具体描述
本系列崭新改版,书籍新增以下单元:
1. Characters(人物表):新增故事人物表,帮助掌握故事内容。
2. Fact File(真实档案):针对故事背景与主题,介绍当时代的真实情况,主题广泛,内容丰富,例如政治、国际局势、社会、经济、生活实境等,深入文化,扩大英语阅读与字汇能力。
3. Life Skill(生活技能):针对故事内容,进一步提出生活技能的主题,将英语融入生活情境。
4. Cambridge English Exams(剑桥英语测验):变化新题型,帮助活用英语,并提高应试能力。
《理性与感性》(Sense and Sensibility, 1811),是英国女性文学家珍.奥斯汀(Jane Austen, 1775–1817)出版的第一本小说,当时作者才芳龄19。这是一部成功的作品,销售极佳,使得作者能够在两年后继续出版第二本小说《傲慢与偏见》。
在当时,对「感性」的定义,意味着过于情绪化与浪漫。这本小说出版之际,浪漫主义在艺术、音乐和文学上正大行其道。在浪漫主义中,相较于责任与理智,感觉与情感更为重要。作者则在《理性与感性》一书中传达浪漫主义的危险性,不过她并非完全反对浪漫主义,相反地,她想要表达的是我们需要在「理性」与「感性」之间取得平衡。
《理性与感性》这部小说讲的是一对个性迥异的姊妹,她们分别爱上两个差异极大的男人的故事。姊姊代表理性,妹妹代表感性。姊姊爱莲娜爱上良善又通情达理的爱德华;妹妹玛丽安爱上俊美浪漫的威洛比,那是一个完全符合她所渴望的男人。整部小说围绕着两人的爱情故事而展开。
Sense and Sensibility was Jane Austen’s first novel to be published. At that time, sensibility had a different meaning than it does today: it meant over-emotional and romantic. When the book was written Romanticism was becoming popular in art, music and literature. In Romanticism, feelings and emotions are more important than duty and common sense. Jane Austen tries to show the dangers of Romanticism in Sense and Sensibility. However, she is not completely against it. Instead, she seems to say, we need to find a balance between “sense” and “sensibility”.
Sense and Sensibility is the story of two very different sisters who meet and fall in love with two very different men. Elinor is the elder sister and she represents sense. Marianne is the younger sister and she represents sensibility. Elinor falls in love with Edward, who is kind and a man of sense. Marianne falls in love with Willoughby who is handsome and romantic and everything she ever hoped a man to be.
Jane Austen had first written Sense and Sensibility in 1795 when she was nineteen years old. It was written as a series of letters and it was called Elinor and Marianne. Over the years, she made several changes to it before it was finally published in 1811. Jane Austen was then thirty-five years old and she died six years later.
Sense and Sensibility was successful and sold well so the publisher was very happy to publish Jane’s next book, Pride and Prejudice in 1813.
【Helbling文学读本(Helbling Readers)简介】
● Helbling Classics(经典英文文学改写)
● Helbling Fiction(当代原创英文小说)
《Helbling文学读本》为一套最优质的英文分级阅读读本,英语难易度由初级衔接到中级。在各项英语认证考试中,本系列书培养的英语能力级数如下:
GEPT英检 TOEIC多益 TOEFL iBT托福 IELTS雅思
中 级 550 57–8 6 4.5
全系列皆随书附赠全文朗读MP3。
内文编排精美,採用彩色印刷,全文穿插精美插图,单元设计丰富。
除了精彩的小说之外,另编写有:
1. About the Author(作者简介):介绍作者,帮助认识创作背景。
2. About the Book(本书简介):介绍故事内容概要,帮助了解故事的背景与旨意。
3. Before Reading(阅前活动):设计各种问题和活动,帮助暖身,启发各种探讨与学习。
4. After Reading(阅后练习):设计各种深入的问题和题目练习,帮助复习内容,加深英语的学习印象。
5. Test(测验):有些读本在阅毕之后,设计有各种测验题目,包括文意测验和英语练习等。
6. Translation(中译):完整的英文故事翻译,帮助理解文意。
7. Answer Key(解答):针对「阅前活动」、「阅后练习」和「测验」,提供解答。
8. 随文讨论:在故事行文中,另设计有针对内文情节的问题探讨,帮助做启发性的思考。
9. 【新增】Characters(人物表):新增故事人物表,帮助掌握故事内容。
10. 【新增】Fact File(真实档案):针对故事背景与主题,介绍当时代的真实情况,主题广泛,内容丰富,例如政治、国际局势、社会、经济、生活实境等,深入文化,扩大英语阅读与字汇能力。
11. 【新增】Life Skill(生活技能):针对故事内容,进一步提出生活技能的主题,将英语融入生活情境。
12. 【新增】Cambridge English Exams(剑桥英语测验):变化新题型,帮助活用英语,并提高应试能力。
【本书录音採用英式发音】