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标 题: 鲁宾逊飘流记
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ROBINSON CRUSOE
Daniel Defoe
Although his father wants him to become a lawyer, young Robinson Crusoe is
determined to BT2; go to sea. On September 1, 1651, in the seaport town of
BT3;Hull, the nineteen-year-old boy decides to ship aboard a vessel bound for
London. Just out of port,
they BT4;strike a great storm, and young Crusoe vows that if he ever reaches
shore alive he will obey his parents and never go to sea again. But when the
sea becomes calm, he forgets his resolution. Impressed by the courage and
good fellowship of his
shipmates, he takes up a life of adventure.
Aboard an African trading vessel, when it is boarded by Turkish
BT5;buccaneers, Crusoe is sold into slavery. He manages BT6;a desperate
escape in a boat no larger than a BT7;dory and is picked up by a Portuguese
freighter bound for Brazil. There he
sets up as a successful sugar planter; but, finding that he needs slaves for
his plantation, he is persuaded by another English planter to sail to the
slave coast of Africa. The ship is wrecked off an unknown island near the
northeast coast of South
America. Crusoe is the only survivor.
He is washed ashore on a deserted island with only his knife, a pipe, and
some tobacco. Fortunately the ship has not actually sunk, but has foundered
on some rocks. The next day, in clear weather, Crusoe is BT8;able to swim out
to the wrecked ship
which he finds loaded with useful supplies in good condition. Back on the
island he constructs a crude raft which he plies back and forth between ship
and shore for two weeks, bringing back with him firearms, powder, saws, an
ax, and a hammer. He also
finds £36 aboard the ship. He takes the money with him although he realizes
that all the gold in the world is of no use to a BT9;castaway. Crusoe thanks
BT10;Providence that his life has been spared and that he now has a chance
for survival on the
island. He begins to keep a daily diary of his activities and reflections.
After he recovers from a fever, Crusoe slowly starts building a permanent
dwelling. For food and clothing he hunts wild goats and tans their hides. He
plants some barley and corn --- half of his precious stock from the ship ---
but finds BT11;to his
horror that he has planted them at the wrong season and they are wasted. His
every effort, from making pottery in which to store fresh water to felling
and planting trees for his shelter, is enormously difficult and often meets
with failure. Most
frustrating of all is his attempt to build a BT12;canoe that will carry him
away from the island. For five months he works on a great cedar tree, hewing
and shaping it until it is seaworthy, BT13;only to find that it is so heavy
he cannot get it from
the construction site to the shore.
Eventually Crusoe learns to plant crops, domesticate goats for milk, and even
train a parrot for a pet. Although he has never seen another living soul on
the island, he makes himself a safe hiding place. It is well that he has done
so, for after twelve
years of utter isolation on the island, Crusoe one day makes a startling
discovery: On the beach far from his shelter he finds a human footprint in
the sand. Determined to find out who the intruder is, Crusoe constructs a
hiding place in a cave near
the footprint and spends years searching that part of the island.
When he has been on the island about twenty-two years, Crusoe makes another
shocking discovery. On the beach where he first saw the footprint are human
bones and mutilated flesh. Apparently BT14;cannibals from the mainland have
paddled over with their
prisoners of war whom they murdered and ate.
Crusoe's first reaction is one of terror, but soon he becomes so indignant
that he determines to ambush the savages the next time they arrive and kill
as many as he can. He sets up a small fortress in a cave. One day, from his
lookout post, he sees
about thirty savages dancing obscenely before a fire. They have already
cooked one prisoner and are getting ready to murder two more BT15;when Crusoe
attacks them with his two loaded muskets and a sword. He shoots several of
the cannibals. The others
run off in panic, leaving one of their prisoners behind. After twenty-four
years of solitude, Crusoe at last has a companion.
The man he rescues is also a cannibal, but Crusoe soon teaches him loathe his
former habits. He BT16;names him Friday, for the day of his rescue. Crusoe
brings Friday back to his shelter and gradually teaches him enough English so
they can communicate
with one another. The grateful Friday, who is basically intelligent and comes
from a superior tribe, becomes Crusoe's loyal and trustworthy servant and
friend.
Friday informs Crusoe that on his native island seventeen white men are
unharmed but being held captive. Crusoe decides to get to them and perhaps
with their help return to civilization. Aided by Friday, Crusoe builds
another seaworthy boat --- this
time right at the shore.
They are just about to set sail BT17;when three canoes full of savages land
on the island with three prisoners --- one a white captive. Crusoe and Friday
attack with all the firepower at their command, kill all but four of the
twenty-one savages, and
save two of the captives. One of them BT18;turns out to be Friday's father.
Father and son greet each other joyfully.
The white man they save is an old Spaniard who had been aboard a ship that
Crusoe had seen wrecked some years before. Crusoe sends the Spaniard back
with Friday's father to the island in his newly made boat to rescue the other
white prisoners.
Meanwhile, he BT19;sights a English ship anchored off shore. The captain and
two loyal crew members are sent ashore by BT20;a rebellious crew. Crusoe and
Friday help them recapture the ship, and they depart with the captain for
England. The crew say
they would rather remain on the well-stocked island than face trial and
inevitable hanging in England. They are left behind.
Learning later that the Spaniard and Friday's father have succeeded in
rescuing the captive seamen on Friday's island, Crusoe detemines to visit
them someday.
But first he returns to England with Friday, after an absence of thirty-two
years. Crusoe is now a rich man. Besides the money from the sunken Spanish
ship, he has an estate in Brazil, BT21;kept intact all the time he ws away by
an honest Portuguese
captain, and £10,000 waiting for him in Portugal. He learns that both his
parents are dead. After a visit to Portugal to settle his estate, Crusoe
returns to England, marries, and has children. When his wife dies, Crusoe
sets sail once again to see
what has happened on his island.
In Defoe's Bt22;sequel, j騎he Farther Adventures of Robinson CrusoeI, the
shipwrecked Spaniards and the mutinous English sailors have joined forces,
married native women from another island, and established a thriving colony.
After several more adventures, in one of which the faithful Friday is killed,
Robinson Crusoe returns for the last time to England, where he lives out the
rest of his years in peace and contentment.
Fromj*汄 A Studen's Guide to 50 British Novels
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