Jonathan Swift 乔纳森 斯威夫特

JonathanSwift乔纳森·斯威夫特

Jonathan

Swift

(1667-1745)Life

MajorWorksAchievementsMasterpieceLifestoryBorninDublin,Irelandon30November1667

posthumouschild(遗腹子)satirist,essayist,politician

graduatedfrom

TrinityCollege,DublinReligionbeliefAnglican（英国国教教徒）diedon19October1745Burialsite:St.Patrick’sCathedral（圣帕特里克大教堂）

Swift’sStylesimple,clear,vigorouslanguage;simple,directandpreciseprose;amastersatirist;Deadlyirony;powerfulsatire.MajorWorksATaleofaTub(1697).《一个木桶的故事》BattleoftheBooks(1697).《书籍之战》JournaltoStella(1710-13).《给斯黛拉的日记》TheDrapier'sLetters(1724).《布商的信》Gulliver‘sTravels(1726).《格列佛游记》ATaleofaTubwascomposedbetween1694and1697andpublishedin1704.Itis

probablyhismostdifficultsatire,and

possiblyhismostmasterly.TheBattleoftheBooksisthenameofashortsatirewrittenbyJonathanSwiftandpublishedaspartoftheprolegomenatohisATaleofaTubin1704.Thisisareproductionofabookpublishedbefore1923.Thisbookmayhaveoccasionalimperfectionssuchasmissingorblurredpages,poorpictures,errantmarks,etc.AchievementsSwiftisoneofthegreatestmastersofEnglishprose.Swiftisamastersatirist.Swiftwasamanofgreatmoralintegrityandsocialcharm.

讽刺是一面镜子，观看者常常能看到别人的面容却看不到自己.

——乔纳森·斯威夫特Every

man

desires

to

live

long,

but

no

man

would

be

old.

——

Jonathan

Swift

人人都希望长寿，但没人愿意变老。

——

乔纳森·斯威夫特

Satireisasortofglass,whereinbeholdersdogenerally

discovereverybody'sfacebuttheirown

.

——JonathanSwift

QuotationGulliver'sTravels电影预告IntroductionSwift’sgreatestsatirework,Gulliver'sTravels,iswrittenin1726,thebookhasnotlostitssignificancetothepresentdayandcanbejustlyrankedamongthebestnovelofworldliterature.masterpiecePlotandMajorCharacters

Writtenintheformofatraveljournal,Gulliver'sTravelsisthefictionalaccountoffourextraordinaryvoyagesmadebyLemuelGulliver,aphysicianwhosignsontoserveasaship'ssurgeonwhenheisunabletoprovidehisfamilywithasufficientincomeinLondon.

Gullivermakesourdeep-seavoyages,whicharedescribedinthefourpartsofthebook.

Lilliput

利立浦特(小人国）Laputa（飞岛国）Brobdingnag布罗丁奈格（大人国）Houyhnhnms慧马国FirstvoyageLilliput（利立普特）Ontheveryfirstvoyage,Gulliverisshipwrecked.

Ofalltheship’screwhealonesurvives.Heswimstotheshoreofastrangeland,inhabitedbyLilliputians,thetallestofwhomissixincheshigh.LittlebylittlehegetsusedtotheirlifeandeventakespartinthewarwiththeneighbouringstateofBlefuseu.Treason叛国罪MajorthemesThefirstvoyagehasbeeninterpretedasanallegorical(讽喻的)satireofthepoliticaleventsoftheearlyeighteenthcentury,acommentaryonthemoralstateofEngland.ThewarwiththetinyneighboringislandrepresentsEngland‘srivalry（对抗）betweenWhigsandTories.SecondvoyageBrobdingnag（布罗丁奈格）

GulliverfinallyescapesLilliputandreturnsbrieflytoEnglandbeforeasecondvoyagetakeshimtoBrobdingnag.

water-towerOnthewhole,theBrobdingnagiansaregood-naturedcreatures,andtheytreatGulliverkindly,thoughtheyareamusedbyhistinysizeandlookeduponhimasaplaything.ThirdvoyageLaputa（勒普它岛）HesoonembarksonhisthirdvoyagetotheflyingislandofLaputaLaputaisamysteriouslandinhabitedbyscientists,magicians,andsorcerers（男巫）whoengageinridiculousexperiment.Majorthemes

ThevoyagetoLaputa

isascathing（尖刻的）attackuponscienceinthesixteenthandseventeenthcenturiesandrevealsSwift‘scontemptanddisdainforabstracttheoryandideology（思想）thatisnotofpracticalservicetohuman.FinalvoyageHouyhnhnm慧马国OnceagainGulliverreturnstoEnglandbeforeafinaljourney,tothelandoftheHouyhnhnmInthecountryofHouyhnhnmHouyhnhnmHorseYahooVeritablereplicasofhumanracedebasedhumanityRationalandvirtuousExtrainformation

《格列佛游记》的作者JonathanSwift发明了yahoo这个单词。Yahoo!的创始人杨致远和DavidFilo选择这个名字的原因是他们觉得自己是yahoo。他们选择这个名称的原因是他们喜欢字典里对yahoo的定义：“粗鲁，不通世故，粗俗。

NowadaysoneofChina’s10topwebsitesisnamedYahoo.ThefinalvoyagerevealsSwift‘sultimatesatiricobject—man’sinabilitytocometotermswithhistruenature.TheYahoosasasatiricrepresentationofdebased(品质恶劣的)humanity,whiletakingtheHouyhnhnmsasrepresentativesofSwift‘sidealsofrationalityandorder.MajorthemesSwift'sArtisticFeatures

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