Caroline: How many letters you must have occasion to write, Mr. Darcy. Letters of business, too. How odious I should think them.
Darcy: It is fortunate, then, theyfall to my lotinstead of yours.
Caroline: Do tell your sister that I long to see her.
Darcy: I've already told her once, by your desire.
Caroline: I dodote onher. I was quite in raptures at her beautiful little design for a table.
Darcy: Perhaps you will give me leave to defer your raptures till I write again. At present I have not room enough to do them justice.
Bingley: Well I think it's amazing that you young ladies have the patience to be soaccomplished.
Caroline: What do you mean, Charles?
Bingley: You all paint tables and play the piano and embroider cushions. I never heard of a young lady, but people say she's accomplished.
Darcy: The word is indeed applied too liberally. I cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen women in all my acquaintance that are truly accomplished.
Caroline: Nor I, to be sure.
Elizabeth: Goodness, you must comprehend a great deal in the idea.
Darcy: I do.
Caroline: Absolutely. She must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages to deserve the word. And something in her air and manner of walking.
Darcy: And, of course she must improve her mind by extensive reading.
Elizabeth: I'm no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.
Darcy: Are you so severe on your own sex?
Elizabeth: I never saw such a woman. She would certainly be a fearsome thing to behold.
Caroline: Miss Elizabeth, let us take a turn about the room. It's refreshing, is it not, after sitting so long in one attitude?
Elizabeth: It is a small kind of accomplishment, I suppose.
Caroline: Will you not join us, Mr. Darcy?
Darcy: You can only have two motives, Caroline, and I would interfere with either.
Caroline: What can he mean?
Elizabeth: The surest way of disappointing him will be to ask him nothing about it.
Caroline: But do tell us, Mr. Darcy.
Darcy: Either you are in each other's confidence and you have secret affairs to discuss, or you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage by walking. If the first, I shouldget in your way. If the second,
I can admire you much better from here.
Caroline: Shocking. How shall we punish him for such a speech?
Elizabeth: We could always laugh at him.
Caroline: Oh no. Mr. Darcy is not to be teased.
Elizabeth: Are you too proud, Mr. Darcy? And would you consider pride a fault or a virtue?
Darcy: That I couldn't say.
Elizabeth: Because we're doing our best to find a fault in you.
Darcy: Maybe it's that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offences against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.
Elizabeth: Oh, dear. I cannot tease you about that. What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
Caroline: A family trait, I think.
妙詞佳句，活學(xué)活用
1. it falls to sb.'s lot to do sth. / the lot falls to sb. to do sth. / it falls to sb. as sb.'s lot to do sth. 是"某人命中注定要做某事；某人有責(zé)任做某事"的意思。
e.g. It falls to my lot to join the army.
參軍是我有責(zé)任要做的事。
It falls to the young girl's lot to marry this old man.
嫁給這個(gè)老頭是這個(gè)女孩命里注定的。
2. dote on
If you say you dote on a person or a thing, it means you love or care about them very much and ignore any faults they may have. 中文里就是"寵愛，溺愛；過分喜愛"。比如"她溺愛她的兒子"就可以說成 She dotes on her youngest son.
3. accomplished 多才多藝的；熟練的；完成的
說到“多才多藝”，大家馬上想到詞的可能是 versatile，accomplished 這個(gè)詞比 versatile 還要高一個(gè)等級(jí)，差不多到了專家的程度，而 versatile 多用來指“能勝任……”。例如：
an accomplished lady 一個(gè)才女
an accomplished pianist 有造詣的鋼琴家
an accomplished facts 不容爭辯的事實(shí)
4. get/stand in one's way / be in the way
這是口語里特別常用的詞組，意思是“擋路，妨礙”。我們來看兩個(gè)例子：
e.g.
1) Keep on going with your reading. Don't let me stand in your way.
2) You're in the way, would you please move aside?
Caroline: You write uncommonly fast, Mr. Darcy.