" But before you retire to Sawston—are you so mighty sure" ?

“但在你退休到索斯顿之前——你真的这么确定吗”？

When she woke up she knew that it had been Sawston.

当她醒来时， 她知道那是索斯顿。

" Sawston and work, " said Miss Abbott.

“Sawston 和工作，”Abbott 小姐说。

She had not come from Sawston to guess why he had been to Poggibonsi.

她从索斯顿来不是为了猜他为什么去波吉邦西。

Of course I shall go to Sawston.

我当然会去索斯顿。

Sawston psychology had long been his specialty.

索斯顿心理学长期以来一直是他的专长。

Really we do not want it known in Sawston that there is a baby.

真的，我们不想让 Sawston 知道有一个婴儿。

He came back with the air of a prophet who would either remodel Sawston or reject it.

他带着先知的气质回来了， 要么改造 Sawston， 要么拒绝它。

Lilia would not settle down in her place among Sawston matrons.

莉莉娅不会在索斯顿的主妇中间安顿下来。

She cried a great deal on her return to Sawston, and said she was very sorry.

回到索斯顿后， 她哭得很厉害， 说她很抱歉。

Sawston's a kind, pitiful place, isn't it?

索斯顿是一个善良、可怜的地方， 不是吗？

A house was finally taken for her at Sawston, and there for three years she lived with Irma, continually subject to the refining influences of her late husband's family.

终于在索斯顿为她租了一所房子， 在那里她和伊尔玛住了三年， 不断受到她已故丈夫家庭的影响。

She had brought it " to hack about in" at Sawston, and had taken it to Italy because " in Italy anything does" . He had rebuked her for the sentiment.

她把它带到索斯顿“四处闯荡”，又把它带到意大利，因为“在意大利什么都行”。他因为这种情绪而斥责了她。

But it was not a place of sin, and at Sawston, either with the Herritons or with herself, the baby should grow up.

但这不是罪恶之地， 在索斯顿，无论是与 Herritons 还是与她自己， 孩子都应该长大。

Sawston, with its semi-detached houses and snobby schools, its book teas and bazaars, was certainly petty and dull; at times she found it even contemptible.

Sawston 及其半独立式住宅和势利的学校、书茶店和集市， 无疑是狭隘而乏味的； 有时她甚至觉得这很可鄙。

He cursed himself for the remark. All the pleasure and the light went out of her face, and she became again Miss Abbott of Sawston—good, oh, most undoubtedly good, but most appallingly dull.

他为这句话诅咒自己。她脸上所有的快乐和光彩都消失了，她又变成了索斯顿的阿博特小姐——好，哦，毫无疑问是好，但极其乏味。

In a short time it was over. Nothing had happened either in Sawston or within himself. He had shocked half-a-dozen people, squabbled with his sister, and bickered with his mother.

不一会儿就结束了。无论是在索斯顿还是在他体内，都没有发生任何事情。他震惊了六个人，与他的妹妹争吵，并与他的母亲争吵。

His pettiness would be dispersed, and as for his " unconventionality, " which was so much gossiped about at Sawston, she began to see that it did not differ greatly from certain familiar notions of her own.

他的小气会被驱散，至于他在索斯顿被传得沸沸扬扬的“不循规蹈矩”，她开始发现这与她自己的某些熟悉的观念并无太大区别。

He was in the enemy's country, and everything—the hot sun, the cold air behind the heat, the endless rows of olive-trees, regular yet mysterious—seemed hostile to the placid atmosphere of Sawston in which his thoughts took birth.

他身处敌国， 一切——烈日、炎热背后的冷空气、一排排整齐而神秘的橄榄树——似乎都与索斯顿平静的气氛——他的思想诞生于其中——格格不入。