Nicholas Nickleby
/ˌnɪkələs ˈnɪklbi/
/ˌnɪkələs ˈnɪklbi/
- a novel (1839) by Charles Dickens. Nicholas Nickleby is a young man who has to make enough money to support his mother and sister after his father dies. He first goes to work as a teacher at Dotheboys Hall, a school run by the evil Wackford Squeers. Nicholas is shocked by the conditions there, and by their cruel treatment of a poor boy called Smike. Nicholas and Smike escape from the school together and later work in a theatre company run by Vincent Crummles. There are many other linked stories in the novel, but its main importance is that it showed Victorian society how terrible conditions in many of its schools were, and in fact led to a lot of them being closed or improved.
尼古拉斯·尼克尔比：查尔斯·狄更斯的小说（1839年）。尼古拉斯·尼克尔比（Nicholas Nickleby）是一个年轻人，父亲去世后，他必须赚足够的钱养活自己的母亲和妹妹。他首先在邪恶的Wackford Squeers经营的学校Dotheboys Hall担任老师。尼古拉斯对那里的情况以及对一个可怜的男孩Smike的残酷对待感到震惊。尼古拉斯（Nicholas）和斯米克（Smike）一起逃离学校，后来在文森特·克鲁姆斯（Vincent Crummles）运营的一家剧院公司工作。小说中还有许多其他相关的故事，但它的主要重要性在于，它向维多利亚社会展示了其许多学校的恶劣状况，实际上导致许多学校被关闭或改善。