自由尊严和幸福，这是不是也是你的追求呢？ ||《简·爱》导读

如果上帝赐予你两万的单词量，你说你会对英文原著爱不释手，就像对待你所钟爱的中文小说一样。留美书房没有那么多，你们都可以通过留美书房来到这里，她将会平等的对待你们的单词量，无论你背过GRE一万加，还是一个英文初学者，留美书房没有偏见。读到这里，一起来看英文名著《简·爱》，名师手把手带你叩开英文的心扉。

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背景介绍

《简·爱》（Jane Eyre）是十九世纪英国著名的女作家夏洛蒂·勃朗特的代表作。主人公Jane从小和舅舅一起生活，舅舅去世之后，舅妈和她的孩子视Jane为眼中钉，总是欺负她。最后Jane被送到了孤儿院。从此Jane成为了孤儿，在孤儿院里生活，尽管生活非常清苦，但是Jane在这里交到了新朋友，得到了老师的疼爱。

我们的导读从这个地方展开。

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第一句：

From that day on, with this new encouragement and new friends, I began to succeed at my lessons. Because of my excellent grades, I was given the opportunity, usually reserved for the older students, to start learning French, to play the piano, and to develop my skills at drawing.

1、succeed at sth. 在...方面成功

eg：Everyone wants to succeed at work.

2、encouragement n.鼓励 encourage v

eg：encourage sb. to do sth.

3、because/because of：

because of：后面+名词/名词短语

because：后面+句子

4、excellent：程度比good好

5、reserve：预约，保留。文中修饰opportunity。

6、be given opportunity to do sth. ：某人被给予机会做...

7、develop one's skills at sth.：提升某人某方面的能力

第二句：

I also learned a very important lesson that was to stay with me for life: it was better to eat small portion of poor food where I was surrounded by love, than to feast on fine food where I was surrounded by hatred.

1、英文中写的比较好的句子都是对仗的，than前后的内容：吃得不好但是被爱包围着比起吃得好但被恨包围着强。

2、feast on：尽情享受，大吃大喝。

eg：feast my eyes on the amazing view：大饱眼福

3、fine：修饰美食。

eg：fine wine：美酒（注意押韵）

4、be surrounded by：被...所包围

第三句：

So with all the hardship I endured at Lowood, I had made friends who cared about me，that was certainly much better than eating food served at Gateshead, where misery and hatred were all I had ever known.

1、endure：容忍，忍耐

2、care about sb. 关心某人

3、Gateshead：在这个地方我唯一了解的只有痛苦（misery）和仇恨（hatred）。

美文背诵

It was better to eat small portion of poor food where I was surrounded by love, than to feast on fine food where I was surrounded by hatred.

你以为，因为我贫穷、低微、相貌平平、矮小，我就没有灵魂，也没有心吗？——你想错了！我的灵魂跟你一样，我的心也跟你的完全一样。如果上帝赋予我财富和美貌，我会让你难以离开我，就像我现在难以离开你一样。上帝没有那么多，但我们的精神是平等的，就像我们的灵魂穿过坟墓，站在上帝面前，彼此平等——本来就是如此。

如果你熟悉这些译句，如果你曾被句子的内涵所打动，那么去看看英文原版，不少的对仗和押韵会再次让你领略英文的魅力。