Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley's attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting that she was herself becoming an object of some interest in the eyes of his friend. Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely/ skeəsli; ˋskɛrslɪ /几乎没有
scarcely a day / year / moment etc
Scarcely a day goes by when I don’t think of him. 我几乎没有一天不想到他。
仅仅，决不
allowed her to be pretty; he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. 批评
formal to express judgments about the good and bad qualities of something 【正式】 评论
We look at each other’s work and criticize it. 我们交换作品，互相提出批评意见。
be critical of sb / sth
to criticize someone or something, especially by giving detailed reasons for this 〔尤针对具体事由〕批评某人/某事
The report was highly critical of the police investigation. 该报道对警方的调查予以严厉的批评。
But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered
to cause someone or something to be in a particular condition 使成为；使变得；使处于〔某种状态〕
render sb / sth impossible / harmless / unconscious etc
He was rendered almost speechless by the news. 听到这个消息他几乎说不出话来。
给予，表现，粉刷，使熔化
uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying. 深感窘迫
克己
Though he had detected with a critical挑剔的，批判性的
关键性的，危机的（事件，病情）
eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry 对称，相似
the symmetry of the design 图案的对称性
in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting / əsɜːt; əˋsɝt /主张，
assert itself if an idea or belief asserts itself, it begins to influence something 〔观念﹑信念〕产生影响
National pride began to assert itself. 民族自豪感开始产生影响。
assert yourself 积极表达自己观点
that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness活泼. Of this she was perfectly unaware; — to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable no where, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.
He began to wish to know more of her, and as a step towards conversing谈话
反面事实，相反的
with her himself, attended to her conversation with others.His doing so drew her notice. It was at Sir William Lucas's, where a large party were assembled.聚集
A large crowd had assembled outside the American embassy. 一大群人聚集在美国大使馆外。
组装
“What does Mr. Darcy mean, ” said she to Charlotte, “by listening to my conversation with Colonel Forster? ”
“That is a question which Mr. Darcy only can answer.”
“But if he does it any more, I shall certainly let him know that I see what he is about. He has a very satirical/sətɪrɪkəl; səˋtɪrɪkḷ/adj
讽刺的
a well-known satirical magazine 一本著名的讽刺杂志
eye, and if I do not begin by being impertinent （学过了，其实前面也有很多词学习完成，只是再重复以巩固记忆）不敬的，莽撞的
He was always asking impertinent questions. 他老是问一些唐突的问题。
myself, I shall soon grow afraid of him.”
On his approaching them soon afterwards, though without seeming to have any intention of speaking, Miss Lucas defied 违抗
I defy sb to do sth spoken formal used when you ask someone to do something that you think is impossible 【口，正式】 我倒要看某人能否做成某事
I defy anyone to prove otherwise. 我倒要看看哪一位能提出反证。
her friend to mention such a subject to him, which immediately provoking Elizabeth to do it, she turned to him and said,
“Did not you think, Mr. Darcy, that I expressed myself uncommonly well just now, when I was teazing Colonel Forster to give us a ball at Meryton? ”
“With great energy; — but it is a subject which always makes a lady energetic.”
“You are severe on严厉的 us.”
“It will be her turn soon to be teazed, ” said Miss Lucas. “I am going to open the instrument, Eliza, and you know what follows.”
“You are a very strange creature by way of a friend! — always wanting me to play and sing before any body and every body! — If my vanity had taken a musical turn, you would have been invaluable, but as it is, I would really rather not sit down before those who must be in the habit of hearing the very best performers.”
赠一句警言“一流的付出，才能拥抱一流的回报。”
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