简爱的经典语录：英汉对照篇
身份与自由：
Identity and Freedom:
1. “我不是一个万物之灵的一个组成部分，我的灵魂独立存在，自由而又独立。”
\"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.\"
2. “努力成为自己的主人。”
\"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.\"
3. “没有人可以短暂地拥有我的自由意志。”
\"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.\"
爱与婚姻：
Love and Marriage:
1. “我不打算离开你，从此你的一切都将成为我的一切。”
\"I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal,–as we are!\"
2. “婚姻不是买卖，任何用物质交换来得到的爱情都是虚伪的。”
\"I have little left in myself - I must have you. The world may laugh – may call me absurd, selfish – but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.\"
3. “什么也不能阻止我们离婚，只有彼此的心意。”
\"I am not an angel, I will not pretend to be. I am not a saint. I will not say I am. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, I will not be labeled only by my gender or my marital status.\"
友情与孤独：
Friendship and Loneliness:
1. “我是寂寞的人，我一辈子都是这样。我知道我会一直一个人走下去。”
\"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth. Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.\"
2. “孤单并不可怕，只有当我感到疲倦，觉得自己永远不能从其中走出来时才会有所恐惧。”
\"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. I have a theory that brain activity during sleep is not random, but rather tied to our interests and concerns, our past and our future. That is why our dreams are so deeply personal.\"
3. “朋友就是那个看着你哭泣，但不会让你哭泣的人。”
\"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.\"
简爱是19世纪小说中的经典之作。小说描写了一个孤独、独立而又追求自由的女子简爱的成长经历。她不甘受制于先天的身份，追求自我实现和自由，与众不同的坚定和智慧，在文学史上留下了深刻的印记。
