To encounter her daily in the accustomed manner would be to develop what had begun. Living in such close relations, to meet meant to fall into endearment; flesh and blood could not resist it; and, having arrived at no conclusion as to the issue of such a tendency, he decided to hold aloof for the present from occupations in which they would be mutually engaged. As yet the harm done was small. But it was not easy to carry out the resolution never to approach her. He was driven towards her by every heave of his pulse.
像过去的习惯那样天天和她见面，已经开了头的事情就会继续向前发展。他们的关系既然是这样亲密，见面就意味着相互温存；这是血肉之躯不能抗拒的；既然不知道这种趋向的发展会导致什么样的结果，他决定目前还是避开他们有可能共同参与的工作。但是要坚持不同她接近的决心，却不是一件容易的事。他的脉搏每跳动一次，都把他向她的身边推动一步。

He thought he would go and see his friends. It might be possible to sound them upon this. In less than five months his term here would have ended, and after a few additional months spent upon other farms he would be fully equipped in agricultural knowledge, and in a position to start on his own account. Would not a farmer want a wife, and should a farmer's wife be a drawing-room wax-figure, or a woman who understood farming? Notwithstanding the pleasing answer returned to him by the silence he resolved to go his journey.
他想他可以去看看他的朋友们。他可以就这件事听听他们的意见。在不到五个月的时间里，他在这儿学习的时间就要结束了，然后再到其它的农场上学习几个月，他就完全具备了从事农业的知识了；也就可以独立地创建自己的事业了。一个农场主应不应该娶一个妻子？一个农场主的妻子应该是客厅里的蜡像呢，或者应该是一个懂得干农活的女人呢？不用说答案是他喜欢的那一种，尽管如此，他还是决定动身上路。

One morning when they sat down to breakfast at Talbothays Dairy some maid observed that she had not seen anything of Mr Clare that day.
有一天早晨，大家在泰波塞斯奶牛场坐下来吃饭的时候，有个姑娘注意到当天她没有看见克莱尔先生一点儿影子。

'O no,' said Dairyman Crick. 'Mr Clare has gone hwome to Emminster to spend a few days wi' his kinsfolk.'
“啊，不错，”奶牛场里的克里克老板说。“克莱尔先生已经回爱敏寺的家中去了，他要和他家里的人一起住几天。”

For four impassioned ones around that table the sunshine of the morning went out at a stroke, and the birds muffled their song. But neither girl by word or gesture revealed her blankness.
那张桌子上坐着四个情意绵缠的姑娘，对她们来说，那天早晨太阳的光芒突然黯淡无光了，鸟儿的啼鸣也变得嘶哑难听了。但是没有一个姑娘用说话或者手势来表达她们的惆怅。

'He's getting on towards the end of his time wi' me,' added the dairyman, with a phlegm which unconsciously was brutal; 'and so I suppose he is beginning to see about his plans elsewhere.'
“他在这儿跟我学习的时间就要结束了，”奶牛场老板接着说，他的话音里带着冷淡，却不知道这种冷淡就是残酷；“所以我想他已经开始考虑到其它地方去的计划了。”