【曼陀丽】名著推荐|《蝴蝶梦》 |丽贝卡|Jane|was

_本文原题：名著推荐|《蝴蝶梦》
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Introduction
Humble and poor woman,
rich and melancholy man;
An old English manor,
a secret servant;
The manor was destroyed in the fire
and the past surfaced.
卑微贫穷的女主，富裕忧郁的男主；
古老的英伦庄园，怀揣秘密的仆从；
庄园毁于大火，往事浮出水面。
Which book would you think of with such a setup? Jane Eyre ? But our protagonist today is not Jane Eyre, but Rebecca.
这样的设定会让你想到哪本书呢？《简·爱》？但我们今天的主角不是简·爱，而是丽贝卡。

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（图为希区·柯克导演的同名电影《蝴蝶梦》海报）
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Rebecca & Jane Eyre
Rebecca is a novel written by Daphne du Maurier. Compared with Jane Eyre , this book is more like a complete reversal, telling another possibility of the story. In Jane Eyre , the focus is on the hostess. Although the former lady is alive, she is just an obstacle to overcome. In Rebecca , the focus is on the former lady Rebecca, who is dead but still is a height that can never be crossed.
《蝴蝶梦》是英国女作家达夫妮·杜穆里埃创作的长篇小说。相比于《简·爱》，这本书更像一个彻底的反转，讲述了故事的另一种可能性。《简·爱》的焦点在于女主，前任夫人虽然在世，但她只是一个需要逾越的障碍；而《蝴蝶梦》的焦点在于前任夫人，虽然她已经去世，但仍是一个永远无法跨越的高度。
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Outline
The author portrays a nearly perfect female Rebecca. Rebecca no longer exists, but she is everywhere. She can control the people who submit to her and the manor before and after her death. "I" in the novel, as the new heroine of Manderley, who had never received good education, lived in the shadow of Rebecca all the time. It was not until a ship ran aground accidentally that the truth of Rebecca's death was revealed and all doubts and fears in "I" were dispelled. Mrs. Danvers, Rebecca's loyal servant in the world, sent Manderley into the fire in the dark. However, can the fire really bury all the past? Although my husband and I left the mansion forever, the panic in the dream will come back in some unforeseen form.
作者塑造了一个近乎完美的女性丽贝卡。丽贝卡已不存在，却无所不在，无论生前还是死后，她都能控制着臣服于她的人，控制着曼陀丽庄园。小说中的“我”没有接受过良好教育，作为曼陀丽的新女主人，无时无刻不在丽贝卡的阴影下胆颤心惊地生活，直到一次船只的偶然搁浅，才揭开了丽贝卡的真实死因，驱散了“我”心中的全部疑团和恐惧。丽贝卡留在世上的忠仆丹弗斯太太在黑夜里将曼陀丽送入了火焰。然而，火焰真的能将所有的过往埋葬吗？尽管“我”和丈夫永远地离开了豪苑，但梦境中的惶恐还是会以某种无法预见的形式卷土重来。
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Extracts
I would sigh a moment, stretch myself and turn, adopt opening my eyes, be bewildered at that glittering sun, that hard, clean sky, so different from the soft moonlight of my dream. The day would lie before us both, long no doubt, and uneventful, but fraught with a certain stillness, a dear tranquility we had not known before. We would not talk of Manderley, I would not tell my dream. For Manderley was ours no longer. Manderley was no more. 分页标题
我会叹口气，伸伸懒腰，侧过身迷惘地望望那轮跟梦境里柔和的月亮迥然不同的灿烂红日以及寂寥清朗的天空。白天在等待着我们俩，无疑既漫长又平淡，不过却充满我们以前享受不到的宝贵的静谧。我们不会谈及曼陀丽，我也不会跟他讲我的梦，因为曼德利不再属于我们，曼陀丽已不复存在。
【【曼陀丽】名著推荐|《蝴蝶梦》】I thought about being placid, how quiet and comfortable it sounded, someone with knitting on her lap, with calm unruffled brow. Someone who was never anxious, never tortured by doubt or indecision, someone who never stood as I did, hopeful, eager, frightened, tearing at the bitten nails, uncertain which road to go, which star to follow.
我想到要保持平静，这听起来是多么的安静和舒适，有人在她膝上织毛衣，眉头平静而平静。一个从不焦虑，从不被怀疑或优柔寡断折磨的人，一个从未像我一样站着的人，充满希望，渴望，害怕，撕咬着被咬的指甲，不知道该走哪条路，该追随哪颗星星。
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, but a quality of thought, a state of mind.
幸福并不是一件值得珍藏的占有物，而是一种思想状态，一种心境。
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