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

“感谢上帝，我一点也不害怕！”克里斯廷费力地说。

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

“是的，我是个人，这让我感到害怕，”克里斯廷道。

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

“我说，人们对某样东西无能为力的，只能害怕它了，”坎特尔大爷说。

" That depends on whether they be afeard."

“这要看他们是否害怕了。”

This is knavery of them to make me afeard.

他们这是在吓唬我，真够猾的。

Now here we see Shakespeare use the word afeard instead of the word afraid.

现在我们看到莎士比亚使用了“afeard”这个词，而不是“afraid”。

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

跟女人有关，因为我怕她们。

" " Of course—if you ain't afeard." " Afeard!

” “当然——不害怕的。” “害怕！

I wisht I hadn't come." " Oh, don't be afeard.

我希望我没有来。” “哦，别害怕。

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

" 现在可以随心所欲了, 因为我一点也不怕。

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

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

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

例，他批评人们说“afeard”而不是“afraid”。

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

我很害怕在坟墓里没有睡个好觉直接去里安顿我。

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

” “我会试试，但别害怕。

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

在我个时代， 没有人会害怕结婚， 除了炮弹或空碗柜之外， 没有人会想到别的！

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，我们怕有什么用？

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

” “好吧，我很害怕。” “为什么，汤姆索亚，这件事被发现了，我们活不了两天了。

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，我或许还能赢。赢了钱，我要讨一个老婆，晚上有她陪伴着我，我不会再害怕了，我不会再害怕了！

" 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，别这样贬低我；这么一说，我觉得自己比九柱戏的木柱子还要矮了。我只不过是出了一点小差错而已。”

" 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."

“然后我走到这儿，我很害怕，又折回去了；但我不想跟她说，因为有一个男人在儿，于是我又回到这儿来了。”