Nothing was seen or heard further of Durbeyfield in his triumphal chariot under the conduct of the ostleress, and the club having entered the allotted space, dancing began. As there were no men in the company the girls danced at first with each other, but when the hour for the close of labour drew on, the masculine inhabitants of the village, together with other idlers and pedestrians, gathered round the spot, and appeared inclined to negotiate for a partner.
德北菲尔德坐在荣耀的双轮马车里，由女车夫赶着车走了，既看不见也听不见了。队伍已经走进了指定的地点，开始跳起舞来。因为队伍里没有男子，所以开始时姑娘们相互对舞着，但是随着收工时间的临近，村子里的男性居民就同其他没事的闲人和过路行人一起聚集到舞场的周围，似乎想争取到一个舞伴。

Among these on-lookers were three Young men of a superior class, carrying small knapsacks strapped to their shoulders, and stout sticks in their hands. Their general likeness to each other, and their consecutive ages, would almost have suggested that they might be, what in fact they were, brothers. The eldest wore the white tie, high waistcoat, and thin-brimmed hat of the regulation curate; the second was the normal undergraduate; the appearance of the third and youngest would hardly have been sufficient to characterize him; there was an uncribbed, uncabined aspect in his eyes and attire, implying that he had hardly as yet found the entrance to his professional groove. That he was a desultory tentative student of something and everything might only have been predicted of him.
在这群旁观的人中间有三个阶层较高的年轻男子，肩上背着小背包，手里拄着粗棍子。他们的面貌大致上相似，年龄一个比一个小，这几乎已经暗示说他们可能是亲兄弟，而实际上他们正是亲兄弟。年龄最长的一个是助理牧师，系白色的领带，穿圆领背心，戴窄边帽子；第二个是通常的大学生；最小的第三个似乎还很难看出他的身分。从他的眼神里和衣服上，可以看出一种不拘形迹的神情，暗示他到目前为止还没有找到专门职业的大门。从他身上大概可以猜测出，他是一个对什么事情都想广泛学习的学生。

These three brethren told casual acquaintance that they were spending their Whitsun holidays in a walking tour through the Vale of Blackmoor, their course being south-westerly from the town of Shaston on the north-east.
这兄弟三个告诉他们偶然遇见的人，他们正在过圣灵降临节，要步行游玩黑荒原谷，他们的路线是从东北的小镇夏斯顿往西南方向走。

They leant over the gate by the highway, and inquired as to the meaning of the dance and the white-frocked maids. The two elder of the brothers were plainly not intending to linger more than a moment, but the spectacle of a bevy of girls dancing without male partners seemed to amuse the third, and make him in no hurry to move on. He unstrapped his knapsack, put it, with his stick, on the hedge-bank, and opened the gate.
他们斜靠在大路边的栅栏门上，询问妇女穿白袍跳舞的意思。兄弟中年纪较大的两位显然不想在这儿逗留，可是看见一群姑娘跳舞而没有男子相伴，这似乎引起了老三的兴趣，使他不急着往前走了。他把背包从身上取下来，连同手中的棍子一起放在树篱坡上，把门打开了。

'What are you going to do, Angel?' asked the eldest.
“你要干什么呀，安琪儿？”大哥问。

'I am inclined to go and have a fling with them. Why not all of us - just for a minute or two - it will not detain us long?'
“我想去同她们跳一会儿舞。为什么我们不都去跳一会儿舞——就一会儿，不会耽误我们太久的。”