Maidens

C:... And the maidens as Ruth and Esther and Rahab and Elizabeth and...

C:和鲁思和埃丝特和少女，喇合和伊丽莎白…

She reached the entrance of the village ， and saw the young laboring men and maidens standing together chatting ， and her own mother amongst them. Inge's mother was sitting on a stone to rest ， with a fagot of sticks lying before her ， which she had picked up in the wood.

然而在走出乡下快到城里的时候，她看见一群姑娘和小伙子在街头的水池边闲谈，而她的母亲正坐在一块石头上休息，旁边放着一捆劈柴，是她从树林中拾回来的。

Tess had moodily decided that either of these maidens would make a good farmer's wife, and that she ought to recommend them, and obscure her own wretched charms.

苔丝原是痛苦地下了决心，她们两个无论谁都能成为农场主的好妻子，她应该推荐她们，而且还要贬低自己不幸的姿色。