She did not discover the coincidence of the market with the fair till she had reached the place, by which time it was close upon dusk. Her limited marketing was soon completed; and then as usual she began to look about for some of the Trantridge cottagers.
她一直走到了目的地,才发现集市碰巧遇到了定期集市,这时候天色已经接近黄昏。她要买的东西不多,很快就买完了;然后她就像往常一样,开始去寻找从特兰里奇来的几个村民。

At first she could not find them, and she was informed that most of them had gone to what they called a private little jig at the house of a hay-trusser and peat-dealer who had transactions with their farm. He lived in an out-of-the-way nook of the townlet, and in trying to find her course thither her eyes fell upon Mr d'Urberville standing at a street corner.
她起初没有找到他们,后来有人告诉她说,他们大多数都去参加一个私人小舞会去了,在一个同他们的农场有生意往来的卖干草和土煤的商人屋子里。那个商人住在这个小镇的偏僻角落里,她在寻路到商人屋子那儿去的时候,眼睛看见了站在街角处的德贝维尔先生。

'What - my Beauty? You here so late?' he said.
“怎么啦——我的美人儿?这样晚了你还在这儿?”他说。

She told him that she was simply waiting for company homeward.
她告诉他说,她只是在这儿等着同伴一块儿回家。

'I'll see you again,' said he over her shoulder as she went on down the back lane.
“等会儿再见,”他在她走进后面的巷子里时从她的后面说。

Approaching the hay-trussers she could hear the fiddled notes of a reel proceeding from some building in the rear; but no sound of dancing was audible - an exceptional state of things for these parts, where as a rule the stamping drowned the music. The front door being open she could see straight through the house into the garden at the back as far as the shades of night would allow; and nobody appearing to her knock she traversed the dwelling and went up the path to the outhouse whence the sound had attracted her.
她慢慢走近了干草商的家,听见了从后面一座屋子里传出来的小提琴声,那是为跳里尔舞①的人伴奏的;但是她听不见跳舞的声音——在这一带这是十分少有的情形,因为这儿一贯的情形是跳舞的脚步声淹没了音乐声。前门打开着,她从屋子里一眼看过去,能够在苍茫的夜色中远远地看见屋子后面的花园;她敲了敲门,没有人开门,她就穿过这座屋子走上了通往户外小屋的那条小路,那儿发出的音乐声吸引着她。

It was a windowless erection used for storage, and from the open door there floated into the obscurity a mist of yellow radiance, which at first Tess thought to be illuminated smoke. But on drawing nearer she perceived that it was a cloud of dust, lit by candies within the outhouse, whose beams upon the haze carried forward the outline of the doorway into the wide night of the garden.
户外小屋是一座没有窗子的建筑,用来堆放东西的,从打开的房门里,有一股黄色的发亮的烟雾飘出来,溶进屋外的昏暗中,起初苔丝把它们当成了被灯光照亮的烟雾。但是当她走得更近些后,她才发现那只是一片飞扬的尘土,是被屋内的烛光照亮的,烛光照在那层薄雾上,把门厅的轮廓投射到园子中的茫茫夜色里。

①里尔舞(Reel),一种轻快的苏格兰或爱尔兰舞,通常由两对或四对舞者共舞。