Albertine

In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained permission of the prioress, like Madame Albertine, to retire into the Little Convent.

除了这些真正够得上称为嬷嬷的以外，还有几个红尘中的老妇人也和阿尔贝尔丁夫人一样，获得了院长的许可，退隐在那小院里。

You think Albertine would like a horse?

你觉得爱贝婷会喜欢一匹马吗？

If Albertine was here you would infect her again.

如果艾伯丁还在这的话，你又会传染给她的。

In short, Proust's voice is like Albertine's face: it invites interpretation and resists explanation;

总而言之，普鲁斯特的表达就像艾伯丁的脸一样多变：它需要人们去阐释但又难以被阐释；

Sometimes Albertine's face looks dull and sullen, sometimes glowing and sultry;

有时艾伯丁的脸看起来沉闷不快，有时又容光焕发风骚迷人；

And yet, at least in the West, the growth model is now as fleeting as Proust's Albertine Simonet: Coming and going, with busts following booms and booms following busts, while an ideal world of steady, inclusive, long-lasting growth fades away.

不过，至少在西方，增长模式如今就像普鲁斯特笔下的阿尔贝蒂娜·西莫内（Albertine Simonet）那样捉摸不定：来了又去，萧条过后是繁荣，繁荣过后又是萧条，而那种稳定、包容而持久增长的理想世界却渐行渐远。