人物的經(jīng)典描寫 中英對照

1、Janes first sight at Lady Ingram: As far a sperson went, she answered point for point, both to my picture and Mrs. Fairfaxs description. The noble bust, the sloping shoulders, the graceful neck, the dark eyes and black ringlets were all there: but her face? Her face was like her mothers; a youthful

2、unfurrowed likeness: the low brow, the same high features, the same pride: it was not, however, so saturnine（憂郁的，沉默寡言的） a pride. She laughed continually: her laugh was satirical, and so was habitual expression of her arched and haughty lip.More Examples:Upon an oval of indescribable loveliness, plac

3、e two dark eyes beneath brows so cleanly arched that they might have been painted on; veil those eyes with lashes so long that, when lowered, they cast shadows over the pink flush of the cheeks; sketch a delicate, straight, spirited nose and nostrils slightly flared in a passionate aspiration toward

4、s sensuality; draw a regular mouth with lips parting gracefully over teeth as white as milk; tint the skin with the bloom of peaches which no hands has touchesand you will have a comprehensive picture of her entrancing face.在一張難以形容的優(yōu)美的鵝蛋形臉上，長著一雙黑眼睛，上面是兩道彎彎的，純凈得像是畫上去的眉毛；長長的睫毛遮住了雙眼，眼簾低垂時，睫毛就在玫瑰色的雙頰上投下

5、一抹淡淡的陰影；再添上一個精致的，筆直的，靈巧的鼻子，鼻翼因為對情欲生活的熱望而微張著；臉龐上再描出一張勻稱的嘴，嘴唇輕開處微露出乳白色的牙齒；再給肌膚染上未經(jīng)人手觸摸過的桃花般的顏色于是，你便可以領(lǐng)略到這副迷人的面容了。-選摘自茶花女法小仲馬(Camille ?Written by Alexandre Dumas fils)?The old woman stood facing him in silence and looking inquiringly at him. She was a diminutive, withered up old woman of sixty, with sh

6、arp malignant eyes and a sharp little nose. Her colourless, somewhat grizzled hair was thickly smeared with oil, and she wore no kerchief over it. Round her thin long neck, which looked like a hen's leg, was knotted some sort of flannel rag, and, in spite of the heat, there hung flapping on her

7、shoulders, a mangy fur cape, yellow with age.老太婆默默地站在他面前，疑問地注視著他。這是一個干癟的小老太婆，六十來歲，有一雙目光銳利、神情兇惡的小眼睛，尖尖的小鼻子，光著頭，沒包頭巾。她那像雞腿樣細(xì)長的脖子上纏著一塊法蘭絨破圍巾，別看天熱，肩上還披著一件穿得十分破舊、已經(jīng)發(fā)黃的毛皮女短上衣。 -選摘自罪與罰俄 陀思妥耶夫斯基（Crime and Punishment ?Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky）?John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years o

8、lder than I, for I was but ten; large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities. He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye with flabby cheeks.約翰.里德是個十四歲的小學(xué)

9、生，比我大四歲，因為我才十歲。論年齡，他長得又大又胖，但膚色灰暗，一付病態(tài)。臉盤闊，五官粗，四肢肥，手膨大。還喜歡暴飲暴食，落得個肝火很旺，目光遲鈍，兩頰松弛。-選摘自簡愛英 夏洛特·勃朗特（Jane Eyre Written by Charlotte Bronte）?The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection o

10、n the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert. Everything about him was old except his eyes an

11、d they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated. 老人消瘦而憔悴，脖頸上有些很深的皺紋。腮幫上有些褐斑，那是太陽在熱帶海面上反射的光線所引起的良性皮膚癌變。褐斑從他臉的兩側(cè)一直蔓延下去，他的雙手常用繩索拉大魚，留下了刻得很深的傷疤。但是這些傷疤中沒有一塊是新的。它們象無魚可打的沙漠中被侵蝕的地方一般古老。他身上的一切都顯得古老，除了那雙眼睛，它們象海水一般藍(lán)，是愉快而不肯認(rèn)輸?shù)摹?選摘自老人與海美海明威(The Old Man and the Sea ?Written by Ernest Hemingway)?The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richnes