Unit 8 简·爱
①No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room; it only gave my nerves a shock of which I feel the reverberation to this day. ②Yes, Mrs. Reed, to you I owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did: while rending my heart-strings, you thought you were only uprooting my bad propensities.
③Next day, by noon, I was up and dressed, and sat wrapped in a shawl by the nursery hearth. ④I felt physically weak and broken down: but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind: a wretchedness which kept drawing from me silent tears; no sooner had I wiped one salt drop from my cheek than another followed. ⑤Yet, I thought, I ought to have been happy, for none of the Reeds were there, they were all gone out in the carriage with their mama. ⑥Abbot, too, was sewing in another room, and Bessie, as she moved hither and thither, putting away toys and arranging drawers, addressed to me every now and then a word of unwonted kindness. ⑦This state of things should have been to me a paradise of peace, accustomed as I was to a life of ceaseless reprimand and thankless fagging; but, in fact, my racked nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe, and no pleasure excite them agreeably.
Key words and phrases
incident [ˈɪnsɪdənt] n．事件
physically[ˈfɪzɪklɪ]ad．身体上地，完全地
unutterable [ʌnˈʌtərəbl] a．说不出的，难以形容的
句构分析
译 红房子事件没有给我留下严重或长期的身体后遗症，它仅仅使我的神经受到了惊吓，对此我至今记忆犹新。
译 是的，里德太太，你让我受到了可怕的精神创伤，但我应该原谅你，因为你并不知道自己做了些什么，明明是在割断我的心弦，你却自以为无非是要根除我的恶习。
译 第二天中午，我起床穿好衣服，裹了块浴巾，坐在保育室的壁炉旁边。
译 我身体虚弱，几乎要垮下来：但最大的痛楚却是内心难以言传的苦恼：这不幸遭遇使我不断暗暗落泪；才从脸颊上抹去一滴带咸味的泪水，另一滴又滚落下来。
译 然而，我想我应该高兴，因为里德一家人都不在，他们都坐了车随妈妈出去了。
译 艾博特也在另一个房间里做针线活，而贝茜呢，来回忙碌着，一面把玩具收拾起来，将抽屉整理好，一面还不时地同我说两句少有的体贴话。
译 对我来说，过惯了那种成天挨骂、辛辛苦苦吃力不讨好的日子后，这光景好比是平静的乐园，然而，我的神经已被折磨得痛苦不堪，终于连平静也抚慰不了我，欢乐也难以使我兴奋了。