So the girls and their mother all walked together, a child on each side of Tess, holding her hand, and looking at her meditatively from time to time, as at one who was about to do great things; her mother just behind with the smallest; the group forming a picture of honest beauty flanked by innocence, and backed by simple souled vanity. They followed the way till they reached the beginning of the ascent, on the crest of which the vehicle from Trantridge was to receive her, this limit having been fixed to save the horse the labour of the last slope. Far away behind the first hills the cliff-like dwellings of Shaston broke the line of the ridge. Nobody was visible in the elevated road which skirted the ascent save the lad whom they had sent on before them, sitting on the handle of the barrow that contained all Tess's worldly possessions.
母女俩就这样上路一起走着，苔丝的两边各有一个孩子牵着她的手，心里似乎想着什么，不时地把苔丝看上一眼，就像在看一个正要去干一番大事业的人一样；她母亲同最小的一个孩子走在后面；这一群人构成了一幅图画，中间走着诚实的美丽，两边伴随着无邪的天真，后面跟随着头脑简单的虚荣。她们就一起这样走着，一直走到山坡的底下，从特兰里奇派来的马车就在坡顶上接她，先前的这种安排，是为了免得马车爬这段坡路。在远方第一层山峦的后面，沙斯顿峭壁一样的房舍打乱了山脊的轮廓。在蜿蜒而上的大路上，除了他们派来接苔丝的小伙子而外，看不见一个人影。小伙子坐在车把上，车里装着苔丝在这世界上所有的物品。

'Bide here a bit, and the cart will soon come, no doubt,' said Mrs Durbeyfield. 'Yes, I see it yonder!'
“在这儿等一会儿吧，马车很快就要来了，这是用不着怀疑的，”德北菲尔德太太说。“好啦，我已经看见那边的马车啦！”

It had come - appearing suddenly from behind the forehead of the nearest upland, and stopping beside the boy with the barrow. Her mother and the children thereupon decided to go no farther, and bidding them a hasty goodbye Tess bent her steps up the hill.
马车已经来了——它似乎是突然从最近那片高地后面出现的，就停在推小车的小伙子旁边。因此苔丝的母亲和孩子们决定不再往前走了，苔丝在匆忙中向他们道别以后，就弯腰向山坡上走去。

They saw her white shape draw near to the spring-cart, on which her box was already placed. But before she had quite reached it another vehicle shot out from a clump of trees on the summit, came round the bend of the road there, passed the luggage-cart, and halted beside Tess, who looked up as if in great surprise.
他们看见苔丝的身影离马车越来越近，她的箱子也已经放到了马车上。但是就在她还没有完全走到马车跟前时，又有一辆马车从山顶上的一片树丛中飞快地驶了出来，它绕过路上的一段弯路，从行李车旁驶过来，停在苔丝的面前，苔丝抬头一看，似乎大吃一惊。

Her mother perceived, for the first time, that the second vehicle was not a humble conveyance like the first, but a spick-and-span gig or dogcart, highly varnished and equipped. The driver was a young man of three or four-and-twenty, with a cigar between his teeth; wearing a dandy cap, drab Jacket, breeches of the same hue, white 'neckcloth, stickup collar, and brown driving - gloves - in short, he was the handsome, horsey young buck who had visited Joan a week or two before to get her answer about Tess.
她的母亲最先看出来，第二辆车和第一辆车不一样，它不是一辆简陋寒酸的马车，而是一辆漂亮整洁的单马双轮马车，又叫狗车，漆光发亮，设备齐全。赶车的是一个二十三四岁的青年男子，嘴里叼着一根雪茄烟，头上戴一顶花哨的小帽，穿一件色彩灰暗的上衣和颜色相同的马裤，围着白色的围巾，戴着硬高领，手上戴着褐色的驾车手套——简而言之，他是一个漂亮的长着一张长脸的年轻人，就在一两个星期前，曾经拜访过琼，向她打听过苔丝的回话。

Mrs Durbeyfield clapped her hands like a child. Then she looked down, then stared again. Could she be deceived as to the meaning of this?
德北菲尔德太太像一个孩子似地鼓起掌来。鼓完掌后她看看下面，然后再看看上面。那意思还会骗了她吗？

'Is dat the gentleman-kinsman who'll make Sissy a lady?' asked the youngest child.
“要让姐姐做贵夫人的就是那个绅士亲戚吗？”最小的那个孩子问。