【17 Jane Eyre 簡·愛】
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My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks. The fear of failure in these points harassed me worse than the physical hardships of my lot; though these were no trifles.
我在羅沃德的一個季度似乎有一個時代那麼長，而且還不是黃金時代；為了適應新規則和不熟悉的工作就需要同種種令人厭惡的困難做鬥爭。雖說艱苦也並不是小事，但相比之下，我更加擔心在這方麵出什麼差錯。
During January, February, and part of March, the deep snows, and, after their melting, the almost impassable roads, prevented our stirring beyond the garden walls, except to go to church; but within these limits we had to pass an hour every day in the open air. Our clothing was insufficient to protect us from the severe cold: we had no boots, the snow got into our shoes and melted there: our ungloved hands became numbed and covered with chilblains, as were our feet: I remember well the distracting irritation I endured from this cause every evening, when my feet in flamed; and the torture of thrusting the swelled, raw, and stiff toes into my shoes in the morning. Then the scanty supply of food was distressing: with the keen appetites of growing children, we had scarcely sufficient to keep alive a
一月、二月和三月的幾天裡，大雪紛飛，厚厚的雪消融之後，幾乎阻斷了我們花園外所有的路，除了去教堂的路。但是在這些限製條件下，我們每天都要在戶外度過一個小時。我們的衣服不足以禦寒：我們沒有靴子，雪進入我們的鞋子，就在裡麵融化，我們赤裸的雙手變得麻木，長滿凍瘡，我們的腳也是如此：我清楚地記得，每天夜裡，當我的腳腫起來的時候，我心煩意亂；清晨，把又腫又僵的腳趾放進鞋裡的折磨，讓人難以忍受。那時，令人苦惱的是食物供應不足：正在成長的孩子的食欲非常好，但我們所得到的卻不足以養活一個脆弱的病人。食物不足導致了虐待，對
delicate invalid. From this deficiency of nourishment resulted an abuse, which pressed hardly on the younger pupils: whenever the famished great girls had an opportunity, they would coax or menace the little ones out of their portion. Many a time I have shared between two claimants the precious morsel of brown bread distributed at teatime; and after relinquishing to a third half the s of my mug of coffee, I have swallowed the remainder with an accompaniment of secret tears, forced from me by the exigency of hunger.
年幼的學生的影響最為嚴重。每當餓壞了的略大一些的女孩逮到機會，她們就會哄騙甚至是威脅小一點兒的女孩交出自己分得的食物。很多時候，我和另外兩個索要者分享在下午茶時間分得的珍貴的小塊兒棕色麵包。在第三次被迫交出一半咖啡後，迫於極度饑餓，我強迫自己把剩下的都吞了下去，一起吞下去的還有我默默流下的淚水。
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