BBC推荐的最适合学英语的10部小说!
英语能力是入读国际学校很基本的一项语言能力,如果孩子英语水平不够好怎么办?
1847国际教育给大家分享10部BBC推荐的最适合提升英语水平的小说(文末免费赠送84部英语各阶段必读名著一共2999份!),往下阅读,会教你该如何读完一本英文小说。
BBC书单
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01《名利场》
Vanity Fair
by 威廉·梅克皮斯·萨克雷
(William Makepeace Thackeray)
This novel features probably the greatest anti-heroine in English literature, Becky Sharp, and a plot that revolves around class, social climbing and a financial crisis that will seem eerily familiar to modern readers. Vanity Fair has it all. It both speaks of its time, and speaks of all times.
这部小说的主角或许是英国文学史上最知名的非正统派女主角——贝奇·夏普,小说的情节围绕阶级、跻身上流社会以及引发现代读者奇异熟悉感的金融危机。《名利场》这些要素全都具备, 讲述那个年代,也讲述着所有年代。
02《弗兰肯斯坦》
Frankenstein
by 玛莉·雪莱
(Mary Shelley)
This pioneering work of science fiction and Gothic horror developed an indelible "monster" of a theme that has endured for centuries: of the scientist as a "modern Prometheus".
这部先锋作品集科幻和哥特式恐怖于一身,营造了一个难以磨灭的“恶魔”主题,即科学家中的“现代普罗米修斯”,几世纪以来经久不衰。
03《大卫·科波菲尔》
David Copperfield
by 查尔斯·狄更斯(Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield is populated by some of the most vivid characters ever created. They are as much a part of readers' world, and their way of thinking about the world, as people they have actually met.
《大卫·科波菲尔》中云集了许多创造得最为鲜活的一些人物形象。这些人物角色仿佛是读者所在真实世界的一部分,和读者亲身遇见的人一样,有着相似的世界观。
04《呼啸山庄》
Wuthering Heights
by 艾米莉·勃朗特(Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights is "powered by more psychological energy than any book ever written". Readers admire Wuthering Heights because of "its layered narrative structure, because it is a work of incredible imagination, and because it is far more than a love story. The story shows "the eternal rocks beneath" our fleeting desires.
《呼啸山庄》“蕴含巨大的心理能量,没有其它书籍能够与之匹敌。”读者推崇《呼啸山庄》是因为其“层层叠叠的叙述结构”和丰富惊人的想象力,更因为《呼啸山庄》超越了爱情故事本身,展现了我们转瞬即逝的欲望之下“永恒的震撼”。
05《荒凉之屋》
Bleak House
by 查尔斯·狄更斯
(Charles Dickens)
Bleak House is among Dickens novels, uniquely original in its alternation of first-person past-tense chapters with a concurrent third-person account in present tense.
《荒凉之屋》是狄更斯的小说之一,以第一人称过去时所写的章节与第三人称现在时的叙述并行,两者间的切换创新独到。
06《简·爱》
Jane Eyre
by 夏洛蒂·勃朗特
(Charlotte Brontë)
Brontë's revolutionary 1847 Gothic romance about a young woman seeking a richer and more passionate life on her own still resonates with modern readers. Brontë's novel features the orphan Jane Eyre's search for an identity, her powerful attraction to her master, Mr Rochester, and an intimate deion of her complex moral choices and sometimes raw emotional states.
勃朗特这部哥特式爱情传奇出版于1847年,内容革新,讲述了一个年轻女性追寻更为充实激情的生活,至今仍能引起现代读者的共鸣。勃朗特小说的主人翁简·爱是个孤儿,追寻着自我的身份,主人罗切斯特先生深深吸引着她;小说真切描述了简·爱复杂的道德抉择及其有时显得有些原始的情感状态。
07《远大前程》
Great Expectations
by 查尔斯·狄更斯
(Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations might be the quintessential British novel. To re-read Dickens' classic as an adult is to discover its wit and brio(文笔生动), its influence, and its truth. It has all the elements of classic Dickens – endearing, flawed characters; a plot that skewers(串住、刺穿) the politics of the time; subplots that skewer morality and culture; a love story; and a wonderful storyline.
《远大前程》或许是最地道的英国小说。成年读者重温狄更斯经典,就会发现其智慧与精彩、影响与真理。《远大前程》有狄更斯经典的所有元素,讨人欢喜却不完美的角色、主要故事情节能牵住时局、副线情节串起道德与文化,是部情节精彩的爱情故事作品。
08《达洛卫夫人》
Mrs Dalloway
by 弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙
(Virginia Woolf)
If the most precious gift of the novel as a medium is the power it has to break into the prison of human consciousness, to expose the gossamer (蛛丝似的,纤细缥缈的) weave of thought and feeling and memory that makes up our innermost lives, then Woolf's fourth novel stands alone at the pinnacle(顶峰). Virginia Woolf made modernism live and breathe.
如果说这部小说作为媒介最天才之处在于其破除人类意识的囹圄、暴露人们那些构成内在世界的细若蛛丝的思绪、情感和记忆,那么伍尔芙的第四部小说就是孤立巅峰之作。弗吉尼亚让现代主义焕发生命、鲜活起来。
09《到灯塔去》
To the Lighthouse
by 弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙
(Virginia Woolf)
Subtle, beautiful, staggeringly intelligent and flat-out original. A masterpiece of modernism, its stream-of-consciousness, richness of language and perceptions has continued to reveal itself.
细腻美妙、智慧惊人,极其新颖独到。现代派的大师之作,运用意识流写法,其语言丰富、观察敏锐,不言自明。
10《米德尔马契》
Middlemarch
by 乔治·艾略特
(George Eliot)
A novel of great characters, it's an even greater novel of ideas and ideals. Middlemarch is the greatest social and psychological novel ever written in English.
这部小说人物角色卓越,更精妙之处在于其想法与理念。《米德尔马契》是迄今最伟大的英文写就的社会和心理学小说。
2020年已经过去了一半,一起来定个小目标,读英文小说,提升英语水平。
读英文小说感觉很多单词不认识
需要去单独背单词提高词汇量吗?
今天解答一个疑难杂症:读英文小说感觉很多单词不认识,需要去单独背单词提高词汇量吗?
回答如下:
有必要背单词,但是背单词本,不推荐。
学英文的重要共识就是:单词,非背不可,但是单词书这类东西,尽量别碰。
英文学习只狭窄到词汇这个层次上来说,大部分人都会认为重复就可以把单词背牢,这个当然没错,但这个明显忽略了另外两个至关重要的因素:1,语音语感熟悉度;2,上下文情景联系
处理办法:
建议以听+看结合,选择一本书,首先以听为主,集中精力不受干扰的听,把用来看美剧和看电视的时间抽出来,每天听1-2个小时,其中Flipped和公主日记非常简单,两三天就可以听完一本,而且朗读超赞——
听完一本书之后,拿出原文本,认真阅读一番,找到生词,同时用手机词典之类的东西查(我个人一般用有道或者欧路),觉得比较实用的就收录下,零碎时间多翻看翻看,觉得过于生僻的就放弃。
通过听+看的积累,不到一年,你会发现自己可能已经达到了过两万的词汇量了(曾经有读者亲自示范,听+看完了Roald Dahl和HP全套,发现词汇量过1W5了,而且过程毫无痛苦,完全就是在享受阅读,不知不觉词汇量就暴增了)。
阅读英文原版书的最好方法是什么?
也就是一手拿着手机词典,一手拿书或kindle,每两页只查一个单词并收录,第二天起床首先把昨天的生词表快速扫描下,还有印象的删掉,没印象的留着,然后继续读书,第三天继续扫生词本继续删——个中理论就是保持长线的阅读乐趣,不大幅度中断阅读,同时保证稳定的生词收录,但不以背诵词汇表为主要手段,而是依靠不停的在阅读中遇到该生词和手机词库扫描相结合的办法来不断的删词,收录词。
来源:腾讯网