斯威夫特 - 教育学习榜-外语
《格列佛游记》是英国18世纪最优秀的讽刺作家和政论家乔纳森·斯威夫特代表作。故事大旨意在抨击当时英国的议会政治与反动宗教势力，是一本幻想游记为文体的讽刺小说。故事以一个外科医生格列佛的口吻叙述了在航海时遇难、漂流到几个奇异国度的经历。深刻反讽时政的腐败，以离奇、甚至令人作呕的情节，讽刺学究的愚蠢可笑，并且省思人性的不同面向。
INDUCEMENTS c:50
Nottinghamshire: c:31
as I always believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do. c:35
dispositions c:62
prosperous. c:52
immoderate c:75
inclined to c:30
Tolgo phonac c:22
remembrance c:14
intrepidity c:50
determinate c:11
countenances. c:15
conjecturing c:13
soporiferous c:17
unperceived c:18
proclamation c:26
intermingled c:25
embroidered c:24
impertinence c:34
ringleaders c:21
proclamations c:17
five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office c:31
quadrangular c:24
pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter. c:21
By which the reader may conceive an idea of the ingenuity of that people, as well as the prudent and exact economy of so great a prince. c:13
circumspection c:25
solicitations c:12
, you are to understand, that for about seventy moons past there have been two struggling parties in this empire, under the names of Tramecksan and Slamecksan, from the high and low heels of their shoes, by which they distinguish themselves. c:26
animosities c:20
expostulate c:16
that I would never be an instrument of bringing a free and brave people into slavery. c:20
Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions. c:14
but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladies in England. c:12
They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise again; in which period the earth (which they conceive to be flat) will turn upside down, and by this means they shall, at their resurrection, be found ready standing on their feet. c:12
ignominious c:18
aggravation c:15
concupiscence c:22
traitorously c:16
inundation c:15
encumbrance c:11
I stayed but two months with my wife and family, for my insatiable desire of seeing foreign countries, would suffer me to continue no longer. c:11
This made me reflect upon the fair skins of our English ladies, who appear so beautiful to us, only because they are of our own size, and their defects not to be seen but through a magnifying glass; where we find by experiment, that the smoothest and whitest skins look rough, and coarse, and ill-coloured. c:17
And thus he continued on, while my colour came and went several times with indignation to hear our noble country, the mistress of arts and arms, the scourge of France, the arbitress of Europe, the seat of virtue, piety, honour, and truth, the pride and envy of the world, so contemptuously treated. c:12
hermetically c:14
circumspectly c:12
mortification c:13