Far from the Madding Crowd (Webster's French Thesaurus Edition)

482 Pages·2006·3.679 MB·English

by  Thomas Hardy

FAR FROM THE
MADDING CROWD

WEBSTER'S FRENCH THESAURUS
EDITION
for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL®, TOEIC®, and AP® Test Preparation

Thomas Hardy

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Far from the Madding
Crowd
Webster's French
Thesaurus Edition

for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL®, TOEIC®, and AP® Test
Preparation

Thomas Hardy

TOEFL®, TOEIC®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which
has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.
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Contents

PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR..........................................................................................1

PREFACE..........................................................................................................................2

CHAPTER I DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK— AN INCIDENT..........................................5

CHAPTER II NIGHT—THE FLOCK—AN INTERIO—ANOTHER INTERIOR.........................11

CHAPTER III A GIRL ON HORSEBACK—CONVERSATION...............................................19

CHAPTER IV GABRIEL’S RESOLVE—THE VISIT—THE MISTAKE....................................28

CHAPTER V DEPARTURE OF BATHSHEBA—A PASTORAL TRAGEDY.............................38

CHAPTER VI THE FAIR—THE JOURNEY—THE FIRE......................................................44

CHAPTER VII RECOGNITION—A TIMID GIRL.................................................................55

CHAPTER VIII THE MALTHOUSE—THE CHAT—NEWS...................................................59

CHAPTER IX THE HOMESTEAD—A VISITOR—HALF-CONFIDENCES.............................79

CHAPTER X MISTRESS AND MEN.................................................................................86

CHAPTER XI OUTSIDE THE BARRACKS—SNOW— A MEETING.....................................94

CHAPTER XII FARMERS—A RULE—IN EXCEPTION.....................................................100

CHAPTER XIII SORTES SANCTORUM— THE VALENTINE.............................................106

CHAPTER XIV EFFECT OF THE LETTER—SUNRISE....................................................111

CHAPTER XV A MORNING MEETING—THE LETTER AGAIN.........................................116

CHAPTER XVI ALL SAINTS’ AND ALL SOULS’...............................................................128

CHAPTER XVII IN THE MARKET-PLACE.......................................................................131

CHAPTER XVIII BOLDWOOD IN MEDITATION— REGRET............................................134

CHAPTER XIX THE SHEEP-WASHING—THE OFFER....................................................139

CHAPTER XX PERPLEXITY—GRINDING THE SHEARS—A QUARREL...........................145

CHAPTER XXI TROUBLES IN THE FOLD—A MESSAGE...............................................152

CHAPTER XXII THE GREAT BARN AND THE SHEEP-SHEARERS.................................160

CHAPTER XXIII EVENTIDE—A SECOND DECLARATION..............................................171

CHAPTER XXIV THE SAME NIGHT— THE FIR PLANTATION.........................................179

CHAPTER XXV THE NEW ACQUAINTANCE DESCRIBED..............................................187

CHAPTER XXVI SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD.....................................191

CHAPTER XXVII HIVING THE BEES.............................................................................201

CHAPTER XXVIII THE HOLLOW AMID THE FERNS......................................................205

CHAPTER XXIX PARTICULARS OF A TWILIGHT WALK.................................................211

CHAPTER XXX HOT CHEEKS AND TEARFUL EYES.....................................................219
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CHAPTER XXXI BLAME—FURY....................................................................................225

CHAPTER XXXII NIGHT—HORSES TRAMPING.............................................................234

CHAPTER XXXIII IN THE SUN—A HARBINGER............................................................244

CHAPTER XXXIV HOME AGAIN—A TRICKSTER...........................................................253

CHAPTER XXXV AT AN UPPER WINDOW.....................................................................265

CHAPTER XXXVI WEALTH IN JEOPARDY—THE REVEL...............................................270

CHAPTER XXXVII THE STORM—THE TWO TOGETHER...............................................279

CHAPTER XXXVIII RAIN— ONE SOLITARY MEETS ANOTHER......................................287

CHAPTER XXXIX COMING HOME—A CRY...................................................................291

CHAPTER XL ON CASTERBRIDGE HIGHWAY..............................................................296

CHAPTER XLI SUSPICION—FANNY IS SENT FOR.........................................................303

CHAPTER XLII JOSEPH AND HIS BURDEN..................................................................315

CHAPTER XLIII FANNY’S REVENGE.............................................................................327

CHAPTER XLIV UNDER A TREE—REACTION...............................................................338

CHAPTER XLV TROY’S ROMANTICISM.........................................................................346

CHAPTER XLVI THE GURGOYLE: ITS DOINGS............................................................351

CHAPTER XLVII ADVENTURES BY THE SHORE..........................................................359

CHAPTER XLVIII DOUBTS ARISE—DOUBTS LINGER...................................................362

CHAPTER XLIX OAK’S ADVANCEMENT— A GREAT HOPE...........................................368

CHAPTER L THE SHEEP FAIR—TROY TOUCHES HIS WIFE’S HAND............................374

CHAPTER LI BATHSHEBA TALKS WITH HER OUTRIDER.............................................389

CHAPTER LII CONVERGING COURSES........................................................................398

CHAPTER LIII CONCURRITUR—HORAE MOMENTO.....................................................410

CHAPTER LIV AFTER THE SHOCK...............................................................................422

CHAPTER LV THE MARCH FOLLOWING—“BATHSHEBA BOLDWOOD”........................427

CHAPTER LVI BEAUTY IN LONELINESS—AFTER ALL..................................................432

CHAPTER LVII A FOGGY NIGHT AND MORNING—CONCLUSION.................................442

GLOSSARY...................................................................................................................449
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PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR

Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in
English courses. By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this
edition of Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy was edited for three audiences. The first
includes French-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a
Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a
TOEFL® or TOEIC® preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking
students enrolled in bilingual education programs or French speakers enrolled in English speaking
schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in
French in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement® (AP®)1 or
similar examinations. By using the Webster's French Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an
English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in French
or English.

Webster’s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of
difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are
given lower priority compared to “difficult, yet commonly used” words. Rather than supply a single
translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in French, allowing readers to
better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch.
Having the reader decipher a word’s meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary
retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If
a difficult word is not translated on a page, chances are that it has been translated on a previous
page. A more complete glossary of translations is supplied at the end of the book; translations are
extracted from Webster’s Online Dictionary.

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PREFACE

In %reprinting this story for a new edition I am reminded that it was in the
chapters of “Far from the Madding Crowd” as they appeared month by month in
a popular magazine, that I first ventured to adopt the word “Wessex” from the
pages of early English history, and give it a fictitious significance as the existing
name of the district once included in that extinct kingdom. The series of novels I
projected being mainly of the kind called local, they seemed to require a
territorial definition of some sort to lend unity to their scene. Finding that the
area of a single country did not afford a canvas large enough for this purpose,
and that there were objections to an invented name, I disinterred the old one.
The press and the public were kind enough to welcome the fanciful plan, and
willingly joined me in the anachronism of imagining a Wessex population
living under Queen Victoria;—a modern Wessex of railways, the penny post,
mowing and reaping machines, union workhouses, lucifer matches, labourers
who could read and write, and National school children. But I believe I am
correct in stating that, until the existence of this contemporaneous Wessex was
announced in the present story, in 1874, it had never been heard of, and that the
expression, “a Wessex peasant” or “a Wessex custom” would theretofore have
been taken to refer to nothing later in date than the Norman Conquest.
I did not anticipate that this application of the word to a modern use would
extend outside the chapters of my own chronicles. But the name was soon taken

French
adopt: adopter, adopte, adoptes, imagining: imaginant. peasant: paysan.
adoptent, adoptons, adoptez. invented: inventas, inventâtes, penny: sou.
anachronism: anachronisme. inventèrent, inventa, inventâmes, projected: projeté.
anticipate: anticiper, anticipent, inventai, inventé. reaping: moissonnant, moisson.
anticipons, anticipez, anticipe, lend: prêter, prête, prêtes, prêtez, reminded: rappela, rappelai,
anticipes, prévoir. prêtent, prêtons, emprunter, rappelâmes, rappelas, rappelâtes,
canvas: canevas, toile. empruntes, empruntez, empruntons, rappelèrent, rappelé.
contemporaneous: contemporain. empruntent. territorial: territorial.
custom: coutume, habitude, usage. lucifer: Satan. ventured: osé.
extinct: éteint. matches: allumettes. willingly: volontiers, de manière
fanciful: fantaisiste. mowing: fauchant, fauchage, faucher. volontaire, volontairement, de façon
fictitious: fictif, factice. novels: romans. volontaire.
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up elsewhere as a local designation. The first to do so was the now defunct
Examiner, which, in the impression bearing date July 15, 1876, entitled one of its
articles “The Wessex Labourer,” the article turning out to be no dissertation on
farming during the Heptarchy, but on the modern peasant of the south-west
counties, and his presentation in these stories.%
Since then the appellation which I had thought to reserve to the horizons and
landscapes of a merely realistic dream-country, has become more and more
popular as a practical definition; and the dream-country has, by degrees,
solidified into a utilitarian region which people can go to, take a house in, and
write to the papers from. But I ask all good and gentle readers to be so kind as to
forget this, and to refuse steadfastly to believe that there are any inhabitants of a
Victorian Wessex outside the pages of this and the companion volumes in which
they were first discovered.
Moreover, the village called Weatherbury, wherein the scenes of the present
story of the series are for the most part laid, would perhaps be hardly
discernible by the explorer, without help, in any existing place nowadays;
though at the time, comparatively recent, at which the tale was written, a
sufficient reality to meet the descriptions, both of backgrounds and personages,
might have been traced easily enough. The church remains, by great good
fortune, unrestored and intact, and a few of the old houses; but the ancient malt-
house, which was formerly so characteristic of the parish, has been pulled down
these twenty years; also most of the thatched and dormered cottages that were
once lifeholds. The game of prisoner’s base, which not so long ago seemed to
enjoy a perennial vitality in front of the worn-out stocks, may, so far as I can
say, be entirely unknown to the rising generation of schoolboys there. The
practice of divination by Bible and key, the regarding of valentines as things of
serious import, the shearing-supper, and the harvest-home, have, too, nearly
disappeared in the wake of the old houses; and with them have gone, it is said,
much of that love of fuddling to which the village at one time was notoriously
prone. The change at the root of this has been the recent supplanting of the class
of stationary cottagers, who carried on the local traditions and humours, by a

French
appellation: nom, surnom. farming: agriculture. solidifièrent, solidifiai, solidifia,
companion: compagnon, camarade, import: importation, importer. solidifiâmes, solidifié.
compagne, accompagnateur. inhabitants: habitants. stationary: stationnaire, fixe.
comparatively: comparativement, de intact: intact. steadfastly: de manière inébranlable,
manière comparative, de façon notoriously: de manière notoire, de de façon inébranlable.
comparative. façon notoire. stocks: attinage.
defunct: défunt. nowadays: actuellement, de nos jours, supplanting: supplantant.
designation: désignation. aujourd'hui. tale: conte, récit, relation.
discernible: perceptible. perennial: vivace, pérenne, perpétuel. traditions: traditions.
dissertation: thèse. prone: enclin. utilitarian: utilitaire, utilitariste.
divination: divination. schoolboys: écoliers. vitality: vitalité.
explorer: explorateur. solidified: solidifiâtes, solidifias, wherein: où.
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population of more or less migratory labourers, which has led to a break of
continuity in local history, more fatal than any other thing to the preservation of
legend, folk-lore, close inter-social relations, and eccentric individualities. For
these the indispensable conditions of existence are attachment to the soil of one
particular spot by generation after generation.%
T.H.
February 1895

French
attachment: attachement, saisie, fatal: fatal, mortel. population: population, peuplement.
accessoire, annexe, attache. february: février. preservation: préservation,
break: rompre, briser, pause, casser, generation: génération, production. conservation, garde.
cassure, rupture, violer, interruption, history: histoire, anamnèse, relations: proches.
repos, trêve, fracture. antécédents, historique. soil: sol, terre, souiller, salir,
close: fermer, ferment, ferme, fermons, indispensable: indispensable. barbouiller.
fermez, fermes, proche, près, auprès, led: menâmes, conduisîtes, conduisit, spot: tache, endroit, place, point,
intime, prochaine. conduisis, conduit, conduisirent, destination, lieu, salir, localité,
conditions: conditionne. conduisîmes, menèrent, menas, souiller, spot, message publicitaire.
continuity: continuité. menâtes, mena.
eccentric: excentrique, original. legend: légende, marquage.
existence: existence. migratory: migratoire, migrateur.
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CHAPTER I

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 countenance 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 judgment, 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 the Communion 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

French
congregation: congrégation, misty: brumeux. privée.
rassemblement. moral: moral, morale. rays: rayons.
corners: accule. morally: moralement, de manière rising: élévation, levée, lever.
countenance: encourager. morale, de façon morale. rudimentary: rudimentaire.
creed: credo. neutrality: neutralité. sermon: sermon, prêche.
diverging: divergeant. occupy: occuper, occupes, occupent, sketch: esquisse, croquis, esquisser,
drunken: ivre. occupez, occupons, occupe. ébauche.
ears: oreilles. parish: paroisse. till: caisse, à, jusqu'à ce que.
extending: étendant. pleased: content, satisfait, plu. umbrella: parapluie.
hampered: entravé. postponing: ajournant, retardant, unimportant: mineur, insignifiant,
judgment: arrêt, jugement. reculant. négligeable, sans importance.
listening: écoutant, écoute. privately: de manière privée, de façon wrinkles: rides.