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| Chapter 25 (Vol. II, Chap. II) | 第二十五章 |
| After a week spent in professions of love and schemes of felicity, Mr. Collins was called from his amiable Charlotte by the arrival of Saturday. The pain of separation, however, might be alleviated on his side, by preparations for the reception of his bride, as he had reason to hope that shortly after his next return into Hertfordshire, the day would be fixed that was to make him the happiest of men. He took leave of his relations at Longbourn with as much solemnity as before; wished his fair cousins health and happiness again, and promised their father another letter of thanks. | 谈情说爱，筹划好事，就这样度过了一星期， 终于到了星期六，柯林斯先生不得不和心爱的 夏绿蒂告别。不过，他既已作好接新娘的准备 ，离别的愁苦也就因此减轻了，他只等下次再 来哈福郡，订出佳斯，使他成为天下最幸福的 男子。他象上次一样隆重其事地告别了浪搏恩 的亲戚们，祝贺姐妹们健康幸福，又答应给他 们的父亲再来一封谢函。 |
| On the following Monday, Mrs. Bennet had the pleasure of receiving her brother and his wife, who came as usual to spend the Christmas at Longbourn. Mr. Gardiner was a sensible, gentlemanlike man, greatly superior to his sister, as well by nature as education. The Netherfield ladies would have had difficulty in believing that a man who lived by trade, and within view of his own warehouses, could have been so well bred and agreeable. Mrs. Gardiner, who was several years younger than Mrs. Bennet and Mrs. Philips, was an amiable, intelligent, elegant woman, and a great favourite with all her Longbourn nieces. Between the two eldest and herself especially, there subsisted a very particular regard. They had frequently been staying with her in town. | 下星期一，班纳特太太的弟弟和弟妇照例到浪 搏恩来过圣诞节，班纳特太太很是欣喜。嘉丁 纳先生是个通情达理、颇有绅士风度的人物， 无论在个性方面，在所受的教育方面，都高出 他姐姐很多。他原是出身商界，见闻不出货房 堆栈之外，竟会这般有教养，这般讨人喜爱， 要是叫尼日斐花园的太太小姐们看见了，实在 难以相信。嘉丁纳太太比班纳特太太以及腓力 普太太，都要小好几岁年纪，也是个和蔼聪慧 、而又很文雅的女人，浪搏恩的外甥女儿跟她 特别亲切。她们常常进城去在她那儿待一阵子 。 |
| The first part of Mrs. Gardiner's business on her arrival, was to distribute her presents and describe the newest fashions. When this was done, she had a less active part to play. It became her turn to listen. Mrs. Bennet had many grievances to relate, and much to complain of. They had all been very ill-used since she last saw her sister. Two of her girls had been on the point of marriage, and after all there was nothing in it. | 嘉丁纳太太刚到这里，第一件事就是分发礼物 ，讲述最时新的服装式样。这件事做过以后， 她便坐在一旁，静听班纳特太太跟她说话。班 纳特太太有多少牢骚要发，又有多少苦要诉。 自从上年她弟妇走了以后，她家里受了人家欺 负。两个女儿本来快要出嫁了，到头来只落得 一场空。 |
| "I do not blame Jane," she continued, "for Jane would have got Mr. Bingley, if she could. But, Lizzy! Oh, sister! it is very hard to think that she might have been Mr. Collins's wife by this time, had not it been for her own perverseness. He made her an offer in this very room, and she refused him. The consequence of it is, that Lady Lucas will have a daughter married before I have, and that Longbourn estate is just as much entailed as ever. The Lucases are very artful people indeed, sister. They are all for what they can get. I am sorry to say it of them, but so it is. It makes me very nervous and poorly, to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else. However, your coming just at this time is the greatest of comforts, and I am very glad to hear what you tell us, of long sleeves." | "我并不怪吉英，"她接下去说，"因为吉英 要是能够嫁给彬格莱先生，她早就嫁了。可是 丽萃──唉，弟妇呀！要不是她自己那么拗性 子，说不定她已做了柯林斯先生的夫人了。他 就在这间房子里向她求婚的，她却把他拒绝了 。结果倒让卢卡斯太太有个女儿比我的女儿先 嫁出去，浪搏恩的财产从此就得让人家来继承 。的确，卢卡斯一家手腕才高明呢，弟妇。他 们都是为了要捞进这一笔财产。我本来也不忍 心就这样编派他们，不过事实的确如此。我在 家里既然过得这样不称心，又偏偏碰到这些只 顾自己不顾别人的邻舍，真弄得我神经也坏了 ，人也病了。你可来得正是时候，给了我极大 的安慰，我非常喜欢听你讲的那些......长袖子 的事情。" |
| Mrs. Gardiner, to whom the chief of this news had been given before, in the course of Jane and Elizabeth's correspondence with her, made her sister a slight answer, and, in compassion to her nieces, turned the conversation. | 嘉丁纳太太远在跟吉英以及伊丽莎白通信的时 候，大体上就已经知道了她们家里最近发生的 这些事情，又为了体贴外甥女儿们起见，只稍 微敷衍了班纳特太太几句，便把这个话题岔开 了。 |
| When alone with Elizabeth afterwards, she spoke more on the subject. "It seems likely to have been a desirable match for Jane," said she. "I am sorry it went off. But these things happen so often! A young man, such as you describe Mr. Bingley, so easily falls in love with a pretty girl for a few weeks, and when accident separates them, so easily forgets her, that these sort of inconstancies are very frequent." | 后来伊丽莎白跟她两人在一起的时候，又谈到 了这件事。她说："这倒也许是吉英的一门美 满亲事，只可惜吹了。可是这种情形往往是难 免！象你所说的彬格莱先生这样的青年，往往 不消几个星期的工夫，就会受上一位美丽的姑 娘，等到有一件偶然的事故把他们分开了，他 也就很容易把她忘了，这种见异思迁的事情多 的是。" |
| "An excellent consolation in its way," said Elizabeth, "but it will not do for us. We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl, whom he was violently in love with only a few days before." | "你这样的安慰完全是出于一片好心，"伊丽 莎白说。"可惜安慰不了我们。我们吃亏并不 是吃在偶然的事情上面。一个独立自主的青年 ，几天以前刚刚跟一位姑娘打得火热，现在遭 到了他自己朋友们的干涉，就把她丢了，这事 情倒不多见。" |
| "But that expression of ``violently in love'' is so hackneyed, so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea. It is as often applied to feelings which arise from an half-hour's acquaintance, as to a real, strong attachment. Pray, how violentwas Mr. Bingley's love?" | "不过，所谓'打得火热'这种话未免太陈腐 ，太笼统，太不切合实际，我简直抓不往一点 儿概念。这种话通常总是用来形容男女一见钟 情的场面，也用来形容一种真正的热烈感情。 请问，彬格莱先生的爱情火热到什么程度？" |
| "I never saw a more promising inclination. He was growing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her. Every time they met, it was more decided and remarkable. At his own ball he offended two or three young ladies by not asking them to dance, and I spoke to him twice myself without receiving an answer. Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?" | "我从来没有看见过象他那样的一往情深；他 越来越不去理会别人，把整个的心都放在她身 上。他们俩每见一次面，事情就愈显得明朗， 愈显得露骨。在他自己所开的一次跳舞会上， 他得罪了两三位年轻的小姐，没有邀请她们跳 舞；我找他说过两次话，他也没有理我。这还 不能算是尽心尽意吗？宁可为了一个人而得罪 大家，这难道不是恋爱场上最可贵的地方？" |
| "Oh, yes! -- of that kind of love which I suppose him to have felt. Poor Jane! I am sorry for her, because, with her disposition, she may not get over it immediately. It had better have happened to you, Lizzy; you would have laughed yourself out of it sooner. But do you think she would be prevailed on to go back with us? Change of scene might be of service -- and perhaps a little relief from home, may be as useful as anything." | "噢，原来如此！这样看来，他的确对她情深 意切。可怜的吉英！我真替她难受，照她的性 |
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