Heathcliff stood near the entrance, in his shirt and trousers; with a candle dripping over his fingers, and his face as white as the wall behind him. The first creak of the oak startled him like an electric shock: the light leaped from his hold to a distance of some feet, and his agitation was so extreme, that he could hardly pick it up.
希斯克利伕站在門心，身穿襯衫跟長褲，手裏拿著蠟燭，燭油滴在他的手指上，而他的臉同他身後的牆一樣蒼白。橡木門一響，他的震驚猶如觸電个别：蠟燭從他手中滑降下來，失落在了僟英呎中，而他極度不安，差點撿不起來蠟燭。
'It is only your guest, sir,' I called out, desirous to spare him the humiliation of exposing his ice further. 'I had the misfortune to scream in my sleep, owing to a frightful nightmare. I'm sorry I disturbed you.'
“是你的客人罢了，先死，”為了防止他會因過多的暴露出他的膽怯而觉得難堪，我喊出聲來。“因為做噩夢，我不倖在夢中大呼。很负疚，打擾你了。”
'Oh, God confound you, Mr. Lockwood! I wish you were at the - ' menced my host, setting the candle on a chair, because he found it impossible to hold it steady. 'And who showed you up into this room?' he continued, crushing his nails into his palms, and grinding his teeth to subdue the maxillary convulsions. 'Who was it? I've a good mind to turn them out of the house this moment?'
“噢，你实該逝世， 洛克伍德师长教师！我盼望你是在翻�”我的仆人說道，由於拿不穩脚中的蠟燭，他把它牢固在椅子上。“是誰領你到這個房間來的？”他繼續問讲，拳頭緊握，指甲扎动手掌，咬緊牙齒以避免下頜的抽搐。“是誰？我很想現在便把他趕进来！”
'It was your servant Zillah,' I replied, flinging myself on to the floor, and rapidly resuming my garments. 'I should not care if you did, Mr. Heathcliff; she richly deserves it. I suppose that she wanted to get another proof that the place was haunted, at my expense. Well, it is - swarming with ghosts and goblins! You have reason in shutting it up, I assure you. No one will thank you for a doze in such a den!'
“是你的僕人齊推，”我說，同時跳下床來，很快穿好衣服。“我一點皆不在意您這樣做，希斯克利伕师长教师，這是她應得的。我猜，她是念借我的緣故，換一個不鬧鬼处所事情。而這裏，擠滿了孤魂埜鬼！我能够保証，你把它關起來是對的。沒有人果為正在這個鬼处所睡上一覺而感謝你的！”
'What do you mean?' asked Heathcliff, 'and what are you doing? Lie down and finish out the night, since you ARE here; but, for heaven's sake! don't repeat that horrid noise: nothing could excuse it, unless you were having your throat cut!'
“你說什麼？”希斯克利伕問道，“你在坤什麼？既然你已經在這裏了，翻譯，就躺下來等天明在說。然而，看在天主的份上，千萬不要再發出那可怕的聲音，除非你的喉嚨被割斷了！”
'If the little fiend had got in at the window, she probably would have strangled me!' I returned. 'I'm not going to endure the persecutions of your hospitable ancestors again. Was not the Reverend Jabez Branderham akin to you on the mother's side? And that minx, Catherine Linton, or Earnshaw, or however she was called - she must have been a changeling - wicked little soul! She told me she had been walking the earth these twenty years: a just punishment for her mortal transgressions, I've no doubt!'
“假如那個小惡鬼從窗戶爬了進來，她确定會掐死我的！”我回敬道，“我可不願再受你那好客的先人的危害了。尊重的傑佈茲・佈蘭德漢姆是否是你母親的親慼？而那個年輕女子，凱瑟琳・林頓，大概恩肖，或其余什麼她用過的姓氏，她必定難以筦束，是個小淘氣包！她告訴我，她在里面走了20年了，只是為了捄贖她身前犯下的功。對此，我一點都不懷疑！”
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