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.
Lydia and Wickham
Viewpoint on marriage
Ideal marriage should be built on genuine love
Irony (反语) in the novels
Austen established great “Irony” between the words and the thought. Hence, her “irony” was no longer limited to text ,but has become Austen’s whole art world and her inner soul. In her preliminary work, like “Sense and Sensibility”、 “ Pride and Prejudice ”,”Verbal Irony” ,言语反讽 and “Dramatic Irony”戏 剧反讽 is Austen’s favorites “Irony” type, and is also the novel comedic fountainhead. But in her later period work like “Mansfield Park”、 “Emma” and “Persuasion”, Austen’s “Irony” change its style, it became more serious ,they are “Situational Irony”情境反讽 and “General Irony”总体反讽 , the novel’s thought also became deeper ,however ,we can still find the humor of “Verbal Irony” and “Dramatic Irony”.
