《理智与情感》：书籍评析

Jane Austen was born at Steventon on December 16，1775，the youngest of seven children.She received her education—scanty enough，by modern standards—at home.

简·奥斯汀，1775年12月6日出生于斯蒂文顿，是家里7个孩子中最小的一个。她接受的是家庭式教育，而以现在观点来看，这样的教育程度很有限。

Besides the elementary subjects，she also learnt French and Italian and became an expert needle-woman.Her reading extended little beyond the literature of the eighteenth century，later was delighted with both the poetry and prose of Scott.

除了一些基础的科目外，奥斯汀还学习了法语和意大利语，而且她的针线活也做得非常出色。她的阅读视野并不仅仅局限于18世纪的文学，后来的写作也受到斯科特诗歌和散文的启发。

The first twenty-five years of her life she spent at Steventon; in 1801 she moved with her family to Bath，then a great center of fashion; after the death of her father in 1805，she lived with her mother and sister，first at Southampton and then at Chaw ton; finally she took lodgings at W inchester to be near a doctor，and there she died on July 18，1817，and was buried in the W inchester Cathedral.

奥斯汀在25岁之前都生活在斯蒂文顿。1801年随家人迁往当时的时尚中心——巴思。1805年，父亲去世，奥斯汀就随母亲、姐妹们先后居住在南安普顿和乔顿。最后她在温彻斯特一个医生家旁住了下来，于1817年7月18 日在那里去世，死后安葬在温彻斯特大教堂里。

Plot：The story concerns two sisters，Elinor and M arianne Dashwood（Elinor representing "sense" and Marianne "sensibility"）.

故事梗概：《理智与情感》这部小说主要围绕两位女主人公曲折的感情经历展开描写。姐姐艾莉诺和妹妹玛丽安，有着截然不同的性格：一个是理智型的，另一个是情感型的。

Along with their mother and younger sister Margaret，they are left impoverished after the death of their father，and the family is forced to move to a country cottage，offered to them by a generous relative.(www.xing528.com)

父亲去世后，家里一贫如洗，艾莉诺、玛丽安和妹妹玛格丽特也被迫随母亲搬到由一位慷慨亲戚提供的乡间小屋里居住。

Soon however，Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal：a new neighbor.So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous.Unfortunately，the man abandons her eventually.Meanwhile，Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart.

然而不久，玛丽安就遇到了自己心仪的对象——她的新邻居。被爱情冲昏了头脑，玛丽安言行不端，引起人们议论纷纷。不幸的是，那个男人最后抛弃了她。与此同时，艾莉诺对爱德华的爱意日益加深，但爱德华承认已和他的青梅竹马秘密订婚，这让她备受煎熬。

How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes，and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel.Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers，it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage，she shows us，exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure.

两姐妹如何处理她们这段浪漫而又不幸的情感经历，从中汲取的教训，以及最后收获幸福是故事的核心。虽然玛丽安冲破世俗的束缚，为了爱情不顾一切的付出可能会吸引一些现代读者，但是真正令奥斯汀羡慕的是艾莉诺的生活，她告知读者，唯有理智和情感并存，且相互平衡，才能缔结幸福的婚姻。

Comment：A lthough Sense and Sensibility is the first novel of Jane Austen，her w riting techniques in it are already pretty mature.Under the author's skillful design of every plot in the story，the facial cause and effect relationship is naturally and reasonably equivalent to the nature hidden behind.

评论：《理智与情感》虽是简·奥斯汀的第一部小说，但写作技巧已经相当成熟。故事中的每一个情节，其表面的因果关系与隐藏在背后的必然性，经作者的巧妙构思，编排得合情合理。