"Oh! thoughtless, thoughtless Lydia!" cried Elizabeth when she had finished it. "What a letter is this, to be written at such a moment. But at least it shews that she was serious in the object of her journey. Whatever he might afterwards persuade her to, it was not on her side a scheme of infamy. My poor father! how he must have felt it!"
伊丽莎白读完了信以后叫道:“好一个没有脑子的丽迪雅!遇到这样重大的事,竟会写出这样一封信来!但是至少可以说明,她倒是把这一次旅行看成一件正经事。不管他以后会诱惑她走到哪一步田地,她可没有存心要做出什么丢脸的事来。可怜的爸爸!!他对这件事会有多少感触啊!”

"I never saw any one so shocked. He could not speak a word for full ten minutes. My mother was taken ill immediately, and the whole house in such confusion!"
“他当时惊骇得那种样子,我真一辈子也没见过。他整整十分钟说不出一句话来。妈一下子就病倒了,全家都给弄得鬼神不安!”

"Oh! Jane!" cried Elizabeth, "was there a servant belonging to it, who did not know the whole story before the end of the day?"
“噢,吉英,”伊丽莎白叫道。“岂不是所有的佣人当天都知道了这件事的底细吗?”

"I do not know. -- I hope there was. -- But to be guarded at such a time, is very difficult. My mother was in hysterics, and though I endeavoured to give her every assistance in my power, I am afraid I did not do so much as I might have done! But the horror of what might possibly happen, almost took from me my faculties."
“我不清楚,但愿他们并没有全都知道。不过在这种时候,即使你要当心,也很难办到。妈那种歇斯底里的毛病又发作了,我虽然尽了我的力量去劝慰她,恐怕还是不有够周到的地方。我只怕会出什么意外,因此吓得不知如何是好。”

"Your attendance upon her has been too much for you. You do not look well. Oh! that I had been with you, you have had every care and anxiety upon yourself alone."
“你这样待候她,真够你累的。我看你脸色不怎么好。样样事都让你一个人操心烦神,要是我跟你在一起就好了!”

"Mary and Kitty have been very kind, and would have shared in every fatigue, I am sure, but I did not think it right for either of them. Kitty is slight and delicate, and Mary studies so much, that her hours of repose should not be broken in on. My aunt Phillips came to Longbourn on Tuesday, after my father went away; and was so good as to stay till Thursday with me. She was of great use and comfort to us all, and Lady Lucas has been very kind; she walked here on Wednesday morning to condole with us, and offered her services, or any of her daughters, if they could be of use to us."
“曼丽和吉蒂都非常好心,愿意替我分担疲劳,可是我不好意思让她们受累,因为吉蒂很纤弱,曼丽又太用功,不应该再去打扰她们休息的时间。好在星期二那天,父亲一走,腓力普姨妈就到浪搏恩来了,蒙她那么好心,一直陪我到星期四才走。她帮了我们不少的忙,还安慰了我们。卢卡斯太太待我们也好,她星期三早上来慰问过我们,她说,如果我们需要她们帮忙,她和她女儿们都乐意效劳。”

"She had better have stayed at home," cried Elizabeth; "perhaps she meant well, but under such a misfortune as this, one cannot see too little of one's neighbours. Assistance is impossible; condolence, insufferable. Let them triumph over us at a distance, and be satisfied."
伊丽莎白大声说道:“还是让她待在自己家里吧,她也许真是出于一片好意,但是遇到了这样一件不幸的事,谁还乐意见到自己的邻居?他们帮我们忙帮不成功,慰问我们反而会叫我们难受。让她们在我们背后去高兴得意吧。”

She then proceeded to enquire into the measures which her father had intended to pursue, while in town, for the recovery of his daughter.
然后她又问起父亲这次到城里去,打算采用什么方法去找到丽迪雅。

"He meant, I believe," replied Jane, "to go to Epsom, the place where they last changed horses, see the postilions, and try if any thing could be made out from them. His principal object must be to discover the number of the hackney coach which took them from Clapham. It had come with a fare from London; and as he thought the circumstance of a gentleman and lady's removing from one carriage into another might be remarked, he meant to make enquiries at Clapham. If he could any how discover at what house the coachman had before set down his fare, he determined to make enquiries there, and hoped it might not be impossible to find out the stand and number of the coach. I do not know of any other designs that he had formed: but he was in such a hurry to be gone, and his spirits so greatly discomposed, that I had difficulty in finding out even so much as this."
吉英说:“我看他打算到艾普桑去,因为他们俩是在那儿换马车的,他要上那儿去找找那些马车夫,看看能不能从他们那里探听出一点消息。他的主要目的就要去查出他们在克拉普汗所搭乘的那辆出租马车的号码。那辆马车本来是从伦敦搭乘客人来的;据他的想法,一男一女从一辆马车换上另一辆马车,一定会引起人家注目,因此他准备到克拉普汗去查问。他只要查出那个马车夫在哪家门口卸下先前的那位客人,他便决定上那儿去查问一下,也许能够查问得出那辆马车的号码和停车的地方。至于他有什么别的打算,我就不知道了。他急急忙忙要走,心绪非常紊乱,我能够从他嘴里问出这么些话来,已经算是不容易了。”