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1、mrs. bennet: how well you dance, mr. bingley. my daughter jane is a splendid dancer, is she not?bingley: she is indeed, (to elizabeth) your friend miss lucas is a most amusing young woman.elizabeth: oh, yes, i adore her.mrs. bennet: it is a pity she"s not more handsome.elizabeth: mama!mrs. benn

2、et: oh, but lizzie would never admit that she's plain. of course it's my jane who, s considered the beauty of the county.elizabeth & jane: no, mama, please!mrs. bennct: when she was 15, a gcntlcman was so much in love with her, that i was sure he would make her an offer. however, he did

3、write her some very pretty verses.el izabeth: and that put paid to it. t wonder who discovered the power of poetry in driving away love.ddtcy: i thought poetry was the food of love.elizabeth: of a fine, stout love, it may. but if it is only a vague inclination one poor sonnet will kill it.darcy: so

4、what do you recommend to encourage affection?elizabeth: dancing. even if one's partner is barely tolerable.jane: mr bingley is just what a young man ought to be. sensible, good-humoured.elizabeth: handsome, convenienlly rich.jane: you know perfectly wel 1 t do not believe marriage should be driv

5、en by thoughts of money.elizabeth: i agree entirely. only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why v 11 end up an old maid.jane: do you real ly bel ieve he 1 iked me, lizzie?elizabeth: jane, he danced with you most of the night, and stared at you for the rest of it. but i give

6、you leave to like him. you've liked many a stupider person. you' re a great deal too apt to like people in general, you know. all the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.jemc: not his friend. i still cem，t believe what he said about you.elizabeth: mr. darcy? i could more easily forgive

7、his vanity had he not wounded mine. but no matter, i doubt we shall ever speak again.妙词佳句，活学活用1. adoreadore有好几种意思，我们一起來看一下：a. if you adore someone, you feel great love and admiration for him or her.敬爱，敬重；爱慕e.g. she adored her parents and would do anything to please them.b. tf you adore something, yo

8、u 1 ike it very much. 非常喜欢，痴迷 e. g. i adore apple very much and eat two a day.2. make an offer这是口语中很常用的词组，其意义取决于作为名词的。ffer-词的不同含义，如 在电影情归巴黎中有一句台词是：you never said a word abo ut plan ning to make em offer to pat rick. （关 于你要跟patrick合并的事情你一个字都没提过。）这里的翻译是意译，我们可以看岀来make an offer是"出价的意思。而在木电影的台词里，这个m

9、ake an offer的意思显然不同，应该是求婚的意 思ooffer 一词本身就有求婚的意思，所以向某人求婚我们可以说propose to sb. 或者 make an offer to sb.3. put paid to 结束,了结（口语）这是一个挺有意思的短语，if an unexpected event puts paid to someone's hopes, chances, or plans, it completely ends or destroys them. 主要在 说英式英语的国家屮使用。the scries of terrible blind dates pu

10、t paid to her drcam of an ideal marriage.一系列可怕的相亲断送了她对理想婚姻的梦想。4. end up/end up with 以结束,以告终 if you end up doing something or end up in a particular state, you do that thing or get into that state even though you did not originally intend to.e.g. every time they went dancing they ended up in a bad mo

11、od. 他们每次出去跳舞都不欢而散。she could have ended up a millionairess. 她木来可以成为一个百万富翁的。caroline: you write uncommonly fast, mr. darcy.darcy: you're mistaken. i write rather slowly.caroline: how many letters you must have occasion to write, mr. darcy. letters ofbusiness, too. how odious i should think them.da

12、rcy: it is fortunate, then, they fall to my lot instead of yours.caroline: do tell your sister that i long to see her.darcy: fve already told her once, by your desire.caroline: i do dote on hei; i was quite in raptures at her beautiful little design for a table.darcy: perhaps you will give me leave

13、to defer your raptures till i write again. at present i have not room enough to do them justice.bingley: well i think its amazing that you young ladies have the patience to be soaccomplished.caroline: what do you mean, charles?bingley: you all paint tables and play the piano and embroider cushions.

14、i never heardof a young lady, but people say she's accomplished.darcy: the word is indeed applied too liberally. i cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen women in all my acquaintance that are truly accomplished.caroline: nor i, to be sure.elizabeth: goodness, you must comprehend a great

15、deal in the idea.darcy: i do.caroline: absolutely. she must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages to deserve the word. and something in her air and manner of walking.darcy: and, of course she must improve her mind by extensive reading.elizabeth: fm no

16、 longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. i rather wonder now at your knowing any.darcy: are you so severe on your own sex?elizabeth: i never saw such a woman. she would certainly be a fearsome thing to behold.caroline: miss elizabeth, let us take a turn about the room. its refr

17、eshing, is it not, after sitting so long in one attitude?elizabeth: it is a small kind of accomplishment, i suppose.caroline: will you not join us, mr. darcy?darcy: you can only have two motives, caroline, and i would interfere with either.caroline: what can he mean?elizabeth: the surest way of disa

18、ppointing him will be to ask him nothing about it.caroline: but do tell us, mr. darcy.darcy: either you are in each other's confidence and you have secret affairs to discuss, or you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage by walking. if the first, i should get in your wa

19、y. if the second,i can admire you much better from here.caroline: shocking how shall we punish him for such a speech?elizabeth: we could always laugh at him.caroline: oh no. m匸 darcy is not to be teased.elizabeth: are you too proud, mr. darcy? and would you consider pride a fault or a virtue?darcy:

20、that 1 couldnl say.elizabeth: because wete doing our best to find a fault in you.darcy: maybe it's that i find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offences against me. my good opinion, once lost, is lost foreve匚elizabeth: oh, dear. i cannot tease you about that. what a s

21、hame, for i dearly love to laugh.caroline: a family trait, i think.妙词佳句，活学活用1. it falls to sb/s lot to do sth. / the lot falls to sb. to do sth. / it falls to sb. as sb/s lot todo sth.是”某人命屮注定要做某事；某人有责任做某事”的意思。e.g. it falls to my lot to join the army.参军是我有责任要做的事。it falls to the young girl's lot

22、to marry this old man.嫁给这个老头是这个女孩命里注定的。2. dote onif you say you dote on a person or a thing, it means you love or care about them very much and ignore any faults they may have.中文里就是"宠爱,溺爱；过分喜爱"。 比女口”她溺爱她的儿子”就可以说成she dotes on her youngest son.3. accomplished多才多艺的；熟练的；完成的说到"多才多艺”，大家马上想到

23、词的可能是versatile, accomplished这个词比 versatile还要高一个等级，差不多到了专家的程度，而versatile多用来指"能 胜任”。例如：an accomplished lady 一个才女an accomplished pianist有造诣的钢琴家an accomplished facts不容争辩的事实4. get/stand in one's way / be in the way这是口语里特别常用的词组，意思是“挡路，妨碍”。我们来看两个例子：e-g.1) keep on going with your reading. don't

24、 let me stand in your way.2) you're in the way, would you please move aside?文化面面观austen, jane (1775-1817), english novelist, noted for her witty studies of early-19th-century english society. with meticulous detail, austen portrayed the quiet, day-today life of members of the upper middle class.

25、 her works combine romantic comedy with social satire and psychological insight.她的代表作品包括傲慢与偏 见，理智与情感，及爱玛。小说傲慢与偏见开篇的一段话可称为经典，在当今社会也是有一定道理的：it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wifehowever little known the feelings and views of

26、such a man maybe on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.凡是有钱的单身汉，总想娶位太太，这已经成了一条举世公认的真理。这样的单 身汉，每逢新搬到一个地方，四邻八舍虽然完全不了解他的性情如何，见解如何, 可是，既然这样的一条真理早已

27、在人们心目中根深蒂固，因此人们总是把他看作 自己某一个女儿理所应得的一笔财产。pride & prejudice傲慢与偏见（精讲之一）考考你参考答案1. 他非常喜欢看电影。he adores the cinema.2. 他向那个漂亮女孩求了婚，但是被拒绝了。he made an offer to that handsome girl but was rejected.3. 雨水让我们的野餐计划泡汤了。the rain put paid to our picnic plan.4. 如果你不知道自己想要什么，结果往往是你会得到一些你不想要的东西。if you don't know

28、what you want, you might end up getting something you don't want.elizabeth: i love this dance.darcy: indeed. most invigorating.elizabeth: it is your turn to say something, mr. darcy. i talked about the dance.now you ought to remark on the size of the room or the number of couples.darcy: rm perfe

29、ctly happy to oblige. please advise me of what you would like most to hear?elizabeth: that reply will do for present. perhaps by and by i may observe that private balls are much pleasanter than public ones. for now, we may remain silent darcy: do you talk as a rule while dancing?elizabeth: no. no, i

30、 prefer to be unsociable and taciturn. makes it all so much more enjoyable, don't you think?darcy: tell me, do you and your sisters very often walk to meryton?elizabeth: yes, we often walk to meryton. itfs a great opportunity to meet new people. in fact when you met us, we'd just had the ple

31、asure of forming a new acquai ntance.darcy: mr. wickhamfs blessed with such happy manners, hefs sure of making friends. whether hefs capable of retaining them is less certain.elizabeth: hefs been so unfortunate as to lose your friendship. and i dare say that is an irreversible event?darcy: it is. wh

32、y do you ask such a question?elizabeth: to make out your character, mr. darcy.darcy: and what have you discovered?elizabeth: very little. i hear such different accounts of you as puzzle meexceedi ngly.darcy: i hope to afford you more clarity in the future.妙词佳句，活学活用1. obligeto do a service or favor f

33、or:施恩惠于，帮助they obliged us by arriving early.他们的早到帮了我们一个大忙。if you ever need help with the babysitting, i'd be glad to oblige.如果你需要我帮忙照顾孩子，我很愿意效劳。2. by and by这是一种习惯表达，意思是“不久以后；不一会儿”。在口语中和by相关的习惯用语很多,如：by and again时常，常常by and large总的来说，基本上by the by(e)顺便提一下3. be blessed withif some one is blessed wi

34、th a particular good quality or skill, they have that good quality or skill.幸运地亨有（优 良品质或技巧），在 方面有福气e.g. the two brothers both are blessed with uncommon ability to fix things.4. make outif you try to make something out, you try to understand it or decide whether ornot it is true.辨认出，理解。我们来看看下面的例子：e.g

35、. i couldn't make it out at all.我一点也不明白。it is hard to make out what criteria are used to judge a person.很难理解应该用什么标進来评判一个人。文化面面观凯拉奈特莉出身英国演艺世家，门岁初登银幕。小小年纪就星光闪耀，获多位名导乖青。 在加勒比海盗中饰演总替女儿，凭借出色的演技获得了大导演斯皮尔伯格的青睐，将受 邀出演侏罗纪公园4。其它代表作品还有：真爱至上、加勒比海盗1、2、我 爱贝克汉姆。在傲慢与偏见中，伊丽莎白是一个聪敏机智、有胆识、有远见，有很强的自尊心，并善于思考问题的女性，奈特

36、莉对这个角色的把握和演绎都十分到位。pride & prejudice傲慢与偏见（精讲之二）考考你 参考答案1. 他十分溺爱这个九岁的孩子。he doted on this nine-year-old kid.2. 上法学院是她的梦想，也是她注定要去做的事情。to go to law school is her dream; something that falls to her lot to do.3. 现在真是很少见这么多才多艺的女人了，而且最重要的是她述很漂亮。ltfs so rare to meet such an accomplished woman. most of all

37、, she is very pretty.collins: dear miss elizabeth, i am sure my attentions have been too marked to be mistaken. almost as soon as i entered the house, i singled you out as the companion of my future life. but before i am run away with my feelings, perhaps i may state my reasons for marrying. firstly

38、, that it is the duty of a clergyman to set the example of matrimony in his parish. secondly, that i am convinced it will add greatly to my happiness. and thirdly, that it is at the urging of my esteemed patroness, lady catherine, that i select a wife my object in coming to longbourn was to choose s

39、uch a one from among mr. bennetfs daughters, for i am to inherit the estate and such an alliance will surely.suit everyone. and now no thing remains but for me to assure you in the most animated language of the violenee of my affections.elizabeth: mr. collins!collins: and that no reproach on the sub

40、ject of fortune will cross my lips once we're married.elizabeth: you're too hasty, sir. you forget that i have given no answer.collins: i must add that lady catherine will thoroughly approve when i speak to her of your modesty, economy and other amiable qualitieselizabeth: sir, i am honored

41、by your proposal, but i regret that i must decline it.collins: i know ladies donft seek to seem too eager.elizabeth: mr. collins, i am perfectly serious. you could not make me happy.and rm convineed lfm the last woman in the world who could make you happ y.collins: i flatter myself, cousin, that you

42、r refusal is merely a natural delicacy. besides, you should take into account that despite the manifold attractions, it is by no means certain that another offer of marriage may ever be made to you. elizabeth: mr. collins!collins: .i must conclude that you simply seek to increase my love bysuspensee

43、lizabeth: sir!collins: .according to the usual practice of elegant females.elizabeth: sir, i am not the sort of female to torment a respectable man. please understand me, i cannot accept you.妙词佳句，活学活用1 single outif you single sb. out from a group, you choose them and give them special attention or t

44、reatment.挑选e.g. mr. collins singled out jane first as his future wife at first, but then he switched to elizabeth.he was singled out by his teacher to take part in the competition.2. hasty匆忙的，草率的e.g. they shouldn't have made such a hasty decision.另外在汉语屮我们的一句成语“欲速则不达”跟hasty的同根词haste有关，英语屮有两种表达：ha

45、ste makes wastemore haste, less speed.大家不妨在这里牢记住这个表达。3. i'm the last woman in the world who could make you happy.这种句型的基本结构是“the last-f名词+定语从句”，表达最大程度的否定或者不赞成。本句话的意思是：我是这个世界上最不可能带给你幸福的女人。e.g. to be a teacher is the last thing in the world that i could do.我最不愿意干的事就是当老师。this city is the last place

46、that i want to live in the world.我最不愿意生活的地方就是这个城市。4. flatter on eself thatif you flatter yourself that something good is the case, you believe that it is true, although others may disagree.自鸣得意，自以为e.g. they flattered themselves that they would win.他们自以为会一定获胜。flatter 一词还有一些其它用法：if someone flatters yo

47、u, they praise you in an exaggerated way that is not sincere, because they want to please you or to persuade you to do something. 奉承，谄媚e.g. i knew she was just flattering me, because she wanted me to buy her scarf. 此外flattering和flattered在口语屮的出现频率也很高flattering继承了 flatter的意 思，作为形容词的时候有“谄媚的，讨好的”意思，但是也有

48、“讨人喜欢的”意思， 如： how flattering your company is since so many other companies are after you.你看你们公司多招人喜欢，那么多其他公司都跟在你们屁股后面转。但是flattered的意思有所不同，if you feel flattered by something that has happened, you are pleased about it because it makes you feel imports nt or special.表示"受宠若惊”的意思e.g. i feel flatter

49、ed by what you said.你的话让我受宠若惊。pride & prejudice傲慢与偏见（精讲之三）考考你 参考答案1. 请帮我把门关上。please oblige me by closing the door.2. 伊丽莎白拥冇出色的语言能力。elizabeth is blessed with amazing power of languages.3. 不久之后这件事情的真相终于被揭露了。by and by the truth of it has been exposed to the public darcy: miss elizabeth. i have stru

50、ggled in vain and can bear it no longer. these past months have been a torment i came to rosings with the single object of seeing you. i had to see you. i have fought against my better judgment, my familyfs expectation, the inferiority of your birth, my rank, all these things, and pm willing to put

51、them aside and ask you to end my agony.elizabeth: i donft understand.darcy: i love you. most ardently. please do me the honor of accepting my hand.elizabeth: sir, i appreciate the struggle you have been through, and i am very sorry to have caused you pain. believe me, it was unconsciously done.darcy

52、: is this your reply?elizabeth: yes, sir.darcy: are you. are you laughing at me?elizabeth: no.darcy: are you rejecting me?elizabeth:sure the feelings which, as yoitve told me have hindered your regard will help you in overcoming it.darcy: might i ask why with so little endeavor at civility i am thus

53、 repulsed?elizabeth: and i might as well enquire with so evident a design of insulting me you chose to tell me that you liked me against your better judgment?darcy: no, believe me.elizabeth: if i was uncivil, then that is some excuse! but i have other reasons. you know i havedarcy: what reasons?eliz

54、abeth: do you think anything might tempt me to accept the man who has ruined perhaps forever the happiness of a most beloved sister? do you deny it mr. darcy, that you separated a young couple who loved each other, exposing your friend to center of the world for caprice and my sister to its derision

55、 for disappointed hopes and involving them both in misery of the acutest kind?darcy: i do not deny it.elizabeth: how could you do it?darcy: because i believed your sister's in different to him.elizabeth: indifferent?darcy: i watched them most carefully and realized his attachment was deeper than

56、 hers.elizabeth: thatfs because she's shy!darcy: bingley, too, is modest and was persuaded she didn*t feel strongly for him.elizabeth: because you suggested it.darcy: i did it for his own good.elizabeth: my sister hardly shows her true feelings to me. i suppose you suspect that his fortune had s

57、ome bearing?darcy: no! i wouldnft do your sister the dishonor, though it was suggested.elizabeth: what was?darcy: it was made perfectly clear that an advantageous marriage.elizabeth: did my sister give that impression?darcy: no! no. no. there was, however, i have to admit, the matter of your family.

58、elizabeth: our want of corm ection? mr. bingley didrvt seem to vex himself about that.darcy: no, it was more than that.elizabeth: how, sir?darcy: it was the lack of propriety shown by your mother, your three younger sisters and even, on occasion, your father. forgive me. you and your sister i must exclude from this.elizabeth: and what about mr. wickham?darcy: mr. wickham?elizabeth: what excuse can you give for your behavior towards him?d