Taking off his spectacles, as was his habit before enunciating a general truth, he looked into them sadly, and remarked that the darker races are physically attracted by the fairer, but not vice versa - not a matter for bitterness this, not a matter for abuse, but just a fact which any scientific observer will confirm. (查看原文)
"She'll apologize if that's the trouble," He cried, sitting up. "Look, I'll make you an offer. Dictate to me whatever form of words you like, and this time to-morrow I'll bring it back signed. This is not instead of any public apology she may make you in law. It's an addition."
" 'Dear Dr Aziz, I wish you had come into the cave; I am an awful old hag, and it is my last chance.' Will she sign that?" (查看原文)
E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India explores the difficulty in the mutual understanding and cohabitation of the British and the Indian people in British India in the early twentieth century. The major events centers on an alleged attempted rape. Dr. Aziz, t...
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I find this reading experience quite disturbing, for no one in this novel is adorable enough. Aziz is certainly the star of the book, his words, especially when he is disturbed, are quite sincere and sharp; however, most of the times he can make one so irri...
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抄录书中极短的一章。其间的文字有大美。交错的人,事,和物,走笔一处,又荡开去,起伏开合,大波浪里亦有细碎的水花闪烁。 Chapter 10 THE heat had leapt forward in the last hour, the street was deserted as if a catastrophe had cleaned off humanity during the in...
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1 有用 荷恬觅 2011-08-02 14:14:39
空间让他们碰触,时间令他们分离。
0 有用 WellIgotone 2017-02-22 16:12:28
E.M.Forster!我心里默默的把作者的名字念了一遍又一遍...空间让命运多舛的人相遇,时间再把命运多舛的人分开...很多章节都那么安宁,用一种极美的手法描述了当时的景物,烘托下的人和事不能再温柔又伤感了,E.M.Forster!不能再体贴的作家...
0 有用 激斗龙图腾 2015-05-04 11:37:52
可以和近些年对于Orientalism的理解一起看,虽然当时这个词还不存在,但是仍旧能得到很多的共鸣。