Lesson 5
Romeo and Juliet
罗米欧与朱丽叶
一、作者的话
1、Plays can be a comedy or a tragedy.
2、The former can make you laugh to tears while the latter can make you feel sad.
3、"Romeo and Juliet", written by the greatest playwright William Shake speare, has been considered as one of the most well known tragedies.
二、相爱成婚
4、Romeo and Juliet were from two big families who hated each other.
5、They met at a fancy party and fell deeply in love immediately.
6、Since both families were against the marriage, they secretly held a wedding ceremony in a church.
三、牧师的计划
7、Later Romeo was exiled out of the city for manslaughter.
8、Juliet's family forced her to marry an earl.
9、In order to avoid the marriage, she asked the priest who had hosted their wedding for help.
10、He made a plan and sent a letter to Romeo telling him about the plan.
11、The priest offered her a specially-made sleeping drug, which made her fall deeply asleep as if she was dead.
12、Juliet's body was placed in the graveyard.
四、千古的悲剧
13、Romeo came back to the city not because he had received the priest's letter.
14、Being unware of the priest's plan, he went to the cemetery to see Juliet upon learning of her "death".
15、Seeing his beloved lying dead, Romeo was so sorrowful that he took some poison.
16、Right after he had taken the deadly drug, Juliet woke up and happily found her beloved beside her.
17、They learned the truth but it was too late.
18、Seeing Romeo dying, Juliet killed herself with a sword.
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