《成为简.奥斯汀》塑造独立女性的经典.

　　《成为简•奥斯汀》用传记方式描述了作家简•奥斯汀的一生：简的母亲竭力为她撮合婚事，对象是上层社会的有钱人。但是简不接受没有爱情的婚姻，认为女人要靠自己的能力去养活自身。于是，她拒绝贵族瓦斯莱先生的求婚，爱上了心灵相通的汤姆•勒弗罗伊。

　　好事多磨，有人从中作梗，导致汤姆家人并不赞成二人婚事，汤姆决定携简私奔。但是这样一来，汤姆的经济来源就会被切断，简亦将面临着世俗的压力和贫困的生活。到底二人在私奔路上会走得多远?会不会有美满的结局?

　　精彩词句学起来：

　　1. You and your kind are a canker on the body social.

　　你和你的同伙是社会的毒瘤。

　　2. I was born rich, certainly, but I remain rich by virtue of exceptional conduct. I have shown restraint.

　　我出身富贵，但是我能一直这样富贵，是因为我的高尚品行。我很克制自己。

　　3. If you aspire to inherit my property, you must prove yourself more worthy.

　　如果你想要继承我的财产，那么你必须证明你的价值。

　　4. His addresses were offered in a manner violent enough to be flattering.

　　他的求爱炽热而近乎谄媚。

　　5. Her taste was rined, her sentiments noble, her person lovely, her figure elegant.

　　她拥有高雅的品味，高尚的情操，可爱的性格还有曼妙的身躯。

　　6. He does, with his preening, prancing, Irish-cum-Bond-Street airs.

　　当然，你看他油头粉面、昂首阔步的样子，还混合着爱尔兰和伦敦邦德街的装腔作势。

　　7. I would regard it as a mark of extreme favour if you would stoop to honour me with this next dance.

　　如果您愿意与我共舞下一支曲子。我会感到无上光荣。

　　精彩对白欣赏：

　　1. - I have been told there is much to see upon a walk, but all I’ve detected so far is a general tendency to green above and brown below.

　　- Yes, well, others have detected more. It is celebrated. There’s even a book about Selborne Wood.

　　- Oh. A novel, perhaps?

　　- Novels? Being poor, insipid things, read by mere women, even, God forbid, written by mere women?

　　- I see, we are talking of your reading.

　　- As if the writing of women did not display the greatest powers of mind, knowledge of human nature, the liveliest fusions of wit and humour and the best-chosen language imaginable?

　　- Was I dicient in rapture?

　　- In consciousness.

　　- It was... It was accomplished.

　　- It was ironic.

　　2. –Her heart is stirred.

　　- It’s a summer squall.

　　- Mr. Lroy will soon be gone. And Mr. Wisley will still be waiting, I hope.

　　- The man’s a booby.

　　- Oh, he will grow out of that. And she could fix him with very little trouble. You could persuade her.

　　- To sacrifice her happiness? Jane should have not the man who offers the best price, but the man she wants.

　　- Oh, Mr. Austen. Must we have this conversation day in and day out? We’ll end up in the gutter if we carry on like this.

　　3. - Lying to tradesmen, mending, scratching, scraping. Endlessly making do!

　　- I understand that our circumstances are difficult, ma’am.

　　- There is no money for you.

　　- Surely something could be done.

　　- What we can put by must go to your brothers. You will have nothing, unless you marry.

　　- Well, then. I will have nothing. For I will not marry without affection, like my mother!

　　- And now I have to dig my own damn potatoes!

　　- Would you rather be a poor old maid? Ridiculous, despised, the butt of jokes? The legitimate sport of any village lout with a stone and an impudent tongue? Affection is desirable. Money is absolutely indispensable.

　　- I could live by my...

　　- Your what?

　　- I could live by my...

　　- Pen? Let’s knock that notion on the head once and for all.