'Of course it may,' said Angel. 'Was it not proved nineteen hundred years ago - if I may trespass upon your domain a little? Why should you think, Felix, that I am likely to drop my high thinking and my moral ideals?'
“当然可以，”安琪尔说。“如果我可以班门弄斧地说一句话，这不是在一千九百年以前就被证明了的吗？费利克斯，为什么你要以为我可能放弃高尚思想和道德理想呢？”

'Well, I fancied, from the tone of your letters and our conversation - It may be fancy only - that you were somehow losing intellectual grasp. Hasn't it struck you, Cuthbert?'
“啊，从你写的信中，从你和我们谈话的口气中——我猜想——这只是猜想——你正在慢慢地丧失理解力。你有没有这种感觉，卡斯伯特？”

'Now, Felix,' said Angel drily, 'we are very good friends, you know; each of us treading our allotted circles; but if it comes to intellectual grasp, I think you, as a contented dogmatist, had better leave mine alone, and inquire what has become of yours.'
“听着，费利克斯，”安琪尔冷冷地说。“你知道，我们都相处得非常好；我们各自做各自的事；不过如果说到理解力的话，我倒觉得你作为一个踌躇满志的教条主义者，最好不要管我的事，还是先问问你自己的事怎么样了。”

They returned down the hill to dinner, which was fixed at any time at which their father's and mother's morning work in the parish usually concluded. Convenience as regarded afternoon callers was the last thing to enter into the consideration of unselfish Mr and Mrs Clare; though the three sons were sufficiently in unison on this matter to wish that their parents would conform a little to modern notions.
他们转身下山，回家吃午饭，午饭没有固定的时间，他们的父亲和母亲什么时候结束了上午在教区的工作，就什么时候吃饭。克莱尔先生和克莱尔太太不是自私自利的人，最后还要考虑的是下午来拜访的人方不方便；但是在这件事上，三个儿子却非常一致，希望他们的父母多少能适合一点儿现代观念。

The walk had made them hungry, Angel in particular, who was now an outdoor man, accustomed to the profuse dapes inemptae of the dairyman's somewhat coarsely-laden table. But neither of the old people had arrived, and it was not till the sons were almost tired of waiting that their parents entered. The self-denying pair had been occupied in coaxing the appetites of some of their sick parishioners, whom they, somewhat inconsistently, tried to keep imprisoned in the flesh, their own appetites being quite forgotten.
他们走路走得肚子饿了，安琪尔饿得尤其厉害，他现在是在户外工作的人，已经习惯了在奶牛场老板的简陋饭桌上吃那些丰富的廉价食物。但是两个老人谁也没有回家，直到几个儿子等得不耐烦了，他们才走进门来。原来两个只顾别人的老人，一心劝说他们教区里几个生病的教民吃饭，自相矛盾地要把他们囚禁在肉体的牢狱里①，而把他们自己吃饭的事全给忘了。

The family sat down to table, and a frugal meal of cold viands was deposited before them. Angel looked round for Mrs Crick's black-puddings, which he had directed to be nicely grilled, as they did them at the dairy, and of which he wished his father and mother to appreciate the marvellous herbal savours as highly as he did himself.
一家人围着桌子坐下来，几样素朴的冷食摆在他们的面前。安琪尔转身去找克里克太太送给他的血肠，他已经吩咐按照在奶牛场烤血肠的方法把它们好好地烤一烤，他希望他的父亲和母亲能像他自己一样，非常喜欢这种加了香料的美味血肠。

①囚禁在肉体的牢狱里（keep imprisoned in the flesh），意为活在世上。基督教要求人死后上天堂，以求灵魂的解脱，因此把肉体和现世看作牢狱。