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世界文學名著錶現瞭作者描述的特定時代的文化。閱讀這些名著可以領略著者流暢的文筆、逼真的描述、詳細的刻畫,讓讀者如同置身當時的曆史文化之中。為此,將這套精心編輯的“名著典藏”奉獻給廣大讀者。
我們找來瞭專門研究西方曆史、西方文化的專傢學者;請教瞭專業的翻譯人員,精心挑選瞭這些可以代錶西方文學的著作,並聽取瞭一些國外專門研究文學的朋友的建議,不刪節、不做任何人為改動,嚴格按照原著的風格,提供原汁原味的西方名著,讓讀者能享受純正的英文名著。
隨著閱讀的展開,你會發現自己的英語水平無形中有瞭大幅提高,並且對西方曆史文化的瞭解也日益深入廣闊。
One day he saw some country people busily engaged in pulling up nettles, he
examined the plants, which were uprooted and already dried, and said: “They are dead。 Nevertheless, it would。be a good thing to know how to make use of them。 When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and flax。 Nettle cloth is as good as linen cloth。 Chopped up, nettles are good for poultry; pounded, they are good for horned cattle。 The seed of the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the root, mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow coloring-matter。 Moreover, it is an excellent hay, which can be cut twice。 And what is required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture。 Only the seed falls as it is ripe, and it is difficult to collect it。 That is all。 With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful, It is exterminated。 How many men resemble the nettle!” He added, after a pause: “Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men。 There are only bad cultivators。”
The children loved him because he knew how to make charming little trifles of straw and cocoanuts。
When he saw the door ofa church hung in black, he entered: he sought out funerals as other men seek christenings。 Widowhood and the grief of others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with the friends clad in mounung, with familiesd:ressed in black, with the priests groaning around a coffin。 He seemed to like to give to his thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of the other world。
With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a sort of aspiration towards all the
mysteries of the infinite, those sad voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death。
He performed a multitude of good actions, concealing his agency in them as a man conceals himself because of evil actions。 He penetrated houses priyately, at night; he ascended staircases furtively。 A poor wretch on returning to his attic would find that his door had been opened, sometimes even forced, during his absence。 The poor man made a clamor over it: some malefactor had been theref He entered, and the first thing he beheld was a piece of gold lying forgotten on some piece of funuture。 The “malefactor” who had been there was Father Madeleine。
He was affable and sad。 The people said: “There is a rich man who has not a haughty air。 There is a happy man who has not a contented air。”
Some people maintained that he was a mysterious person, and that no one ever entered his chamber, wluch was a regular anchorite‘s cell, fumished with winged hour-glasses and enlivened by cross-bones and skulls of dead men! This was much talked of, so that one of the elegant and malicious young women of M。 sur M。 came to him one day, and asked: “Monsieur le Maire, pray show us your chamber。 It is said to be a grotto。” He smiled, and introduced them instantly into this “grotto。” They were well punished for their curiosity。 The room was very simply furnished in mahogany, which was rather ugly,like all fumiture of that sort, and hung with paper worth twelve sous。 They could see nothing remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattem which stood on the chimney-piece and appeared to be silver, “for they were hall-marked,” an observation full of the type ofwit ofpetty towns。
Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the room, and that it was a hermit’s cave, a mysterious retreat, a hole, a tomb。
VOLUME 1 BOOK 5 CHAPTER 4
It was also whispered about that he had “immense” sums deposited with Laffitte, with this peculiar feature, that they were always at his immediate disposal, so that, it was added, M。 Madeleine could make his appearance at Laffitte‘s any morning, sign a receipt, and carry off his two or three millions in ten minutes。 In reality, “these two or three millions” were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or forty thousand francs。
CHAPTER 4
M。 MADELEINE IN MOURNING
At the beginning of 1820 the newspapers announced the death of M。 Myriel, Bishop of D-, sumamed “Monseigneur Bienvenu,” who had died in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two。 The Bishop of D- to supply here a detail which the papers omitted - had been blind for many years before his death, and content to be blind, as his sister was beside him。
Let us remark by the way, that to be blind and to be loved, is, in fact, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, where notlung is complete。 To have continually at one’s side a woman, a daughter, a sister, a charming being, who is there because you need her and because she cannot do without you; to know that we are indispensable to a person who is necessary to us; to be able to incessantly measure one‘s affection by the amount ofher presence which she bestows on us, and to say to ourselves, “Since she consecrates the whole of her time to me, it is because I possess the whole of her heart”; to behold her thought in lieu of her face; to be able to verify the fidelity of one being amid the eclipse of the world; to regard the rustle of a gown as the sound of wings; to hear her come and go, retire, speak, return, sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this speech; to manifest at each instant one’s personal attraction; to feel one‘s self all the more powerful because of one’s infirnuty; to become in one‘s obscurity, and through one’s obscurity, the star around which this angel gravitates, - few felicities equal this。 The supreme happiness oflife consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one‘s own sake - let us say rather, loved in spite of one’s self; this conviction the blind man possesses。 To be served in distress is to be caressed。 Does he lack anytlung? No。 One does not lose the sight when one has love。 And what love! A love wholly constituted of virtue! There is no blindness where there is certainty。 Soul
seeks soul, gropingly, and finds it。 And this soul, found
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