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　　做一個完美的妻子(A Perfect Wife)

　　after thirty years of married happiness, he could still remind himself that victoria was endowed with every charm except the thrilling touch of human frailty.

　　though her perfection discouraged pleasures, especially the pleasures of love, he had learned in time to feel the pride of a husband in her natural frigidity. for he still clung, amid the decay of moral platitudes, to the discredited ideal of chivalry. in his youth the world was suffused with the after-glow of the long victorian age, and a graceful feminine style had softened the manners, if not the natures, of men.

　　at the end of that interesting epoch, when womanhood was exalted from a biological fact into a miraculous power, virginius littlepage, the younger son of an old and affluent family, had married victoria brooke, the grand-daughter of a tobacco planter, who had made a satisfactory fortune by forsaking his plantation and converting tobacco into cigarettes. while virginius had been trained by stern tradition to respect every woman who had not stooped to folly, the virtue peculiar to her sex was among the least of his reasons for admiring victoria. she was not only modest, which was usual in the neties, but she was beautiful, which is unusual in any decade.

　　in the beginning of their acquaintance he had gone even further and ascribed intellect to her; but a few months of marriage had shown this to be merely one of the many delusions created by perfect features and noble expression. everything about her had been smooth and definite, even the tones of her voice and the way her light brown hair, which she wore ?la pompadour, was rolled stiffly back from her forehead and coiled in a burnished rope on the top of her head. a serious young man, ambitious to attain a place in the world more brilliant than the secluded seat of his ancestors, he had been impressed at their first meeting by the compactness and precision of victoria's orderly mind.

　　for in that earnest period the minds, as well as the emotions, of lovers were orderly. it was an age when eager young men flocked to church on sunday morning, and eloquent divines discoursed upon the victorian poets in the middle of the week. he could afford to smile now when he recalled the solemn browning class in which he had first lost his heart. how passionately he had admired victoria's virginal features! how fervently he had envied her competent but caressing way with the poet! incredible as it seemed to him now, he had fallen in love with her while she recited from the more ponderous passages in the ring and the book.

　　he had fallen in love with her then, though he had never really enjoyed browning, and it had been a relief to him when the unseen, in company with its illustrious poet, had at last gone out of fashion. yet, since he was disposed to admire all the qualities he did not possess, he had never ceased to respect the firmness with which victoria continued to deal in other forms with the absolute. as the placid years passed, and she came to rely less upon her virginal features, it seemed to him that the ripe opinions of her youth began to shrink and flatten as fruit does that has hung too long on the tree.

　　she had never changed, he realized, since he had first known her; she had become merely riper, softer, and sweeter in nature. her advantage rested where advantage never fails to rest, in moral fervour. to be invariably right was her single wifely failing. for his wife, he sighed, with the vague unrest of a husband whose infidelities are imaginary, was a genuinely good woman. she was as far removed from pretence as she was from the posturing virtues that flourish in the credulous world of the drama.

　　the pity of it was that even the least exacting husband should so often desire something more piquant than goodness.

　　30年的婚姻幸福之后，他仍然可以提醒自己，維多利亞除了人類脆弱的激動人心的觸摸外，其他的一切都被賦予了魅力。

　　盡管她的完美使快樂，尤其是愛情的快樂感到沮喪，他還是及時學(xué)會了以丈夫天生的冷淡為榮。因為在道德敗壞的陳詞濫調(diào)中，他仍然堅持著不名譽(yù)的騎士理想。在他年輕的時候，世界充滿了維多利亞時代的余輝，優(yōu)雅的女性風(fēng)格軟化了男人的舉止，即使不是天性。

　　在那個有趣的時代末期，當(dāng)女性從一個生物學(xué)事實被提升為一種神奇的力量時，一個富裕的老家庭的小兒子維吉尼厄斯·利特爾佩奇嫁給了一個煙草種植園主的孫女維多利亞·布魯克，她由福斯金發(fā)了一筆令人滿意的財富。他的種植園，把煙草變成香煙。盡管維吉尼厄斯受到嚴(yán)格傳統(tǒng)的訓(xùn)練，要尊重每一個沒有屈從于愚蠢的女人，但他最不欣賞維多利亞的理由之一，是她性別特有的美德。她不僅謙虛，這在網(wǎng)友中很常見，而且漂亮，這在任何十年都是不尋常的。

　　在他們開始相識的時候，他更進(jìn)一步地把才智歸功于她；但幾個月的婚姻表明，這僅僅是由完美的容貌和高尚的表情造成的眾多錯覺之一。她身上的一切都很順利，很明確，甚至她的聲音和她那淺棕色頭發(fā)的樣子，她都是這樣穿的？拉·龐帕杜，從前額僵硬地向后卷起，盤繞在頭頂一條擦亮的繩子上。作為一個嚴(yán)肅的年輕人，他雄心勃勃地想在這個世界上獲得一個比他祖先的隱居地更輝煌的地位，維多利亞有秩序的頭腦的簡潔和精確給他們第一次會面留下了深刻的印象。

　　因為在那認(rèn)真的時期，戀人的思想和感情都井然有序。這是一個年輕人在星期天早上聚集到教堂，雄辯的神靈在一周中談?wù)摼S多利亞時代的詩人的時代。當(dāng)他回憶起那堂莊嚴(yán)的布朗寧課時，他現(xiàn)在可以微笑了，在那堂課上他第一次失去了信心。他多么熱情地欣賞維多利亞的童貞容貌！他是多么熱切地羨慕她和詩人相處得既稱職又愛撫人的方式?。∷F(xiàn)在覺得不可思議，他愛上了她，而她卻在背誦戒指和書中那些更冗長的段落。

　　那時他愛上了她，雖然他從來沒有真正喜歡過勃朗寧，當(dāng)這位看不見的人，連同他那著名的詩人，終于不流行時，他感到寬慰。然而，由于他傾向于欽佩他所不具備的所有品質(zhì)，他從未停止過對維多利亞繼續(xù)以其他形式與絕對主義者打交道的堅定的尊重。隨著平靜的歲月過去了，她開始不再依賴自己的童貞容貌，在他看來，她年輕時成熟的思想開始萎縮和壓扁，就像樹上掛了太久的果實一樣。

　　他意識到，自從他第一次認(rèn)識她以來，她從未改變過；她只是變得更成熟、更溫柔、更甜美。她的優(yōu)勢在于，在道德的熱情中，優(yōu)勢從未停止過。她單親妻子的失敗總是對的。對于他的妻子，他嘆了口氣，模糊地感到不安的丈夫，他的不忠是虛構(gòu)的，是一個真正的好女人。她與那些在輕信的戲劇界蓬勃發(fā)展的裝腔作勢的美德一樣，與虛偽完全不同。

　　可惜的是，即使是最不挑剔的丈夫也常?？释壬屏几腥さ臇|西。

標(biāo)簽：雅思

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