英国文学4篇200词故事英文梗概:雾独孤儿、苔丝、简爱、呼啸山庄
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Oliver Twist 《雾独孤儿》—Charles Dickens 查理斯·狄更斯
The novel tells the miserable story of an
orphan boy in London called Oliver Twist. Oliver
Twist is born in a
workhouse with unknown
parentage and brought up under the tyrannous
parish beadle Bumble. After serving an
unhappy
apprenticeship to an undertaker, he run away to
London, where he falls into the hands of a gang of
thieves
who make every effort to convert
Oliver into a thief. Then Oliver is rescued by the
benevolent, rich Mr. Brownlow, but
the thieves
kidnap him again with the help of Monks, the half
brother of Oliver. Then Oliver is made to
participate in a
burgling expedition, in the
course of which he was shot wounded, and comes
into the hands of Mrs. Maylie and her
protégée
Rose, by whom he is kindly treated. In order to
seek all of the inheritance, Monks schemes to
defame Oliver’s
reputation by making him a
thief. However, Nancy discovers his plot and
reveals the truth to Rose. But Fagin, the head
of the gang, discovered the action of Nancy
and murders her after which the rest of the gang
are arrested and Fagin
executed. At last,
Monks is compelled to disclose the truth and
Oliver is adopted by Mr Brownlow.
1.
Wuthering Heights 《呼啸山庄》—Emily Bronte 艾米丽·勃朗台
The novel tells a story of Heathcliff, a gipsy
waif of unknown parentage, picked up by Mr.
Earnshaw in the streets
and brought up with
his children in his house called Wuthering
Heights. Heathcliff is treated well by Earnshaw,
but
when the old man dies, the young master
Hindley bullies and insults him and makes him a
slave. Heathcliff falls
passionately in love
with Catharine, Hindley’s sister, who loves him
but thinks it would degrade her to marry him.
Heathcliff, finding it impossible for him to
marry Catharine, leaves Wuthering Heights. Three
years later, he returns as
a rich man.
Although Catharine has been married Edgar Linton,
he resumes his love-making to her, which brings
her to
death at the birth of her daughter
Cathy. Then he starts his crazy revenge. He first
marries his sister Isabella and treats
her
cruelly to revenge on Edgar Linton. In revenge for
Hindley’s cruel treatment, he treats Hindley’s son
Hareton
brutally. He then forces Catharine’s
daughter Cathy to marry his sickly son in order to
seize the estate of the Lintons,
which fails
because of the death of his son. As an old man and
haunted by the memory of Catharine, he finally
realises
the pointlessness of his revenge. At
last he dies, and the two young lovers, Cathy and
Hareton are united happily.
2. Tess
《德伯家的苔丝》--Thomas Hardy 托马斯·哈代
The novel tells
the tragical life story of a beautiful country
girl Tess Duebeyfield. Tess is the daughter of a
poor
villager. In her youth she is seduced by
Alec D’Urbervilles, the son of a rich merchant who
has bought his title into the
class of gentry.
Tess gives birth to an illegitimate child, thus
scandalizing the narrow-minded people around her.
So she
leaves home and works at a distant farm
as a dairymaid. There she meets Angel Clare, a
clergyman’s son, who falls in
love with her.
On their wedding night, Tess confesses to Angel
the affair of Alec. Angel, himself a sinner who
has had
some affair with a bad woman, casts
her off and leaves for Brazil. After that her
father dies and her family are
threatened with
starvation, so Tess is driven to accept Alec’s
protection and lives with him. Clare, returning
from Brazil
and repentant of his harshness to
Tess, finds her in such a situation. Maddened by
this second wrong that has been done
her by
Alec, she murders him in a fit of despair. After
hiding with Clare in a forest for a short time,
Tess falls into the
claws of law. She is
arrested, tried and hanged.
3. Jane Eyre
《简爱》—Charlotte Bronte 夏洛特·勃朗台
The novel tells
the story of an orphan girl. Jane Eyre, the
daughter of a poor parson, loses her parents
shortly after
birth. She lives at the
household of her aunt, treated rudely by her aunt
Mrs. Reed and her children. One day, unable to
bear the ill-treatment any longer, Jane tells
straight to her aunt what she thinks of her, which
makes Mrs. Reed furious
to send her to a
charity school in Lowood. Maltreated by the
authorities, Jane stays there for 8 long years.
Then Jane
gets a position of governess in the
family of Mr. Rochester, a rich squire. Rochester
falls in love with Jane, and she with
him.
They are about to be married when Jane breaks the
engagement on the wedding day and flees away,
learning that
Mr. Rochester has a mad wife
secretly locked in the house. After going through
a lot of hardships on the moors, she is
taken
in and cared for by Rev. Rivers, who helps her get
a job as teacher in a village school. Meanwhile,
Mr. Rochester
loses his sight during a fire
set by his mad wife. Hearing that Mr. Rochester is
penniless and disabled, Jane hurries to
him
and becomes his wife.
The
House of 1000 Mirrors
千镜之屋
Long ago in a
small, faraway village, there was a place known as
the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small,
happy
little dog learned of this place and decided to
visit. When he arrived, he hounced happily up
the stairs to the doorway of the house. He
looked through the doorway with his ears lifted
high and
his tail wagging as fast as it could.
To his great surprise, he found himself staring at
1000 other
happy little dogs with their tails
wagging just as fast as his. He smiled a great
smile, and was answered
with 1000 great smiles
just as warm and firendly. As he left the House,
he thought to himself,
is a wonderful place. I
will come back and visit it often.
In this
same village, another little dog, who was not
quite as happy as the first one, decided to
visit the house. He slowly climbed the stairs
and hung his head low as he looked into the door.
When
he saw the 1000 unfriendly looking dogs
staring back at him, he growled at them and was
horrified
to see 1000 little dogs growling
back at him. As he left, he thought to himself,
place, and I will never go back there
again.
All the faces in the world are mirrors.
What kind of reflections do you see in the faces
of the people you meet?
That man knows the
future(知道未来的人)
Nasreddin was cutting a branch
of a tree in his garden. While he was sawing,
another man
passed in the street. He stopped
and said,
branch like that, you will fall down
with said this because Nasreddin was sitting
on the branch and cutting it at a place
between himself and the trunk of the tree.
Nasreddin said nothing. He thought,
and
goes about telling other people what to do and
what not to do.
The man continued on his way.
Of course, after a few minutes, the branch
fell and Nasreddin fell with it.
he was
going to live. But the man had gone.
One sunny day a rabbit came out of
her hole in the ground to enjoy the fine weather.
The day was so nice that
she became careless
and a fox snuck up behind her and caught her.
A few days
later the rabbit was again taking a break from
writing and sure enough, a wolf came out of the
bushes and was ready to set upon her.
So the wolf went down into
the rabbit's hole and never came out.
The
rabbit finished her thesis and was out celebrating
in the local lettuce patch. Another rabbit came
along
and asked,
So together they went down into the rabbit's
hole. As they entered, the friend saw the typical
graduate abode,
albeit a rather messy one
after writing a thesis. And to the right there was
a pile of fox bones, on the left a
pile of
wolf bones. And in the middle was a large, well-
fed lion, who was the rabbit's advisor.
The moral of the story is: the title of your
thesis doesn't matter; all that matters is who
your advisor is.
改编版中文译著:
在一个充满阳光的午后,一只兔子从她的洞里出来享受大好天气。
天气好得让她失去警觉,一只狐狸尾随其后,抓住了她。
“我要把你当午餐吃掉!”狐狸说。
“慢着!”兔子答道。“你应该至少等个几天。”
“喔?是吗?为什么我要等?”
“嗯,我正在完成我的博士论文。”
“哈,那是个很蠢的理由。你的论文题目是什么?”
“我正在写《兔子比狐狸的优越性》。”
“你疯了吗?我应该现在就把你吃了!大家都知道狐狸总是比免子强的。”
“根据我的研究
,并不尽然。如果你想的话,你可以来我洞里,自己读它。如果你不能被说服,你可以把我当
午餐吃了。
”
“你真的疯了!”但狐狸很好奇,而且读读论文也不会损失什么,就跟兔子进去了。
狐狸再也没有出来。
几天以后兔子又出来休息。一只狼从树丛中出来并准备吃她。
“慢着!”兔子叫道。“你现在不能吃我。”
“为什么呢?我毛绒绒的开胃菜。”
“我的论文《兔子比狐狸与狼的优越性》几乎要完成了。”
狼笑得太厉害,以致于松开抓住兔子的手。
“也许我不应该吃你。你的脑子真的有病,你可能有某种传染病。”
“你可以自己来读它。如果你不同意我的结论,你可以把我吃掉。”
于是狼跟兔子进洞里去,再也没有出来。
又过了些日子,兔子写累了出窝晒太阳。 这时候一只老虎跑过来抓住了它。这个庞然大物幸灾乐祸地看着兔子说:“我准备先吃了你,然后边日光浴边
听你的骨头讲《兔子比狐狸与狼与老虎的优越性》”。
“且慢”,兔子很镇静地说,“显然
你具有推理的头脑,而事实上这正是我下一步的构思。通过我对狐狸和狼
的研究表明,他们其实不配和兔
子做比较。我已经将新论文的理论部分完成了。所以如果可以的话,我对你作
一个interview,
以补充实证方面的不足。