远大前程英文简介

1、英文

The Great Expectations is also translated into Lone Star Blood and Tears, which is a novel written by Charles Dickens in his later years.

The novel was completed between 1860 and 1861. It was serialized in the author's weekly Four Seasons a Year from December 1860 to August 1861.

The story is set from the eve of Christmas in 1812 to the winter of 1840. The protagonist, Pip, narrates three stages of his life from the age of seven in an autobiographical way.

This novel carries out Dickenson's Taoist style and expresses his views on life and human nature through the ups and downs of orphans in the play.

It has been adapted into movies, TV plays and stage plays for many times in the past century.

2、翻译

《远大前程》又译《孤星血泪》，是英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯晚年写成的长篇小说。成书于1860年至1861年之间，该小说自1860年12月到1861年8月连载于作者制作的周刊《一年四季》。

故事背景为1812年耶诞节前夕至1840年冬天，主角孤儿皮普（Pip）以自传式手法，叙述从7岁开始的三个人生阶段。

此小说贯彻了狄更斯文以载道的风格，透过剧中孤儿的跌宕起落，表达他对生命和人性的看法。该作百年来被多次改编成电影、电视剧及舞台剧。

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1、英文

The development of novel stories can be roughly divided into three parts. The first part describes Pip's simple childhood in the countryside. By chance he met a fugitive. And stole things from home to help him.

Soon after, Pip was invited to play in Miss Harvey Sham's Suttis compound, and his heart changed. He fell in love with the beautiful but indifferent Estra and began to feel ashamed of his birth and relatives.

One day, Pip was sponsored by an anonymous person. He was ecstatic when he was sent to London for the education of the superiors.

The second part of the story mainly describes Pip's education experience in London. Influenced by the snobbery of the upper class, Pip lived a luxurious and degenerate life, and his moral character became low.

He had always thought that Miss Harvey Sharm had anonymously sponsored him to receive a noble education. However, the emergence of a true benefactor forced him to face the reality again.

The last part of the novel recounts Pip's experience of protecting Magwich, an exiled prisoner who fled home.

2、翻译

小说故事的发展大致可分成三个部分。第一部分记述了皮普在乡间的质朴的童年生活。一次偶然的机会他遇见了一名逃犯。并偷了家里的东西帮助他。

不久，皮普受邀到哈维沙姆小姐的萨蒂斯大院玩耍，从此内心发生变化。他爱上了美丽却冷漠的埃斯特拉，开始为自己的出身及亲人感到害臊。

一天，皮普突然受到一位不愿透露姓名的人士资助。被送到伦敦接受上等人的教育，他为此欣喜若狂。

故事的第二部分主要描写了皮普在伦敦接受教育的经历。由于受到上层社会势利习气的传染，皮普过着奢靡堕落的生活，道德品质也变得低下。

他一直以为是哈维沙姆小姐匿名资助他接受高尚教育，然而，真正“恩人”的出现使他不得不重新面对现实。

内容如下：

The development of the novel story can be roughly divided into three parts. The first part describes Pip's simple childhood in the countryside.

He met a fugitive by chance.

And stole something from home to help him. Soon, Pip was invited to play in Miss Haweishamu's Sadisi.

And his heart changed. He fell in love with the beautiful but indifferent Estella and began to feel ashamed of his own origin and loved ones.

One day, Pip was suddenly funded by a person who did not want to be named. He was overjoyed to be sent to London to receive a superior education.

译文如下：

小说故事的发展大致可分成三个部分。第一部分记述了皮普在乡间的质朴的童年生活。一次偶然的机会他遇见了一名逃犯。

并偷了家里的东西帮助他。不久，皮普受邀到哈维沙姆小姐的萨蒂斯大院玩耍，从此内心发生变化。他爱上了美丽却冷漠的埃斯特拉，开始为自己的出身及亲人感到害臊。

一天，皮普突然受到一位不愿透露姓名的人士资助。被送到伦敦接受上等人的教育，他为此欣喜若狂。

《远大前程》又译《孤星血泪》，是英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯晚年写成的长篇小说。成书于1860年至1861年之间，该小说自1860年12月到1861年8月连载于作者制作的周刊《一年四季》。

创作背景

《远大前程》一书属于查尔斯·狄更斯的晚期作品，它写于狄更斯生活中出现危机之后。他刚与妻子凯瑟琳分手，这给他带来了巨大的痛苦。同时，他开始了与年轻的演员爱伦·特南的婚外爱情，这一段感情给他带来的痛苦多于幸福。

这一时期，由于对社会黑暗认识的进一步加深，加上年龄的增长，个人婚姻爱情生活方面的不幸，作者思想中抑郁的一面有所增强，反映在创作中，乐观的基调大大削弱。作为对社会弊端的反映和对人情世态的写照，狄更斯的叙事艺术显示出微妙的变化，狄更斯的创作处于自我疑虑增长的时期。

父母双亡的小朋友皮普（Pip），从小由一个母老虎姐姐抚养，他和憨厚的铁匠姐夫乔经常受到姐姐的殴打，有一天，皮普在父母的坟墓前遇到一个逃犯，那逃犯吓唬他威胁他，让皮普为他弄来矬子（用来弄开枷锁），恐惧的皮普照做了，皮普内心的善良又为逃犯带了块馅饼。但不久，逃犯就在和另一个逃犯搏斗的过程中被警察逮捕了。不久，富有的郝维辛小姐派人为她寻觅一个男孩，以伴老服务的名义，来实施她恶毒的爱情游戏的计划，皮普被选中了，每天忍受喜怒无常的骄傲的艾斯黛拉的羞辱和郝维辛小姐的嘲笑。为了维护被郝维辛小姐和艾斯黛拉伤害的自尊心，皮普暗地里决心学习识文断字，并希望有好的前途，并且希望最后能娶骄傲的埃·斯黛拉，他不但找了个叫毕蒂的女人，还找了村里的老修女。但他知道这样下去是无法超越艾斯黛拉的，于是只好作了铁匠，然而突然有一天，郝维辛小姐的御用律师前来，说有个神秘人要把财产全部留给皮普，并带他去伦敦接受礼仪交际的教育，皮普很高兴自己终于能有好的前途了。 单纯无知的皮普慢慢习惯了伦敦的生活，和小时候打架的赫伯斯成了朋友和室友，从律师那里拿钱挥霍，结识了律师手下的一个官员，在一个郝维辛小姐的亲戚家接受教育，并加入了一个愚蠢的俱乐部，并且坚持每星期去看望他喜爱的艾斯黛拉，并沉湎于她的美色和谎言，并妒嫉一个和埃·斯黛拉来往密切的猥琐龌龊的富有的乡绅士，从而开始了他的交际活动。期间他还听说了一件故事：20多年前，郝维辛小姐在结婚典礼上，被弟弟亚瑟和未婚夫康生合谋骗了一大笔钱，然后整天萎靡不振，停留在过去的回忆里。皮普质疑地问为什么那未婚夫不直接和郝维辛小姐结婚而得到一切财产，却愚蠢地选择和弟弟合作只得到一半财产，赫伯斯解释说那可能是因为那未婚夫已经结婚了，而弟弟亚瑟和康生的老婆联盟，两人一起要挟他，而康生知道自己没有雇佣打手，来不及杀人灭口，如果康生选择和郝维辛小姐结婚，他们就把这事捅出去，康生就会失去郝维辛小姐的信任和财产，一无所有。所以康生只好屈服。不久那位神秘的监护人现身了，他就是当年那个被帮助的逃犯，他讲了故事的另一个角度：他是康生和亚瑟计谋得逞后收下的另一个同谋，在康生的指示下，他和康生的妻子合谋杀害了亚瑟谋夺了他的财产，并用这笔钱作为资金进行一些非法的贸易活动，不久，他们被逮捕了，康生把所有的罪推给逃犯，两人一起进入监狱。而逃犯的妻子刚生下了他们的女儿艾斯黛拉，逃犯的妻子因为一起杀人罪被起诉，郝维辛小姐的律师帮助她摆脱了牢狱之灾，并把她的女儿艾斯黛拉献给郝维辛小姐，然后用杀人罪和女儿的前途作威胁，因为杀人犯的女儿理应也被关进监狱，结果律师成功地让那逃犯的妻子老老实实地为他做了20几年的奴隶。 为了摆脱郝维辛小姐的控制获得自由解放，艾斯黛拉决定和那个乡绅结婚，郝维辛小姐懊悔不已，得到皮普的宽恕后欲放火自焚。皮普为了解救她，双手受伤。郝维辛小姐死前将遗产留给了艾斯黛拉和正直的亲戚马修。皮普知道一旦逃犯被抓，他从逃犯那里继承的财产也将被充公，因为他不会洗钱，又不懂法律，所以只好为了帮助被妒嫉的乡绅告发的逃犯，愚蠢地决定带着朋友赫伯斯冒险帮助他逃到外国，3人连同船夫出发，在公海上航行，在快要离开国境的时候，小船被接到乡绅线报的边防警察扣留，赫伯斯和船夫顺利逃走，而皮普和逃犯一起被抓回监狱。出狱后皮普再次变成一无所有的穷光蛋，只好在外国打工，最后成为一个普通人回到家乡。结果再次遭到妒嫉的乡绅的伏击，最后，被他朋友赫伯斯救了。最后，他又在那间荒废的别墅里和已经40几岁失去一切财产的心灰意冷的艾斯黛拉重逢。

The story is divided into three phases of Pip's life expectations. The first "expectation" is allotted 19 chapters, and the other two 20 chapters each in the 59-chapter work. In some editions, the chapter numbering reverts to Chapter One in each expectation, but the original publication and most modern editions number the chapters consecutively from one to 59. At the end of chapters 19 and 39, readers are formally notified that they have reached the conclusion of a phase of Pip's expectations. In the first expectation, Pip lives a humble existence with his ill-tempered older sister and her strong but gentle husband, Joe Gargery. Pip is satisfied with this life and his warm friends until he is hired by an embittered wealthy woman, Miss Havisham, as an occasional companion to her and her beautiful but haughty adopted daughter, Estella. From that time on, Pip aspires to leave behind his simple life and be a gentleman. After years as companion to Miss Havisham and Estella, he spends more years as an apprentice to Joe, so that he may grow up to have a livelihood working as a blacksmith. This life is suddenly turned upside down when he is visited by a London attorney, Mr. Jaggers, who informs Pip that he is to come into the "Great Expectation" of a handsome property and be trained to be a gentleman at the behest of an anonymous benefactor. The second stage of Pip's expectations has Pip in London, learning the details of being a gentlemen, having tutors, fine clothing, and joining cultured society. Whereas he always engaged in honest labour when he was younger, he now is supported by a generous allowance, which he frequently lives beyond. He learns to fit in this new milieu, and experiences not only friendship but rivalry as he finds himself in the same circles as Estella, who is also pursued by many other men, especially Bentley Drummle, whom she favours. As he adopts the physical and cultural norms of his new status, he also adopts the class attitudes that go with it, and when Joe comes to visit Pip and his friend and roommate Herbert to deliver an important message, Pip is embarrassed to the point of hostility by Joe's unlearned ways, despite his protestations of love and friendship for Joe. At the end of this stage, Pip is introduced to his benefactor, again changing his world. The third and last stage of Pip's expectations alters Pip's life from the artificially supported world of his upper class strivings and introduces him to realities that he realizes he must deal with, facing moral, physical and financial challenges. He learns startling truths that cast into doubt the values that he once embraced so eagerly, and finds that he cannot regain many of the important things that he had cast aside so carelessly. The current ending of the story is different from Dickens's original intent, in which the ending matched the gloomy reverses to Pip's fortunes that typify the last expectation. Dickens was prevailed upon to change the ending to one more acceptable to his readers' tastes in that era, and this "new" ending was the published one and currently accepted as definitive. Dickens has Pip as the writer and first person narrator of this account of his life's experiences, and the entire story is understood to have been written as a retrospective, rather than as a present tense narrative or a diary or journal. Still, though Pip "knows" how all the events in the story will turn out, he uses only very subtle foreshadowing so that we learn of events only when the Pip in the story does. Pip does, however, use the perspective of the bitter lessons he's learned to comment acidly on various actions and attitudes in his earlier life.参考资料：

The story is divided into three phases of Pip's life expectations. The first "expectation" is allotted 19 chapters, and the other two 20 chapters each in the 59-chapter work. In some editions, the chapter numbering reverts to Chapter One in each expectation, but the original publication and most modern editions number the chapters consecutively from one to 59. At the end of chapters 19 and 39, readers are formally notified that they have reached the conclusion of a phase of Pip's expectations.In the first expectation, Pip lives a humble existence with his ill-tempered older sister and her strong but gentle husband, Joe Gargery. Pip is satisfied with this life and his warm friends until he is hired by an embittered wealthy woman, Miss Havisham, as an occasional companion to her and her beautiful but haughty adopted daughter, Estella. From that time on, Pip aspires to leave behind his simple life and be a gentleman. After years as companion to Miss Havisham and Estella, he spends more years as an apprentice to Joe, so that he may grow up to have a livelihood working as a blacksmith. This life is suddenly turned upside down when he is visited by a London attorney, Mr. Jaggers, who informs Pip that he is to come into the "Great Expectation" of a handsome property and be trained to be a gentleman at the behest of an anonymous benefactor.The second stage of Pip's expectations has Pip in London, learning the details of being a gentlemen, having tutors, fine clothing, and joining cultured society. Whereas he always engaged in honest labour when he was younger, he now is supported by a generous allowance, which he frequently lives beyond. He learns to fit in this new milieu, and experiences not only friendship but rivalry as he finds himself in the same circles as Estella, who is also pursued by many other men, especially Bentley Drummle, whom she favours. As he adopts the physical and cultural norms of his new status, he also adopts the class attitudes that go with it, and when Joe comes to visit Pip and his friend and roommate Herbert to deliver an important message, Pip is embarrassed to the point of hostility by Joe's unlearned ways, despite his protestations of love and friendship for Joe. At the end of this stage, Pip is introduced to his benefactor, again changing his world.The third and last stage of Pip's expectations alters Pip's life from the artificially supported world of his upper class strivings and introduces him to realities that he realizes he must deal with, facing moral, physical and financial challenges. He learns startling truths that cast into doubt the values that he once embraced so eagerly, and finds that he cannot regain many of the important things that he had cast aside so carelessly. The current ending of the story is different from Dickens's original intent, in which the ending matched the gloomy reverses to Pip's fortunes that typify the last expectation. Dickens was prevailed upon to change the ending to one more acceptable to his readers' tastes in that era, and this "new" ending was the published one and currently accepted as definitive.Dickens has Pip as the writer and first person narrator of this account of his life's experiences, and the entire story is understood to have been written as a retrospective, rather than as a present tense narrative or a diary or journal. Still, though Pip "knows" how all the events in the story will turn out, he uses only very subtle foreshadowing so that we learn of events only when the Pip in the story does. Pip does, however, use the perspective of the bitter lessons he's learned to comment acidly on various actions and attitudes in his earlier life.