英文小说书评

Oliver Twist, one of the most famous works of Charles Dickens’, is a novel reflecting the tragic fact of the life in Britain in 18th century. The author who himself was born in a poor family wrote this novel in his twenties with a view to reveal the ugly masks of those cruel criminals and to expose the horror and violence hidden underneath the narrow and dirty streets in London. The hero of this novel was Oliver Twist, an orphan, who was thrown into a world full of poverty and crime. He suffered enormous pain, such as hunger, thirst, beating and abuse. While reading the tragic experiences of the little Oliver, I was shocked by his sufferings. I felt for the poor boy, but at the same time I detested the evil Fagin and the brutal Bill. To my relief, as was written in all the best stories, the goodness eventually conquered devil and Oliver lived a happy life in the end. One of the plots that attracted me most is that after the theft, little Oliver was allowed to recover in the kind care of Mrs. Maylie and Rose and began a new life. He went for walks with them, or Rose read to him, and he worked hard at his lessons. He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty. How can such a little boy who had already suffered oppressive affliction remain pure in body and mind? The reason is the nature of goodness. I think it is the most important information implied in the novel by Dickens-he believed that goodness could conquer every difficulty. Although I don’t think goodness is omnipotent, yet I do believe that those who are kind-hearted live more happily than those who are evil-minded. For me, the nature of goodness is one of the most necessary character for a person. Goodness is to humans what water is to fish. He who is without goodness is an utterly worthless person. On the contrary, as the famous saying goes, ‘The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose’, he who is with goodness undoubtedly is a happy and useful person. People receiving his help are grateful to him and he also gets gratified from what he has done, and thus he can do good to both the people he has helped and himself. To my disappointment, nowadays some people seem to doubt the existence of the goodness in humanity. They look down on people’s honesty and kindness, thinking it foolish of people to be warm-hearted. As a result, they show no sympathy to those who are in trouble and seldom offer to help others. On the other hand, they attach importance to money and benefit. In their opinion, money is the only real object while emotions and morality are nihility. If they cannot get profit from showing their ‘kindness’, they draw back when others are faced with trouble and even hit a man when he is down. They are one of the sorts that I really detest. Francis Bacon said in his essay, ‘Goodness, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of the Deity, and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.’ That is to say a person without goodness is destined to lose everything. Therefore, I, a kind person, want to tell those ‘vermin-to-be’ to learn from the kind Oliver and regain the nature of goodness.

《老人与海》英语书评：

The old man and the sea "book such a story, the Cuban fisherman Santiago didn't catch fish for eighty-four days, by other fishermen as failure, but his perseverance, finally caught a big marlin.

Although the fish to bite, but what also can't trample upon his valour will. This book reveals such a truth: people are not born for defeat, a man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

Before, I do what matter as long as there is not smooth, will shrink, sometimes say a few words of depressed. On study, I as long as there are several test is not very ideal, there is no confidence. After reading this book, I know my own shortcomings, learning because no longer a two not smooth and lose confidence, but the test is not good, the more should study well.

＂The old man and the sea", the lonely old fisherman Santiago is a tough guy, he embodied the spirit of value, is the ancient Greek tragedy spirit of modern echoes. In "the old man and the sea", Hemingway finally find the soul for his beloved tough guy and this spirit is unchangeable in mankind's eternal value.

译文

《老人与海》一书中有这样一个故事，古巴渔民圣地亚哥八十四天没钓到鱼，被其他渔民视为失败，但他的毅力，终于钓到了一条大马林鱼。

虽然鱼要咬人，但什么也不能践踏他的英勇意志。这本书揭示了这样一个真理：人不是为失败而生的，人可以毁灭，但不能被打败。

以前，我做什么事只要不顺利，就会退缩，有时说几句郁闷的话。在学习上，我只要有几次考试都不是很理想，就没有信心。读完这本书后，我知道了自己的缺点，因为学习不再一帆风顺而失去信心，但考试不好，更应该好好学习。

《老人与海》，孤独的老渔夫圣地亚哥是个硬汉，他所体现的精神价值，是古希腊悲剧精神与现代的呼应。在《老人与海》中，海明威终于为他心爱的硬汉找到了灵魂，这种精神在人类永恒的价值中是不变的。

如果你英语水平还可以的话我建议你直接用英语写，这样可以避免很多问题的发生，例如可以避免中国式英语发生的频率、可以避免逐字翻译的弊端；如果你先写好中文，会有以下弊端：1、若没有一定写作功底，语法掌握不到位的话，往往会在译成英文时出现语法错误或严重的中国式句式结构（毕竟外国和中国的文化有差异，按照中国式的翻译意思会有偏差）2、比较浪费时间；3、若碰到某个句子用中文写得很流畅而英文却不知如何表达时，那就会很烦躁，进而带来不必要的紧张情绪；其实只要平时多积累一些固定搭配的短语、连词，写作时用上去，且用上一些比较灵活的句子（从句、被动句、倒装句等），多练练，写作直接用英语写是没什么问题的。