《简爱》✍ 第二章：1

I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a cir-cumstance which greatlly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed to entertain of me. The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather out of myself, as the French would say: I was con-scious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths.

我一路都在反抗，这是我从来没有过的，可这一来就大大加深了贝茜和阿博特小姐对我的恶感，超过了她们本来愿意抱有的。实际上，我是有点失掉了自制，或者像法国人常说的：忘乎所以了。我意识到，一时的反叛早已经使我难免要受到种种难以想象的惩罚，因此像其它任何一个造反的奴隶那样，我在绝望中下定决心，索性不顾一切了。