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新思路大学英语课程听力专项训练
1.7.1 1. Jane Fyre(简爱)

1. Jane Fyre(简爱)

孤女简爱自舅母家被送往洛伍德学院,受尽折磨至成年。后应征至桑菲尔德当家庭教师。庄主罗切斯特冷酷、忧郁、高深莫测,简爱为其傲慢面具下隐藏的深情所感动,并付出真爱。然而婚礼前一刻发现罗切斯特有一疯女原配。简爱黯然离去。简爱虽远离桑菲尔德,却时时耳闻罗切斯特的呼唤。待重返桑菲尔德时,庄园已被疯女焚毁,罗切斯特也双目失明。简爱再次向罗切斯特……

原著:夏洛蒂·勃朗特(Charlotte Bronte)

导演:罗伯特·史蒂文森(Robert Stevenson)

主演:奥逊·韦尔斯(Orson Welles),琼·芳登(Jaon Fontaine)

Rochester: It’s come now.

Jane: Then it...it’s settled?

Rochester: All settled, even about your future situation.

Jane: You found a place for me?

Rochester: Yes, Jane, I have. In the west of Ireland. You’ll like Ireland, I think. They are such 1) ___ people there.

Jane: It’s a long way off, sir.

Rochester: From what, Jane?

Jane: From England and from Thornfield.

Rochester: Well?

Jane: And from you, sir.

Rochester: Yes, Jane, it’s a long way. When you get there, I shall never see you again. We’ve been good friends, Jane, haven’t we?

Jane: Yes, sir.

Rochester: Even good friends may be 2) _____ to part. Let’s make the most of what time has left us. Let’s sit here in peace, even though we shall be 3) _____ never to sit here again. Sometimes I have a queer1 feeling with regard to you, Jane. Especially when you are near me as now. It’s as if I had a string somewhere under my left 4) rib, tightly and inextricably2 knotted3 to a similar string situated in a corresponding4 5) _____ of your little frame. And if we should have to be parted, that 6) code of communion5 would be snapped6. I have the nervous 7)____ I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you’d forget me.

Jane: That I never will, sir, you know that. 8) ______.

Rochester: Where do you see that necessity?

Jane: In your bride.

Rochester: My bride? I have no bride.

Jane: But you will have.

Rochester: Yes I will. I will.

Jane: Do you think I could stay here to become nothing to you? Do you think that because I’m poor and obscure7 and plain that I’m soulless and heartless? I have as much soul as you and fully as much heart, and if Godhad gifted me with wealth and beauty, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me as... as it is now for me to leave you. But he did not. 9) _____. There, I’ve spoken my heart, let me go.

Rochester: Jane, Jane, it’s strange. It’s almost an unearthly thing. It is you that I love as my own flesh...

Jane: Don’t mock me.

Rochester: It’s off with Blanch. It’s you I want. Answer me Jane, quickly. Say, “Edward, I’ll marry you.” Say it, Jane. Say it.

Jane: You mean it?

Rochester: 10) ______.

Jane: Edward, I’ll marry you.

Rochester: God, pardon me. And let no men meddle9 with me. She is mine. Mine.

Jane’s voice: All my doubts, and all the grim shadows that hung over Thornfield seemed to vanish10 ...shattered11 like the riven12 chestnut tree... I loved, and I was loved. Every sunlit hour, I looked forward to love’s fulfillment.

Key Words

1. queer adj. 奇怪的

2. inextricably adv. 无法摆脱地,分不开地

3. knot n. 结

4. corresponding adj. 相应的,对等的

5. communion n. 交流

6. snap v. 突然折断

7. obscure adj. 难理解的

8. torture with 折磨

9. meddle with 干预,管闲事

10. vanish v. 消失

11. shatter v. 粉碎

12. riven adj. 撕裂的,分裂的