第一篇：呼嘯山莊英文賞析[定稿]

Wuthering Heights which has long been one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in English literature, it has a secure position in the canon of world literature.As a shattering presentation of the doomed love between the passionate Catherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most haunting love stories in all of literature.In Wuthering Heights, Nature is represented by the Earnshaw family and especially Catherine and Heathcliff.These characters are governed by their emotions, not by reflection or ideals of civility.Wuthering Heights symbolized a similar wildness.On the other hand, Thrushcross Grange and the Linton family represent culture, refinement, convention, and cultivation.Wuthering heights, through a love tragedy, presented a picture of deformity of the social life and Outlines a kind of humanity twisted by society and all kinds of terrible events.The story ended with Heathcliff’s suicide.He died for love and his death shows his love to Katherine.He gave up the revenge to the younger generation after he knew that young Catherine and Harleton had fallen in love with each other shows that he was kind in nature.It was the cruel reality that twisted his humanity and made him become brutal and heartless.This kind of recovery of humanity was sublimation in spirit and it glared a kind of humanitarian ideal of the author and endows the terrible love tragedy some hope.Therefore, Heathcliff’s change of “love---hate---revenge---a recovery of humanity” is not only the essence of the novel but also a clue throughout the whole novel.According to the clue, the author arranged an unpredictable scene for us.Sometimes it was the moor full of clouds, sometimes it was courtyard with a sudden rain and wind.The story has always been shrouded in a kind of mysterious and horrible atmosphere.The novel is actually structured around two parallel love stories, the first half of the novel told about the love between Catherine and Heathcliff, while the rest dramatic second half told developing love between young Catherine and Harleton.In contrast to the first, the latter tale ends happily, restoring peace and order to Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.The most important feature of young Catherine and Harleton’s love story is that it involves growth and change.Early in the

novel Harleton seems brutal, savage, and illiterate, but over time he becomes a loyal friend to young Catherine and learns to read.Catherine and Heathcliff’s love, on the other hand, is rooted in their childhood and is marked by the refusal to change.In choosing to marry Edgar, Catherine seeks a more genteel life, but she refuses to adapt to her role as wife, either by sacrificing Heathcliff or embracing Edgar.Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based on their shared perception that they are identical.As Catherine declares, “I am Heathcliff,” while Heathcliff, upon Catherine’s death, said that he cannot live without his “soul,” meaning Catherine.Catherine’s betrayal and her bitter destiny was the turning point of the whole story.It made Heathcliff change his love to hate.After Catherine died, the hate became the motivation of his revenge.He successfully attained his objective.Not only he let Edgar and the Linton died in desolation and possessed their property but also let their innocent younger generation experience the hardships.This kind of crazy revenge clearly showed his uncommon and rebellious behavior.This special spirit of revolt was formed by the special environment and his special character.Heathcliff’s love tragedy was a tragedy of the society and that time.Wuthering Heights was known as “most strange novel” in the history of English literature and it was an unpredictable “strange book”.The reason is that it was different from the sentimentalism that lies in the works of the same age.It replaced the deep sadness and depression with intense love, brutal hate and ruthless revenge.It just like a strange lyric poem, imagination and intensive emotion existed among the words and between the lines and it had a kind of amazing artistic power.

第二篇：呼嘯山莊英文賞析

Wuthering Heights which has long been one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in English literature, it has a secure position in the canon of world literature.As a shattering presentation of the doomed love between the passionate Catherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most haunting love stories in all of literature.In Wuthering Heights, Nature is represented by the Earnshaw family and especially Catherine and Heathcliff.These characters are governed by their emotions, not by reflection or ideals of civility.Wuthering Heights symbolized a similar wildness.On the other hand, Thrushcross Grange and the Linton family represent culture, refinement, convention, and cultivation.Wuthering heights, through a love tragedy, presented a picture of deformity of the social life and Outlines a kind of humanity twisted by society and all kinds of terrible events.The story ended with Heathcliff’s suicide.He died for love and his death shows his love to Katherine.He gave up the revenge to the younger generation after he knew that young Catherine and Harleton had fallen in love with each other shows that he was kind in nature.It was the cruel reality that twisted his humanity and made him become brutal and heartless.This kind of recovery of humanity was sublimation in spirit and it glared a kind of humanitarian ideal of the author and endows the terrible love tragedy some hope.Therefore, Heathcliff’s change of “love---hate---revenge---a recovery of humanity” is not only the essence of the novel but also a clue throughout the whole novel.According to the clue, the author arranged an unpredictable scene for us.Sometimes it was the moor full of clouds, sometimes it was courtyard with a sudden rain and wind.The story has always been shrouded in a kind of mysterious and horrible atmosphere.The novel is actually structured around two parallel love stories, the first half of the novel told about the love between Catherine and Heathcliff, while the rest dramatic second half told developing love between young Catherine and Harleton.In contrast to the first, the latter tale ends happily, restoring peace and order to Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.The most important feature of young Catherine and Harleton’s love story is that it involves growth and change.Early in the novel Harleton seems brutal, savage, and illiterate, but over time he becomes a loyal friend to young Catherine and learns to read.Catherine and Heathcliff’s love, on the other hand, is rooted in their childhood and is marked by the refusal to change.In choosing to marry Edgar, Catherine seeks a more genteel life, but she refuses to adapt to her role as wife, either by sacrificing Heathcliff or embracing Edgar.Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based on their shared perception that they are identical.As Catherine declares, “I am Heathcliff,” while Heathcliff, upon Catherine’s death, said that he cannot live without his “soul,” meaning Catherine.Catherine’s betrayal and her bitter destiny was the turning point of the whole story.It made Heathcliff change his love to hate.After Catherine died, the hate became the motivation of his revenge.He successfully attained his objective.Not only he let Edgar and the Linton died in desolation and possessed their property but also let their innocent younger generation experience the hardships.This kind of crazy revenge clearly showed his uncommon and rebellious behavior.This special spirit of revolt was formed by the special environment and his special character.Heathcliff’s love tragedy was a tragedy of the society and that time.Wuthering Heights was known as “most strange novel” in the history of English literature and it was an unpredictable “strange book”.The reason is that it was different from the sentimentalism that lies in the works of the same age.It replaced the deep sadness and depression with intense love, brutal hate and ruthless revenge.It just like a strange lyric poem, imagination and intensive emotion existed among the words and between the lines and it had a kind of amazing artistic power.

第三篇：(呼嘯山莊)Wuthering-Heights-英文介紹及賞析

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Wuthering Heights transcends its genre in its sophisticated observation and artistic subtlety.The novel has been studied, analyzed, dissected, and discussed from every imaginable critical perspective, yet it remains unexhausted.And while the novel’s symbolism, themes, structure, and language may all spark fertile exploration, the bulk of its popularity may rest on its unforgettable characters.As a shattering presentation of the doomed love affair between the fiercely passionate Catherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most haunting love stories in all of literature.Today, Wuthering Heights has a secure position in the canon of world literature, and Emily Bront? is revered as one of the finest writers—male or female—of the nineteenth century.Like Charlotte Bront?’s Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights is based partly on the Gothic tradition of the late eighteenth century, a style of literature that featured supernatural encounters, crumbling ruins, moonless nights, and grotesque imagery, seeking to create effects of mystery and fear.But Wuthering Heights transcends its genre in its sophisticated observation and artistic subtlety.The novel has been studied, analyzed, dissected, and discussed from every imaginable critical perspective, yet it remains unexhausted.And while the novel’s symbolism, themes, structure, and language may all spark fertile exploration, the bulk of its popularity may rest on its unforgettable characters.As a shattering presentation of the doomed love affair between the fiercely passionate Catherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most haunting love stories in all of literature.Analysis of Major Characters Heathcliff Wuthering Heights centers around the story of Heathcliff.The first paragraph of the novel provides a vivid physical picture of him, as Lockwood describes how his “black eyes” withdraw suspiciously under his brows at Lockwood’s approach.Nelly’s story begins with his introduction into the Earnshaw family, his vengeful machinations drive the entire plot, and his death ends the book.The desire to understand him and his motivations has kept countless readers engaged in the novel.Heathcliff, however, defies being understood, and it is difficult for readers to resist seeing what they want or expect to see in him.The novel teases the reader with the possibility that Heathcliff is something other than what he seems—that his cruelty is merely an expression of his frustrated love for Catherine, or that his sinister behaviors serve to conceal the heart of a romantic hero.We expect Heathcliff’s character to contain such a hidden virtue because he resembles a hero in a romance novel.Traditionally, romance novel heroes appear dangerous, brooding, and cold at first, only later to emerge as fiercely devoted and loving.One hundred years before Emily Bront? wrote Wuthering Heights, the notion that “a reformed rake makes the best husband” was already a cliché of romantic literature, and romance novels center around the same cliché to this day.However, Heathcliff does not reform, and his malevolence proves so great and long-lasting that it cannot be adequately explained even as a desire for revenge against Hindley, Catherine, Edgar, etc.As he himself points out, his abuse of Isabella is purely sadistic, as he amuses himself by seeing how much abuse she can take and still come cringing back for more.Critic Joyce Carol Oates argues that Emily Bront? does the same thing to the reader that Heathcliff does to Isabella, testing to see how many times the reader can be shocked by Heathcliff’s gratuitous violence and still, masochistically, insist on seeing him as a romantic hero.呼嘯山莊

It is significant that Heathcliff begins his life as a homeless orphan on the streets of Liverpool.When Bront? composed her book, in the 1840s, the English economy was severely depressed, and the conditions of the factory workers in industrial areas like Liverpool were so appalling that the upper and middle classes feared violent revolt.Thus, many of the more affluent members of society beheld these workers with a mixture of sympathy and fear.In literature, the smoky, threatening, miserable factory-towns were often represented in religious terms, and compared to hell.The poet William Blake, writing near the turn of the nineteenth century, speaks of England’s “dark Satanic Mills.” Heathcliff, of course, is frequently compared to a demon by the other characters in the book.Considering this historical context, Heathcliff seems to embody the anxieties that the book’s upper-and middle-class audience had about the working classes.The reader may easily sympathize with him when he is powerless, as a child tyrannized by Hindley Earnshaw, but he becomes a villain when he acquires power and returns to Wuthering Heights with money and the trappings of a gentleman.This corresponds with the ambivalence the upper classes felt toward the lower classes—the upper classes had charitable impulses toward lower-class citizens when they were miserable, but feared the prospect of the lower classes trying to escape their miserable circumstances by acquiring political, social, cultural, or economic power.Catherine The location of Catherine’s coffin symbolizes the conflict that tears apart her short life.She is not buried in the chapel with the Lintons.Nor is her coffin placed among the tombs of the Earnshaws.Instead, as Nelly describes in Chapter XVI, Catherine is buried “in a corner of the kirkyard, where the wall is so low that heath and bilberry plants have climbed over it from the moor.” Moreover, she is buried with Edgar on one side and Heathcliff on the other, suggesting her conflicted loyalties.Her actions are driven in part by her social ambitions, which initially are awakened during her first stay at the Lintons’, and which eventually compel her to marry Edgar.However, she is also motivated by impulses that prompt her to violate social conventions—to love Heathcliff, throw temper tantrums, and run around on the moor.Edgar Just as Isabella Linton serves as Catherine’s foil, Edgar Linton serves as Heathcliff’s.Edgar is born and raised a gentleman.He is graceful, well-mannered, and instilled with civilized virtues.These qualities cause Catherine to choose Edgar over Heathcliff and thus to initiate the contention between the men.Nevertheless, Edgar’s gentlemanly qualities ultimately prove useless in his ensuing rivalry with Heathcliff.Edgar is particularly humiliated by his confrontation with Heathcliff in Chapter XI, in which he openly shows his fear of fighting Heathcliff.Catherine, having witnessed the scene, taunts him, saying, “Heathcliff would as soon lift a finger at you as the king would march his army against a colony of mice.” As the reader can see from the earliest descriptions of Edgar as a spoiled child, his refinement is tied to his helplessness and impotence.Charlotte Bront?, in her preface to the 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights, refers to Edgar as “an example of constancy and tenderness,” and goes on to suggest that her sister Emily was using Edgar to point out that such characteristics constitute true virtues in all human beings, and not just in women, as society tended to believe.However, Charlotte’s reading seems influenced by her own feminist agenda.Edgar’s inability to counter Heathcliff’s vengeance, and his na?ve belief on his deathbed in his daughter’s safety and happiness, make him a weak, if sympathetic, character

Themes, Motifs

Themes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.Moreover, Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based on their shared perception that they are identical.Catherine declares, famously, “I am Heathcliff,” while Heathcliff, upon Catherine’s death, wails that he cannot live without his “soul,” meaning Catherine.Their love denies difference, and is strangely asexual.The two do not kiss in dark corners or arrange secret trysts, as adulterers do.Given that Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based upon their refusal to change over time or embrace difference in others, it is fitting that the disastrous problems of their generation are overcome not by some climactic reversal, but simply by the inexorable passage of time, and the rise of a new and distinct generation.Ultimately, Wuthering Heights presents a vision of life as a process of change, and celebrates this process over and against the romantic intensity of its principal

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characters.As members of the gentry, the Earnshaws and the Lintons occupy a somewhat precarious place within the hierarchy of late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century British society.At the top of British society was the royalty, followed by the aristocracy, then by the gentry, and then by the lower classes, who made up the vast majority of the population.Although the gentry, or upper middle class, possessed servants and often large estates, they held a nonetheless fragile social position.The social status of aristocrats was a formal and settled matter, because aristocrats had official titles.Members of the gentry, however, held no titles, and their status was thus subject to change.A man might see himself as a gentleman but find, to his embarrassment, that his neighbors did not share this view.A discussion of whether or not a man was really a gentleman would consider such questions as how much land he owned, how many tenants and servants he had, how he spoke, whether he kept horses and a carriage, and whether his money came from land or “trade”—gentlemen scorned banking and commercial activities.Considerations of class status often crucially inform the characters’ motivations in Wuthering Heights.Catherine’s decision to marry Edgar so that she will be “the greatest woman of the neighborhood” is only the most obvious example.The Lintons are relatively firm in their gentry status but nonetheless take great pains to prove this status through their behaviors.The Earnshaws, on the other hand, rest on much shakier ground socially.They do not have a carriage, they have less land, and their house, as Lockwood remarks with great puzzlement, resembles that of a “homely, northern farmer” and not that of a gentleman.The shifting nature of social status is demonstrated most strikingly in Heathcliff’s trajectory from homeless waif to young gentleman-by-adoption to common laborer to gentleman again(although the status-conscious Lockwood remarks that Heathcliff is only a gentleman in “dress and manners”).

第四篇：呼嘯山莊英文讀后感

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte's only novel.and was first published in 1847.It is not narrated by the author directly but firstly narrated by Ellen(Nelly)Dean who is the housekeeper of Wuthering Heights.The main characters of this novel are Heathcliff and Catherine.Except them,there are also several secondary characters such as Hindly Earnshaw、Edgar Linton、Isabella Linton、Catherine Linton and Hereton Earnshaw.This novel mainly narrated the love between Healthcliff and Catherine,the hatred between Healthcliff and Hindly.Heathcliff was adopted by Catherine's father Mr Earnshaw when he was a child,during their childhood.Hindly,who is Catherine's brother,always asked Heathcliff to do many hard works ,laughed at him , teased him and kooked down upon him.While his sister Catherine loves Heathcliff ,they had a secret“palace”on the hill.Unfortunately,when they all grew up ,Catherine met Linton,who was the lord of Thrushcross Gange,he was not only very handsome but also very gentle and most importantly,he loved Catherine ,too.Facing the preventing of his brother and considering Healthcliff's condiction,Catherine choose to marry Linton.In fact,she wanted to marry Heathcilff.It maked Healthcliff decide to go to another place to make money and then come back to revenge everybody who have ever prevent he marry Catherine.Several years later,he came back,in order to revenge Linton,he married Linton's sister Isabella and tormented her everyday.One day he was informed that Catherine would die,he went to see her,she has born a little girl but she died.Healthcliff was extremely sad.It added his hatred towards Linton and Hindly.After both of them died,Heathcliff adopted their daughter Little Catherine and Hereton.He treated Hereton in the same way of Hindy had ever used and forced Catherine married his own ill son.He became the owner of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange and inherited the property of both of them.Soon,his son died ,and Catherine became a young widow.little Catherine and Hereton loves each other,but Heathcliff did not allow them become couple.But when he saw little Catherine's eyes,he thought Catherine, at last,he allowed them marry.I get two kinds of ideas of this novel after I read it.One is about the choice of Catherine.She loves Heathcliff but she chose another man.In fact,we have to face many choices during our lives.In most cases,it is difficult and impossible for us to make a perfect choice in that when we chose this one we have to quit others.There is no choice in the world always being right or wrong,we often make a choice according to our needs or interests.While ,sometimes,we have to make choices based on others attitudes,it is because that we dare not to be criticized by the public or do not want to bear the responsibility of the choice we chose.What should we do when we have to make a choice?In my opinion,we should make a choice that we will not regret later and we mostly want to chose.The second idea is about hatred of Heathcliff..Most of his life were spent revenging others,in fact he was not happy at all,although he succeeded in revenging the persons he hated,he got nothing at all at last, except hatred.When we are hurt by someone,what we should do is not to think of some ways to revenge them but to ignore their faults and concentrate on more important things.A person who just knows hatred will never feel happy and will lose his or her own aim of life.2007年3月30號

看著手上玩具的價簽，薩迪·奧康奈爾暗笑了一下。“他們拿什么塞滿這玩意兒？鈔票嗎？”她把玩具扔回了貨架，轉向了身邊那個高個長腿女人，“你打算送薩姆什么生日禮物呢？”

她這位最好的朋友她咧嘴笑了一下。“我能送他什么？你的孩子什么也不缺呀。” “別這么說，我的朋友。”

但是利亞說得沒錯。薩迪和菲利普真是太過分寵溺薩姆了。也難怪，生薩姆之前，他們可是盼星星盼月亮似地盼了很長時間的孩子，至少薩迪是這樣的。在經歷了兩次流產之后，薩姆的降生無疑就成了一個奇跡，一個值得他們千般寵愛的奇跡。利亞大叫起來，“天啊，這里簡直就是個動物園。”

埃德蒙頓玩具區擠滿了熱情高漲的顧客。每年春天里的第一個打折促銷季，人們總會成群結隊地趕來購物。神經緊繃的父母們擁進玩具商店，偶爾會拍一下任性的孩子——就像拍打一只盯著燒烤架的討厭的小黃蜂。一位苦惱的父親滿通道里找尋自己的兒子，很明顯，孩子趁他一轉身的工夫，就溜走了。每個通道里，都有父母在喊叫自己的孩子，他們威脅孩子，哄他們，祈求他們，最終還是會繳械投降。

“那是誰把動物們放出來的呢？”薩迪說，環顧了一下店里。

購物車輪子發出的尖銳刺耳聲，交織著走累了的小寶寶們此起彼伏的哭鬧聲，這一切都讓她感到頭疼，她但愿自己呆在家里沒有出來。

“抱歉。”

一個胖胖的女人，滿頭卷發已然褪色，她滿臉歉意地看了一眼薩迪，然后從她倆中間擠了過去。女人推著輛嬰兒車，里面坐著個外國小人兒尖聲哭叫著。剛走了幾英尺，她就停下來，彎腰擦掉了小孩嘴角流出來的東西，看起來像是凝固的大米布丁。

薩迪轉向利亞說：“謝天謝地，薩姆已經過了這個階段。”

馬上就六歲的薩姆是她的掌上明珠。實際上，簡直就是她的寶山。薩姆是個十足的淘氣鬼，身材瘦長，有著亂蓬蓬的黑發，寶石藍的眼睛和漂亮的弓唇。薩姆長得像極了母親，又有與父親截然相反的脾氣。他性情溫和柔順，充滿愛心，而父親菲利普則缺少耐性，為人冷淡，淡到幾乎不說“我愛你”之類的話。她盯著結婚戒指想：我們怎么了？

但實際她知道發生什么事了。作為一名辯護律師，菲利普的事業非常成功，滾滾而來的金錢與名利已經沖昏了他的頭腦。他變了，不再是她所愛的那個男人和夢想家了。取而代之的是一個她幾乎不認識的陌生人，一個有了孩子卻覺得根本不想要孩子的陌生人。也許對妻子也一樣。

“這個怎么樣？”利亞問，用肘輕輕推了她一下。

薩迪看了眼那個黃色的翻斗車，上面裝滿了毛茸茸的蝙蝠。她想薩姆肯定會覺得這個很好玩。

她的兒子迷戀于蝙蝠，幾乎到了可笑的地步。他總是將家里的電視機轉到探索頻道上，不斷地搜索著關于這些毛皮動物的節目。

“菲利普這個家伙送什么給他？”利亞冷冷地問道。“一組新的跳蛙模型”

“我簡直不能相信小孩子能做那個。” 撒地笑了笑說：“我也覺得難以置信。”

薩姆的腦子就像個海綿一樣，他吸收信息非常的快，簡直是過目不忘。他有很強的觀察力，只是看過薩迪怎么開門，他就學會了，為此菲利普不得不在門上另加了一個門栓。三歲時，薩姆已經學會了使用遙控器和DVD播放器，而薩迪連開電視機都還有些困難。薩姆，我的寶貝，聰明的小天才。

“也許我會給他買部電影，”利亞說，“《蝙蝠俠5：開戰時刻》怎么樣？” “他馬上才6歲，不是16歲。” “哦，我可不懂，我又沒有孩子。”

34歲的利亞·溫特斯是個苗條迷人的女子，有著黑色的頭發和深色的皮膚。她有著熱情多面的氣質，濃密的眼睫毛掩映著淡褐色的眼睛, 笑意里有透著性感，喜歡年輕男子。相比之下，薩迪的臉色蒼白，鼻梁和臉蛋上還有著點點雀斑，而利亞那曬成了棕褐色的膚色，則顯得干凈透亮。

八年來，她是薩迪最好的朋友，倆人算是知心姐妹了。有次，她心血來潮給薩迪發了封郵件，咨詢有關寫作和出版的事情。她們約定在“圖書之尾”見面，那是埃德蒙頓一家很受歡迎的書店，利亞以為她們只是去喝杯速溶咖啡而已。結果倆人卻十分投機，很快就熱絡起來，幾乎聊了將近五個小時。開始利亞還以為薩迪是個自命不凡的作家，不可能把白天的時間浪費在她身上，結果薩迪卻給了她更多的時間，甚至把心都掏給她了。后來倆人還經常以此開玩笑。

那個通道里，有個健壯英俊，長相酷似科林·法瑞爾男子從他們身邊經過，利亞從后面一直盯著他，那眼神都開始放光。

“我會抓到這樣一個家伙的，”她低低咕噥了一句，“走著瞧吧。” “在玩具店里，你可找不到命中的另一半，”薩迪冷冷地說，“這里的男人一般都是有主的人了。我也不覺得你在卡瑪里能找到他。”

克拉伯卡瑪是懷特大街上一家有名的夜總會。它鼓吹自己有埃德蒙頓最好的女士之夜，有靠類固醇變身肌肉男的脫衣舞者。利亞是那里的常客。“為什么找不到？”

薩迪眨了眨眼睛。“因為卡瑪里滿是渾身汗臭、淺薄自負的年輕人，他們只對一件事情感興趣。”

利亞白了她一眼。

“他們只想和你上床，”利亞補充說，“老實說，我不知道你在那個地方看到了什么。” “什么，你是個傻子嗎？”利亞拱起了眉，笑得有些過分。“我可是把它當做我的公民責任。肯定有人在告訴這些年輕的家伙怎么做。” “也應該有人教教菲利普。”薩迪咕噥道。“怎么了？他不行嗎？” “天哪，利亞！” “恩？你就承認吧。”

“等一下。我們歇會，喝杯咖啡吧。” 利亞看了一眼手表。“還去老地方嗎？”

“當然。你覺得維克多能原諒我們去了別的咖啡館嗎？”

利亞咯咯地笑了。“不，如果我們當了叛徒，他會克扣我們的奶油。哎，你想好給薩姆買什么了嗎？”

“看見合適的就買。我等著上天的啟示。” “你就迷信命運這個東西。”

薩迪聳聳肩，“有時候你不得不信這種事情。”

她們繼續沿著通道往前走，倆人都在為她們所認識的那個最可愛的孩子尋找禮物。當薩迪看到了一個她確定薩姆會喜歡的禮物時，叫了一聲，看了利亞一眼，一副“我說會如此”的表情。

“這輛自行車棒極了。星期一才是他的生日，到時候我再給他。反正星期一的生日聚會上他會收到很多禮物。”

但她不知道的是，薩姆根本看不到這輛自行車的。他沒法拿到這輛自行車了。

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“整整兩周沒看見你了，”維克多·關說，“再多一天我就要打911了。”

“這周很忙啊，”薩迪邊回答，邊把錢包放在了柜臺上，“生意怎么樣，維克多？” “又一次寒流，生意不錯。”

這個年輕的中國男人是一杯卡布奇諾咖啡館的老板，這家咖啡館與薩迪的家只隔著幾個街區。咖啡館里有燃氣壁爐，輕松的氛圍，當地的音樂家們，像杰西.格林和亞莉克希亞.梅爾尼恰克也經常光顧此處。維克多不僅能提供最好的自制湯和乳酪凱撒沙拉，摩卡拿鐵咖啡的味道也堪稱絕妙。

利亞直奔洗手間。“你知道我要什么。” 薩迪點了一份沙伊，一份摩卡。

“你看到今天早上的大霧了吧？”維克多問道。

“看到了，我冒著大霧開車送薩姆去學校，幾乎看不見我前面的車。” 她顫抖了一下，維克多關心地看著她。

“有貓走過你家墓地了還是怎么著？”他問道。“沒，我只是討厭冬天。”

她從書架上拿了一份報紙，走到樓上。壁爐邊的沙發還空著，她坐到那里，把報紙扔在了桌子上。

頭版的大標題讓她倒吸一口涼氣。“大霧再次來襲。” 她感到呼吸緊蹙。“上帝呀，不要再來一場大霧了。”

一張照片占據了頭版的位置，照片里是一個坐在混凝土臺階上的金發、藍眼睛的女孩。她是八歲的科特涅·邦妮克，來自埃德蒙頓北部地區，已經失蹤。報上說，這個女孩是午夜失蹤的，家里沒有暴力闖入的跡象，也沒有證據能顯示是誰帶走了他。但是調查人員確信，疑犯肯定就是帶走其他孩子的同一個人。

薩迪把報紙翻到了第三版，報道在這里繼續寫下去。她很同情那個女孩的父親。他是個單身爸爸，離開安大略省，在埃德蒙頓工程施工處找了份工作。馬修·邦妮克到這里來是為了生活能夠好點。在房地產市場火爆的情況下，這是個很不錯的決定。但是現在馬修只是希望自己的女兒能夠平安歸來。

“你的咖啡。”維克多說著，在桌子上放下了兩個杯子。“多謝。”她說，頭也沒有抬起來。

她的眼睛緊緊地盯著邦妮克和他父親那張更小的照片。他個男人笑得很燦爛，她的女兒則吐著舌頭，擺了一個傻傻的姿勢。

“爸爸的小女兒。”薩迪悲傷地想。

利亞一屁股坐在了她旁邊的椅子上。“這個大塊頭是誰呀？” “他的女兒昨晚被劫走了。” “太可怕了。”

“是呀。”薩迪說，邊端起杯子輕輕抿了一口。“有目擊者嗎？” “沒有，”她盯著利亞說，“除了大霧。” “難不成他們以為是大霧?”

薩迪瀏覽了一下那篇報道，“目前還沒有人要贖金，聽起來真的像是霧干的。” “見鬼，一共失蹤了??什么??6個孩子？” “7個。三個男孩，四個女孩。”

“又要有一個男孩失蹤了。”利亞的聲音里透著恐懼。

綁匪知道，大霧總是在死寂的夜晚或黎明時分，披著濃密的霧衣，悄悄潛來。他也把自己偽裝得跟霧氣一樣，讓獵物無法察覺。來無蹤，無無影。他抓走了孩子們的靈魂，盜走了父母們的希望與夢想。在過去四年，每年春天都要失蹤一個男孩，一個女孩。

薩迪翻著報紙。“我們換個話題吧。”

她掃視了一眼屋子里，發現維克多有著形形色色的顧客。樓上的角落里，坐著三個十幾歲的男孩在打撲克，還有一個男孩站在邊上觀戰，每次一有朋友贏了，他就會高聲叫喊。薩迪對面坐著一個紅發女子，穿淡紫色運動衫，在筆記本電腦的鍵盤上奮力敲打著，不時地停下來厭惡地白一眼那些吵吵鬧鬧的男孩。在樓下，一位常客——老拉菲正在從頭至尾地讀每一份報紙。每看完一頁，他就呷一口自己的黑咖啡。

“那么??”利亞翹起了修長的雙腿，拉長了聲調說，“避孕丸菲利普怎么樣了？” 薩迪神色黯然。“我也想知道他怎么了。他說他整夜整夜都在公司工作。” “然后你就想他在到處鬼混？是不是？” 利亞說話總是直來直去，任何事情都不例外。“也許他只是在辛苦地工作。”利亞說。

薩迪搖搖頭，“今天他是凌晨兩點回來的，整個人香氣、酒氣熏天。”

“他的公司不是正在做那個油井的案子嗎？我打賭肯定所有的合伙人都在熬夜。” 薩迪哼了一聲，“也包括布麗奇特·莫瑞。”

布麗奇特是菲利普的得力女助手，他經常提起這個女人。可見這個新人在弗萊明·沃納律師事務所的重要性。這個身材苗條、膚色白皙、胸部明顯花錢整過金發女律師從來不離菲利普的左右。

薩迪好奇布麗奇特要上廁所時會怎么做。“可能根本沒那回事。”利亞說。

“就是的。我在派對后的討論會上看到他們倆在一起，沒瞎說他們。布麗奇特挽著菲利普的胳膊，就好像她擁有菲利普一樣。而菲利普則在笑著，跟她咬耳朵。”她咬咬嘴唇，“他的合伙人都同情地看著我，可憐我。我在他們的臉上能看到這種表情。甚至連他們都知道這事。”

利亞趕緊打斷她，“你跟他挑明了嗎？” “我問她是不是又在到處鬼混了。” 就在薩姆出生之間，菲利普承認出有個兩次婚外情。據他說，兩次都是辦公室調情。“都沒什么。”并且菲利普還把責任都推給懷孕的她，說她性趣索然。

“他怎么說？”利亞問，像極了斗牛犬垂涎欲滴地盯著丁骨牛排。

“沒什么。他只是暴怒著沖出了屋子。在你來之前，他從公司給我打了電話，說我很荒謬，我對他的指責既傷害了他，又不公平。”她放低了聲音，“他問我是不是又喝酒了。”

“真是個混蛋。這下你知道我為什么還在單身了吧。”

第五篇：呼嘯山莊英文讀后感

呼嘯山莊英文讀后感

In this summer, I read another book Wuthering Heights.Wuthering Heights is written by Emily Bronte.After reading that book, the love and the hatred between Catherine and Heath Cliff still linger in my head.The story begun with a mistake that made by Lockwood, a temporary resident.He is seeking shelter from the blizzard he staggers through the door of Wuthering Heights, finding the atmosphere inside is just as cold as ice.The master of the house, Heath Cliff, provides a bed reluctantly and it seems like that he feels ill at ease with his visitor’s coming.There's a sad tale behind his indifference, one which the elderly housekeeper Nelly Dean is happy to share.Forty years ago, Wuthering Heights was filled with light, warmth and happiness.Mr.Earnshaw, a congenial gentleman farmer, lives happily with his boisterous children Cathy and Hindley.However, being a kind and generous fellow, he can't help rescuing a poor starving wretch off of the streets of Liverpool, a gypsy child named Heath Cliff.In time Heath Cliff becomes one of the family, loved by all people except Hindley，the son of Mr.Earnshaw.Cathy is an especially good childhood friend, spending many a happy day playing on the moor with Heath Cliff.Unfortunately Mr.Earnshaw dies suddenly;Hindley is able to express his enmity with damning cruelty.In order to air his grievance, he reduced Heath Cliff to a servant.Later, Catherine is forced to marry Edgar.Heath Cliff’s heart is broken, so he leaves Wuthering Heights.After three years, he comes back to Wuthering Heights with wealth.Catherine has married Edgar, but not happiness.Heath Cliff begins to revenge crazily.He takes away Hindley’s belongings by gambling.Then, Hindley gets drunk and die, his son Hareton became slaves.Heath Cliff also marries Edgar's sister Isabella deliberately and persecute her in all the ways.Catherine is miserable inside and then dies of dystocia.Ten years later, Heath Cliff makes Edgar’ daughter Catherine marry to his dying son Linton.Edgar and small Linton dies, Heath Cliff owes Edgar’s property finally.Heath Cliff revenges successfully, but he couldn’t stop missing the dead Catherine, and then he dies.Small Catherine and Hareton inherit all the property and they finally fall in love with each other.Actually, there isn’t such a character that I really like in Wuthering Heights.Every character seems teemed with agony and animosity, especially Heath Cliff.Heath Cliff is an orphan before Mr.Earnshaw adopts him, and in the novel, Mr.Earnshaw treats Heath Cliff even nicer than his own son, Hindley Earnshaw.It’s quite amazing that in spite of Earnshaw’s nice treatment, Heath Cliff has no gratitude at all, he revenged Hindley and Catherine, even their heirs.After reading Heath Cliff’s story, my feeling is complicated, although he is the avenger who dominate the whole story by using his vengeful machinations, he is also the most pitiful guy in Wuthering Heights;he doesn’t know what is love and don’t know how to love.Heath Cliff has lived with the Earnshaws for more than 10 years, but there is no attachment between him and the whole family except Catherine.However, even Catherine was died because of Heath Cliff’s torture.When he is torturing others, he is also giving himself a suffering.Catherine, the heroine in the book, is described as a capricious and selfish girl.She is just like Heath Cliff, doesn’t know how to love at all.Anyway, Wuthering Heights left an indelible impression on me, cold and withering.However, at the end of the book, the author shows us that the human being’s kindness is not diminished at Wuthering heights, even though the wind can break off a tree, that doesn’t mean it can break off the whole forest.Even though hatred destroyed Heath Cliff, Catherine, Edgar and Elizabeth’s happiness, that doesn’t mean Cathy and Hareton’s happiness.