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Selection of Selection of Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged,that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood,this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families,that he is considered as the rightful（合理的）property of some one or other of their daughters.My dear Mr.Bennet,said his lady to him one day,have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?Mr.Bennet replied that he had not.But it is,returned she;for Mrs.Long has just been here,and she told me all about it.Mr.Bennet made no answer.Do not you want to know who has taken it?cried his wife impatiently.You want to tell me,and I have no objection to hearing it.This was invitation enough.What is his name?Bingley.Is he married or single?Oh!single,my dear,to be sure!A single man of large fortune;four or five thousand a year.What a fine thing for our girls!How so?how can it affect them?My dear Mr.Bennet,replied his wife,how can you be so tiresome!You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.Is that his design in settling here?Design!nonsense,how can you talk so!But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them,and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.I see no occasion for that.You and the girls may go,or you may send them by themselves,which perhaps will be still better;for,as you are as handsome as any of them,Mr.Bingley might like you the best of the party.My dear,you flatter me.I certainly have had my share of beauty,but I do not pretend to be any thing extraordinary now.When a woman has five grown up daughters,she ought to give over(放弃)thinking of her own beauty.In such cases,a woman has not often much beauty to think of.But,my dear,you must indeed go and see Mr.Bingley when he comes into the neighbourhood.It is more than I engage for,I assure you.But consider your daughters.Only think what an establishment（攀高枝，稳当）it would be for one of them.Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined to go,merely on that account,for in general,you know they visit no new comers.Indeed you must go,for it will be impossible for us to visit him,if you do not.You are over-scrupulous（彻底的）,surely.I dare say Mr.Bingley will be very glad to see you;and I will send a few lines by you to assure him of my hearty consent（同意）to his marrying which ever he chuses（古体词，选定）of the girls;though I must throw in a good word for my little Lizzy.I desire you will do no such thing.Lizzy is not a bit better than the others;and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane,nor half so good humoured as Lydia.But you are always giving her the preference.They have none of them much to recommend them,replied he;they are all silly and ignorant like other girls;but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.Mr.Bennet,how can you abuse（挖苦）your own children in such way?You take delight in vexing（惹恼）me.You have no compassion on my poor nerves.You mistake me,my dear.I have a high respect for your nerves.They are my old friends.I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.Ah!you do not know what I suffer.But I hope you will get over it,and live to see many young men of four thousand a year come into the neighbourhood.It will be no use to us if twenty such should come,since you will not visit them.Depend upon it（放心吧）,my dear,that when there are twenty I will visit them all.Mr.Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts（台词）,sarcastic（讥讽）humour,reserve,and caprice（反复无常）,that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.Her mind was less difficult to develope.She was a woman of mean understanding,little information,and uncertain temper.When she was discontented,she fancied herself nervous.The business of her life was to get her daughters married;its solace（安慰）was visiting and news.第一章概述“有一条举世公认的真理，一个有钱的单身有一条举世公认的真理，一个有钱的单身汉，一定是要娶个老婆的。汉，一定是要娶个老婆的。”这句名言的开这句名言的开头，引发了无数世人的思考。围绕这个话题，头，引发了无数世人的思考。围绕这个话题，班内特夫妇俩展开了令人滑稽的讨论，短短班内特夫妇俩展开了令人滑稽的讨论，短短一个章节，作者淋漓尽致地表现了两人性格一个章节，作者淋漓尽致地表现了两人性格上的差异和英国式幽默，令人捧腹。上的差异和英国式幽默，令人捧腹。From Chapter 34:Lizas sharp tougueAnd of your infliction（你一手造成）,cried Elizabeth with energy.You have reduced him to his present state of poverty,comparative poverty.You have withheld（拥有）the advantages,which you must know to have been designed for him.You have deprived the best years of his life,of that independence which was no less his due than his desert（剥夺）.You have done all this!and yet you can treat the mention of his misfortunes with contempt and ridicule.Darcy possesses a natural importance that is swelled by his arrogance,but which coexist with a genuine honesty and lack of artificial appearance as follows:“and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified（无条件的）,unalloyed（不掺假的）inclination-by reason,by reflection,by every thing.But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence（痛恨）.Nor am I ashamed of the feelings I related.They were natural and just.Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?To congratulate myself on the hope of relations,whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?Lizas sharp tounge(What a girl!):From the very beginning,from the first moment I may almost say,of my acquaintance with you,your manners,impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance,your conceit,and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others,were such as to form that ground-work of disapprobation（反对）,on which succeeding events have built so immoveable a dislike;and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.第三十四章概述这章描写了达西如何向伊丽莎白求婚的尴尬场面。因为伊丽莎白误解未消除，达西的求婚未果。Chapter 58Why Darcy is arrogant?I have been a selfish being all my life,in practice,though not in principle.As a child I was taught what was right,but I was not taught to correct my temper.I was given good principles,but left to follow them in pride and conceit.Unfortunately an only son(for many years an only child),I was spoilt by my parents,who,though good themselves(my father,particularly,all that was benevolent and amiable),allowed,encouraged,almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing（压过别人的，傲人的）;to care for none beyond my own family circle;to think meanly of（鄙薄）all the rest of the world;to wish at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with my own.Such I was,from eight to eight and twenty;and such I might still have been but for you,dearest,loveliest Elizabeth!What do I not owe（幸亏）you!You taught me a lesson,hard indeed at first,but most advantageous.By you,I was properly humbled.I came to you without a doubt of my reception（接受）.You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions（自命不凡）to please a woman worthy of being pleased.第五十八章概述这一章节选取的达西承认自己从小接受的被父母宠爱的教育里，缺乏性格脾气的修养。而伊丽莎白恰好给他补了这一课。两人误解消除。Questions:1.How do you understand the first sentence of chapter 1?Can you interpret Jane Austins humor?2.What kind of pride Darcy have?And Elizabeths prejudice?3.Why Darcy has arrogance in his character?
