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Great Expectations
《遠大前程》
Great Expectations is set in England in the early 1800s.
《遠大前程》于19世紀早期開始于英國。
The author uses Pip, the main character, to tell the story.
作者使用主角皮普來講述這個故事。
Having lost his parents, Pip lives with his older sister and her husband Joe.
失去雙親，皮普與他的姐姐以及姐夫喬生活在一起。
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.
皮普的姐姐經常虐待他，但喬卻是一個善良淳樸的人，他寧愿死也不愿看到皮普受到任何傷害。
Pip, who is seven years old when the story begins, is in a foggy cemetery when a man desperate criminal appears and frightens him.
故事開始時，只有七歲的皮普正在一塊薄霧籠罩的公墓中，這時出現了一個鋌而走險的罪犯，嚇到了皮普。
Mist is a symbol of danger in Great Expectations.
在《遠大前程》中，霧是危險的象征。
Classic novels often have symbols which add interest, tension or deeper meaning to the text.
經典小說經常使用象征來增加文章的趣味性，緊張感和更深奧的含義。
Readers may not be able to see the danger, so they need a symbol like the mist to make it clearer to them.
讀者可能看不見危險，所以作者需要用一種象征，比如說霧，來使讀者能夠清晰地感受到。
There is a twist in the plot when a very generous stranger gives Pip a large fortune.
當一個慷慨的陌生人給了皮普一大筆財產之后，情節發生了扭轉。
As a condition for receiving this fortune, Pip must move to London and begin the life of a gentleman.
由于接受了這筆財產，皮普必須移居倫敦并開始一個紳士的生活。
Pip is eager to begin his new life.
皮普迫不及待地開始了他的新生活。
Money and education, however, changed him, and before long he becomes vain and ashamed of his background.
但是，金錢和教育改變了他，不久他變得空虛并且對他的背景感覺難為情。
Pip dislikes it when Joe comes to visit him in London.
喬到倫敦看望皮普，而他嫌惡喬的造訪。
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.
他對于文明和紳士持有固執的看法，喬并不符合他的要求，因此他覺得很受困擾。
