文档介绍：Far From The
Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy
作者简介
哈代托马斯( ),小说家和诗
人,生于多塞特郡上博克汉普顿。在多切斯特上学,学过建筑,
岁迁居伦敦,开始创作表达他对农村生活的热爱的诗篇。由于诗集
无法出版转而创作小说,以《远离尘嚣》(
)一举成功。从此专事写作,写出一系列小说,
著名的有《还乡》( )、《卡
斯特桥市长》( )、《德伯家
的苔丝》( ’)和《无名的裘
德》( )。他的主要作品全是悲剧,悲观
情调越来越浓。《苔丝》问世后被指责为无神论者。此后重新写
诗,出版了几部讽刺性抒情诗集,此外还创作了纪念他的第一个妻
子吉福德的动人的挽歌和史诗剧《列朝记》(
)。他的小说已有数部被搬上银幕,其中《远离尘嚣》和《苔
丝》尤为脍炙人口。
2 Far from the Madding Crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd 1
CHAPTER 1
Description of Farmer Oak - An Incident
When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were
within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks,
and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his counte-
nance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.
His Christian name was Gabriel, and on working days he was a young
man of sound judgement, easy motions, proper dress, and general good
character. On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to
postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole,
one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean
neutrality which lay between munion people of the parish and the
drunken section, - that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the
time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there
would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon. Or, to
state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends
and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when
they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he
was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.
Since he lived six times as many working days as Sundays, Oak’s ap-
pearance in his old clothes was most peculiarly his own - the mental picture
formed by his neighbours in imagining him being always dressed in that
way. He wore a low-crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tig