以下是《金银岛》的英文书评：
"Treasure Island" is a classic adventure novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson. The story follows young Jim Hawkins as he sets sail on a quest to find the legendary treasure of Captain Flint. Along the way, he encounters a cast of colorful characters, including the one-legged pirate Long John Silver, who becomes both a friend and a foe. The novel is full of action, suspense, and intrigue, and has become a beloved classic of children's literature.
以下是对应的中文意思：
《金银岛》是罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森所写的一部经典冒险小说。故事讲述了年轻的吉姆·霍金斯出发寻找船长弗林特传说中的宝藏的旅程。在旅途中，他遇到了一系列色彩丰富的人物，包括独腿海盗长约翰·席尔弗，后者成为了他的朋友和敌人。小说充满了动作、悬疑和阴谋，已成为儿童文学中备受喜爱的经典之作。
Treasure Island is an adventure tale, but it is also the story of one boy’s coming of age.
This story includes a few opinions, I’d like to share it here. On the one hand, the futility of desire. Treasure Island explores the satisfactions of desires, and indeed, the motivation of all the character if greed: everyone wants the treasure. By the end of the adventure, Jim and the crew got the treasure.
But Stevenson casts doubt on the possibility of ultimate satisfaction. For the pirates, desire prove futile and goals unattainable, as the treasure map leads them to an empty hole.
That hole is the symbol of the futility. Their greed and irrationality lead only to death, loss and dissatisfaction. On the other hand, the lack of adventure in the modern age.
Stevenson suggest that the tale firmly belongs to the past rather than to the present. In the book, he means to point out that the life of the pirates is outdated, but he doesn’t mourn its loss.
He makes us wonder whether the world is better off without the pirates’ charisma, charm and spirit. Thus he feels sorry for something that he feels is missing from the modern world in a sad tongue. Shakespeare once said: do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effort. In the book , they keep trying, no matter what , that is a kind of spirit. This book implies the author’s romanticism, which is a great fortune to all the human beings.
The story is told in the first person by Jim Hawkins, whose mother kept the Admiral Benbow Inn, and who shared in the adventures from start to finish. An old sea dog comes to the inn one day and hires Jim to keep a watch out for other sailors, but he is hunted out and served with the black spot.
Jim and his mother barely escape death when some pirates descend on the inn for the sea dog’s papers. Jim snatches up a packet of papers to square the sailor’s debt, when they were forced to retreat from the inn. The packet contains a map showing the location of the pirate Flint’s buried treasure, which Jim, Doctor Livese...
