Mrs. Bennet: How well you dance, Mr. Bingley. My daughter Jane is a splendid dancer, is she not?
Bingley: She is indeed. Your friend Miss Lucas is a most amusing young woman.
Elizabeth: Oh, yes, I adore her.
Mrs. Bennet: It is a pity she s not more handsome.
Elizabeth: Mama!
Mrs. Bennet: Oh, but Lizzie would never admit that she s plain. Of course it s my Jane who s considered the beauty of the county.
Elizabeth & Jane: No, Mama, please!
Mrs. Bennet: When she was 15, a gentleman was so much in love with her, that I was sure he would make her an offer. However, he did write her some very pretty verses.
Elizabeth: And that put paid to it. I wonder who discovered the power of poetry in driving away love.
Darcy: I thought poetry was the food of love.
Elizabeth: Of a fine, stout1 love, it may. But if it is only a vague inclination2 one poor sonnet3 will kill it.
Darcy: So what do you recommend to encourage affection?
Elizabeth: Dancing. Even if one s partner is barely tolerable.
Jane: Mr Bingley is just what a young man ought to be. Sensible, good-humoured...
Elizabeth: Handsome, conveniently rich...
Jane: You know perfectly4 well I do not believe marriage should be driven
by thoughts of money.
Elizabeth: I agree entirely5. Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I ll end up an old maid.
Jane: Do you really believe he liked me, Lizzie?
Elizabeth: Jane, he danced with you most of the night, and stared at you for the rest of it. But I give you leave to like him. You ve liked many a stupider person. You re a great deal too apt to like people in general, you know. All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.
Jane: Not his friend. I still can t believe what he said about you.
Elizabeth: Mr. Darcy? I could more easily forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine. But no matter, I doubt we shall ever speak again.
妙词佳句,活学活用
1. adore
Adore 有好几种意思,我们一起来看一下:
A. If you adore someone, you feel great love and admiration6 for him or her. 敬爱,敬重;爱慕
e.g. She adored her parents and would do anything to please them.
B. If you adore something, you like it very much. 非常喜欢,痴迷
e.g. I adore apple very much and eat two a day.
2. make an offer
这是口语中很常用的词组,其意义取决于作为名词的offer一词的不同含义,如在电影《情归巴黎》中有一句台词是:
You never said a word about planning to make an offer to Patrick.
这里的翻译是意译,我们可以看出来make an offer是"出价"的意思。
而在本电影的台词里,这个make an offer的意思显然不同,应该是"求婚"的意思。offer一词本身就有"求婚"的意思,所以"向某人求婚"我们可以说propose to sb. 或者make an offer to sb.
3. put paid to 结束……,了结……
这是一个挺有意思的短语,If an unexpected event puts paid to someone s hopes, chances, or plans, it completely ends or destroys them. 主要在说英式英语的国家中使用。
The series of terrible blind dates put paid to her dream of an ideal marriage.
一系列可怕的相亲断送了她对理想婚姻的梦想。
4. end up/end up with 以……结束,以……告终
If you end up doing something or end up in a particular state, you do that thing or get into that state even though you did not originally intend to.
e.g. Every time they went dancing they ended up in a bad mood.
他们每次出去跳舞都不欢而散。
She could have ended up a millionairess.
她本来可以成为一个百万富翁的。