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《格列佛游记》英国作家乔纳森·斯威夫特的一部长篇游记体讽刺小说。1726年在英国首次出版便受到读者追捧，一周之内售空。《格列佛游记》出版几个世纪以来，被翻译成几十种语言，在世界各国广为流传。《格列佛游记》在中国也是*影响力的外国文学作品之一，被列为语文新课程标准必读书目。根据其内容改编的电影多次被搬上大荧幕。
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《格列佛游记》英国18世纪*秀的讽刺作家和政论家乔纳森·斯威夫特代表作。故事大旨意在抨击当时英国的议会政治与反动宗教势力，是一本幻想游记为文体的讽刺小说。故事以一个外科医生格列佛的口吻叙述了在航海时遇难、漂流到几个奇异国度的经历。深刻反讽时政的腐败，以离奇、甚至令人作呕的情节，讽刺学究的愚蠢可笑，并且省思人性的不同面向。
《格列佛游记》为全英文版，同时配有配套英文朗读，让读者在品读精彩文章的同时，亦能提升英文阅读水平
Gulliver’s Travels is
an adventure story involving several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, who is an
educated and trained surgeon. He speaks to the readers retelling his
experiences at sea. Presented as a simple traveler’s narrative, Gulliver’s
adventures are divided into four parts.
The first part is
situated in Lilliput where he finds himself in the company of thousands of
miniature people called Lilliputians. The second is on the peninsulatype land
of Brobdingnag, an opposite world from Lilliput where Gulliver becomes the
Lilliputian and everyone is a giant to him. The third part moves to the island
of Laputa, a floating island inhabited by theoreticians and academics which
oppresses the land below, called Balnibarbi. Finally in the fourth part he
arrives in an unknown land. This land is populated by Houyhnhnms, the
rational-thinking horses who rule, and by Yahoos, the inferior brutish servants
to the horses who bear the image of a human.
First published in
1726, this collection of Lemuel Gulliver’s fascinating voyages all over the
world, has been loved, read and re-read by every child and adult familiar with
the English language.
PART I
A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT
CHAPTER 1 /3
CHAPTER 2 /15
CHAPTER 3 /26
CHAPTER 4 /36
CHAPTER 5 /43
CHAPTER 6 /51
CHAPTER 7 /63
CHAPTER 8 /73
PART II
A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG
CHAPTER 1 /83
CHAPTER 2 /98
CHAPTER 3 /105
CHAPTER 4 /118
CHAPTER 5 /123
CHAPTER 6 /136
CHAPTER 7 /147
CHAPTER 8 /154
PART III
A VOYAGE TO LA PUTA
CHAPTER 1 /169
CHAPTER 2 /177
CHAPTER 3 /188
CHAPTER 4 /195
CHAPTER 5 /202
CHAPTER 6 /211
CHAPTER 7 /219
CHAPTER 8 /225
CHAPTER 9 /232
CHAPTER 10 /237
CHAPTER 11 /247
PART IV
A VOYAGE TO THE HOUYHNHNMS
CHAPTER 1 /253
CHAPTER 2 /261
CHAPTER 3 /268
CHAPTER 4 /275
CHAPTER 5 /282
CHAPTER 6 /289
CHAPTER 7 /297
CHAPTER 8 /306
CHAPTER 9 /313
CHAPTER 10 /319
CHAPTER 11 /328
CHAPTER 12 /338
My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was the third of
five sons. He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge, at fourteen years old,
where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the
charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, being too
great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an
eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years. My father now and then
sending me small sums of money, I laid them out in learning navigation, and
other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as I
always believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do. When I left
Mr. Bates, I went down to my father; where, by the assistance of him and my
uncle John, and some other relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise of
thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden; there I studied physic two years
and seven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages. Soon after my
return from Leyden, I was recommended by my good master, Mr. Bates, to be
surgeon to the Swallow, Captain Abraham Pannel, commander; with whom I
continued three years and a half, making a voyage or two into the Levant, and
some other parts. When I came back I resolved to settle in London; to which Mr.
Bates, my master, encouraged me, and by him I was recommended to several
patients. I took part of a small house in the Old Jewry; and being advised to
alter my condition, I married Miss. Mary Burton, second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton,
hosier, in Newgate-street, with whom I received four hundred pounds for a
portion.
But my good master Bates dying in two years after, and I having few
friends, my business began to fail; for my conscience would not suffer me to
imitate the bad practice of too many among my brethren. Having therefore
consulted with my wife, and some of my acquaintance, I determined to go again
to sea. I was surgeon successively in two ships, and made several voyages, for
six years, to the East and West Indies, by which I got some addition to my fortune.
My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern,
being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in
observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their
language; wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory.
The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary
of the sea, and intended to stay at home with my wife and family. I removed
from the Old Jewry to Fetter Lane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping to get
business among the sailors; but it would not turn to account. After three years
expectation that things would mend, I accepted an advantageous offer from Captain
William Prichard, master of the Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South
Sea. We set sail from Bristol, May 4, 1699, and our voyage was at first very
prosperous.
It would not be proper, for some reasons, to trouble the reader with
the particulars of our adventures in those seas; let it suffice to inform him,
that in our passage from thence to the East Indies, we were driven by a violent
storm to the north-west of Van Diemen’s Land. By an
observation, we found ourselves in the latitude of 30 degrees 2 minutes south.
Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labour and ill food; the rest were
in a very weak condition. On the 5th of November, which was the beginning of
summer in those parts, the weather being very hazy, the seamen spied a rock
within half a cable’s length of the ship; but the wind was so strong, that we were driven
directly upon it, and immediately split. Six of the crew, of whom I was one, having
let down the boat into the sea, made a shift to get clear of the ship and the
rock. We rowed, by my computation, about three leagues, till we were able to
work no longer, being already spent with labour while we were in the ship. We
therefore trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves, and in about half an
hour the boat was overset by a sudden flurry from the north. What became of my
companions in the boat, as well as of those who escaped on the rock, or were
left in the vessel, I cannot tell; but conclude they were all lost. For my own
part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide. I
often let my legs drop, and could feel no bottom; but when I was almost gone,
and able to struggle no longer, I found myself within my depth; and by this
time the storm was much abated. The declivity was so small, that I walked near
a mile before I got to the shore, which I conjectured was about eight o’clock in the
evening.
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