"It will be no use to us if twenty such should come, since you will not visit them."

“你既然不愿意去拜访他们，即使有二十个搬了来，对我们又有什么好处！”

"Depend upon it, my dear, that when there are twenty I will visit them all."

“放心吧，我的好太太，等到有了二十个，我一定去一个个拜望到。”

Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic¹ humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient² to make his wife understand his character.

班纳特先生真是个古怪人，他一方面喜欢插科打浑，爱挖苦人，同时又不拘言笑，变幻莫测，真使他那位太太积二十三年之经验，还摸不透他的性格。

Her mind was less difficult to develope. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous.

太太的脑子是很容易加以分析的。她是个智力贫乏、不学无术、喜怒无常的女人，只要碰到不称心的事，她就以为神经衰弱。

The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace³ was visiting and news.

她生平的大事就是嫁女儿；她生平的安慰就是访友拜客和打听新闻。