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30章一开头Jane就说她越来越喜欢Moor House的人了，这种愉悦描写的很到位：

There was a reviving pleasure in this intercourse, of a kind now tasted by me for the first time—the pleasure arising from perfect congeniality of tastes, sentiments, and principles.

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 30章Jane跟她们一起读书讨论问题：

Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly.

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30章，人之患在好为人师呀：

Diana offered to teach me German.  I liked to learn of her: I saw the part of instructress pleased and suited her; that of scholar pleased and suited me no less. 

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30章St John的妹妹们劝她风雨天不要再出门，但他坚持要看望那些穷困病苦的人，他的话非常感人也很励志：

 

“And if I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from these easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose to myself?”

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obliging

Vicon English-Chinese(S) Dictionary

 

obliging  [o'blig·ing || ə'blaɪdʒɪŋ]

adj.  亲切的, 殷勤的, 体贴的

 

oblige  [o·blige || ə'blaɪdʒ]

v.  强制, 束缚, 施恩惠于; 表示好意

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32章，St John显然对Rosamond Oliver有感情，在天国和尘世间徘徊：

He seemed to say, with his sad and resolute look, if he did not say it with his lips, “I love you, and I know you prefer me.  It is not despair of success that keeps me dumb.  If I offered my heart, I believe you would accept it.  But that heart is already laid on a sacred altar: the fire is arranged round it.  It will soon be no more than a sacrifice consumed.” [ 本帖最后由 木耳 于 2013-11-30 19:09 编辑 ]

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32章Jane开导John，并认为：

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all; and to “burst” with boldness and good-will into “the silent sea” of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations.

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32章Jane先发制人，用词好犀利：
“But where is the use of going on,” I asked, “when you are probably preparing some iron blow of contradiction, or forging a fresh chain to fetter your heart?”

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32章，Jane这种诚实说话的品质越来越可贵：

I could never rest in communication with strong, discreet, and refined minds, whether male or female, till I had passed the outworks of conventional reserve, and crossed the threshold of confidence, and won a place by their heart’s very hearthstone.

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32章，Jane和John关于宗教的对话深刻有力，一定程度上也是新教伦理与资本主义精神的阐释：

“You have taken my confidence by storm,” he continued, “and now it is much at your service.  I am simply, in my original state—stripped of that blood-bleached robe with which Christianity covers human deformity—a cold, hard, ambitious man.  Natural affection only, of all the sentiments, has permanent power over me.  Reason, and not feeling, is my guide; my ambition is unlimited: my desire to rise higher, to do more than others, insatiable.  I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.  I watch your career with interest, because I consider you a specimen of a diligent, orderly, energetic woman: not because I deeply compassionate what you have gone through, or what you still suffer.”

“You would describe yourself as a mere pagan philosopher,” I said.

“No.  There is this difference between me and deistic philosophers: I believe; and I believe the Gospel.  You missed your epithet.  I am not a pagan, but a Christian philosopher—a follower of the sect of Jesus.  As His disciple I adopt His pure, His merciful, His benignant doctrines.  I advocate them: I am sworn to spread them.  Won in youth to religion, she has cultivated my original qualities thus:—From the minute germ, natural affection, she has developed the overshadowing tree, philanthropy.  From the wild stringy root of human uprightness, she has reared a due sense of the Divine justice.  Of the ambition to win power and renown for my wretched self, she has formed the ambition to spread my Master’s kingdom; to achieve victories for the standard of the cross.  So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and training nature.  But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated ‘till this mortal shall put on immortality.’”