Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willougby, she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. ...
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willougby, she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.
"A woman of seven and twenty, " said Marianne, after pausing a moment, "can never hope to feel or inspire affection again, and if her home be uncomfortable, or her fortune small, I can suppose that she might bring herself to submit to the offices of a nurse, for the sake of the provision and security of a wife. In his marrying such a woman therefore there would be nothing unsuitable. It would be a compact of convenience, and the world would be satisfied. In my eyes it would be no marriage at all, but that would be nothing. To me it would seem only a commercial exchange, in which each wished to be benefited at the expense of the other. " (查看原文)
It is a truth universally acknowledged ,that anyone existing in the world will be caught in an ineluctable dilemma, where you hesitate in the face of sense and sensibility. Actually, whenever l meets such crossroads, l naturally think of Jane Austen, an out...
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简·奥斯汀 作者
孟冬
译林出版社1996版
Garfield
译林出版社2004版
微不足道
译林出版社1996版
蒜子
译林出版社2004版
交交黄鸟
上海译文出版社2006版
0 有用 豆腐圆子 2019-06-20 15:31:01
反讽一如既往的出色，所以仔细读还是有不少幽默的片段。只是两个男主太令人无语，情节显得生硬而勉强，甚至两个女主也过于现实，妥协得也快，实在不能让我满意。
0 有用 曾经的卡卡 2023-08-03 21:26:37 澳大利亚
补
0 有用 jumaomao 2014-06-14 14:22:49
听的有声版，英音抑扬顿挫，杠杠的，哈哈
0 有用 Astrophil江白 2020-10-30 09:24:46
The predecessor of Pride and Prejudice
0 有用 有千千萬萬個我 2007-08-10 22:23:59
中五必讀