Learn English Through Story - Subtitles:
Pride and Prejudice (Level 6)
Short description:
'The moment I first met you, I noticed your pride, your sense of superiority, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others. You are the last man in the world whom I could ever be persuaded to marry,' said Elizabeth Bennet.
And so Elizabeth rejects the proud Mr Darcy. Can nothing overcome her prejudice against him? And what of the other Bennet girls - their fortunes, and misfortunes, in the business of getting husbands?
This famous novel by Jane Austen is full of wise and humorous observation of the people and manners of her times.
Glossary
- Accomplished: well trained or educated in social skills such as conversation, art, music, etc.
- affection: a strong feeling of liking or love
- agreeable: pleasant, charming
- amends, make amends to put right a mistake or an injustice done to somebody
- apparent: seeming, not real
- astonishment: great surprise
- attachment: a feeling of liking or love for a place or person
- ball: a grand, formal dance
- blush: (v) to become red in the face, especially when embarrassed
- the Church: the Church of England
- colonel an army title; the head of a regiment
- compliment: (n and v) a remark expressing respect or admiration
- conquer: to repress or control; (n) conquest
- considerate: thoughtful; careful not to hurt other people’s feelings
- contempt: a feeling that someone or something is worthless
- desire: (n) a strong wish
- disdain: (n) a feeling or show of superiority or dislike
- elder/eldest: older/oldest (used only of people, especially of members of a family)
- elegance: good taste in clothes, appearance, and manner
- elope: to run away from home in order to get married secretly
- favourable: giving or showing approval
- flatter: (v) to praise someone too much or insincerely
- Gentleman: a man of good family and social position, usually wealthy
- haste: a hurry; quickness of action
- honour: (n) moral principles; a privilege or pleasure
- indifference: a complete lack of concern or interest
- inferior: less clever or important than other people, or of lower social position
- justice: right and fair behaviour or treatment
- ladyship: a title used in speaking to or about a titled lady
- late: no longer alive
- library: a room in a house, used for keeping books
- long: (v) to want to do something very much
- master, mistress: a man or woman who owns a house and employs servants
- mock: (v) to laugh unkindly at someone, to make fun of them
- morals: an understanding of right and wrong behaviour
- mutual: of a feeling shared by two people
- obstinate: refusing to change one’s opinion or actions; (n) obstinacy
- party: a group of people doing something together
- patron: (here) a person who has the right to give someone a Church of England post (e.g. the post of rector)
- penniless: very poor; having no money at all
- propose: to ask someone to marry you
- rector: a priest in the Church of England
- rectory: a rector’s house
- regiment: a large number of soldiers, part of an army
- reject: (v) to refuse to accept
- Right: (n) a proper claim to something
- servility: being too ready to obey other people and behave like a servant
- sister/brother-in-law: a sister/brother by marriage (e.g. your husband’s sister)
- sociable: fond of being with other people; friendly
- superior: better, cleverer, more important than other people, or of higher social position
- taste: (here) the ability to enjoy or to choose things which are elegant, attractive and pleasing
- underestimate: (v) to have too low an opinion of something or someone
- vulgar: low, common, coarse, lacking in taste or manners.
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