Vocabulary

inferiority n. 自卑

He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton.

rebound n. 結(jié)束戀愛關(guān)系之后處于反彈期，在失意之時（on the rebound）

He had married on the rebound from the rotten time he had in college, and Frances took him on the rebound from his discovery that he had not been everything to his first wife.

Expression

As he had been thinking for months about leaving his wife and had not done it because it would be too cruel to deprive her of himself, her departure was a very healthful shock.

正中下懷

Don't get sore.

別生氣，別惱火。

He had a hard, Jewish, stubborn streak.

他有猶太人那種頑固不化的犟勁兒。

I'm through worrying.

我受夠了擔(dān)驚受怕。

Excerpt

The lady who had him, her name was Frances, found toward the end of the second year that her looks were going, and her attitude toward Robert changed from one of careless possession and exploitation to the absolute determination that he should marry her.

諷刺，前后對比鮮明有趣。her name was Frances作插入語。

It recounts splendid imaginary amorous adventures of a perfect English gentleman in an intensely romantic land, the scenery of which is very well described.

長句，優(yōu)美流暢。

She grinned and I saw why she made a point of not laughing. With her mouth closed she was a rather pretty girl.

哈哈哈，諷刺。看不到牙齒的時候還是很美的。

Thought

這本書太有趣了，朗朗上口，畫面感十足，忍不住閱讀人物對話感受俏皮勁兒。好書推薦。