Jane Austen 的小说：看到美文就贴一下

[耶书仑]

On Jan. 28, 1813, Jane Austen published Pride and Prejudice, her most famous novel, and one of the greatest works of English literature.

At its core, Pride and Prejudice tells the love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, both of whom have to overcome their biases in order to end up together. Throughout the novel, both characters learn to unlearn their pride and prejudice so that they can come to accept the other's goodness of character.

Austen's novel is set in a world where both expectations and reputation matter. Austen sets her satirical eye on this readiness to judge one's character based on one's social position. In fact, before it was published, the working title of the book was "First Impressions," which communicates even more strongly her intentions to take to task those who judge based solely on the accidents of class.

"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not modified mine" - Pride and Prejudice

 

[一尘]

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.” -- from Pride and Prejudice

经典！

 

[三维人生]

我也一样都缺，这楼不错。三维一来就很给力，那句翻译得很好

没有啊! 我其实并不很满意. 但是现在实在是太忙了...

 

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没有啊! 我其实并不很满意. 但是现在实在是太忙了...

你们几位都很有文学才华，我力争当好读者。

 

[耶书仑]

"I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh." -- from Pride And Prejudice

 

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“Like me, the five Bennet sisters were under pressure to marry. Jane was too sweet, Mary too priggish, Kitty too air-headed, Lydia too flirtatious, but I loved Lizzy. I loved her for her muddy petticoats, her irreverence and her big heart. But mostly I loved her defiance of convention.”

“I told myself that if Mr Darcy proposed to me, I too would muster the courage to say no. Of course I would. I hated him for saying at the ball that Lizzy is ‘tolerable, but not handsome enoug...h.’ Ouch! Chubby and awkward, I knew all about being a wallflower. My bat mitzvah, and all the parties I went to, were as ordered as Regency balls… where it was fatal not to have a boy to dance with. I often didn’t.”

“The best thing about Mr Darcy was that he said his ideal woman had to have done ‘extensive reading’. Reading might spoil my eyes, as my grandmother warned me it would, but Mr Darcy showed it wouldn’t stop me finding a husband. A gorgeous, intelligent husband, in fact, because real men liked bookish girls. It said so in Pride and Prejudice.”

“If I’d been in Lizzy’s place, hearing Mr Darcy say I wasn’t pretty enough to dance with, I would have crumpled. But Lizzy turns it into a funny story to tell her friends, venting her outrage by ridiculing Mr Darcy. Lizzy’s wit is her survival strategy. So much so that her aunt says, when Jane’s heart is broken, ‘It had better have happened to you, Lizzy; you would have laughter yourself out of it sooner.’”

 

[一尘]

“Like me, the five Bennet sisters were under pressure to marry. Jane was too sweet, Mary too priggish, Kitty too air-headed, Lydia too flirtatious, but I loved Lizzy. I loved her for her muddy petticoats, her irreverence and her big heart. But mostly I loved her defiance of convention.”

“I told myself that if Mr Darcy proposed to me, I too would muster the courage to say no. Of course I would. I hated him for saying at the ball that Lizzy is ‘tolerable, but not handsome enoug...h.’ Ouch! Chubby and awkward, I knew all about being a wallflower. My bat mitzvah, and all the parties I went to, were as ordered as Regency balls… where it was fatal not to have a boy to dance with. I often didn’t.”

“The best thing about Mr Darcy was that he said his ideal woman had to have done ‘extensive reading’. Reading might spoil my eyes, as my grandmother warned me it would, but Mr Darcy showed it wouldn’t stop me finding a husband. A gorgeous, intelligent husband, in fact, because real men liked bookish girls. It said so in Pride and Prejudice.”

“If I’d been in Lizzy’s place, hearing Mr Darcy say I wasn’t pretty enough to dance with, I would have crumpled. But Lizzy turns it into a funny story to tell her friends, venting her outrage by ridiculing Mr Darcy. Lizzy’s wit is her survival strategy. So much so that her aunt says, when Jane’s heart is broken, ‘It had better have happened to you, Lizzy; you would have laughter yourself out of it sooner.’”

书仑晚上好！
昨天还在主坛看到一个帖子， 读书改变人生。
这些句子真实有力度，又非常优美。““If I’d been in Lizzy’s place, hearing Mr Darcy say I wasn’t pretty enough to dance with, I would have crumpled. But Lizzy turns it into a funny story to tell her friends,。” 从这里才读到 Lizzy 的勇气；她那敢于直面现实的勇气。 她用从读书的世界里得来的优雅和坚定勇敢对抗现实世界里的世俗。 如果没有Darcy 的傲慢，亦或没有Lizzy 对自己的捍卫， 亦没有一段动人心魄的征服与被征服的精彩故事。 记得一位朋友说： 西方的小说都是在讲一个哲学道理。

 

[耶书仑]

 

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"No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." --from "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen

 

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"Yes; it is in two points offensive to me; I have two strong grounds of objection to it. First, as a means of bringing persons of obscure birth into undue distinction, and raising men to honours which their fathers and grandfathers never dreamt of; and secondly, as it cuts up a man's youth and vigour most horribly." -- from PERSUASION

 

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"No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine."
--from NORTHANGER ABBEY

 

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"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her." (Emma, 1816)

 

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"Here is a nut. To exemplify, a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak spot anywhere. This nut … while so many of its brethren have fallen and been trodden under foot, is still in possession of all the happiness that a hazel-nut can be supposed capable of."
--from PERSUASION

 

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"Fanny shook her head. 'I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by c...an judge of.'"
--from Mansfield Park (1814) by Jane Austen

 

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"The real evils, indeed, of Emma’s situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself: these were the disadvantages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments. The danger, however, was at present so unperceived, that they did not by any means rank as misfortunes with her." --from EMMA