读书笔记的英文参考
篇一：英文读书笔记
第一篇
The Old Man And The Sea 《老人与海》
The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works.Told in language of great simplicity and power,it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman,down on his luck,and his supreme ordeal——a relentless,agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.Here Hemingway recasts,in strikingly contemporary style,the classic thene of courage in the face of defeat,of personal triumph won from los.Written in 1952,this hugely successfully novella
confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a huge part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. The novel is very famous in the world, so lot of people like this novel. We also studied it in our Chinese class, Hemingway's novel are always interesting I like his novel much, also in his novel we can learn a lot by his meanings. It’s really a good novel for people to read.
第二篇
《双城记》
After reading "A tale of two cities" "A tale of two cities" is one of Dickens's most important representative works.The novel profoundly exposed the society contradiction before the French Revolution,intensely attacks the aristocratic social clais dissolute and cruel,and sincerely
sympathizes with the depressed classes.The novel also described many magnificent scenes like the revolt people attacked Bastille and so on,which displayed people's great strength.
The novel has portrayed many different people. Doctor Manette is honest and kind but suffers the persecution actually ， Lucie is beautiful and gentle ，Charles is graceful and noble，Lorry is upright and honest ，Sydney is semblance of indifferent, innermost feelings of
warm,unconventional but also selfleand lofty，MiProis straightforward and loyal，Evremonde brothers are cruel and sinister......The complex hatred is hard to solve, the cruel revenge has made more hatreds, loves rebirth in the hell edge,but take the life as the price.
As an outstanding writer,in Dickens's work,the language skill is essential.Each kind of rhetoric technique,like the analogy,the exaggeration,the contrast,the humorous,and the taunt are handled skillfully,and the artistry of the work is also delivered the peak."A tale of two cities" has its difference with the general historical novel, its character and the main plot are all
fictionalizes.With the broad real background of the French Revolution,the author take the fictional character Doctor Manette's experience as the main clue,interweaves the unjust charge, upholstery and so many techniques,causes the structure integrity and strictness,the plot winding anxious and rich of theatrical nature,it displayed the remarkable artistic skill.the style "A tale of two cities" is solemnity and melancholy,fills indignantion,but lacks the humor of the early works.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 汤姆?索亚历险记
By Mark Twain [美]马克?吐温 著
Summary：
Tom Sawyer loves adventures. He has adventures at home, at school, and other mysterious places with his friends. One day, Tom has an adventure in the graveyard. And they sea Injun Joe kills the doctor. He wants to kill the boys. Some days passed, Tom and Becky have an adventure in the cave. They hear Injun Joe! They run out of the cave as soon as possible. Later, Tom and his friends go to the cave again. They find that Injun Joe was died, and they the precious treasure. They go out of the cave with the box of money!
Comment：
Tom Sawyer is an active and pretty smart boy. He has a strong courage to go for an adventure. He is a brave boy, and he must be a reliable friend. He can always help you at the important time. Tom Sawyer is a good boy and his adventures are really interesting and be expectin
Alice in Wonderland 爱丽丝奇遇记 Lewis Carroll [美] 卡罗尔 著
Summary:
One hot summer day, Alice and her sister are sitting under the tree. Alice sees a white rabbit, and she run after it. The rabbit goes down a rabbit whole and Alice follows it, she is now in a strange wonderland. Alice eats some special things, and she changes her size! Everything is different and strange there. The animals there can speak! Alice meets many interesting things. At last, she wakes up. It’s just a dream!
Comment:
This story is really interesting, and attractive. Alice is a sincere gentle girl. She is ready to help others and is able to face to the dangerous things. In this way, Alice is also a brave and clever girl written by author.
The story includes three parts. They are respectively talking about: Gulliver in Lilliput, in Brobdingnag, and in Houyhnms.
Gulliver travels to the South Seas. On their way to the East Indies, a strong wind carried them to the wrong way. Most of the people died. Some days later, he comes to Lilliput, everything is small there. Three days later, he comes to Brobdingnag. This country is opposite from Lilliput, the thing are huge, very huge! Then he travels to a place called Houyhnms, which is also very interesting. Comment:
This is an exciting and interesting book. It’s also kind of humorous. I enjoy the story very much. And after reading the book, I find that we must learn from Gulliver. Learn from his braver, intelligence and wisdom.
Heidi 海蒂
By Johanna Spyri [瑞士]施皮里 著
Summary:
Heidi is a cute and kindhearted girl. She lives in the mountain of Switzerland, and has no mother or father. One sunny day, she goes to stay with her grandfather in his little wooden house, high up in the mountain. She soon has a friend——goat-Peter. She makes Alm-Opa no longer lonely. One day, Heidi’s aunt takes her to Miss Rohmer’s house to be a servant. Later she helps Clara to stand up from the wheel chair, and can even walk more!
Comment:
Heidi is a nice and kindhearted girl. She is helpful, and is kind to everyone. She will try her best to help others. She helps her grandfather goes out of lonely; she let the blind grandmother finds out the happiness; she also helps Clara to stand up from the wheel chair, and can even walk more! In a word, we must learn from Heidi a lot!
Summary:
“Always be good, so people will love you. Always work hard and do your best.” These were the words of Black Beauty’s mother to him when he was young. At that time, they lived with farmer
Grey. But when Black Beauty grown up, this was sometimes difficult. Not everybody was as kind as farmer Grey. Even someone heart him. Ata last, Mr. Thorouhgood helped him and took him on his farm. It was Black Beauty’ last home.
Comment:
There were many thousands of horses or other animals at work. Some of them work for kind people, but some do not. The animals have to pull heavy things, and have to works for hours and hours. So what may we do now? I’m calling for helping animals. Protecting them in our best. Then, we’ll have a piece and wonderful world!
By Daniel Defoe [英]迪福 著
Summary：
Robinson Crusoe is at the sea when there is a great storm. His ship goes down, and everybody dies. Crusoe is on the island along. He is not daunted by the difficulties. He has built a tent, a ‘castle’, made the appliances…At last, he has returned to his hometown London.joozone.com 本文来自作文地带:/yc/1837_4.htmlComment：
This is an exciting story. Robinson is a great man. He lived on the island for about 30 years without food, tool, or habitation. He wasn’t afraid of hardship. He was brave in adventure, and he was good at labor. I admire his courage very much. He is a real hero. He makes a great personal miracle on the one-man-island!
In fact, we also need to have the sprite of being undefeated and indefatigable, just like Robinson. If we believe ourselves, and never give up, do as possible as we can, we must be successful!
篇二：《追风筝的人》读书笔记 英文
Reading Report
Book: The Kite Runner
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Pages: 1-163
Brief introduction: Amir is the son of the famous merchant in Afghanistan. There are two servants in his house, Ali and his son Hassan. Amir plays with Hassan all the time in his childhood. Hassan is Hazara, while Amir is Pashtuns. Hazara is discriminated against by Pashtuns. So although Hassan believes that Amir is his friend, Amir does not agree. Amir tricks Hassan sometimes but Hassan never gets angry. Things go peacefully, until one night Amir sees three boys hit Hassan to the ground. Instead of help Hassan, Amir runs away. From that day on, Amir does not know how to face Hassan. In order not to be regretted every second, Amir finally makes Hassan and Ali leave his home. Just after that, Russian forces Amir’s country. Amir and his father have to move to America.
Comments: This book makes me remember my childhood. The first part of the book is only about some little things in Amir’s childhood. The warm and happy time he has with Hassan. They climb tree and hills, play games and tell stories. I am extremely upset to see Hassan leave. Amir thinks he hurts everyone, Hassan, Ali and his Baba. But the one he hurts most deeply is his own. Hassan leave is a wound in Amir’s heart, and it won’t recover forever. This stuff makes Amir hate the life in Afghanistan, because all the disgusting memories are at here. He always hide, hide himself deeply in the books, in his stories. Afghanistan is a country full of violence, Amir can’t live happily in this environment, his father is a true Afghanistan man, and he has force. But Amir doesn’t. Amir is a light boy who only like literary. He is different from other kids, he need a person to protect. He wants his father’s care and love, but his father hide his love deeply in heart, which makes Amir always feel unneeded. Maybe the true reason of the hurt around Amir is his father.
Digests:
My cheeks burned and guilt coursed through me, the guilt of indulging myself at the expense of his ulcer, his black fingernails and aching wrists. But I would stand my ground, I decided.
I blinked my heart quickening. She had thick black eyebrows that touched in the middle like the arched wings of a flying bird, and the gracefully hooked nose of a princess from old Persia-maybe that of Tahmineh.
They fell from the sky like shooting stars with brilliant, rippling tails, showering the neighborhoods below with prizes for the kite runners.
It just appeared, this other face, for a fraction of a moment, long enough to leave me with the unsettling feeling that maybe I’d seen it someplace before. Then Hassan blinked and it was just him again. Just Hassan.
Page: 163-401
Brief introduction: Amir becomes a popular writer. He meets a girl named Soraya in USA. They fall in love and get married. But they can’t have babies. His father died because of the illness. One of his father’s old friends calls him and invites Amir to his house. He tells the story over 20 years about Hassan and his family. He tells Amir that Hassan and his wife were killed by Taliban and he
asks Amir to find Hassan’s son, Sohrab. After a hard and dangerous trip with Talib, Amir does find Sohrab and wins his trust. But in order to get the visa to USA, Amir asks Sohrab to stay in the orphan for a year while Amir promised Sohrab before never send him to there. Sohrab try to kill himself because of this. Although he is overcome then, he refuses to say a word for a long time. Amir takes him back to USA and treats him good, waiting for his forgiveness. Then a kite competition held and Amir sees Sohrab’s smile when he wins. Amir sees the hope.
Comments: I can’t explain whether it is a happy or tragic ending. But I can say that Sohrab will get better and be a normal boy. Amir is hard-working. He cares about Hassan’s things. And he is always regretful for kicking Hassan out of his home. He thinks that Hassan died because of his action. He feels shamed. But he is a real human who has the sickness of humanity. That is why he would refuse to find Sohrab at the beginning and that’s why he asks Sohrab to go to orphan after promised not to. Certainly he does wrong things but in another way he does things anybody would choose to do. This book is not only about family and friends, is also about a kind of target or force, to help you run on whether if life is easy or hard.
Digests: We let him wrap us in his arms and, for a brief insane moment, I was glad about whatever had happened that night. (Predicative clause)
It was a protective gesture and I knew whom Ali was protecting him from. (Object clause)
I had crossed a line, and whatever little hope I had of getting out alive had vanished with those words. (Subject clause)
I had no idea if Hassan would still be there, if anyone would even know of him or his whereabouts. (Appositive clause)
I blinked my heart quickening. She had thick black eyebrows that touched in the middle like the arched wings of a flying bird, and the gracefully hooked nose of a princess from old Persia-maybe that of Tahmineh.
They fell from the sky like shooting stars with brilliant, rippling tails, showering the neighborhoods below with prizes for the kite runners.
篇三：傲慢与偏见英文读书笔记
Reading Notes of Pride and Prejudice
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” This beginning sentence of the book seems to tell us the main story of the book is about the marriage of rich men. The heroine of the book is Elizabeth and at the chapter One, we are told that the father Mr. Bennet prefers Elizabeth among his daughters, in this case, Elizabeth must be a girl who is more special and intelligent.
The story is about love and marriage. Charlotte married Collins because his fortune and she feels nervous about her age even the man is so old-fashioned and ingratiating. However, their marriage is about money and they do not get the real happy. The other man Wickham is a handsome but a man who is a liar. He lies to Elizabeth to gain her appreciation. And his love with Lydia is shallow and about appearance. The love of Jane and Bingley has a better ending. They have love in the relationship and appreciate each other because of the deeper virtue. But they do come through a lot because the misunderstanding they had before.
The love of Elizabeth and the hero of the book Darcy responses the title Pride and Prejudice. In the eye of Elizabeth, Darcy is no doubt pride and arrogant. Darcy falls in love with Elizabeth and proposes marriage to her, but he is still very arrogant so Elizabeth refuses him directly. Darcy feels hard hit and regrets of being arrogant. However, Elizabeth has a prejudice about Darcy at the very beginning and mistaken believes in Wickham but she finally knows the truth and feels shame of her family. Darcy moves Elizabeth with his pleasant virtue in the end.
篇四：雾都孤儿—英文读书笔记
BOOK REPORT_Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens is one of the most famous novelists of the Victorian Age. When Charles Dickens was young, his father was put into prison. During this time, Dickens was living by himself and working in the underground cell of a shoe blacking factory. Maybe it is because this period of experience that makes Charles Dickens’s works are more focused on the living condition of the poor. In many of his novels, Dickens showed his sympathy for the poor. Just like this book-Oliver Twist in which Charles Dickens described the miserable life of the poor children and exposed the seedy side of the society at that time.
Oliver Twist is one of Charles Dickens' most popular stories. Oliver Twist was born in a workhouse in 1930s. Later, he was sent to a Coffin shop as an apprentice. As he couldn’t endure the oppression from his boss, he fled to London. However, on the way to London, he was cheated into the haunt of thieves and trained to be a thief. On one occasion, he was taken in by a rich man—Mr. Brownlow. But unfortunately, he was framed and entrapped into the haunt of thieves again. But Oliver still believes that there are hopes in his life. Finally, Nancy, a kind-hearted woman pickpocket, rescued Oliver from dangers despite the threat of the thief-in-chief and told Brownlow that actually Oliver is his good friend’s son. Nancy was killed at the end of the story, but the police surround the haunt of thieves immediately and Oliver reunited with his family members.
Of the characters in this story, Oliver, Nancy and Miss Ross represent the goodness that they are born in suffering, grow in dark world, but still keep a heart ofgold. None of the hardships can through them into the hell. Oliver is a brave and strong child that he suffered enormous pain, such as hunger, thirst, beating and abuse. But no matter how tough his life is he never gives up his belief. What’s more, in Oliver Twist, morality and nobility are always black-and-white issues. Just like Monks, who was a greedy, ruthless, shameless person, represents the black, Olive can represents the white. But Nancy, a thief who has done something bad, finally been influenced by Oliver and decided to help Oliver. This gives us the implication that the boundary between virtue and vice is not always so distinct.
Charles Dickens praised ideal human nature and interpersonal relationships and he hoped to use his pen to express his ideals in that the reality is very cruel. So, through this novel, Dickens criticized the seedy side of the capitalist society at that time and expressed his deep sympathy about the bottom class who lived in a miserable life. In this way the people could realize the social reality and consider more about their behavior. But on the other hand, Dickens shows his wish through this novel that people should firm their belief no matter what they are suffering about and evil can never prevail over good.