Having mounted beside her, Alec d'Urberville drove rapidly along the crest of the first hill, chatting compliments to Tess as they went, the cart with her box being left far behind. Rising still, an immense landscape stretched around them on every side; behind, the green valley of her birth, before, a gray country of which she knew nothing except from her first brief visit to Trantridge. Thus they reached the verge of an incline down which the road stretched in a long straight descent of nearly a mile.
阿历克·德贝维尔上车在苔丝身边坐下,就赶马沿着第一座山的山脊快速向前驶去,一路上不住口地把苔丝恭维赞扬,而给苔丝运送箱子的大车远远地落在后面。他们越走越高,一大片风景在他们四周伸展开来,一望无垠;在他们身后,是她出生的绿色山谷,在他们前面,是一片灰色的田野,除了她在第一次到特兰里奇的短暂旅行中知道的地方而外,其它的地方她一无所知。他们就这样走到了一个山坡的顶上,再往前就是从山坡上通向下面的一条笔直大道,差不多有一英里长。

Ever since the accident with her father's horse Tess Durbeyfield, courageous as she naturally was, had been exceedingly timid on wheels; the least irregularity of motion startled her. She began to get uneasy at a certain recklessness in her conductor's driving.
尽管苔丝·德北菲尔德生来胆子就大,但是自从她父亲的马被撞死以后,苔丝一坐车就感到非常害怕;马车的行驶稍微有点儿摇晃,她就感到心惊肉跳。阿历克赶着马车横冲直撞,苔丝心里就开始感到不安了。

'You will go down slow, sir, I suppose?' she said with attempted unconcern.
“我想下山时你会慢些走吧,先生?”

D'Urberville looked round upon her, nipped his cigar with the tips of his large white centre-teeth, and allowed his lips to smile slowly of themselves.
德贝维尔扭头看看苔丝,用他的又白又大的门牙叼着雪茄烟,慢慢咧开两片嘴唇笑开了。

'Why, Tess,' he answered, after another whiff or two, 'it isn't a brave bouncing girl like you who asks that? Why, I always go down at full gallop. There's nothing like it for raising your spirits.'
“噢,苔丝,”他抽了一两口雪茄烟后回答说,“像你这样一个又大胆又健壮的大姑娘,怎么问起这个问题来了?噢,我总是打着马飞跑下山的。再没有像那样叫人痛快的了。”

'But perhaps you need not now?'
“不过现在你也许不必那样下山吧?”

'Ah,' he said, shaking his head, 'there are two to be reckoned with. It is not me alone. Tib has to be considered, and she has a very queer temper.'
“啊,”他说,“这可是两个人的事儿呀,不是我一个人作得了主。提布也要算在里面,她的脾气可是古怪得很。”

'Who?'
“提布是谁?”

'Why, this mare. I fancy she looked round at me in a very grim way 'just then. Didn't you notice it?'
“噢,就是这匹母马呀。我觉得刚才它回过头来恶狠狠地看了我一眼。你没有看见吗?”