" Your brother is wondrous fond of you too, isn't he? " observed Heathcliff scornfully. " He turns you adrift on the world with surprising alacrity."

“你哥哥也特别喜欢你吧，是不是？”希刺克厉夫讥讽地说。“他以令人惊奇的喜爱任你在世上漂泊。”

Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.

乔一点也不懂哲学或玄学之类的东西，但一阵好奇的激动，一半是令人愉快的，一半是叫人痛苦的，在她倾听时向她袭来，她感觉像是被卷到了时间与空间之中，就像是假日里放飞的一只新的气球。