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No sooner did she perceive any symptom of love in his behaviour to Elinor, than she considered their serious attachment as certain, and looked forward to their marriage as rapidly approaching.
她一察觉爱德华对埃丽诺有点爱慕的表示，便认准他们是在真心相爱，巴望着他们很快就会结婚。
"In a few months, my dear Marianne. " said she, "Elinor will, in all probability be settled for life. We shall miss her; but SHE will be happy. "
“亲爱的玛丽安，”她说，“再过几个月，埃丽诺十有八九要定下终身大事了。我们会惦记她的，不过她会很幸福。”
"Oh! Mamma, how shall we do without her?"
“啊，妈妈，要是离开她，我们可怎么办啊？”
"My love, it will be scarcely a separation. We shall live within a few miles of each other, and shall meet every day of our lives. You will gain a brother, a real, affectionate brother. I have the highest opinion in the world of Edward's heart. But you look grave, Marianne; do you disapprove your sister's choice?"
“我的宝贝，这还算不上分离。我们和她就隔着几英里路远，天天都能见面。你会得到一个兄长，一个真正的、情同手足的兄长。我对爱德华的那颗心算是佩服到家了。不过，玛丽安，你板着个脸，难道你不赞成你姐姐的选择？”
"Perhaps, " said Marianne, "I may consider it with some surprise. Edward is very amiable, and I love him tenderly. But yet--he is not the kind of young man--there is something wanting--his figure is not striking; it has none of that grace which I should expect in the man who could seriously attach my sister. His eyes want all that spirit, that fire, which at once announce virtue and intelligence. And besides all this, I am afraid, Mamma, he has no real taste. Music seems scarcely to attract him, and though he admires Elinor's drawings very much, it is not the admiration of a person who can understand their worth. It is evident, in spite of his frequent attention to her while she draws, that in fact he knows nothing of the matter. He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur. To satisfy me, those characters must be united. I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter into all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both. Oh! mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!"--
“也许是吧，”玛丽安说，“我感到有点意外。爱德华非常和蔼可亲，我也很喜爱他。但是，他可不是那种年轻人——他缺少点什么东西，他那副形象可不引人注目——我觉得，可以真正吸引我姐姐的那种魅力，他连一丝一毫都不具备。他两眼无神，缺乏生气，显不出美德与才华。除此之外，他恐怕还没有真正的爱好。音乐对他几乎没有吸引力，他虽然十分赞赏埃丽诺的绘画，可那不是内行人的赞赏。埃丽诺画画的时候，他总要凑到跟前，尽管如此，他对绘画显然一窍不通。他那是有情人的赞赏，而不是行家的赞赏。使我满意的人，必须同时具备这两种气质。跟一个趣味与我不能完全相投的人一起生活，我是不会幸福的。他必须与我情投意含；我们必须醉心于一样的书，一样的音乐。哦，妈妈！爱德华昨天夜里给我们朗读时，样子无精打采的，蹩脚透了！我真替姐姐担心。可她倒沉得住气，就像是没看见似的。我简直坐不住了，那么优美的诗句，常常使我激动得发狂，可是让他那么平淡无味、不动声色地一朗读，谁还听得下去！”
"He would certainly have done more justice to simple and elegant prose. I thought so at the time; but you WOULD give him Cowper. "
“他一定善于朗读质朴风雅的散文。我当时就这么想的，可你偏要让他念考柏的诗。”
"Nay, Mamma, if he is not to be animated by Cowper!-- but we must allow for difference of taste. Elinor has not my feelings, and therefore she may overlook it, and be happy with him. But it would have broke MY heart, had I loved him, to hear him read with so little sensibility. Mama, the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much! He must have all Edward's virtues, and his person and manners must ornament his goodness with every possible charm. "
“得了吧，妈妈，要是考柏的诗都打动不了他，那他还配读什么！——不过，我们必须承认趣味上的差异。埃丽诺没有我这样的情趣，因此她可以无视这种缺欠，跟他在一起还觉得挺幸福的。可是，我要是爱他的话，见他那样索然乏味地念书，我的心都要碎成八瓣了。妈妈，我世面见得越多，越觉得我一辈子也见不到一个我会真心爱恋的男人。我的要求太高了！他必须具备爱德华的全部美德。而为美德增添光彩，他又必须人品出众，风度迷人。”
"Remember, my love, that you are not seventeen. It is yet too early in life to despair of such a happiness. Why should you be less fortunate than your mother? In one circumstance only, my Marianne, may your destiny be different from her's!"
“别忘了，我的宝贝，你还不到十七岁，对幸福丧失信心还为时过早。你怎么会不及你母亲幸运呢？玛丽安，你的命运与我的命运只会有一点是不同的！”
