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A conversion chart, supposedly showing the modern-day worth of Jane Austen characters' fortunes, has surfaced on Twitter. At first glance, it seems to show that Mr Darcy's supposedly vast 1803 fortune in Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, worth $331,000 per year in modern US dollars, might not in fact stretch to quite the luxury of his 19th-century lifestyle if Darcy was alive today. 有份转化表最近出现在推特上，该表意显示在当今社会，简·奥斯丁笔下人物坐拥的财富价值几何。乍一看，奥斯丁小说《傲慢与偏见》中达西先生1803年的巨额财富，在当今价值33万1000美元每年。如果达西活在当今，这些资产或许并不能和他19世纪的奢华生活相匹敌。 But the figures are out-of-date: they actually come from an American academic paper published in 1989, and the value of the pound has changed dramatically since then. It turns out that, Mr Darcy's annual income of £10,000 in around 1803 would be worth £796,000 per year today. 但这些数据已经过时，数据来自于美国1989年发表的一份学术论文，但此后英镑的价值后历经巨变。事实是，达西1803年一万英镑的年收入在当今相当于79万6000英镑。 That still probably wouldn't be enough to run a modern incarnation of Pemberley, his beautiful fictional stately home in Derbyshire, if its costs were anything like the costs of running real-life Derbyshire stately home Chatsworth House today (£4m per year). | 
