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The Novels of E. M. Forster
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There are many reasons which should prevent one from criticizing the work of contemporaries. Besides the obvious uneasiness — the fear of hurting feelings — there is too the difficulty of being just. Coming out one by one, their books seem like parts of a design which is slowly uncovered. Our appreciation1 may be intense, but our curiosity is even greater. Does the new fragment add anything to what went before? Does it carry out our theory of the author’s talent, or must we alter our forecast? Such questions ruffle2 what should be the smooth surface of our criticism and make it full of argument and interrogation. With a novelist like Mr. Forster this is specially3 true, for he is in any case an author about whom there is considerable disagreement. There is something baffling and evasive in the very nature of his gifts. So, remembering that we are at best only building up a theory which may be knocked down in a year or two by Mr. Forster himself, let us take Mr. Forster’s novels in the order in which they were written, and tentatively and cautiously try to make them yield us an answer.
The order in which they were written is indeed of some importance, for at the outset we see that Mr. Forster is extremely susceptible4 to the influence of time. He sees his people much at the mercy of those conditions which change with the years. He is acutely conscious of the bicycle and of the motor car; of the public school and of the university; of the suburb and of the city. The social historian will find his books full of illuminating5 information. In 1905 Lilia learned to bicycle, coasted down the High Street on Sunday evening, and fell off at the turn by the church. For this she was given a talking to by her brother-in-law which she remembered to her dying day. It is on Tuesday that the housemaid cleans out the drawing-room at Sawston. Old maids blow into their gloves when they take them off. Mr. Forster is a novelist, that is to say, who sees his people in close contact with their surroundings. And therefore the colour and constitution of the year 1905 affect him far more than any year in the calendar could affect the romantic Meredith or the
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1 appreciation | |
n.评价;欣赏;感谢;领会,理解;价格上涨 | |
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3 specially | |
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4 susceptible | |
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5 illuminating | |
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6 poetic | |
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7 hardy | |
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8 goad | |
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9 misery | |
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10 villains | |
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12 simplicity | |
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13 ripen | |
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14 satire | |
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15 obliterate | |
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16 persistent | |
adj.坚持不懈的,执意的;持续的 | |
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17 satirist | |
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18 fatiguing | |
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19 joyfully | |
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20 penetration | |
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21 remarkable | |
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22 opposition | |
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23 sincerity | |
n.真诚,诚意;真实 | |
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24 accentuated | |
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25 imprison | |
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26 imprisoned | |
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27 fortress | |
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28 mortar | |
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29 extricate | |
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30 constrained | |
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31 suburban | |
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32 impede | |
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33 flouts | |
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34 deftly | |
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35 luncheon | |
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36 clergy | |
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37 disarray | |
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38 lyric | |
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39 exquisite | |
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44 peculiar | |
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45 elusive | |
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46 infinity | |
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47 intercourse | |
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48 monks | |
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50 lighter | |
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51 celestial | |
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53 affinity | |
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54 paraphernalia | |
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55 miraculous | |
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56 conjuring | |
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57 implicitly | |
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58 chasm | |
n.深坑,断层,裂口,大分岐,利害冲突 | |
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59 justification | |
n.正当的理由;辩解的理由 | |
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60 luminously | |
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61 transparent | |
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62 tempted | |
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63 literally | |
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64 arrogant | |
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65 hesitation | |
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66 symbolical | |
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67 ambiguity | |
n.模棱两可;意义不明确 | |
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68 discreetly | |
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69 vein | |
n.血管,静脉;叶脉,纹理;情绪;vt.使成脉络 | |
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70 truant | |
n.懒惰鬼,旷课者;adj.偷懒的,旷课的,游荡的;v.偷懒,旷课 | |
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71 shuffling | |
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72 wayfarers | |
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73 contradictory | |
adj.反驳的,反对的,抗辩的;n.正反对,矛盾对立 | |
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74 assortment | |
n.分类,各色俱备之物,聚集 | |
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75 stimulate | |
vt.刺激,使兴奋;激励,使…振奋 | |
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76 investigation | |
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77 torrents | |
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78 fabric | |
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79 skilful | |
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80 accomplishment | |
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81 fusion | |
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82 cohesion | |
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83 harmonious | |
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84 perversity | |
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85 scrupulous | |
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86 sleeper | |
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88 comedian | |
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89 overflow | |
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90 irritation | |
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91 outraged | |
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92 speck | |
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93 humbug | |
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94 sham | |
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95 heed | |
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96 enchanted | |
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97 faculties | |
n.能力( faculty的名词复数 );全体教职员;技巧;院 | |
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98 twilight | |
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99 noted | |
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100 entirely | |
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101 intoxicating | |
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102 vigilantly | |
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103 lesser | |
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104 apparently | |
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105 prelude | |
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106 interval | |
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107 outlet | |
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108 precisely | |
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109 pervade | |
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111 ramble | |
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112 inevitable | |
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113 streak | |
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114 heroism | |
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