'I will do without Cambridge,' said Angel at last. 'I feel that I have no right to go there in the circumstances.'
“我不上剑桥大学也行,”安琪尔后来说。“我觉得在目前情况下,我没有权利进剑桥大学。”

The effects of this decisive debate were not long in showing themselves. He spent years and years in desultory studies, undertakings, and meditations; he began to evince considerable indifference to social forms and observances. The material distinctions of rank and wealth he increasingly despised. Even the 'good old family' (to use a favourite phrase of a late local worthy) had no aroma for him unless there were good new resolutions in its representatives. As a balance to these austerities, when he went to live in London to see what the world was like, and with a view to practising a profession or business there, he was carried off his head, and nearly entrapped by a woman much older than himself, though luckily he escaped not greatly the worse for the experience.
这场关键性的辩论结束了,它的影响不久也显现出来。多少年来,他进行了许多漫无边际的研究,尝试过多次杂乱无章的计划,进行过无数毫无系统的思考;开始对社会习俗和礼仪明显表现出满不在乎的态度。他越来越鄙夷地位、财富这种物质上的差别。在他看来,即使“古老世家”(使用近来故去的一个本地名人的字眼儿)也没有了香味,除非它的后人能有新的良好变化。为了使这种严酷单调的生活得到平衡,他就到伦敦去住,要看看伦敦的世界是什么样子,同时也为了从事一种职业或者生意在那儿进行锻炼,他在那儿遇上了一个年纪比他大得多的女人,被她迷昏厂头脑,差一点儿掉进她的陷阱,幸好他摆脱开了,没有因为这番经历吃了大亏。

Early association with country solitudes had bred in him an unconquerable, and almost unreasonable, aversion to modern life, and shut him out from such success as he might have aspired to by following a mundane calling in the impracticability of the spiritual one. But something had to be done; he had wasted many valuable years; and having an acquaintance who was starting on a thriving life as a Colonial farmer, it occurred to Angel that this might be a lead in the right direction. Farming, either in the Colonies, America, or at home - farming, at any rate, after becoming well qualified for the business by a careful apprenticeship - that was a vocation which would probably afford an independence without the sacrifice of what he valued even more than a competency - intellectual liberty.
他的幼年生活同乡村幽静生活的联系,使他对现代城市生活生出一种不可抑制的几乎是非理性的厌恶来,因此也使他同另一种成功隔离开来,使他既不愿从事精神方面的工作,也不愿立志追求一种世俗的职业。但是他不能不做一件工作;他已经虚度了许多年的宝贵光阴;后来认识了一个在殖民地务农而发达起来的朋友,因此他想到这也许是一条正确的途径。在殖民地,在美国,或者在国内务农——通过认真地学习务农,无论如何,在学会了这件事之后——也许务农是使他得到独立的一种职业,而不用牺牲他看得比可观的财产更为宝贵的东西,即精神自由。

So we find Angel Clare at six-and-twenty here at Talbothays as a student of kine, and, as there were no houses near at hand in which he could get a comfortable lodging, a boarder at the dairyman's. His room was an immense attic which ran the whole length of the dairy-house. It could only be reached by a ladder from the cheese-loft, and had been closed up for a long time till he arrived and selected it as his retreat. Here Clare had plenty of space, and could often be heard by the dairy-folk pacing up and down when the household had gone to rest. A portion was divided off at one end by a curtain, behind which was his bed, the outer part being furnished as a homely sitting-room.
因此,我们就看到安琪尔·克莱尔在二十六岁时来到泰波塞斯,做一个学习养牛的学徒,同时,因为附近找不到一个舒适的住处,所以他吃住都和奶牛场的老板在一起。他的房间是一个很大的阁楼,同整个牛奶房的长度一样长。奶酪间里有一架楼梯,只有从那儿才能上楼去,阁楼已经关闭了很长时间,他来了以后才把它打开作他的住处。克莱尔住在这儿,拥有大量空间,所有的人都睡了,奶牛场的人还听见他在那儿走来走去。阁楼的一头用帘子隔出了一部分,里面就是他的床铺,外面的部分则被布置成一个朴素的起居室。