Every one of those keen moments has left its trace and lives in us still, but such traces have blended themselves irrecoverably with the firmer texture of youth and manhood; and so it comes that we can look on at the troubles of our children with a smiling disbelief in the reality of their pain. Is there anyone who can recover the experience of his childhood, not merely with a memory of what he did and what happened to him, of what he liked and disliked when he was in frock and trousers, but with an intimate penetration, a revived consciousness of what he felt when——when it was so long from one Midsummer to another? What he felt when his schoolfellows shut him out of their game because he would pitch the ball wrong out of mere wilfulness; or on a rainy day in the holidays, when he didn't k... (查看原文)
Oh, Aristotle, if you had had the advantage of being "the freshest modern" instead of the greatest ancient, would you not have mingled your praise of metaphorical speech as a sign of high intelligence with a lamentation that intelligence so rarely shows itself in sppech without metaphor that we can so seldom declare what a thing is except by saying it is something else? (查看原文)
大一的时候写的论文,今天随手翻到就扔上来了。 FEMININE is more often than not used as a negative adjective to describe the fragile feature of women. Even Shakespeare expressed such view through the mouth of Hamlet, ‘fragile, your name is woman.’ Yet is fra...
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Sometimes I feel learning is a kind of enjoyment allowing me to drift into that somewhere quite near to my truest self, while now and then I feel quite suffocated and isolated from the real world. When I read a novel, I may feel the same pain from which the...
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George Eliot (May Ann Evans), one of the finest novelists in the Victorian period, denouncing “the silly novels by lady novelists”, has bestowed another well-crafted art piece on me, her near-autobiographical novel of The Mill On the Floss. We have a stro...
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In “The Mill On the Floss”, George Eliot vividly depicts Maggie's intelligent, enthusiastic, courageous and innocent personality, as well as her independent spirit and perseverance in upholding morality. This novel transcends the accusation of women's une...
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1 有用 桔梗 2010-11-06 19:34:19
借不到英文版的只好看中文,但是表示很好看,有共鸣。
0 有用 Apocalypse 2021-11-11 19:31:30
“对我好一点吧,你那时候问过我是不是喜欢你吻我,你还记得吗?你还答应我,你再见到我的时候一定要吻我的。”
0 有用 Yvonne 2012-03-24 22:30:15
the bond between the brother and sister is really touching
1 有用 Allatonce 2024-11-18 11:21:32 北京
什么都不用说,推荐所有人看
8 有用 优杉 2016-04-27 14:52:01
过多的心理、性格分析导致小说读起来有点费劲,但艾略特对日常生活的观察细致入微,通过小人物剀切地分析了所有人共有的行为思想,最喜欢的是艾略特对人并不抱有恶意,她不认为谁是天生的恶人,喜欢去解释那些容易被人误会的行为的背后原因。全书都笼罩着一种对童年时代和乡村生活的无限怀念之情,故事中孩提时代的天真美好与成人世界的灰暗愁苦形成了强烈对比,最后的结局之所以选择走向毁灭或许是因为除此之外再无办法可以重新回... 过多的心理、性格分析导致小说读起来有点费劲,但艾略特对日常生活的观察细致入微,通过小人物剀切地分析了所有人共有的行为思想,最喜欢的是艾略特对人并不抱有恶意,她不认为谁是天生的恶人,喜欢去解释那些容易被人误会的行为的背后原因。全书都笼罩着一种对童年时代和乡村生活的无限怀念之情,故事中孩提时代的天真美好与成人世界的灰暗愁苦形成了强烈对比,最后的结局之所以选择走向毁灭或许是因为除此之外再无办法可以重新回到那段幸福美好的往昔岁月。 (展开)