Almost at a leap Tess thus changed from simple girl to complex woman. Symbols of reflectiveness passed into her face, and a note of tragedy at times into her voice. Her eyes grew larger and more eloquent. She became what would have been called a fine creature; her aspect was fair and arresting; her soul that of a woman whom the turbulent experiences of the last year or two had quite failed to demoralize. But for the world's opinion those experiences would have been simply a liberal education.
苔丝的思想几乎是发生了一次飞跃，从一个单纯的姑娘变成了一个复杂的女人。她的脸上融入了沉思的象征，她说话的声音里偶尔也流露出悲剧的音调。她的眼睛越长越大，也越来越富有表情。她长成了一个可以被称作美人的人了；她的面容妩媚，引人注目；她的灵魂是这样一个妇人的灵魂，有了近来一两年的纷乱经验但是没有因此堕落。要不是世俗的偏见，这些经验简直就是一种扩展心智的教育了。

She had held so aloof of late that her trouble, never generally known, was nearly forgotten in Marlott. But it became evident to her that she could never be really comfortable again in a place which had seen the collapse of her family's attempt to claim kin' - and, through her, even closer union - with the rich d'Urbervilles. At least she could not be comfortable there till long years should have obliterated her keen consciousness of it. Yet even now Tess felt the pulse of hopeful life still warm within her; she might be happy in some nook which had no memories. To escape the past and all that appertained thereto was to annihilate it, and to do that she would have to get away.
她近来离群索居，所以她的本来就不为人所知的苦恼，现在在马洛特村也差点被人忘记了。但是她现在已经看得明白，在马洛特村她的心情是永远也不会真正变得开朗了，因为她们家企图去认本家所遭到的失败是路人皆知的——而且她们的家其至还有通过她去同富有的德贝维尔家联姻的企图。至少在漫长的岁月抹去她对这件事的敏感意识之前，她是不会在马洛特村感到心情开朗的。不过就是现在，她仍然感觉到希望，生命的力量仍在她的身上热烈地搏动；也许在一个不知道她的历史的地方，她还会愉快起来。逃避过去和逃避跟过去有关的一切，就是要把过去和过去的一切消除掉，要做到这一点，她就一定得离开这里。

Was once lost always lost really true of chastity? she would ask herself. She might prove it false if she could veil bygones. The recuperative power which pervaded organic nature was surely not denied to maidenhood alone.
她向自己发问，贞洁这个东西，一旦失去了就永远失去了吗？如果她能够把过去掩盖起来，她也许就可以证明这句话是错误的了。有机的自然都有使自己得以恢复的能力，为什么唯独处女的贞洁就没有呢？

She waited a long time without finding opportunity for a new departure. A particularly fine spring came round, and the stir of germination was almost audible in the buds; it moved her, as it moved the wild animals, and made her passionate to go. At last, one day in early May, a letter reached her from a former friend of her mother's, to whom she had addressed inquiries long before - a person whom she had never seen - that a skilful milkmaid was required at a dairy-house many miles to the southward, and that the dairyman would be glad to have her for the summer months.
她等待了很久，始终没有找到重新离开这儿的机会。一个特别明媚的春天来到了，几乎听得见苞芽里生命的萌动；春天就像激励野外的动物一样激励了她，使她要急切离开这里。后来在五月初的一天，她收到了一封信，那是她母亲从前的一个朋友写给她的，很久以前，她曾经写信给她探问过。信中告诉她的南边若干英里的地方有一个奶牛场，需要一个熟练的女工，奶牛场的场主愿意在她工作一个夏天。