As for Tess Durbeyfield, she did not so easily dislodge the incident from her consideration. She had no spirit to dance again for a long time, though she might have had plenty of partners; but, ah! they did not speak so nicely as the strange young man had done. It was not till the rays of the sun had absorbed the young stranger's retreating figure on the hill that she shook off her temporary sadness and answered her would-be partner in the affirmative.
至于苔丝·德北菲尔德，她要把这件事从思虑中清除掉却没有那么容易。她好久都打不起精神来再去跳舞，虽然有许多人想做她的舞伴；可是，唉！他们谁说话都不像刚才那个陌生人说得叫人爱听。她一直站在那儿等着，直到山坡上那个年轻陌生人的身影在阳光中消失了，她才抛开一时的悲哀，接受了刚才想同她跳舞的人的邀请。

She remained with her comrades till dusk, and participated with a certain zest in the dancing; though, being heart-whole as yet, she enjoyed treading a measure purely for its own sake; little divining when she saw 'the soft torments, the bitter sweets, the pleasing pains, and the agreeable distresses' of those girls who had been wooed and won, what she herself was capable of in that kind. The struggles and wrangles of the lads for her hand in a jig were an amusement to her - no more; and when they became fierce she rebuked them.
她在舞场和她的伙伴们一直呆到黄昏，跳舞时也有一些热情；到现在她还情窦未开，喜欢踩着节奏跳舞纯粹是为了跳舞的缘故；当她看见那些被人追求和被人娶走的姑娘都有她们“温柔的折磨、苦味的甜蜜、可爱的痛苦和愉快的烦恼”时，她心里很少想到要是自己身陷其中能够怎样。她看到小伙子们竞相争着要同她跳一曲吉格舞时，心里头只感到好笑，并没有想到别的；当他们闹得凶了，她就责骂他们一阵。

She might have stayed even later, but the incident of her father's odd appearance and manner returned upon the girl's mind to make her anxious, and wondering what had become of him she dropped away from the dancers and bent her steps towards the end of the village at which the parental cottage lay.
她本来可以在那儿玩得更久一些，但是心里又想起了父亲古怪的样子和神态，着急起来，不知道父亲怎么样了，于是她就离开舞伴，掉转脚步朝村头她家的小屋走去。 

While yet many score yards off, other rhythmic sounds than those she had quitted became audible to her; sounds that she knew well - so well. They were a regular series of thumpings from the interior of the house, occasioned by the violent rocking of a cradle upon a stone floor, to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a vigorous gallopade, the favourite ditty of 'The Spotted Cow'--
当她走到离家几十码的地方，她听见了另外一种跟她刚刚离开的舞场上的节奏声不同的节奏声；那是她熟悉的声音——非常熟悉的声音。它们是从屋里面传出来的一连串有规律的砰砰声，原来是摇篮的猛烈摇动碰撞石头地面而发出的声音。随着摇篮的摇动，一个女声正用一种快速舞曲的一节奏唱。一首流行小调《花斑母牛》： 

I saw her lie do' - own in yon' - der green gro' - ove; Come, love!' and I'll tell' you where!'
我看见她躺——在那——边绿色的树——林里；来吧，亲爱的！我要告诉你在哪儿！