海伦凯勒《我的一生》英文书评

第一篇：海伦凯勒《我的一生》英文书评

The proper use of metaphor

——book review of the Story of My LifeFascinating historians,filmmakers,social scientists and writers,the life of Helen Keller has inspired biographies,films,essays,articles and theatrical performances.It can not be praised too much.The Story of My Life is a story of courage and determination,of persistence in the face of great odds,of never giving in and remaining cheerfully optimistic no matter what the circumstances.Whatever,what I want to talk about is the use of metaphor which impresses me most and contributes a lot to this book as well.In the book,Helen uses metaphor to indicate her determination which gives me a deep impression again and again.I slipped back many times,I fall,I run against the edge of hidden obstacles,I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better,I trudge on,I gain a little,I feel encouraged,I get more eager and clime higher and I reach the widening horizon.Every struggle is a victor.One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud,the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.This paragraph describes her real situation in Harvard University.It was her first year in Harvard.At that time,she could hardly found any special textbooks for the blind.It was extremely difficult for her to learn anything.She struggled with the help of others,sorrowfully.It’s obvious for us that she suffered a lot.However,she never gave up.She refused to surrendered to destiny.A persistent person who was putting her every effort into managing her idea comes up to my mind.All these phrases

such as “slip back,trudge on,blue depth and uplands” touch my heart.It was her willpower indicated by metaphor that moved me deeply.Helen proves us that where there is a will,there is a way by her deeds.In the Story of My Life,she also expresses her love by using beautiful and positive words.It also is a kind of metaphor.At first I did not realize what had happened;but when I put my hand in the cage and pretty wings did not meet my touch or his small pointed claws take hold of my finger, I know that I should never see my sweet little singer again.As we all know,Helen is a deaf and blind woman.She can only fell the pretty bird given by her teacher as a Christmas gift.Her reorganization to the bird is so vague.However,I can really feel her happiness and her love to her sweet little bird even though there is no a word “love” being written.She expresses her love by using words“pretty,sweet” instead of using“love”directly.Here is another example.She realized that a child’s mind is like a shallow brook which ripples and dances merrily over the stony course of its education and reflects here a flower,there a bush, yonder a fleecy cloud;and she attempted guide my mind on its way,knowing like a brook it should be fed by mountain steams and hidden springs,until in broadened out into a deep river,capable of reflecting in its surface,billow hills the luminous shadows of trees and the blue heavens as well as the sweet face of a little flower.Comparing a child’s mind to shallow brook which should be fed by small streams,Helen shows us the great influence education have on children.In other word,by doing so,the great influence from Anne

Sullivan stands out.Anne Sullivan taught Helen alphabet but instead of spelling single words.She spelled whole sentences into her hands.Sullivan is her stream and helps her grow into a brook even a considerable ocean.Examples indicate that Helen writes with metaphor can be found throughout the book.I contend that if we pay our attention to such sentences,we can have a better understanding of metaphor and make good use of it.All in all,the Story of My Life is definitely worth reading and appreciating.

第二篇：老人与海(英文书评)

老人与海（The Old Man and the Sea）英文书评(book reviews)

这本书讲了古巴(Cuba)的一个名叫圣地亚哥的老渔夫，独自一个人出海打鱼，在一无所获(to achieve nothing)的84天之后钓到了一条无比巨大的马林鱼。这是老人从来没见过也没听说过的比他的船还长两英尺的一条大鱼。鱼的劲(vigor)非常大，拖(to drag)着小船漂流了整整两天两夜，老人在这两天两夜中经历了从未经受的艰难考验，终于把大鱼刺(to stab)死，拴(to tie)在船头(the bow)。然而这时却遇上了鲨鱼(a shark)，老人与鲨鱼进行了殊死搏斗(put up a good fight)，结果大马林鱼被鲨鱼吃光了，老人最后拖回只剩下一副光秃秃bald的鱼骨架(a fish skeleton)和一身(all over the body)的伤。最后却得到了人们的赞赏。

《老人与海》完全可能成为当代一部名副其实的经典作品。厄纳斯特·海明威的这部短篇小说处理方法谨严(exact)、注意时间和地点的统一(unite)，行文(a style of writing)简洁而内涵(intension)很深(deep)。另外，和极大多数巨著(a great work)一样，海明威的这篇小说读起来可有不止一层的意思。一方面，这是一个激动人心的带有悲剧性(tragedy)的冒险故事。故事讲到一个精神沮丧(depress)的老渔人，在他对职业的自豪感的支持之下，冒险远航至墨西哥湾流并在那里钓住了一条该水域中从未见过的最大的马林鱼。故事接着说到他孤零零地、在因奋力叉住这条大鱼而耗尽了力气之后，被迫投入一场和一群海盗似的鲨鱼的绝望的搏斗之中，结果是那些鲨鱼只给他留下了猎获物的一具骨架。另一方面，这又是一个寓言，它描述

(describe)了人所具有(possess)的不可征服(conquer)的精神力量——一个人如何从灾难和实际失败的环境中攫取精神上的胜利。再一方面，这是带有宗教意义的一种隐喻(a metaphor)，作者不引人注目地给这一主题添加了基督教(Christian)的一些象征和比喻。一种注意写实(writing or painting realistically)，有着动人的情节(plot)；另一种则侧重(to lay special emphasis on)道德说教，充满象征(badge)的意义。

Translation:(book reviews)

This book tells us a story about a Cuban old man.He went fishing at sea on his own.After more than eighty four days , he fished an extremely large fish.The old man hadn’t ever seen such a big fish that was two meters longer than his boat.The vigor of fish was sostrong that it dragged the boat drifting for two days.During the two days,the old man experienced the difficulties that he had never met with.Finally,he stabbed it and tied the fish on the bow.However,he came across a shark.Then,the old man put up a good fight with a shark.As a result, the fish was eaten by the shark.So,the old man carried a bald fish skeleton and being hurt all over the body to reach home.But in the end, he attained admiration by people.The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most immortal

works.The book may very well become one of the true classics of this generation.Certainly, Ernest Hemingway's short novel is processed exact , well united time and places and it’s style of writing is very deep.In addition, as the most great works, his novel contains not only one meaning.First of all,this is an exciting tragedy adventure story.Because I see a picture how an old man killed the large fish and fought a shark via his wisdom.Furthermore, it’s also a fable that describes a spirit strength------how a person achieved success from a bad envirnoment.Lastly, the story implied a religious metaphor as well.The author added some Christian symbols and figure of speech inconspicuously.So, in my opinion, this novel tells not only a moving plot,but also lays special emphasis on moral meanings that are full of the symbol of badge.The spirit that the old man possessed impressed me deeply.meaning

第三篇：傲慢与偏见 英文书评

When Pride Encounters Prejudice, Everything is Different

—the report of Pride and Prejudice

张文莹 Nancy 外汉一班 0091114047

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Jane Austen(16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817), one of the most famous novelists in Britain, was born in Hampshire.She lived in the villages throughout her life.Although there were 2 suitors, she never married.She finished her first novel when she was only 21 years old.This work’s name was First Impressions(After amending, it had a new name: Pride and Prejudice).Ⅱ:

Pride and Prejudice is a humorous story of love and marriage.Mr.Bennet was an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his wife.He had five daughters: the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia.Because of the law, after the death of Mr.Bennet, their house would be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met.This family's future happiness and security dependent on the 5 daughters’ marriages.One day, a rich gentleman Mr.Bingley came and rented a large house in this country.His sisters and his best friend Mr.Darcy came together.Love was soon in the air for one of the 5 sisters, while another had a prejudice against Mr.Darcy.Then they experienced many things, but at last, Mr.Bingley married the oldest sister Jane, and Elizabeth overcame the prejudice and married to Mr.Darcy.It’s a happy ending.Ⅲ：

Although Mr.Song said the book report should be objective，but I had to say this book touched my heart deeply.The women written by Jane Austen still live in our world.Some like Charlotte Lucas, they choose a marriage without love just for money and a stable life.Some like Lydia, they are so frivolous and foolish that they flatter themselves that they can do anything well.Some like Mary, they are not good-looking but think themselves are the best ones.They look down every man while they are eager for a man’s love in their hearts.Some like Jane, they are kind and beautiful, but they are also reserved and feminine。They don’t have courage to fight for the love of their own but wait here in vain.And there are also some girls like innocent Ms Darcy or like vainglorious and superficially clever Bingley sisters.Of course, some girls like Elizabeth, they are clever, gentle, open-minded, and they know their own hearts.They never give in even facing a difficult situation.1

They are good ladies who are worth loving and cherishing.Jane Austen’s wisdom always appeals to me, which makes me smile through the whole reading.In fact, the life of Jane Austen was unremarkable，she nearly didn’t leave the villages where she lived.Therefore, in her books, you can’t find any historical plots or any abstruse things making you feel bored.She just wrote some common people about their happiness, little trouble, sorrow and perplexity again and again by her keen observation and her outstanding ability of writing.Although those stories happened in the villages of Britain 200 years ago, they are vivid today.Maybe she was not really a great writer in the world, but she is the cleverest and cutest woman in my heart.However, reality is not the novel.It is always cruel.Jane Austen never married throughout her life, her best friend was her sister.She was such a clever and naughty girl, whose gentleness and beauty were ignored.It’s a pity that there was no one like Mr.Darcy to appreciate and love her.Jane Austen and Eileen Chang were very like.Their works had many things in common.For example, both of their works focused on the life which they were familiar with, and they both had the sharp observation.Although they liked to write some satires, Austen was gentler than Eileen Chang.In Pride and Prejudice, you can find some very interesting dialogues.Such as in the CHAPTER 1, Mrs.Bonnet said: “Mr.Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me.You have no compassion on my poor nerves.” “You mistake me, my dear.I have a high respect for your nerves.They are my old friends.I have heard you mention them with consideration these 20 years at least.” the Mr.Bennet answered with a forced smile.What sarcastic humor it contained!She successfully depicted Mrs.Bennet as a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper by few words.And the two of them left a deep and clear imprison on the readers.Love is the eternal theme of novels.Pride and Prejudice was no exception, but it not only talked about “love”, also mentioned “marriage”.The novels about love or marriage are countless in the world.So standing out among them is not an easy thing.Pride and Prejudice can be one of the masterpieces and be loved by thousands upon thousands people from different countries, which proves that it does have its special glamour.I mainly want to talk about Elizabeth’s 2 rejections.As readers or outsiders，we can easily reject anyone and don’t accept a marriage without love just for respecting our own hearts.But if you think it over and read the book again, you will find it needs great courage to reject a man who can support you a life without worrying about clothes and food.Rejecting her cousin Mr.Collins, an unpleasant person, seemed easy, however, her best friend Charlotte chose to marry him.This contrast shows very clearly that this rejection is difficult for a woman in those days.Maybe you can find some reasons to explain why Elizabeth did that to Mr.Collins, but I’m sure there is no reason to refuse Mr.Darcy’s marriage proposal.He was such a perfect gentleman!Elizabeth couldn’t inherit her father’s fortune, which meant she had to marry a rich man to support her and live a comfortable life.But faced with Mr.Darcy, she said “no” without any hesitation.When Darcy proposed to her by saying his sense of her inferiority-of its being a degradation-of the family obstacles which judgment had always opposed to inclination.Elizabeth said: “It is nature that obligation should be felt, and if I could feel gratitude, I would now thank you.But I cannot —I have never desired your good opinion, and you have certainly bestowed it most unwillingly.”

I like this self-respecting girl and look down upon those girls who give in just for fortune, fame, even some petty profits

In fact, I don’t like a happy ending.I think a tragedy is more attractive and can reach the deepest part of my heart while a comedy is read just for relaxation.But I am also moved by this story.Pride gave way to sincerity，prejudice was replaced by love.They lived a happy life together.We can image that they sat on the lakeside bench at twilight and talked about that green years when the pride met the prejudice。

第四篇：傲慢与偏见书评(英文)

The book review of Pride and Prejudice

管宁

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813.The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England.After reading this book, I find that its name, Pride and Prejudice, is quite meaningful.Both the pride and prejudice are caused by money and social hierarchy.Jane reflected the reality of society by drawing the characters of specific person as well as the tongue they used when they speak.Some people think that only Mr.Darcy was proud and only Elizabeth had prejudice towards other else.But I hold the different opinion.When a wealthy young bachelor, Bingley, moving into Netherfield Park in the neighborhood of the Bennet family, he is soon well-received because of his income of 5000 a year and possibility of marrying one of the young girls in the town.It’s quite easy to see the whole society was chasing down money and fame.That is a good background that the writer successfully set, making the following things sound reasonable.The Bennets' cousin Mr Collins, a clergyman, was proud of his rich patroness, the noble Lady Catherine de Bourgh.After being refused by Elizabeth of the offer of marriage, Mr Collins soon recovered and promptly became engaged to Elizabeth's close friend who pointed out that Mr Collins is a good, respectful, well-employed man which is absolutely untrue.How eager was she to have financial security by marrying a, what to say, kind of rich and powerful husband.We wonder whether the society had real love.When Elizabeth went to visit her married girlfriend Charlotte and Mr Collins, she was to meet Mr.Darcy more frequently.Mr Darcy finds himself, again, attracted to Elizabeth and proposes to her.While talking to each other, Elizabeth charged him with pride, with destroying her sister's happiness, with his disgraceful treatment of Mr Wickham, and with having conducted himself in an ungentlemanly manner.All the reasons of her prejudice towards Darcy were shown in no other.However, after reading the letter sent to clear himself by Mr.Darcy, Elizabeth came to acknowledge the truth of Mr Darcy's assertions.Later, Elizabeth realized what a kind, amiable and considerate person Mr.Darcy was little by little.While facing the unreasonable order from Lady Catherine de Bourgh of never marrying her nephew, Elizabeth refused to low her head, believing that everyone had right to chase their own happiness.However, lady Catherine believed her to be too low born for her nephew, Mr Darcy, upon hearing this, realized that Elizabeth's opinion of him may have changed and again proposes.We are never too surprised to find that the elegant noble lady Catherine who represented the highest class of Britain was so arrogant under such a mammonish society.But the combination of Darcy and Elizabeth proved that after so many generations living in such a material society and being told forever marrying to money and fame, the true love from the heart

and soul has not perished from the earth.

第五篇：老人与海英文书评

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Miller Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway(1899-1961), the author of the The Old Man and the Sea, was born in Oak Park, America.Actually, Hemingway was not just an author, he was also considered to be one of the most famous novelists of the 20th century.He had strong interest in writing, so he wrote novels at the same time.In his later years in Idaho Ketchum's home committed suicide.Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954..Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.Hemingway's emotional experience was complicated that he has married four times.He was a representative figure in the United States “lost generation” The life, world and society of his works have shown a feeling of confusion and uncertainty.The main content of this book is that the old fisherman Santiago doesn’t catch any fish for 84 days.At first, a boy named Manolin follows him.However after forty days without catching a fish, the child is arranged by their parents to another boat up because they think the old man is unlucky.Thus on the eighty-fifth day, He unexpectedly caught a marlin even bigger than the boat.Santiago makes the fish pulling his skiff.Two days and two nights pass in this manner, during which the old man bears the tension of the line with his body.On the third day, the fish begins to circle the skiff.Thus Santiago begins the fight between the sharks and himself.Finally reaching the shore before dawn on the next day, Santiago struggles on the way to his shack, carrying the heavy mast on his shoulder.Once home, he goes to his bed and falls into a deep sleep.A group of fishermen gather the next day around the boat where the fish's skeleton is still attached.Tourists at the nearby café mistakenly take it for a shark.Manolin, worried during the old man's endeavor, cries upon finding him safe asleep.The boy brings him newspapers and coffee.When the old man wakes, they promise to fish together once again.Upon his return to sleep, Santiago dreams of his youth—of lions on an African beach.The words that inspired me most in this article maybe is the “Man is not made for defeat.A man can be destroyed but not defeat.” This is Santiago’s living faith, and

also the idea that the author wanted to express in The Old Man and the Sea.The old man never gets one fish during 84 days, but he never thinks about giving up.He just still struggles for the brief he used to hold.Yes, at last, he failed, but we can’t deny he is a powerhouse in the spirit.And in our real lives, there are all kinds of difficulties that we need to deal with.Some people choose escape, because they think they can’t overcome them.They scared.But for me, I like it.I think the problems are good for me.Every time I surmount it, I enjoy that kind of achievability.I enjoy the process I solving the problems, and this can be the precious experience in my lives.But sometimes the problems may be harder than our imaginations;we try all kinds of ways to solve them but still failed, so, at this time, we need to learn the old man’s spirit.I think the live is not complete without fail and pain.It’s impossible that everything goes smoothly in our lives.We can grow up only if we experience the pain and harm.Just like choice.We face all kinds of choices every day, and sometimes we don't know how to choose or what we need to choose.In fact, we can’t choose, that’s because we have already had something we really want in our heart, so we don’t need to choose.Santiago teach me what is courage, and teach me insist and never say never.Actually, that reminds me of a short video I watched in the high school.It's a inspirational video.I still remember the first time I watched it, I cried.This video is about a game named “death crawl”.A group is practicing so that they have enough energy in the football game.Now, at this time I don’t want to talk about too much about this video, I just want to say something about faith, insistence and potential.In our lives, sometimes we didn’t do something well, we may say, well, I’ve already tried my best.We may think it’s OK, that is enough.The standard we give to ourselves is too low, but the interesting thing is, we always ask other people to be excellent, and the standard we give to other is so high.When we don’t do it well, we say we’ve already tried our best, but we never strain every never.The reason why we haven’t been successful is we don’t have aims, don’t have a real dream, we are not confident, don’t have a great coach, and don’t know how much the potential we have.We all read this book, The Old Man and the Sea, but why we didn't learn the spirit in it? Compared to Santiago, the condition we have is so great nowadays, but we become

more and more frail, especially our teenagers.Most of them always say they don’t believe something at all, and write those inactive or negative words in their blog, I just wonder why they become so negative.This is the most beautiful time in a whole life, we need to treasure it, love it.An old man can struggle for 2 days and 2 nights, but look at us, as the teenagers, why we can’t?“Lost generation”? I think we just don’t know how much, how better we can do.Potential.Everyone’s potential is infinite.We didn’t do well, that’s because we told ourselves we can’t do it in advance.Just because we don't believe ourselves, so we can’t do anything.In my opinion, when we face the problems, maybe the best way we can do is just pretend to be someone else.I think for Santiago, maybe at that time, he pretended himself as a strong man, maybe Schwarzenegger.And then, he really made it.He thought he was Schwarzenegger, so he got a lot of power and energy, so he can catch the fish, and fight with so many sharks, and finally, went back to home.During the trip, that is the faith supports him to go all the way to the coast.Our life is not plain sailing and it is constituted by the difficulties and problems.The solution to the problem is not only the witness of our growth but also make us more mature.In order to make our life much more meaningful, let us face the challenges of life bravely.