All these young souls were passengers in the Durbeyfield ship - entirely dependent on the judgment of the two Durbeyfield adults for their pleasures, their necessities, their health, even their existence. If the heads of the Durbeyfield household chose to sail into difficulty, disaster, starvation, disease, degradation, death, thither were these half-dozen little captives under hatches compelled to sail with them - six helpless creatures, who had never been asked if they wished for life on any terms, much less if they wished for it on such hard conditions as were involved in being of the shiftless house of Durbeyfield. Some people would like to know whence the poet whose philosophy is in these days deemed as profound and trustworthy as his song is breezy and pure, gets his authority for speaking of 'Nature's holy plan'.
所有这些生灵都是德北菲尔德家族船上的乘客——他们的欢乐、他们的需要、他们的健康、甚至他们的生存，都完全取决于德北菲尔德两口子。假如德北菲尔德家的两个家长选择一条航线，要把这条船开进困苦、灾难、饥饿、疾病、屈辱、死亡中去，那么这些关在船舱里的半打小俘虏也只好被迫同他们一起进去——六个无依无靠的小生命，从来没有人问过他们对生活有什么要求，更没有人问过他们是否愿意生活在艰苦的环境里，就像他们生活在无能为力的德北菲尔德的家中一样。有些人也许想知道，那个说“大自然的神圣计划”的诗人是不是有他的根据，因为近些年来，他的哲学被认为像他的清新纯洁的诗一样，也是深刻和值得相信的。

It grew later, and neither father nor mother reappeared. Tess looked out of the door, and took a mental journey through Marlott. The village was shutting its eves. Candles and lamps were being put out everywhere: she could inwardly behold the extinguisher and the extended hand.
天色渐渐晚了，但是父亲和母亲谁也没有回来。苔丝向门外看去，心里把马洛特村想象了一番。村子正在闭上眼睛。所有地方的烛光和灯火都熄灭了：她在心里头能够看见熄灭灯火的人和伸出去的手。 

Her mother's fetching simply meant one more to fetch. Tess began to perceive that a man in indifferent health, who proposed to start on a journey before one in the morning, ought not to be at an inn at this late hour celebrating his ancient blood.
她的母亲出去找人，简直是又多了一个要找的人。苔丝开始想到，一个身体不大好的人，又要在第二天早上一点钟前上路，就不应该这么晚还呆在酒店里庆祝他的古老的血统。 

'Abraham,' she said to her little brother, 'do you put on your hat - you bain't afraid? - and go up to Rolliver's, and see what has gone wi' father and mother.'
“亚伯拉罕，”她对她的小弟弟说，“把帽子戴上，害不害怕？——到罗利弗酒店去，看看父亲和母亲是怎么回事。”

The boy jumped promptly from his seat, and opened the door, and the night swallowed him up. Half an hour passed yet again; neither man, woman, nor child returned. Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn.
孩子立即从床铺上跳下来，把门打开，身影就在黑夜里消失了。又过去了半个小时；男的、女的、老的、小的，谁都没有回来。亚伯拉罕和他的父母一样，似乎也让那个陷阱酒店给同住了、粘住了。 

'I must go myself,' she said.
“我必须自己去了，”她说。

'Liza-Lu then went to bed, and Tess, locking them all in, started on her way up the dark and crooked lane or street not made for hasty progress; a street laid out before inches of land had value, and when one-handed clocks sufficiently subdivided the day.
那时丽莎·露已经睡觉，苔丝就把他们都锁在屋里，开始走上那条漆黑弯曲的和修来不是用来走急路的小路或者小街；修那条小街的时候，还没有到寸土寸金的程度，而且那时候还是用一根针的时钟指示时间的。