- 激烈程度，强烈的情感爆发
- affliction
- 痛苦，使人深感折磨的苦难
- agony
- 极度痛苦，身心上的剧烈折磨
- grief
- 悲痛，因失去而产生的深切哀伤
- overpowered
- 压倒，使人无法抵抗的情感力量
- voluntarily
- 自愿地，出于自己的意愿
- renewed
- 重新唤起，使再次产生或增强
- sought
- 寻求，seek的过去式
- wholly
- 完全地，彻底地
- sorrow
- 悲伤，内心深处的哀愁与忧郁
- wretchedness
- 极度痛苦，悲惨凄凉的状态
- reflection
- 沉思，对往事或情感的回忆与思考
- afford
- 提供，给予某种感受或机会
- resolved
- 下定决心，坚决决定做某事
- admitting
- 接受，允许某事物进入内心
- consolation
- 安慰，在痛苦中给予的心灵慰藉
- afflicted
- 痛苦的，受到严重折磨的
- struggle
- 努力挣扎，尽力克服困难
- exert
- 振作，努力发挥自身的能力
- consult
- 商量，请求他人意见或建议
- sister-in-law
- 嫂子或弟媳，丈夫或兄弟的妻子
- arrival
- 到达，抵达某地的时刻
- treat
- 对待，以某种方式对待他人
- proper
- 适当的，符合礼仪规范的
- strive
- 努力，尽力去做某事
- rouse
- 唤起，激励某人振作起来
- exertion
- 努力，克制自我的付出与振作
- encourage
- 鼓励，激励他人做某事
- forbearance
- 克制，忍耐情绪不爆发的能力
- good-humored
- 心情愉快的，性格开朗随和的
- well-disposed
- 心地善良的，对人友好有好意的
- imbibed
- 吸收，深受某种思想或风格影响
- romance
- 浪漫主义，对爱情和情感的幻想
- sense
- 理智，辨别是非的判断力
- bid
- 有望，bid fair表示看起来很可能
- equal
- 赶上，在才能上与他人相当
- advanced
- 年长的，处于较成熟阶段的
- period
- 时期，人生某一阶段的时间段
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