书名:绝非如此 None of That Followed by The Rocking-Horse Winner 作者:(英)劳伦斯(Lawrence D.H.) David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an important and controversial English writer of the 20th century, with his output spanning novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism and personal letters. These works, taken together, represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, sexuality, and instinctive behaviour. "绝非如此 None of That Followed by The Rocking-Horse Winner"的图书目录…… CONTENTS None ot"That The Rocking-Horsc Winner 回到页首 "绝非如此 None of That Followed by The Rocking-Horse Winner"的书摘…… NONE OF THAT I met Luis Colmenares in Venice, not having seen him for years. He is a Mexican exile living on the scanty remains of what was once wealth, and eking out a poor and lonely existence by being a painter. But his art is only a sedative to him. He wanders about like a lost soul, mostly in Paris or in Italy, where he can live cheaply. He is rather short, rather fat, pale, with black eyes, which are always looking the other way, and a spirit the same, always averted. "Do you know who is in Venice?" he said to me. "Cuesta! He is in the Hotel Romano. 1 saw him bathing yesterday on the Lido." There was a world ofgloomy mockery in this last sentence. "Do you mean Cuesta, the bull-fighter?" 1 asked. "Yes - Don"t you know, he retired? Do you remember? An American woman left him a lot of money. Did you ever see him ?" "Was it before the revolution? Do you remember, he retired and bought a hacienda very cheap from one of Madero"s generals, up in Chihuahua? It was after the Carranzisla, and 1 was already in Europe." "How does he look now?" 1 said. "Enormously fat,likeayellow,round, small whaleinthe sea. You saw him? You know he was rather short and rather fat always. 1 think his mother was a Mixtec Indian woman. Did you ever know him?" "No" said I."Did you?" "Yes 1 knew him in the old days, when 1 was rich, and thought 1 should be rich for ever." He was silent, and 1 was afraid he had shut up for good. It was unusual for him to be even as communicative as he had been. But it was evident that having seen Cuesta, the toreador whose fame once rang through Spain and through Latin America, had moved him deeply. He was in a ferment, and could not quite contain himself. "But he wasn"t interesting, was he?" 1 said. "Wasn"t hejust scanty: few. remains: what was left. wealth: richness. eklng out: living with difficulty. by being: as. wanders: moves without direction. soul: spirit. cheapiy: without spending much money. averted: looking away. bathing: swimming. gloomy: dark; depressing. mockery: making fun; not being serious. bull-tighter: matador. retired: doesn"t work any longer. hacienda. (Spanish) farm. very cheap: for little money. whale: large aquatic mammal. You saw him?: did you see him? (note ettipsis in informal speech.) shut up: stopped speaking. for good: forever. toreador: bull-tighter. rang: was known well. had moved: had an emotional effect on. in a ferment: excited. contain himself: control himself. 只能查到这些啦，希望对你有用
