《简·爱》 Chapter 11 第十一章（9）

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"Ah!" cried she, in French, you speak my language as well as Mr. Rochester does.

“啊！”她用法语叫道，你说我的话同罗切斯特先生说得一样好。

I can talk to you as I can to him, and so can Sophie.

我可以同你谈了，像我可以跟他谈一样。索菲娅也可以同你谈了。

She will be glad:

她会很开心的。

Nobody here understands her.

这里没有人懂她的话。

Madame Fairfax is all English.

而费尔法克斯太太又满口英语。

Sophie is my nurse; she came with me over the sea in a great ship with a chimney that smoked — how it did smoke!

索菲娅是我的保姆，同我一起乘了条大船穿过海洋，船上有个烟囱冒着烟，多浓的烟呀！

And I was sick, and so was Sophie, and so was Mr. Rochester.

我病倒了，索菲娅也病倒了，还有罗切斯特先生也病倒了。

Mr. Rochester lay down on a sofa in a pretty room called the salon¹, and Sophie and I had little beds in another place.

罗切斯特先生躺在沙发上，在一间叫沙龙的漂亮房间里，索菲娅和我睡在另一个地方的小床上。

I nearly fell out of mine; it was like a shelf.

它像个架子，我差点跌了下来。

And Mademoiselle — what is your name?

小姐，你叫什么名字？

Eyre — Jane Eyre.

爱 — 简.爱。

Aire? Bah! I cannot say it.

埃尔？啊，我说不上来。

Well, our ship stopped in the morning, before it was quite daylight,

是呀，我们的船在早晨停了下来，天还没有大亮，

at a great city — a huge city, with very dark houses and all smoky.

船在一个大城市靠了岸，一个很大的城市，房子都很黑，全都冒着烟。

Not at all like the pretty clean town I came from.

一点也不像我原来地方漂亮干净的城镇。

And Mr. Rochester carried me in his arms over a plank² to the land, and Sophie came after, and we all got into a coach,

罗切斯特先生抱着我走过一块板，来到陆地上，索菲娅跟在后面，我们坐进了一辆马车，

which took us to a beautiful large house, larger than this and finer, called an hotel.

它把我们带到了一座美丽的大房子，比这座还要大，还要好，叫做旅馆。

We stayed there nearly a week.

我们在那里呆了差不多一个星期。

I and Sophie used to walk every day in a great green place full of trees, called the Park.

我和索菲娅每天去逛一个老大的地方，种满了树，碧绿碧绿的，他们管它叫公园。

And there were many children there besides me, and a pond with beautiful birds in it, that I fed with crumbs³.

除了我，那里还有很多孩子，还有一个池塘，池塘里有很多漂亮的鸟，我用面包屑喂它们。

"Can you understand her when she runs on so fast?" asked Mrs. Fairfax.

“她讲得那么快，你能听懂吗？”费尔法克斯太太问。

I understood her very well, for I had been accustomed to the fluent tongue of Madame Pierrot.

我完全懂她的话，因为过去早已听惯了皮埃罗夫人流利的语言。

"I wish," continued the good lady,

“我希望，”这位善良的夫人继续说，

"You would ask her a question or two about her parents. I wonder if she remembers them?"

“你问她一两个关于她父母的问题，看她还记不记得她们。”

“Adèle,” I inquired, "with whom did you live when you were in that pretty clean town you spoke⁴ of?"

“阿黛勒，”我问，“在你说的那个既漂亮又干净的镇上，你跟谁一起过日子的？”

I lived long ago with mama, but she is gone to the Holy Virgin⁵.

很久以前我跟妈妈住在一起，可是她到圣母玛丽娅那儿去了。

Mama used to teach me to dance and sing, and to say verses⁶.

妈妈过去常教我跳舞、唱歌、朗诵诗歌。

A great many gentlemen and ladies came to see mama,

很多很多先生和太太来看妈妈，

and I used to dance before them, or to sit on their knees and sing to them.

我老是跳舞给他们看，或者坐在他们膝头上，唱歌给他们听。

I liked it. Shall I let you hear me sing now?

我喜欢这样，让我现在唱给你听好吗？

1 salon   

n.[法]沙龙；客厅；营业性的高级服务室

参考例句：

• Do you go to the hairdresser or beauty salon more than twice a week?你每周去美容院或美容沙龙多过两次吗？
• You can hear a lot of dirt at a salon.你在沙龙上会听到很多流言蜚语。

2 plank   

n.板条，木板，政策要点，政纲条目

参考例句：

• The plank was set against the wall.木板靠着墙壁。
• They intend to win the next election on the plank of developing trade.他们想以发展贸易的纲领来赢得下次选举。

3 crumbs   

int. (表示惊讶)哎呀 n. 碎屑 名词crumb的复数形式

参考例句：

• She stood up and brushed the crumbs from her sweater. 她站起身掸掉了毛衣上的面包屑。
• Oh crumbs! Is that the time? 啊，天哪！都这会儿啦？

4 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

5 virgin   

n.处女，未婚女子；adj.未经使用的；未经开发的

参考例句：

• Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去过原始森林吗？
• There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在边远地区有大片大片未开垦的土地。

6 verses   

诗( verse的名词复数 )； 韵文； 诗节； (的)节

参考例句：

• He quotes a few verses from Tennyson in his paper. 他在论文中引用了英国诗人丁尼生的几行诗句。
• Tom sang the verses and everybody joined in chorus. 汤姆唱独唱部分，然后大家一起唱合唱部分。