On a thyme-scented, bird-hatching morning in May, between two and three years after the return from Trantridge - silent reconstructive years for Tess Durbeyfield - she left her home for the second time.
五月的一个早晨，麝香草散发着香气，小鸟还在孵蛋，苔丝从特兰里奇回来大约两三年后——这几年她心灵的创伤悄悄地平复了——又第二次离开了家门。

Having packed up her luggage so that it could be sent to her later, she started in a hired trap for the little town of Stourcastle, through which it was necessary to pass on her journey, now in a direction almost opposite to that of her first adventuring. On the curve of the nearest hill she looked back regretfully at Marlott and her father's house, although she had been so anxious to get away.
她收拾好以后再给她送去的行李，就坐上一辆雇来的双轮轻便马车，动身去斯图尔堡的一座小镇。她途中必须从那个小镇经过，因为这次行程的方向同她第一次鲁莽离家的方向几乎完全相反。尽管她十分渴望远走他乡，但是走到最近那个山丘拐弯的地方，她又回过头去，满腹惆怅地望了望马洛特村和她父亲的房屋。

Her kindred dwelling there would probably continue their dally lives as heretofore, with no great diminution of pleasure in their consciousness, although she would be far off, and they deprived of her smile. In a few days the children would engage in their games as merrily as ever without the sense of any gap left by her departure. This leaving of the younger children she had decided to be for the best; were she to remain they would probably gain less good by her precepts than harm by her example.
在那所房屋里住着她的家人，尽管她就要远离他们，他们再也看不到她的笑容了，但是大概他们的日常生活也许会依然同过去一样，在他们的意识中快乐也不会有太多的减少。几天以后，孩子们就会像往常一样玩起他们的游戏来，不会感到因为她的离开而缺少了什么。她决心离开是为了这些更小的孩子们能得到更大的好处；如果她留在家里不走，他们也许从她的管教中得不到丝毫好处，反而会因她的榜样受害。

She went through Stourcastle without pausing, and onward to a junction of highways, where she could await a carrier's van that ran to the south-west; for the railways which engirdled this interior tract of country had never yet struck across it. While waiting, however, there came along a farmer in his spring-cart, driving approximately in the direction that she wished to pursue. Though he was a stranger to her she accepted his offer of a seat beside him, ignoring that its motive was a mere tribute to her countenance. He was going to Weatherbury, and by accompanying him thither she could walk the remainder of the distance instead of travelling in the van by way of Casterbridge.
她没有歇一歇就穿过斯图尔堡，向前一直走到几条大道的交叉路口，在那儿等候往西南去的搬运夫的大马车；因为铁路虽然包围了乡村内陆的广大区域，但是从来还没有穿过它的腹地。正当她在那儿等候马车的时候，路上有一个农夫坐着轻便的双轮马车走了过来，要去的地方大约同她要赶的路是一个方向。尽管她不认识这个陌生人，但还是接受了他的邀请，上车坐在农夫身边，而不管农夫邀请她的动机只是向她漂亮的脸蛋献上的一份殷勤。农夫是到韦瑟伯利去的，她坐车到了那儿，就不用再坐大马车绕道卡斯特桥，剩下的一段路靠步行就能走了。