Tess had gone back earlier. How to break the news was more than she could think. It was a relief to her tongue to find from the faces of her parents that they already knew of their loss, though this did not lessen the self-reproach which she continued to heap upon herself for her negligence.
苔丝先前已经回去了。她简直不知道如何把这件事告诉给家里的人。不过当她从父母的脸上发现他们已经知道了他们的损失，她也就感到无需开口了。但是，这并不能减轻她内心的自责，她一直把对自己疏忽的责备堆积在心里。 

But the very shiftlessness of the household rendered the misfortune a less terrifying one to them than it would have been to a striving family, though in the present case it meant ruin, and in the other it would only have meant inconvenience. In the Durbeyfield countenances there was nothing of the red wrath that would have burnt upon the girl from parents more ambitious for her welfare. Nobody blamed Tess as she blamed herself.
但是，这件不幸的事对这户缺乏生机的人家说来，并不如像发生在一户兴旺发达的人家里那样可怕，虽然对前者意味着毁灭，对后者仅仅只是意味着不便。德北菲尔德夫妇尽管对姑娘的幸福雄心勃勃，但他们并没有气得脸色发红，把愤怒发泄在姑娘的身上。没有人像苔丝自己那样责备苔丝。

When it was discovered that the knacker and tanner would give only a very few shillings for Prince's carcase because of his decrepitude, Durbeyfield rose to the occasion.
德北菲尔德发现，由于王子衰老枯瘦，屠户和皮匠只愿出几个先令买下它的尸体，他就站起来处理这件事。

'No,' said he stoically, 'I won't sell his old body. When we d'Urbervilles was knights in the land, we didn't sell our chargers for cat's meat. Let 'em keep their shillings! He've served me well in his lifetime, and I won't part from him now.'
“不卖啦，”他泰然自若地说，“我不卖它这副老骨头了。我们德北菲尔德家当英国骑士的时候，我们从没有把我们的战马卖了做猫食。让他们把先令留给自己吧！它为我辛苦了一辈子，现在我不会让它离开的。” 

He worked harder the next day in digging a grave for Prince in the garden than he had worked for months to grow a crop for his family. When the hole was ready, Durbeyfield and his wife tied a rope round the horse and dragged him up the path towards it, the children following in funeral train. Abraham and 'Liza-Lu sobbed, Hope and Modesty discharged their griefs in loud blares which echoed from the walls; and when Prince was tumbled in they gathered round the grave. The breadwinner had been taken away from them; what would they do?
第二天，他在花园里为王子挖了一个坟坑，几个月来自己家里种庄稼，他干活也没有这样卖过力气。德北菲尔德把坟坑挖好了。就和他妻子用一根绳子把王子套上，向坟坑拖去，孩子们跟在后面为死马送葬。亚伯拉罕和丽莎·露低声哭着，盼盼和素素为了发泄他们的悲痛，就号啕大哭，声震四壁；王子被放进坟坑的时候，他们都站在坟坑的四周。为他们一家挣面包的老马没有了，他们怎么办呢？ 

'Is he gone to heaven?' asked Abraham, between the sobs.
“它上天堂去了吗？”亚伯拉罕呜咽着问。

Then Durbeyfield began to shovel in the earth and the children cried anew. All except Tess. Her face was dry and pale, as though she regarded herself in the light of a murderess.
接着，德北菲尔德开始往坟坑里铲土，孩子们又哭了起来。所有的孩子都在哭，只有苔丝没有哭。她的脸色淡漠惨白，仿佛她把自己当成了杀人凶手。