Joseph Andrews: Notesepistolary novels: novels written in the form of letters 书信体小说makes advances to sb.:tries to seduce sb.:试图勾引某人be motivated by…出于…动机，social ambition:社会（向上爬的）野心be disgusted with: 对…感到厌恶，derision / ridicule / mockery: 嘲笑/ 取笑/ 嘲弄be dismissed: be fired 被解雇/ 被炒鱿鱼a stage-coach: a horse-drawn carriage similar to a today’s long-distance-bus 公共驿站马车，an inn:a small roadside hotel 小客栈a parson: a priest serving a parish (a rural community) 教区牧师Cervantes’s Don Quixote塞万提斯的《唐·吉诃德》:the picaresque tradition of the novel 路上小说/ 流浪汉小说的传统138Joseph Andrews:the text—Chapter XII 课文：第十二章“Driven out of Lady Booby’s house and on his way home, he isrobbed, stripped naked, and almost beaten to death by two robbers. He is, however, rescued by a passing stage-coach and sent to aninn.”—This is the content of our text.The novel is a parodyof Pamelaonly in the first 10 chapters. From Chapter 11 onwards, the story turns into a road-storyor a picaresque storyabout Joseph’s adventurous 冒险的and often very amusing 滑稽可笑的experiences (P.61)Contrast 反衬:the major satirical deviceused by Fielding in this chapter: (last paragraph of P.61before the text, and the questions at the back of the text Pp.67-68).
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