For over 150 years, Pride And Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen herself called this brilliant work her "own darling child." Pride And Prejudice , the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the B...
For over 150 years, Pride And Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen herself called this brilliant work her "own darling child." Pride And Prejudice , the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and one of these—the haughty, and even wealthier, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy—irks the vivacious Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the Bennet girls. She annoys him. Which is how we know they must one day marry. The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and Darcy is a splendid rendition of civilized sparring. As the characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, Jane Austen's radiantly caustic wit and keen observation sparkle.
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 at Steventon near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother; in 1809, they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visits to L...
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 at Steventon near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother; in 1809, they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visits to London, until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on July 18, 1817. As a girl Jane Austen wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were only published after much revision, four novels being published in her lifetime. These are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma(1816). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1818 with a biographical notice by her brother, Henry Austen, the first formal announcement of her authorship. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16. She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives.
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My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever. 我對你愛戀和承諾依然如舊， 但是，只要你說不，往後的一輩子我再也不會再打擾你了。 言情先驅奧斯汀！
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My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.引自 Chapter 58
1， To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love; and very lively hopes of Mr. Bingley's heart were entertained. 2， Such amiable qualities must speak for themselves. What a contrast between him and his friend! 3， Compliments always take YOU by surprise, and ME never. What could be more natural than his asking you again? He could not help seeing that you were about five tim...
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1， To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love; and very lively hopes of Mr. Bingley's heart were entertained.
2， Such amiable qualities must speak for themselves. What a contrast between him and his friend!
3， Compliments always take YOU by surprise, and ME never. What could be more natural than his asking you again? He could not help seeing that you were about five times as pretty as every other woman in the room. No thanks to his gallantry for that. Well, he certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.
4， I know you do; and it is THAT which makes the wonder. With YOUR good sense, to be so honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others! Affectation of candour is common enough--one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design--to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad--belongs to you alone.
5， "His pride," said Miss Lucas, "does not offend ME so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it. One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself. If I may so express it, he has a RIGHT to be proud."
"That is very true," replied Elizabeth, "and I could easily forgive HIS pride, if he had not mortified MINE."
"Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."
6， "It may perhaps be pleasant," replied Charlotte, "to be able to impose on the public in such a case; but it is sometimes a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all BEGIN freely--a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement. In nine cases out of ten a women had better show MORE affection than she feels. Bingley likes your sister undoubtedly; but he may never do more than like her, if she does not help him on."
7， But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.
8， Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
9， There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."
"Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world. Every savage can dance.
10， A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment. I knew you would be wishing me joy.
11， "I have been used to consider poetry as the FOOD of love," said Darcy.
"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."
12， "Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."
13， "To yield readily--easily--to the PERSUASION of a friend is no merit with you."
"To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either."
14 The wisest and the best of men--nay, the wisest and best of their actions--may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke."
"Certainly," replied Elizabeth--"there are such people, but I hope I am not one of THEM. I hope I never ridicule what is wise and good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, DO divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
15 "You judge very properly," said Mr. Bennet, "and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?"
"They arise chiefly from what is passing at the time, and though I sometimes amuse myself with suggesting and arranging such little elegant compliments as may be adapted to ordinary occasions, I always wish to give them as unstudied an air as possible."
Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment, maintaining at the same time the most resolute composure of countenance, and, except in an occasional glance at Elizabeth, requiring no partner in his pleasure.
16 Society has claims on us all; and I profess myself one of those who consider intervals of recreation and amusement as desirable for everybody.
17 The first two dances, however, brought a return of distress; they were dances of mortification. Mr. Collins, awkward and solemn, apologising instead of attending, and often moving wrong without being aware of it, gave her all the shame and misery which a disagreeable partner for a couple of dances can give. The moment of her release from him was ecstasy.
18 "Heaven forbid! THAT would be the greatest misfortune of all! To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! Do not wish me such an evil."
19 We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.
20 Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
21 she would have sacrificed every better feeling to worldly advantage
22 "My dear Jane!" exclaimed Elizabeth, "you are too good. Your sweetness and disinterestedness are really angelic; I do not know what to say to you. I feel as if I had never done you justice, or loved you as you deserve."
Miss Bennet eagerly disclaimed all extraordinary merit, and threw back the praise on her sister's warm affection.
"Nay," said Elizabeth, "this is not fair. YOU wish to think all the world respectable, and are hurt if I speak ill of anybody. I only want to think YOU perfect, and you set yourself against it. Do not be afraid of my running into any excess, of my encroaching on your privilege of universal good-will. You need not. There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense. I have met with two instances lately, one I will not mention; the other is Charlotte's marriage. It is unaccountable! In every view it is unaccountable!"
"My dear Lizzy, do not give way to such feelings as these. They will ruin your happiness. You do not make allowance enough for difference of situation and temper. Consider Mr. Collins's respectability, and Charlotte's steady, prudent character. Remember that she is one of a large family; that as to fortune, it is a most eligible match; and be ready to believe, for everybody's sake, that she may feel something like regard and esteem for our cousin."
"To oblige you, I would try to believe almost anything, but no one else could be benefited by such a belief as this; for were I persuaded that Charlotte had any regard for him, I should only think worse of her understanding than I now do of her heart. My dear Jane, Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking. You shall not defend her, though it is Charlotte Lucas. You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness."
23 but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.
24 Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
25 but since we see every day that where there is affection, young people are seldom withheld by immediate want of fortune from entering into engagements with each other, how can I promise to be wiser than so many of my fellow-creatures if I am tempted, or how am I even to know that it would be wisdom to resist? All that I can promise you, therefore, is not to be in a hurry. I will not be in a hurry to believe myself his first object. When I am in company with him, I will not be wishing. In short, I will do my best."
26 I am now convinced, my dear aunt, that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards HIM; they are even impartial towards Miss King. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this. My watchfulness has been effectual; and though I certainly should be a more interesting object to all my acquaintances were I distractedly in love with him, I cannot say that I regret my comparative insignificance. Importance may sometimes be purchased too dearly. Kitty and Lydia take his defection much more to heart than I do. They are young in the ways of the world, and not yet open to the mortifying conviction that handsome young men must have something to live on as well as the plain.
27 what is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive? Where does discretion end, and avarice begin? Last Christmas you were afraid of his marrying me, because it would be imprudent; and now, because he is trying to get a girl with only ten thousand pounds, you want to find out that he is mercenary.
28 There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
29 "In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
30 He spoke well; but there were feelings besides those of the heart to be detailed; and he was not more eloquent on the subject of tenderness than of pride. His sense of her inferiority--of its being a degradation--of the family obstacles which had always opposed to inclination, were dwelt on with a warmth which seemed due to the consequence he was wounding, but was very unlikely to recommend his suit.
31 "How despicably I have acted!" she cried; "I, who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust! How humiliating is this discovery! Yet, how just a humiliation! Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind! But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself."
32 When she remembered the style of his address, she was still full of indignation; but when she considered how unjustly she had condemned and upbraided him, her anger was turned against herself; and his disappointed feelings became the object of compassion. His attachment excited gratitude, his general character respect; but she could not approve him; nor could she for a moment repent her refusal, or feel the slightest inclination ever to see him again. In her own past behaviour, there was a constant source of vexation and regret; and in the unhappy defects of her family, a subject of yet heavier chagrin.
33 His affection was proved to have been sincere, and his conduct cleared of all blame, unless any could attach to the implicitness of his confidence in his friend. How grievous then was the thought that, of a situation so desirable in every respect, so replete with advantage, so promising for happiness, Jane had been deprived, by the folly and indecorum of her own family!
34 What a stroke was this for poor Jane! who would willingly have gone through the world without believing that so much wickedness existed in the whole race of mankind, as was here collected in one individual. Nor was Darcy's vindication, though grateful to her feelings, capable of consoling her for such discovery. Most earnestly did she labour to prove the probability of error, and seek to clear the one without involving the other.
35 Take your choice, but you must be satisfied with only one. There is but such a quantity of merit between them; just enough to make one good sort of man; and of late it has been shifting about pretty much. For my part, I am inclined to believe it all Darcy's; but you shall do as you choose."
35 One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it." "There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it."
36 One may be continually abusive without saying anything just; but one cannot always be laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
37 "Indeed you are mistaken. I have no such injuries to resent. It is not of particular, but of general evils, which I am now complaining. Our importance, our respectability in the world must be affected by the wild volatility, the assurance and disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia's character. Excuse me, for I must speak plainly. If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance and emptiness of her mind, wholly unable to ward off any portion of that universal contempt which her rage for admiration will excite. In this danger Kitty also is comprehended. She will follow wherever Lydia leads. Vain, ignorant, idle, and absolutely uncontrolled! Oh! my dear father, can you suppose it possible that they will not be censured and despised wherever they are known, and that their sisters will not be often involved in the disgrace?"
38 married a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind had very early in their marriage put an end to all real affection for her. Respect, esteem, and confidence had vanished for ever; and all his views of domestic happiness were overthrown
39 she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook, and to banish from her thoughts that continual breach of conjugal obligation and decorum which, in exposing his wife to the contempt of her own children, was so highly reprehensible.
40 that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity—to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment. Her tour to the Lakes was now the object of her happiest thoughts; it was her best consolation for all the uncomfortable hours which the discontentedness of her mother and Kitty made inevitable; and could she have included Jane in the scheme, every part of it would have been perfect.
41 by carrying with me one ceaseless source of regret in my sister's absence, I may reasonably hope to have all my expectations of pleasure realised. A scheme of which every part promises delight can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation."
42 and at that moment she felt that to be mistress of Pemberley might be something
43 Of the lady's sensations they remained a little in doubt; but that the gentleman was overflowing with admiration was evident enough.
44 Such a change in a man of so much pride exciting not only astonishment but gratitude—for to love, ardent love, it must be attributed; and as such its impression on her was of a sort to be encouraged, as by no means unpleasing, though it could not be exactly defined. She respected, she esteemed, she was grateful to him, she felt a real interest in his welfare; and she only wanted to know how far she wished that welfare to depend upon herself, and how far it would be for the happiness of both that she should employ the power, which her fancy told her she still possessed, of bringing on her the renewal of his addresses.
45 Elizabeth had a fair opportunity of deciding whether she most feared or wished for the appearance of Mr. Darcy, by the feelings which prevailed on his entering the room; and then, though but a moment before she had believed her wishes to predominate, she began to regret that he came.
46 She a beauty!—I should as soon call her mother a wit.
47 I am afraid you have been long desiring my absence, nor have I anything to plead in excuse of my stay, but real, though unavailing concern. Would to Heaven that anything could be either said or done on my part that might offer consolation to such distress! But I will not torment you with vain wishes, which may seem purposely to ask for your thanks. This unfortunate affair will, I fear, prevent my sister's having the pleasure of seeing you at Pemberley to-day.
48 and as she threw a retrospective glance over the whole of their acquaintance, so full of contradictions and varieties, sighed at the perverseness of those feelings which would now have promoted its continuance, and would formerly have rejoiced in its termination.
49 If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise—if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.
50 what a dreadful state I am in, that I am frighted out of my wits—and have such tremblings, such flutterings, all over me—such spasms in my side and pains in my head, and such beatings at heart, that I can get no rest by night nor by day.
51 But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation
52 we may draw from it this useful lesson: that loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex."
53 "perhaps she meant well, but, under such a misfortune as this, one cannot see too little of one's neighbours. Assistance is impossible; condolence insufferable. Let them triumph over us at a distance, and be satisfied."
54 and leave her to reap the fruits of her own heinous offense.
55 "You must not be too severe upon yourself," replied Elizabeth. "You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it! No, Lizzy, let me once in my life feel how much I have been to blame. I am not afraid of being overpowered by the impression. It will pass away soon enough."
56 From such a connection she could not wonder that he would shrink. The wish of procuring her regard, which she had assured herself of his feeling in Derbyshire, could not in rational expectation survive such a blow as this. She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet. What a triumph for him, as she often thought, could he know that the proposals which she had proudly spurned only four months ago, would now have been most gladly and gratefully received! He was as generous, she doubted not, as the most generous of his sex; but while he was mortal, there must be a triumph.
57 She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both; by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.
58 But no such happy marriage could now teach the admiring multitude what connubial felicity really was
59 How Wickham and Lydia were to be supported in tolerable independence, she could not imagine. But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture.
60 Nothing was to be done that he did not do himself
61 For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him.
62 "A man who has once been refused! How could I ever be foolish enough to expect a renewal of his love? Is there one among the sex, who would not protest against such a weakness as a second proposal to the same woman? There is no indignity so abhorrent to their feelings!"
63 I have now learnt to enjoy his conversation as an agreeable and sensible young man, without having a wish beyond it. I am perfectly satisfied, from what his manners now are, that he never had any design of engaging my affection. It is only that he is blessed with greater sweetness of address, and a stronger desire of generally pleasing, than any other man."
64 Elizabeth really believed all his expectations of felicity to be rationally founded, because they had for basis the excellent understanding, and super-excellent disposition of Jane, and a general similarity of feeling and taste between her and himself.
65 This naturally introduced a panegyric from Jane on his diffidence, and the little value he put on his own good qualities. Elizabeth was pleased to find that he had not betrayed the interference of his friend; for, though Jane had the most generous and forgiving heart in the world, she knew it was a circumstance which must prejudice her against him.
66 And I certainly never shall give it. I am not to be intimidated into anything so wholly unreasonable.
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me."
67"Neither duty, nor honour, nor gratitude," replied Elizabeth, "have any possible claim on me, in the present instance. No principle of either would be violated by my marriage with Mr. Darcy. And with regard to the resentment of his family, or the indignation of the world, if the former were excited by his marrying me, it would not give me one moment's concern—and the world in general would have too much sense to join in the scorn."
68 For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"
69 Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.
70 "Mr. Darcy, I am a very selfish creature; and, for the sake of giving relief to my own feelings, care not how much I may be wounding yours. I can no longer help thanking you for your unexampled kindness to my poor sister. Ever since I have known it, I have been most anxious to acknowledge to you how gratefully I feel it. Were it known to the rest of my family, I should not have merely my own gratitude to express."
71 "You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever."
72 The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do. Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.
73 The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who received it, are now so widely different from what they were then, that every unpleasant circumstance attending it ought to be forgotten. You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
74 "I cannot give you credit for any philosophy of the kind. Your retrospections must be so totally void of reproach, that the contentment arising from them is not of philosophy, but, what is much better, of innocence. But with me, it is not so. Painful recollections will intrude which cannot, which ought not, to be repelled. I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit. Unfortunately an only son (for many years an only child), I was spoilt by my parents, who, though good themselves (my father, particularly, all that was benevolent and amiable), allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing; to care for none beyond my own family circle; to think meanly of all the rest of the world; to wish at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with my own. Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased."
75 Elizabeth longed to observe that Mr. Bingley had been a most delightful friend; so easily guided that his worth was invaluable; but she checked herself. She remembered that he had yet to learn to be laughed at, and it was rather too early to begin.
76 I know your disposition, Lizzy. I know that you could be neither happy nor respectable, unless you truly esteemed your husband; unless you looked up to him as a superior. Your lively talents would place you in the greatest danger in an unequal marriage. You could scarcely escape discredit and misery. My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life. You know not what you are about."
77 "My beauty you had early withstood, and as for my manners—my behaviour to you was at least always bordering on the uncivil, and I never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not. Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"
The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention. You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them. Had you not been really amiable, you would have hated me for it; but in spite of the pains you took to disguise yourself, your feelings were always noble and just; and in your heart, you thoroughly despised the persons who so assiduously courted you. There—I have saved you the trouble of accounting for it; and really, all things considered, I begin to think it perfectly reasonable. To be sure, you knew no actual good of me—but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love."（霸道总裁玛丽苏。。）
78My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible;
"How unlucky that you should have a reasonable answer to give, and that I should be so reasonable as to admit it! But I wonder how long you would have gone on, if you had been left to yourself. I wonder when you would have spoken, if I had not asked you!
79 But now suppose as much as you choose; give a loose rein to your fancy, indulge your imagination in every possible flight which the subject will afford, and unless you believe me actually married, you cannot greatly err.
I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
81 He, who had always inspired in herself a respect which almost overcame her affection, she now saw the object of open pleasantry. Her mind received knowledge which had never before fallen in her way. By Elizabeth's instructions, she began to comprehend that a woman may take liberties with her husband which a brother will not always allow in a sister more than ten years younger than himself.引自 Excerpts
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him. 如果一个女人掩饰了对自己所爱的男子的感情，她也许就失去了得到他的机会。(3回应)
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If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him.引自 Chapter 6
這段話很耐人尋味── 「Because honor, decorum, prudence, nay, interest, forbid it. Yes, Miss Bennet, interest; for do not expect to be noticed by his family or friends, if you willfully act against the inclinations of all. You will be censured, slighted, and despised, by every one connected with him. Your alliance will be a disgrace; your name will never even be mentioned by any of us.」 那時候...
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這段話很耐人尋味──
「Because honor, decorum, prudence, nay, interest, forbid it. Yes, Miss Bennet, interest; for do not expect to be noticed by his family or friends, if you willfully act against the inclinations of all. You will be censured, slighted, and despised, by every one connected with him. Your alliance will be a disgrace; your name will never even be mentioned by any of us.」
那時候的社會和現在的其實是一樣勢利的。
Chapter 1 in want of; 需要,缺少 example: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. come down; 从大城市到小地方 example: She came down last year and settled in the village. Servants; [a person who performs duties for others, especially a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant] 佣人,仆人 ...(4回应)
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Chapter 1
in want of; 需要,缺少
example: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
come down; 从大城市到小地方
example: She came down last year and settled in the village.
Servants; [a person who performs duties for others, especially a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant] 佣人,仆人
Example: She is a great servant for me.
Tiresome; [causing one to feel bored or annoyed] 令人厌倦的；讨厌的
Example: how can you be so tiresome!
Still; [even (used with comparatives for emphasis)] [与比较级连用表示强调]甚至，还要
Example: you perhaps will be still better.
give over; 停止; 中止; 放弃
she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.
engage for; 允诺; 保证
It is more than I engage for, I assure you.
[can assure; 能够保证]
on that account; 由于这个[那个]缘故
scrupulous; （人，过程）小心谨慎的，注意细节的
You are over-scrupulous, surely.
I will send a few lines by you to assure him of my hearty consent to his marrying whichever he chooses of the girls;
Hearty; (of a feeling or an opinion) heartfelt [（感情，想法）由衷的，衷心的]
Consent; [permission for something to happen or agreement to do something]
Desire; [strongly wish for or want (something)]
I desire you will do no such thing.
Preference; 偏爱
you are always giving HER the preference.
[in preference to; 优先于… give (a) preference to sb/sth; 给…以优惠；优待: in preference to sb/sth[rather than sb/sth] 而不是]
She was chosen in preference to her sister.
Recommend; [put forward (someone or something) with approval] 称赞
Vexing；使人烦恼的；使人恼火的
You take delight in vexing me.
You have no compassion for my poor nerves.
Consideration； [thoughtfulness] 关心
I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.
第一页的第二段，很有名的句子，但原文句式太长，出现了理解困难，放出来，慢慢琢磨： However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood,this truth is so well fixed in the minds of some one or other of their daughters.(3回应)
2011-07-24 10:38:23
第一页的第二段，很有名的句子，但原文句式太长，出现了理解困难，放出来，慢慢琢磨：
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood,this truth is so well fixed in the minds of some one or other of their daughters.
Plot summary of Pride and Prejudice The story opens with Mr.Bingley，a wealthy young bachelor,moving into Netherfield in the neighborhood of the Bennet family. Mr.Bingley is a kind and modest man and soon forms an attachment to the Bennet’s eldest sister,Jane. While his friend, Mr,Darcy,who appears to be proud soon arouses the prejudice against himself by Elizbeth Bennet. But during the later ...(1回应)
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Plot summary of Pride and Prejudice
The story opens with Mr.Bingley，a wealthy young bachelor,moving into Netherfield in the neighborhood of the Bennet family. Mr.Bingley is a kind and modest man and soon forms an attachment to the Bennet’s eldest sister,Jane. While his friend, Mr,Darcy,who appears to be proud soon arouses the prejudice against himself by Elizbeth Bennet.
But during the later getting along with Elizebeth,Mr.Darcy finds himself attaches to her.At the same time,Elizabeth forms an affection to Mr.Wickham,a militia officer who claims to have been mistreated by Mr.Dacry.This adds fuel to Elizabeth’s dislike of Mr.Darcy.
The Bennt’s cousin, Mr.Collins,a pedantic clergyman and also heir to Mr.Bennet, comes to visit and proposes to Elizabeth.After he was refused by Eliabeth,he soon becomes engaged with Elizabeth’s close friend,Charlotte.As everyone believes that Mr.Bingley is propose to Jane,he unexpectedly quits and returns to London.
In the spring,Elizabeth visits Mr.&Mrs.Collins and are frequently invited to Rosing Park, home of Lday Catherine de Bourgh ,the employer of Mr.Collins and aunt of Mr.Dacry.There,Mr.Darcy becomes more attaches to Elizabeth and eventually proposes to her,albeit while insulting her family.Elizabeth ,who has recently learned the role Mr.Darcy plays in separating Mr.Bingley and Jane,angrily rejected and rebukes him.Mr.Darcy then clears himself through a letter,telling the truth that Mr.wickham is a liar and that the indifference he finds in Jane about Mr.Bingley is the reason he conspired the leave.
Some months later,Elizabeth unexpectedly met Mr.Darcy again in Pemberly,Mr.Darcy’s estate ,and finds that Mr.Darcy has changed into a gracious and modest gentleman.Whiles she realises her attachment to Mr.Darcy,the news that Lydia,her youngest sister,has run away with Mr.Wickham cuts short this renewed acquaintance.Later she surprisedly finds out that Mr.Darcy has secretly pays a great expense to finding and arranging the couples so as to stem the disgrace.Mr.Bingley,encouraged by Mr.Darcy,returns to proposes Jane,who immediately accepts.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh then makes an unexpected visit to warn Elizabeth against marrying Mr.Darcy, believing her to be too low born.Though not knowing the source of Lady Catherine’s suspicions,Elizabeth refuses to comply.Upon hearing this,Mr.Darcy comes to propose again.Elizabeth accepts and marries together with her beloved sister.
This book can be popular for so many years because it's a classic romance story that was told in such an elegant way. It is not so difficult to make a romance story if it has the following key elements: A rich, handsome but arrogant hero A beautiful, smart, independent, and cultivated heroine The hero and heroine have a bad first impression, but they are destined to be together Their relationsh...
2022-02-10 21:44:56
This book can be popular for so many years because it's a classic romance story that was told in such an elegant way. It is not so difficult to make a romance story if it has the following key elements:
A rich, handsome but arrogant hero
A beautiful, smart, independent, and cultivated heroine
The hero and heroine have a bad first impression, but they are destined to be together
Their relationships are getting worse by some unavoidable conditions
Prejudice and misunderstanding make their gap bigger and their love seems hopeless
Their love is rescued by some people and the doubts between them are dispersed.
In the climax" the hero and heroine declare their mutual love for each other.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune,must be in want of a wife. 有钱的单身汉总要娶位太太，这是一条举世公认的真理。 “You want to tell me,and I have no objection to hearing it.”This was invitation enough. “既然你想告诉我，我听听也不妨。”这句话足以逗引太太讲下去了
2022-02-08 13:46:18
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune,must be in want of a wife.
有钱的单身汉总要娶位太太，这是一条举世公认的真理。
“You want to tell me,and I have no objection to hearing it.”This was invitation enough.
But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligentby the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying. Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknow...
2021-11-05 22:57:51
But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligentby the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying.
Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness.
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He began to wish to know more of her, and as a step towards conversing with her himself, attended to her conversation with others.
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3 有用 小心麦兜 2012-05-14 20:19:01
现在看来又有点青春偶像剧的风格
0 有用 豆总Jessica 2010-05-22 13:29:58
2005 纸质 口袋书
1 有用 37°2 2009-06-21 20:33:39
我真佩服初中时期的我，怎么看完的原版，现在研究生毕业的我倒看不懂这么多词汇了，英语退化地太惨烈T_T
9 有用 雲生 2014-06-28 22:48:59
现在再读觉得特别没劲
27 有用 小茶Sketchbook 2012-03-27 15:42:43
大三的時候一邊讀原著，一邊看BBC版的電視劇，十分帶感。感歎簡奧斯丁的文筆，也欣賞英國演員的演技。[喜歡達西啊有木有！]
0 有用 尼加拉西瓜 2022-05-12 20:19:46
拖了十几年终于看完了。这是什么绝世甜文！简奥斯汀也太会写了，不愧为世界名著。因为原著比较多不太常用的语法，最近读英文版的时候也对照着看了译林的翻译版。不得不说虽然翻译已经很到位了但是原文还是多一个层次的味道。Darcy先生真的绝世可爱，不善言辞高冷傲娇直球的时候我一直姨母笑。冰释前嫌之后小两口互动也太甜了，这不比现在的网络爱情小说好看一万倍吗！希望男人们跟达西先生学学，自己喜欢的女人拒绝了你的时候... 拖了十几年终于看完了。这是什么绝世甜文！简奥斯汀也太会写了，不愧为世界名著。因为原著比较多不太常用的语法，最近读英文版的时候也对照着看了译林的翻译版。不得不说虽然翻译已经很到位了但是原文还是多一个层次的味道。Darcy先生真的绝世可爱，不善言辞高冷傲娇直球的时候我一直姨母笑。冰释前嫌之后小两口互动也太甜了，这不比现在的网络爱情小说好看一万倍吗！希望男人们跟达西先生学学，自己喜欢的女人拒绝了你的时候，多想想是自己有什么问题：） (展开)
0 有用 き酱 2022-05-04 11:11:15
现在的我可以把大学开始读起的书读完吗//绝了绝了 半年时间终于啃完，第一本完玩整整啃完的英文小说。天啊天啊。虽然还是囫囵吞枣但好歹一字一句的读完了!!!
0 有用 莞尔自然 2022-04-26 20:25:58
17.8个小时
0 有用 再也不吃肯德基 2022-04-25 00:41:33
kindle看的免费公版
0 有用 MarchRobin🇺🇦 2022-04-20 10:50:08
对不起简奥斯丁👋我弃了，真的读不完古典爱情小说