Eustacia was nettled by her own contrivances.

游苔莎对自己的恼恨起来。

Tests of strength... chance... -... and cunning. - Yes!

力量的考验运气… … - 及。- 赞！

For the real-life working man, women were only a source of amusement - but a dangerous one: with women one always had to be cunning or else they would get the upper hand and ruin one's life.

对现实生活中的工来说，女是一种消遣方式，而且是很危险的一种：在女方面，总是要很有，否则女就会占上风而毁的生活。

I have had to use every ounce of cunning I possess, so that my hand would not be detectable in your success. Dumbledore would have been very suspicious if you had managed everything too easily.

我不得不使出我所有的，使们看不出我插手的痕迹。如果你赢得容易，邓布利多会起疑的。

But Spitz, cold and calculating even in his supreme moods, left the pack and cut across a narrow neck of land where the creek made a long bend around.

然而, 即使在情绪激动至极的时刻, 斯匹次仍然冷静而工于。离开狗群, 在一处小溪转弯的地方向前直插过去。

As always, she wondered how her loud, insensitive father had managed to marry a woman like her mother, for never were two people further apart in birth, breeding and habits of mind.

如往常那样，她觉得奇怪，怎么这位大喊大叫，没的父亲会设法娶上了像她母亲那样的一个女呢？因为从出身、教养和性格来说，世界上再没有比们彼此距离更远的两个了。

I have had to use every ounce of cunning I possess, so that my hand would not be detectable in your success.

我不得不使出我所有的，使们看不出我插手的痕迹。

If she plays her cards right.'

要是苔丝有点儿的话。”

I am honest and don't cheat or play games.

我为诚实，从不作弊或玩弄。

As to you saying that she's after me, I don't like such a remark about her, for it implies a scheming woman, and a man worth scheming for, both of which are not only untrue, but ludicrously untrue, of this case.

我不喜欢她这样的说法， 因为这暗示了一个机的女， 一个值得的， 这两者对于本案来说不仅不真实， 至于你说她在追我， 而且不真实。

Could he ever be tolerably happy with Lucy Steele; could he, were his affection for herself out of the question, with his integrity, his delicacy, and well-informed mind, be satisfied with a wife like her—illiterate, artful, and selfish?

怎么可能和露西·斯蒂尔过得还算满意呢；就算抛开对自己的感情不谈，以的正直、细腻以及渊博的知识，怎么可能满足于一个像她这样的妻子——没有文化、工于且自私自利？

Little does anyone know that these events have all been set in motion by the conniving master of coin, Peter Littlefinger Baelish.

没有知道，这些事件全都是由工于的财政大师、彼得·小指头·拜拉席恩一手策划的。

Be that as it may, I have not been a burden to you. Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery!

罢了，我自己并没有累着你们，你们却有说我是诡诈，用牢笼你们。