朋友圈英文阅读打开从这5本英文原著开始

据说，朋友圈的人分四类，一类是晒孩子秀恩爱的，一类是买产品打广告的，还有一类是旅游吃喝玩乐的，最后一类就是英语阅读打卡的。

今天，小编就推荐5本适合初级阅读的英文原著

1

小王子

《小王子》虽然原版是法语，但因其优雅活泼的语言而被奉为经典。英文版本也透露着诗意的童真。

这个版本选用权威译本Chathering Woods初版英译本。

阅读难度：⭐⭐

文摘

The first time he saw my aeroplane, for instance (I shall not draw my aeroplane; that would be much too complicated for me), he asked me:

"What is that object?"

"That is not an object. It flies. It is an aeroplane. It is my aeroplane." And I was proud to have him learn that I could fly.

He cried out, then:

"What! You dropped down from the sky?"

"Yes," I answered, modestly.

"Oh! That is funny!"

2

老人与海

人可以被毁灭，却不可以被战胜。

《老人与海》是普利策奖、诺贝尔文学奖双料得主海明威经典之作，是每个文学爱好者的必读之作。

本版是1952年初版出版社Scribner的底本

阅读难度：⭐⭐

文摘

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.

3

傲慢与偏见

《傲慢与偏见》是世界上经久不衰的伟大爱情小说之一。小说语言幽默诙谐、讽刺意味浓厚，对话极具个性，阅读纯英文版，你的感受会更强烈。

阅读难度：⭐⭐⭐

文摘

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

4

鲁滨逊

英国小说之父笛福代表作，入选英国《卫报》“十大经典英文小说”

阅读难度：⭐⭐⭐

文摘

 I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York; from whence he had mared my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called, nay, we call ourselves and write our name, Crusoe; and so my companions always called me.

5

欧·亨利

《欧·亨利短篇小说集》是公认的好故事典范，故事趣味性强，有些故事可以说耳熟能详，中学教科书都学过，英文原版更别有一番风味。

此版本是国外Wordsworth Edition权威底本。

阅读难度：⭐⭐⭐

文摘

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.