爱玛·包法利夫人是亲切但枯燥无味的乡村医生的妻子，她渴望像通俗小说中写的一样的奢华浪漫的生活。

Emma Bovary, the wife of a kindly but dull country doctor, yearns for a life of luxury and romance that she has read about in popular novels.

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一些最具盛名的女主角——克拉里莎、伊莎贝尔·阿切尔、爱玛·包法利、安娜·卡列尼娜——都是男人想象的产物，这一点并不新奇。

That some of our most canonized heroines—Clarissa Harlowe, Isabel Archer, Emma Bovary, Anna Karenina—are products of male imaginations is not surprising.

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爱玛·包法利和潘金莲有许多相似之处，都展现了两个不满足于现状，妄图去打破生活桎梏的女性形象，同时也反映了当时男权社会的社会现实。

Emma Bovary and Pan Jinlian share many similarities. Both represent the life of women who went beyond the rules of their time. They also both reflect the male-dominated society of the period.

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