'Never mind holes in your stockings - they don't speak! When I was a maid, so long as I had a pretty bonnet the devil might ha' found me in heels.'
“袜子上有洞不要紧——它们又不会说话！我当姑娘的时候，只要有一顶漂亮的帽子戴，鬼才知道袜子上有洞呢。”

Her mother's pride in the girl's appearance led her to step back, like a painter from his easel, and survey her work as a whole.
看见女儿漂亮的形体，母亲心里感到骄傲，往后退了几步，就像一个画家从画架前面走开，从整体上仔细打量自己的杰作。

'You must see yourself!' she cried. 'It is much better than you was t'other day.'
“你一定要看一看你自己！”她嚷着说。“你比平时漂亮多了。”

As the looking-glass was only large enough to reflect a very small portion of Tess's person at one time, Mrs Durbeyfield hung a black cloak outside the casement, and so made a large reflector of the panes, as it is the wont of bedecking cottagers to do. After this she went downstairs to her husband, who was sitting in the lower room.
由于镜子太小，一次只能照出苔丝身体的很小一部分，德北菲尔德太太就在窗玻璃的外面挂上一件黑色的外套，用这种办法把窗玻璃变成了一面大镜子，这也是乡下村民梳妆时常用的办法。然后，她就下楼找她的丈夫去了，那时候她丈夫坐在楼下的房间里。

'I'll tell 'ee what 'tis, Durbeyfield,' said she exultingly; 'he'll never have the heart not to love her. But whatever you do, don't zay too much to Tess of his fancy for her, and this chance she has got. She is such an odd maid that it mid zet her against him, or against going there, even now. If all goes well, I shall certainly be for making some return to that pa'son at Stagfoot Lane for telling us - dear, good man!'
“我要告诉你，德北菲尔德，”她兴高采烈地说：“他决不会不爱上她的。不过无论你说什么话，都不要对苔丝多说他喜欢苔丝的话，也不要提她得到的这个机会。她是一个脾气古怪的姑娘，说多了也许她就讨厌他了，甚至于她马上就不愿到那儿去了。如果一切顺利，我一定要对鹿脚巷的那个牧师有所报答，感谢他告诉我们那些事——他真是个好人。”

However, as the moment for the girl's setting out drew nigh, when the first excitement of the dressing had passed off, a slight misgiving found place in Joan Durbeyfield's mind. It prompted the matron to say that she would walk a little way - as far as to the point where the acclivity from the valley began its first steep ascent to the outer world. At the top Tess was going to be met with the spring-cart sent by the Stoke-d'Urbervilles, and her box had already been wheeled ahead towards this summit by a lad with trucks, to be in readiness.
不过，姑娘动身的时刻越来越近了，当初梳妆打扮的兴奋一消失，琼·德北菲尔德太太的心里就出现了一阵担忧。因此这位家庭主妇说，她要送姑娘一程——要把姑娘送到山谷斜坡上的那个地点，那个斜坡是通向外部世界的第一个制高点。苔丝就在坡顶上等候斯托克·德贝维尔家派来的轻便马车，而她的行李已经由一个小伙子运到了坡顶上，做好了准备。

Seeing their mother put on her bonnet the younger children clamoured to go with her.
看见妈妈戴上了帽子，小孩子们就一起叫嚷起来，要跟她一起去。