《计出无奈》开篇：英文原著带中文翻译

The following story, the first published by the author, was written nineteen years ago, at a time when he was feeling his way to a method. The principles observed in its composition are, no doubt, too exclusively those in which mystery, entanglement, surprise, and moral obliquity are depended on for exciting interest; but some of the scenes, and at least one of the characters, have been deemed not unworthy of a little longer preservation; and as they could hardly be reproduced in a fragmentary form the novel is reissued complete—the more readily that it has for some considerable time been reprinted and widely circulated in America. January 1889.

下面这个故事是作者首次出版的作品，写于十九年前，当时他还在摸索自己的创作方法。毫无疑问，它在构思上所遵循的原则过于偏重依靠神秘、纠葛、惊奇和道德偏差来激发兴趣；但其中某些场景，以及至少一个人物，被认为还值得稍作保留；而由于这些内容很难用片段形式再现，这部小说便以完整面貌重新出版，更何况它已有相当长一段时间在美国重印并广泛流传。一八八九年一月。

To the foregoing note I have only to add that, in the present edition of ‘Desperate Remedies,’ some Wessex towns and other places that are common to the scenes of several of these stories have been called for the first time by the names under which they appear elsewhere, for the satisfaction of any reader who may care for consistency in such matters.

对于上述说明，我只需补充一点：在目前这个《绝望的补救》版本中，一些威塞克斯城镇以及其他地点，因与这几部小说的场景相通，首次采用了它们在别处出现时所用的名称，以满足任何在意此类一致性的读者。

This is the only material change; for, as it happened that certain characteristics which provoked most discussion in my latest story were present in this my first—published in 1871, when there was no French name for them it has seemed best to let them stand unaltered.

这是唯一实质性的改动；因为恰巧在我最近一部小说中引起最多讨论的某些特征，也存在于我这第一部小说中，它出版于一八七一年，当时还没有一个法语名称来称呼它们，所以最好让它们保持原样。

T.H. February 1896.

T.H. 一八九六年二月。

I. THE EVENTS OF THIRTY YEARS

第一卷 三十年前的事件

1. DECEMBER AND JANUARY, 1835-36

第一章 一八三五年十二月至一八三六年一月

In the long and intricately inwrought chain of circumstance which renders worthy of record some experiences of Cytherea Graye, Edward Springrove, and others, the first event directly influencing the issue was a Christmas visit.

在那一长串错综交织、使赛西莉亚·格雷、爱德华·斯普林罗夫以及其他人某些经历值得记录下来的境遇链条中，第一个直接影响了结局的事件，是一次圣诞拜访。

In the above-mentioned year, 1835, Ambrose Graye, a young architect who had just begun the practice of his profession in the midland town of Hocbridge, to the north of Christminster, went to London to spend the Christmas holidays with a friend who lived in Bloomsbury. They had gone up to Cambridge in the same year, and, after graduating together, Huntway, the friend, had taken orders.

在上述的一八三五年，安布罗斯·格雷，一位年轻建筑师，刚在克里斯敏斯特以北的米德兰兹城镇霍克布里奇开始执业，便去伦敦和一个住在布卢姆斯伯里的朋友共度圣诞假期。他们同年进入剑桥，一起毕业后，那位朋友亨特韦接受了圣职。

Graye was handsome, frank, and gentle. He had a quality of thought which, exercised on homeliness, was humour; on nature, picturesqueness; on abstractions, poetry. Being, as a rule, broadcast, it was all three.

格雷英俊、坦率、温和。他有一种思想气质，用在日常琐事上便是幽默，用在自然上便是如画，用在抽象事物上便是诗意。由于通常无所不包，它三者兼具。

Of the wickedness of the world he was too forgetful. To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience: to him it was ever a surprise.

他对世间的邪恶太容易遗忘。对大多数人来说，在新朋友身上发现恶，不过是多一次经验；对他而言，却始终是一种意外。

While in London he became acquainted with a retired officer in the Navy named Bradleigh, who, with his wife and their daughter, lived in a street not far from Russell Square. Though they were in no more than comfortable circumstances, the captain’s wife came of an ancient family whose genealogical tree was interlaced with some of the most illustrious and well-known in the kingdom.

在伦敦期间，他结识了一位退役海军军官，名叫布拉德利，此人与妻子和女儿住在离罗素广场不远的一条街上。虽然他们不过家境宽裕，船长的妻子却出身古老家族，其家谱与王国中一些最显赫、最知名者交织在一起。

The young lady, their daughter, seemed to Graye by far the most beautiful and queenly being he had ever beheld. She was about nineteen or twenty, and her name was Cytherea. In truth she was not so very unlike country girls of that type of beauty, except in one respect. She was perfect in her manner and bearing, and they were not. A mere distinguishing peculiarity, by catching the eye, is often read as the pervading characteristic, and she appeared to him no less than perfection throughout—transcending her rural rivals in very nature. Graye did a thing the blissfulness of which was only eclipsed by its hazardousness. He loved her at first sight.

他们的女儿，这位年轻小姐，在格雷看来，似乎是他平生见过的最美丽、最有女王风范的人。她大约十九或二十岁，名叫赛西莉亚。事实上，她与那种美貌类型的乡下姑娘并非多么不同，只有一点例外。她的举止和风度完美无瑕，而她们并非如此。仅仅一个引人注目的特点，往往因为抓住视线，就被当成贯穿整体的特征，于是她在他眼中显得处处完美，甚至在天性上也超越了那些乡下对手。格雷做了一件事，其幸福只有其冒险性才能盖过。他对她一见钟情。