Tess was the merest stray phenomenon to Angel Clare as yet - a rosy warming apparition which had only just acquired the attribute of persistence in his consciousness.
到目前为止,在安琪尔·克莱尔看来,苔丝只不过是一种偶然的现象——一个让人感到温暖的玫瑰色幻影,在他的意识里,这个幻影也只是刚刚具有了驱赶不开的性质。
Their talk was of Angel Clare and Tess, and Tess「s persistent lover, whose connection with her previous history they had partly heard and partly guessed ere this.
她们谈的是关于安琪尔,克莱尔和苔丝的事,谈的是苔丝的那个追着她不放的情人,那个情人同她过去的历史她们已经猜出了一些,也听到了一些。
On their part they saw a great difference in him, a growing divergence from the Angel Clare of former times.
在他的父母方面,他们也在他的身上看出了巨大的不同,看到了同在前几次里看到的安琪尔·克莱尔的差别。
So we find Angel Clare at six-and-twenty here at Talbothays as a student of kine, and, as there were no houses near at hand in which he could get a comfortable lodging, a boarder at the dairyman」s.
因此,我们就看到安琪尔·克莱尔在二十六岁时来到泰波塞斯,做一个学习养牛的学徒,同时,因为附近找不到一个舒适的住处,所以他吃住都和奶牛场的老板在一起。