适合背诵的英语美文摘抄.docx

适合背诵的英语美文摘抄 篇一：英语背诵(名著片段,英语美文) It is a truth universally acknowledgedthat a single man inpossession of a good fortune,must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a manmay be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so wellfixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he isconsidered as the rightful property of some one or other of theirdaughters. ‘My dear Mr. Bennet,’ said his lady to him one day, ‘have youheard that Netherfield Park is let at last?’ Mr. Bennet replied that he had not. ‘But it is,’ returned she; ‘for Mrs. Long has just been here, andshe told me all about it.’ Mr. Bennet made no answer. ‘Do not you want to know who has taken it?’ cried his wifeimpatiently. ‘You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.’ This was invitation enough. ‘Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfieldis taken by a young man of large fortune from the north ofEngland; that he came down on Monday to seethe place, and was so much delighted with it that he agreed withMr. Morris immediatelyand some of his servants are to be in the house by theend of next week.” “My dear Lizzy, where can you have been walking to?”was a question which Elizabeth received from Janeas soon as she entered their room,and from all theothers when they sat down to table. She had only to say in reply,that they had wandered about, till she was beyond her ownknowledge. She colored as she spoke; but neither that, nor anything else, awakened a suspicion of the truth. The evening passed quietly, unmarked talked by and anything laughed, extraordinary.The acknowledged lovers theunacknowledged were silent. Darcy was not of a disposition inwhich happiness overflows in mirth; and Elizabeth, agitated andconfused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to beso; for, besides the immediate embarrassment, there were otherevils before her. She anticipated what would be felt in the familywhen her situation became known; she was aware