If I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heatheliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all esle perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remaied, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger; I should not seem a part of it. (Catherine )
--My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it. I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nell, I am Heathcliff! He's always always in my mind; not as a pleasure, any ore than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being. (Catherine)
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历来中译本对这个句子多半解读错误，如伍光建的“希司克利夫方才来探我”；梁实秋的“希兹克利夫先生刚来访问过我”；杨苡的“希斯克利夫先生刚刚光临前来看我”；方平的“希克厉先生才来看过我”；宋兆霖的“希斯克里夫先生刚刚来拜访过我”；孙致礼的“希斯克利夫先生刚刚赏光来看过我”。其实这句是现在完成时：Mr。Heathcliff has just honoured me with a call。。是说洛克伍德卧病以来的这段时间，房东只来探过一次，就是下句说的七天前来访那次，语气讽刺（房东做人太差，太没礼貌）。如果是日记当天的事，应该用一般过去时才对，不必用完成时。 (查看原文)
Then personal apperance sympathised with mental deterioration:he acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look;his naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness;and he took a grim pleasure,apparently,in exciting the aversion rather than the esteem of his few acquaintances. (查看原文)
