《简·爱》 Chapter 38 第三十八章（4）

（单词翻译）

Mr. Rochester continued blind the first two years of our union;

我们结合后的头两年，罗切断特先生依然失明，

perhaps it was that circumstance that drew us so very near -- that knit us so very close:

也许正是这种状况使我们彼此更加密切——靠得很紧，

for I was then his vision, as I am still his right hand.

因为当时我成了他的眼晴，就像现在我依然是他的右手一样。

Literally¹, I was (what he often called me) the apple of his eye.

我确实是他的眼珠（他常常这样称呼我）。

He saw nature -- he saw books through me; and never did I weary of gazing for his behalf,

他通过我看大自然，看书。我毫无厌倦地替他观察，

and of putting into words the effect of field, tree, town, river, cloud, sunbeam --

用语言来描述田野、树林、城镇、河流、云彩、阳光和面前的景色的效果，

of the landscape before us; of the weather round us -- and impressing by sound on his ear what light could no longer stamp on his eye.

描述我们周围的天气——用声音使他的耳朵得到光线无法再使他的眼睛得到的印象。

Never did I weary of reading to him; never did I weary of conducting him where he wished to go: of doing for him what he wished to be done.

我从不厌倦地读书给他听，领他去想去的地方，干他想干的事。

And there was a pleasure in my services, most full, most exquisite², even though sad --

我乐此不疲，尽管有些伤心，却享受充分而独特的愉快，

because he claimed these services without painful shame or damping humiliation³.

——因为他要求我帮忙时没有痛苦地感到羞愧，也没有沮丧地觉得屈辱。

He loved me so truly, that he knew no reluctance⁴ in profiting by my attendance:

他真诚地爱着我，从不勉为其难地受我照料。

he felt I loved him so fondly, that to yield that attendance was to indulge my sweetest wishes.

他觉得我爱他如此之深，受我照料就是满足我最愉快的希望。

One morning at the end of the two years, as I was writing a letter to his dictation, he came and bent⁵ over me, and said --

第二年年末的一个早晨，我正由他口授，写一封信的时候，他走过来朝我低下头说——

"Jane, have you a glittering ornament⁶ round your neck?"

“简，你脖子上有一件闪光的饰品吗？”

I had a gold watch-chain: I answered "Yes."

我挂着一根金表链，于是回答说：“是呀。”

"And have you a pale blue dress on?"

“你还穿了件淡蓝色衣服吗？”

I had. He informed me then, that for some time he had fancied the obscurity clouding one eye was becoming less dense⁷; and that now he was sure of it.

“我确实穿了。随后他告诉我，已经有一段时间，他设想遮蔽着一只眼的云翳已渐渐变薄，现在确信如此了。