While they stood clinging to the bank they heard a splashing round the bend of the road, and presently appeared Angel Clare, advancing along the lane towards them through the water.
正当她们挤在斜坡上站着的时候,她们听见了路边拐弯的地方传来一阵水声,接着安琪尔·克莱尔就在眼前出现了,他正在水中沿着那条被水淹的小路走来。

Four hearts gave a big throb simultaneously.
她们四个人的心脏都不约而同地猛跳了一下。

His aspect was probably as un-Sabbatarian a one as a dogmatic parson's son often presented; his attire being his dairy clothes, long wading boots, a cabbage-leaf inside his hat to keep his head cool, with a thistle-spud to finish him off.
他的外表不像是过礼拜的,这大概是那个严守教条的牧师教育出来的儿子的样子吧;他穿的衣服还是在奶牛场挤奶时穿的衣服,脚上穿着走泥泞道路的靴子,帽子里面还塞了一片卷心菜叶,以保持头部的凉爽,手里拿一把小草铲,这就是他全身的装束。

'He's not going to church,' said Marian.
“他不是上教堂去的,”玛丽安说。

'No - I wish he was!' murmured Tess.
“不是的——但我希望他是上教堂去的!”苔丝低声说。

Angel, in fact, rightly or wrongly (to adopt the safe phrase of evasive controversialists), preferred sermons in stones to sermons in churches and chapels on fine summer days. This morning, moreover, he had gone out to see if the damage to the hay by the flood was considerable or not. On his walk he observed the girls from a long distance, though they had been so occupied with their difficulties of passage as not to notice him. He knew that the water had risen at that spot, and that it would quite check their progress. So he had hastened on, with a dim idea of how he could help them - one of them in particular.
实际上,对也好错也罢(借用巧舌如簧的辩论家的话),在夏季天气晴朗的日子里,安琪尔与其说在大小教堂里听人讲道,不如说是在大自然里接受教训。而且这天早晨,他还出门去了解过洪水冲走干草是不是带来了巨大的损失。他在路上老远就望见了那几个姑娘们,尽管她们把心思集中在途中的困难上而没有注意到他。他知道那个地点的水位已经升高了,也知道那片积水完全有可能成为她们路上的障碍。所以,他就急急忙忙地赶来,心里模模糊糊地想着怎样才能帮助她们——尤其是要帮助她们中间的某一个人。

The rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed quartet looked so charming in their light summer attire, clinging to the roadside bank like pigeons on a roof-slope, that he stopped a moment to regard them before coming close. Their gauzy skirts had brushed up from the grass innumerable files and butterflies which, unable to escape, remained caged in the transparent tissue as in an aviary. Angel's eye at last fell upon Tess, the hindmost of the four; she, being full of suppressed laughter at their dilemma, could not help meeting his glance radiantly.
四个姑娘的面颊红扑扑的,明亮的大眼睛水汪汪的,身穿轻盈的夏装站在路边的土坡上,就像鸽子挤在屋脊上一样,看上去是那样迷人,因此他在走到她们跟前之前,就停下来把她们端详了一番。姑娘们穿着细纱长裙,长裙的下摆从草丛中赶出来无数的飞虫和蝴蝶,它们被关在透明的裙摆之中飞不出来,就像关在笼中的小鸟一样。安琪尔的眼光终于落在了苔丝的身上。苔丝站在四人队伍的最后,正为她们进退两难而忍不住要笑的时候,接触到他的目光,不禁变得容光焕发。

He came beneath them in the water, which did not rise over his long boots; and stood looking at the entrapped flies and butterflies.
积水不比安琪尔的靴子深,他就从水中走到了她们的下边;他站在那儿,看着网罗在长裙中的飞虫和蝴蝶。

'Are you trying to get to church?' he said to Marian, who was in front, including the next two in his remark, but avoiding Tess.
“你们是想去教堂吗?”他对站在最前面的玛丽安说,说话里也包括了后面的两个,但是却把苔丝排除在外。