Knowing that Mrs. Smith was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death. 史密斯太太患有心脏病，所以需要非常小心地把她丈夫去世的消息尽可能温和地告诉她。 It was her sister Mary who told her, in broken sentences. Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Mr. Smith's name leading the list of "killed." 她姐姐玛丽断断续续地告诉了她这个消息。她丈夫的朋友理查兹也在她身边。是他在报社收到了铁路灾难的消息，并看到以史密斯先生的名字为首的“遇害”名单。 She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her. 她并没有像许多女人那样表现得无法接受，目瞪口呆。她立刻在姐姐怀里放声大哭起来。当悲伤的风暴过去，她一个人去了自己的房间。她不会让任何人跟着她。 She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams. 她坐在椅子的靠垫上，头向后仰着，一动不动，只有呜咽声涌上她的喉咙时，她才动一动。就像一个哭着睡着的孩子在梦中还在呜咽。 mary was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhole, imploring for admission. " open the door! I beg; open the door--you will make yourself ill. What are you doing? For heaven's sake open the door." 约瑟芬跪在紧闭的门前，嘴唇贴在锁孔上，哀求着进去。”露易丝，开门！我求求你，开门——你会让自己生病的。你在干什么，露易丝？看在上帝的份上，开门吧。” She arose at length and opened the door. 她终于站了起来，打开了门。 Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Mr. Smith who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Mary’s piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife. When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy. 有人用钥匙打开前门。进来的是史密斯先生，有点旅行的痕迹，从容不迫地提着他的提包和雨伞。他离事故现场很远，甚至不知道发生过一起事故。他惊讶地站在那里，听到玛丽刺耳的哭声；看到理查兹迅速把他从妻子的视线中挡了出来。 当医生们来的时候，他们说她死于心脏病——死于喜悦。 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/33c97f8268eae009581b6bd97f1922791788beda.html