Bedside Lamp English Learning Reader IV: Farewell to Arms (English-Chinese Contrastive)

Author: Wang Ruoping
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Ernest Hemingway is one of the self-taught literary masters of the 20th-century United States. His closest uncle, Wilbur, came to Shanxi Province in China a century ago to preach and practice medicine, and founded the Xuefu Mingxian Academy, which has nurtured many talents for our country. The plot of this 250,000-word novel is not complex. American youth Henry voluntarily went to the frontline of the Italy-Austria battlefield as an ambulance driver and met and fell in love with a beautiful British nurse, Miss Catherine Barkley. While Henry was injured and receiving treatment in the hospital, he was taken care of by Catherine's pure and selfless nursing; she devoted everything to bring happiness to Henry on his sickbed. After Henry recovered, he returned to the frontline when the Italian army was in complete disarray, with chaos both on the front and behind. The Italian guards, like fools and demons, mistook friends for enemies, trampled on human lives, and were about to execute Henry as an enemy spy on the spot! At the critical moment of life and death, Henry escaped by jumping into the river. In the turbulent current, he survived by the skin of his teeth. Later, he escaped back to Catherine's side. To avoid pursuit by the police, Henry and Catherine fled to Switzerland by water in the dead of night, living a happy life for several months. Their happiness was as fleeting as a meteor in the sky or a flower in the ground, too short-lived; Catherine and her child both died of childbirth complications. Henry was heartbroken and felt utterly desolate. The theme of this book is: Unjust war destroys all the good people and things in the world. This book is one of the excellent teaching materials for students in our country to understand history, learn English, get close to literary masters, and climb the peak of literature.