'Rough weather!' I remarked. 'I'm afraid, Mrs. Heathcliff, the door must bear the consequence of your servants' leisure attendance: I had hard work to make them hear me.'
“天气真是很槽糕！”我说，“抱歉，希斯克利夫太太，你的地板必须要承担你的仆人不开门的后果了：我已经非常用力地喊以便让他们能听见。”
She never opened her mouth. I stared - she stared also: at any rate, she kept her eyes on me in a cool, regardless manner, exceedingly embarrassing and disagreeable.
她根本不开口说话。我瞪眼，她也瞪眼：但是无论什么情况下，她看我的目光都是冷冷的，漠不关心的样子，让我觉得非常的尴尬和不舒服。
'Sit down,' said the young man, gruffly. 'He'll be in soon.'
“坐下，”那年青人粗暴地说，“他一会就来了。”
I obeyed; and hemmed, and called the villain Juno, who deigned, at this second interview, to move the extreme tip of her tail, in token of owning my acquaintance.
我顺从地坐下来，清了清嗓子，又跟那个恶女人打招呼，而这次，她屈尊动了动她辫子的最末稍，表示接受我为熟人。
'A beautiful animal!' I commenced again. 'Do you intend parting with the little ones, madam?'
“很漂亮的动物！”我再次开口，“你准备好要同这些小东西分开了吗？夫人？”
'They are not mine,' said the amiable hostess, more repellingly than Heathcliff himself could have replied.
“它们不是我的。”和善的女主人说道，比希斯克利夫的回答还让人不愉快。
'Ah, your favourites are among these?' I continued, turning to an obscure cushion full of something like cats.
“啊，你最喜欢的在这里面吗？”当看见一个发霉的垫子里挤满了像猫一样的东西，我又继续说道。
'A strange choice of favourites!' she observed scornfully.
“很特别的心爱之物！”她很轻蔑的回答。
Unluckily, it was a heap of dead rabbits. I hemmed once more, and drew closer to the hearth, repeating my comment on the wildness of the evening.
不巧的是，那是一堆死兔子。我又清了清嗓子，走到更靠近壁炉的地方，重复我对空旷夜晚的评论。
'You should not have come out,' she said, rising and reaching from the chimney-piece two of the painted canisters.
“你不该出来的，”她说着站起来，从烟囱烟囱上拿下两个漆过的咖啡杯。
Her position before was sheltered from the light; now, I had a distinct view of her whole figure and countenance. She was slender, and apparently scarcely past girlhood: an admirable form, and the most exquisite little face that I have ever had the pleasure of beholding; small features, very fair; flaxen ringlets, or rather golden, hanging loose on her delicate neck; and eyes, had they been agreeable in expression, that would have been irresistible: fortunately for my susceptible heart, the only sentiment they evinced hovered between scorn and a kind of desperation, singularly unnatural to be detected there. The canisters were almost out of her reach; I made a motion to aid her; she turned upon me as a miser might turn if any one attempted to assist him in counting his gold.
之前，她所处的位置在背光的地方；现在，我看清楚了她的体形和面容。她很苗条，明显还处于少女的年龄阶段：长得极好，看着这张非常精致的脸让我感到从未有过的荣幸。五官，非常端正；黄色的发卷，或者说是金色的发卷散落在她精巧的脖子旁边；眼睛，如果它们在表达恰当，那将宁人难以拒绝。幸运的是，对于我易受感动的心而言，它们所表示的唯一情感盘旋在蔑视和绝望之间，可以发现异乎寻常的不自然。她几乎够不着咖啡杯；我没有做出任何要帮她的动作；她转向我，就像一个守财奴在别人想要帮他数金币一样。
'I don't want your help,' she snapped; 'I can get them for myself.'
“我不要你的帮忙，”她突然说，“我自己可以拿到的。”
'I beg your pardon!' I hastened to reply.
“抱歉，你说什么啊？”我忙回答道。
'Were you asked to tea?' she demanded, tying an apron over her neat black frock, and standing with a spoonful of the leaf poised over the pot.
“有人邀请你喝茶了吗？”她问，随即将围裙系到她整洁的黑色外衣上，取出一勺子茶叶放到壶中。
'I shall be glad to have a cup,' I answered.
“我很乐意喝一杯。”我回答道。
'Were you asked?' she repeated.
“有人邀请你吗？”她又问道。
'No,' I said, half smiling. 'You are the proper person to ask me.'
“没有，”我说，微微笑笑。“你是邀请我的合适人选。”
She flung the tea back, spoon and all, and resumed her chair in a pet; her forehead corrugated, and her red under-lip pushed out, like a child's ready to cry.
她把茶扔了回去，勺子和其他的东西也都被扔了回去，不高兴地坐回到她的椅子上；她的眉头皱了起来，红红的下唇瘪了出来，就像一个要哭的孩子。
Meanwhile, the young man had slung on to his person a decidedly shabby upper garment, and, erecting himself before the blaze, looked down on me from the corner of his eyes, for all the world as if there were some mortal feud unavenged between us. I began to doubt whether he were a servant or not: his dress and speech were both rude, entirely devoid of the superiority observable in Mr. and Mrs. Heathcliff; his thick brown curls were rough and uncultivated, his whiskers encroached bearishly over his cheeks, and his hands were embrowned like those of a common labourer: still his bearing was free, almost haughty, and he showed none of a domestic's assiduity in attending on the lady of the house. In the absence of clear proofs of his condition, I deemed it best to abstain from noticing his curious conduct; and, five minutes afterwards, the entrance of Heathcliff relieved me, in some measure, from my uncomfortable state.
同时，那个年青人披上一件非常破旧的上衣，站起来走到火炉前，用他的斜着眼睛看我。不管怎样都觉得仿佛我们两个之间有什么血海深仇尚未了解。我开始怀疑他是不是仆人，因为他的衣着和言谈都非常的粗俗，完全没有希斯克夫先生和太太身上的那种优越感。他那深棕色的卷发，乱糟糟的，没有修理过；他的胡子肆无忌惮的爬满了他的脸颊；他的双手都变成了�/褐色，就跟普通劳力的手一样；还有，他的举止很放肆，近乎傲慢；还有他在房子的女主人面前并没有表现出任何的家仆该有的勤勉。在缺乏足够的证据来判断他的身份，我觉得最好是忽略他的挑衅。五分钟之后，希斯克利夫的到来在某种称度上把我从不尴尬中解脱了出来。
