| "Conservatrix of Milesien" | |
| Habits of mind and feeling, | 185 (184-185) |
| Possibly. But in Ealing | |
| With the most bank-clerkly of Englishmen? | (186-187) |
| No,"Milesien"is an exaggeration. | |
| No instinct has survived in her | |
| Older than those her grandmother | 190 |
| Told her would fit her station. | (189-191) |
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| 本節描述受過教育的中產階級婦女（與上節177行的「溫馴且未受教育的青婦」形成對比），繼承了她並不瞭解且已僵化了的傳統。完全按照其規定的習慣生活，徹頭徹尾扼殺了自己的本能。[back] | |
| Conservatrix：（法文）very conservative woman or conservator. Milesien：非常古老的（由Miletus一字轉來。Miletus為古愛奧尼亞十二城市中最重要亦係最古老者，考古家發現在古代該城曾有高度文化。）[back] | |
| 一位非常保守的女士，心智與感情方面的習慣都非常古舊。[back] | |
| Ealing：倫敦之一區，為上流階級位宅區。[back] | |
| Most bank-clerkly：最像銀行辦事員的。[back] | |
| But . . . Englishmen：但是，在Ealing，卻和最世俗的英國人廝混。[back] | |
| those: those habits.[back] | |
| station：social position, status.社會地位。[back] | |
| No instinct that survived in her which is older than those habits which, her grandmother told her, would fir her station.這是按照文法構造的形式。[back] |
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