“我告诉你,我必须离开!”我反驳道,好像被激怒了一样。“你以为我会留下来做一个对你来说无关紧要的人吗?你以为我是台自动机器?——一架毫无感情的机器?能够忍受嘴边的一块面包被人抢走,忍受杯子里的一滴生命之水被人泼掉?你以为,就因为我出身贫寒、不可理喻、相貌平平、身材矮小,
我就是个冷心冷情的人?你以为的都是错的!——我和你一样拥有充实的灵魂,——和你一样拥有丰富的情感!如果上帝赐予我一些美貌和很多财富,我一样可以使你难以离开我,就像我现在难以离开你一样。我现在和你交谈,不是通过习俗、常规,甚至也不是用血肉之躯,而是我的灵魂在与你的灵魂对话。就好像二者经过了死亡,一同站在上帝脚下,彼此平等——因为本来就是这样的!”
“I tell you I must go!” I retorted, roused to something like passion.”Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?-machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!-I have as much soul as you, -and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;-it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal, –as we are!”
夏洛蒂·勃朗特(Charlotte Brontë)
《简爱》(Jane Eyre)
投稿人@文正星 自译
精彩点评:
1,“告诉你,罗切斯特,我叔也给我留了好多钱
2,感谢简爱,童年十岁时的爱情启蒙,那时候最喜欢的就是女主结局继承了大量财产,然后男主承担骗婚的恶果后也残了,老鹰和麻雀身份对调简直太爽文了[允悲]
3,跳戏“不期君果冷心冷面,妾以死报此痴情”……