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When I quitted Barton last...

布蘭登上校的自白 · 理智與情感 (1995)

When I quitted Barton last...

上次我離開巴頓時……

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No, I must go further back.

不停頓，跟上原速

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1When I quitted Barton last...上次我離開巴頓時……
2No, I must go further back.不，我得從更早說起。
3No doubt...想必……
4No doubt, Mrs. Jennings has apprised you...想必詹寧斯太太已經告訴過你……
5of certain events in my past.我過去的一些事。
6The sad outcome of my connection with a young woman named Eliza.我和一個名叫伊萊莎的年輕女子交往，結局很慘。
7What is not commonly known is that...有一件事外人大多不知道……
8twenty years ago, before she died, Eliza bore an illegitimate child.二十年前，伊萊莎去世之前，生下了一個私生女。
9The father, whoever he was , abandoned them.那孩子的父親，不管是誰，拋棄了她們母女。
10As Eliza lay dying...伊萊莎臨終的時候……
11she begged me to look after the child.她求我照顧那個孩子。
12I had failed Eliza in every other way.我在別的方面都辜負了伊萊莎。
13I could not refuse her now.這一次我不能再拒絕她。
14I took the child... Beth is her name...我把孩子接了過來……她叫貝絲……
15and placed her with a family in the country where she would be looked after .寄養在鄉下一戶人家，好讓她有人照看。
16I saw her whenever I could .我一有機會就去看她。
17She grew up so headstrong, and God forgive me...她長大以後倔得很，上帝寬恕我……
18I indulged her, I allowed her too much freedom .我太縱容她了，給了她太多自由。
19Almost a year ago, she disappeared.差不多一年前，她不見了。
20- Disappeared? - I instigated a search.——不見了？——我發起了搜尋。
21But for eight months I was left to imagine the worst .可整整八個月，我只能往最壞處想。
22 At last , on the day of the Delaford picnic...終於，在德拉福德野餐那天……
23I received the first news of her.我得到了關於她的第一個訊息。

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