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初中英语阅读名著之三姐自刎

线话英语|2015-05-11 15:51:25

     三姐自刎在红楼梦中是则凄美的故事,阅读起来会感觉生命的无奈。初中英语阅读就让我们感受一番这份生命捉弄下的女子的故事吧。

     初中阅读开始重视对于中国古典的阅读,尤其是中国四大名著。课外读本都会插入一定篇幅的名著阅读,用来培养大家的兴趣,以及感受中国文化底蕴。那么,在英文中我们是很难做到大面积的阅读名著,这里,提供一份初中英语阅读的小短文供大家阅读。

  This is a story from A Dream of Red Mansions. Third Sister You, a very pretty and strong character, was the sister of jia Zhen's wife. When Jia Zhen, a play boy by nature, was tired of his wife, his eyes fell on the beautiful Third Sister. Collaborasted with his cousin Jia Lian they tried to seduce the girl, only to be met with a harsh telling-off. The two playboys, scared by this virtuous but unyielding girl, tried to marry her off as soon as possible. When the Third Sister fell in love with LiuXianglian, an actor who had once played opera in the residence, her sister, Jia Zhen's wife, told her that the young man had left town. But the Third Sister was determined."I'll wait for him, one year or ten, it doesn's matter," she said."And if he dies I'll shave my hair and become a mun." On a business trip in the capital, Jia Lian chanced to meet Liu. Jia told Liu of the Third Sister's wish. Liu aired his willingness on the spot. He asken Jia to give his mandarin duck sword to the girl as a token of his betrothal. Feeling assured of her marriage and future, every day the girl looked several times affectionately at the sword she had hung by her bed. A few months later, Liu returned. When he saw the girl's beautiful looks, he grew suspicious of her virtue."The men in the Jia family are all promiscuous," he thought."Why would this girl fall in love with me when she and I have never met?" He stepped back on the betrothal on a pretext that his aunt had betrothed him to sombody else and he came to retrieve his sword. Third sister knew what was on his mind. Heart bleeding, she took the sword from the wall, unsheathed it and committed suicide before Liu, an act to show her virtue and unyieldingness. The regretful young man cried bitterly over her corpse. He spent the rest of his life as a priest in a Taoist temple.

            初中英语阅读名著之三姐自刎

   《红楼梦》中的故事。尤三姐是贾珍之妻尤氏的妹妹,她花容月貌,性格刚烈。贾珍玩腻了尤二姐,就串通贾琏打尤三姐的主意,却被尤三姐狠狠地责骂一番。从此二人很所尤三姐,二心想快点把她嫁出去。尤三姐看中了曾来贾府唱过戏的柳湘莲,姐姐告诉她湘莲当初不在京城。尤三姐说:“他一年不回我等一年,十年不归我等十年,人去世了,我情愿剃头当尼姑去。”贾琏离京办事,遇上柳湘莲,说了尤三姐的事,湘莲应允,并取“鸳鸯剑”作聘礼,转交给尤三姐。三姐觉得终生有靠,将剑挂在床头,每天看几次。数月后,湘莲回京,获悉尤三姐是天下无双的美人,他认为宁府的人品行不端,三姐跟我素不相识,为何钟情于我,对尤三姐产生了猜疑,便遁辞姑妈已给定婚,想要回宝剑。尤三姐猜想湘莲一定是把自己当成下流女子了,心如刀绞,于是,摘下宝剑,当着湘莲的面自刎以表清白。湘莲后悔,抚尸大哭离去,后出家当道士去了。

       三姐真乃一性情女子,怪到性格太过棱角分明。阅读不单单是了解故事,我们初中生还可以慢慢的去细想故事后面的原因,乃至你喜欢这个人物的原因等等的方面。这才是看故事的能力。初中英语阅读素材的提供同样如此,愿大家学习愉快。

 

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