Then, perceiving in Elizabeth no inclination of replying, she added, "Unhappy as the event must be for Lydia, we may draw from it this useful lesson: that loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable-- that one false step involves her in endless ruin -- that her reputationis no less brittlethan it is beautiful, -- and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex."
她看到伊丽莎白不想回答,便又接下去说:“此事对于丽迪雅固属不幸,但亦可以作为我们的前车之鉴。大凡女人家一经失去贞操,便无可挽救,这真是一失足成千古恨。美貌固然难于永保,名誉亦何尝容易保全。世间多的是轻薄男子,岂可不寸步留神?
Elizabeth lifted up her eyes in amazement, but was too much oppressed to make any reply. Mary, however, continued to consoleherself with such kind of moral extractionsfrom the evil before them.
伊丽莎白抬起眼睛来,神情很是诧异;她心里实在太郁闷,所以一句话也答不上来。可是曼丽还在往下说,她要从这件不幸的事例中阐明道德的精义,以便聊以自慰。
In the afternoon, the two elder Miss Bennets were able to be for half an hour by themselves; and Elizabeth instantly availed herself of the opportunity of making many enquiries, which Jane was equally eager to satisfy. After joining in general lamentations over the dreadful sequelof this event, which Elizabeth considered as all but certain, and Miss Bennet could not assert to be wholly impossible, the former continued the subject by saying, "But tell me all and every thing about it which I have not already heard. Give me farther particulars. What did Colonel Forster say? Had they no apprehension of any thing before the elopement took place? They must have seen them together for ever."
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