What is most impressive about the book is the intense and painstaking effort made by the author, Elizabeth Gaskell, to convey the experience of everyday life in working class homes.
这本书最让人印象深刻的是,作者伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔为描写工人阶级家庭的日常生活,付出了艰苦的努力。
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As a member of the middle class, Gaskell could hardly help approaching working-classlife as an outside observer and a reporter, and the reader of the novel is always conscious of this fact.