海伦娜·伯翰·卡特 | 朗读《呼啸山庄》经典片段

I think that's the worst motive you've given yet for being the wife of young Linton.

虽说我不便下什么判断，我可是认为，你说了好些原因为什么愿意做小林顿的太太，这一个却是最糟的动机了。

"It is not," retorted she; "it is the best! The others were the satisfaction of my whims: and for Edgar's sake, too, to satisfy him."

“没有这话！”她反驳我道，”这一个是最好的动机！其余的都是为了满足我一时的高兴，也是为了埃得加，满足他的心愿。

This is for the sake of one who comprehends in his person my feelings to Edgar and myself. I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.

这一个可是为了另一个人，在他心里包含了我对埃得加，我对我自己的感情。我没法儿跟你说清楚，可是你，每一个人，总有这么一个观念吧：在你自个儿之外，你还有一个你——应该还有一个你。

What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself.

天把我造了出来干什么呢，假使我这人是尽在我这一身了？我在这世上的最大的苦恼，就是希斯克利夫的苦恼；他的每一个苦恼，从刚开头，我就觉察到；切身感受着了。我生命中最大的思念就是他。

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.

即使其他一切都毁灭了，独有他留下来，我依然还是我。假使其他一切都留下来，独有他给毁灭了，那整个宇宙就变成了一个巨大的陌生人，我再不像是它的一部分了。

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

“我对林顿的爱，就像挂在林子里的一簇簇树叶，时光会改变它，我很知道，到了冬天，树叶片儿就要凋落了。我对希斯克利夫的爱，好比是脚下的永恒的岩石，从那里流出很少的、看得见的快乐的泉源，可是却必不可少。

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

耐莉，我就是希斯克利夫！他时时刻刻在我的心头——并不是作为一种欢乐，就象我不能老是我自个儿的欢乐一般，而是因为他就是我自身的存在。”