英語短篇小說及概括
Ⅰ 給我一篇英語短篇小說的簡介
《The Million Pound Note》：
In 1903, American seaman Henry Adams (Gregory Peck) is stranded penniless in England and gets caught up in an unusual wager between two wealthy, eccentric brothers, Oliver (Ronald Squire) and Roderick Montpelier (Wilfrid Hyde-White). They persuade the Bank of England to issue a one million pound banknote, which they present to Adams in an envelope (only telling him that it contains some money). The reason for this is that Oliver believes that the mere existence of the note will enable the possessor to obtain whatever he needs, while Roderick contends that it would actually have to be spent for it to be of any use.
Once Adams gets over the shock of discovering how much the note is worth, he tries to return it to the brothers, but is told that they have left for a month. He then finds a letter in the envelope, explaining the wager and promising him a job if he can avoid spending the note for the month.
At first, everything goes as Oliver had predicted. Adams is mistaken for an eccentric millionaire and has no trouble getting food, clothes and a hotel suite on credit, just by showing his note. The story of the note is reported in the newspapers. Adams is welcomed into exclusive social circles, meeting the American ambassador and English aristocracy. He becomes very friendly with Portia Lansdowne (Jane Griffiths), the niece of the Duchess of Cromarty.
Then, fellow American Lloyd Hastings (Hartley Power) asks him to back a business venture. Hastings tells Adams that he does not have to put up any money himself; the mere association will allow Hastings to raise the money he needs to start up a gold mine by selling shares.
Trouble arises when the Duke of Frognal (A. E. Matthews), who had been unceremoniously evicted from the suite Adams now occupies, hides the note as a joke. When Adams is unable to proce the note, panic breaks out amongst the shareholders and Adams' creditors. Fortunately, all is straightened out in the end, and Adams is able to return the note to the Montpelier brothers at the end of the month.
Ⅱ 求英語短篇小說內容概括
(little women) 說的是馬奇家四個女孩子的故事。麥格決定不再抱怨，琴決定當個淑女，白絲會努力變地勇敢點，小艾米也會多為他人著想。
Ⅲ 《小王子》用英文概括主要內容
The narrator of the novel is a pilot who tells the story of the little prince and their friendship. The pilot is a fantasy person.
He is not used to those who are too practical alts. He likes to get along with children. The children are natural and pleasant.
The pilot was forced to land in the Sahara Desert e to an aircraft failure, where he met the little prince. This encounter with the little prince made the pilot sad and revived himself. The little prince left because of emotional entanglement.
He roamed among the planets, visiting the planets of kings, egos, drunkards, merchants, lamplighters, and geographers, and finally came to earth to try to find solutions to loneliness and pain.
小說的敘述者是個飛行員，他講述了小王子、以及他們之間友誼的故事。飛行員是個愛幻想的人，不習慣那些太講究實際的大人，喜歡和孩子們相處，孩子自然、令人愉悅。
飛行員因飛機故障迫降在撒哈拉大沙漠，在那裡遇見了小王子。而這次與小王子的相遇，讓飛行員既悲傷，也使自己重振精神。小王子是因為發生了感情糾葛負氣出走。
他在各星球中間漫遊，分別造訪了國王、自負的人、酒鬼、商人、點燈人和地理學家的星球，最後降臨到地球上，試圖找到紓解孤獨和痛苦的良方。
(3)英語短篇小說及概括擴展閱讀：
《小王子》作者聖埃克蘇佩里，《小王子》創作於1942年，出版於1943年，當時正是二戰最關鍵的時刻。1940年法國戰敗，隨著歐戰開始，聖埃克蘇佩里曾應征入伍，參加空軍偵察行動，目睹法國空軍大潰敗。
維希政府與希特勒簽訂停戰協定後，他復員沉沒彷徨了一段時間，輾轉北非、葡萄牙來到了美國。在美國的兩年期間，他與母親的通信聯系幾乎完全阻絕。
他認為，童年是盼望奇跡、追求溫情、充滿夢想的時代，對比之下，大人死氣沉沉、權欲心重、虛榮膚淺。
「大人應該以孩子為榜樣」。於是作者選取了一個孩子看世界的角度，用孩子的童真、好奇心、和想更多了解這個世界的慾望來給成人講故事，尤其是給那些「童心未泯」的成人講，讓他們借小王子的想像力暫時忘記屬於大人世界的慾望，飛回童年，並反思現實生活，發現人生的真諦。
Ⅳ 經典英文短篇小說集：愛情故事的內容簡介
《經典英文短篇小說集:愛情故事》精選的20餘篇以愛情為主題的英語短篇小說，融合當代最新佳作和文壇巨匠的短篇精華，以優美動人的筆觸，深情描繪「執子之手，與子偕老」 的恆久誓言，「一飯一蔬，地久天長」的溫馨甜蜜，「驀然回首，此情已遠 」的無限感傷，也有「滄桑融盡，痴情不悔」的纏綿悱惻，讓讀者徜徉於浪漫絕美的愛情海之中。
Ⅳ 跪求3-5篇英語短篇小說的主要內容與人物評價！！！（用英文！~）
2. In a small town of st petersburg, have a very naughty, but a good boy, tom, he hates school for the insipidity of the life, hoping that can and the like the exciting life. one day, tom and huckleberry had left home and went to a desert island, a few days of his life. they know that a case, a critical moment, tom has a very fierce ： joe. tom was afraid of retaliation by joe,Was always uneasy. he and huckleberry a haunted house when he found joe, then the murderer death in the cave. tom and huck ley had a lot of coins.
1。The old man and the sea is a fisherman eighty-four days have hooked a fish, and nearly died of hunger ； but he still wouldn't admit defeat in the eighty-fifth day catches a great fish. fish mullin pulled the boat to the sea, but the old man still held, even if there is no water, no food, no, no, he does not lose heart. after two days and nights later, he eventually killed the fish, and put it on a ship.But many of the shark was immediately come to rob him of killing them, all ； him to last only a broken on the tiller as a weapon. however, the fish were still wet, finally, the old man just dragged a 魚骨 head. he went home in bed, from dreams of yesteryear to find a good time.
Ⅵ 英語短篇小說讀後感（故事梗概）要書蟲系列的
五篇不少了，寫十篇就累死了呵呵，先用著吧
1. 化學秘密讀後感
Chemical secret book review
In this winner holidays， I read the "Chemical Secret" in 「shuchong」，Although not quite like to watch the English novel, but I watched this addiction!
For me this novel is a timid man "thriller". The novel is about Mr. Duncan's Paint career: from an impoverished unemployed people to find a wealthy and rich career, to return to live in a small apartment in a dirty unemployed people. Unconventional and downs throughout the story, it is a good thing can be instantly transformed into a negative factor, is "a blessing in disguise, bad thing.".
Duncan is both sympathetic and people who hate people. He is a competent biologist, found that the toxicity of the paint factory, but the boss is under coercion self-deception to think no one will hurt, but to the community to conceal the truth. Sadly, his pregnant daughter, to uncover the truth, unfortunately, in the survey fall into the river, was filling with venom of this river. At the end of his walk in the way to the hospital, mental uneasy thought: fetal malformation ... This makes the novel even more tragic and suspense.
I do not like this inside the paint David's boss, David is a person who only seek their own interests, he ignored the safety of others, just know that money is really selfish shameful act! Be clearly seen in his company and drink contaminated water to seal poisoning, but he said the paint quickly into the sea, we never drink, it was only 200 million dollars a purification equipment costs.
We all know the importance of environmental protection, but in the interests of the face, which one would you choose?
2.牙齒和爪子讀後感
Teeth and claws book review
In this winner holidays， I read the "Teeth and claws" in 「shuchong」， Teeth and claws"Book" teeth and claws "This book is the story of a few short and pithy:" Lay Denis. Washi Ta "," storytelling "and" Gabriel Ernest. ""Tuobo Maury," "wolf," consisting of. The length of each story is not long, but it is Sylvia wonderful. Author hecla Hugh Munro was a correspondent, also a writer.Good with a clear and concise language to tell a wonderful story of one vivid. He wrote wonderful short stories known. He was born 1870, died in 1916.
Each book is a kind of hero story aggressive animals. Bizarre fantasy story, but brilliant. May be surprising is that the authors and do not let these animals appear in the forest steppe, but these animals appear in the elegant room, the king's garden or a beautiful mansion. These animals will suddenly appear, people by surprise. These animals with their own animal, injury or swallowing. But they always tear up the human camouflage, exposing the depths of human nature to most.
3.在月亮下面讀後感
The following book review in the Moon
The sun is burning a huge fireball. Without light and heat from the sun, we can not survive on the planet Earth. The ozone layer around the planet to protect us from the fire of the sun damage. However, if the ozone layer break, be like?
Read the story below in the moon, I have a more deep sentiment: to protect the earth, we must first protect the ozone layer is not destroyed, recing CFC emissions.
All life on Earth would be no life left the sunlight and the sun light is visible light, ultraviolet, infrared, three parts. Sunlight into the atmosphere (including UV), 55% of light through the atmosphere to the earth and sea, of which 40% of visible light, which is the driving force for photosynthesis, green plants; 5% 100 ~ 400 nm wavelength ultraviolet light, and ultraviolet divided into long wave, medium wave, short wave ultraviolet light, UVA can sterilization. But the wavelength of 200 ~ 315 nm short-wave ultraviolet radiation on the human body and biological harmful. When it passes through the stratosphere, the most absorbed by the ozone layer.
However, in the fast advancement of human technology, a large discharge of sewage and toxic gases, heavy use of procts containing CFCs, the ozone layer destruction. Imagine, if the "ozone layer" that destroyed the umbrella of the Earth, the Earth will happen?
How should we do to protect the ozone layer? We can drive less, use less procts containing CFCs, no radiation of appliances to buy ......
To our planet, please protect the ozone layer. Hope that through our efforts, not to expand empty, and even to restore the original appearance of the earth more beautiful, more human health and longevity!
4.蘇格蘭瑪麗女王讀後感
Mary Queen of Scots book review
Highlights of biographical literature, is that person's life can be condensed in the hundreds of book pages. Years in the past few decades, the proud, frustrated, wonderful, hardship, and all of life, the only change made a point of looking down to watch, it becomes a few simple screen theater. A person's fate, on the stage of history, how small, and time is the best explanation of who, decades or centuries after the spectator, through the biographies of the fire, you can see all the ups and downs of fate minor context to say that this is a wonderful thing. About Scotland, in addition to bagpipes, plaid skirt, the really is not much known, that the island is located in the north of England, leaving the impression is bleak and tragic, this impression and bagpipes, but also on the Ministry and that the "brave heart "of film-related. • do not say that Mary Stuart and Elizabeth scores between, the book has been written very clearly. • About Mary Stuart, book reading, there is a personal taste of the image. She seems to be a beautiful winged butterfly with Fenghua, in her youth before the age of 25 years, she was free, lush, elegant and lucky. She lightly flying around, happy, beautiful, popular everywhere, people adore. But her rash and impulsive, she such a temperament, if it is a normal woman, the only sacrifice of love or marriage, but she was crowned Queen of the head, being in the center of the vortex of politics, so not far from the tragedy in waiting her. • After 25 years of age Mary Stuart is still lush, elegant, but she has lost the most precious freedom, happiness is no longer blessing to her, she is still beautiful but the trembling of the wings has been unable to fly day and night thinking she broke free, But the shackles of the body become increasingly tight, until she brought no return. • in Mary Stuart's fate, the protagonist Elizabeth can not be ignored, two women, a struggle of several decades of war, and then two completely different fate. The work style of the novel is between statements and between historical facts, but has a longer length on women's psychological description, Zweig's language because they know and love, so read it is quite calm.
5. 逆戟鯨 讀後感
Killer whale book review
I recently read a book, the name is "killer whale." Animals and people, with feelings and emotions, the feelings of people in almost all animals found; human animals can also be inspired. We should protect animals, not kill animals, or animals will also be retaliation, only people and animals live in harmony, the world was more beautiful and more exciting.
Animals need to learn many things, and what help each other ah, ah, and so pay attention to instrumentation, and even in some respects we do not like animals do. Animals and people should live in harmony. "Orcas" to tell a man to kill the mother whale, when the male whale in a sea fell to his death at the tip of the man had done. The article tells us that the brutal cruelty to animals, nature will inevitably be punished. Animal protection is everyone's responsibility, we must not only protect animals, but also to protect their living environment is not destroyed, so that people and animals to mutual benefit.
I read this book a great harvest, you read it, I believe you will understand the truth of many
Ⅶ 坎特伯雷故事集 英文梗概
The original plan:
Chaucer originally planed to write 120 stories, 2 for each pilgrim to tell on the way to Canterbury and 2 more on the way back. But he actually completed only 22, though there are 2 more existed in fragments. The work was probably first conceived in 1386, when Chaucer was living in Greenwich, some miles east of London. From his house he might have been able to see the pilgrim road that led toward the shrine of the famous English saint, Thomas a Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury who was murdered in his cathedral in 1170. Medieval pilgrims were notorious tale tellers, and the sight and sound of the bands riding toward Canterbury may well have suggested to Chaucer the idea of using a fictitious pilgrimage as a "frame" for a number of stories. This practice was common in the later period of the Middle Ages. Boccaccio had told 100 tales in his Decameron, each of the ten characters told a story a day for ten days. Another Italian, Gioanni Sercambi, had placed a series of stories in the mouth of the leader of a group of persons journeying on horseback. But it seems that Chaucer was unaware of the Italian precedents; his artistic exploitation of the device is altogether his own.
The structure:
The Canterbury Tales is not merely a collection of stories strung together by some loose thread, as was the general practice for some European writers of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance to assemble a rather large group of tales into a single work of some magnitude, but Chaucer creates in the "General Prologue" a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life and then assigns to each of them some appropriate tale shedding light on the respective narrator's distinctive personality, and then in the separate "prologues" to some of the tales, and in the "links" that link up some of the tales, the author makes further efforts to show the interplay between the characters as well as their respective traits and idiosyncrasies. Thus the total effect of the poem as a whole is a comprehensive picture of the social reality of the poet's day, especially since the pilgrims portrayed include men and women of all different professions, the high and the low, the lay and the clerical, the learned and the ignorant, the roguish and the upright, all excepting the very highest (i.e. the king and the top nobility) and lowest (i.e. the very poor laboring folk) in social rank at the time.
Characters included are:
(1) the monastic orders which include a rich monk, a friar, a prioress with her chaplain, a nun and three priests; (2) the secular clergy which include a parson, a pardoner and a summoner, to be joined by a canon and his yeoman devoted to alchemy; (3)the upper rung on the social ladder includes a knight, a squire, and a yeoman, a wealthy franklin, a doctor, a lawyer, and an Oxford scholar; (4) the trade which is represented by a merchant and a shipman; (5) the burgesses or freemen which include a haberdasher, a carpenter, a weaver, a dyer, a tapestry-maker, a cook, and the Wife of Bath; (6) the rural dwellers which include a miller, a reeve, a manciple and a plowman.
The merits
The merits of the 24 tales are of unequal merits. Taken as a whole they represent practically the whole range of literary genres in medieval and early Renaissance Europe, embracing minstrelcy, chivalric romances, fabliaux, lays, legends, legendary epic sagas, animal epics, mythology, moral allegories and sermons. Though Chaucer did not always succeed in his experiments with all the different popular literary media of the day, he certainly had wide interest in numerous literary traditions and innovations not alone in England but also on the Continent of Europe.
【內容介紹】
喬叟的《坎特伯雷故事集》不是第一本短篇小說集，甚至讓一群人中每人講一個故事這種形式也不是什麼新主意。在卜伽丘的《十日談》中就有十個人，為了躲避1348年在佛羅倫薩肆虐的溫疫逃到城郊的庄園。他們就是通過講故事來消磨時間的。 《坎特伯雷故事集》中也有一群人，每個人講述一個故事。我們不僅對故事本身感興趣，而且對講述故事的人也感興趣。他們中的每個人都是真實的。喬叟在引言中把他們一一作了介紹。然後，我們又在故事中與他們相識。很快，我們就覺得對他們每個人都有所了解。
喬叟(約1343—1400) 英國詩人。倫敦酒商的兒子。十幾歲起進入宮廷當差。1359年隨愛德華三世的部隊遠征法國，被法軍俘虜，不久贖回。喬叟與宮廷往來密切，當過廷臣、關稅督察、肯特郡的治安法官、郡下議院議員。他曾因外交事務出使許多國家和地區，到過比利時、法國、義大利等國，有機會遇見薄伽丘與彼特拉克，這對他的文學創作產生了很大的影響。喬叟在庇護者失寵期間，被剝奪了官位和年金，經濟拮據。他曾寫過打油詩《致空囊》給剛登基的亨利四世，申訴自己的貧窮。1400年喬叟逝世，安葬在倫敦威斯敏特斯教堂的「詩人之角」。
喬叟的詩歌創作分為三個時期：
①法國影響時期(1359—1372)：主要翻譯並仿效法國詩人的作品，創作了《悼公爵夫人》，用倫敦方言翻譯了法國中世紀長篇敘事詩《玫瑰傳奇》等。
②義大利影響時期(1372—1386)：詩人接觸了資產階級人文主義的進步思想。這一時期的創作如《百鳥會議》、《特羅伊勒斯和克萊西德》、《好女人的故事》，反映了作者面向生活現實的創作態度和人文主義觀點。
③成熟時期(1386—1400)：喬叟在這最後15年裡從事《坎特伯雷故事集》的創作。無論在內容和技巧上都達到他創作的頂峰。他首創的英雄雙韻體為以後的英國詩人所廣泛採用，被譽為「英國詩歌之父」。
《坎特伯雷故事集》內容提要
4月的一天，一群香客去坎特伯雷朝聖，投宿在泰巴旅店。次日，店主、香客與在此住宿的作者一起出發。店主提議在去坎特伯雷的路上每人講兩個故事，回來時再講兩個，被大家公認為最佳的講故事者可以在回來時白吃一頓豐盛的晚餐。喬叟只完成計劃中120個故事中的24個(包括兩個未完成的)，其中22個為詩體，兩個散文體。每個故事前均有開場語，全書有一個總序。作者用這種方式把各個零散故事連成一體。
《坎特伯雷故事集》有幾點值得注意：
一、它展現了廣闊的社會畫面。香客來自社會各個階層：騎士、僧侶、學者、律師、商人、手工業者、自耕農、磨坊主等。
二、它綜合採用了中世紀的各種文學體裁，有騎士傳奇、聖徒傳、佈道文、寓言等。
三、總序和開場白中對人物的描寫和故事本身饒有趣味，充滿幽默感。
四、語言帶上了講述人自身的特徵，每人所講的故事都體現出講述人的身份、趣味、愛好、職業和生活經驗。
《坎特伯雷故事集》之女尼的教士的故事(梗概)
公雞腔得克利與7隻母雞住在一位克勤克儉的寡婦院子里。一天凌晨，公雞從噩夢中驚醒。他夢見一隻野獸潛伏在草叢里伺機要咬死他。他最寵愛的母雞帕特立特譏笑他膽小如鼠，認為男子漢大丈夫應該敢於蔑視一切，有膽有識，勸他不必把夢放在心上。可公雞舉了很多例子說明，人在遭惡運之前都曾在夢中得到預兆。比如：有兩人因找不到旅店，一人不得不投宿牛棚。夜裡，另一人兩次夢見宿牛棚的朋友向他求救。他未加理會。第三次做夢時，朋友告訴他自己已被貪圖金錢的馬夫謀害，懇請他第二天清早攔住一輛糞車，他的屍體就藏在糞車底層。事實果然證實了夢中的景象。後來謀殺者被揭露並受絞刑。又如：有兩人要乘船遠航，因為風向不對，被迫耽誤一天。就在這天夜裡，其中一人夢中得到警告：第二天不要出海，否則會淹死。他的同伴聽後不以為然，堅持動身。後來果然遇難。公雞說完這些可怕的事情，又自我寬慰了一番。等天一亮，他如平日一樣與母雞們覓食尋歡，早把昨夜的擔驚受怕拋在腦後。突然間，他發現躲在草叢里的狐狸，不禁大驚失色。正要拔腿逃跑，狐狸叫住他，說自己是專門來欣賞公雞的歌聲的。一番奉承話說得公雞心花怒放。他剛擺好姿勢准備引吭高歌，狐狸沖上前咬住他的頸項，急步向窩奔去。母雞們慌亂的哭叫聲引來了寡婦和她的兩個女兒。眾人帶著棍棒協力追趕。公雞見狀，對狐狸耍了個花招，從他嘴裡掙扎出來，僥幸地逃脫了厄運。
故事賞析
這是一篇動物寓言。它以獨特的體裁和風趣幽默的語言吸引讀者，體現了《坎特伯雷故事集》的藝術特色。
這篇寓言故事出自一位供奉神職的教士之口。故事講敘人旁徵博引，在不長的篇幅中引用各類古籍、《聖經》和傳說中的典故達20餘處之多，熨帖自然，引入入勝。故事除了按傳統的結構法在結尾點明寓意之外，還在講敘過程中見縫插針，不失時機地加入警句。例如，在轉述公雞所講的謀財害命的故事時，教士情不自禁說道：「啊，上帝，您是多麼聖明公正／謀殺盡管無人知曉，您會將它揭露／……盡管它藏上一年、兩年或三年／謀殺終會暴露……」這種佈道式的語氣在文中隨處可見，成了鋪敘故事時一個不可或缺的構成因素，產生了獨特的藝術效果。讀者在欣賞故事的同時，可以從佈道式的語氣中清楚地意識到講敘人的教士身份。這種個性化的語言恰恰是《坎特伯雷故事集》藝術魅力長存的關鍵之一。
除去講述者個性分明外，故事也展示了作者駕馭語言的才能。公雞腔得克利驕傲自大、目空一切，儼然以一方之主的姿態昂首闊步，但又生性膽怯、疑神疑鬼。他喜歡別人對他阿諛奉承，容易受騙上當。他時而高談闊論，似乎能洞察一切；時而又嘮嘮叨叨，唯恐惡運臨頭；時而敏感，時而愚鈍。母雞帕特立特也頗具個性。她的言談風度彷彿是位備受寵愛的太太。話語尖刻鋒利，十分任性，但對自己的丈夫又是一往情深。通過富有個性的語言，作者活靈活現地展示了這一對性格迥異卻又趣味相投的公雞母雞的身影。
《坎特伯雷故事集》的幽默譏諷的特色在此也得到了生動的體現。教士用學者的口吻講話，或者搬弄華麗的詞藻，或者一本正經地引經據典，講敘的卻僅僅是一個關於公雞、母雞、狐狸的動物故事，傳達的只是街頭巷尾的瑣聞。這種氣勢和內容的脫節，產生了一種幽默、滑稽的藝術效果。例如公雞趾高氣揚的神態在狐狸面前一掃而光；狐狸狡猾地誘使公雞上當，而自己又不免同樣被騙；公雞、母雞在言談中顯露出一副貴公子、貴夫人的氣派，而在行動中又難免現出家禽的本色。喬叟正是通過這種事物本質與表象、內容與形式之間的問離，巧妙地製造了籠罩全篇的幽默滑稽的喜劇氣氛。
假如我們將這篇故事放在文藝復興曙光初露的大背景上觀照的話，不難發現無論是個性化的語言還是喜劇式的效果都被點染上了人文主義的思想光彩。「妙相庄嚴」的教士自然改不了他的職業習慣，而救人脫離苦海的佈道卻蛻變為插科打諢式的動物寓言；上帝、教義之類當然仍是教士念念不忘的法寶，而故事卻全然不顧宗教的庄嚴肅穆，透出一片人間的盎然情趣，歸結為塵俗世界的生活格言：該睜眼時莫閉眼，該緘默時勿開口。
這種重世俗、重現世的人文主義思想的流露也為這篇風格瑰麗、意趣盎然的動物寓言添上了意味雋永的一筆。
附【目錄】
前言
引言
在泰巴德客棧
騎士的故事
派拉蒙和阿賽特
學者的故事
逆來順受的格麗西達
巴斯太太的故事
女人最大的慾望是什麼？
赦罪僧的故事
三個尋找『死亡』的人
自由農的故事
三個承諾
游乞僧的故事
教會差役和魔鬼
女尼的教士的故事
公雞羌得克立和狐狸
《坎特伯雷故事集》是英國作家喬叟的小說。作品描寫一群香客聚集在倫敦一家小旅店裡，准備去坎特伯雷城朝聖。店主人建議香客們在往返途中各講兩個故事，看誰講的最好。故事集包括了23個故事，其中最精彩的故事有：騎士講的愛情悲劇故事、巴斯婦講的騎士的故事、賣贖罪券者講的勸世寓言故事、教士講的動物寓言故事、商人講的家庭糾紛的故事、農民講的感人的愛情和慷慨義氣行為的故事。作品廣泛地反映了資本主義萌芽時期的英國社會生活，揭露了教會的腐敗、教士的貪婪和偽善，譴責了扼殺人性的禁慾主義，肯定了世俗的愛情生活。
《坎特伯雷故事集》的藝術成就很高，遠遠超過了以前同時代的英國文學作品，是英國文學史上現實主義的第一部典範。作品將幽默和諷刺結合，喜劇色彩濃厚，其中大多數故事用雙韻詩體寫成，對後來的英國文學產生了影響。人物形象鮮明，語言生動活潑。喬叟用富有生命力的倫敦方言進行創作，也為英國文學語言奠定了基礎。他首創的英雄雙韻體為以後的英國詩人所廣泛採用，因而喬叟被譽為「英國詩歌之父」。
Ⅷ 用英語概括《霧都孤兒》的主要內容
該作以霧都倫敦為背景，講述了一個孤兒悲慘的身世及遭遇。主人公奧利弗在孤兒院長大，經歷學徒生涯，艱苦逃難，誤入賊窩，又被迫與狠毒的凶徒為伍，歷盡無數辛酸，最後在善良人的幫助下，查明身世並獲得了幸福。
該書揭露許多當時的社會問題，如救濟院、童工、以及幫派吸收青少年參與犯罪等。該書曾多次改編為電影、電視及舞台劇。
This work is set in London, a foggy city, and tells the tragic story and experience of an orphan. Oliver, the hero, grew up in an orphanage, experienced apprenticeship, fled hard, strayed into a den of thieves, and was forced to associate with vicious murderers, experiencing countless hardships.
Finally, with the help of good people, he found out his life experience and gained happiness.
The book reveals many social problems at that time, such as almshouse, child labor, and gangs absorbing teenagers to participate in crimes. This book has been adapted into movies, television and stage plays many times.
創作背景
《霧都孤兒》作為英國小說家查爾斯·狄更斯在維多利亞時代的作品。資本主義的發展，使英國成為世界超級大國。但繁華之下，是貧窮和不幸。這種繁榮孕育在危險和骯臟的工廠和煤礦里。階級沖突越發明顯，終於在1836年到1848年中接連爆發。19世紀末期，大英帝國國力逐漸下降。作為一個時代的產物，文學日趨多樣化，許多偉大的作家出現在那個時代。
《霧都孤兒》寫於《濟貧法》通過之時。英國正經歷一場轉變，從一個農業和農村經濟向城市和工業國家的轉變。《濟貧法》允許窮人依賴接受公共援助，卻要求他們進行必要的勞動。為了阻止窮人依賴公共援助，逼迫他們忍受難以想像的痛苦。
因為貧民院的救援聲名狼藉，許多窮人寧死也不尋求公共援助。《濟貧法》沒有提高窮人階級的生活水平，卻對最無助和無奈的下層階級施以懲罰。
Ⅸ 用英語概括《簡愛》這本書主要內容
英文簡介：
Jane lost their parents, to live with aunt home, unequal treatmentthat she suffered humiliation, little bear others cannot imaginegrievances and pain.
As an alt, she became Schonfeld aristocratic manor family teacher, she won the sincere feelings and noble character master's respect and love, who is so cruel to her fate, shepaid ring the marriage is difficult to calculate the cost of from first to last.
but she had stuck to their belief, ideal commitment and the pursuit of their own.
中文簡介：
作品講述一位從小變成孤兒的英國女子在各種磨難中不斷追求自由與尊嚴，堅持自我，最終獲得幸福的故事。小說引人入勝地展示了男女主人公曲折起伏的愛情經歷，歌頌了擺脫一切舊習俗和偏見，成功塑造了一個敢於反抗，敢於爭取自由和平等地位的婦女形象。
這本小說是一部具有濃厚浪漫主義色彩的現實主義小說。《簡·愛》是部膾炙人口的作品，一部帶有自傳色彩的長篇小說。《簡·愛》中的簡·愛人生追求有兩個基本旋律：富有激情、幻想、反抗和堅持不懈的精神；對人間自由幸福的渴望和對更高精神境界的追求。
這本小說的主題是通過對孤女坎坷不平的人生經歷，成功地塑造了一個不安於現狀、不甘受辱、敢於抗爭的女性形象，反映一個平凡心靈的坦誠傾訴的呼號和責難，一個小寫的人成為一個大寫的人的渴望。
(9)英語短篇小說及概括擴展閱讀：
《簡·愛》在內容結構上有以下特點：
一、《簡·愛》的結構是一種《神曲》式的藝術構架。簡愛經歷了地獄（蓋茨赫德和羅沃德）的烤炙，煉獄（桑菲爾德和沼澤地）的凈化，最後到達可大徹大悟的天國著一理想境界（與羅切斯特結合並誕生了象徵新生的下一代）。
二、作者運用渲染氣氛、噩夢、幻覺、預感來營造地獄的氣氛，構築寓言式的環境。在蓋茨赫德，簡愛從生活中感覺到了「陰森森的祭奠氣氛」，看到時隱時現的「幽靈」，而壓抑恐怖，令人毛骨悚然的「紅房子」則幾乎成了地獄的化身。
在羅沃德，「死亡成了這里的常客」，「圍牆之內籠罩著陰郁和恐怖」，散發著「死亡的惡臭」，對簡愛來說，無疑是剛跳出火坑，卻又被投進了一個更為可怕的地獄。在桑菲爾德，瘋女人像鬼魂一樣頻頻出現，暴風驟雨不斷襲擊桑宅。
三、為了賦予一部普通的愛情小說以經典意義和神話的內涵，作者反復引用《聖經》、神話、史詩、古典名著、歷史典故莎士比亞的著作。
四、這部小說的一個很大特點是富有激情和詩意。小說的男主人羅切斯特和女主人公簡·愛男女雙方都用詩的話語來表達各自的激情。
Ⅹ 一篇英文短篇小說的英文版簡介，應付作業啊，一定要快
《The Million Pound Note》：
In 1903, American seaman Henry Adams (Gregory Peck) is stranded penniless in England and gets caught up in an unusual wager between two wealthy, eccentric brothers, Oliver (Ronald Squire) and Roderick Montpelier (Wilfrid Hyde-White). They persuade the Bank of England to issue a one million pound banknote, which they present to Adams in an envelope (only telling him that it contains some money). The reason for this is that Oliver believes that the mere existence of the note will enable the possessor to obtain whatever he needs, while Roderick contends that it would actually have to be spent for it to be of any use.
Once Adams gets over the shock of discovering how much the note is worth, he tries to return it to the brothers, but is told that they have left for a month. He then finds a letter in the envelope, explaining the wager and promising him a job if he can avoid spending the note for the month.
At first, everything goes as Oliver had predicted. Adams is mistaken for an eccentric millionaire and has no trouble getting food, clothes and a hotel suite on credit, just by showing his note. The story of the note is reported in the newspapers. Adams is welcomed into exclusive social circles, meeting the American ambassador and English aristocracy. He becomes very friendly with Portia Lansdowne (Jane Griffiths), the niece of the Duchess of Cromarty.
Then, fellow American Lloyd Hastings (Hartley Power) asks him to back a business venture. Hastings tells Adams that he does not have to put up any money himself; the mere association will allow Hastings to raise the money he needs to start up a gold mine by selling shares.
Trouble arises when the Duke of Frognal (A. E. Matthews), who had been unceremoniously evicted from the suite Adams now occupies, hides the note as a joke. When Adams is unable to proce the note, panic breaks out amongst the shareholders and Adams' creditors. Fortunately, all is straightened out
, and Adams is able to return the note to the Montpelier brothers at the end of the month.