精力英语英美文学选读要点总结精心整理下载版4

2021年1月20日发(作者：当然英文怎么说)
【英国】
Chapter 4 The Victorian Period(1836-1901)
维多利亚时期


1. Common
sense and
moral propriety, which
were
ignored
by the
Romanticists,
again
became the predominant preoccupation in literary work.
道德和常理这些被浪漫主义时代遗
弃多年的主题，又回到了文学主流中来。


2. Oscar
Wilde and
Walter
Pater,
both notorious advocators
of the
theory
of
“
art
for art
’
s sake.
”唯美主义者奥斯卡．王尔德与沃尔特．培特都极力推崇“为 了艺术而艺术”
的观点。


3. Utilitarianism was widely accepted and practiced.
实用主义大行其道。


4. The
poetry
of
this
period
was
mainly
characterized
by
experiments
with
new
styles
and ways of expression.
这个时期的诗歌具有风格标新，表达立异的特点。


5. Victorian literature,
in
general, truthfully
represents
the reality and spirit
of
the age. The high- spirited vitality,
the down to earth earnestness, the good-matured
humor and unbounded imagination are all unprecedented.
维多 利亚时期文学，真实地反映了
时代的现实与精神，
其中体现出的高度的活力，
脚踏实地 的精神，
善意的幽默与无羁无绊的丰富
联想都是空前的。


(I)Charles Dickens
查尔斯．狄更斯


6. Soon
The
Posthumous
Papers
of
the
Pickwick
Club
appeared
in
monthly
installments.
It is once lifted him into a position of fame and fortune.
很快《皮克威克外传》也出版
了，这使狄更斯一度名利双收。


7. Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writer of the Victorian Age.
狄更斯是伟大的批判现实主义作家。


8. The best he can do seems to try to retain an optimism with wishful thinking.
他所能做的只是保持一种充满希望的乐观主义。


9. Whatever his limitations, this man is loved and admired by the millions, not
only for the practical reform his works have helped to bring about but also for that
heart which is ready to love and sympathize.
不管狄更斯有何局限性，他都深受人民大众喜
爱，不仅因为他的作品促进社会改良，更因为他那颗善良博爱之心。


10. In his works, Dickens sets out a full map and a Large-scale criticism of the
nineteenth
century
England,
particularly
Lond on.
在他的作品中，狄更斯对１９世纪的英国，
特别是伦敦做出了全面地描绘及大量的批评。


11. His early works contain
Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The
Pickwick
Paper(legal
fraud), David Copperfield and Martin Chuzzlewit.
他的早期作品包括《雾都孤 儿》，《尼古
拉斯．尼克尔比》，《皮克威克外传》（合法欺骗），《大卫．科波菲尔》和《马丁．瞿述 伟》
等等。


12. This youthful brightness and optimism is also manifest in the constant jokes and
laughter.
作者青年时期的这种明朗与乐观还体现在作品的幽默与笑料中。


13. His
later
works
contain
A
tale
of
two
Cities,
Bleak
House,
Little
Dorrit,
Hard
Times
and Great Expectations.
后期作品包括《双城记》，《荒凉山庄》，《小多利特》，《艰难时
世》和《远大前程》。


14. Charles Dickens is a master story- teller.
狄更斯具有惊人的讲故事能力。


15. Dickens
’
works are also characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos.
狄更斯
的作品还有一个特点，是将幽默与哀伤的泪水交汇起来。


16. Sometimes Dickens seems so anxious to wring an extra tear from the audience that
he indulges himself in excessive sentimental melodrama and spoils the story.
有时狄更
斯会将作品写的 令读者潸然泪下，但由于他过于注重悲情的渲染，有时会破坏故事的连贯性。

17. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest Victorian writers, and his
name
one of
those
to be remembered forever.
狄更斯是英国文学史上能与莎士比亚 齐名的文学巨人，他的作品与
人格都将永远留在人民心中。


(II)The Bronte Sisters
布朗蒂姐妹


18. Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, and their gifted sister Anne Bronte came from a
large family of Irish origin.
夏洛蒂
.
布朗蒂，艾米丽
.
布朗蒂，安妮
.
布朗蒂三姐妹出生于爱
尔兰裔的大户人家。


19. Charlotte
’
s second novel, Jane Eyre, won immediate success when it appeared in
1847. In the same year, Emily
’
s single and unique work Wuthering Heights and Anne
’
s Agnes Grey were also published.
夏洛蒂的第二部小说《简爱》问世后立即大获成功。同年，
艾米丽唯一的小说《呼啸山庄》与安妮的《阿 格尼斯
.
格雷》也相继发行。


20. Charlotte
’
s
works
are
all
about
the
struggle
of
an
individual
consciousness
towards
self-realization, about
some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce
longing for
love, understanding and a full, happy life .
夏洛蒂的作品主题几乎都是个人自觉地为实现
自我价值而奋斗，都是有关一些孤独而卑微的少 女对爱情，理解与完整幸福的生活的强烈渴求。


21. In her mind, man
’
s life is composed of perpetual battle between sin and virtue,
good and evil.
在她看来，人生就是一场永不停息的罪恶与美德的斗争。


22. All her heroines
’
highest joy arises from some sacrifice of self or some human
weakness overcome.
她小说中的女主人公最大的快乐都来自一些自我牺牲后 或个人弱点被战胜
后获得的幸福。