The clubbists tittered, except the girl called Tess - in whom a slow heat seemed to rise at the sense that her father was making himself foolish in their eyes.
妇女会的会员们都吃吃地笑起来，只是那个叫做苔丝的姑娘除外——她意识到她的父亲在众人眼里出丑卖乖，不禁感到脸上发烧。 

'He's tired, that's all,' she said hastily, 'and he has got a lift home, because our own horse has to rest to-day.'
“他只是累了，没有别的，”她急忙说：“他是搭别人的便车回家，因为我们家的马今天休息。” 

'Bless thy simplicity, Tess,' said her companions. 'He's got his market-nitch. Haw-haw!'
“别装糊涂了吧，苔丝，”她的同伴们说，“他是在集市上喝醉了。哈哈！”

'Look here; I won't walk another inch with you, if you say any jokes about him!' Tess cried, and the colour upon her cheeks spread over her face and neck.
“听着，你们要是拿他开玩笑，那我就一步也不同你往前走了！”苔丝叫起来，脸颊上的红晕扩大了，从脸上延伸到脖子上。

In a moment her eyes grew moist, and her glance drooped to the ground. Perceiving that they had really pained her they said no more, and order again prevailed. Tess's pride would not allow her to turn her head again, to learn what her father's meaning was, if he had any; and thus she moved on with the whole body to the enclosure where there was to be dancing on the green. By the time the spot was reached she had recovered her equanimity, and tapped her neighbour with her wand and talked as usual.
不一会儿，她的眼睛湿润了，目光垂到了地上。她们看见真的让她难过了，就住口不再说了，重新整理好队伍。苔丝的自尊心不让她再扭过头去，看看她的父亲是什么意思，如果她的父亲有什么意思的话。因此，苔丝又随着队伍移动了，一直向在草地上跳舞的地方走去。一走到那个地方，苔丝就恢复了平静，用手中的柳枝轻轻地抽打她的同伴，同往常一样有说有笑了。

Tess Durbeyfield at this time of her life was a mere vessel of emotion untinctured by experience. The dialect was on her tongue to some extent, despite the village school: the characteristic intonation of that dialect for this district being the voicing approximately rendered by the syllable UR, probably as rich an utterance as any to be found in human speech. The pouted-up deep red mouth to which this syllable was native had hardly as yet settled into its definite shape, and her lower lip had a way of thrusting the middle of her top one upward, when they closed together after a word.
苔丝·德北菲尔德在她人生的这个时候，满腔的纯情还没有带上人生的经验。尽管进过乡村小学，但在她的说话里还是带有某种程度的乡音：因为这个地区的方言的特殊音调，大约就体现在音节UR的发声上，也许同任何可以发现的人类说话的言语一样丰富。要念这个本地的音节，苔丝得把她深红的嘴巴撅起来，但是又刚好没有把形状固定下来，她的下嘴唇在上嘴唇的中部有点儿撮起，念完一个字后，她才把嘴巴闭起来。

Phases of her childhood lurked in her aspect still. As she walked along to-day, for all her bouncing handsome womanliness, you could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then. Yet few knew, and still fewer considered this. A small minority, mainly strangers, would look long at her in casually passing by, and grow momentarily fascinated by her freshness, and wonder if they would ever see her again: but to almost everybody she was a fine and picturesque country girl, and no more.
她的童年的各个阶段的特征，现在仍然还留在她的身上。在她今天一路走着的时候，就她全部的一个漂亮健壮妇女的丰韵来说，有时候你在她的双颊上能够看到她十二岁时的影子，或者从她的眼睛里看到她九岁时的神情，在她的嘴角的曲线上，甚至有时候还能够看到她五岁时的模样。但是这一点很少有人知道，更没有多少人加以注意。有一小群人，主要是一群陌生人，在他们偶然路过的时候会对她看上一阵，暂时为她的新鲜美感所吸引，心想他们是不是还能再见到她：但是对其他大多数人来说，她只不过是一个俊俏的迷人的乡村姑娘而已。