留学推荐书(10本留学前必读的英文原著)

10本留学前必读的英文原著

留学意味着生疏的国度，

全新的文明和生存办法，

动身前，除了一颗激情的心，

还要做一些作业哦！

好比了解一些他国汗青文明和人情世故，

今天Vicky给各位保举

英美留学前必读的10本英文原著，

使你的出国行更有谱！

英国篇

1.《The English: A Portrait of a People》—Jeremy Paxman

《英格兰人：一个民族的肖像》 杰里米·帕克斯曼

英格兰人的自我以为

简介：

(以下简介局部整理自网络）

In The English, the famously no-nonsense journalist and broadcaster Jeremy Paxman assesses what it means to be English today – specifically English, that is, not Welsh, Scottish, or Irish.

在《The English》内里，以坦爽著称的记者、掌管人Jeremy Paxman开门见山地评价今世英格兰人对自我的熟悉，并且分析其与威尔士人、苏格兰人、爱尔兰等人的不同。

In this wide-ranging work, Paxman charts the rise of a peculiar stereotype of Englishness that arose abroad in response to British colonialism, and its subsequent obsolescence following the disintegration of Empire. Emphasising the pluralistic interconnections between England's regions, cultures, and classes, The English gives historical grounding to some of the country' scurious social quirks and places them in the context of its people’s fluctuating identities.

此作品内容广泛，Paxman在书中写道，大英帝国因在天下各地开发殖民地，惹起了当地人对英国人诸多的奇异偏见。如今，固然大英帝国早已崩溃，但很多国度仍旧坚持着新鲜的偏见。经过形貌英格兰各个地区、文明和社会阶层之间多样化的干系，Paxman刻画了英国社会的一些奇异怪癖的汗青背景，并将它们和古代人厘革多端的自我认知作比力。

2. White Teeth—Zadie Smith
《白牙》 查蒂·史密斯

一幅世纪末的英国写真

简介:

Treating a broad sweep of British post-war history,White Teeth deals with the issues of London's immigrant population and their often conflicting desires to both assimilate and preserve their indigenous cultural identities.

《白牙》以二战后的英国汗青为背景，探寻了伦敦移民的困难境遇，他们堕入了既巴望融入英国社会、又想保存本人故国文明的分歧中间。

In an inimitable style that is now painfully funny, now heartrending, Smith also satirises the British middle and working classes while writing sensitively on such social issues as the generation gap in immigrant families, and even religious fundamentalism. A must-read for those seeking to know more about the diversity of Britain's cities.

Smith用一种笑中带泪的共同办法，挖苦了英国的中产阶层和工人阶层，同时还用过细入微的笔触形貌了一些社会成绩，比如移民家庭内里的代沟、宗教原教旨主义等等。假如你想了解英国都市中的多元文明，这是你的必读之物。

3. Porterhouse Blue—Tom Sharpe《Porterhouse Blue》汤姆·夏普

恼怒怒骂中的冷思索

内容节选：

简介:

Whether you're looking to throw yourself bodily into life at Britain's most traditional educational institutions, or searching for a stick to beat them with, look no further than Tom Sharpe's rip-roaring parody of life at the fictional Cambridge college, Porterhouse.

无论你是巴望去最传统的英国高校修业，照旧想讪笑它们不合实践的习俗，都得来读读汤姆·夏普的这部作品，他在书中创造了一所假造的剑桥学院——Porterhouse，内里的故事一定会令你捧腹大笑。

Crippled by the need to adhere to its own traditions, Porterhouse is thrown into disarray when the College Master dies before naming his successor; meanwhile, research student Lionel Zipser's desperation to keep a lid on his attraction to his maid leads him through a series of preposterous plotlines towards a hilarious finale. A taste at the cordon bleu end of fine British humour.

依照Porterhouse学院久长的传统，仅有学院院长可以选定本人的接任者。现任院长的忽然殒命使得整个学院堕入杂乱之中。同时，研讨生Lionel Zipser暗恋他的西崽，又要死命遮盖，因此产生了一系列荒唐可笑的事变，了局也令人开怀大笑。读Porterhouse能让你体验最经典的英式幽默。

4. The Road to Wigan Pier—George Orwell
《通往威根船埠之路》乔治·奥威尔

这里就是一片炼狱

出色节选：

It it curious how seldom the all-importance of food is recognized. You see statues everywhere to politicians, poets, bishops, but not to cooks or bacon-curers or market-gardeners.

很奇异的是食品的紧张性很少被承认。你会看到到处都是政治家、墨客、主教的雕像,却看不到厨师或市场园丁的。

This is the inevitable fate of the sentimentalist. All his opinions change into their opposites at the first brush of reality.

这是多愁善感的人不成制止的运气。他一切的看法一碰到现完成果变成了本人的对峙面。

The modern English literary world, at any rate the high-brow section of it,is a sort of poisonous jungle where only weeds can flourish.

古代英语文学界，即使它有文雅的局部，照旧一种有毒的丛林,仅有杂草可以发达提高。

简介:

In Wigan Pier, a middle-class writer composes one of the finest examples of working-class journalism ever set down on paper.

乔治·奥威尔是英国宏大的人性主义作家、讯息记者、社会批评家。他终身颠沛流浪，但一直以敏锐的洞察力和犀利的文条纪录着他所生存的年代，努力于维护人类自在和尊严，揭破、鞭挞封建和极权主义，并提出了跨越年代的预言，因此他被尊称为“一代人的冷峻知己”。这本书是关于工人阶层的有史以来最佳的观察研讨报告之一。

The British are a nation acutely aware of social class, and navigating the proverbial minefield of class distinctions can often prove challenging for visiting students. Orwell documents living conditions for workers in the impoverished north of England in the late 1930s, before discussing the practical solutions to the problem. Very much a document of its time, but still one of great use for those interested in the roots of Britain’s ongoing class tensions英国人对社会阶层极度敏感，而错综繁复的阶层不同常令留学生感受莫明其妙。书的开头报告了英国北部的劳动人民在30年代的艰苦生存条件，接着提出了处理该社会成绩的几个真实的方案。作家的一些论点无疑已过时了，但本书仍能令人深化了解英国不同阶层之间恒久分歧的汗青背景。

5. Great Expectations—Charles Dickens
《宏大出息》查尔斯·狄更斯

爱你是我最光辉的出息

出色节选：

I love her against reason , against promise , against peace ,against hope , against happiness , against all discouragement that could be . Once for all .
我爱她是违反常理，是拦阻出息，是丢失便宜，是幻灭渴望， 是断送幸福，是注定要尝尽统统的懊丧和扫兴的。但是，一旦爱上了她，我再也不克不及不爱她。

Pip：“Out of my thoughts? You are in every thought. You're part of my existence. Part of me. You are in every thought, in every line I have ever read since I first came here. You are in the river, the sails of ships, the sea, the clouds, the stones of London. Until the last hours of my life, you will remain in me. Part of the little good, part of the evil. And I will always think of the good.”
忘记你？我的每一段追念都关于你，你是我存在的一局部，我肢体的一局部，我的每一段思绪都关于你，我分开这里后读到每一行书中字句都关于你，你是绵延的河流，是风中扬起的船帆，是大海，是白云，是筑起伦敦城的岩石，直至我生命之火熄灭殆尽的最初一刻，你都不会与我分散。你是我仁慈的一面，也是我罪行的一面，但我会永久记得仁慈的谁人你。

简介:

Great Expectations may seem like an obvious choice, but it will do more than reward the Chinese penchant for Victorian high society. As well as being one of the most recognisable English-language stories, the novel explores social mobility, the contemporary class system, and empire, all backed up with a number of Dickens' larger-than-life characters and the first-person voice of the ever hopeful Pip.

《宏大出息》（别名《孤星血泪》）是狄更斯最成熟的作品之一，是他比力后期的作品。它的作用不但范围于满意中国人对维多利亚年代崇高社会的兴致。该小说不仅是英文名著，还探求社会活动性、维多利亚年代的社会阶层体系和大英帝国的汗青。此书一直用第一人称——永久充溢渴望的“皮普”来叙事，并充溢着诸多非同凡响的人物故事。

For the Chinese reader, it’s a cultural exploration of Britain at one of the most important points in her history, and a classic piece of literature by the second-most famous British writer of all time.

关于中国读者而言，《宏大出息》是一场文明之旅，探求英国汗青中最紧张的一章，同时也是英国第二大作家的名垂千古的经典之作。

美国篇

1.ON THE ROAD—JACK KEROUAC

《在路上》杰克·凯鲁亚克

漫漫路途上一座反叛的丰碑

简介:

Published in 1957, Kerouac’s masterpiece captured the voice of America’s ‘Beat Generation’, an iconoclastic group of writers that sprung up in the post-war US as a reaction against mainstream social values:materialism, capitalist accumulation, passive acceptance of religious and ethical codes.

凯鲁亚克在1957年出书的这部佳构发射了美国“垮掉的一代”的声响，这一派作家的头脑有悖于传统信心，在二战后的美国敏捷崛起，反响了对战后故国主流代价观，即物质主义、本钱积累、对宗教和品德准则的被动承受等的抗议。

On the Road describes the whistle-stop travels of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty. The story is enriched by the clarity of Kerouac’s spontaneous prose, yet has resounded with young readers to this day for its underlying values of exploration, experimentalism, and the (ultimately fruitless) search for true value in life.

《在路上》刻画了萨尔（Sal Paradise）与狄安（Dean Moriarty）的美国之行。凯鲁亚克的散文天然传神，也由于故事内在的代价观——探究、实验、（虽说最初没有告捷却）不休寻觅生命的真实意义等不休惹起年轻读者的共鸣。其疏狂周游、沉思顿悟的人天生为“垮掉的一代”的一种抱负。

2. THE GRAPES OF WRATH—JOHN STEINBECK

《恼怒的葡萄》约翰·史坦贝克

没有过高的渴望，就不会被扫兴搞垮

“人类已被证实具有宏大的心灵和精力——面临失败的勇气，大胆无畏的精力，宽恕和仁爱之心。作为一名作家，必需宣扬和歌颂这些。我以为，一个作家假如不克不及激情地信赖人类有自我提高的才能，就不会献身于文学，也不克不及算是文学界的一员。”——约翰·史坦贝克

简介:

Arguably Nobel Prize-winning American writer John Steinbeck’s greatest work, The Grapes of Wrath follows the fortunes of the Joads, a family of Oklahoman farmers forced to flee their Dust Bowl home during the Great Depression.

《恼怒的葡萄》可以说是诺贝尔文学奖取得者、美国作家约翰·史坦贝克最出色的长篇小说，故事形貌了约德家属的兴衰。20世纪30年代大冷清时期，这个俄克拉荷马州的农家由于其农场位于美国中部的“灰盆”（事先由于天气缘故经常发作大范围沙尘暴），被动逃离故乡。

On the road to California, they encounter hunger, poverty, abandonment, and exploitation, yet also great generosity, sacrifice, maturity, and finally rebirth.

在走向加州的路上，他们遭遇了饥饿，贫困，被遗弃和剥削等凄惨履历，同时也见证了同胞的大方、捐躯、成熟和最初的重生。

Upon publication, the novel’s accessible prose and sensitivity to the plight of America’s labouring poor both resonated with the country’s working classes and aroused the ire of some of Steinbeck’s contemporaries. A true paean to the power of the human spirit, it is studied in high school English classrooms to this day.小说刚刚出书时，因史坦贝克的文笔淳厚敏感，体恤民情，惹起了美国工人阶层的共鸣，但同时也激起了一些同年代人士的怒气。这部小说歌唱了人文精力的力气，迄今都是美国学生英语讲堂里的必学质料。

3. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE—ROBERT M. PIRSIG,

《禅与摩托车维修艺术》罗伯特·梅纳德·波西格

万物皆有禅

出色节选：

“佛陀或是耶稣坐在电脑和变速器的齿轮旁边修行会像坐在山顶和莲花座上一样安闲。假如情况不是云云，那无异于侮慢了佛陀——也就是侮慢了你本人。”

简介:

Simultaneously a thrilling piece of travel literature and a philosophical treatise, Robert M. Pirsig’s 1974 novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance traces the author’s bike trip from Minnesota to California.

罗伯特?M. 波西格被誉为“70年代的梭罗”，这是一部很故意思的旅游文学作品，也可以被看作一篇哲学论文。波西格74年出书的长篇小说《禅与摩托车维修艺术》刻画了作者从美国明尼苏达州到加州的一段骑行之旅。该书还被选为美国大学“禅与古代美国文学”课程的必读参考书以及《年代》周刊20世纪70年代十本最有影响力的书之一。

Interspersed with vivid sweeps of the American prairies, each chapter also chronicles a series of philosophical discussions as a father recovering from electroconvulsive therapy gradually tries to reconcile his own worldviews with those of the people around him and liberation from a materialist spiritual vacuum.

除了对北美莽莽大草原的生动形貌，每一章里，波西格还针对一系列哲感性话题举行了探究。随着作者的讨论，主人公——一位从电痉挛医治中渐渐规复的父亲，不休实验和谐本人和周围人的天下观，并试图挣脱物质文明带给他的充实感。

Drawing on both the Western and Eastern philosophical canon, this challenging read ultimately serves as a platform for Pirsig to introduce his own Metaphysics of Quality.波西格借用东东方的哲学论点，论述了本人的“质量形而上学论”，固然要看懂相当不易，一旦读完却相对会劳绩颇丰。

4.THE COLOR PURPLE—ALICE WALKER,

《紫色姐妹花》 爱丽丝·沃克

如今是我们最年轻的时候

简介:

Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epistolary novel The Color Purple won huge acclaim for its sensitive exploration of the lives of African-American women in America’s Deep South during the 1930s.

由爱丽丝·沃克所著，曾获普利策文学奖的书信体小说《紫色姐妹花》，因其对30年代寓居于美国南方要地的非裔美国女性生存的敏感探究，备受歌颂。

Set in rural Georgia, Celie, the novel’s protagonist, suffers immense abuse and victimisation as a black girl growing up in a racially segregated community. Later, her meeting with Shug Avery, a glitzy singer and magic-maker, helps Celie push back against the repressive society around her and take charge of her own destiny.

故事产生于乔治亚州的乡村地区，事先因种族断绝制度，小说的黑人女主演西丽（Celie）在发展历程中蒙受了多量的凌虐和毒害。厥后，她熟悉了一位刺眼的歌手兼把戏师阿弗利（Shug Avery），由此开头反抗这个克制的社会并主动把握本人的运气。

5.THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE—PHILIP K. DICK,

《高堡怪杰》菲利普·迪克

假如二战法西斯赢了会怎样？

简介:

A novel of diffuse influences and phenomenal imaginative power, Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle challenged the foundations of American exceptionalism. Dick postulates an alternate ending to the Second World War, one which witnessed the defeat of the Allies, the conquest of the American continent by the Japanese Empire and Nazi Germany, and the subsequent Cold War ‘fought’ between the two new Axis Powers.

菲利普·迪克是美国科幻文学界的传怪杰物，在美国科幻黄金年代独树一帜。以其名字定名的菲利普?K.迪克奖是美国科幻界的主要奖项之一。这本小说的灵感集众家之长，作家的想象力也令人惊叹。

《高堡怪杰》挑唆了“美国例外主义”的基本准则。迪克在书中假定二战有了别的一种了局，反法西斯同盟被打败，全北美洲都被日本帝国和纳粹德国所降服，接下去这两大轴心国之间便开头“气愤”。

Suffused with East Asian philosophy, and featuring passages written in stunning Japanese-English creole, the book explores the veracity of the reality we live in, how we negotiate ‘true’ or ‘fake’ identities in the face of persecution, and how much true ‘value’ can be derived from any sense of national pride.整本书充溢了东亚哲学原理，还包含了迪克自编的令人惊叹的“日英殽杂语”。作者经过创造这个平行天下，探究了实际天下的真实性，人们面临毒害表达天性的办法，以及从民族自大感中毕竟能取得几多真实“代价”。

列位小伙伴，

喜好哪一本呢？

快快举动起来！

Anyway,

你读过的书不会负你，

你走过得路不会骗你。