大众英语品级测验三级(PETS3)学习条记第10部分
Unit 10 Hobbies and Interests
Dialogues /monologues:
1、The remarkable Chicago bull presented a striking contrast to its opponent, and the crowd just went wild!
presented a striking contrast to：和……成清楚的对比。
本句的意思：那只特殊的西班牙公牛与它的对手组成鲜明的对比，人群已开始跋扈獗起来。
2、I can book a court for this Tuesday.
Book：预订
我能在这个礼拜二安排好一个场子。
3、 Sports can really get me away from a stressful day and exercise my brain.
get away from：从……中逃离，把……送走。
Passage:
I love reading novels, especially those classics. My favorite writer is Jane Austen, the one who wrote pride and prejudice. When BBC screened its latest adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel pride and prejudice, it was watched by a record 18 million British viewers. The series was then sold to 18 countries round the world, from America to Australia, from Iceland to Israel, there are Jane Austen fans in all corners of the globe, and even special Jane Austen discussion groups on the internet.Jane Austen never once traveled aboard in her life time and she hardly ever left the south of England. When she died a spinster in 1817, only four of her six novels had been published, all anonymous and she eared a grand total of 648.65 pounds from her books. Now, nearly 200 years later, sales of her novels rival modern bestsellers, reaching 35,000 a week. There have been film and television productions of not only pride and prejudice, but also Emma, Persuasion, and the Oscar-winning Sense and Sensibility. Her house in Chawton in Hampshire is visited by 200 people a day.She wad born in 1775, the seventh of eight children. Her father was the reverend George Austen. They were not well off, and lived in a village. By the time when she was 12, Jane was writing stories about ITs imprisoned in haunted castles, being rescued by glamorous heroes. In Jane’s own life there were three romantic attachments. The first was a handsome Irish law student called Tom Lefroy, who she met in 1795, but who had to return to Ireland a year later. The second, in 1801, was a young man called Samuel Blackall who she fell in love with when on holiday in Devon, but who tragically died suddenly soon after. The third was a large young man called Harries whose proposal she briefly accepted in 1802,“but he had nothing to recommend him but his size,” so she changed her mind.In 1801 the family moved to Bath, where she was very unhappy. To make matters worse, in 1805 her father died, leaving his widow, Jane and her only sister Cassandra, also unmarried, even poorer than before. For four years they had to move from house to house, often staying with relatives. Finally in 1809 her brother Edward allowed them to live in a house on his estate in Chawton, only a few miles from Steventon where she had grown up. Here she was much happier, despite being the poor relation, dependent on charity. She not only revised her earlier novel but was able to write new ones, using her experiences to satirize and make fun of the social inequalities she saw around her. At last in 1811, Sense and Sensibility was the first of her novels to be published.参考译文：我喜好看小说，分外是那些精典名著。我分外喜爱的一个作者是简.奥斯叮她写过一部小说叫《高傲与偏见》。当BBC(英国播送公司)上映简.奥斯丁的《高傲与偏见》小说的最终改写本时，那时创下了1800万英国不雅观众的收看记实。之后，一系列的丛书出售到全世界18个国家，从美国到澳年夜利亚，从冰岛到以色列，全世界到处到有简.奥斯丁的狂热书迷，乃至在互联网上另有专门的简.奥斯丁的讨论组。
简.奥斯丁在她的糊口中没有出过一次国，乃至从末分开过英国的南部。在1987年她过世的时候，照旧个末婚女子，她的六部小说只要四部已经出版，并且全部是匿名的，她只挣到了共648.65英镑，这便是她小说的全部报酬。现在，也便是尔后将近200年后，她小说的销售商击败了当今的顶级推销员，每礼拜可到达35000英镑的收益。已经成为片子、电视出版物的不但仅是《高傲与偏见》，另有《埃玛》、《疏导》、另有奥斯卡获奖作品《明智与感情》。她在汉普郡Chawton的家，每天都不低于200人不雅观赏拜访。
简.奥斯丁出生于1775年，是家里八个孩子中的第七个。她的父亲是受人恭敬的牧师乔治.奥斯叮她们家不敷裕，并且住在一个村落里。直到她十二岁的那年，简.奥斯丁不断在写关于女主人公被关押在魔鬼城堡的故事，直到被魅力豪杰挽救出来。在简的生命中，有三次浪漫的感情历程。第一次，是与一个漂亮的爱尔兰法则系的门生，名叫Tom Lefroy，她是在1795年碰到他的，但他不得不在一年之后前往爱尔兰。第二次是在1801年，一个名叫Samuel Blackall的年老女子在德尔郡的沐日里让她坠进爱河。可是谁人女子没过多久，突然凄惨地去世往了。第三次是与一个名叫Harries年夜个子年白叟，在1802年他向她未婚的时候，她临时许诺了他，“可是他除了他的架码之外，一无长处”，于是她窜改了主意。
1801年，她们家搬家到了巴思，她在那边过得极度不幸。更为蹩脚的是，她父亲在1805年撇下她们孤儿寡母放手人鬟了，简和她异样未结婚的妹妹卡珊德娜比已往更加贫苦。四年以来，他们到处搬家，常常在亲戚家勾留。终于在1809年，她的兄弟爱德华赞同她们住进他在Chawton作为不动产的房子，只离她生长的Steventon这其中央几英里的隔断。在这儿她糊口幸福得多，虽然是由贫弱的亲戚干系和拜托他们的救济维系。她不但批改了她已往的小说，并且还创作出了新的作品。用她团体的经历和见闻来讽刺社会的不划一。最终在1811年，《明智与感情》作为她的第一部小说被出版了。