On a heap of those soft shavings a rough grey shepherd-dog had made himself a pleasant bed, and was lying with his nose between his fore-paws, occasionally wrinkling his brows to cast a glance at the tallest of the five workmen, who was carving a shield in the centre of a wooden mantelpiece. It was to this workman that the strong barytone belonged which was heard above the sound of plane and hammer singing...Here some measurement was to be taken which required more concentrated attention, and the sonorous voice subsided into a low whistle; but it presently broke out again with renewed vigour... (查看原文)
Such a voice could only come from a broad chest...In his tall stalwartness Adam Bede was a Saxon, and justified his name; but the jet-black hair, made the more noticeable by its contrast with the light paper cap, and the keen glance of the dark eyes that shone from under strongly marked, prominent, and mobile eyebrows, indicated a mixture of Celtic blood. The face was large and roughly hewn, and when in repose had no other beauty than such as belongs to an expression of good-humoured honest intelligence. (查看原文)
(Having written a term paper on this book, I will relate here some other points that occurred to me during the painful reading—painful because of the pressure of the paper—points that I really had in mind instead of having to make in a gesture of compromi...
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Adam Bede,中文可译名《草场坡情仇》 神给小说各个人物取了名字,小说里也有很多关于神、布道的文字,读起来很舒服。 看完有一个多月了,Evans对草场坡村的静物的文字太细碎,查字典太折磨人。还好,Adam的固执和成长令人欣慰。妈妈Lisbeth整天的唠叨也没有影响他,校长Bartle...
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还没人写过短评呢