傲慢與偏見(英文版) 節選

　　《床頭燈英語·3000詞讀物（純英文）：傲慢與偏見》：　　"Our daughters，" replied Mr. Bennet， "haven't much in way of praise or recommendation. They don't know very much and are often silly， like other girls. But Lizzy is more clever and smarter than her sisters."　　"Mr. Bennet， how you make me worry！ Sometimes I feel you even enjoy it！ You don't care about my poor nerves."　　Mr. Bennet walked over to the door of his library. "You are wrong， my dear，" he said. "I do have feelings for your nerves. After all， they are like old friends. I have lived with them for twenty years."　　"Oh！" said Mrs. Bennet. She was beginning to cry. "How you enjoy making me worry！"　　"You will have many other chances to see rich young men move into our neighborhood， my dear. So I hope you can forget this."　　"You have no thought for your daughters. Five of them-five！-and Jane in her twenty-third year！ Are they all to be old maids and never get married?"　　"I'm sure you won't let this happen，" he said， and the library door closed behind him.　　The Bennet family met together in the drawing room after dinner that evening. Four of Mr. Bennet's daughters were quite pretty. Jane was the most beautiful of them but Elizabeth， who was twenty， had more spirit. Also， Elizabeth's fine dark eyes seemed full of light. Kitty was their seventeen year-old daughter. She was pretty in a thin way. Lydia was almost sixteen and she was tall with healthy， red-colored cheeks. Nineteen-year-old Mary was the only plain member of the family. She was thin， round-shouldered， and nearsighted. Because she read too many books， she had to wear glasses.　　……