有声读物

I remembered Uriah Heep's oily smile, and how uncomfortable he always used to make me feel.
我想起尤赖亚·希普那僵硬的笑，他总是让人那么的不舒服。
"What? That creature? He's so unpleasant! You mustpreventyour fatherfromagreeing to it, Agnes! "
“什么？那个怪物？他实在不讨人喜欢！你必须阻止你父亲与他合伙经营，阿格尼斯！”
Agnes smiled miserably. "My poor father has no choice. You know how unhappy he has often been? And of course you've seen him drinking. You see, he loved my mother very much, and when she died, he didn't care so much about his work. That's when he started drinking. Uriah's very clever—he knows all this, and he's been very useful to Father, doing all the work that Father had forgotten or didn't want to do. Father really needs Uriah now, to keep his business going. And Uriah himself pretends to be humble and grateful, butin facthe's in a strong position, and is insisting on becoming a partner. Father is ashamed of himself, but he has to agree. Poor Father! I'd do anything to help him, any thing! "And Agnes sobbed bitterly.
阿格尼斯苦笑了一下，“可怜的父亲没有别的选择，你知道他常常是多么的忧郁？当然你也见过他酗酒。你知道，他非常爱我的母亲，她死后，他便不在那么专心他的工作。也就是那时他开始酗酒。尤赖亚很聪明——他知道这一切，他对父亲帮助很大，帮父亲做所有他忘记做或者不想做的事情。如今，为了能继续维持他的公司，父亲的确已经离不了尤赖亚了。尤赖亚自己则装出一幅卑谦、感恩戴德的样子，而实际上，他占据上风，坚持要做父亲的合伙人。父亲为自己感到羞愧，可也不得不同意。可怜的父亲！我愿意做任何事情来帮助他！任何事！”阿格尼斯伤心痛哭。以前我从未见阿格尼斯哭过。
I had never seen Agnes cry before. It made me so sad that I could only say helplessly, "My dear Agnes！Please don't cry！"However, in a few minutes she was calm again, and I was able to leave her, promising to visit her and her father in Canterbury very soon.
我难过得只能说些无济于事的话，“亲爱的阿格尼斯！求你别哭了！”不过，几分钟后，她又恢复了平静，我也能告辞出来了，我答应她我会很快去坎特伯雷看望她和她的父亲。

妙语佳句

妙语佳句

prevent form
预防，防止
It provent the other end from hearing an echo of themselves
该功能可以防止远端听到他们的回声。

in fact
实际上，其实
In fact, I'm sure that's the only satisfactory way out.
我想，事实上那是唯一令人满意的出路。

名著解析

克拉拉

克拉拉与朵拉也是极为相似的。她们都非常年轻、漂亮，天真幼稚，孩子气很浓，很善良。她们的不同在于：

克拉拉的命运更为悲惨一些，结婚才一年丈夫就去世了，第二任丈夫摩德斯通又是那样一个冷酷、贪婪、残暴的商人，他与克拉拉结婚完全是为了金钱，而天真单纯的克拉拉并没有察觉到，再加上摩德斯通小姐的折磨，她没有了任何自由，连疼爱自己孩子的权力都没有，最后在忧愁、孤单、担惊受怕中凄惨的死去，竟没有与相依为命的儿子见上最后一面。但是，克拉拉并非纯粹是一个玩具娃娃，她有知识有学问，可以自己教大卫，她也能够管家，家庭料理地不错，她还有一个很好的佣人兼朋友──佩葛蒂。