Mr. Heathcliff and his man climbed the cellar steps with vexatious phlegm: I don't think they moved one second faster than usual, though the hearth was an absolute tempest of worrying and yelping. Happily, an inhabitant of the kitchen made more despatch: a lusty dame, with tucked-up gown, bare arms, and fire-flushed cheeks, rushed into the midst of us flourishing a frying-pan: and used that weapon, and her tongue, to such purpose, that the storm subsided magically, and she only remained, heaving like a sea after a high wind, when her master entered on the scene.

希斯克利夫先生和他的仆人爬出地窖，他們的速度真是讓人頭疼，我覺(jué)得他們沒(méi)有比平時(shí)快一秒鐘，盡管屋子是絕對(duì)的驚惶和犬吠。幸虧廚房里的人出來(lái)了的比較快，一位健壯的女士，長(zhǎng)袍的袖子卷著，露出胳膊，雙頰被火烤的紅紅的，她沖到我們中間，揮舞著她的煎鍋，用她的武器和呵斥驅(qū)趕狗群，暴亂奇跡般的平息了。但是當(dāng)她的主人進(jìn)來(lái)的時(shí)候，她仍然揮動(dòng)著她的鍋，就像剛剛經(jīng)過(guò)大風(fēng)的海面一樣。

'What the devil is the matter?' he asked, eyeing me in a manner that I could ill endure after this inhospitable treatment.

"見(jiàn)什么鬼了?"見(jiàn)我在他不友善的對(duì)待后，處于一種無(wú)法忍受的狀態(tài)下，他問(wèn)道。

'What the devil, indeed!' I muttered. 'The herd of possessed swine could have had no worse spirits in them than those animals of yours, sir. You might as well leave a stranger with a brood of tigers!'

"是的，見(jiàn)鬼!"我嘀咕道，"那群著了魔的豬也不可能比你的這些動(dòng)物更惡毒，先生。你也可讓一個(gè)陌生人和一窩老虎待在一起。"

'They won't meddle with persons who touch nothing,' he remarked, putting the bottle before me, and restoring the displaced table. 'The dogs do right to be vigilant. Take a glass of wine?'

"它們不會(huì)對(duì)這些不碰東西的人亂來(lái)的。"他說(shuō)，把一個(gè)瓶子放到我的面前，又把移位的桌子復(fù)原。"狗保持警惕是對(duì)的。喝杯酒嗎?"

'No, thank you.'

"不了，謝謝."

'Not bitten, are you?'

"沒(méi)被咬著吧?對(duì)吧?"

'If I had been, I would have set my signet on the biter.'

"如果我被咬了，我會(huì)在咬我的狗上留下印章的。"

Heathcliff's countenance relaxed into a grin.

希斯克利夫先生面部放松，露出了笑容。

'Come, come,' he said, 'you are flurried, Mr. Lockwood. Here, take a little wine. Guests are so exceedingly rare in this house that I and my dogs, I am willing to own, hardly know how to receive them. Your health, sir?'

"行啦，行啦。"他說(shuō)，"你受驚了。洛克伍德先生。來(lái)，喝一杯酒。這個(gè)房子鮮有訪客，這也是我養(yǎng)狗德原因。我很樂(lè)意擁有，卻不知道怎么歡迎他們。祝你健康，先生。"

I bowed and returned the pledge; beginning to perceive that it would be foolish to sit sulking for the misbehaviour of a pack of curs; besides, I felt loth to yield the fellow further amusement at my expense; since his humour took that turn.

我點(diǎn)頭接受并回敬了他，當(dāng)他的幽默上場(chǎng)的時(shí)候，我覺(jué)得如果因?yàn)橐蝗簮汗返男袨槎谀沁吷鷲灇鈱?shí)在是太不明智了;另外，我覺(jué)得也讓他繼續(xù)在我的代價(jià)上尋開(kāi)心實(shí)在是厭惡。

He - probably swayed by prudential consideration of the folly of offending a good tenant - relaxed a little in the laconic style of chipping off his pronouns and auxiliary verbs, and introduced what he supposed would be a subject of interest to me, - a discourse on the advantages and disadvantages of my present place of retirement.

他肯定是謹(jǐn)慎考慮了惹惱一個(gè)好的房客是很蠢的事情，他開(kāi)始略微改變他的談話簡(jiǎn)潔的風(fēng)格，比如省掉代詞和輔助動(dòng)詞，并開(kāi)始開(kāi)始談他認(rèn)為我會(huì)感興趣的話題，關(guān)于我現(xiàn)在要住的地方的有點(diǎn)和缺點(diǎn)的談話。

I found him very intelligent on the topics we touched; and before I went home, I was encouraged so far as to volunteer another visit to-morrow.

我發(fā)現(xiàn)，在我們談到的話題上他表現(xiàn)得非常得睿智;以至于我在走之前，有勇氣提出明天再來(lái)拜訪。

He evidently wished no repetition of my intrusion. I shall go, notwithstanding. It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.

很顯然，他不希望我再來(lái)，盡管我得走了。我覺(jué)得與他相比我是多么的熱衷于社交啊。

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