通译双语文库:恋爱中的女人第01章　姐妹俩

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URSULA AND GUDRUN Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was drawing upon a board which she held on her knee. They were mostly silent, talking as their thoughts strayed through their minds.

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`Ursula,' said Gudrun, `don't you really want to get married?' Ursula laid her embroidery in her lap and looked up. Her face was calm and considerate.

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`I don't know,' she replied. `It depends how you mean.'

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Gudrun was slightly taken aback. She watched her sister for some moments.

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`Well,' she said, ironically, `it usually means one thing! But don't you think anyhow, you'd be --' she darkened slightly -- `in a better position than you are in now.'

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A shadow came over Ursula's face.

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`I might,' she said. `But I'm not sure.'

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Again Gudrun paused, slightly irritated. She wanted to be quite definite.

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`You don't think one needs the experience of having been married?' she asked.

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`Do you think it need be an experience?' replied Ursula.

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`Bound to be, in some way or other,' said Gudrun, coolly. `Possibly undesirable, but bound to be an experience of some sort.'

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`Not really,' said Ursula. `More likely to be the end of experience.'

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Gudrun sat very still, to attend to this.

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`Of course,' she said, `there's that to consider.' This brought the conversation to a close. Gudrun, almost angrily, took up her rubber and began to rub out part of her drawing. Ursula stitched absorbedly.

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`You wouldn't consider a good offer?' asked Gudrun.

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`I think I've rejected several,' said Ursula.

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`Really!' Gudrun flushed dark -- `But anything really worth while? Have you really?'

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`A thousand a year, and an awfully nice man. I liked him awfully,' said Ursula.

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`Really! But weren't you fearfully tempted?'

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`In the abstract but not in the concrete,' said Ursula. `When it comes to the point, one isn't even tempted -- oh, if I were tempted, I'd marry like a shot. I'm only tempted not to.' The faces of both sisters suddenly lit up with amusement.

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`Isn't it an amazing thing,' cried Gudrun, `how strong the temptation is, not to!' They both laughed, looking at each other. In their hearts they were frightened.

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There was a long pause, whilst Ursula stitched and Gudrun went on with her sketch. The sisters were women, Ursula twenty-six, and Gudrun twenty-five. But both had the remote, virgin look of modern girls, sisters of Artemis rather than of Hebe. Gudrun was very beautiful, passive, soft-skinned, soft-limbed. She wore a dress of dark-blue silky stuff, with ruches of blue and green linen lace in the neck and sleeves; and she had emerald-green stockings. Her look of confidence and diffidence contrasted with Ursula's sensitive expectancy. The provincial people, intimidated by Gudrun's perfect sang-froid and exclusive bareness of manner, said of her: `She is a smart woman.' She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, as a student, and living a studio life.

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`I was hoping now for a man to come along,' Gudrun said, suddenly catching her underlip between her teeth, and making a strange grimace, half sly smiling, half anguish. Ursula was afraid.

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`So you have come home, expecting him here?' she laughed.

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`Oh my dear,' cried Gudrun, strident, `I wouldn't go out of my way to look for him. But if there did happen to come along a highly attractive individual of sufficient means -- well --' she tailed off ironically. Then she looked searchingly at Ursula, as if to probe her. `Don't you find yourself getting bored?' she asked of her sister. `Don't you find, that things fail to materialise? Nothing materialises! Everything withers in the bud.'

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`What withers in the bud?' asked Ursula.

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`Oh, everything -- oneself -- things in general.' There was a pause, whilst each sister vaguely considered her fate.

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`It does frighten one,' said Ursula, and again there was a pause. `But do you hope to get anywhere by just marrying?'

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`It seems to be the inevitable next step,' said Gudrun. Ursula pondered this, with a little bitterness. She was a class mistress herself, in Willey Green Grammar School, as she had been for some years.

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`I know,' she said, `it seems like that when one thinks in the abstract. But really imagine it: imagine any man one knows, imagine him coming home to one every evening, and saying "Hello," and giving one a kiss --'

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There was a blank pause.

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`Yes,' said Gudrun, in a narrowed voice. `It's just impossible. The man makes it impossible.'

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`Of course there's children --' said Ursula doubtfully.

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Gudrun's face hardened.

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`Do you really want children, Ursula?' she asked coldly. A dazzled, baffled look came on Ursula's face.

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`One feels it is still beyond one,' she said.

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`Do you feel like that?' asked Gudrun. `I get no feeling whatever from the thought of bearing children.'

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Gudrun looked at Ursula with a masklike, expressionless face. Ursula knitted her brows.

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`Perhaps it isn't genuine,' she faltered. `Perhaps one doesn't really want them, in one's soul -- only superficially.' A hardness came over Gudrun's face. She did not want to be too definite.

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`When one thinks of other people's children --' said Ursula.

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Again Gudrun looked at her sister, almost hostile.

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`Exactly,' she said, to close the conversation.

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The two sisters worked on in silence, Ursula having always that strange brightness of an essential flame that is caught, meshed, contravened. She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp it in her own understanding. Her active living was suspended, but underneath, in the darkness, something was coming to pass. If only she could break through the last integuments! She seemed to try and put her hands out, like an infant in the womb, and she could not, not yet. Still she had a strange prescience, an intimation of something yet to come.

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She laid down her work and looked at her sister. She thought Gudrun so charming, so infinitely charming, in her softness and her fine, exquisite richness of texture and delicacy of line. There was a certain playfulness about her too, such a piquancy or ironic suggestion, such an untouched reserve. Ursula admired her with all her soul.

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`Why did you come home, Prune?' she asked.

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Gudrun knew she was being admired. She sat back from her drawing and looked at Ursula, from under her finely-curved lashes.

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`Why did I come back, Ursula?' she repeated. `I have asked myself a thousand times.'

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`And don't you know?'

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`Yes, I think I do. I think my coming back home was just reculer pour mieux sauter.'

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And she looked with a long, slow look of knowledge at Ursula.

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`I know!' cried Ursula, looking slightly dazzled and falsified, and as if she did not know. `But where can one jump to?'

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`Oh, it doesn't matter,' said Gudrun, somewhat superbly. `If one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.'

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`But isn't it very risky?' asked Ursula.

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A slow mocking smile dawned on Gudrun's face.

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`Ah!' she said laughing. `What is it all but words!' And so again she closed the conversation. But Ursula was still brooding.

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`And how do you find home, now you have come back to it?' she asked.

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Gudrun paused for some moments, coldly, before answering. Then, in a cold truthful voice, she said:

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`I find myself completely out of it.'

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`And father?'

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Gudrun looked at Ursula, almost with resentment, as if brought to bay.

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①彻西区是伦敦聚集了文学艺术家的一个区。②英国的一个郡。

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①罗塞蒂（１８３０—１８９４），英国拉斐尔前派著名女诗人。她的诗多以田园牧歌诗为主，富有神秘宗教色彩。

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第01章 姐妹俩|Chapter 1 Sisters

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`Ursula,' said Gudrun, `don't you really want to get married?' Ursula laid her embroidery in her lap and looked up. Her face was calm and considerate.

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`I don't know,' she replied. `It depends how you mean.'

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Gudrun was slightly taken aback. She watched her sister for some moments.

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`Well,' she said, ironically, `it usually means one thing! But don't you think anyhow, you'd be --' she darkened slightly -- `in a better position than you are in now.'

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A shadow came over Ursula's face.

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`I might,' she said. `But I'm not sure.'

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Again Gudrun paused, slightly irritated. She wanted to be quite definite.

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`You don't think one needs the experience of having been married?' she asked.

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`Do you think it need be an experience?' replied Ursula.

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`Bound to be, in some way or other,' said Gudrun, coolly. `Possibly undesirable, but bound to be an experience of some sort.'

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`Not really,' said Ursula. `More likely to be the end of experience.'

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Gudrun sat very still, to attend to this.

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`Of course,' she said, `there's that to consider.' This brought the conversation to a close. Gudrun, almost angrily, took up her rubber and began to rub out part of her drawing. Ursula stitched absorbedly.

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`You wouldn't consider a good offer?' asked Gudrun.

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`I think I've rejected several,' said Ursula.

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`Really!' Gudrun flushed dark -- `But anything really worth while? Have you really?'

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`A thousand a year, and an awfully nice man. I liked him awfully,' said Ursula.

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`Really! But weren't you fearfully tempted?'

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`In the abstract but not in the concrete,' said Ursula. `When it comes to the point, one isn't even tempted -- oh, if I were tempted, I'd marry like a shot. I'm only tempted not to.' The faces of both sisters suddenly lit up with amusement.

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`Isn't it an amazing thing,' cried Gudrun, `how strong the temptation is, not to!' They both laughed, looking at each other. In their hearts they were frightened.

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`I was hoping now for a man to come along,' Gudrun said, suddenly catching her underlip between her teeth, and making a strange grimace, half sly smiling, half anguish. Ursula was afraid.

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`So you have come home, expecting him here?' she laughed.

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`What withers in the bud?' asked Ursula.

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`Oh, everything -- oneself -- things in general.' There was a pause, whilst each sister vaguely considered her fate.

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`It does frighten one,' said Ursula, and again there was a pause. `But do you hope to get anywhere by just marrying?'

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`It seems to be the inevitable next step,' said Gudrun. Ursula pondered this, with a little bitterness. She was a class mistress herself, in Willey Green Grammar School, as she had been for some years.

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`I know,' she said, `it seems like that when one thinks in the abstract. But really imagine it: imagine any man one knows, imagine him coming home to one every evening, and saying "Hello," and giving one a kiss --'

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There was a blank pause.

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`Yes,' said Gudrun, in a narrowed voice. `It's just impossible. The man makes it impossible.'

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`Of course there's children --' said Ursula doubtfully.

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Gudrun's face hardened.

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`Do you really want children, Ursula?' she asked coldly. A dazzled, baffled look came on Ursula's face.

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`One feels it is still beyond one,' she said.

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`Do you feel like that?' asked Gudrun. `I get no feeling whatever from the thought of bearing children.'

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Gudrun looked at Ursula with a masklike, expressionless face. Ursula knitted her brows.

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`Perhaps it isn't genuine,' she faltered. `Perhaps one doesn't really want them, in one's soul -- only superficially.' A hardness came over Gudrun's face. She did not want to be too definite.

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`When one thinks of other people's children --' said Ursula.

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Again Gudrun looked at her sister, almost hostile.

第01章　姐妹俩|Chapter 1 Sisters