Am I not to show favour to any person I may choose without asking permission of a parcel of cottagers?

难道我想对什么人表示好感还要征得一群乡巴佬的同意吗？

When I returned to the cottage, I found that the cottagers had left.

当我回到小屋时， 发现村民们已经离开了。

When the young lady spoke to the cottagers, they did not understand her.

小姐跟村民们说话时， 他们听不懂她的话。

I could have destroyed the cottage and killed the cottagers with pleasure.

我本可以摧毁小屋并愉快地杀死村民。

Now I longed even more to show myself to the cottagers.

现在我更渴望向村民们展示自己。

I preferred those who governed peacefully, because they resembled my cottagers.

我更喜欢那些和平统治的人， 因为他们像我的乡下人。

I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence'.

我认为我们的境况要好得多， 只认识村民和劳工， 以及没有伪装的人。

Though he was almost a stranger here now, passing cottagers talked to him over the garden hedge.

虽然他现在几乎成了这里的陌生人，但路过的村民隔着花园篱笆与他交谈。

The only difference was that now my cottagers were happy instead of sad.

唯一不同的是， 现在我的村民们高兴而不是悲伤。

In the evening I noticed that the cottagers were repeating the same sounds again and again.

傍晚时分， 我注意到村民们一遍又一遍地重复同样的声音。

When night came, I was surprised to see that the cottagers could make light with candles.

夜幕降临，我很惊讶地看到村民们会点蜡烛。

I myself have seen, at a place called St Claude, at a cottager's, a Salamander in a fireplace close to a kettle.

我自己在一个叫做圣克劳德的地方的一个小屋里看到了火蜥蜴在靠近水壶的壁炉里。

Mr. Irwine, after seating his sister Anne, had gone to the abbey gallery, as he had agreed with Arthur beforehand, to see how the merriment of the cottagers was prospering.

欧文先生让他的妹妹安妮坐好后，就去了修道院的画廊，正如他事先与亚瑟约定的那样，看看村民们的欢乐是如何进行的。

Everybody, he assured her, was well off in Lowick: not a cottager in those double cottages at a low rent but kept a pig, and the strips of garden at the back were well tended.

他向她保证，洛威克的每个人都过得很好：不是住在那些租金低廉的双人小屋里的村民，而是养了一头猪，后面的花园条带也得到了很好的照料。

The rural opinion about the new young ladies, even among the cottagers, was generally in favor of Celia, as being so amiable and innocent-looking, while Miss Brooke's large eyes seemed, like her religion, too unusual and striking.

甚至在村民中间， 普遍都赞成西莉亚， 因为她看起来那么和蔼可亲， 天真无邪，而布鲁克小姐的大眼睛似乎， 乡下人对新来的年轻女士的看法， 就像她的宗教信仰一样， 太不寻常和引人注目。

That I really prefer a garden so poor and plain that every cottager would be ashamed of it, he cannot bring himself to believe, and of course I have long since given up trying to explain myself.

我真的更喜欢一个如此简陋的花园，以至于每个村民都会为此感到羞耻，他无法让自己相信，当然我早就放弃了试图解释自己。

But there was no choice of occasions for her now, and she steadily waited for the church bells to cease chiming. At last all was silent; the surrounding cottagers had gathered themselves within the walls of the adjacent building.

但现在她别无选择，只能静静地等待教堂的钟声停止响起。最后一切都安静了；周围的村民聚集在相邻建筑物的围墙内。

On my breakfast table there is a pot of honey. Not the manufactured stuff sold under that name in shops, but honey of the hive, brought to me by a neighbouring cottager whose bees often hum in my garden.

在我的早餐桌上有一罐蜂蜜。不是在商店里以这个名字出售的制成品，而是蜂巢的蜂蜜，是邻居的一位村民带给我的，他的蜜蜂经常在我的花园里嗡嗡作响。