描写Lucy：
Lucy was naturally clever; her remarks were often just and amusing; and as a companion for half an hour Elinor frequently found her agreeable; but her powers had received no aid from education, she was ignorant and illiterate, and her deficiency of all mental improvement, her want of information in the most common particulars, could not be concealed from Miss Dashwood in spite of her constant endeavour to appear to advantage.
impertinent 无礼的，粗鲁的；（正式）不相关的
Elinor saw and pitied her for the neglect of abilities which education might have rendered so respectable; but she saw, with less tenderness of feeling, the thorough want of delicacy, of rectitude, and integrity of mind, which her attentions, her assiduities, her flatteries at the part betrayed; and she could have no lasting satisfaction in the company of a person who joined insincerity with ignorance......
Her astonishment at what she heard was at first too great for words.
perplexity 困惑，茫然，费解
selfcommand 自制
out of heart 沮丧
take a great liberty with someone 跟某人大放厥词（take the liberty of doing 擅自做某事）
feelingly 由衷地，衷心地
her heart sank within her, and she could hardly stand
天哪我可怜的埃莉诺阿！！！！！！I did, said Elinor with a composure of voice under which was concealed an emotion and distress beyond anything she had ever felt before. She was mortified, shocked, confounded.
wretched 不幸的，可怜的
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