大卫科波菲尔中英文双语简介

1、【精品文档】如有侵权，请联系网站删除，仅供学习与交流大卫科波菲尔中英文双语简介.精品文档.The story deals with the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David is born in England in about 1820. Davids father had died six months before he was born, and seven years later, his mother marries Mr. Edward Murdstone.David is given good

2、 reason to dislike his stepfather and has similar feelings for Mr. Murdstones sister, Jane, who moves into the house soon afterwards. Mr. Murdstone thrashes David for falling behind with his studies. Following one of these thrashings, David bites him and is sent away to a boarding school, Salem Hous

3、e, with a ruthless headmaster, Mr. Creakle. Here he befriends James Steerforth and Tommy Traddles, both of whom he meets again later on.David returns home for the holidays to find that his mother has had a baby boy. Soon after, David goes back to Salem House, his mother and her baby die, and David h

4、as to return home immediately. Mr. Murdstone sends him to work in a factory in London, of which Murdstone is a joint owner. The grim reality of hand-to-mouth factory existence echoes Dickens own travails in a blacking factory.His landlord, Wilkins Micawber, is sent to a debtors prison (the Kings Ben

5、ch Prison) after going bankrupt, and is there for several months before being released and moving to Plymouth. David now has nobody left to care for him in London, and decides to run away.The story follows David as he grows to adulthood and is enlivened by the many well-known characters who enter, l

6、eave, and re-enter his life.大卫科波菲尔内容概括大卫科波菲尔尚未出世时，父亲就去世了，他在母亲及女仆的照管下长大。不久，母亲改嫁，后父摩德斯通凶狠贪婪，他把大卫看作累赘，婚前就把大卫送到了女仆的哥哥佩克提家里。佩克提是个正直善良的渔民，住在雅茅斯海边一座用破船改成的小屋里，与收养的一对孤儿艾米丽和海穆相依为命，大卫和他们一起过着清苦和睦的生活。 出于对母亲的思念，大卫又回到了后父家。然而后父不但常常责打他，甚至剥夺了母亲对他关怀和爱抚的权利。母亲去世后，后父立即就把不足10岁的大卫送去当洗刷酒瓶的童工，大卫从此过起了不能温饱的生活。他历尽艰辛，最后找到了姨婆贝西小姐

7、。 贝西小姐生性怪僻，但心地善良。她收留了大卫，让他上学深造。大卫求学期间，寄宿在姨婆的律师威克菲尔家里，与他的女儿安妮斯结下了深厚的情谊。但大卫对威克菲尔雇用的一个名叫希普的书记极为反感，讨厌他那种阳奉阴违、曲意逢迎的丑态。 大卫中学毕业后外出旅行，邂逅了童年时代的同学斯蒂弗茨。两人一起来到雅茅斯，拜访佩克提一家。已经和海穆订婚的艾米丽经受不住阔少爷斯蒂弗茨的引诱，竟在结婚前夕与他私奔国外。佩克提痛苦万分，发誓要找回艾米丽。 大卫回到伦敦，在斯本罗律师事务所任见习生。他从安妮斯口中获悉，威克菲尔律师落入诡计多端的希普所设计的陷阱，正处在走投无路的境地，这使大卫非常愤慨。此时的大卫爱上了斯本罗

8、律师的女儿朵拉，但两人婚后的生活并不理想。朵拉是个容貌美丽，但头脑简单的“洋娃娃”。贝西姨婆也濒临破产。这时，大卫再次遇见他当童工时的房东密考伯，密考伯现在是希普的秘书，经过激烈的思想斗争，他最终揭露了希普陷害威克菲尔并导致贝西小姐破产的种种阴谋。在事实面前，希普只好伏罪。 与此同时，佩克提和海穆经过多方奔波，终于找到了被斯蒂弗茨抛弃后，沦落在伦敦的艾米丽，并决定将她带澳大利亚，开始新的生活。然而就在启程前夕，海上突然风狂雨骤，一艘来自西班牙的客轮在雅茅斯遇险沉没，只剩下一个濒死的旅客紧紧地抓着桅杆。海穆见状不顾自身危险，下海救他，不幸被巨浪吞没。当人们捞起他的尸体时，船上那名旅客的尸体也漂到了岸边，原来竟是诱拐艾米丽的斯蒂弗茨。艾米丽为海穆的行动深深地打动了，回到澳大利亚后，她终日在劳动中寻