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★清华大学★英语系测试：中小学生英语 官方网站：/ 清华大学英语教授50年研究成果 ：作者简介 CAO XUEQIN (1715?-63) was born into a family which for three generations held the office of Commissioner of Imperial Textiles in Nanking, a family so wealthy that they were able to entertain the Emperor Kangxi four times. But calamity overtook them and their property was confiscated. Cao Xuegin was living in poverty near Peking when he wrote his famous novel The Story of the Stone (also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber), of which this is the second volume. The four other volumes, The Golden Days, The Warning Voice, The Debt of Tears and The Dreamer Wakes, are also published in the Penguin Classics. DAVID HAWKES was Professor of Chinese at Oxford University from Igsq to 1971 and a Research Fellow of All Souls College, from 1973 to 1983. He now lives in retirement in Wales. 《红楼梦》以贾宝玉、林黛玉、薛宝钗之间的恋爱婚姻悲剧为主线，描写了以贾家为代表的四大家族的兴衰，揭示了封建大家庭的各种错综复杂的矛盾，表现了封建的婚姻、道德、文化、教育的腐朽、堕落，塑造了一系列贵族、平民以及奴隶出身的女子的悲剧形象，展示了极其广阔的封建社会的典型生活环境，曲折地反映了那个社会必然崩溃、没落的历史趋势。作品还歌颂了贵族的叛逆者和违背封建礼教的爱情，体现出追求个性自由的初步的民主主义思想，并深刻而全面地揭示了贾、林、薛之间爱情婚姻悲剧的社会根源。但由于历史的局限，作者在写出封建大家族没落的同时，也流露出惋惜和感伤的情绪，蒙有一层宿命论和虚无主义的色彩。 英文：Dream of the Red Chamber to Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai main line between love marriage and tragedy. a description of the rise and fall of sediments represented by the four most prominent families, reveals the complex contradictions of the feudal family, performance of the feudal marriage, morality, culture, education and decadent, degenerate and create a series of nobility civilians and the tragic image of a slave woman who has demonstrated an extremely broad typical feudal society living environment. reflect the twists and turns that society is bound to collapse, the declining trend of history. Rebel extolling aristocratic also works against the feudal ethics and love, The initial pursuit of individual freedom embodied the democratic idea, and reveals the profound and comprehensive Jia Lin. Xue love marriage between social