Far From the Madding Crowd¶

Thomas Hardy《远离尘嚣》摘抄

She parted her lips and smiled.
Gabriel, perhaps a little piqued by the comely traveller's indifference, glanced back to where he had witnessed her performance over the hedge, and said, "Vanity.
piqued 恼怒、怨恨；comely 清秀的、标致的；vanity 虚荣、自负【≠purity】
"There—that's long enough," said she, though without pulling it away. "But I suppose you are thinking you would like to kiss it? You may if you want to."

"I wasn't thinking of any such thing," said Gabriel simply; "but I will—"

"That you won't!" She snatched back her hand.

Gabriel felt himself guilty of another want of tact. 得体、乖巧

"Now find out my name," she said teasingly; and withdrew.

"Yes," she murmured, putting on an air of dignity, and turning again to him with a little warmth of cheek; "I do want a shepherd. But—" "He's the very man, ma'am," said one of the villagers, quietly. Conviction breeds conviction. "Ay, that 'a is," said a second, decisively. 定罪、确信
罗马数字：I（1）、V（5）、X（10）、L（50）、C（100）、D（500）、M（1000）。小的数字（限于 Ⅰ、X 和 C）在大的数字的左边，所表示的数等于大数减小数得到的数，如 Ⅳ=4、Ⅸ=9；在一个数的上面画一条横线，表示这个数增值 1,000 倍。
But her eyes had a softness—invariably a softness—which, had they not been dark, would have seemed mistiness; as they were, it lowered an expression that might have been piercing to simple clearness. [Misty]
In arguing on prices she held to her own firmly, as was natural in a dealer, and reduced theirs persistently, as was inevitable in a woman. But there was an elasticity in her firmness which removed it from obstinacy, as there was a naïveté in her cheapening which saved it from meanness.
elasticity 弹性，弹力，灵活性；obstinacy 固执、顽固；naïveté [naïve]；cheapening 贬低，降价【cheap】
Boldwood seized it and opened it, expecting another anonymous one—so greatly are people's ideas of probability a mere sense that precedent will repeat itself. /ˈpresɪdənt 先例，常规
A short pause ensued, and as a sort of entr'acte Henery turned and blew out the lanterns, which the increase of daylight rendered no longer necessary even in the malthouse, with its one pane of glass.
ensued 继而发生；entr'acte 幕间休息、间奏曲；rendered 使成为、给予提供、提交、演示、翻译
Malt 麦芽；pane 一块玻璃
with a small anxious laugh towards Oak, to show how very friendly disposed he was likewise. 处置、安排、使倾向于
Joseph shook his head to express how absolute was the fact that he couldn't.
They were about to disperse, when a smart footstep, entering the porch and coming up the central passage, arrested their attention. 分散；快速的敏捷的；门廊
There began now that slight shifting of feet, that artificial coughing among several, which betrays a nervous suspense.
She that day nearly formed the intention of begging his pardon on the very next occasion of their meeting. The worst features of this arrangement were that, if he thought she ridiculed him, an apology would increase the offence by being disbelieved; and if he thought she wanted him to woo her, it would read like additional evidence of her forwardness. 嘲笑、奚落；追求、求爱；冒昧、鲁莽、过度热情
This place was his almonry and cloister in one: here, after looking to the feeding of his four-footed dependants, the celibate would walk and meditate of an evening till the moon's rays streamed in through the cobwebbed windows, or total darkness enveloped the scene. 施赈所；修道院；受扶养者；独身主义者、禁欲者
His equilibrium disturbed, he was in extremity at once. If an emotion possessed him at all, it ruled him; a feeling not mastering him was entirely latent. Stagnant or rapid, it was never slow. He was always hit mortally, or he was missed. 隐藏的、潜伏的；停滞不前的、不流动的；致命地【mortal immortal】
Moreover, had she known her present power for good or evil over this man, she would have trembled at her responsibility. Luckily for her present, unluckily for her future tranquility, her understanding had not yet told her what Boldwood was. Nobody knew entirely; for though it was possible to form guesses concerning his wild capabilities from old floodmarks faintly visible, he had never been seen at the high tides which caused them.
She resolved never again, by look or by sign, to interrupt the steady flow of this man's life. But a resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
The great aids to idealization in love were present here: occasional observation of her from a distance, and the absence of social intercourse with her—visual familiarity, oral strangeness. 交际、沟通
The peculiar motion involved in turning a wheel has a wonderful tendency to benumb the mind.
"I may ask, I suppose, where in particular my unworthiness lies? In my not marrying you, perhaps!" "Not by any means," said Gabriel quietly. "I have long given up thinking of that matter." "Or wishing it, I suppose," she said; and it was apparent that she expected an unhesitating denial of this supposition. Whatever Gabriel felt, he coolly echoed her words—"Or wishing it either."
The cottage to which Gabriel had retired before taking his final departure from the locality was visible as a white spot on the opposite hill, backed by blue firs. Bathsheba walked up and down. The men entered the field and endeavoured to ease the anguish of the dumb creatures by rubbing them. Nothing availed.
- locality 特定的地方、地区；firs 冷杉；endeavoured 努力、尝试；anguish 剧痛、极度痛苦；availed（old-fashioned）有用、有益
This unwonted abstraction by love of all dignity from a man of whom it had ever seemed the chief component, was, in its distressing incongruity, a pain to her which quenched much of the pleasure she derived from the proof that she was idolized. 不平常的；异常的；不协调、不适宜；熄灭、压制；极端崇拜
It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful.
And Troy's deformities lay deep down from a woman's vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface; thus contrasting with homely Oak, whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose virtues were as metals in a mine. 畸形；装饰、修饰；普通的、朴实的；专利、明显的
Sometimes I say I should be as glad as a bird to leave the place—for don't suppose I'm content to be a nobody. I was made for better things.
"I don't want to repeat anything," said Liddy, with womanly dignity of a diminutive order; "but I don't wish to stay with you. And, if you please, I'll go at the end of the harvest, or this week, or today.... I don't see that I deserve to be put upon and stormed at for nothing!" concluded the small woman, bigly. 小的、微小的；利用
That Bathsheba was a firm and positive girl, far less inconsequent than her fellows, had been the very lung of his hope; for he had held that these qualities would lead her to adhere to a straight course for consistency's sake, and accept him, though her fancy might not flood him with the iridescent hues of uncritical love. 不合理的、矛盾的；黏附、遵循；彩虹色的
"But, I say, there was a time when I knew nothing of you, and cared nothing for you, and yet you drew me on. And if you say you gave me no encouragement, I cannot but contradict you."
"It would be untrue, and painful to both of us. You overrate my capacity for love. I don't possess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me." 高估
We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man; but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek. 觉察、识别、了解
The clash of discord between mood and matter here was forced painfully home to the heart; and, as in laughter there are more dreadful phases than in tears, so was there in the steadiness of this agonized man an expression deeper than a cry. 意见分歧；感到极度痛苦的
In ten minutes every wind of heaven seemed to be roaming at large.
This woman was not given to soliloquy; but extremity of feeling lessens the individuality of the weak, as it increases that of the strong. She said again in the same tone, "I'll believe that the end lies five posts forward, and no further, and so get strength to pass them." This was a practical application of the principle that a half-feigned and fictitious faith is better than no faith at all. 独白、自言自语
Frank went on as if he had not heard her. "There are considerations even before my consideration for you; reparations to be made—ties you know nothing of. If you repent of marrying, so do I. 赔偿、弥补；后悔、忏悔
He had originally stood perfectly erect. And now, in the well-nigh congealed immobility of his frame could be discerned an incipient movement, as in the darkest night may be discerned light after a while. He was gradually sinking forwards. The lines of his features softened, and dismay modulated to illimitable sadness. Bathsheba was regarding him from the other side, still with parted lips and distracted eyes. Capacity for intense feeling is proportionate to the general intensity of the nature, and perhaps in all Fanny's sufferings, much greater relatively to her strength, there never was a time when she suffered in an absolute sense what Bathsheba suffered now.
- erect 建造、竖立的；well-nigh 几乎；congealed 凝结、凝固；incipient 初期的、起初的；modulated 调节、调整；proportionate【limit】成比例的、适当的
Troy, in his prostration at this time, had no perception that in the futility of these romantic doings, dictated by a remorseful reaction from previous indifference, there was any element of absurdity. 拜倒；俯伏；命令、支配
Times had been when the farmer had exclaimed against all such niceties as childish, but now no philosophic or hasty rebuke whatever was provoked by this man for attaching as much importance to a crease in the coat as to an earthquake in South America. 礼节、微妙的细节；斥责、指责；折痕、起皱
The little attenuated voices of the children brought to her ear in distinct utterance the words they sang without thought or comprehension—Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on. 衰减的、削弱的
She would have given anything in the world to be, as those children were, unconcerned at the meaning of their words, because too innocent to feel the necessity for any such expression.
Bathsheba actually sat and cried over this letter most bitterly. She was aggrieved and wounded that the possession of hopeless love from Gabriel, which she had grown to regard as her inalienable right for life, should have been withdrawn just at his own pleasure in this way. 不可分割的，不可剥夺的；撤回、撤销
He accompanied her up the hill, explaining to her the details of his forthcoming tenure of the other farm. They spoke very little of their mutual feelings; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends. Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown together begin first by knowing the rougher sides of each other's character, and not the best till further on, the romance growing up in the interstices of a mass of hard prosaic reality. This good-fellowship—camaraderie—usually occurring through similarity of pursuits, is unfortunately seldom superadded to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labours, but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstance permits its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death—that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, beside which the passion usually called by the name is evanescent as steam.
- forthcoming 即将发生的；tenure（土地的）居住权、保有权；interstices 裂缝、空隙；prosaic 平凡的、乏味的；camaraderie 友情、同志之爱；superadded 再加上；evanescent 容易消散的、易逝的（Evanesco）
Yet, though so plainly dressed, there was a certain rejuvenated appearance about her: As though a rose should shut and be a bud again. 使年轻、使复原