文档介绍：Great Expectations
— Charles Dickens
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Great Expectations 《远大前程》
Ⅰ Author
Ⅲ Character Analysis
ⅣTheme and Symbols
Ⅱ Plot
ⅤDoubles
Great Expectations
Ⅵsomething about the text
Full Name: Charles John Huffam Dickens (early alias: Boz)
Place of Birth: No. 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, Portsmouth England
Parents: Father-John Dickens (1785-1851); Mother-Elizabeth Dickens (1789-1863)
Friday, February 7, 1812
Thursday, June 9, 1870
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Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, and spent the first nine years of his life living in the coastal regions of Kent, a county in southeast England. Dickens’s father, John, was a kind and likeable man, but he was petent with money and piled up tremendous debts throughout his life.
查尔斯·狄更斯生于1812年二月七日,九岁前一直生活在英格兰东南部肯特郡的沿海地区。狄更斯的父亲约翰是个和蔼可亲的人,但不善理财,一生为巨额债务所累。
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When Dickens was nine,his family moved to London. When he was twelve, his father was arrested and taken to debtors’ prison. Dickens’s mother moved his seven brothers and sisters into prison with their father, but she arranged for the young Charles to live alone outside the prison.
狄更斯九岁那年,随家人移居伦敦。12岁时,其父因债务问题被抓进债人监狱。他的母亲带着7个弟妹搬进监狱与父亲同住,却留狄更斯一人独自在狱外生活.
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Outside, he worked with other children pasting labels on bottles in a blacking warehouse. Dickens’s found the three months he spent apart from his family highly traumatic. Not only was the job itself miserable, but he considered himself too good for it, earning the contempt of the other children.
在外面他与别的孩子一起,在炭质颜料仓库给瓶子贴标签(炭质颜料是一种用来给火柴或肥料等产品做黑色素的人造煤烟)。狄更斯的工作不仅辛苦,而且他认为对他来说是大材小用,因而遭到其他孩子的白眼。狄更斯与家人分住了三个月,这段时间给他的心灵造成了巨大的伤害。
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After his father was released from prison, Dickens returned to school. He eventually became a law clerk, then a cour