《魯賓遜漂流記：ROBINSON CRUSOE（英文原版）》被譽為英國第一部真正意義上的小說，是現實主義小說的奠基之作。在小說發錶後，一直受到學界的關注，不同時期和不同國度的學者，從不同的維度和立場對這部小說進行解讀和重構。本書為英文原版，同時提供配套英文朗讀免費下載，讓讀者在閱讀精彩故事的同時，亦能提升英文閱讀水平。

內容簡介

《魯賓遜漂流記：ROBINSON CRUSOE（英文原版）》，英國著名小說傢丹尼爾·笛福代錶作。錶麵上看，這部小說講述的是一個奇跡般的曆險故事，但故事背後卻隱含著人類共同麵臨的問題，也隱藏著人們所普遍渴望和夢想的東西，如嚮往的自由、孤筏重洋、英雄夢想、敢於行動、自立於世、勇於擔當等。這部小說也啓示讀者：沒有冒險就沒有成功，隻有那些不畏艱險的人，纔能享受冒險的樂趣。本書為英文原版，同時提供配套英文朗讀免費下載，讓讀者在閱讀精彩故事的同時，亦能提升英文閱讀水平。

Robinson Crusoe is a 1719 novel by English author Daniel Defoe. With its simple narrative style it is considered the original adventure novel and the first novel in the realistic fiction genre. Robinson Crusoe is the story of a man who was shipwrecked for almost 30 years on a tropical island. The novel recounts Robinson’s struggle to survive alone as well as his adventures among cannibals and with his friend and servant Friday.

Robinson Crusoe was very popular in 1719 with six editions printed in the first four months. This led Daniel Defoe to writing sequels to the book such as The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. The original book is popular in schools around the world. It has been adapted into comic books children’s books plays pantomimes and films.

Since publication countless copies of Robinson Crusoe have been sold and it has been translated into many languages. It remains one of the most published novels in history.

作者簡介

丹尼爾·笛福（1660—1731），在18世紀英國四大著名小說傢中，笛福名列首位（其餘三位分彆是喬納森·斯威夫特、塞繆爾·理查遜和亨利·菲爾丁），被譽為“英國與歐洲小說之父”。　笛福生於倫敦一個油燭商傢庭，年輕時是一位成功的商人。在經商的同時，他還從事政治活動，代錶當時日益上升的資産階級齣版瞭大量政治性小冊子，並因此被捕。笛福直到晚年纔開始創作小說。創作《魯賓遜漂流記》時，他已59歲瞭。此後，他又創作瞭《辛格頓船長》《傑剋上校》《摩爾·弗蘭德斯》等小說，這些小說對英國及歐洲小說的發展都起到瞭巨大的影響。

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CHAPTER 1

START IN LIFE

I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called—nay we call ourselves and write our name—Crusoe; and so my companions always called me.

I had two elder brothers, one of whom was lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards. What became of my second brother I never knew, any more than my father or mother knew what became of me.

Being the third son of the family and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts. My father, who was very ancient, had given me a competent share of learning, as far as house-education and a country free school generally go, and designed me for the law; but I would be satisfied with nothing but going to sea; and my inclination to this led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands of my father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends, that there seemed to be something fatal in that propensity of nature, tending directly to the life of misery which was to befall me.

My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design. He called me one morning into his chamber, where he was confined by the gout, and expostulated very warmly with me upon this subject. He asked me what reasons, more than a mere wandering inclination, I had for leaving father’s house and my native country, where I might be well introduced, and had a prospect of raising my fortune by application and industry, with a life of ease and pleasure. He told me it was men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who went abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road; that these things were all either too far above me or too far below me; that mine was the middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found, by long experience, was the best state in the world, the most suited to human happiness, not exposed to the miseries and hardships, the labour and sufferings of the mechanic part of mankind, and not embarrassed with the pride, luxury, ambition, and envy of the upper part of mankind. He told me I might judge of the happiness of this state by this one thing— viz. that this was the state of life which all other people envied; that kings have frequently lamented the miserable consequence of being born to great things, and wished they had been placed in the middle of the two extremes, between the mean and the great; that the wise man gave his testimony to this, as the standard of felicity, when he prayed to have neither poverty nor riches.

He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses, either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, luxury, and extravagances on the one hand, or by hard labour, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distemper upon themselves by the natural consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtue and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the handmaids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that this way men went silently and smoothly through the world, and comfortably out of it, not embarrassed with the labours of the hands or of the head, not sold to a life of slavery for daily bread, nor harassed with perplexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace and the body of rest, nor enraged with the passion of envy, or the secret burning lust of ambition for great things; but, in easy circumstances, sliding gently through the world, and sensibly tasting the sweets of living, without the bitter; feeling that they are happy, and learning by every day’s experience to know it more sensibly.