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The day of the ball drew near and madame Loisel seemed sad, uneasy, anxious. Her frock was ready, however.
晚会的日期已经近了，骆塞尔太太好像在发愁，不放心，心里有些焦躁不安。然而她的新裙袍却办好了。
Her husband said to her one evening: "What is the matter? Come, you have seemed very queer these last three days."
她丈夫某一天傍晚问她：“你怎么了？说说，这三天你很是奇怪。”
And she answered: "It annoys me not to have a single piece of jewelry, not a single ornament, nothing to put on.
于是她说：“没有一件首饰，没有一粒宝石，插的和戴的，一点儿也没有，这件事真教我心烦。
I shall look poverty-stricken. I would almost rather not go at all.”
简直太穷酸了。现在我宁可不去赴这个晚会。”
"You might wear natural flowers," said her husband. "They're very stylish at this time of year.
他接着说道：“你将来可以插戴几朵鲜花。在现在的时令里，那是很时髦的。
For ten francs you can get two or three magnificent roses.”
花个十法郎，你可以买得到两三朵很好看的玫瑰花。”
She was not convinced. "No; there's nothing more humiliating than to look poor among other women who are rich.”
她一点也听不进去。“不成……世上最教人丢脸的，就是在许多有钱的女人堆里露穷相。”
"How stupid you are!" her husband cried. "Go look up your friend, madame Forestier,
但是她丈夫高声叫唤起来：“你真糊涂！去找你的朋友伏来士洁太太，
and ask her to lend you some jewels. You're intimate enough with her to do that.”
问她借点首饰。你和她的交情，是可以开口的。”
She uttered a cry of joy: "True! I never thought of it."
她迸出了一道快活的叫唤：“这是真的。这一层我当初简直没有想过。”
The next day she went to her friend and told her of her distress.
第二天，她到她这位朋友家里去了，向她谈起了自己的烦闷。
Madame Forestier went to a wardrobe with a mirror, took out a large jewel box,
伏来士洁太太向着她那座嵌着镜子的大衣柜跟前走过去，
brought it back, opened it and said to madame Loisel: "Choose, my dear."
取出一个大的盒子，带过来打开向骆塞尔太太说：“你自己选吧，亲爱的。”
She saw first some bracelets, then a pearl necklace, then a Venetian gold cross set with precious stones, of admirable workmanship.
她最初看见许多手镯，随后一个用珍珠镶成的项圈，随后一个威尼斯款式的金十字架，镶着宝石的，做工非常精巧。
She tried on the ornaments before the mirror, hesitated and could not make up her mind to part with them, to give them back.
她在镜子跟前试着这些首饰，迟疑不决，舍不得丢开这些东西，归还这些东西。
She kept asking: "Haven't you any more?”
她老问着：“你还有没有一点什么别的？”
"Why, yes. Look further; I don't know what you like.”
“有的是，你自己找吧。我不晓得哪件合得上你的意思。”
