Sense and Sensibility — Page 7
我敢说，他心里想的那种帮助，不过是些理所当然可以指望你做的事情；比如，帮他们物色一所舒适的小房子，帮他们搬运家什，每逢时令，送些鱼啊野味什么的给他们，诸如此类。
The assistance he thought of, I dare say, was only such as might be reasonably expected of you; for instance, such as looking out for a comfortable small house for them, helping them to move their things, and sending them presents of fish and game, and so forth, whenever they are in season.
我敢以性命担保，他绝没有别的意思；若是有，那才真叫奇怪，太不近情理了。
I'll lay my life that he meant nothing farther; indeed, it would be very strange and unreasonable if he did.
亲爱的达什伍德先生，您倒想想看，您的岳母和她的几个女儿，光靠七千英镑的利息就可以过得多么宽裕舒适，
Do but consider, my dear Mr. Dashwood, how excessively comfortable your mother-in-law and her daughters may live on the interest of seven thousand pounds,
何况每个女儿还各有一千英镑，每年可以带来五十英镑的收入，她们当然会从中拿出钱来付给母亲膳宿费。
besides the thousand pounds belonging to each of the girls, which brings them in fifty pounds a year a-piece, and, of course, they will pay their mother for their board out of it.
这样算下来，她们一共每年有五百英镑，天底下四个女人还能再要求什么更多的呢？
Altogether, they will have five hundred a-year amongst them, and what on earth can four women want for more than that?
她们的日子会过得多么省俭！家务开销简直微乎其微。
They will live so cheap! Their housekeeping will be nothing at all.
她们不需要马车，不需要马匹，几乎不需要什么仆人；她们不用应酬往来，也不会有任何开销！
They will have no carriage, no horses, and hardly any servants; they will keep no company, and can have no expenses of any kind!
您只管想想她们会过得多么舒适！每年五百英镑！
Only conceive how comfortable they will be! Five hundred a year!
我实在想不出她们怎么能花掉一半；至于您再额外给她们什么，那简直是异想天开。
I am sure I cannot imagine how they will spend half of it; and as to your giving them more, it is quite absurd to think of it.
倒是她们将来更有可能给您一些东西呢。"
They will be much more able to give you something."
"我的天，"达什伍德先生说，"我相信您说得完全正确。"
"Upon my word," said Mr. Dashwood, "I believe you are perfectly right."
Vocabulary
- assistance
- 帮助，援助，支持他人的行为
- dare
- 敢于，有勇气做某事
- might
- 可能，也许，表示可能性
- reasonably
- 合理地，适度地，有理由地
- expected
- 预期的，被期望的，理所当然的
- instance
- 例子，实例，用于举例说明
- comfortable
- 舒适的，令人感到安逸的
- presents
- 礼物，赠品，送给他人的物品
- game
- 猎物，打猎所得的野味
- forth
- 向前，等等，用于so forth表示等等
- whenever
- 每当，无论何时，任何时候
- season
- 季节，当令时节，适当时期
- lay
- 打赌，下注，断言某事
- meant
- 意指，打算，mean的过去式
- farther
- 更远，进一步，超出此范围
- indeed
- 确实，的确，用于加强语气
- strange
- 奇怪的，不寻常的，陌生的
- unreasonable
- 不合理的，过分的，不讲道理的
- consider
- 考虑，思考，仔细想一想
- excessively
- 过分地，极度地，超出正常程度
- mother-in-law
- 婆婆或岳母，配偶的母亲
- interest
- 利息，本金所产生的收益
- pounds
- 英镑，英国货币单位
- besides
- 除此之外，另外，加上
- belonging
- 属于，归属，belong的进行时
- a-piece
- 每人，各自，分别拥有
- board
- 食宿费，膳食费用
- Altogether
- 总共，合计，全部加在一起
- a-year
- 每年，按年计算
- amongst
- 在……之中，among的另一形式
- earth
- 究竟，到底，用于加强疑问语气
- cheap
- 廉价地，生活花费很少
- housekeeping
- 家务管理，日常家庭开支
- carriage
- 马车，用马拉的四轮交通工具
- hardly
- 几乎不，勉强，程度极少
- servants
- 仆人们，servant的复数形式
- company
- 交际，社交往来，宴请宾客
- expenses
- 开销，费用，花费的金钱
- conceive
- 想象，设想，理解某事
- imagine
- 想象，设想，在脑海中构想
- spend
- 花费，消费，用掉金钱或时间
- quite
- 相当，完全，程度副词
- absurd
- 荒谬的，可笑的，毫无道理的
- Upon
- 在……上，用于固定短语表示感叹
- word
- 荣誉，upon my word表示感叹
- perfectly
- 完全地，十分，程度副词
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