The chamber looked such a bright little place to me as the sun shone in between the gay blue chintz window curtains, showing papered walls and a carpeted floor, so unlike the bare planks and stained plaster of Lowood, that my spirits rose at the view. Externals have a great effect on the young: I thought that fairer era of life was beginning for me—one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as well as its thorns and toils. My faculties, roused by the change of scene, the new field offered to hope, seemed all astir. I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or that month, but at an indefinite future period.
太阳从鲜艳的蓝印花布的窗幔间照射进来时，显出纸糊的墙和铺地毯的地板，和罗沃德的光板同褪的粉墙很是不同，使得这房子在我看来是一个很愉快的小地方：一看它我的精神就振作起来了。外表对于年轻的人很有影响：我想一个美好的生活时代为我开始了——一个既有荆棘和劳苦，也有鲜花和欢乐的时代。我的才智被这种情景变迁，这种令人怀希望的新地方所刺激，似乎全活动起来了。我的才智究竟希望得到什么东西，我无法准确说明，不过是一种令人愉快的东西：并不就在那一天或那一月，却在一个不明确的未来的时期。
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I rose; I dressed myself with care: obliged to be plain—for I had no article of attire that was not made with extreme simplicity—I was still by nature solicitous to be neat. It was not my habit to be disregardful of appearance, or careless of the impression I made: on the contrary, I ever wished to look as well as I could, and to please as much as my want of beauty would permit. I sometimes regretted that I was not handsomer: I sometimes wished to have rosy cheeks, a straight nose, and small cherry mouth; I desired to be tall, stately, and finely developed in figure; I felt it a misfortune that I was so little, so pale, and had features so irregular and so marked. And why had I these aspirations and these regrets? It would be difficult to say: I could not then distinctly say it to myself; yet I had a reason, and a logical, natural reason too.
我起来了；我细心替自己穿着：虽然不得不朴素——因为我没有一件衣服不是做得非常简朴的——我却天生的满心想要整洁。不修边幅或不留心给人的印象如何，并不是我的习惯：反之，我总愿尽力量得好看一点，愿尽力在我不美的限度之内讨人喜欢。我有时惋惜我没有更漂亮一些；我有时愿意有玫瑰的面颊，直梁的鼻子和一张樱挑小口；我渴望发展得美好的高身材；我觉得我这样小，这样苍白，这样五官引人注目的不端正，是一种不幸。
为什么我有这些愿望和惋惜呢？要说明是困难的：那时候我连对自己也说不明白；然而我也有一个理由，而且是一个合乎逻辑的，自然的理由。

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