Everybody in Starkfield knew they were engaged.

斯塔克菲尔德的每个人都知道他们订婚了。

There was in him a slumbering spark of sociability which the long Starkfield winters had not yet extinguished.

他身上有一种沉睡的社交火花， 斯塔克菲尔德漫长的冬天还没有熄灭。

She chose to look down on Starkfield, but she could not have lived in a place which looked down on her.

她选择看不起斯塔克菲尔德， 但她不可能生活在看不起她的地方。

His son seemed likely to follow in his steps, and was meanwhile applying the same arts to the conquest of the Starkfield maidenhood.

他的儿子似乎有可能追随他的脚步， 同时用同样的技巧征服斯塔克菲尔德的少女时代。

Zenobia, though doubtful of the girl's efficiency, was tempted by the freedom to find fault without much risk of losing her; and so Mattie came to Starkfield.

芝诺比亚虽然对这个女孩的效率表示怀疑，但还是被挑剔的自由所吸引，而不必冒失去她的风险。于是玛蒂来到斯塔克菲尔德。

Miss Hatchard suggested it, and had a long conference with Mr.Royall, who, in pursuance of her plan, departed one day for Starkfield to visit the institution she recommended.

哈查德小姐提议， 并与罗亚尔先生进行了长时间的会谈， 罗亚尔先生按照她的计划，有一天前往斯塔克菲尔德参观她推荐的机构。

The illness spread to the other Starkfield stables and for a day or two I was put to it to find a means of transport.

疾病蔓延到斯塔克菲尔德的其他马厩， 有一两天我被派去那里寻找交通工具。

I had this from Harmon Gow, who had driven the stage from Bettsbridge to Starkfield in pre-trolley days and knew the chronicle of all the families on his line.

我从 Harmon Gow 那里得到了这个，他在有轨电车出现之前就把舞台从 Bettsbridge 开到 Starkfield，并且知道他这一行的所有家庭的编年史。

As he walked away the builder's last phrase lingered in his ears, and he reflected grimly that his seven years with Zeena seemed to Starkfield " not so long" .

当他走开时， 建筑师的最后一句话在他耳边萦绕不去， 他阴沉地想， 他在 Zeena 的七年对 Starkfield 来说似乎“并不长” 。

During the winter months there was no stage between Starkfield and Bettsbridge, and the trains which stopped at Corbury Flats were slow and infrequent.

在冬季的几个月里， 斯塔克菲尔德和贝茨布里奇之间没有车站， 停在科伯里公寓的火车速度慢且班次稀少。

Frome was in the habit of walking into Starkfield to fetch home his wife's cousin, Mattie Silver, on the rare evenings when some chance of amusement drew her to the village.

弗罗姆习惯于在难得的晚上，在一些娱乐机会吸引她到村子里的时候，走进斯塔克菲尔德把他妻子的堂妹玛蒂·西尔弗接回家。

But one phrase stuck in my memory and served as the nucleus about which I grouped my subsequent inferences: " Guess he's been in Starkfield too many winters" .

但是有一句话深深地留在了我的记忆中，并作为我后来的推论的核心：“我猜他在斯塔克菲尔德待了太多冬天了”。

Zeena took the view that Mattie was bound to make the best of Starkfield since she hadn't any other place to go to; but this did not strike Ethan as conclusive.

Zeena 认为 Mattie 一定会充分利用 Starkfield， 因为她没有其他地方可去； 但这并没有让 Ethan 认为是决定性的。

After that, for a week, he drove me over every morning to Corbury Flats, and on my return in the afternoon met me again and carried me back through the icy night to Starkfield.

在那之后的一个星期里，他每天早上都开车送我去科伯里公寓，下午我回来的时候又来接我，带我穿过冰冷的夜晚回到斯塔克菲尔德。

All constraint had vanished between the two, and they began to talk easily and simply. They spoke of every-day things, of the prospect of snow, of the next church sociable, of the loves and quarrels of Starkfield.

两人之间所有的束缚都消失了，他们开始轻松而简单地交谈。他们谈论着日常生活，谈论下雪的前景，谈论下一个教堂社交活动，谈论斯塔克菲尔德的爱情和争吵。

Now, in the bright morning air, her face was still before him. It was part of the sun's red and of the pure glitter on the snow. How the girl had changed since she had come to Starkfield!

现在，在清晨明亮的空气中，她的脸还在他面前。它是太阳的红色和雪地上纯粹的闪光的一部分。自从她来到斯塔克菲尔德以来，这个女孩发生了多么大的变化！

It was there that, several years ago, I saw him for the first time; and the sight pulled me up sharp. Even then he was the most striking figure in Starkfield, though he was but the ruin of a man.

几年前，我就是在那里第一次见到他。这景象使我猛然振作起来。即使在那时，他也是斯​​塔克菲尔德最引人注目的人物，尽管他只是一个人的废墟。

In the " best parlour, " with its black horse-hair and mahogany weakly illuminated by a gurgling Carcel lamp, I listened every evening to another and more delicately shaded version of the Starkfield chronicle.

在“最好的客厅”里，黑色马毛和桃花心木被一盏发出咯咯声的 Carcel 灯微弱地照亮，我每天晚上都在听另一个更精致的 Starkfield 编年史版本。

One would have supposed that such an atmosphere must quicken the emotions as well as the blood; but it seemed to produce no change except that of retarding still more the sluggish pulse of Starkfield.

人们会认为这样的气氛一定会加速情绪和血液；但它似乎没有产生任何变化，只是进一步延缓了斯塔克菲尔德迟缓的脉搏。

Denis Eady was the son of Michael Eady, the ambitious Irish grocer, whose suppleness and effrontery had given Starkfield its first notion of " smart" business methods, and whose new brick store testified to the success of the attempt.

丹尼斯·伊迪 (Denis Eady) 是雄心勃勃的爱尔兰杂货商迈克尔·伊迪 (Michael Eady) 的儿子，他的柔顺和厚颜无耻为斯塔克菲尔德带来了“智能”商业方法的第一个概念，他的新砖店证明了这一尝试的成功。