The younger dairymaids , including tess , breakfasted with their hair loose on sunday mornings before building it up extra high for attending church , a style they could not adopt when milking with their heads against the cows 年轻的挤奶女工，包括苔丝，星期天吃早饭时都披散着头发，在去教堂的时候她们才把头发高高地挽起来，她们在挤牛奶的时候要用头靠着奶牛，所以不能那样梳法。
But ought she not primarily to be able to milk cows , churn good butter , make immense cheeses ; know how to sit hens and turkeys , and rear chickens , to direct a field of labourers in an emergency , and estimate the value of sheep and calves “但是，这个姑娘首先是不是应该会挤牛奶，会搅黄油，会做美味的奶酪呢？首先是不是应该懂得照顾母鸡和火鸡孵蛋，懂得照顾小鸡，懂得在紧急时候指挥工人种地，懂得给牛羊估价呢？ ”
When they had gone through fourteen or fifteen verses of a cheerful ballad about a murderer who was afraid to go to bed in the dark because he saw certain brimstone flames around him , one of the male milkers said - i wish singing on the stoop didn t use up so much of a man s wind 他们唱的是一首民歌，说是有一个杀人凶手不敢在黑暗里睡觉，因为他看见有某种硫磺火焰在围绕着他燃烧，他们唱到第十四段还是第十五段的时候，挤牛奶的男工中有人说
Her lover must have guessed her overwrought state , and invented some excuse for her non - appearance , for no inquiries were made or calls given . at half - past six the sun settled down upon the levels , with the aspect of a great forge in the heavens , and presently a monstrous pumpkin - like moon arose on the other hand 她的情人也一定猜测到了她过分激动的情形，就为她编造了一个借口，解释她不能来挤牛奶的原因，所以也就没有人再打听或者去喊她。
The denizens were all enjoying the usual afternoon nap of an hour or so which the exceedingly early hours kept in summer - time rendered a necessity . at the door the wood - hooped pails , sodden and bleached by infinite scrubbings , hung like hats on a stand upon the forked and peeled limb of an oak fixed there for that purpose ; all of them ready and dry for the evening milking . angel entered , and went through the silent passages of the house to the back quarters , where he listened for a moment 奶牛场里的居民，都在像平常一样享受午后一个小时左右的小睡，夏天起床非常早，中午小睡一会儿是不可缺少的门前有一棵用来挂牛奶桶的剥了树皮的橡树桩固定在地上，树权上挂着带箍的木桶，木桶经过不断的擦洗，已经让水泡透了，洗白了，挂在那儿就像一顶顶帽子所有的木桶都洗静了，晒干了，准备晚上挤牛奶使用。
Howsomever , these gamisters do certainly keep back their milk to - day . folks , we must lift up a stave or two - that s the only cure for t . songs were often resorted to in dairies hereabout as an enticement to the cows when they showed signs of withholding their usual yield ; and the band of milkers at this request burst into melody - in purely business - like tones , it is true , and with no great spontaneity ; the result , according to their own belief , being a decided improvement during the song s continuance 当奶牛一出现出奶量比平常减少的迹象，人们往往就采取在牛奶场唱歌的办法，想用这种办法把牛奶引出来老板要求唱歌，这群挤牛奶的工人们就放开喉咙唱起来唱的完全是一种应付公事的调子，老实说，一点也没有自愿的意思结果，就像他们相信的那样，在他们不停地唱歌的时候，出奶的状况的确有了改变。
After these tender contests and her victory she would go away by herself under the remotest cow , if at milking - time , or into the sedge , or into her room , if at a leisure interval , and mourn silently , not a minute after an apparently phlegmatic negative . the struggle was so fearful ; her own heart was so strongly on the side of his - two ardent hearts against one poor little conscience - that she tried to fortify her resolution by every means in her power 他们每次都是这样多情地争论，最后又总是她取得胜利，然后再独自离开，如果是挤牛奶的时候，她就会跑到最远的一头奶牛那儿去挤奶，如果是闲暇的时候，她就会跑到苇塘里去，或者跑回自己的房间，独自在那儿悲伤，而在不到一分钟前，她还在假装冷淡地表示拒绝。
The milking progressed , till towards the end tess and clare , in common with the rest , could hear the heavy breakfast table dragged out from the wall in the kitchen by mrs crick , this being the invariable preliminary to each meal ; the same horrible scrape accompanying its return journey when the table had been cleared 挤牛奶进行着，挤到快结束的时候，苔丝克莱尔和其余的人，听见了克里克太太把吃早饭的沉重桌子从厨房的墙边拖出来的声音，这是每次吃饭一成不变的例行公事吃完了饭，收拾好桌子，随着桌子被拖回原处，又听到了同样难听的刺耳声。
When the milking was finished for the evening they straggled indoors , where mrs crick , the dairyman s wife - who was too respectable to go out milking herself , and wore a hot stuff gown in warm weather because the dairymaids wore prints - was giving an eye to the leads and things 大家挤完了当晚的牛奶，陆陆续续地走进屋内。老板娘克里克太太因为自恃身分，不肯到外面亲自挤牛奶，就在屋里照料一些沉重的锅盆和杂事也因为女工们都穿印花布，所以在暖和天气里她还穿着一件闷热的毛料衣服。
