Northanger Abbey (Webster's Chinese-Traditional Thesaurus Edition)

257 Pages·2006·2.219 MB·English

by  Jane Austen

NORTHANGER ABBEY

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

Jane Austen

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Northanger Abbey
Webster's Chinese Simplified
Thesaurus Edition

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

Jane Austen

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 1......................................................................................................................3

CHAPTER 2......................................................................................................................8

CHAPTER 3....................................................................................................................15

CHAPTER 4....................................................................................................................21

CHAPTER 5....................................................................................................................25

CHAPTER 6....................................................................................................................29

CHAPTER 7....................................................................................................................34

CHAPTER 8....................................................................................................................43

CHAPTER 9....................................................................................................................51

CHAPTER 10...................................................................................................................60

CHAPTER 11...................................................................................................................71

CHAPTER 12...................................................................................................................80

CHAPTER 13...................................................................................................................86

CHAPTER 14...................................................................................................................95

CHAPTER 15.................................................................................................................105

CHAPTER 16.................................................................................................................114

CHAPTER 17.................................................................................................................122

CHAPTER 18.................................................................................................................126

CHAPTER 19.................................................................................................................132

CHAPTER 20.................................................................................................................137

CHAPTER 21.................................................................................................................146

CHAPTER 22.................................................................................................................154

CHAPTER 23.................................................................................................................164

CHAPTER 24.................................................................................................................171

CHAPTER 25.................................................................................................................179

CHAPTER 26.................................................................................................................188

CHAPTER 27.................................................................................................................195

CHAPTER 28.................................................................................................................199

CHAPTER 29.................................................................................................................208

CHAPTER 30.................................................................................................................217
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CHAPTER 31.................................................................................................................225

A NOTE ON THE TEXT..................................................................................................229

GLOSSARY...................................................................................................................230
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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-Chinese Simplified thesaurus at the bottom of each
page, this edition of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen was edited for three audiences. The first
includes Chinese Simplified-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 Chinese Simplified speakers enrolled in
English speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their
vocabularies in Chinese Simplified in order to take foreign service, translation certification,
Advanced Placement® (AP®)1 or similar examinations. By using the Webster's Chinese Simplified
Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in
anticipation of an examination in Chinese Simplified 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 Chinese Simplified, 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

This little work was finished in the year 1803, and intended for immediate
publication. It was disposed of to a bookseller, it was even advertised, and why
the business proceeded no farther, the author has never been able to learn. That
any bookseller should think it worth-while to purchase what he did not think it
worth-while to publish seems extraordinary. But with this, neither the author
nor the public have any other concern than as some observation is necessary
upon those parts of the work which thirteen years have made comparatively
obsolete. The public are entreated to bear in mind that thirteen years have
passed since it was finished, many more since it was begun, and that during that
period, places, manners, books, and opinions have undergone considerable
changes.
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CHAPTER %1

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have
supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her
father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against her.
Her father was a clergyman, without being neglected, or poor, and a very
respectable man, though his name was Richard -- and he had never been
handsome. He had a considerable independence besides two good livings --
and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters. Her mother
was a woman of useful plain sense, with a good temper, and, what is more
remarkable, with a good constitution. She had three sons before Catherine was
born; and instead of dying in bringing the latter into the world, as anybody
might expect, she still lived on -- lived to have six children more -- to see them
growing up around her, and to enjoy excellent health herself. A family of ten
children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and
legs enough for the number; but the Morlands had little other right to the word,
for they were in general very plain, and Catherine, for many years of her life, as
plain as any. She had a thin awkward figure, a sallow skin without colour, dark
lank hair, and strong features -- so much for her person; and not less
unpropitious for heroism seemed her mind. She was fond of all boy’s plays,
and greatly preferred cricket not merely to dolls, but to the more heroic
enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a

Chinese Simplified
anybody: 任何人. dying: 不行了, 垂死, 垂死的. locking: 锁紧.
awkward: 笨拙, 尴尬, 不得劲, 拙, enjoyments: 享乐. plain: 平原.
迟钝的. fond: 喜欢. preferred: 更加喜欢.
besides: 此外, 另外, 除了, 并且, greatly: 大幅度地, 大大地, 大大. remarkable: 不平常, 不简单, 出色,
再说, 况且. handsome: 英俊, 慷慨的, 英俊的. 显着, 特出的.
bringing: 带来. heroic: 英雄式, 英雄式的. respectable: 可尊敬, 可尊敬的.
clergyman: 牧师. heroine: 女英雄. sallow: 变成菜色.
constitution: 宪法, 构造. heroism: 英雄主义. sons: 儿子.
cricket: 蟋蟀. independence: 独立. temper: 脾气, 性子.
disposition: 意向, 性格, 脾气, infancy: 婴儿期, 幼儿期. unpropitious: 不顺遂, 不顺遂的.
安排, 部署. lank: 瘦长的. watering: 给浇水.
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rose-bush. % Indeed she had no taste for a garden; and if she gathered flowers at
all, it was chiefly for the pleasure of mischief -- at least so it was conjectured
from her always preferring those which she was forbidden to take. Such were
her propensities -- her abilities were quite as extraordinary. She never could
learn or understand anything before she was taught; and sometimes not even
then, for she was often inattentive, and occasionally stupid. Her mother was
three months in teaching her only to repeat the “Beggar’s Petition”; and after all,
her next sister, Sally, could say it better than she did. Not that Catherine was
always stupid -- by no means; she learnt the fable of “The Hare and Many
Friends” as quickly as any girl in England. Her mother wished her to learn
music; and Catherine was sure she should like it, for she was very fond of
tinkling the keys of the old forlorn spinner; so, at eight years old she began. She
learnt a year, and could not bear it; and Mrs. Morland, who did not insist on her
daughters being accomplished in spite of incapacity or distaste, allowed her to
leave off. The day which dismissed the music-master was one of the happiest of
Catherine’s life. Her taste for drawing was not superior; though whenever she
could obtain the outside of a letter from her mother or seize upon any other odd
piece of paper, she did what she could in that way, by drawing houses and trees,
hens and chickens, all very much like one another. Writing and accounts she
was taught by her father; French by her mother: her proficiency in either was
not remarkable, and she shirked her lessons in both whenever she could. What a
strange, unaccountable character! -- for with all these symptoms of profligacy at
ten years old, she had neither a bad heart nor a bad temper, was seldom
stubborn, scarcely ever quarrelsome, and very kind to the little ones, with few
interruptions of tyranny; she was moreover noisy and wild, hated confinement
and cleanliness, and loved nothing so well in the world as rolling down the
green slope at the back of the house.
Such was Catherine Morland at ten. At fifteen, appearances were mending;
she began to curl her hair and long for balls; her complexion improved, her
features were softened by plumpness and colour, her eyes gained more
animation, and her figure more consequence. Her love of dirt gave way to an
inclination for finery, and she grew clean as she grew smart; she had now the

Chinese Simplified
accomplished: 有教养的. forbidden: 被禁止, 被禁止的. profligacy: 放荡.
animation: 动画, 生动. forlorn: 绝望, 绝望的. propensities: 倾向.
chickens: 小鸡. happiest: 幸福的, 快乐的. quarrelsome: 喜欢吵架, 喜爱争论的.
chiefly: 多半, 主要地. hens: 母鸡. seize: 把握, 捕捉, 霸占, 抓住, 捉,
cleanliness: 清洁. inattentive: 疏忽的, 不注意的, 窃取, 掳获, 捕, 抓.
complexion: 气色, 脸色, 肤色. 失神. spinner: 挡车工.
curl: 卷曲, 卷发. inclination: 倾斜, 倾向, 心思. spite: 恶意.
dirt: 污垢. mending: 修扑. stubborn: 顽固, 执着, 顽固的.
distaste: 厌恶. mischief: 恶作剧, 顽皮. tyranny: 暴政.
fable: 寓言. noisy: 吵闹, 吵闹的. unaccountable: 莫名其妙,
finery: 华丽的衣饰. proficiency: 熟练程度. 无法解释的, 不可说明的.
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pleasure of sometimes hearing her father and mother remark on her personal
improvement. “Catherine grows quite a good-looking girl -- she is almost pretty
today,” were words which caught her ears now and then; and how welcome
were the sounds! To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a
girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty
from her cradle can ever receive.%
Mrs. Morland was a very good woman, and wished to see her children
everything they ought to be; but her time was so much occupied in lying-in and
teaching the little ones, that her elder daughters were inevitably left to shift for
themselves; and it was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had by nature
nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback,
and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books -- or at least books
of information -- for, provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be
gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never
any objection to books at all. But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training
for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their
memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the
vicissitudes of their eventful lives.
From Pope, she learnt to censure those who

“bear about the mockery of woe.”

From Gray, that –

“Many a flower is born to blush unseen,
“And waste its fragrance on the desert air.”

From Thompson, that –

“It is a delightful task

Chinese Simplified
acquisition: 收获, 获得. flower: 花, 花儿, 华, 花朵, 开花. objection: 异议, 反对.
baseball: 棒球. fourteen: 十四. reflection: 反射, 反映, 影子, 鉴.
blush: 害羞, 脸红. fragrance: 香味, 芬香, 芬芳. remark: 评注, 评论.
censure: 责难, 指责. gained: 获利, 赢得. serviceable: 有用的, 耐用的.
cradle: 摇篮. good-looking: 好看, 好看的, 美貌. seventeen: 十七.
delight: 乐趣, 高兴. grows: 成长. shift: 转移, 替换, 移动, 移, 班,
delightful: 愉快, 好玩儿, 欢欣的. heroines: 女英雄. 变换.
desert: 沙漠, 背弃, 不毛之地. horseback: 马背. soothing: 安慰性.
ears: 耳朵. inevitably: 必将, 无可避免地. unseen: 看不见, 看不见的,
elder: 长老, 较长. memories: 记忆. 未见过的.
eventful: 多事, 重大的. mockery: 嘲笑. vicissitudes: 变迁.