Her binding proceeds with clock-like monotony. From the sheaf last finished she draws a handful of ears, patting their tips with her left palm to bring them even. Then stooping low she moves forward, gathering the corn with both hands against her knees, and pushing her left gloved hand under the bundle to meet the right on the other side, holding the corn in an embrace like that of a lover. She brings the ends of the bond together, and kneels on the sheaf while she ties it, beating back her skirts now and then when lifted by the breeze. A bit of her naked arm is visible between the buff leather of the gauntlet and the sleeve of her gown; and as the day wears on its feminine smoothness becomes scarified by the stubble, and bleeds.
她不断地捆着麦子,单调得就像时钟一样。她从刚捆好的麦捆里抽出一把麦穗来,用左手掌拍着麦头儿,把它们弄整齐。然后,她向前把腰弯下去,一双手把麦堆拢到膝盖跟前,戴着手套的左手从麦堆下面伸过去,同另一边的右手会合了,就像拥抱一个情人一样把麦子抱在怀里。她把捆扎麦子的那束麦子的两头收拢来,跪在麦捆上把它捆紧,微风把她的裙子吹了起来,她也不断地把它扯回去。在她衣服的袖子和暗黄色软皮手套之间,看得见有一截裸露的胳膊露在外面;这一天慢慢过去了,女孩儿圆润的胳膊也被麦茬刺破了,流出了鲜血。

At intervals she stands up to rest, and to retie her disarranged apron, or to pull her bonnet straight. Then one can see the oval face of a handsome young woman with deep dark eyes and long heavy clinging tresses, which seem to clasp in a beseeching way anything they fall against. The cheeks are paler, the teeth more regular, the red lips thinner than is usual in a country-bred girl.
她时而站起来休息一会儿,把弄乱了的围裙重新系好,或者把头上戴的帽子拉拉整齐。这时候,你就可以看见一个年轻漂亮的女孩子了,她长着一张鸭蛋形的脸,深色的眼睛,又长又厚的头发平平整整的,好像它无论披散在什么上面,都会被紧紧地粘住。同一个寻常的乡村女孩子相比,她的脸颊更洁白,牙齿更整齐,红色的嘴唇更薄。

It is Tess Durbeyfield, otherwise d'Urberville, somewhat changed - the same, but not the same; at the present stage of her existence living as a stranger and an alien here, though it was no strange land that she was in. After a long seclusion she had come to a resolve to undertake outdoor work in her native village, the busiest season of the year in the agricultural world having arrived, and nothing that she could do within the house being so remunerative for the time as harvesting in the fields.
她就是苔丝·德北菲尔德,或者叫德贝维尔,多少有了一些变化——还是原来的她,又不是原来的她;在她目前生存的这个阶段,她的生活就像是一个陌生人,或者是这儿的一个异邦人,其实她生活的地方对她一点儿也不陌生。她在家里躲了很长一段时间,后来才下定决心走出门外,在村子里找点儿活于,因为那时候农村里一年中最忙的季节到了,她在屋里做的任何事情,都比不上当时在地里收庄稼赚的钱多。

The movements of the other women were more or less similar to Tess's, the whole bevy of them drawing together like dancers in a quadrille at the completion of a sheaf by each, every one placing her sheaf on end against those of the rest, till a shock, or 'stitch' as it was here called, of ten or a dozen was formed.
其他的妇女捆麦子的动作大体上同苔丝差不多,她们每个人捆好一捆,就像跳四对方舞的人一样,从四面聚拢来,把各自的麦捆靠着别人的竖在一起,最后形成了十捆或十二捆的一堆,或者按当地人说的那样,形成一垛。

They went to breakfast, and came again, and the work proceeded as before. As the hour of eleven drew near a person watching her might have noticed that every now and then Tess's glance flitted wistfully to the brow of the hill, though she did not pause in her sheafing. On the verge of the hour the heads of a group of children, of ages ranging from six to fourteen, rose above the stubbly convexity of the hill.
她们去吃了早饭,回到地里,又继续照常工作起来。接近十一点钟的时候,要是有人观察她,就会注意到苔丝脸上带着忧愁,不时地望着山顶,不过她手里捆麦子的动作并没有停下来。快到十一点的时候,一群年龄从六岁到十四岁的小孩子,从山坡上一块满是残茬的高地上露了出来。

The face of Tess flushed slightly, but still she did not pause.
苔丝的脸稍微一红,但是仍然捆着麦捆。