'Get it ready, will you?' was the answer, uttered so savagely that I started. The tone in which the words were said revealed a genuine bad nature. I no longer felt inclined to call Heathcliff a capital fellow. When the preparations were finished, he invited me with - 'Now, sir, bring forward your chair.' And we all, including the rustic youth, drew round the table: an austere silence prevailing while we discussed our meal.

“你能把茶沏好吗？”算是回答，恶狠狠的语调让我不寒而栗。说这些话的语调展示了他真实的恶的本性。我也不再愿意说希斯克利夫先生是个优秀的人了。当准备妥帖后，他邀请我，“现在，先生，把你的椅子往前挪娜，”然后我们所有的人，包括那个乡巴佬，围着圆桌。我们吃饭的过程中，难以忍受的沉默占据了大多数时间。

I thought, if I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it. They could not every day sit so grim and taciturn; and it was impossible, however ill-tempered they might be, that the universal scowl they wore was their every-day countenance.

我想，如果是我造成了这不愉快气氛，那我就有义务去尝试着驱散它。他们不可能每天这样严肃而沉默的坐着；不管他们的脾气有多坏，他们不可能每天都臭着脸。

'It is strange,' I began, in the interval of swallowing one cup of tea and receiving another - 'it is strange how custom can mould our tastes and ideas: many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life of such complete exile from the world as you spend, Mr. Heathcliff; yet, I'll venture to say, that, surrounded by your family, and with your amiable lady as the presiding genius over your home and heart - '

“真是奇怪，”在喝完一杯茶，倒第二杯的时候，我说，“习俗是如何铸就我们的品味喝想法的，这是很奇怪的：很多人可能想象不到，在像你这样，远离尘世的人过着如此幸福的生活，希斯克力夫先生。然而，我斗胆说一句，被家人围绕，你贤惠的女人作为你的家和心的指挥天才…”

'My amiable lady!' he interrupted, with an almost diabolical sneer on his face. 'Where is she - my amiable lady?'

“我贤惠的女人！”他面露近乎恶魔般的讥笑，打断我的话，“她在哪里？我贤惠的女人？”

'Mrs. Heathcliff, your wife, I mean.'

“我说的是希斯克力夫太太，你的妻子。”

'Well, yes - oh, you would intimate that her spirit has taken the post of ministering angel, and guards the fortunes of Wuthering Heights, even when her body is gone. Is that it?'

“那么，对了――噢，你说的是她的灵魂当上了天使部长，从而守护着呼啸山庄的财产，即便是她的骨骸已经消失。对吗？”