Classical sentences
As conceited man is like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
一位自高自大的人，就像是一只公鸡，它以为太 阳上升，是为了聆听它的啼声。
I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. The realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
我不但喜欢被人爱，还喜欢有人告诉爱上了我； 沉默的领域，大得足以超出了坟墓。
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they're gone.
The Mill on the Floss
——George Eliห้องสมุดไป่ตู้t
Mary Ann Evans
Born: 22 November 1819 Died: 22 December 1880 (aged 61) Pen name: George Eliot Occupation: Novelist Period: Victorian Works: Adam Bede 《亚当· 比德》 The Mill on the Floss 《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》 Silas Marne 《织工马南传》 Daniel Deronda 《丹尼尔· 德龙达》 Romola 《罗慕拉》 The Lifted Veil 《撩起的面纱》
生命长河中的黄金时刻转瞬即逝，我们除了沙子 什么也没有看到。天使们曾来看望我们，而他们 离去之后我们才知晓。
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories.
Maggie Philip Tom
Brief introduction
Maggie is the central character of the book. The story begins when she is 9 years old. Her relationship with her older brother Tom, and her romantic relationships with Philip, a hunchbacked, sensitive, and intellectual friend, and with Stephen, fiancéof Maggie's cousin Lucy. As Maggie approaches adulthood, her spirited temperament brings her into conflict with her family, her community, and her much-loved brother Tom. Still more painfully, she finds her own nature divided between the claims of moral responsibility and her passionate hunger for self-fulfillment. Maggie and Tom all drowned in the Floss.
The Mill on the Floss
Major characters Maggie Tulliver- young female protagonist Tom Tulliver- Maggie’s brother Mrs Bessy Tulliver- Maggie and Tom’ mother Mr Tulliver- Maggie and Tom’s father, owner of the Mill Philip Waken- hunchbacked classmate of Tom, and friend/suitor to Maggie Stephen Guest- suitor to Maggie
乔治·艾略特乔治·艾略特原名玛丽·安·伊万斯，出生在华威郡一个中产 阶级商人家庭（父亲曾是木匠，后暴发成为房地产商人）。三十几岁时，她因 翻译工作而开始文学生涯，她认识了一生的挚爱路易士，路易士已有妻室，但 艾略特依旧不顾外在压力，与其同居；两人随后迁居德国；回国后，虽不见容 于当时社会，但两人仍恩爱幸福，在工作与生活中，相互扶持。 由于曾在两所宗教气息浓厚的学校就读，艾略特受宗教影响颇深；平日最喜 研究语言，拉丁文、法文、德文、意大利文、希伯来文、希腊文皆能通晓。她 一生笃信宗教，却依然极富怀疑精神，1841年，随父迁居考文垂，结识自由思 想家查尔斯·布雷，受其著作影响，艾略特遂放弃基督教，强烈质疑宗教。因 之，在其著作中，偶见其对宗教的理性批判。因为爱人路易士的鼓励，艾略特 年近四十岁才开始写作，发表文章于杂志上；1859年，才真正发表她的第一部 长篇小说《亚当·比德》，这部小说一年内再版了八次，广受欢迎；1859年后 发表《织工马南传》与《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》，奠定了在英国文坛的地位。 艾略特虽相貌平凡，但情感路上却仍有深刻真挚之真情相伴。爱人路易士对 其影响甚钜，二人挚爱弥坚，1878年，路易士去世，艾略特痛不欲生，但仍发 奋完成爱人之遗作；两年后，艾略特更下嫁小她二十岁的约翰·克劳斯（John Cross），二人情深意浓，但艾略特却在同年十二月便病故了，结束了她平凡却 又丰富的一生。
还有什么比两个灵魂相依相偎更伟大？他们在辛劳 中彼此鼓舞，在悲伤中互相依靠，在痛苦中相互搀 扶，在沉默不语、无可言表的记忆中融为一体。
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