Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

Not forgetting that he was only following up this handicraft as a prop to lean on while he prepared those greater engines which he flattered himself would be better fitted for him, he yet was interested in his pursuit on its own account.

Ambitious guy

It was part of his duty to give her private lessons in the evening, and some article in the Code made it necessary that a respectable, elderly woman should be present at these lessons when the teacher and the taught were of different sexes.

Placing the garments by her and touching her on the shoulder he went downstairs, and washed himself by starlight in the yard.

poor Jude sat a whole night with Sue in his small lodging

a sharp smart now was better than a long agony of suspense hereafter.

Their parting was in good friendship, and yet Jude's last look into her eyes was tinged with inquiry, for he felt that he did not even now quite know her mind.

what a complicted woman

"insulted Nature sometimes vindicated her rights"

Yet he perceived with despondency that, taken all round, he was a man of too many passions to make a good clergyman; the utmost he could hope for was that in a life of constant internal warfare between flesh and spirit the former might not always be victorious.

"然而他颓然发觉：归根结底，自己情欲过炽，实难胜任圣职；余生唯能奢望，在这场灵与肉的无休止内战中，肉身欲望不致屡战屡胜" - DeepSeek 译

Don't come next week. On your own account don't! We were too free, under the influence of that morbid hymn and the twilight. Think no more than you can help of Susanna Florence Mary.

“下周且莫前来。为你自己着想，万万不可！那病态的圣咏与暮色昏黄，蛊惑得我们太过放浪。能不思量，且不思量。” - DeepSeek 译

the amputation of a limb is no affliction, since a person gets comfortably accustomed to the use of a wooden leg or arm in the course of time!"

He might go on believing as before, but he professed nothing, and no longer owned and exhibited engines of faith which, as their proprietor, he might naturally be supposed to exercise on himself first of all.

sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong."

苏对裘德的反复引诱与逃离，最终使二人在精神上同归于尽——她的“悔悟”未能拯救任何人，反而加速了悲剧