jane讲义 austen

Her famous works Sense and Sensibility (1811) 《理智与情感》
Pride and Prejudice (1813) 《傲慢与偏见》
Mansfield Park (1814) 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》 Emma (1815) 《爱玛》 Northanger Abbey (1818) (posthumous) 《诺桑
5.If someone beats a record or achievement, they do better than it. 打破 (纪录等) 例：He was as eager as his Captain to beat
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• on a budget避免不必要的开支，节省 费用 • budget deficit预算赤字 • financial budget财务预算 • budget for为…作预算
Account
1. 以为，认为，把…看做，把…视作： He was accounted a generous man. 他被人看做是一位仁者。 2. 钻研；分析；探究；考虑：This report will be accounted by the committee.委员会将研究这份报告 。 3.把…归因于，把…归咎于(to)；把…转嫁于(to): She has many virtues accounted to her.许多美德集于她 一身。 4.说明原因(或理由)，提出理由；是…的原因；做出 说明(或解释)，解释(for): How do you account for the accident? 你怎么解释那场事故? 5. (在数量、比例方面)占；共计达： It accounts for 25 per cent of all traffic accidents. 它占 所有交通事故的25%。

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
生活就是一连串的无事忙。
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
繁荣的大都市里，没有道德情操这一说。
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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4) Austen's novels are brightened by their witty
conversation & omnipresent humor. Her language shines with an exquisite touch of lively gracefulness， elegant & refined， but never showy.
3) Austen's interest was in human nature; in her depiction of human nature， instead of being fascinated by great waves of elevated emotion， by passion or heroic experience， she focused on the trivial & petty details of everyday living， which became very interesting through her truthful & lively
2) Her subject matter is also limited， for most of her novels deal with the subject of getting married， which was in fact the central problem for the young leisure-class lady of that age， who had no other choice in her life but to find a good husband.

Three of types of marriage:


those who marry for money, position and property; those who marry just for passion; those who marry for love based on consideration of the person’s personal merit as well as his economical and social status.
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue. Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born in Steventon, England, in 1775, where she lived for the first twenty-five years of her life. Her father, George Austen, was the rector of the local parish and taught her largely at home. She began to write while in her teens and completed the original manuscript of Pride and Prejudice, titled First Impressions, between 1796 and 1797.

Her governess, Miss Taylor, marries a neighbor, Mr. Weston. Emma has too much time and she spends it choosing proper partners for her friends and neighbors - blind to her own feelings. She makes a protégée of Harriet Smith, an illegitimate girl of no social status and tries to manipulate a marriage between Harriet and Mr. Elton, a young clergyman, who has set his sight on Emma.

Emma has feelings about Mr. Weston's son. When Harriet becomes interested in George Knightley, a neighboring squire who has been her friend, Emma starts to understand her own limitations. He has been her moral adviser, and secretly loves her. Finally Emma finds her destiny in marriage with him. Harriet, who is left to decide for herself, marries Robert Martin, a young farmer.
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human beings with their families and neighbors. • 4. Jane Austen’s work has a very narrow literary field. • 5. Jane Austen is a writer who regards novel writing as a sophisticated art.