Jane Eyre

apostle: any one of the twelve men that Christ chose to tell people of him and his teachings

neophyte: 1. person who has recently changed to a new religion 刚接受新宗教信仰的人,新皈依者; 2. a person who has recently become a priest or recently entered a religious order 新受圣职的司铎,修会初学生。

hierophant 圣师，圣职者

propitiate: to stop sb from being angry by trying to please them.

Sacrifices were made to propitiate the gods.

ruth 怜悯

curate: 1. an assistant to a vicar 助理牧师；2. sth that has good and bad parts 有好有坏的东西 The book is something of a curate's egg.

That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.

I thought the continent of Europe had bounded his wanderings.

I was pondering these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected one, broke the thread of my musings.

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

...look at me, and tell me you are at ease, and not fearing that I err in detaining you, or that you err in staying.

Old times crowded fast back on me as I watched her.

You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this--if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to the new.

You were born, I think, to be my torment: my last hour is racked by the recollection of a deed which, but for you, I should never have been tempted to commit.

The vocation will fit you to a hair, much good may it do you.

I ventured to hope that he would, even after his marriage, keep us together somewhere under the shelter of his protection, and not quite exiled from the sunshine of his presence.

Jane, the first time I, or rumour, plainly intimated to you that it was my intention to put my old bachelor's neck into the sacred noose, to enter into the holy estate of matrimony--to take Miss Ingram to my bosom.

You are not turning your head to look after more moths, are you?

All is not gold that glitters.

I imagined my fortune had passed its meridian, and must now decline.

Bertha Mason, the true daughter of an infamous mother, dragged me through all the hideous and degrading agonies which must attend a man bound to a wife at once intemperate and unchaste.

"Then you snatch love and innocence from me? You fling me back on lust for a passion--vice for an occupation?"

Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonised as in that hour left my lips; for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.

Not a tie links me to any living thing: not a claim do I possess to admittance under any roof in England.

St. John looks quiet, Jane; but he hides a fever in his vitals.

Now you had better go; for if you stay longer, you will perhaps irritate me afresh by some mistrustful scruple.

I am not for it: I have no vocation.

I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it.

I should desire somewhat more of affection than that sort of general philanthropy you extend to mere strangers.

Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy. I will not, therefore, immediately charm the snake.

She had better not wait till then. Jane, if she does, she will be too late, for our honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh.

Renewed hope followed renewed effort.

To prolong doubt is to prolong hope.