Novel · Classic · 1881
The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1
여인의 초상 1권
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About the book
Isabel Archer, a spirited young American woman, arrives in Europe and inherits a fortune. The novel follows her suitors and her choice of husband.
From the text
““The Portrait of a Lady” was, like “Roderick Hudson,” begun in Florence, during three months spent there in the spring of 1879.”
The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1 · Henry James
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The English original with a Korean translation, one sentence at a time. In the app you can pick from 21 languages.
and indeed one must give all one can.
그리고 참으로 사람은 자신이 줄 수 있는 모든 것을 주어야 합니다.
As for the origin of one’s wind-blown germs themselves, who shall say, as you ask, where they come from?
바람에 날려 온 세균의 근원에 관해서 누가 당신이 묻는 것처럼 그것들이 어디에서 왔는지 말할 수 있겠습니까?
We have to go too far back, too far behind, to say.
우리가 말하기에는 너무 멀리, 너무 뒤처져 있습니다.
Isn’t it all we can say that they come from every quarter of heaven, that they are there at almost any turn of the road?
우리가 할 수 있는 말은 그들이 하늘의 모든 방향에서 오고, 길의 거의 모든 모퉁이에 그들이 있다는 것뿐이 아닙니까?
They accumulate, and we are always picking them over, selecting among them.
그것들은 쌓여가고, 우리는 항상 그것들 중에서 골라내고 있습니다.
They are the breath of life--by which I mean that life, in its own way, breathes them upon us.
그것들은 생명의 숨결입니다. 다시 말해, 생명은 나름의 방식으로 우리에게 그것들을 불어넣어 줍니다.
They are so, in a manner prescribed and imposed--floated into our minds by the current of life.
그것들은 정해진 방식대로, 삶의 흐름에 의해 우리 마음에 떠오르는 것입니다.
That reduces to imbecility the vain critic’s quarrel, so often, with one’s subject, when he hasn’t the wit to accept it.
이는 주제와 자주 다투는 허영심 많은 비평가가 그것을 받아들일 지혜가 없을 때, 그 다툼을 어리석음으로 전락시킨다.
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Book details
- Title
- The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1 (여인의 초상 1권)
- Author
- Henry James
- First published
- 1881
- Genre
- Novel, Classic
- Original language
- English
- Translations in app
- 21 languages
- Price
- Free
