2019-05-05 Fortress Besieged围城 C1-2

'Marriage is like a fortress besieged; those who are outside want to get in, and those who areinside want to get out'                                                              ------(French proverb)

Fang Hung-chien 方鸿渐： The fictional protagonist Fang， was from a family in central China, and went abroad to study in Oxford and Paris in the mid-1930s, returning to China in early 1938. 

“When one's parents are still living, a son should not speak of getting old.”,这里更能看出方鸿渐父亲的严厉，未婚妻的离世让他不仅摆脱了父母之命的婚姻，还得到了未来丈人的经济支持，但他却辜负了他们，为了哄父亲和丈人向爱尔兰人买了假博士文凭回国。

Miss Su 苏小姐：高傲又有着博士学位的苏小姐，是方鸿渐的大学同学，在回国的船上对方产生了些小情愫，没想到被Miss Pao抢了个先去。

Miss Pao 鲍小姐：生长澳门，据说有葡萄牙血统，方在船上遇见的轻浮女子，她有未婚夫但举止不检，却引起了方的兴奋。

Mrs. Sun 孙太太，Suns：和方同船上的认识的一家人。

记得第一次读围城好像是在高中的时候，大部分内容都忘了差不多，当时买的书，后来也因为搬家丢了，其实，那时候看没有特别大的感受。这一次决定看英文版的，做笔记时还是会翻下中文部分，文字并不难，不过英文的章节量比较大，今天时间比较充裕，所以可以花比较多时间阅读和笔记，阅读花了两个多小时。

humor：so the mother had to humor Miss Pao herself.(vt. 迎合，迁就，顺应)

spy：but at the same time hated herself for having spied on Miss Pao.(vi.暗中监视)

dowry：Now I am going to give the entire amount, which I had set aside for the wedding and the dowry.嫁妆

swindle：vt.诈骗  n.诈骗 The man who had placed the advertisement was actually a swindler.

bogus：adj.    a ~ diploma 假的，伪造的

dupe: vt. 欺骗或哄骗某人（做某事）n. 受骗的人，傻子  

fraud: n.欺诈，欺骗行为，骗子

If he bought a bogus diploma and went back to dupe other poeple with it, wouldn't he himself be a fraud?