Part of the lure of reading Dickens is finding out firsthand what everyday life was like in nineteenth century London. Some terms used in Dickens' works may be unfamiliar to today's readers and this glossary attempts to help readers better understand the times in which Dickens lived and ...
查尔斯·狄更斯(Charles Dickens)(1812年-1870年),英国小说家,出生于海军小职员家庭,10岁时全家被迫迁入负债者监狱,11岁就承担起繁重的家务劳动。曾在皮黑鞋油作坊当童工,15岁时在律师事务所当学徒,后来当上了民事诉讼法庭的审案记录员,接着又担任报社派驻议会的记者。他只上过几年学,全靠刻苦自学和艰辛劳动成为...
Some 60,000 novels were published during the Victorian age, from 1837 to 1901; today a casual reader might be able to name a half-dozen of them. It’s partly true that Dickens’ style of writing attracted audiences from all walks of life. It’s partly that his writings rode a wave ...
根据第二段的Today Dickensgreatness is unchallenged. Removing him from thepantheon of English literature would make about asmuch sense as the Louvre selling off the Mona Lisa.可知,今天狄更斯的伟大是毋庸置疑的,若把他从英国文学的名人堂中除名,就如同卢浮宫变卖《蒙娜丽莎》一样重要。所以,这是为了表明...
2. 根据第二段的Today Dickens' greatness is unchallenged. Removing him from the pantheon(名人堂) of English literature would make about as much sense as the Louvre selling off the Mona Lisa.可知,今天,狄更斯的伟大是毋庸置疑的。把他从英国文学的名人堂中去除,就和卢浮宫卖《蒙娜丽莎》一样意义重大...
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At age 20, Dickens decided that he wanted to entertain people for a living. He had always entertained his work colleagues and so joined the Garrick Theatre in London. LITERARY CAREER By 1833, He decided that he would be a writer. His first story was called ‘A Dinner at Poplar Walk.’...
On June 9th, 1870, Charles Dickens died at the age of 58. The next day, a headline in The New York Times read: “Death of the Great Novelist Will Be Remembered by the People...”. The headline was not overstating (夸大) the popularity of Dickens. Even today, the British novelist...
根据以下提示,写一篇关于英国著名作家查尔斯·狄更斯 (Charles Dickens) 的英语短文。 参考词汇:be born, at the age of, spend... doing, come out 提示表格: 时间 事件 在1812年 出生在英国朴茨茅斯 (in Portsmouth, England) 当他是小孩时 不喜欢与别的男孩玩,但喜欢读书...
and Little Nell. Most affecting are his portraits of children abused and abandoned by the Industrial Age. David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Tiny Tim are mirrors that reflect the twisted values of their time. The twists of Dickens's own life encompassed childhood suffering as well as internat...