英国文学4篇200词故事英文梗概：雾独孤儿、苔丝、简爱、呼啸山庄

英国文学4篇200词故事英文梗概

Oliver Twist 《雾独孤儿》—Charles Dickens 查理斯·狄更斯

The novel tells the miserable story of an orphan boy in London called Oliver Twist. Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse with unknown parentage and brought up under the tyrannous parish beadle Bumble. After serving an unhappy apprenticeship to an undertaker, he run away to London, where he falls into the hands of a gang of thieves who make every effort to convert Oliver into a thief. Then Oliver is rescued by the benevolent, rich Mr. Brownlow, but the thieves kidnap him again with the help of Monks, the half brother of Oliver. Then Oliver is made to participate in a burgling expedition, in the course of which he was shot wounded, and comes into the hands of Mrs. Maylie and her protégée Rose, by whom he is kindly treated. In order to seek all of the inheritance, Monks schemes to defame Oliver’s reputation by making him a thief. However, Nancy discovers his plot and reveals the truth to Rose. But Fagin, the head of the gang, discovered the action of Nancy and murders her after which the rest of the gang are arrested and Fagin executed. At last, Monks is compelled to disclose the truth and Oliver is adopted by Mr Brownlow.

1. Wuthering Heights 《呼啸山庄》—Emily Bronte 艾米丽·勃朗台

The novel tells a story of Heathcliff, a gipsy waif of unknown parentage, picked up by Mr. Earnshaw in the streets and brought up with his children in his house called Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff is treated well by Earnshaw, but when the old man dies, the young master Hindley bullies and insults him and makes him a slave. Heathcliff falls passionately in love with Catharine, Hindley’s sister, who loves him but thinks it would degrade her to marry him. Heathcliff, finding it impossible for him to marry Catharine, leaves Wuthering Heights. Three years later, he returns as a rich man. Although Catharine has been married Edgar Linton, he resumes his love-making to her, which brings her to death at the birth of her daughter Cathy. Then he starts his crazy revenge. He first marries his sister Isabella and treats her cruelly to revenge on Edgar Linton. In revenge for Hindley’s cruel treatment, he treats Hindley’s son Hareton brutally. He then forces Catharine’s daughter Cathy to marry his sickly son in order to seize the estate of the Lintons, which fails because of the death of his son. As an old man and haunted by the memory of Catharine, he finally realises the pointlessness of his revenge. At last he dies, and the two young lovers, Cathy and Hareton are united happily.

2. Tess 《德伯家的苔丝》--Thomas Hardy 托马斯·哈代

The novel tells the tragical life story of a beautiful country girl Tess Duebeyfield. Tess is the daughter of a poor villager. In her youth she is seduced by Alec D’Urbervilles, the son of a rich merchant who has bought his title into the class of gentry. Tess gives birth to an illegitimate child, thus scandalizing the narrow-minded people around her. So she leaves home and works at a distant farm as a dairymaid. There she meets Angel Clare, a clergyman’s son, who falls in love with her. On their wedding night, Tess confesses to Angel the affair of Alec. Angel, himself a sinner who has had some affair with a bad woman, casts her off and leaves for Brazil. After that her father dies and her family are threatened with starvation, so Tess is driven to accept Alec’s protection and lives with him. Clare, returning from Brazil and repentant of his harshness to Tess, finds her in such a situation. Maddened by this second wrong that has been done her by Alec, she murders him in a fit of despair. After hiding with Clare in a forest for a short time, Tess falls into the claws of law. She is arrested, tried and hanged.

3. Jane Eyre 《简爱》—Charlotte Bronte 夏洛特·勃朗台

The novel tells the story of an orphan girl. Jane Eyre, the daughter of a poor parson, loses her parents shortly after birth. She lives at the household of her aunt, treated rudely by her aunt Mrs. Reed and her children. One day, unable to bear the ill-treatment any longer, Jane tells straight to her aunt what she thinks of her, which makes Mrs. Reed furious to send her to a charity school in Lowood. Maltreated by the authorities, Jane stays there for 8 long years. Then Jane gets a position of governess in the family of Mr. Rochester, a rich squire. Rochester falls in love with Jane, and she with him. They are about to be married when Jane breaks the engagement on the wedding day and flees away, learning that Mr. Rochester has a mad wife secretly locked in the house. After going through a lot of hardships on the moors, she is taken in and cared for by Rev. Rivers, who helps her get a job as teacher in a village school. Meanwhile, Mr. Rochester loses his sight during a fire set by his mad wife. Hearing that Mr. Rochester is penniless and disabled, Jane hurries to him and becomes his wife.

英国文学4篇200词故事英文梗概

The House of 1000 Mirrors

千镜之屋

Long ago in a small, faraway village, there was a place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit. When he arrived, he hounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail wagging as fast as it could. To his great surprise, he found himself staring at 1000 other happy little dogs with their tails wagging just as fast as his. He smiled a great smile, and was answered with 1000 great smiles just as warm and firendly. As he left the House, he thought to himself, "This is a wonderful place. I will come back and visit it often."

In this same village, another little dog, who was not quite as happy as the first one, decided to visit the house. He slowly climbed the stairs and hung his head low as he looked into the door. When he saw the 1000 unfriendly looking dogs staring back at him, he growled at them and was horrified to see 1000 little dogs growling back at him. As he left, he thought to himself, "That is a horrible place, and I will never go back there again."

All the faces in the world are mirrors. What kind of reflections do you see in the faces of the people you meet? That man knows the future（知道未来的人）

Nasreddin was cutting a branch of a tree in his garden. While he was sawing, another man passed in the street. He stopped and said, "Excuse me, but if you continue to saw that branch like that, you will fall down with it." He said this because Nasreddin was sitting on the branch and cutting it at a place between himself and the trunk of the tree. Nasreddin said nothing. He thought, "This is some foolish person who has no work to do and goes about telling other people what to do and what not to do."

The man continued on his way.

Of course, after a few minutes, the branch fell and Nasreddin fell with it.

"My God!" he cried. "That man knows the future!" and he ran after him to ask how long he was going to live. But the man had gone.

英国文学4篇200词故事英文梗概

One sunny day a rabbit came out of her hole in the ground to enjoy the fine weather. The day was so nice that she became careless and a fox snuck up behind her and caught her.

"I am going to eat you for lunch!" said the fox.

"Wait!" replied the rabbit.

"Oh yeah? Why should I wait?"

"Well, I am just finishing my thesis on 'The Superiority of Rabbits over Foxes and Wolves.'"

"Are you crazy? I should eat you right now! Everybody knows that a fox will always win over a rabbit." "Not according to my research. If you like, you can come into my hole and read it for yourself."

"You really are crazy!" But since the fox was curious, he went with the rabbit. The fox never came out.

A few days later the rabbit was again taking a break from writing and sure enough, a wolf came out of the bushes and was ready to set upon her.

"Wait!" yelled the rabbit, "you can't eat me right now."

"And why might that be?"

"I am almost finished writing my thesis on 'The Superiority of Rabbits over Foxes and Wolves.'

" The wolf laughed: "Maybe I shouldn't eat you; you really are sick ... in the head."

"Come and read it for yourself; you can eat me afterward if you disagree with my conclusions."

So the wolf went down into the rabbit's hole and never came out.

The rabbit finished her thesis and was out celebrating in the local lettuce patch. Another rabbit came along and asked, "What's up? You seem very happy."

"Yup, I just finished my thesis."

"Congratulations. What's it about?"

"'The Superiority of Rabbits over Foxes and Wolves.'"

"Are you sure? That doesn't sound right."

"Oh yes. Come and read it for yourself."

So together they went down into the rabbit's hole. As they entered, the friend saw the typical graduate abode, albeit a rather messy one after writing a thesis. And to the right there was a pile of fox bones, on the left a pile of wolf bones. And in the middle was a large, well-fed lion, who was the rabbit's advisor.

The moral of the story is: the title of your thesis doesn't matter; all that matters is who your advisor is.

英国文学4篇200词故事英文梗概

改编版中文译著：

在一个充满阳光的午后，一只兔子从她的洞里出来享受大好天气。

天气好得让她失去警觉，一只狐狸尾随其后，抓住了她。

“我要把你当午餐吃掉！”狐狸说。

“慢着！”兔子答道。“你应该至少等个几天。”

“喔？是吗？为什么我要等？”

“嗯，我正在完成我的博士论文。”

“哈，那是个很蠢的理由。你的论文题目是什么？”

“我正在写《兔子比狐狸的优越性》。”

“你疯了吗？我应该现在就把你吃了！大家都知道狐狸总是比免子强的。”

“根据我的研究，并不尽然。如果你想的话，你可以来我洞里，自己读它。如果你不能被说服，你可以把我当午餐吃了。”

“你真的疯了！”但狐狸很好奇，而且读读论文也不会损失什么，就跟兔子进去了。 狐狸再也没有出来。 几天以后兔子又出来休息。一只狼从树丛中出来并准备吃她。

“慢着！”兔子叫道。“你现在不能吃我。”

“为什么呢？我毛绒绒的开胃菜。”

“我的论文《兔子比狐狸与狼的优越性》几乎要完成了。”

狼笑得太厉害，以致于松开抓住兔子的手。

“也许我不应该吃你。你的脑子真的有病，你可能有某种传染病。”

“你可以自己来读它。如果你不同意我的结论，你可以把我吃掉。”

于是狼跟兔子进洞里去，再也没有出来。

又过了些日子，兔子写累了出窝晒太阳。

这时候一只老虎跑过来抓住了它。这个庞然大物幸灾乐祸地看着兔子说：“我准备先吃了你，然后边日光浴边听你的骨头讲《兔子比狐狸与狼与老虎的优越性》”。

“且慢”，兔子很镇静地说，“显然你具有推理的头脑，而事实上这正是我下一步的构思。通过我对狐狸和狼的研究表明，他们其实不配和兔子做比较。我已经将新论文的理论部分完成了。所以如果可以的话，我对你作一个interview, 以补充实证方面的不足。

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