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"Yet are you not capricious, sir?"
“你不再反反复复了，先生？”
"To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts
“对那些光靠容貌吸引我的女人，一旦我发现她们既没有灵魂也没有良心，
when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper:
一旦她们向我展示乏味、浅薄，也许还有愚蠢、粗俗和暴躁，我便成了真正的魔鬼。
but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire,
但是对眼明口快的，对心灵如火的，
and the character that bends but does not break -- at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent
对既柔顺而又稳重、既驯服而又坚强，可弯而不可折的性格，
I am ever tender and true."
我会永远温柔和真诚。”
"Had you ever experience of such a character, sir? Did you ever love such an one?"
“你遇到过这样的性格吗，先生？你爱上过这样的性格吗？”
"I love it now."
“我现在爱它了。”
"But before me: if I, indeed, in any respect come up to your difficult standard?"
“在我以前呢，假如我真的在各方面都符合你那苛刻的标准？”
"I never met your likeness. Jane, you please me, and you master me
“我从来没有遇到过可以跟你相提并论的人，简，你使我愉快，使我倾倒，
you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart;
你似乎很顺从，而我喜欢你给人的能屈能伸的感觉；
and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart.
我把一束柔软的丝线，绕过手指时，一阵颤栗，从我的胳膊涌向我心里。
I am influenced -- conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express;
我受到了感染--我被征服了。这种感染之甜蜜，不是我所能表达，
and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph I can win.
这种被征服感之魅力，远胜于我赢得的任何胜利。
Why do you smile, Jane? What does that inexplicable, that uncanny turn of countenance mean?"
你为什么笑了，简？你那令人费解、不可思议的表情变化，有什么含义？”
