New words and expressions 生词短语释义

Victoria (1837-1901)

前期是 unrest, alarm.

后期 growing prosperity

industrialism 工业革命 free trade 自由贸易

Britain was named workshop of the world.

cession of Hongkong to U.K.

cession： 割让

opium war： 鸦片战争

critical realism ：批判现实主义

made big fortune = made good money

Charles Dickens

hard times 艰难时事

middle class 中产阶级

The Tale of Two Cities 双城记

Oliver Twist 雾都孤儿

Vanity Fair 名利场

status ：地位

rank： 头衔

乔治。艾里奥特

Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte

Jane Eyre 简爱

Wuthering Heights 呼啸山庄

Michelle

Gone with the wind 飘

submit to ：屈服于

destined fate ：注定的命运

turn against her fate ：与她的命运对抗

self-portrait ：自画像

tuberculosis： 肺结核

sorrow： 悲痛

simplified version ：简写版

original ：原著

Grandmother of Europe

Lesson37

The Victorians, realizing that the greatest happiness accorded to man is that provided by a happy marriage, endeavoured to pretend that all their marriages were happy. We, for our part, admitting the fact that no feat of intelligence and character is so exacting as that required of two people who desire to live permanently together on a basis of amity, are obsessed by the problem of how to render the basic facts of cohabitation simpler and more reasonable, in order that unhappy marriages may