" Don't ye let me down so, Father; I feel no bigger than a ninepin after it. I've made but a buckle hit, I'm afeard."

“父亲，你别这样贬低；你这么一，得自己比九柱戏的木柱子要矮。只不过是出一点小差错而已。”

" I bain't afeard at all, I thank God! " said Christian strenuously.

“感谢上帝，一点也不害！”克里斯廷费力地。

But perhaps I shall win yet, and then I'll get a wife to sit up with me o' nights and I won't be afeard, I won't!

不过，或许能赢。赢钱，要讨一个老婆，晚上有她陪伴着，就不会再害，不会再害！

" That depends on whether they be afeard."

“这要看他们是否害。”

" Then I came down here, and I was afeard, and I went back; but I didn't like to speak to her, because of the gentleman, and I came on here again."

“然后就走到这儿，很害，又折回去；但不想跟她话，因为有一个男人在那儿，于是又回到这儿来。”

" Afeared, no! " said the Grandfer. " Faith, I was never afeard of nothing except Boney, or I shouldn't ha' been the soldier I was. Yes, 'tis a thousand pities you didn't see me in four! "

“害？不！”坎特尔大爷。“真的，除拿破仑，什么都没过；要不然，就不会像那样当兵。不错，你们没能看到四年上的，真太可！”

" Yes, I be he; and it makes me afeard, " said Christian.

“是的，就是那个人，这让感到害，”克里斯廷道。

For example, he criticizes people who say afeard rather than afraid.

例如，他批评人们“afeard”而不是“afraid”。

Something to do with women, for I am afeard of them.

跟女人有关，因为她们。

Something approaching Shakespearean speech can sometimes be encountered in isolated valleys in the Appalachian or Ozarks, where words like afeard, yourn, sassy and consarn, and old pronunciations like " jine" for join, can still sometimes be heard.

在阿巴拉契亚山脉或欧扎克山脉的偏僻山谷中，有时会遇到接近莎士比亚语言的东西，那里有时仍会听到像 afeard、yourn、sassy 和 consarn 这样的词，以及像“jine”这样代表 join 的古老发音。

Nobody thought o' being afeard o' matrimony in my time, nor of much else but a cannon-ball or empty cupboard!

在那个时代， 没有人会害结婚， 除炮弹或空碗柜之外， 没有人会想到别的！

" A fair stave, Grandfer Cantle; but I am afeard 'tis too much for the mouldy weasand of such a old man as you, " he said to the wrinkled reveller.

“坎特尔大爷，这歌不错；但恐不是像你这把年纪的人那副老嗓子所能唱的。”他对满脸皱纹的歌舞者道。

I'm rather afeard o' going straight there without getting a good sleep in the grave to set me up'.

很害在坟墓里没有睡个好就直接去那里安顿。

" " I'll try, but don't you be afeard.

” “会试试，但你别害。

An' you may do as you like now, for I'm none afeard on you.

" 现在你可以随心所欲, 因为一点也不你。

This is knavery of them to make me afeard.

他们这是在吓唬，真够狡猾的。

" Well, 'tis right to be afeard of things, if folks can't help it, " said Grandfer Cantle.

“，如果人们对某样东西无能为力的话，那就只能害它，”坎特尔大爷。

Remember from earlier that Edmund Coote had criticized people who said afeard instead of afraid.

记得之前提到的埃德蒙·库特曾批评那些“afeard”而不是“afraid”的人。

But anyway they don't come around in the daytime, so what's the use of our being afeard?

反正白天也不来，们有什么用？

" " Well, I was afeard." " Why, Tom Sawyer, we wouldn't be alive two days if that got found out.

” “好吧，很害。” “为什么，汤姆索亚，如果这件事被发现，们就活不两天。