名著精讀《傲慢與偏見》第九章 第3節

"That is exactly what I should have supposed of you," said Elizabeth.

“我猜想得一點兒不錯，”伊麗莎白說。

"You begin to comprehend me, do you?" cried he, turning towards her.

彬格萊馬上轉過身去對她大聲說道：“你開始瞭解我啦，是嗎？”

"Oh! yes -- I understand you perfectly."

“噢，是呀──我完全瞭解你。”

"I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful."

“但願你這句話是恭維我，不過，這麼容易被人看透，那恐怕也是件可憐的事吧。”

"That is as it happens. It does not necessarily follow that a deep, intricate character is more or less estimable than such a one as yours."

“那得看情況說話。一個深沉複雜的人，未必比你這樣的人更難叫人捉摸。”

"Lizzy," cried her mother, "remember where you are, and do not run on in the wild manner that you are suffered to do at home."

她有母親連忙嚷道：“麗萃，別忘了你在作客，家裏讓你撒野慣了，你可不能到人家這裏來胡鬧。”

"I did not know before," continued Bingley immediately, "that you were a studier of character. It must be an amusing study."

“我以前倒不知道你是個研究人的性格的專家。”彬格萊馬上接下去說，“那一定是一門很有趣的學問吧。”

"Yes; but intricate characters are the most amusing. They have at least that advantage."

“不錯；可是最有趣味的還是研究複雜的性格。至少這樣的性格有研究的價值。”

"The country," said Darcy, "can in general supply but few subjects for such a study. In a country neighbourhood you move in a very confined and unvarying society."

達西說：“一般說來，鄉下人可以作爲這種研究對象的就很少。因爲在鄉下，你四周圍的人都是非常不開通、非常單調。”

"But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever."

“可是人們本身的變動很多，他們身上永遠有新的東西值得你去注意。”

"Yes, indeed," cried Mrs. Bennet, offended by his manner of mentioning a country neighbourhood. "I assure you there is quite as much of that going on in the country as in town."

班納特太太聽到剛剛達西以那樣一種口氣提到鄉下，不禁頗爲生氣，便連忙嚷道：“這才說得對呀，告訴你吧，鄉下可供研究的對象並不比城裏少。”

ful adj. 慈悲的, 可憐的

The patient was in a pitiful condition.
那個病人處於一種非常可憐的狀況。

icate['intrikit] adj. 複雜的,難懂的

I was unable to find out the intricate windings of the labyrinth.
我無法找出迷宮中撲朔迷離的路線。

rying adj. 1. 不變的,經常的,恆久的

an unvarying or habitual method of procedure.
恆久的或習慣的程序方式。