小妇人黑布林英语读物电子版（黑布林英语阅读初二小妇人中英导读）

译者：Miss Sun

About the Author关于作者（Page 6）

Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1832. She was the second of four daughters. Her father was a teacher and he gave her lessons at home.路易莎·梅·奥尔科特于1832年出生于宾夕法尼亚州的日耳曼敦。她是四个女儿中的老二。她的父亲是一名教师，他在家给她上课。

The Alcott family often moved house when Louisa was growing up, but Alcott's happiest years were in the small town of Concord, Massachusetts. Little Women is set in the Alcott family home there.路易莎成长过程中，奥尔科特一家经常搬家，但奥尔科特最快乐的时光是在马萨诸塞州的小镇康科德度过的。《小妇人》的故事发生在奥尔科特一家的家中。

Alcott started work when she was still young because the family wasn't rich. She did many jobs including teaching and dressmaking, but she wanted to be a writer. Her first published work was a poem in 1852. This was the beginning of her writing career.奥尔科特很小的时候就开始工作，因为家里并不富裕。她做过很多工作，包括教学和服装制作，但她想成为一名作家。她在1852年发表的第一部作品是一首诗。这是她写作生涯的开始。

In 1861 the American Civil War started. Alcott wanted to help so she went to Washington to work as a nurse.1861年，美国内战爆发。Alcott想要帮忙，所以她去了华盛顿当护士。

After the war Alcott spent a year in Europe as the companion of an invalid. While they were in Switzerland, she had a short love affair with a Polish soldier, Ladislas Wisniewski. She later used him as the model for Laurie in Little Women, which was published in 1868.The book was an instant success so she wrote a sequel. She then wrote two more books about the March family: Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886).战争结束后，奥尔科特作为一个病人的伴侣在欧洲呆了一年。她们在瑞士的时候，她和一个名叫拉迪斯拉斯·维希涅夫斯基的波兰士兵有过一段短暂的恋情。后来，她以他为原型，在1868年出版的《小妇人》中扮演劳瑞。这本书一出版就大获成功，所以她又写了续集。之后，她又写了两本关于马奇一家的书:《小男人》(1871)和《乔的男孩》(1886)。

Alcott never married and she died at the age of 56 in Boston.奥尔科特从未结婚，56岁时在波士顿去世。

About the Book关于这本书（Page 7）

Little Women is set in New England during the American Civil War(1861-65). The novel follows the lives of the four March sisters -Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy- and is based on the author's own experiences of growing up with her three sisters.《小妇人》以美国内战(1861-65)期间的新英格兰为背景。这部小说讲述了马奇家的四姐妹——梅格、乔、贝丝和艾米的生活，并根据作者自己和她的三姐妹一起成长的经历写成。

The main theme in the story is the importance of family. Other themes include the need to work and self-improvement.这个故事的主题是家庭的重要性。其他主题包括工作和自我提高的需要。

When the story begins the sisters are complaining because they are poor and have to work. Their mother says that they mustn't spend money on pleasure because there is a war and everybody must help. Their father is in the army. In the letters their father sends home he tells his daughters to work hard and not to waste their time. They must try to accept the bad things in their lives and stay cheerful. He wants to be proud of them when he comes home. The girls decide to make an effort to improve themselves because they love and miss their father very much.故事开始时，姐妹们在抱怨，因为她们很穷，必须工作。她们的母亲说她们不应该把钱花在享乐上，因为有一场战争，每个人都必须帮忙。她们的父亲在军队里。在父亲寄回家的信中，他告诉女儿们要努力工作，不要浪费时间。她们必须努力接受生活中不好的事情，并保持乐观。当他回家的时候，他想以她们为荣。女孩们决定努力提高自己，因为她们非常爱和想念她们的父亲。

Alcott was interested in women's rights and, through the four March sisters, she explores four different ways of being a woman in those days. Meg leaves the family to get married and have a new family. Beth devotes herself to looking after her own family. Amy focuses on herself and her own pleasure. And Jo, like Alcott herself, tries to have a career in writing and care for her family at the same time.奥尔科特对妇女权利很感兴趣，通过马奇四姐妹，她探索了当时作为一个女人的四种不同方式。梅格离开家去结婚，有了一个新的家庭。贝丝致力于照顾自己的家庭。艾米只关注她自己和她自己的快乐。和奥尔科特一样，乔也在努力从事写作工作，同时照顾家人。来源：伴你学英语公众号（ID:gh_5c9592fefed1）

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