傲慢与偏见第一章英语总结（名著泛读27傲慢与偏见第二十七章）
傲慢与偏见第一章英语总结（名著泛读27傲慢与偏见第二十七章）"But my dear Elizabeth " she added "what sort of girl is Miss King? I privy purse should be sorry to think our friend mercenary【唯利是图的】."Mrs. Gardiner then rallied her niece on Wickham's desertion and complimented her on bearing it so well.Her fellow-travellers the next day were not of a kind to make her think him less agreeable. Sir William Lucas and his daughter Maria a go
《傲慢与偏见》是简·奥斯汀的小说中最出名的一本，也是文学史上很重要的一部作品，阅读它不光可以学习地道的英语，也能积累不少有用的人文知识。简·奥斯汀的小说对初学者而言是比较友好的，她的语言相对朴实，阅读体验很流畅又很贴近生活。全书一共61章，每日一章，计划两个月完成。
With no greater events than these in the Longbourn family and otherwise diversified by little beyond the walks to Meryton sometimes dirty and sometimes cold did January and February pass away. March was to take Elizabeth to Hunsford. She had not at first thought very seriously of going thither【到那里】; but Charlotte she soon found was depending on the plan and she gradually learned to consider it herself with greater pleasure as well as greater certainty. Absence had increased her desire of seeing Charlotte again and weakened her disgust of Mr. Collins. There was novelty in the scheme and as with such a mother and such uncompanionable【难相处的】sisters home could not be faultless【完美的】 a little change was not unwelcome for its own sake. The journey would moreover give her a peep at Jane; and in short as the time drew near she would have been very sorry for any delay. Everything however went on smoothly and was finally settled according to Charlotte's first sketch. She was to accompany Sir William and his second daughter. The improvement of spending a night in London was added in time and the plan became perfect as plan could be.
The only pain was in leaving her father who would certainly miss her and who when it came to the point so little liked her going that he told her to write to him and almost promised to answer her letter.
The farewell between herself and Mr. Wickham was perfectly friendly; on his side even more. His present pursuit could not make him forget that Elizabeth had been the first to excite and to deserve his attention the first to listen and to pity the first to be admired; and in his manner of bidding her adieu【告别，辞行】 wishing her every enjoyment reminding her of what she was to expect in Lady Catherine de Bourgh and trusting their opinion of her—their opinion of everybody—would always coincide there was a solicitude【关怀】 an interest which she felt must ever attach her to him with a most sincere regard; and she parted from him convinced that whether married or single he must always be her model of the amiable and pleasing.
Her fellow-travellers the next day were not of a kind to make her think him less agreeable. Sir William Lucas and his daughter Maria a good-humoured girl but as empty-headed as himself had nothing to say that could be worth hearing and were listened to with about as much delight as the rattle of the chaise. Elizabeth loved absurdities but she had known Sir William's too long. He could tell her nothing new of the wonders of his presentation and knighthood; and his civilities were worn out like his information.
It was a journey of only twenty-four miles and they began it so early as to be in Gracechurch Street by noon. As they drove to Mr. Gardiner's door Jane was at a drawing-room window watching their arrival; when they entered the passage she was there to welcome them and Elizabeth looking earnestly in her face was pleased to see it healthful and lovely as ever. On the stairs were a troop of little boys and girls whose eagerness for their cousin's appearance would not allow them to wait in the drawing-room and whose shyness as they had not seen her for a twelvemonth prevented their coming lower. All was joy and kindness. The day passed most pleasantly away; the morning in bustle and shopping and the evening at one of the theatres.
Elizabeth then contrived to sit by her aunt. Their first object was her sister; and she was more grieved than astonished to hear in reply to her minute inquiries that though Jane always struggled to support her spirits there were periods of dejection. It was reasonable however to hope that they would not continue long. Mrs. Gardiner gave her the particulars【细节】also of Miss Bingley's visit in Gracechurch Street and repeated conversations occurring at different times between Jane and herself which proved that the former had from her heart given up the acquaintance.
Mrs. Gardiner then rallied her niece on Wickham's desertion and complimented her on bearing it so well.
"But my dear Elizabeth " she added "what sort of girl is Miss King? I privy purse should be sorry to think our friend mercenary【唯利是图的】."
"Pray my dear aunt what is the difference in matrimonial【婚姻的】affairs between the mercenary and the prudent【精明慎重的】motive? Where does discretion【审慎】end and avarice【贪婪】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."
"If you will only tell me what sort of girl Miss King is I shall know what to think."
"She is a very good kind of girl I believe. I know no harm of her."
"But he paid her not the smallest attention till her grandfather's death made her mistress of this fortune."
"No—why should he? If it were not allowable for him to gain my affections because I had no money what occasion could there be for making love to a girl whom he did not care about and who was equally poor?"
"But there seems an indelicacy in directing his attentions towards her so soon after this event."
"A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorums which other people may observe. If she does not object to it why should we?"
"Her not objecting does not justify him. It only shows her being deficient in something herself—sense or feeling."
"Well " cried Elizabeth "have it as you choose. He shall be mercenary and she shall be foolish."
"No Lizzy that is what I do not choose. I should be sorry you know to think ill of a young man who has lived so long in Derbyshire."
"Oh! if that is all I have a very poor opinion of young men who live in Derbyshire; and their intimate friends who live in Hertfordshire are not much better. I am sick of them all. Thank Heaven! I am going to-morrow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all."
"Take care Lizzy; that speech savours 【savour of带有几分…（尤指坏事）】strongly of disappointment."
Before they were separated by the conclusion of the play she had the unexpected happiness of an invitation to accompany her uncle and aunt in a tour of pleasure which they proposed taking in the summer.
"We have not determined how far it shall carry us " said Mrs. Gardiner "but perhaps to the Lakes."
No scheme could have been more agreeable to Elizabeth and her acceptance of the invitation was most ready and grateful. "Oh my dear dear aunt " she rapturously cried "what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen【怒气】. What are young men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return it shall not be like other travellers without being able to give one accurate idea of anything. We will know where we have gone—we will recollect what we have seen. Lakes mountains and rivers shall not be jumbled【混杂】together in our imaginations; nor when we attempt to describe any particular scene will we begin quarreling about its relative situation. Let our first effusions【感情流露】be less insupportable than those of the generality of travellers."
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