She was too frightened and weighed down by a sense of past guilt to try to understand it.

可是她被一种对已往罪疚心情压得太重，吓得太厉害了，因此还不想去理会这个问题。

Lil, I think this morning has been a step in the right direction.

莉莉 我得今天早上我们之间已往方向发展。

Scarlett knew from experience that, if Mammy's curiosity were not immediately satisfied, she would take up the matter with Ellen, and then Scarlett would be forced to reveal everything to her mother, or think up some plausible lie.

根据已往经验，思嘉知道如果奇心不能立即满足，她就会去跟妈妈一起嘀咕，那时便只向母亲交代一切，要不就得编出一个像样谎话来。