'O, I know you will!' she cried, with a sudden fervour of faith in him. 'Angel, I will fix the day when I will become yours for always!'
“啊,我知道你会的!”她大声说,心里突然产生了一种信赖他的强烈感情。“安琪尔,我要定一个日子,永远做你的人!”

Thus at last it was arranged between them, during that dark walk home, amid the myriads of liquid voices on the right and left.
当天往家里走的时候,在周围流水的絮絮细语里,他们终于就这样把结婚的日子定了下来。

When they reached the dairy Mr and Mrs Crick were promptly told - with injunctions to secrecy; for each of the lovers was desirous that the marriage should be kept as private as possible. The dairyman, though he had thought of dismissing her soon, now made a great concern about losing her. What should he do about his skimming? Who would make the ornamental butterpats for the Anglebury and Sandbourne ladies? Mrs Crick congratulated Tess on the shilly-shallying having at last come to an end, and said that directly she set eyes on Tess she divined that she was to be the chosen one of somebody who was no common outdoor man; Tess had looked so superior as she walked across the barton on that afternoon of her arrival; that she was of a good family she could have sworn. In point of fact Mrs Crick did remember thinking that Tess was graceful and good-looking as she approached; but the superiority might have been a growth of the imagination aided by subsequent knowledge.
他们一回到奶牛场,就立即把结婚的日于告诉了克里克老板和克里克太太——同时又叮嘱他们保守秘密——因为这一对恋人谁都不愿意把他们的婚事张扬出去。奶牛场老板本来打算不久辞退苔丝的,现在又对她的离开表示了巨大的关心。撇奶油怎么办呢?谁还会做一些花样翻新的奶油卖给安格堡和桑德波恩的小姐们呢?克里克太太为苔丝祝贺,说她结婚的日子定了下来,也不用再着急了。她还说打第一眼看见苔丝起,她就认为娶苔丝的人决不是一个普通的庄稼人;那天苔丝回来时,她走过场院的神情让人看上去就是一个贵人的样子,她敢发誓苔丝是一个大户人家的女儿。实在说来,克里克太太的确记得苔丝刚来时人长得漂亮,气质高贵,至于说她的高贵,那完全是出于后来对她的了解而想象出来的。

Tess was now carried along upon the wings of the hours, without the sense of a will. The word had been given; the number of the day written down. Her naturally bright intelligence had begun to admit the fatalistic convictions common to field-folk and those who associate more extensively with natural phenomena than with their fellow-creatures; and she accordingly drifted into that passive responsiveness to all things her lover suggested, characteristic of the frame of mind.
苔丝现在已经由不得自己了,只好随着时光的流逝得过且过。她答应嫁给他了;婚期也定了下来。她天生头脑敏锐,现在也开始接受宿命论的观点了,变得同种地的人一样了,同那些与自然现象联系多而与人类联系少的人一样了。她的情人说什么,她就被动地回答什么,这就是苔丝现在心情的特点。