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海明威篇

1.Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

People have generally discovered several merits in …, of which the most apparent one is that…

In spite of the adverse effects, it brings its compensating, beneficial effect.

2.Hemingway's style of writing as an adult are partly traceable to his early life.(追溯原因句型)

= ascribe A to B

Common and vulgar peopel ascribe all ill that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

庸人责人，善者责己，智者责无

3.Hemingway's book paints the image of a whole generation, the lost generation. This included the young English and American expatriates as well as men and women caught in the war and cut off from the old values and yet unable to come to terms with the new area when cilivization had gone mad.(失去旧世界，无法融入新世界)

4.Hemingway's world is a world essentially chaotic and meaningless, in which man fights a solitary struggle aganist a force he does not even understand. The awareness that it must end in defeat, no matter how hard he strives against it, engenders a sense of despair, but the Hemingway hero possesses what Russell terms "desparing courage".

But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all.

But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not the journey of seeking knowledge at all.

In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and disciple, regulated by judgment.

In the affairs of study, it is not genius that tells so much as self-control, patience.

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玩偶之家篇

very = extraordinarily = extremely = intensely = exceedingly = desperately = horribly = tremendously = frightfully =

汤姆叔叔的小屋篇

toil and moil

separation and desperation

refused and abused

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean伟大的 undertakings.

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by adolescents in the pursuit of endless virtual world, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

The most dreadful part of marriage, to my mind, is its monotony on feelings and affections, the repetition of disputes on same issues and trifles, for example.

(表达观点+例子的句型)

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problem.

(从抽象到具体的总分句型)

The action of learning, in operation intensive or extensive, is the action of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of yourself, of being persistent with it, but equally, of insisting that you can make a square facing toward your own problems.

The art of love, in operations long-distance or no-distance, is the art of dealing with humanity, of taking care of yourself on behalf of your lover, of being convinced of your love, but equally, of insisting that you can make a square facing toward your own problem.

Mr.Shelby was a fair average kind of man, good-natured and kindly, and disposed to easy indulgence of those around him.

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At this table was seated Uncle Tom.

At this port was standed him.

He was a large, broad-chested, powerfully made man, of a full glossy black, and a face whose truly African features were characterized by an expression of grave and steady good sense, united with much kindliness and benevolence. There was something about his whole air self-respecting and dignified, yet united with a confiding 信任他人的and humble simplicity.(= coupled with)

Mothers often treat their children in a gentle manner, united with much kindliness and benevolence.

University students often muddle away their college life in confused mind, united with much ignorance and dullness.(idle away)

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

A cook she certainly was, in the very bone and center of her soul.

Mrs. Shelby is a woman of high class, both intellectual and morally.

I'm principled against emanicipating, in any case. Keep a negro under the care of a master, and he does well enough, and is respectable; but set them free, and they get lazy, and won't work, and take to drinking , and go all down to be mean, worthless fellows. I've seen it tried, hundrends of times. It's no favor to set them free.重申观点

(表达反对的逻辑:总–分–总， 正反对比/推证)

But Eva somehow always seems to put herself on an equality with every creature that…

The round, keen eyes of the black child were overcast with tears

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Topsy did not become at once a saint; but the life and death of Eva did work a marked change in her. The callous indifference was gone; there was now sensibility, hope, desire and the striving for good, –a strife irregular, interrupted, suspended often, but yet renewed again.

(描写变化的句型，让步逻辑结尾强调观点)

I think that, from a biological standpoint, human life almost reads like a poem. It has its own rhythm and beat, its internal cycles of growth and decay.

(比喻变化的经典句型)

I think that, from a sensorial standpoint, love almost reads like the four seasons.It has its own spring and autumn, summer and winter, its internal cycles of zeal and chill.

Week after week glided away in the St.Clare Mansion, and the waves of life settled back to their usual flow, where that little bark had gone down.Still must we eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again–still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, –pursue, in short, a thousand shadows,(徒然形式) through all interest in them be over; the cold mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.

时光流逝经典句式

In real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living, yet to be gone through.

Weeks after week glided away in the…, and the waves of life rolled along their usual flow. Still mut we eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, the cold mechanical habit of living remaining, though all interest in them be over.

It isn't much inconvenience, to have one drop of water fall on your head; yet the worst torture of the inquisition is produced by drop after drop, drop after drop,falling moment after moment, with monotonous succession, on the same spot; and work, in itself not hard, becomes so, by being pressed, hour after hour, with unvarying, unrelenting sameness, with not even the consciousness of free-will to take from its tediousness.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Sometimes been widely, despairingly, acutely, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just being alive is a grand thing.

Sometimes been widely, despairingly, acutely, racked with sorrow/grief , but through it all I still know quite ceratinly that just keep going on is a grand thing.

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He saw enough of abuse and misery to make him sick and weary; but he determined to toil on, with religious patience, commiting himself to Him that judges righteously, not without hope that  some way of escape might yet be opened to him.

(绝望中等待希望句型)

He saw enough of abuse and misery to make him sick and weary; but he determined to toil on, with enormous patience, commiting himself to his life righteously, not without hope that some way of success might yet be opened to him.

The whole object of the training to which the negro is put, from the time he is sold in the Northern market till he arrives South, is systematically directed towards making him callous, unthinking and brutal.

(目的经典句型)

The whole object of the training to which the students are put, from the time they are overburdened with their homework at high school till they finally step into their university life, is systematically directed towards making them academic, outstanding and promising.

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林语堂篇

A thousand ideas, a thousand  schemes arose within my soul; still at length one last, fixed, final thought took possession of my heart.It was to die. I lay down to rest; and in the morning, in the quiet hour of awaking, the same determination was upon me.

The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let it go.

Surely we ought to hold fast to life, for it is wondrous, and full of a beauty that breaks through every pore of God's own earth. We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in the backward glance when we remember what we was and then suddenly realize that is no more.

(往事不堪回首句型)

Surely we ought to hold fast the short days of sunshine to read and acquire more from books in the flower of our age, for they are wondrous, vigorous and never ponderous. We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance.

(读书重要句型)

Surely we ought to see the old acquaintances, for it is wondrous, and full of a beauty that drag you gently back to the old golden times .We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance when we remember what we lived and then suddenly realize that there is no more.

The contrast in the two types of scholarship, Oriental and Occidental, ultimately goes back to the opposition between logic and common sense. Logic, deprived of common sense, becomes inhuman, and common sense, deprived of logic, is incapable of penetrating into nature's mysteries.

(缺失A会导致B的因果句型)

Any relationship, deprived of the solitary time, make each other in chains,  and long-term solitude, deprived of chance to communicate with others , will make people incapable of penetarting into the