"How unlucky that you should have a reasonable answer to give, and that I should be so reasonable as to admit it! But I wonder how long you would have gone on, if you had been left to yourself. I wonder when you would have spoken, if I had not asked you! My resolution of thanking you for your kindness to Lydia had certainly great effect. Too much, I am afraid; for what becomes of the moral, if our comfort springs from a breach of promise? for I ought not to have mentioned the subject. This will never do."
“真不凑巧,你的回答总是这样有道理,我又偏偏这样懂道理,会承认你这个回答!我想,要是我不来理你,你不知要拖到什么时候;要是我不问你一声,不知你什么时候才肯说出来。这都是因为我拿定了主意,要感谢你对丽迪雅的好处,这才促成了这件事。我怕促成得太厉害了;如果说,我们是因为打破了当初的诺言,才获得了目前的快慰,那在道义上怎么说得过去?我实在不应该提起那件事的。实在是大错特错。”

"You need not distress yourself. The moral will be perfectly fair. Lady Catherine's unjustifiable endeavours to separate us were the means of removing all my doubts. I am not indebted for my present happiness to your eager desire of expressing your gratitude. I was not in a humour to wait for any opening of your's. My aunt's intelligence had given me hope, and I was determined at once to know every thing."
“你不有难过。道义上完全讲得过去。咖苔琳夫人蛮不讲理。想要拆散我们,这反而使我消除了种种疑虑。我并不以为目前的幸福,都是出于你对我的一片感恩图报之心。我本来就不打算等你先开口。我一听到我姨母的话,便产生了希望,于是决定要立刻把事情弄个清楚明白。”

"Lady Catherine has been of infinite use, which ought to make her happy, for she loves to be of use. But tell me, what did you come down to Netherfield for? Was it merely to ride to Longbourn and be embarrassed? or had you intended any more serious consequence?"
“咖苔琳夫人倒帮了极大的忙,她自己也应该高兴,因为她喜欢帮人家的忙。可是请你告诉我,你这次上尼日斐花园来是干什么的?难道就是为了骑着马到浪搏恩来难为情一番吗?你不没有预备要做出些正经大事来呢?”

"My real purpose was to see you, and to judge, if I could, whether I might ever hope to make you love me. My avowed one, or what I avowed to myself, was to see whether your sister were still partial to Bingley, and if she were, to make the confession to him which I have since made."
“我上这儿来的真正目的,就是为了看看你。如果可能的话,我还要想法子研究研究,是否有希望使你爱上我。至于在别人面前,在我自己心里,我总是说,是为了看看你姐姐对彬格莱是否依然有情,我就决计把这事的原委向他说明。”

"Shall you ever have courage to announce to Lady Catherine what is to befall her?"
“你有没有勇气把咖苔琳夫人的自讨没趣,向她自己宣布一遍?”

"I am more likely to want more time than courage, Elizabeth. But it ought to done, and if you will give me a sheet of paper, it shall be done directly."
“我并不是没有勇气,而是没有时间,伊丽莎白。可是这件事是应该要做的;如果你给我一张纸,我马上就来做。”

"And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt, too, who must not be longer neglected."
“要不是我自己有封信要写,我一定会象另外一位年轻的小姐一样,坐在你身旁欣赏你那工整的书法。可惜我也有一位舅母,再不能不回信给她了。”

From an unwillingness to confess how much her intimacy with Mr. Darcy had been over-rated, Elizabeth had never yet answered Mrs. Gardiner's long letter; but now, having that to communicate which she knew would be most welcome, she was almost ashamed to find that her uncle and aunt had already lost three days of happiness, and immediately wrote as follows:
且说前些时候,舅母过高地估计了伊丽莎白和达西先生的交情,伊丽莎白又不愿意把事情向舅母说明白,因此嘉丁纳太太写来的那封长信一直还没有回答,现在有了这个可喜的消息告诉她,她一定会喜欢,可是伊丽莎白倒觉得,让舅父母迟了三天才知道这个消息,真有些不好意思。她马上写道;──