五一节宅家里的都来看电影读小说吧……（附地址）
上回双语君推荐了一些名著改编的电影（就是这篇），有小伙伴就表示，不过瘾，还想看更多。
很好，趁着过节，大把时间，小编再给大家推荐一些。不想出门去人堆里挤的朋友们就来看电影读小说书吧！
这次的推荐多了一些现当代的优秀作品，比古典文学读起来容易多了。所以建议先看小说再看电影。
不过有一个问题：
多数情况下，书比电影好看，所以有时候看电影就成了一种折磨。
Most of the time, the book is much better than the film adaption, so that sometimes it becomes a torture to watch the movies.
《布鲁克林》
Brooklyn (2015)
科尔姆•托宾是继詹姆斯•乔伊斯、萧伯纳和叶芝之后，爱尔兰又一杰出作家。电影拍得十分华美，画面如油画一样精美，服饰也很精致。整部电影温馨感人，很好呈现了托宾笔下女主人公Eilis Lacey初到新世界时的孤独和疏离感。女主角西尔莎•罗南因此被提名奥斯卡最佳女主角。
Colm Toibin is another outstanding Irish writer, after James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw and W B Yeats. The movie is gorgeously shot with oil-painting-like image quality and exquisite costumes. It is a warm and touching movie, well presenting the loneliness and alienation the heroine, Eilis Lacey, feels in a new world that Toibin beautifully describes. Star Saoirse Ronan was nominated for the Academy Award for best actress.
托宾是位语言大师，写作时字斟句酌。这本书的语言平实，未有很多修饰，但却非常有力。难词难句较少，所以很容易读。
As a language master, Toibin chooses each word carefully. The book is a miracle that shows how powerful unadorned language can be. It’s easy to read with very few difficult words and complicated sentences.
《消失的爱人》
Gone Girl (2014)
（前方有剧透）《消失的爱人》是继《社交网络》、《龙纹身的女孩》之后大卫芬奇的又一惊悚力作。女主角裴淳华获得了2015年奥斯卡最佳女主角的提名。
This is another thriller in recent years by David Fincher, after Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The leading actress, Rosamund Pike, won n Academy Award nomination for best actress in 2015.
小说的作者是美国作家吉利安•弗林。此书于2012年登顶“纽约时报畅销书”排行榜。小说讲述了一名绝望的主妇因丈夫出轨而复仇的故事。女主人公艾米是位著名作家，漂亮、聪慧。她的成长经历被写成丛书出版，拥有众多粉丝。从小生活在聚光灯下的女主无法忍受丈夫的不忠，企图通过自己的消失设计陷害丈夫。
The novel by American writer Gillian Flynn topped the New York Times bestseller list in 2012. It’s a story about a desperate housewife whose husband cheats on her. Amy, the heroine, was a famous writer, a beautiful, intelligent woman whose growing-up stories were made into books and won tens of thousands of fans. Living in the spotlight all her life, Amy, unable to stand her husband’s infidelity, schemes to frame her husband for her disappearance.
这是个心理变态的现代版美狄亚的复仇故事。正如纽约时报畅销作者塔娜•弗兰奇所说，“这本书绝妙又恐怖，它展现了幸福正常的表面如何与黑色的暗涌交织过密以致分离。”
It’s a story of a psychopath, a story of a modern Medea. As New York Times bestselling author Tana French puts it, “this is a wonderful and terrifying book about how the happy surface normality and the underlying darkness can become too closely interwoven to separate.”
《劝导》
Persuasion （2007）
我强烈推荐这部影片。女主是莎莉•霍金斯饰演的一位温柔可爱有思想但悲伤的27岁大龄未婚女青年。长镜头和钢琴配乐创造了压抑不安的气氛，与安的境遇契合。她的父亲和姐姐将家中财产挥霍殆尽，她前景惨淡，极有可能孤老至死。
I strongly recommend this movie starring Sally Hawkins as the warm-hearted, lovely, thoughtful but sad heroine Anne Elliot, who is unmarried at 27. The long takes and the piano score create an atmosphere of depression and uneasiness, matching Anne’s situation after her family’s wealth was squandered up by her father and elder sister, and her possible future as a spinster.
电影我看了三遍，每次看到安疯狂地去追心碎的恋人，答应他的求婚的时候，都热泪盈眶。
I watched the movie three times and cried every time when I saw Anne running crazily to catch up with her heartbroken lover and accept his proposal.
电影是根据简•奥斯汀的同名小说改编。很多人都熟知她的《傲慢与偏见》和《理智与情感》。这部小说同样精彩。
The movie is based on Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion. A lot of people are familiar with the famous Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. This one is equally good in my opinion.
《告别有情天》
The Remains of the Day（1993）
故事发生在英国一座类似唐顿庄园的庄园里。艾玛•汤普森饰演庄园的女管家，安东尼•霍普金斯饰演男管家。这部小说获得了英国布克奖，作者是英籍日本作家石黑一雄。八年前我看完小说就找来了电影。电影改编的也很出色，获三项奥斯卡提名，包括最佳男主、最佳导演和最佳影片。电影风格冷峻，一直不停地下雨，很好地诠释了男女管家之间压抑的爱情。
The story involves the relationship between a housekeeper, played by Emma Thompson, and Anthony Hopkins’s butler in a grand mansion like Downton Abbey in Britain. I watched it eight years ago after I finished reading the Booker Prize winner by Japanese-British writer Kazuo Ishiguro. The movie adaption is brilliant, nominated for Academy Awards for best actor, best director and best picture. The repressed love between the two people is well represented by the endless rainy days in the solemn atmosphere of the movie.
石黑的另一部小说《别让我走》也已被搬上荧屏，主演是凯拉•奈特丽，凯丽•穆丽根以及安德鲁•加菲，不过日本版更佳。
Ishiguro’s other novel, Never Let Me Go, has also been adapted for film, starring Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield, but the Japanese version is better.
《朱门巧妇》
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof （1953）
我也不是一直都喜欢伊丽莎白•泰勒的。我不太喜欢她在《小妇人》和《埃及艳后》中的表演。但是看《朱门巧妇》的时候，她确实让人惊艳。电影改编自美国剧作家田纳西•威廉姆斯的名作《热铁皮屋顶上的猫》，并获得六项奥斯卡提名，包括最佳女主、最佳男主，最佳导演和最佳影片。
I don’t always like Elizabeth Taylor, like in Little Women and Cleopatra. However, when I watched the film version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, I was amazed by her performance. Adapted from American playwright Tennessee Williams’ play, the movie won six Oscar nominations, including best actress, best actor, best director and best picture.
故事中的每个灵魂都有各自的痛苦，从这个角度看，上帝面前人人平等。故事在父与子、兄与弟以及夫妻之间暴风骤雨般的争吵中被一次又一次地推向高潮。电影的最后一切归于平静。
Every soul in the story is painful for its own reason, showing how equal people are in front of God. The tempestuous quarrels between father and sons, between brothers and between husband and wife push the plot from one climax to another, until in the end everything returns to calmness.
《锅匠、裁缝、士兵和间谍》
Tinker, Taylor, Soldier and Spy （2011）
我其实没看出来这部电影有多好，加里•欧德曼还凭此片获得了当年奥斯卡最佳男主的提名。据说1979年的电视剧版更好。
To be honest, I don’t see how brilliant the film version is with Gary Oldman, who was nominated for an Academy Award for best actor. It is said the TV series in 1979 is better.
不过，原著受到很多人的喜爱。作者约翰•勒卡弗是英国最富盛名的间谍小说家。最近BBC把他的《夜班经理》改编成电视剧，锤弟汤姆•希德尔森和豪斯医生修•劳瑞上演对手戏，此剧受到很多观众的喜爱。我还给我的英国同事保罗拷贝了一份。
However, many people love the novel. The author John Le Carre is the most famous espionage novelist in Britain. Recently, the BBC adaption of his Night Manager featuring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie has fascinated many audiences. I also helped my British colleague Paul to download the TV series.
如果你对英国间谍小说感兴趣，这本书是个很好的选择。
If you want to read an English espionage novel, this book is a good choice.
《断头谷》
Sleepy Hollow （1999）
电影在线观看地址
《本杰明•巴顿奇事》
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button （2008）
电影在线观看地址
我把这两部电影放在一起是因为二者都改编自短篇小说。
I put these two movies together because they both are adapted from short stories.
《断头谷》由约翰•尼德普主演，改编自“美国文学之父”华盛顿•欧文的短篇小说《睡谷传奇》。
Sleepy Hollow, featuring Johnny Depp, is adapted from “the father of American literature” Washington Irving’s short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
《本杰明•巴顿奇事》由布拉德•皮特和凯特•布兰切特领衔主演，改编自F•司各特•菲茨杰拉德的同名短篇小说。
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, is adapted from F Scott Fitzgerald’s short story of the same name.
如果你惧读长篇故事，这两篇可能是不错的选择。
For those who are afraid of long stories, these two may be good choices.
《搏击俱乐部》
Fight Club （1999）
是的，这又是一部大卫•芬奇电影，主演有我的梦中情人爱德华•诺顿，你男人布拉德•皮特，以及海伦娜•卡特，全部都是我爱的演员。
Yes, this is another David Fincher film, starring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Carter, my favorite actors and actress.
小说的作者是恰克•帕拉尼克。几年前我有一篇学期论文写的就是这部小说。这是一部后现代小说，叙事风格和对过渡的大众消费愤青式的批判让人兴奋。小说比电影暴力多了。
I studied the novel by Chuck Palahniuk for a term paper several years ago. I was really excited about the postmodern narrative style and the angry-youth-like charge on excessive mass consumption. The novel is much more violent than the film adaption.
现在小说要出续集，不过我其实也不太敢看。
Now the sequel of the novel is coming out, but honestly, I dare not read it.
《洛丽塔》
Lolita （1962）
洛丽塔，我的生命之光，我的欲念之火。我的罪恶，我的灵魂。
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.
很多人都会背诵纳博科夫小说《洛丽塔》的头两句。纳博科夫一家是俄国人，在家说三种语言，俄语、英语和法语。不过这位作家在没学会俄语前先学会用英语阅读和拼写。纳博科夫的用词和写作充满了俄国异域风情，虽然很优雅，但读起来比较困难。
Many people can recite the beautiful opening sentences of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. The Nabokov family, from Russia, spoke three languages at home, Russian, English and French, but Vladimir could read and spell in English before Russian. His diction and writing style appear exotic and Russian, and therefore are quite difficult to read, although very elegant.
库布里克的电影版本创造了很多经典意象，比如海报上洛丽塔戴着红边心形墨镜吸允棒棒糖的形象。
Stanley Kubrick created a lot of classic symbols in his film adaption, such as Lolita wearing red-rimmed, heart-shaped sunglasses and sucking a lollipop on the poster.
《江城》
River Town (2017)
《在切瑟尔海滩上》
On Chesil Beach (2017)
《江城》由陆川根据美国记者兼作家彼得•海斯勒的同名纪实文学改编，将于明年上映。海斯勒以前是《纽约客》的记者，常驻中国。《江城》是根据海斯勒20世纪末在四川省涪陵的一所师范大学里教书的经历写成。他的文笔干净、生动幽默。而且，像托宾一样，他的语言也无过多修饰，但足够有力。
River Town will come out next year, a Lu Chuan film adapted from American journalist and writer Peter Hessler’s nonfiction book, River Town. He was based in China for years as a correspondent for The New Yorker. The book is based on his teaching experience at a normal university in Fuling, Sichuan province in late 1990s. His writing is neat, vivid and humorous. What is more, like Toibin, his language is also relatively unadorned, but powerful enough.
《在切瑟尔的海滩上》改编自英国当代作家伊恩•麦克尤恩的同名小说，电影将于明年上映。他的另一部小说《赎罪》在2007年改编成电影，主演是凯拉•奈特丽，西尔莎•罗南以及詹姆斯•麦卡沃伊。
On Chesil Beach is a novel by contemporary British writer Ian McEwan, and the movie will be released next year. Another of the writer’s novels, novel, Atonement, was been adapted for film in 2007, starring Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan and James McAvoy.
《在切瑟尔的海滩上》是我好几年前读的，一口气读完。小说以一对新婚夫妇初夜失败导致感情破裂开篇。喜爱《成长教育》的读者不要错过这部小说和电影。
I read the novel several years ago at one sitting. The story starts with the breakup of a newly married couple. Anyone who loves films like An Education cannot miss the novel and the film.
今天就推荐到这里啦，是不是有小编的欲望想买个大房子，因为可以装下你心爱的书，就这么有（hen）品（ren）位（xing）！
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