考试网 >> 外语考试 >> 经典译文 >> Emma(Chapter10-12,Vo.III)

发布时间：2006-07-17 11:07     点击：

　　Emma could not speak the name of Dixon without a little blush.

　　"None; not one. He positively said that it had been known to no being in the world but their two selves."

　　"Well," said Emma, "I suppose we shall gradually grow reconciled to the idea, and I wish them very happy. But I shall always think it a very abominable sort of proceeding. What has it been but a system of hypocrisy and deceit,——espionage, and treachery?—— To come among us with professions of openness and simplicity; and such a league in secret to judge us all!——Here have we been, the whole winter and spring, completely duped, fancying ourselves all on an equal footing of truth and honour, with two people in the midst of us who may have been carrying round, comparing and sitting in judgment on sentiments and words that were never meant for both to hear.——They must take the consequence, if they have heard each other spoken of in a way not perfectly agreeable!"

　　"I am quite easy on that head," replied Mrs. Weston. "I am very sure that I never said any thing of either to the other, which both might not have heard."

　　"You are in luck.——Your only blunder was confined to my ear, when you imagined a certain friend of ours in love with the lady."

　　"True. But as I have always had a thoroughly good opinion of Miss Fairfax, I never could, under any blunder, have spoken ill of her; and as to speaking ill of him, there I must have been safe."

　　"Much, indeed!" cried Emma feelingly. "If a woman can ever be excused for thinking only of herself, it is in a situation like Jane Fairfax's.——Of such, one may almost say, that `the world is not their's, nor the world's law.'"

　　She met Mr. Weston on his entrance, with a smiling countenance, exclaiming,

CHAPTER XI

　　"Well, Miss Woodhouse!" cried Harriet, coming eagerly into the room—— "is not this the oddest news that ever was?"

发表评论： 匿名发表 用户名: 查看评论

您将承担一切因您的行为、言论而直接或间接导致的民事或刑事法律责任 留言板管理人员有权保留或删除其管辖留言中的任意内容 本站提醒：不要进行人身攻击。谢谢配合。