Part one
1. invitation n. 邀请
eg：The invitations are out.请帖已发出。
2. chaise n. 一种轻马车（通常有车蓬，尤指单马双轮者）
原文：he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place
3. flatter vt. 向…奉承; 阿谀
原文：My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be any thing extraordinary now.
4. engage vi. 答应，保证；
原文：It is more than I engage for, I assure you.
5. over-scrupulous adj. 过于审慎的,过于仔细的
原文：You are over-scrupulous, surely.
6. chuse v. 〈古〉选择,选定
原文：I will send a few lines by you to assure him of my hearty consent to his marrying which ever he chuses of the girls.
7. ignorant adj. 无知的；愚昧的
原文：They are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.
8. vex vt. 使烦恼；使苦恼；使生气
原文：you take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion on my poor nerves.
9. sarcastic adj. 讥讽的, 讽刺的, 挖苦的
Mr.Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humor, reseve, and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.
10. reserve n. 矜持, 拘谨; 寡言
Part two
1. give over 交出, 移交，停止，放弃
原文：When a woman has five grown up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.
2. engage for 保证；对…负责
3. get over 克服; 克制
原文：But I hope you will get over it, and live to see many young men of four thousand a year come into the neighborhood.
Part three
It is truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Summary
作者的人物描写功底很到位，第一章主要通过Mr.Bennet and Mrs.Bennet 的对话引入他们一家的大致情况：家里有五个女儿，以及村里新来了一个特别有钱的青年单身黄金汉长得又帅。
Lizzy
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