 You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence. You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something— and you can't....  Youth: And Two Other Stories - 第 4 頁Joseph Conrad 著 - 1903 - 339 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 頁
...remember best is my first voyage there. You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for...— not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 6oo-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination. " It was altogether a memorable affair. It was my... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 頁
...remember best is my first voyage there. You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered ft for the illustration of life, that might stand for...yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something—and you can't. Not from any fault of yours. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 頁
...remember best is my first voyage there. You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for...— not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 6oo-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination. "It was altogether a memorable affair. It was my... | |
 | Mary Burchard Orvis - 1928 - 314 頁
...strengthening a story. Conrad used it in "Youth" : "You fellows know those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence." Thornton Wilder used it in his beautiful and outstanding novel, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey." A priest... | |
 | Robert Charles Rathburn, Martin Steinmann - 1958 - 342 頁
...Marlow's principal symbol, aside from the forest, is the voyage, that, he says in "Youth," seems "ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence." His trip up the Congo "seemed to throw a kind of light on everything about me — and into my thoughts."... | |
 | Robert C. Rathburn, Martin Steinmann - 1967 - 340 頁
...kernel—Marlow's principal symbol, aside from the forest, is the voyage, that, he says in "Youth," seems "ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence." His trip up the Congo "seemed to throw a kind of light on everything about me—and into my thoughts."... | |
 | Carlos Baker - 1972 - 464 頁
...know," says Marlow, beginning his account of the Judea, "there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for...something — and you can't. Not from any fault of yours." If it is so with the Judea, bound for Bangkok, do or die, it is so with Santiago of Havana, bound for... | |
 | David B. Downing, Susan Bazargan - 1991 - 368 頁
...shared values concerning adventures at sea: You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for...trying to accomplish something — and you can't. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor little — not a thing in the world. (3-4) Marlow affirms... | |
 | John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - 1994 - 1094 頁
...He wishes to believe that his first journey to the East was one of "those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence." As Marlow recalls his great adventure, he discovers that, in spite of the voyage's failure, it not... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 244 頁
...remember best is my first voyage there. You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for...world - not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 6oo-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination. 'It was altogether a memorable affair. It was my... | |
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