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PrideandPrejudice

PrideandPrejudiceisanovelbyJaneAusten,firstpublishedin1813.

ThestoryfollowsthemaincharacterElizabethBennetasshedealswithissuesofmanners,

upbringing,morality,educationandmarriageinthelandedgentrysocietyofearly19th-century

England.

ItbeginswiththefamousironicstatementthatItisatruthuniversallyacknowledgedthatasingle

maninpossessionofagoodfortune,mustbeinwantofawife.”

ThenarrativeopenswithMr.Bingley,awealthyyounggentlemanandaveryeligiblebachelor,

rentingacountryestateneartheBennetscalledNetherfield.

Hearrivesaccompaniedbyhisfashionablesistersandhisgoodfriend,Mr.Darcy.Bingleyiswell

receivedinthecommunity,whileDarcybeginshisacquaintancewithsmugcondescension(自以

为是)andprouddistasteforallthecountrylocals.

AfterDarcy’shaughtyrejectionofheratthedance,Elizabethresolvestomatchhiscoldnessand

pridewithherownpridefulanger—inbitingwit(咄咄的才智)andsometimessarcastic

remarks(言语讥讽)—directedtowardshim.

Soon,BingleyandJanebegintogrowclose.Elizabeth’sbestfriend,Charlotte,advisesthatJane

shouldshowheraffectiontoBingleymoreopenly,ashemaynotrealizethatsheisindeed

interestedinhim.

Elizabethdismissestheopinion,replyingthatJaneisshyandmodest,andthatifBingleycan’tsee

howshefeels,heisasimpleton(傻瓜)—soshedoesn’ttellJaneofCharlotte’swarning.

LaterElizabethbeginsafriendshipwithMr.Wickham,amilitiaofficerwhoisoflongal

acquaintancewithDarcy—theygrewuptogether.

Wickhamtellsherhehasbeenseriouslymistreatedbytheproudman,whichisalie;Elizabeth

seizesonthisnewsasfurtherreasontodislikeDarcy.Ironically,Darcybeginstofi