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Great Expectations
《远大前程》
Great Expectations is set in England in the early 1800s.
《远大前程》于19世纪早期开始于英国。
The author uses Pip, the main character, to tell the story.
作者使用主角皮普来讲述这个故事。
Having lost his parents, Pip lives with his older sister and her husband Joe.
失去双亲，皮普与他的姐姐以及姐夫乔生活在一起。
Pip's sister often abuses him, but Joe is a kind and simple man who would rather die than see any harm come to Pip.
皮普的姐姐经常虐待他，但乔却是一个善良淳朴的人，他宁愿死也不愿看到皮普受到任何伤害。
Pip, who is seven years old when the story begins, is in a foggy cemetery when a man desperate criminal appears and frightens him.
故事开始时，只有七岁的皮普正在一块薄雾笼罩的公墓中，这时出现了一个铤而走险的罪犯，吓到了皮普。
Mist is a symbol of danger in Great Expectations.
在《远大前程》中，雾是危险的象征。
Classic novels often have symbols which add interest, tension or deeper meaning to the text.
经典小说经常使用象征来增加文章的趣味性，紧张感和更深奥的含义。
Readers may not be able to see the danger, so they need a symbol like the mist to make it clearer to them.
读者可能看不见危险，所以作者需要用一种象征，比如说雾，来使读者能够清晰地感受到。
There is a twist in the plot when a very generous stranger gives Pip a large fortune.
当一个慷慨的陌生人给了皮普一大笔财产之后，情节发生了扭转。
As a condition for receiving this fortune, Pip must move to London and begin the life of a gentleman.
由于接受了这笔财产，皮普必须移居伦敦并开始一个绅士的生活。
Pip is eager to begin his new life.
皮普迫不及待地开始了他的新生活。
Money and education, however, changed him, and before long he becomes vain and ashamed of his background.
但是，金钱和教育改变了他，不久他变得空虚并且对他的背景感觉难为情。
Pip dislikes it when Joe comes to visit him in London.
乔到伦敦看望皮普，而他嫌恶乔的造访。
He has rigid ideas of what it means to be civil and to be a gentleman, and is embarrassed by Joe because he does not fit these.
他对于文明和绅士持有固执的看法，乔并不符合他的要求，因此他觉得很受困扰。
