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“今晚揭露的真相--”哈利又想说话。 'The disclosure of to-night,' replied Rose softly, 'leaves me in the same position, with reference to you, as that in which I stood before.' “今晚揭露的真相，”露丝轻声接过话头，“对于你的问题，仍然没有改变我以前所坚持的立场。” 'You harden your heart against me, Rose,' urged her lover. “你对我真是狠心，露丝。”她的心上人急了。 'Oh Harry, Harry,' said the young lady, bursting into tears; 'I wish I could, and spare myself this pain.' “哦，哈利，哈利，”年轻的姑娘失声痛哭，“我多么想由我自己来承担这种痛苦，可我做不到。” 'Then why inflict it on yourself?' said Harry, taking her hand. 'Think, dear Rose, think what you have heard to-night.' “你干吗要让痛苦来折磨你自己？”哈利握住她的一只手，说道，“想想吧，亲爱的露丝，想一想你今晚听到的事。” 
“我听见什么了！我听见什么了！”露丝哭喊着，“无非是说，我的亲生父亲因为受不了奇耻大辱而避开所有的人--行了，我们说得够多了，哈利，说得够多了。” 'Not yet, not yet,' said the young man, detaining her as she rose. 'My hopes, my wishes, prospects, feeling: every thought in life except my love for you: have undergone a change. I offer you, now, no distinction among a bustling crowd; no mingling with a world of malice and detraction, where the blood is called into honest cheeks by aught but real disgrace and shame; but a home--a heart and home--yes, dearest Rose, and those, and those alone, are all I have to offer.' “不，还没有，还没有，”露丝站起来，年轻人拦住了她，说道，“我的希望，我的抱负，前程，感情--我对生活的所有看法都发生了变化，只有我对你的爱情没有变。现在，我要奉献给你的，绝非芸芸众生之间的显赫名声，也不是和充满怨恨与诽谤的世道同流合污，在这个世道，正直的人抬不起头，往往并不是因为他们真正干了什么可耻的事。我献给你的不过是一个家--一颗心和一个家--是的，最最亲爱的露丝，我能够奉献给你的是这些，只有这些。” 'What do you mean!' she faltered. “你这是什么意思？”她结结巴巴地说。 'I mean but this--that when I left you last, I left you with a firm determination to level all fancied barriers between yourself and me; resolved that if my world could not be yours, I would make yours mine; that no pride of birth should curl the lip at you, for I would turn from it. This I have done. Those who have shrunk from me because of this, have shrunk from you, and proved you so far right. Such power and patronage: such relatives of influence and rank: as smiled upon me then, look coldly now; but there are smiling fields and waving trees in England's richest county; and by one village church--mine, Rose, my own!--there stands a rustic dwelling which you can make me prouder of, than all the hopes I have renounced, measured a thousandfold. This is my rank and station now, and here I lay it down!' “我的意思无非是--我前次离开你的时候，作出了一个无可改变的决定，我要填平你我之间凭空想像出来的一切鸿沟。我横下一条心，如果我的天地不能成为你的天地，就把你的天地变成我的天地，决不让你受到门第观念的撤嘴嘲笑，因为我会抛弃它。这我已经做到了。那些因此而远离我的人也正是远离你的人，这证明你是对的。当初对我笑脸相迎的那些权贵、恩人，那些权势大、地位高的亲戚，现在对我冷眼相看。可是，在英格兰最富庶的一个郡里，有的是含笑的田野和随风摇曳的树林，有一所乡村教堂--那是我的教堂，露丝，我自己的--那里有一所带田园风味的房子，有了你，我会对这个家感到骄傲，看得比我所抛弃的一切希望还要骄傲一千倍。这就是我现在的身份和地位，我把这些都交给你！” 'It's a trying thing waiting supper for lovers,' said Mr. Grimwig, waking up, and pulling his pocket-handkerchief from over his head. “等相爱的人一起共进晚餐可真叫人不好受。”格林维格先生从瞌睡中醒来，拉开盖在头上的手帕，说道。 
说真的，晚餐已经开出来很久，耽误的时间长得超出情理。但无论是梅莱夫人，还是哈利、露丝（他们仨一块儿走了进来），都只字不提表示情有可原的话。 'I had serious thoughts of eating my head to-night,' said Mr. Grimwig, 'for I began to think I should get nothing else. I'll take the liberty, if you'll allow me, of saluting the bride that is to be.' “今儿晚上我真恨不得把自己脑袋吃下去，”格林维格先生说，“因为我估计别的东西我是吃不着了。如果你们不反对的话，我可要不揣冒昧，吻一下未来的新娘表示祝贺。” Mr. Grimwig lost no time in carrying this notice into effect upon the blushing girl; and the example, being contagious, was followed both by the doctor and Mr. Brownlow: some people affirm that Harry Maylie had been observed to set it, orginally, in a dark room adjoining; but the best authorities consider this downright scandal: he being young and a clergyman. 格林维格先生毫不迟疑，立刻将这一番警告付诸行动，吻了一下涨红了脸的露丝姑娘。在这个榜样的感染下，大夫和布朗罗先生二人也相继仿效。有人声称看见哈利·梅莱刚才在隔壁一间黑屋子首开先例。可是最具权威的人士认为这纯属诽谤，因为他还年轻，又是一位牧师。 'Oliver, my child,' said Mrs. Maylie, 'where have you been, and why do you look so sad? There are tears stealing down your face at this moment. What is the matter?' “奥立弗，我的孩子，”梅莱太太说道，“你上哪儿去了，干吗你看上去那样伤心？这功夫眼泪还顺着脸偷偷淌个没完，出什么事了？” It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour. 这是一个希望动辄破灭的世界，对于我们极为珍视的希望，可以给我们的天性带来最高荣誉的希望，经常都是这样。 
可怜的狄克死了。 The court was paved, from floor to roof, with human faces. Inquisitive and eager eyes peered from every inch of space. From the rail before the dock, away into the sharpest angle of the smallest corner in the galleries, all looks were fixed upon one man--Fagin. Before him and behind: above, below, on the right and on the left: he seemed to stand surrounded by a firmament, all bright with gleaming eyes. 法庭，从地板到天花板，砌满了人的面孔。每一寸空间都射出好奇而又急切的目光。从被告席前边的横栏，到旁听席最靠边的狭小角落，所有的目光都倾注在一个人身上--费金。他身前身后--上上下下，左边右边，仿佛天地之间布满闪闪发光的眼睛，将他整个包围起来。 He stood there, in all this glare of living light, with one hand resting on the wooden slab before him, the other held to his ear, and his head thrust forward to enable him to catch with greater distinctness every word that fell from the presiding judge, who was delivering his charge to the jury. At times, he turned his eyes sharply upon them to observe the effect of the slightest featherweight in his favour; and when the points against him were stated with terrible distinctness, looked towards his counsel, in mute appeal that he would, even then, urge something in his behalf. Beyond these manifestations of anxiety, he stirred not hand or foot. He had scarcely moved since the trial began; and now that the judge ceased to speak, he still remained in the same strained attitude of close attention, with his gaze ben on him, as though he listened still. 在这一片有生命的亮光照射下，他站在那里，一只手搭在面前的木板上，另一只手罩着耳朵，脑袋朝前伸出，以便把主审法官说出的每一个字都听得更清楚一些，主审法官正在向陪审团陈述对他的指控。他不时将眼光骤然转向陪审团，看看他们对一些有利于自己的细枝末节有何反应。听到主审法官用清晰得可怕的声音历数对自己不利的那些事实，他又转向自己的诉讼代理人，默默地哀求他无论如何也要替自己辩护几句。除了这些焦急的表示之外，他的手脚一动不动。开庭以来，他就几乎没有动一下。现在法官的话说完了，他却依旧保持先前那种全神贯注的紧张样子，眼睛盯着主审法官，好像还在听。 A slight bustle in the court, recalled him to himself. Looking round, he saw that the juryman had turned together, to consider their verdict. As his eyes wandered to the gallery, he could see the people rising above each other to see his face: some hastily applying their glasses to their eyes: and others whispering their neighbours with looks expressive of abhorrence. A few there were, who seemed unmindful of him, and looked only to the jury, in impatient wonder how they could delay. But in no one face--not even among the women, of whom there were many there--could he read the faintest sympathy with himself, or any feeling but one of all-absorbing interest that he should be condemned. 法庭上响起一阵轻微的喧闹，让他回过神来。他掉过头，看见陪审团凑到一块儿，正在斟酌他们的裁决。当他的目光不知不觉中落到旁听席上的时候，他看得出，人们为了看清他的相貌正争先恐后地站起来，有的匆匆戴上眼镜，有的在和旁边的人低声交谈，明摆着一副厌恶的脸色。有几个人似乎没注意他，只是一个劲儿地望着陪审团，很不耐烦，对于他们怎么这样拖拖拉拉感到不解。然而，他看不出哪一张面孔带有一丝一毫对自己的同情--甚至包括在场的许多女人--看到的只有一个共同心愿，那就是对他绳之以法。 As he saw all this in one bewildered glance, the deathlike stillness came again, and looking back he saw that the jurymen had turned towards the judge. Hush! 就在他目光惶惑地将这一切看在眼里的当儿，死一般的寂静又一次降临，他扭头一看，只见陪审员们都朝主审法官转过身来。别吱声。 
他们只是在请求准予退庭罢了。 He looked, wistfully, into their faces, one by one when they passed out, as though to see which way the greater number leant; but that was fruitless. The jailed touched him on the shoulder. He followed mechanically to the end of the dock, and sat down on a chair. The man pointed it out, or he would not have seen it. 陪审团成员出去了，他眼巴巴地挨个看着他们的脸色，似乎想看出大部分人的倾向，但毫无结果。看守碰了碰他的胳膊。他机械地走到被告席的尽头，在一把椅子上坐下来。看守刚才指了指这把椅子，要不他准还没看见。 He looked up into the gallery again. Some of the people were eating, and some fanning themselves with handkerchiefs; for the crowded place was very hot. There was one young man sketching his face in a little note-book. He wondered whether it was like, and looked on when the artist broke his pencil-point, and made another with his knife, as any idle spectator might have done. 他又一次抬起头，朝旁听席望去。有些人在吃东西，还有一些在用手绢扇风，那个地方人头攒动，真够热的。有个小伙子正在一个小笔记本上替他画速写。他很想知道究竟像不像，就一直看着，和哪位闲着没事的观众一样。这时，艺术家把铅笔尖折断了，开始用小刀重新削铅笔。 In the same way, when he turned his eyes towards the judge, his mind began to busy itself with the fashion of his dress, and what it cost, and how he put it on. There was an old fat gentleman on the bench, too, who had gone out, some half an hour before, and now come back. He wondered within himself whether this man had been to get his dinner, what he had had, and where he had had it; and pursued this train of careless thought until some new object caught his eye and roused another. 当他以相同的方式将眼睛转向法官时，他的心思又管自忙开了，法官的衣着式样如何，花费多少，是怎么穿上去的。审判席上还有一位胖胖的老先生，约莫半个小时以前出去了，这功夫才回来。他一心想知道那人是不是吃晚饭去了，吃的什么，在哪儿吃的。他漫不经心地想着这一连串的念头，直到某一个新的物体映入他的眼帘，就又顺着另一条思路胡思乱想。
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