《名利场(附光盘适合高1高2年级)/津津有味读经典》编著者William Makepeace Thackeray。

《名利场》是英国批判现实主义作家萨克雷的成名小说。这部小说

情节上有两条主线，展示了英国贵族阶层追名逐利、没有道德、冷酷虚假

的丑陋众生相。

《名利场(附光盘适合高1高2年级)/津津有味读经典》编著者William Makepeace Thackeray。

《名利场(附光盘适合高1高2年级)/津津有味读经典》内容提要：小说的第一条主线是围绕艾米莉亚、杜宾和乔治进行的。温柔善良的艾米莉亚深爱着乔治，但乔治并不爱她，而乔治的好友杜宾却对艾米莉亚一往情深。为了让艾米莉亚得到她想要的幸福，杜宾努力撮合了她和乔治。艾米莉亚和乔治终于结为了夫妻，但婚后乔治很快又开始与别的女人寻欢作乐。不久，乔治战死沙场。艾米莉亚心中便只记得他的好，为他长期守寡，并生下了他们的儿子小乔治。杜宾尽力照顾艾米莉亚母子，对艾米莉亚依旧痴心一片。后来，艾米莉亚知晓了丈夫生前所为。她崇拜了一辈子的偶像倒塌了。她发现自己的一片痴心长期被愚弄和蒙蔽，也发现了杜宾对她的爱是多么珍贵，最终她嫁给了杜宾。

书中的第二条主线围绕出身于下层社会的莉蓓卡展开，她出身贫苦，苦心经营，狡猾无比，八面玲珑，费尽心机地往上爬，一心想要掌握自己的命运。她嫁给了上层社会克劳莱家族中的罗登，目的是得到罗登的姑妈的遗产，但计划最终落空了。她凭借自己的手腕在名利场中风光无限，倾倒众生，她甚至得以进宫觐见了英国国王，成为了上层社会的交际花。但终是“机关算尽太聪明”，她的丑事被发现之后，罗登离开了她，她落得个四处漂泊、流离失所的下场。最后，靠着骗取艾米莉亚和她哥哥乔斯的同情与信任，她又过上了衣食无忧的日子。

CHAPTER 1 Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp Leave School

CHAPTER 2 Joseph Sedley Meets Becky Sharp

CHAPTER 3 Becky Sharp Meets Sir Pitt Crawley

CHAPTER 4 The Crawleys of Queen's Crawley

CHAPTER 5 George Buys a New Shirt

CHAPTER 6 "Please Marry Me!"

CHAPTER 7 Bad News for Everybody

CHAPTER 8 Everybody Goes to Brighton

CHAPTER 9 Dobbin Brings the News

CHAPTER 10 Over the Sea to War

CHAPTER 11 Life and Death in .War

CHAPTER 12 Miss Crawley Makes a Decision

CHAPTER 13 Good Friends and Bad Friends

CHAPTER 14 Life as a Widow

CHAPTER 15 Life in Queen's Crawley,' London, and India

CHAPTER 16 Christmas

CHAPTER 17 Mrs. Rawdon Crawley Meets the King

CHAPTER 18 Parents, Children, and Money

CHAPTER 19 Becky's World Begins to Crash

CHAPTER 20 Dobbin Returns to England

CHAPTER 21 The Old Piano

CHAPTER 22 George Osborne Meets Becky Sharp

CHAPTER 23 Amelia Decides to Help Becky

CHAPTER 24 Becky Gives Amelia a Present

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George invited Dobbin to come to the gardens with Amelia,Becky, Joseph, and himself. He came to dinner and met George'sfriends. He was a tall, thin, clumsy man, who, like George, wasan army officer. They all talked about the war with France, andJoseph drank a lot of wine. He was trying to get enough courageto ask Becky the important question later that evening. Wouldhe do it? Everybody thought he would.

When they arrived at the gardens, George and Amelia wentoff together and so did Joseph and Becky. Dobbin was left tocarry the shawls and follow the others.

Becky told Joseph that she would love to see India.

"Would you?" he asked.

He was about to ask a more important question, but theywere interrupted by George and Amelia who told them it wastime to have some supper. They forgot all about Dobbin. Duringsupper, Joseph drank more and more wine. He began to talk andlaugh loudly. Everybody could hear him. He decided to sing asong. People shouted at him, and George was about to fight oneof them when Dobbin arrived and told the people to go away.

"Dobbin," said George, "look after Joseph while I take theladies to their carriage."

Dobbin stayed with Joseph as George took the two girls tothe carriage. Joseph began to cry and told Dobbin about his lovefor Becky and that he had broken her heart. As Becky rode in thecarriage, she was sure that Joseph would ask her the next day.

The next morning, Joseph did not feel well, and George teasedhim about the trouble he had made in the gardens. George wassecretly trying to stop his future brother-in-law from marrying agirl with no money. His plan worked. Joseph was so ashamed ofhis behavior that he did not come to the house that day. He wrotea note to Amelia.

"Please tell your friend that I am sorry. I am going to Scotlandfor a few months."

Everybody knew that Joseph would never have enough courageto ask Becky to marry him. It was the end, and poor Becky hadto leave. Mr. Sedley gave her some money, and Amelia cried.Then they called a carriage to take her to her new position as agoverness for the children of Sir Pitt Crawley.

Sir Pitt Crawley was a baronet and a Member of Parliament.lie owned a large country estate called Queen's Crawley, as wellas a house in London. He had many important relatives, includinghis brother, the Reverend Bute Crawley. His first wife was thedaughter of Lord Binkie. They had two sons, Pitt and Rawdon.Many years after his wife died, Sir Pitt Crawley married againand had two daughters. Becky would be their teacher.

Becky had never met a baronet and imagined the fine clothesand manners that Sir Pitt Crawley would have. The carriage droveto Sir Pitt's house on Great Gaunt Street in London. The door wasopened by a very rough, dirty, bald, old man who carried Becky'sbaggage into the house. Becky was surprised that a baronet wouldemploy such a servant. She was even more surprised when shediscovered that this bald old man was not a servant but Sir Pitthimself!

There were other surprises. Sir Pitt Crawley was a very meanman who hated to spend money. He ate cheap food that hecooked himself. His grammar and spelling were very bad. Sheheard him say, "him and his family has been cheating me." Shesaw him write, "I leaf tomorrow morning erly." None of thisseemed to worry him, however.

That night, she slept in the bed where the first Lady Crawleyhad died. She had to share it with Mrs. Tinker, an old cleaningwoman, who awakened her at four o'clock the next morning. Itwas time to go to the Crawley country estate.

Sir Pitt, Mrs. Tinker, and Becky traveled on a public coach ofwhich Sir Pitt was part owner. It rained, but Sir Pitt would notlet Becky sit inside the coach. She had to sit with the driver andwas soon very wet and cold.

At Mudbury, a village about four miles from the estate, theygot off the public coach and used a carriage and four horses todrive the rest of the way. A long avenue lined with trees led tothe house. Sir Pitt told Becky how much timber was in the treesand what it was worth. He complained about some of the farmerswho worked on his farms and about his brother Bute who ownedthe next estate. He and his brother were always fighting.P8-P10

读书最美妙的境界是读得津津有味。

我想，对于中小学生，英语阅读要读出三味才算是津津有味。

津津第一味，是读出好成绩。国家《义务教育英语课程标准》(2011年版)和国家《普通高中英语课程标准》(实验)都规定了中小学生的英语阅读量，要求学生每年课外阅读一定量的英文读物。用课外的阅读提高自己的英语成绩。肯定是我们进行课外阅读的一个基本愿望。如何实现呢?这需要有相应的配套活动指导，因为这些活动可以把我们在阅读中获得的语感转化为我们考试中可以表现出来的语言运用能力。

津津第二味，是读出宽视野。我们通过阅读认知我们无法靠自己生活的直接经验认知的世界，我们可以通过阅读穿越到任何时代，与大师为伍，与英雄比肩，入宫廷痛斥国王，到小村体恤贫民。我们不仅可以因此而晓知天下，更可因此与人广泛交流。

津津第三味，是读出高素养。阅读是学习。学习知识，更学习做人的道理、做事的方法，分折的恩路、明辨的条理、批评的路径、建构的框架。阅读是体验，体验如何淡泊明志、如何激扬文字，如此等等。丰富藐们的人生理解，提高我们的综合素养。

你肯定会问，如此三味，需要太多课外时间，我本无多少课外时间，是否可以聚合一体?

当然可以。

《津津有味，读经典》就是一套可以让你读出津津三味的读物。这套读物不仅符合国家《义务教育英语课程标准》(2011~)和国家《普通高中英语课程标准》 (实验)的要求，更是汇集了西方文学经典，更为难得的是，英语语言优美而又符合我国学生语言水平，同时附有表演短剧剧本、纯正地道MP3和自主评价手册。

如此，你可以开卷“悦读”了吧？

期待你读出津津三味？