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“进来，对啦！”女主人开心地喊叫，拖一把椅子放在炉火边。“这里有两个人急需一个第三者来融解他们之间的冰块呢。你正是我们俩都会选择的人。希刺克厉夫，我很荣幸终于给你看到一个比我自己更痴心恋你的人。我希望你感到得意--不，不是耐莉；别瞧着她！我的可怜的小姑一想到你身体上与道德上的美，她的芳心都碎啦。你要是愿作埃德加的妹夫，你完全办得到！不，不，伊莎贝拉，你不要跑掉，”她接着说，带着假装闹着玩的神气，一把抓住那惊惶失措的姑娘，而她已经愤怒地站起来了。“我们为了你吵得像两只猫一样，希刺克厉夫。在诉说爱慕的誓言这方面，我可是给打败了。而且，已经通知我说，如果我只要懂得靠边站的规矩，我的情敌（她自己认为是这样的）就要把爱情的箭射进你的心灵，使你永不变心，而且把我的影子永远遗忘！” 'Catherine!' said Isabella, calling up her dignity, and disdaining to struggle from the tight grasp that held her, 'I'd thank you to adhere to the truth and not slander me, even in joke! Mr. Heathcliff, be kind enough to bid this friend of yours release me: she forgets that you and I are not intimate acquaintances; and what amuses her is painful to me beyond expression.' “凯瑟琳！”伊莎贝拉说，想起了她的尊严，不屑跟那紧紧抓住她的拳头挣扎。“我得谢谢你照实话说，而不诽谤我，即使是在说笑话！希刺克厉夫先生，作作好事叫你这位朋友放开我吧--她忘记你我并不是亲密的朋友。她觉得有趣的事，在我可正是表达不出的痛苦呢。” As the guest answered nothing, but took his seat, and looked thoroughly indifferent what sentiments she cherished concerning him, she turned and whispered an earnest appeal for liberty to her tormentor. 客人没有回答，都坐下了，对于她对他怀有什么样的情感，仿佛完全漠不关心。她又转身，低声热切地请求折磨的人快放开她。 'By no means!' cried Mrs. Linton in answer. 'I won't be named a dog in the manger again. You SHALL stay: now then! Heathcliff, why don't you evince satisfaction at my pleasant news? Isabella swears that the love Edgar has for me is nothing to that she entertains for you. I'm sure she made some speech of the kind; did she not, Ellen? And she has fasted ever since the day before yesterday's walk, from sorrow and rage that I despatched her out of your society under the idea of its being unacceptable.' “不行！”林惇夫人回答。“我不要再被人叫作马槽里的一只狗了，现在你得留在这儿。希刺克厉夫，你听了我这个好消息为什么不表示满意呢？伊莎贝拉发誓说埃德加对我的爱比起她对你的爱来是不足道的。我敢说她说了这一类的话，是不是，艾伦？而且自从前天散步以后她就又难过又愤怒，以致不吃不喝，就因为我把她从你身旁打发走了，认为你是不会接受她的。” 'I think you belie her,' said Heathcliff, twisting his chair to face them. 'She wishes to be out of my society now, at any rate!' “我想你是冤枉她了，”希刺克厉夫说，把椅子转过来朝着她们。“无论如何，现在她是愿意离开我身边的！” 
他就盯着这个谈话的对象，像是盯着一个古怪可憎的野兽一样：譬如说，从印度来的一条蜈蚣吧，不管它的样子引起了人的恶感，好奇心总会引人去观察它的。这个可怜的东西受不了这个，她脸上一阵红一阵白，同时眼泪盈眶，拚命用她的纤细的手指想把凯瑟琳的紧握的拳头扳开。而且看出来她才扳开她胳臂上的一个手指，另一个手指又把它抓住了，她不能把所有的手指一块扳开，她开始利用她的手指甲了。手指甲的锐利马上就在那扣留她的人的手上装饰上红红的月牙印子。 'There's a tigress!' exclaimed Mrs. Linton, setting her free, and shaking her hand with pain. 'Begone, for God's sake, and hide your vixen face! How foolish to reveal those talons to him. Can't you fancy the conclusions he'll draw? Look, Heathcliff! they are instruments that will do execution - you must beware of your eyes.' “好一个母老虎！”林惇夫人大叫，把她放开，痛得直甩她的手。“看在上帝的份上，滚吧，把你那泼妇的脸藏起来。当着他面就露出那些爪子可多笨呀！你不能想象他会得到什么结论吗？瞧，希刺克厉夫！这些是杀人的工具--你要当心你的眼睛啊。” 'I'd wrench them off her fingers, if they ever menaced me,' he answered, brutally, when the door had closed after her. 'But what did you mean by teasing the creature in that manner, Cathy? You were not speaking the truth, were you?' “如果这些一旦威胁到我头上，我就要把它们从手指头上拔掉，”当她跑掉后门关上时，他野蛮地回答。“可是你那样取笑这个东西是什么意思呢，凯蒂？你说的不是事实吧，是吗？” 'I assure you I was,' she returned. 'She has been dying for your sake several weeks, and raving about you this morning, and pouring forth a deluge of abuse, because I represented your failings in a plain light, for the purpose of mitigating her adoration. But don't notice it further: I wished to punish her sauciness, that's all. I like her too well, my dear Heathcliff, to let you absolutely seize and devour her up.' “我跟你保证我说的是事实话，”她回答。“好几个星期以来她苦苦地想着你。今早又为你发了一阵疯，而且破口大骂，因为我很坦白地说出你的缺点，想缓和一下她的狂恋。可是不要再注意这事了。我只想惩罚她的无耻而已。我太喜欢她啦，我亲爱的希刺克厉夫，我不容你专横地把她抓住吞掉。” 'And I like her too ill to attempt it,' said he, 'except in a very ghoulish fashion. You'd hear of odd things if I lived alone with that mawkish, waxen face: the most ordinary would be painting on its white the colours of the rainbow, and turning the blue eyes black, every day or two: they detestably resemble Linton's.' “我是太不喜欢她了，因此不打算这样作，”他说，“除非用一种非常残酷的方式。如果我跟那个让人恶心的蜡脸同居，你会听到古怪事情的。最平常的是每隔一两天那张白脸上就要画上彩虹的颜色，而且蓝眼睛就要变成黑的，那双眼睛跟林惇的眼睛相像得令人讨厌。” 
“讨人喜欢！”凯瑟琳说。“那是鸽子的眼睛--天使的眼睛！” 'She's her brother's heir, is she not?' he asked, after a brief silence. “她是她哥哥的继承人，是吧？”沉默了一会，他问。 'I should be sorry to think so,' returned his companion. 'Half a dozen nephews shall erase her title, please heaven! Abstract your mind from the subject at present: you are too prone to covet your neighbour's goods; remember THIS neighbour's goods are mine.' “想到这个，我就要抱歉了，”他的同伴回答。“有半打侄子将要取消她的权利哩。谢谢老天！目前，你不要把你的心思放在这事上吧。你太贪你邻人的财产。记住，这份邻人的财产是我的。” 'If they were MINE, they would be none the less that,' said Heathcliff; 'but though Isabella Linton may be silly, she is scarcely mad; and, in short, we'll dismiss the matter, as you advise.' “如果是我的，也还是一样，”希刺克厉夫说。“可是虽然伊莎贝拉·林惇痴，她可不疯。而且--一句话，如你所说，我们不谈这事吧。” From their tongues they did dismiss it; and Catherine, probably, from her thoughts. The other, I felt certain, recalled it often in the course of the evening. I saw him smile to himself - grin rather - and lapse into ominous musing whenever Mrs. Linton had occasion to be absent from the apartment. 他们嘴上是不谈了，而且凯瑟琳大概真的把这事忘了，我可确实感到另一个人在那天晚上常常反复思索着。只要是林惇夫人一离开这间房子，我就看见他自己在微笑--简直是在狞笑--而且沉入凶险的冥想中。 
我决心观察他的动向。我的心毫不更变地总是依附在主人身边，而不是在凯瑟琳那边。我想是有理由的，因为他仁慈、忠厚，而且可敬；而她--她也不能说是正相反。但是她仿佛过于放任自己，因此我对她的为人缺少信心，对她的情感更少同情。我愿意有什么事发生，这事可以产生这种效果，使呼啸山庄与田庄都平静地脱离了希刺克厉夫，让我们还像他没来以前那样过日子。他的拜访对于我像是种时时袭来的梦魇，我猜想，对于我的主人也是的。他住在山庄成了一种没法解释的压迫。我感觉上帝在那儿丢下了这迷途的羔羊，任它胡乱游荡，而一只恶兽暗暗徘徊在那只羊与羊栏之间，伺机跳起来毁灭它。 SOMETIMES, while meditating on these things in solitude, I've got up in a sudden terror, and put on my bonnet to go see how all was at the farm. I've persuaded my conscience that it was a duty to warn him how people talked regarding his ways; and then I've recollected his confirmed bad habits, and, hopeless of benefiting him, have flinched from re-entering the dismal house, doubting if I could bear to be taken at my word. 有时候，我独自冥想着这些事情时，就猛然恐怖地站起来，戴上帽子去看看庄园的情形怎么样。我相信我良心上觉得有责任去警告他：人们是在如何谈论着他的行动，然后我记起他那顽固的恶习，要把他改好是没希望的，我就不愿意再走进那阴惨惨的房子，怀疑我的话是否为人家接受。
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