英美文学100题翻译

1.the work that presented,for the first time in English literature,a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid character from all walks of life is Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

在英国文学里提到的作品里，第一次全面逼真地刻画了中世纪英国社会，创造了一个来自各行各业的生动画面的作品是杰弗里·乔叟的坎特伯雷故事集。

2.Geoffrey Chaucer is regarded as the father of English poetry.

乔叟被视为英文诗歌之父，

3.The verse form of heroic couplet was introduced into English poetry and employed in the poem with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English literature by Geoffrey Chaucer. 在英国文学史上，第一次在英文诗中引入英雄对联诗体，真正方便和体现了诗的魅力，是有乔叟开始的。

4.The Canterbury Tales presents a whole gallery of vivid characters,the team of pilgrims,people from all walks of life,including 31 members altogether.

坎特伯雷故事集呈现的是从各行各业的所有人的生动的人物形象，比如朝圣者的队伍，其中一共包括31名成员。

5.Generally,Renaissance refers to the intellectual movement during the period between 14th and mid-17th centuries,its essence was humanism.

一般来说，文艺复兴时期指的是从14世纪到17世纪的智力运动，它的本质是人文精神。

6.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama.

英国文艺复兴时期是诗歌和戏剧的时代。

7.William Shakespeare's writing is widely regarded as one of the three main sources of the English literature,while the other two are Greek and Roman myths and the Bible.

威廉·莎士比亚的作品被广泛视为英国文献的三个主要来源之一，其他两个是希腊和罗马的神话和圣经。

8.William Shakespeare leaves a great body of literary work to the world,including 37 plays,154 sonnets and 2 narrative poems.

威廉·莎士比亚留下了伟大的文学作品，包括37部戏剧，154首14行诗和2个叙事诗。9.In reading Shakespeare,you must have come across the line”To be or not to be-that is the question”by Hamlet in Hamlet

在阅读莎士比亚的哈姆雷特这篇文章时,你一定见到过Hamlet所说的“生存还是毁灭,这是个问题”。

10.“So long as men can breathe,or eyes can see./So long lives this ,and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare,Sonnet 18)The word “this”refers to poetry.

“只要人类在呼吸,眼睛看得见/这诗就活着,使你的生命绵延。”(莎士比亚十四行诗第18首)“this”是指诗歌

11.Shakespeare’s four great tragedies include Hamlet,King Lear,Othello,and Macbeth,usually considered as some of the finest works in the English language.

莎士比亚四大悲剧包括《哈姆雷特》、《李尔王》、《奥赛罗》、《麦克白》，通常被认为是英文作品中一些最优秀作品。

12.In Romeo and Juliet,Shakespeare’s humanism is evidently seen in his praise of human love and in his defiance of feudal discord.

在《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中,莎士比亚的人文主义是在对人类的爱的赞美和对封建纷争的无视中体现出来的。

13.A sonnet is a poem of 14 ually in iambic pentameter with rhymes arranged according to

a centain definite patterns.

十四行诗是指有14行的诗歌。通常是五音步抑扬格与韵根据某种明确的方式排列的。14.Francis Bacon’s words,”Some books are to be tasted,others to be swallowed,and some few to be chewed and digested that is,some books are to be read in parts,others to be read,but not curiously,and some few to be read wholly,and with diligence and attention,”describes the importance of reading and difference ways to deal with different books as well.

弗朗西斯·培根说过,“有一些书浅尝即可，有一些可囫囵吞枣,有些书则需要细嚼慢咽,好好消化,一些书是只阅读一部分，另一些可以读，但不要太挑剔。另一些要凭借勤奋和注意力全部阅读。”描述了阅读的重要性和不同的方式来处理不同的书籍。

15.The Glorious Revolution in 1688 meant the supremacy of Parliament ,the beginning of modern England and the triumph of the principle of politically liberty.

1688年的光荣革命意味着议会至上,现代英国的开端和政治自由的原则的胜利。

16.Metaphysical poetry refers to the works of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne,with the general theme of carpe diem.

形而上学的诗歌是指，随着及时行乐的普遍主题，在17世纪受约翰·多恩影响的作家所写的作品。

17、John Donne in his poem ‘The Flea’claim that killing the lover, the flea and thus committing sacrilege constitute ‘three sins’.

约翰·邓恩在其诗作《跳蚤与爱情》中称杀死爱人、跳蚤和任性亵渎神灵乃是三大原罪。

18、Epic is a long verse narrative on a serious subject, told in a formal and elevated style, and centered on a heroic or quasi-divine figure on whose actions depends the fate of a tribe, nation or the human race.

史诗属于一种记述重大历史事件的长篇韵文，格式通常正式、严肃，其中心往往围绕可以决定一个部落、民族甚至全人类命运的英雄，或者说已经几乎被尊崇成了神的人物。

十九、Enlightens believed that freedom, democracy, and reason are the primary values the society. 启蒙主义者认为社会的价值在于自由、平等和博爱。

20、In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a naïve and simple youth into

a mature and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his 28 years of living on an isolated island.

笛福在其著作《鲁滨逊漂流记》中叙述了主人公鲁滨逊从一个天真的和简单的青年变成一个成熟的和坚强的人的故事，他在廿八年的孤岛生涯里创造了无数的奇迹。

21、In Robinson Crusoe, the hero Crusoe teaches a slave named Friday to speak English and believed in God and eat like a civilized man.

在《鲁滨逊漂流记》中，英雄人物鲁滨逊教会了奴隶星期五讲英语、信上帝并像社会人那样吃饮等行为。

22、The revolutionary enthusiasm of the bourgeois revolution and the bitter hatred for the despotic ruler are best shown in the works of John Milton.

约翰·弥尔顿的作品极好的展现了资产阶级的革命热忱和对独裁者满腔的阶级仇恨。

23、Gulliver’s Travel written by Jonathan Swift is one of the most effective and devastating criticism and satires of all aspects of the English and European life of the time.

乔纳森·斯威夫特的著作《格列佛游记》乃是同时代最脍炙人口、最影响深远的批判和讽刺文学之一，其内容深入到了当时英国人和欧洲人生活的方方面面。

24、According to Swift, Gulliver made voyages to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, the Country of the Houyhnhnms, etc.