1、 dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown.Jane Austen - - Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?Jane Austen - from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814- Wisdom is better than wit,
2、and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.- What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.- One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.- Everybody likes to go their own way-to choose their own time and manner of devotio
3、n.- What dreadful weather we have!- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.- There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculatio
4、n is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.- Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
5、possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.- We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.- Human nature
6、is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.- Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a littl
7、e mistaken.- Only a novel. in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language
8、.- To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.- Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?-
9、We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (opening lines)- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings o
10、r views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.- Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.- The person, be it
11、 gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.Jane Austen - Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798- An artist cannot do anything slovenly.- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.- I do not want people to be agre
12、eable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.- I pay very little regard.to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.- Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sens
13、ible people in an impudent way.Jane Austen - The Watsons- A woman should never be trusted with money.- Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.- I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.- In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete:
14、being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife. do not attack me w
15、ith your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey, 1818- In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.- Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destro
16、yed by preparation, foolish preparations.- You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and
17、 laugh at them in our turn?- We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.- How much I love every thing that is decided and open!Jane Austen - Sense and Sen
18、sibility- At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.- If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powe
19、rs, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers
20、of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.- You have delighted us long enough. is a truth universally acknowledged!(书的开场第一句,这已是一条举世公认的真理了) want to tell me,I and I have no objection to hearing it.(既是你必然要说给我听,那我听听也无妨。感觉这句话依照不同场合改装一下相当有效) was invitation enough.(这是针对上句话来讲的,这句
21、话足够鼓舞他讲下去了) a woman has five grown up girls,she ought to give up thinking of her own beauty!(可改装成-When a student has failed all his subjects,he ought to give up thinking of his own intelligence!够伤人的。(原文是说一个女人家若是已经有了5个成年的女儿就不该该在对自己的美貌报什么空想了) is more than I engage for,I assure you.(老实跟你说吧,这可不是我的分内事) c
22、onsider you daughters,only think what a establishment it would be for one of them.(想一想你的女儿吧,能攀上如此一户人家对她们该多好) is determined to go,merely on that account.(他那么想去,无非是那个用意) are over-scrupulous.(你实在过度心思了,想太多)ll throw in a good word for you.(我会替你美言几句) are always giving him the preference.(你老实偏爱他) are all s
23、illy and ignorant like other girls.(她们和其它女孩一样愚蠢无知) take delight in vixing me.(你是故意叫我恼气)v heared you mention them with conderation these twenty years at least.(至少在最近20年来,我一直听到你镇重其事的提起他们) is so odd mixture of quick parts,sarcastic,humour,reserve,and caprice.(她真是个怪僻的人,一方面喜爱插科打浑,挖苦人,同时又不抅言笑,变幻莫测) she was discontented,she fancied herself nervous.(只要碰到不顺心的事,她就以为自己)
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