Strange though it may sound, I was pleased it was over.

尽管听起来也许很奇怪，但我很高兴这都结束了。

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Elizabeth was pleased, though, when she asked herself the reason, she had very little to say in reply.

伊丽莎白很是高兴，不过她只要问问自己为什么这样高兴，却又答不上来了。

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I determined they should come about as they pleased for me; and though it was a tiresomely slow process, I began to rejoice at length in a faint dawn of its progress: as I thought at first.

我断定他们要是愿意的话，就会来找我的。虽然这是一个令人厌烦的缓慢过程，我开始庆幸到底在进展中有一线曙光了：正如我起初所想的那样。

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They sort of seemed--even though they didn't say anything, when we were talking to them, when they were sort of pleased, we took that to mean that that was what they were doing.

他们看上去似乎-尽管他们不会说任何事情，在我们向他们阐述的时候，当他们有点高兴的时候，我们将之理解为我们做的就是他们当时正在做的。

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