内容简介:《贫穷的聪明人》是美国1921年小说类的畅销书。其作者是美国著名作家玛丽罗伯茨莱因哈特。《贫穷的聪明人》讲述了第一次世界大战对普通人生活的影响，“那时日子很艰难，过去宁静安详的日子一去不复返”。这本书所讲的主题是一战后人们对于生、死、重建家园的思考，以及人们对于言论自由的探讨。这本书主要揭示了第一次世界大战对普通人的生活和经历的影响。随着战争的爆发，影响正逐渐进入人们生活的每一个方面。战争给老百姓带来极大的危害，尤其是普通民众的日常生活和身心健康。

《贫穷的聪明人》中的第五、六、七章是译者选取的翻译实践的材料。第五章主要讲述了中产阶级的莉莉与鹰药房小店员威利卡梅伦之间所发生的事。因为他们不同的生活环境和态度，威利卡梅伦决心离开莉莉，从而导致卡梅伦对生命的反思。第六章主要讲述了莉莉受到卡梅伦的影响，她的政治观点发生变化，而莉莉的祖父老安东尼对莉莉的政治观点感兴趣。本章的主题是一战后人们开始有了言论自由和社会主义改革的想法。第七章主要讲述了发生在卡梅隆与博伊德小姐之间的事以及人们为了生活而努力工作的故事。

INTRODUCTION: A poor wise man is the best seller fiction in America in 1921s, which expresses people’s dilemma and life in World War One. The author is a famous American writer called Mary Roberts Rinehart. This novel tells the story of the impact on the life of ordinary people after World War One, “it’s very tough at that time, the peaceful and quiet life has gone forever”. The theme of the book is “survive, die and rebuild”, which makes people think deeply. This book mainly reveals the influence of World War One on the lives and experiences of ordinary people. With the outbreak of the war, the influence is gradually going into people’s life in each aspect. The war does great harm to ordinary people, especially to ordinary people’s daily life and physical and mental health.

Chapter 5, Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 in A poor wise man are the translation materials of the translator. Chapter 5 mainly tells the story about what happened between Lily Cardew, who belongs to middle class and Willy Cameron, who is an Eagle Pharmacy small shop assistant. Willy Cameron is determined to leave Lily because of their different living environments and attitudes, which leads to Cameron’s rethinking of life. Chapter 6 mainly tells the story that Lily is affected by Willy Cameron and her political views change, and Lily’s grandfather old Anthony is interested in Lily’s political views. The theme of this chapter is the freedom of speech and the socialist reform after the War. Chapter 7 mainly tells the story about what happened to Cameron, Miss Boyd and people work hard for life after the war.