Table Of ContentMANSFIELD PARK
WEBSTER'S CHINESE SIMPLIFIED
THESAURUS EDITION
for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL®, TOEIC®, and AP® Test Preparation
Jane Austen
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Mansfield Park
Webster's Chinese Simplified
Thesaurus Edition
for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL®, TOEIC®, and AP® Test
Preparation
Jane Austen
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Contents
PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR..........................................................................................1
CHAPTER I.......................................................................................................................2
CHAPTER II....................................................................................................................10
CHAPTER III...................................................................................................................20
CHAPTER IV...................................................................................................................30
CHAPTER V....................................................................................................................39
CHAPTER VI...................................................................................................................47
CHAPTER VII..................................................................................................................58
CHAPTER VIII.................................................................................................................70
CHAPTER IX...................................................................................................................78
CHAPTER X....................................................................................................................91
CHAPTER XI.................................................................................................................100
CHAPTER XII................................................................................................................107
CHAPTER XIII...............................................................................................................113
CHAPTER XIV...............................................................................................................122
CHAPTER XV................................................................................................................129
CHAPTER XVI...............................................................................................................140
CHAPTER XVII..............................................................................................................147
CHAPTER XVIII.............................................................................................................153
CHAPTER XIX...............................................................................................................161
CHAPTER XX................................................................................................................172
CHAPTER XXI...............................................................................................................180
CHAPTER XXII..............................................................................................................188
CHAPTER XXIII.............................................................................................................199
CHAPTER XXIV.............................................................................................................210
CHAPTER XXV..............................................................................................................218
CHAPTER XXVI.............................................................................................................231
CHAPTER XXVII............................................................................................................239
CHAPTER XXVIII...........................................................................................................249
CHAPTER XXIX.............................................................................................................258
CHAPTER XXX..............................................................................................................266
CHAPTER XXXI.............................................................................................................273
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CHAPTER XXXII............................................................................................................283
CHAPTER XXXIII...........................................................................................................297
CHAPTER XXXIV..........................................................................................................305
CHAPTER XXXV............................................................................................................316
CHAPTER XXXVI..........................................................................................................326
CHAPTER XXXVII.........................................................................................................335
CHAPTER XXXVIII........................................................................................................344
CHAPTER XXXIX..........................................................................................................356
CHAPTER XL................................................................................................................361
CHAPTER XLI...............................................................................................................367
CHAPTER XLII..............................................................................................................375
CHAPTER XLIII.............................................................................................................381
CHAPTER XLIV.............................................................................................................386
CHAPTER XLV..............................................................................................................394
CHAPTER XLVI.............................................................................................................402
CHAPTER XLVII............................................................................................................412
CHAPTER XLVIII...........................................................................................................424
GLOSSARY...................................................................................................................436
Jane Austen 1
PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR
Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in
English courses. By using a running English-to-Chinese Simplified thesaurus at the bottom of each
page, this edition of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen was edited for three audiences. The first
includes Chinese Simplified-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an
English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL),
or in a TOEFL® or TOEIC® preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking
students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Chinese Simplified speakers enrolled in
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anticipation of an examination in Chinese Simplified or English.
Webster’s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of
difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are
given lower priority compared to “difficult, yet commonly used” words. Rather than supply a single
translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in Chinese Simplified, allowing
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CHAPTER %I
About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven
thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of
Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the
rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome
house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the
match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three
thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it. She had two sisters to be
benefited by her elevation; and such of their acquaintance as thought Miss Ward
and Miss Frances quite as handsome as Miss Maria, did not scruple to predict
their marrying with almost equal advantage. But there certainly are not so many
men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Miss Ward, at the end of half a dozen years, found herself obliged to be attached
to the Rev. Mr. Norris, a friend of her brother-in-law, with scarcely any private
fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet worse. Miss Ward's match, indeed, when it
came to the point, was not contemptible: Sir Thomas being happily able to give
his friend an income in the living of Mansfield; and Mr. and Mrs. Norris began
their career of conjugal felicity with very little less than a thousand a year. But
Miss Frances married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by
fixing on a lieutenant of marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did
it very thoroughly. She could hardly have made a more untoward choice. Sir
Thomas Bertram had interest, which, from principle as well as pride--from a
Chinese Simplified
acquaintance: 相识, 熟人, 熟知, equitable: 公正, 公平的, 公正的, marrying: 结婚.
相识者. 公道. predict: 预测, 预卜, 预计, 预言.
attached: 附配. felicity: 幸福, 快乐. rank: 评价分类, 身分, 级别, 等级,
brother-in-law: 大伯, 小叔, 姐妹夫. fixing: 定影, 固定. 地位, 排.
captivate: 着迷. fortune: 幸运, 命运, 运气. scarcely: 几乎没有, 仅仅.
connexions: 关系. greatness: 伟大. scruple: 顾忌, 踌躇.
contemptible: 卑鄙, 可鄙的. handsome: 英俊, 慷慨的, 英俊的. sisters: 姊妹, 姐妹.
deserve: 应得. happily: 幸福地. thereby: 从而, 因此.
dozen: 一打, 打. lawyer: 律师, 法人. thoroughly: 好好儿地, 彻底地,
elevation: 海拔, 标高, 拔海, 高度, lieutenant: 陆军中尉. 一干二净.
升级. luck: 运气, 幸运. untoward: 麻烦的.
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general%wish of doing right, and a desire of seeing all that were connected with
him in situations of respectability, he would have been glad to exert for the
advantage of Lady Bertram's sister; but her husband's profession was such as no
interest could reach; and before he had time to devise any other method of
assisting them, an absolute breach between the sisters had taken place. It was the
natural result of the conduct of each party, and such as a very imprudent
marriage almost always produces. To save herself from useless remonstrance,
Mrs. Price never wrote to her family on the subject till actually married. Lady
Bertram, who was a woman of very tranquil feelings, and a temper remarkably
easy and indolent, would have contented herself with merely giving up her
sister, and thinking no more of the matter; but Mrs. Norris had a spirit of activity,
which could not be satisfied till she had written a long and angry letter to Fanny,
to point out the folly of her conduct, and threaten her with all its possible ill
consequences. Mrs. Price, in her turn, was injured and angry; and an answer,
which comprehended each sister in its bitterness, and bestowed such very
disrespectful reflections on the pride of Sir Thomas as Mrs. Norris could not
possibly keep to herself, put an end to all intercourse between them for a
considerable period.
Their homes were so distant, and the circles in which they moved so distinct,
as almost to preclude the means of ever hearing of each other's existence during
the eleven following years, or, at least, to make it very wonderful to Sir Thomas
that Mrs. Norris should ever have it in her power to tell them, as she now and
then did, in an angry voice, that Fanny had got another child. By the end of
eleven years, however, Mrs. Price could no longer afford to cherish pride or
resentment, or to lose one connexion that might possibly assist her. A large and
still increasing family, an husband disabled for active service, but not the less
equal to company and good liquor, and a very small income to supply their
wants, made her eager to regain the friends she had so carelessly sacrificed; and
she addressed Lady Bertram in a letter which spoke so much contrition and
despondence, such a superfluity of children, and such a want of almost
everything else, as could not but dispose them all to a reconciliation. She was
preparing for her ninth lying-in; and after bewailing the circumstance, and
Chinese Simplified
assisting: 帮助. disrespectful: 不恭, 不恭的, reflections: 感想, 反映.
bitterness: 苦味. 失礼的, 不尊重. regain: 恢复.
carelessly: 不经意, 胡乱, 大意地. eager: 切望, 踊跃, 急切, 渴望的. remonstrance: 抗议.
cherish: 爱护, 珍爱, 爱惜, 怀抱, exert: 施加. resentment: 愤慨, 恩怨, 愤.
珍惜, 胸怀, 抚育. folly: 蠢事, 愚蠢的. respectability: 可敬.
circumstance: 境遇, 形式, 情况, imprudent: 卤莽的. temper: 脾气, 性子.
环境. intercourse: 性交. threaten: 威胁.
contented: 满意. liquor: 酒, 酒精饮料, 液体. tranquil: 安宁, 安谧, 宁静, 平静,
despondence: 失望. ninth: 第九. 宁静的.
devise: 设计. preclude: 防止. useless: 赘瘤, 无用, 不稂不莠,
dispose: 部署, 清理. reconciliation: 和解. 不中用, 无用的, 没用.
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imploring their countenance as sponsors to the expected child, she could not
conceal how important she felt they might be to the future maintenance of the
eight already in being. Her eldest was a boy of ten years old, a fine spirited
fellow, who longed to be out in the world; but what could she do? Was there any
chance of his being hereafter useful to Sir Thomas in the concerns of his West
Indian property? No situation would be beneath him; or what did Sir Thomas
think of Woolwich? or how could a boy be sent out to the East?
The letter was not unproductive. It re-established peace and kindness. Sir
Thomas sent friendly advice and professions, Lady Bertram dispatched money
and baby-linen, and Mrs. Norris wrote the letters.%
Such were its immediate effects, and within a twelvemonth a more important
advantage to Mrs. Price resulted from it. Mrs. Norris was often observing to the
others that she could not get her poor sister and her family out of her head, and
that, much as they had all done for her, she seemed to be wanting to do more;
and at length she could not but own it to be her wish that poor Mrs. Price should
be relieved from the charge and expense of one child entirely out of her great
number. "What if they were among them to undertake the care of her eldest
daughter, a girl now nine years old, of an age to require more attention than her
poor mother could possibly give? The trouble and expense of it to them would be
nothing, compared with the benevolence of the action." Lady Bertram agreed
with her instantly. "I think we cannot do better," said she; "let us send for the
child."
Sir Thomas could not give so instantaneous and unqualified a consent. He
debated and hesitated;--it was a serious charge;-- a girl so brought up must be
adequately provided for, or there would be cruelty instead of kindness in taking
her from her family. He thought of his own four children, of his two sons, of
cousins in love, etc.;--but no sooner had he deliberately begun to state his
objections, than Mrs. Norris interrupted him with a reply to them all, whether
stated or not.
"My dear Sir Thomas, I perfectly comprehend you, and do justice to the
generosity and delicacy of your notions, which indeed are quite of a piece with
Chinese Simplified
adequately: 充分地. deliberately: 故意, 存心. notions: 观念, 新开发实用品.
begun: 开始. delicacy: 精致, 微妙, 美食. objections: 反对.
benevolence: 仁, 善行. eldest: 最年长, 伯仲叔季, 最年长的. observing: 善于观察的.
cannot: 不能, 不足, 不得, 不可, expense: 花费, 费用, 支出. sons: 儿子.
不克, 未可. fellow: 同伴, 伙伴. spirited: 活泼的, 生气勃勃的, 神气,
comprehend: 了解, 领会, 领悟. generosity: 慷慨. 朝气蓬勃.
conceal: 隐蔽, 包藏, 暗藏, 掩盖, hereafter: 此后, 今后, 此後, 今後. stated: 志明.
隐瞒. instantaneous: 瞬时, 瞬间的. undertake: 承担, 从事, 承办, 担任.
consent: 同意. instantly: 即刻, 即刻地. unproductive: 不毛的, 非生产性.
countenance: 容貌. kindness: 仁慈, 好意. unqualified: 无资格的.
cruelty: 残酷. maintenance: 维护, 保养. wanting: 缺少的, 不足的.
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your%general conduct; and I entirely agree with you in the main as to the
propriety of doing everything one could by way of providing for a child one had
in a manner taken into one's own hands; and I am sure I should be the last
person in the world to withhold my mite upon such an occasion. Having no
children of my own, who should I look to in any little matter I may ever have to
bestow, but the children of my sisters?-- and I am sure Mr. Norris is too just--but
you know I am a woman of few words and professions. Do not let us be
frightened from a good deed by a trifle. Give a girl an education, and introduce
her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling
well, without farther expense to anybody. A niece of ours, Sir Thomas, I may
say, or at least of yours, would not grow up in this neighbourhood without many
advantages. I don't say she would be so handsome as her cousins. I dare say she
would not; but she would be introduced into the society of this country under
such very favourable circumstances as, in all human probability, would get her
a creditable establishment. You are thinking of your sons-- but do not you know
that, of all things upon earth, that is the least likely to happen, brought up as they
would be, always together like brothers and sisters? It is morally impossible. I
never knew an instance of it. It is, in fact, the only sure way of providing against
the connexion. Suppose her a pretty girl, and seen by Tom or Edmund for the
first time seven years hence, and I dare say there would be mischief. The very
idea of her having been suffered to grow up at a distance from us all in poverty
and neglect, would be enough to make either of the dear, sweet-tempered boys
in love with her. But breed her up with them from this time, and suppose her
even to have the beauty of an angel, and she will never be more to either than a
sister."
"There is a great deal of truth in what you say," replied Sir Thomas, "and far
be it from me to throw any fanciful impediment in the way of a plan which
would be so consistent with the relative situations of each. I only meant to
observe that it ought not to be lightly engaged in, and that to make it really
serviceable to Mrs. Price, and creditable to ourselves, we must secure to the
child, or consider ourselves engaged to secure to her hereafter, as circumstances
Chinese Simplified
advantages: 优点. favourable: 良好的, 赞成的, niece: 侄女, 甥女.
angel: 天使, 安琪儿. 适宜的. observe: 观察.
bestow: 赐, 予以, 赋予, 封赐. frightened: 受惊. poverty: 贫穷.
breed: 品种, 繁殖, 饲养. impediment: 障碍, 妨碍. probability: 可能性, 可能, 盖然性,
brothers: 兄弟, 哥儿. instance: 例子, 比方, 实例. 概率.
consistent: 一贯, 一致的. introduce: 介绍. propriety: 适当.
creditable: 可信的, 体面, 声誉好的. lightly: 轻轻, 轻轻地, 轻易. serviceable: 有用的, 耐用的.
dare: 敢. mischief: 恶作剧, 顽皮. settling: 安置.
deed: 契据, 行为. morally: 精神上地, 道德上. throw: 扔, 丢掉, 丢, 投.
fanciful: 富于幻想的. neglect: 忽视, 疏忽, 忽略. trifle: 琐事, 小事.
farther: 更远, 更远的. neighbourhood: 邻近. withhold: 扣留.
