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Their visitors stayed with them above half-an-hour; and when they arose to depart, Mr. Darcy called on his sister to join him in expressing their wish of seeing Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, and Miss Bennet, to dinner at Pemberley, before they left the country.
这些客人们大约坐了半个钟头，在起身告辞的时候，达西先生唤上他妹妹一起和他表达了他们的愿望：请嘉丁纳夫妇和班纳特小姐在他们离开之前，务必到彭伯里去吃顿便饭。
Miss Darcy, though with a diffidence which marked her little in the habit of giving invitations, readily obeyed.
达西小姐虽然显得腼腆一点儿，也不习惯邀请人，却还是立即照哥哥的吩咐做了。
Mrs. Gardiner looked at her niece, desirous of knowing how she, whom the invitation most concerned, felt disposed as to its acceptance, but Elizabeth had turned away her head.
嘉丁纳太太此刻瞧着她的外甥女儿，想知道她的意见，因为这一邀请主要是冲着她发出的，可伊丽莎白在这之前已把头扭了过去。
Presuming however, that this studied avoidance spoke rather a momentary embarrassment than any dislike of the proposal, and seeing in her husband, who was fond of society, a perfect willingness to accept it, she ventured to engage for her attendance, and the day after the next was fixed on.
嘉丁纳太太猜想伊丽莎白是有意回避，可能是出于一时的羞怯，而不是不愿赴约，又看到一向喜好社交的丈夫那么乐意地想要接受，所以便大胆地替他们答应下来，日期定在了后天。
Bingley expressed great pleasure in the certainty of seeing Elizabeth again, having still a great deal to say to her, and many enquiries to make after all their Hertfordshire friends.
宾格莱因为还有好多话要跟伊丽莎白说，对哈福德郡的所有朋友们的情况有好多话要问，所以为能再见到她表示了他极大的喜悦。
Elizabeth, construing all this into a wish of hearing her speak of her sister, was pleased, and on this account, as well as some others, found herself, when their visitors left them, capable of considering the last half-hour with some satisfaction, though while it was passing, the enjoyment of it had been little.
伊丽莎白认为宾格莱这是想要再听她谈到姐姐，心里也十分高兴。凡此种种，使得她在客人们走了以后，能较为满意地考虑上一阵子了，尽管在当时她还无瑕感受这欣悦。
Eager to be alone, and fearful of enquiries or hints from her uncle and aunt, she stayed with them only long enough to hear their favourable opinion of Bingley, and then hurried away to dress.
此刻，她很想独自待一会儿，另外又担心舅舅、舅妈会诘问她些什么，所以在听完他们对宾格莱的一番赞扬之后，便匆匆地离开去更衣了。
But she had no reason to fear Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner’s curiosity; it was not their wish to force her communication.
其实，她大可不必担心嘉丁纳夫妇在这件事情上抱有的好奇心。因为他们并不想硬从她那儿掏出什么话来。
It was evident that she was much better acquainted with Mr. Darcy than they had before any idea of; it was evident that he was very much in love with her. They saw much to interest, but nothing to justify enquiry.
很显然，她和达西先生会这么惯熟，是他们所没有料到的。达西先生显然是爱上他们的外甥女了。他们饶有兴味地看着这一事态的发展，可同时又觉得没有要去过问的理由。
Of Mr. Darcy it was now a matter of anxiety to think well; and, as far as their acquaintance reached, there was no fault to find.
关于达西先生，嘉丁纳夫妇现在只想到人家的好处。从这一天多来的相处中，看不出人家有任何的不足。
They could not be untouched by his politeness; and had they drawn his character from their own feelings and his servant’s report, without any reference to any other account, the circle in Hertfordshire to which he was known would not have recognized it for Mr. Darcy.
他那样友好礼貌地待人，使他们不能不受感动，要是凭着他们自己的印象，凭着他的仆人们对他的称道，来评价他的为人，不去参考其他方面的意见，那么，从他们俩讲的话里，哈福德郡的人就会认不出这位达西先生了。
There was now an interest, however, in believing the housekeeper; and they soon became sensible that the authority of a servant who had known him since he was four years old, and whose own manners indicated respectability, was not to be hastily rejected.
现在，他们倒愿意相信那位女管家的话了。因为他们很快便意识到，一个从他四岁上来到他家，而且本人的行为举止也值得尊敬的女管家的话，是不能不予考虑的。
Neither had anything occurred in the intelligence of their Lambton friends that could materially lessen its weight.
况且从他们的兰姆屯朋友那里，也并没有听到与这位女仆的话相抵牾的地方。
They had nothing to accuse him of but pride; pride he probably had, and if not, it would certainly be imputed by the inhabitants of a small market-town where the family did not visit.
人们能指责达西的，只有他的高傲，说到高傲，他也许真有一些。就是即便没有，这个小镇上的居民们见他终年足迹不至，也自然会给他添加上去。
It was acknowledged, however, that he was a liberal man, and did much good among the poor.
不过，人们都承认他是个大方慷慨的人，常常救贫济穷。
With respect to Wickham, the travellers soon found that he was not held there in much estimation; for though the chief of his concerns with the son of his patron were imperfectly understood, it was yet a well-known fact that, on his quitting Derbyshire, he had left many debts behind him, which Mr. Darcy afterwards discharged.
至于威科汉姆，嘉丁纳夫妇很快发现他在这里的名声并不见得有多好。尽管人们不太清楚他与他恩人的儿子之间的主要纠葛是什么，可有一件事实却是尽人皆知的：在他离开德比郡时，他曾欠下了一屁股的债，这债都是达西先生后来替他还上的。
As for Elizabeth, her thoughts were at Pemberley this evening more than the last; and the evening, though as it passed it seemed long, was not long enough to determine her feelings towards one in that mansion; and she lay awake two whole hours endeavouring to make them out.
说到伊丽莎白，她今晚的心思则比昨晚更多地放在了彭伯里上。这一晚虽然显得很漫长，可还是不够她用来理清她对庄园里的那个人儿的感情。她就这样醒着躺了两个钟头，极力想弄明白她的这些感情。
She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him, that could be so called.
毫无疑问她不再恨他了。这恨在老早以前就已经消失了，她也早为那种所谓的对他厌恶的情绪而感到羞愧了。
The respect created by the conviction of his valuable qualities, though at first unwillingly admitted, had for some time ceased to be repugnant to her feeling; and it was now heightened into somewhat of a friendlier nature, by the testimony so highly in his favour, and bringing forward his disposition in so amiable a light, which yesterday had produced.
认为人家有许多好的品性而随之产生的尊敬，虽然在一开始时她不愿承认，可对他不再反感也有些时候了。这种尊敬，经过了这么多有利于达西的证据，已经升华得更具有一种亲切的性质，正如昨天所证明了的那样，也使他的性格变得可亲可爱了。
But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of goodwill which could not be overlooked.
在尊敬和钦佩之外，于她的心底还有一种情愫也不容忽视。
It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.
那就是感激之情——不仅仅是因为曾经爱过她而对他感激，也因为他能原谅她在拒绝他时表现出的偏颇和尖刻态度，原谅她对他的一切不公正的谴责，而且至今仍然能够爱着她。
He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister.
伊丽莎白本以为见了她会像仇人一样唯恐避之而不及的达西先生，结果在这次碰巧相遇时却似乎还是那么愿意与她交谈，在他们两个人的那件事情上，他虽然旧情难忘，却没有任何不妥和过分的行为，反而是努力博得她的朋友们的好感，而且执意要她和他的妹妹相识。
Such a change in a man of so much pride exciting not only astonishment but gratitude--for to love, ardent love, it must be attributed; and as such its impression on her was of a sort to be encouraged, as by no means unpleasing, though it could not be exactly defined.
在这么一个骄傲的人身上发生的这样大的变化，不仅仅是叫她惊奇，而且引起了她的感激——这种变化一定是由于爱情，炽烈的爱情使然，她饶有兴致地回味着这一切在她脑子里激起的波澜，心里很是快活，尽管还不能确定她自己现在是一种什么样的感情。
She respected, she esteemed, she was grateful to him, she felt a real interest in his welfare; and she only wanted to know how far she wished that welfare to depend upon herself, and how far it would be for the happiness of both that she should employ the power, which her fancy told her she still possessed, of bringing on her the renewal of his addresses.
她尊重他、敬佩他、感激他，她对他的幸福和前途也产生了一种真正的兴趣。她现在只是想要知道，她希望在多大程度上左右他的幸福，想要知道为了他们两个人的幸福，她应该在多大的程度上来使用她认为她仍然具有的那种力量，以重新点燃他求爱的欲念。
It had been settled in the evening between the aunt and the niece, that such a striking civility as Miss Darcy’s in coming to see them on the very day of her arrival at Pemberley, for she had reached it only to a late breakfast, ought to be imitated, though it could not be equalled, by some exertion of politeness on their side; and, consequently, that it would be highly expedient to wait on her at Pemberley the following morning.
在这天晚上，舅妈和外甥女之间商量了一下，觉得达西小姐在抵达彭伯里时已经快要过了吃早饭的时分，可还在当天一早来看望了她们，这殷勤的礼节他们也应该加以效仿，尽管在程度上不能和人家的相比。她们认为最好是在第二天早晨就做回访。
They were, therefore, to go. Elizabeth was pleased; though when she asked herself the reason, she had very little to say in reply.
在这样定下后，伊丽莎白心里格外高兴，虽然要问为什么，她自己也回答不出。
Mr. Gardiner left them soon after breakfast. The fishing scheme had been renewed the day before, and a positive engagement made of his meeting some of the gentlemen at Pemberley before noon.
嘉丁纳先生第二天吃过早饭就走了。原来昨天又重新提起钓鱼的事，约定好了今天中午在彭伯里与几位先生碰头。
