英国人的性格

Percy Bysshe Shelley(珀西· 比希· 雪莱)
Percy Bysshe Shelley ( 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not see fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron（拜伦）; Leigh Hunt（李· 亨特）; Thomas Love Peacock（托马 斯· 洛夫· 皮科克）; and his own second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstadicts author: measure out emotions like potatoes(simile)
②thinks author's whole attitude toward emotion is wrong
Ⅱ. Indian friend's
opinion
③emotions
typical example ( author)
toward resource (prudent middle-class nation)
①tradition: kingly munificence and splendor
Ⅱ.the Oriental (the Indian friend)
material resource: endless ②toward resource spirit resource: endless ①the wealth of the spirit is endless
• For generally speaking, after Chinese people have money they always do two things: buy house, have a family. While in Western they pay money to the country and humanity. Chinese people like to save money, but Europeans and Americans is in contrary, they think that money spent only when useful or just a goodlooking sheets of paper. No longer of this world really belongs to someone, even if you paid for bought, but also temporary use only.
Ⅲ.Shelley's opinion
② express emotion copiously, passionately, always ③never feel sorrow or joy too acutely
《财经时报》
从国民性来看，英国人和中国人多少有些相似：冷静、克制，不失理智。英国人 曾一度自称“一个伟大的商业民族”，而中国人的“实用理性”同样全球闻名。即 便是两国人民的幽默感，也在有节制的嘲讽和乐观方面有着异曲同工之妙。 英国人感觉迟缓的特征是很多人都知道的事，即便是英国人自己也承认这一点。 对于这一点，我在最近的一次去新加坡的旅行中有了更深的感触。 这次去新加坡是和一个英国人、一个印度人同行。因为都是IT同行，此前又在国 内共同合作了一个项目，所以大家相处十分愉快。一个星期过去了，很快就要分手 了，大家都要回到各自的国家，而此时各人的表现却大相径庭。 作为中国人，我自然是中国传统的“相见时难别亦难”式的感伤，英国人的表 现则要克制得多，虽然也感伤，但因为有着对未来相聚的期待而显得乐观，反应最 强烈的要算是那个印度人了。
Works
Shelley is perhaps best known for such classic poems as The Irishman ‘s song(爱尔兰人之歌,1809) , War（战争，1810）,Ode to the West Wind （西风颂，1819), To a Skylark(致云雀，1820）, The Sensitive Plant(含羞 草1820), Lines（一盏破碎的明灯，1822） . His other major works include a groundbreaking verse drama(开创性的诗剧）The Cenci (倩契1819) and long, visionary poems such as Queen Mab(麦布女王） (later reworked as The Daemon of the World), The Revolt of Islam(伊斯兰的反叛), Adonaï s(阿 童尼), Prometheus Unbound (解放了的普罗米修斯)(1820)—widely considered to be his masterpiece—Hellas(希腊): A Lyrical Drama (1821), and his final, unfinished work, The Triumph of Life (生之凯旋)(1822).
Epipsychidion(心之灵) - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820)
True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light, Imagination! which from earth and sky, And from the depths of human phantasy, As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills The Universe with glorious beams, and kills Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow Of its reverberated lightning. Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity.
①scolds Indian friend：it's wrong to display so much upon
Ⅰ. author's opinion
so light an occasion (inappropriate). simile admits to measure emotion like potatoes ② better than slope them about like water from a pail
中国人有钱后一般做两件事： 购房置业、养娶女人。而西 方有钱后是为国家或全人类 花钱。中国人喜欢存钱，欧 美人恰相反，他们认为钱只 有在花时才有用，否则只是 张好看的纸。再之这个世上 没什么真正属于某人，即使 你付了款买下了，也不过暂 时使用而已 .
中国具体金钱观
People's value about money is very carefully, when Conduct financial transactions, the Chinese count clearly on face to face. Chinese investment, regardless of how much was sure, will not spot closed. Chinese people also hate debt. When Chinese people borrow money, usually do not need guarantee, because the Chinese have good reputation. Like to save money has become a part of Chinese life, when they have money, the Chinese people will be save .
appropriateness(×) sincere(√)
part forever
Para 7
Ⅰ.Hesperian about the remark
①could not agree with & valued emotion equally & used it differently ②be afraid of having none left for the great ones (bankrupt , the crises of life) ①John Bull feels his are finite ②material resources: the Oriental is unwise; money is not endless ③spirit resource: the Oriental is right; the emotion is endless
Lesson Ten
Notes on the English Character
Para ：6--7
Para：6-7 Main idea：an anecdote to illustrate his point
Para 6
The conclusion of the anecdote : instructive
Epipsychidion is a love lyric of 604 lines,
written for Emilia Viviani (艾米利亚维维安 尼), whom Percy Bysshe Shelley met while she was “imprisoned” by her family in a convent near Pisa, Italy, in 1820. The title is Greek for “concerning a little soul.” Epipsychidion opens with an invocation to Emilia as a spiritual sister of the speaker. He addresses her as a “captive bird,” for whose nest his poem will be soft rose petals. He calls her an angel of light, the light of the moon seen through mortal clouds, a star beyond all storms, and a mirror like the...