高级英语第六册Lesson4《nettles》Para(39---43)详解
现代大学英语精读6 第四课Nettles
Plants
hawthorn elm oak maple
...and plowing through mats of flat-leafed water lilies, trapping our legs in their distinct character.para8
• moving with difficulty through water lilies which had flat leaves,with their winding roots sucking our legs.
ketchup
The narrator remembers this usual habit of Mike’s, so she recognized him at once when she saw him making a ketchup sandwich at her friend’s house after many years.
Part 2: (para.3-15)
Why does the author devote so much space to the narration of childhood memories? Is the narration vivid and interesting? Give your comments.
• The plot of story evolves around a middleaged woman’s reunion with a childhood boy friend in 1979, but it moves back and forth between past and present.
• to plow through:to move with difficulty
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• I was happy with all this-it made me feel as if I had made a true change, a long necessary voyage from house of marriage.para21
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life.
mother to her children.
She was swapping that ambit ion for the chance to run h er things.
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• And I had moved for the new fangled reason that was approved of only in the special circles-leaving husband and house and the things acquired during marriage (except, of course, the children, who were to be parceled about, in the hope of making a life that could be lived without hypocrisy or deprivation or shame.para20
精读6第四课Nettles讲解
Unit Four Nettles1. Notes onGuide to Reading1) prolific (1.1)多产的prolific writer 多产作家synonyms: fecund, fertile, fruitful, productive.2) prestigious (1.3) esteemed 有名望的,著名的Prestigious university 名牌大学；名校Synonyms:celebrated, distinguished,eminent, illustrious, noted, preeminent, prominent, renowned3) dilemma (2.2)进退两难；困境To be, or not to be: that is the question (Shakespeare)Synonyms: deep water, hot water, predicament,4) be confronted with (2.3) face; meet with;encounter面对；遭遇5) regardless of (2.3) irrespective of 不管; 不管6) Love that was not usable, that knew its place. Not risking a thing yet staying alive as a sweet trickle, and underground resource. (Last line but one, Para. 2)空灵的爱,自知的爱；不危及任何东西, 却像涓涓细流,地下源泉,永不枯竭.精神之爱,知其进退；无损无害,如源头活水,滋润于心.7) retrospection (3.2) 回忆,回忆8) protagonist (3.2) The main performer in a theatrical production; : lead 主角9) effortlessly (3.4)Effortless: easyEasy as ABC, easy as falling off a log, easy as one-two-three, easy as pie, like taking candy from a baby, nothing to it.10) bridge the gap:搭配11) Thus the reader is apt to identify with the protagonist, feeling what she feels and worrying what worries her. (last line but one, Para. 3) Identify with ?12) address several essential problems (4.1) 搭配13) Once again Nettles" displays Munro s lasting strength …and subtle meanings of life. Lasting strength ?在尊麻〞中,Munro再次展示了其深厚功力,驭繁于简,情节虽然简单,却探索了复杂的人物感情和微妙的人生况味.2. Text AnalysisFrom paragraph 1 to paragraph 49A.必备语7匚(preparatory words and expressions 见词汇测试表B.逐段讲解1 .引子：回忆起1979年时见到的一个男人不交代是谁,留下悬念(suspense) 词汇：1) ketchup sandwich (1.2)夹番茄酱的三明治2 .数年之后,重寻故地,已物易人非.去年元夜时,花市灯如昼.月上柳梢头,人约黄昏后.今年元夜时,月与灯依旧.不见去年人,泪湿春衫袖.一生查子去年元夜时欧阳修去年今日此门中,人面桃花相映红.人面只今何处去桃花依旧笑春风题都城南庄崔护3 .回忆儿时情景,请人打井,由此开始一场早恋(puppy love).词汇：1) Well (line 1):水井2) Penned (line 3):圈养的Pig sty猪圈3) Mug (line 7):杯其他词义：(1) I got mugged/jumped on my wayhome.(2) The suspect is not among the mugshots.(3) Look at her ugly mug.4 . Mike McCallum 出场.交代打井人居无定所的生活,为之后和童年伴侣小Mike McCallum的别离埋下伏笔.5 .小Mike McCallum出场.交代两人都是8岁. 词汇：1) boarding house (5.1)提供膳宿的地方2) at hand (5.2) nearby 附近,手边6 .回忆和小Mike两小无猜的情景之一：在Mike父亲的车里玩耍；给被臭鼬所伤的狗抹番茄汁治伤.词汇：1) Cab (6.1):出租车；此处：驾驶室2) Mucky (6.4): dirty3) Sour-cheese boots (6.4):袜子发此臭奶酪的气味4) Skunk (6.6):臭鼬5) Spray (6.6):喷射句子：1) It looked as if we were washing him inblood (last line) 好似用血给它洗澡一样.7 .回忆农场的树木.句子：1)Each of the trees …crabby. (7.2-4)译：这里每颗树都神气活现的.比方,榆树宁静安详,橡树那么杀气腾腾,枫树慈祥可亲, 而山楂树那么老态龙钟、火气十足.8 .回忆一起过河情景.词汇：1) Scummy (8.3):长满浮渣的2) Scum: 人渣scum of the earthscum of the nation?句子：1) The river in August was almost as much astony road as it was a watercourse. (8.1) 译：8月的河是条水道,几乎也是一条石头路.2)•• plowing through mats of flat-leafed water lilies, trapping our legs in their snaky roots. (8.3-4)译：…吃力地在一团团长着扁平叶子的睡莲中蹿行,两腿被弯曲的睡莲根缠绕.9-11讲述小孩们玩打仗游戏,我和Mike互生情愫. 词汇：1) Harassment (9.4):骚扰Sex harassment2) Dress (10.3):包扎Administer : to give someone a medicine ormedical treatmentPainkillers were administered to the boy. 句子：1) There was a keen alarm when the cry came,a wire zinging through your whole body, afanatic feeling of devotion. (10.4-6)Keen: keen interest/desireThe need for enlarging our vocabulary is notkeenly felt yet.Zing: to move quicklyWire:电线Business wire?Fanatic:狂热的译：当他喊我的名字时,我会紧张万分,全身如触电一般,一种狂热的忠诚感油然而生.2) The game disintegrated, after a long while, in arguments and mass resurrection. (11.1-2) Disintegrate: to break up 散译：许久之后,大家吵个不休,装死的也活了过来,游戏就这样散了.12-14水井打好,Mike离去句子：1) One morning, of course, the job was all finished, the well capped, the pump reinstated, the fresh water marveled at. (12.1-2) Cap: (vt)加盖子Marvel at :惊叹译：不用说,一天早上,工作全部完成.井口上了盖子,水泵重新装好了,清新的井水引来一片赞叹.2) The laugh had a lonely boom in it, as if he were still down the well. (Last line, Para. 12) Boom:消沉而有回响的声音译：他的笑声深沉孤独,带着回音,似乎他还在井底一般.3) He had other jobs lined up elsewhere… (13.2) Line up:排队Line up please!Line the kids up !译：其他地方还有很多活等着他.4) Future absence I accepted^ it was just that I had no idea, until Mike disappeared, of what absence could be like. How my own territory would be altered, as if a landslide had gone through it and skimmed off all meaning exceptloss of Mike. (13. 5-8)译：我知道会分开的,也认了,但是到Mike 不见了,才知道那是一种什么样的别离.生活面目全非,好似一场山崩抹去了一切,除了失去Mike,其他都无意义了.15从细节描述对Mike的思念. 句子：1) My heart was beating in big thumps, likehowls happening in my chest.Thump:砰砰声16—18时间回到1979年,Sunny去接我.句子：1)…she looked not matronly but majestically girlish. (16.3-4)Matronly:主妇的译：她看上去不像是结了婚的人,而像是气质端庄的女孩子.19讲述与Sunny在温哥华相识的过程句子：1) Our pregnancies had dovetailed, so we had managed with one set of maternity clothes. (19.1-2)Dovetail: to fit together perfectly or to make two plans, ideas etc fit together perfectly 译：我们的怀孕期正好前后相接,所以我们可以共用一套孕妇服.2) In my kitchen or in hers …and our forgone ambitions. (19.2-6)Reel: stagger; feel dizzyStoke: fuelRampage: outbreak of violent or raging behavior译：我们大约每周都要在我的厨房或她的厨房聚会一次.孩子们总是不断打搅我们,有时我们还会由于睡眠缺乏而头晕目眩,于是就不断地喝咖啡、吸烟来提神,开始天南海北地聊大天,什么都谈：我们的婚姻和奋斗、彼此的缺点、既有趣又有些丢脸的动机、以及曾有过的理想抱负.做出丑事的有趣动机3) During that time of life that is supposed to bea reproductive daze - and The Cocktail Party〞.Daze: a confusing conditionSwamp: floodMaternal juices: mother s milk and other juices with which a mother feeds a baby Compel: to force someone to do something 译：那段时期,要带小孩喂奶水,一般女人都会有点不知所措的,但我们还是会一起聊西蒙-德-波伏娃和库斯特勒和艾略特的诗歌“鸡尾酒会〞.20-25两人相识之后的变化：都搬离温哥华.我婚姻出现问题,与丈夫分居,搬到多伦多.小孩来,住不习惯,还是回父亲那了. 句子：1) And I have moved for the newfangled reason …shame. (20.3-6) Newfangled: novel 新奇的Be parceled about: be dividedDeprivation: the lack of something that you need in order to be healthy, comfortable, or happy译：而我的搬离,原因也许有些离谱,非常人所能理解--丈夫、房子和结婚之后所有的一切(孩子除外,由我和丈夫轮流来带)都不要了,只希望过一种不虚伪、不丧失快乐、不令人羞耻的生活.2) I was happy with all this …from the house of marriage.(21.5-6)译：这一切都令我快乐,觉得自己有了真正的变化,开始迈上摆脱婚姻禁锢的漫漫征途.3) But it was too much to expect of my daughters- who were ten and twelve years old —that they should feel the same way.(21.6-8) 译：但不能期望我两个女儿 --一个十岁、一个12岁一和我的感觉一样.4)…I would be frightened, not of any hostility, but of a kind of nonexistence. (Last line, Para. 25) 译：我会感到害怕,不是怕不平安,而是那种自己好似不存在的感觉.26.我心情不好,给Sunny ,受邀去乡下过周末. 27-93在乡下度假,与Mike重逢所发生的一切,以及我对爱的感悟.修辞：Delicacy or disapproval (29.1)Happy energy (38.1)词汇：1) Tromp (30.2): tramp; to walk heavily and noisily2) Almost in the same breath (32.1):几乎异口同声3) Of all things (34.3):真没想到4) Nap (38.2): a short sleep, especially during the day: take/have a nap5) Civil engineer (41.2): 土木工程师civilconstruction 土木建筑6) pack up the game (45.3)收起游戏7) crap (45.5) garbage, rubbish, trash,junk8) Pilot star (45.2):领航星9) Big dipper (45.2):北斗七星10) Fold-out sofa (47.2):折叠沙发床11) Unmake the bed(47.3):叠被12) Make up the bed (47.3):铺床13) sleazy (49.2):不体面的句子：1) It was hard to make the break…(29.2)Break:断开,决裂译：和过去的生活决裂是很难的2) …I took my overnight bag … 译：我带上装着过夜用品的包3) Lying in the same sheets did not make for apeaceful night.(49.1)Make for: contribute to; lead to译：躺在Mike睡过的被褥里,我躁动不已.。
高级英语6课文翻译,部分单元
迪士尼世界：后现代的乌托邦城市1迪斯尼世界的本质是什么？这个答案多半体现在迪斯尼为游客创造幻觉的努力上，这一幻觉使游客觉得自己进入了一个更符合他们渴望的完美世界。
迪斯尼世界用各种各样的方式创造了这个完美世界。
例如，它鼓励游客以一个孩子的眼光去看待这个乐园，并把自己定义为一个“给生活带来梦想”的地方。
然而最根本的却是，它只是创造了一个完美世界的虚构版本。
在这个世界，迪斯尼引导游客逃脱来自现实生活中的束缚；在这个世界，游客不再受时间，距离，体积和现实法则的约束。
在五花八门的游乐区中，游客似乎脱离了人体以及人体的遗传基因；他们穿梭于过去与未来中，离开了地球。
在惊险的游乐项目中，他们不遵循万有引力定律，以一种不符常理的速度和方式移动着。
2迪斯尼世界还怂恿游客逃避社会和自我的堕落状态。
它创造了美国资本主义制度和政治历史的理想化幻象；它把游客拖入到永久庆典的世界中----一个满是游行队伍、焰火，盛装的表演者以及无尽的享乐诱惑的世界。
游客仿佛加入了一个永无止境的假期中，生活中的负面情绪也都被抛之脑后。
3显然，当你把所有这些都联系在一起，就可了解到，迪斯尼世界只是帮助游客以一种虚构的方式实现人类最大的梦想：超越。
在迪斯尼世界，我们超越了平凡。
它取代了我们自己所在的世界----在现实世界，多数机遇与我们擦肩而过，多数人隐藏自己的动机；而在迪斯尼，我们游历在象征世界：这个世界客观、具体，却似乎没有压力、无忧无虑，异常精彩，正如幻想一般。
4就是这样，迪斯尼摆脱了当代社会枯燥的“科学主义”世界观。
德国社会学家马克思韦伯曾经说过，在当今社会，随着科学地位的上升和宗教影响的减弱，我们正在见证世界的觉醒。
仿真文化的产物，例如迪斯尼世界，似乎正在随着一种新的承诺而重获魅力：利用太空飞行，外星人，时光穿梭和失落世界的各种神话，艺术和科技可以将我们的世界创造成最新版的当代爱情故事。
5但迪斯尼世界并不只提供客观化幻象。
借助仿真的力量，它也向我们展示了，科技是如何赋予我们不受世界控制的力量和自由的。
高级英语 Unit4 Nettles PPT
• when they first met,she was eight and he was nine. They have a period of happy time when Mike's father worked for her family, such as, they climbed into the cab when it rained. They played the game of war,she made weapons for Mike,and her name was called by Mike. Mike's father's job was all finished.Mike's father would leave the farm and move to another place for the new job, Mike would of course leave with his father.
《纽约客》(The New Yorker)，1925年创刊，周刊，美国纽 豪斯家族属下的康德· 纳斯特出版公司主办。综合文艺类刊物， 内容涉及政治观察、人物介绍、社会动态、电影、音乐戏剧、 书评、小说、幽默散文、艺术、诗歌等方面。该刊强调精品 意识，注重刊物质量，编辑方针严肃认真。 《纽约客》原为 周刊，后改为每年42期周刊加5个双周刊。从创刊伊始， 《纽约客》就特意表明，该杂志面向那些能够欣赏其幽默和 深入报道的读者。它将纽约市作为杂志的中心，使得这个城 市的网络，这个城市对戏剧、电影、博物馆的宠爱都成为一 种具有吸引人的商品。
• Marriage and divorce are both common experiences. In Western cultures, more than 90 percent of people marry by age 50. Healthy marriages are good for couples’ mental and physical health. They are also good for children; growing up in a happy home protects children from mental, physical, educational and social problems. However, about 40 to 50 percent of married couples in the United States divorce. The divorce rate for subsequent marriages is even higher.
现代大学英语第六册paraphrase答案(整理版1-4-5-6-9-10-11)
现代大学英语第六册paraphrase答案（整理版1,4,5,6,9,10,11）Lesson 1 How to get the poor off our conscience1.Virtue is ... self-centered.By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest.2....(poverty) was a product of their excessive fecundity...The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children.3....the rich were not responsible for either its creation or its amelioration.The rich were not to blame for the existence of poverty so they should not be asked to undertake the task of solving the problem.4.It is merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God.It is only the result or effect of the law of the survival of the fittest applied to nature of to human society.5. It declined in popularity, and references to its acquired a condemnatory tone.People began to reject Social Darwinism because it seemed to glorify brutal force and oppose treasured values of sympathy, love and friendship. Therefore, when it was mentioned, it was usually the target of criticism.6....the search for a way of getting the poor off our conscience was not at an end; it wasonly suspended.The desire to find a way to justify the unconcern for the poor had not been abandoned, it had only been put off.7. ...only rarely given to overpaying for monkey wrenches, flashlights, coffee makers, andtoilet seats.Government officials, on the whole, are good, it is very rare that some would pay high prices for office equipment to get kickbacks.8.This is perhaps our most highly influential piece of fiction.It is a very popular story and has been accepted by many but it is not true.9.Belief can be the servant of truth---but even more of convenience.Belief can be useful in the search for truth, but more often than not it is accepted because it is convenient and self-serving.10.George Gilder... Who tells too…the cruel spur of their own suffering to ensure effort...George Gilder advances the view that only when the poor suffer from great misery will they be stimulated to make great efforts to change the situation, in other words, suffering is necessary to force the poor to work hard.Lesson4 nettles1.How all my own territory would be altered, ad if a landslide had gone through it andskimmed off all meaning except loss of Mike.The impact of Mike's leaving on my life was beyond my imagination. I didn't expect that Mike's leaving would have such a tremendous power that it would change the meaning of my existence completely. All my thoughts were about loss of Mike.2.During that time of life that is supposed to be a reproductive daze, with the woman'smind all swamped by maternal juices, we were still compelledto discuss Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Koestler and "The Cocktail Party".At that time, we were young mothers, and we were supposed to lead a terribly busy life full of confusion and bewilderment caused by giving birth to and raising babies. And our minds were supposed to be fully occupied by how to feed the babies and things like that. However, in the midst of all this we still felt the need to discuss some of the important thinkers of our time like Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Koestler and T.S.Eliot's sophisticated work "The Cocktail Party".3....I would be frightened, not of any hostility but of a kind of nonexistence.I would be frightened, and my fear was not caused by my neighbor's visibly hostile and violentway of life, but by a kind of formless and hidden emptiness and meaninglessness of human existence. What happened around me was totally irrelevant to me, and I felt very isolated and alienated.4.She did not ask me---was it delicacy or disapproval?---about my new life.She did not ask me about my new life, either out of subtle consideration for my feeling about this sensitive subject or out of disapproval for my new life style.5.I t would be a sleazy thing to do, in the house of his friends.It would be a morally low thing, an indecent thing to commit infidelity in the house of a friend.6.I knew now that he was a person who had hit rock bottom.I knew that he was a person who had experienced the worst in life, the hardest experience aperson might have to endure.7.He and wife knew that together and it bound them, as something like that would eitherbreak you apart or bind you, for life.They experienced the worst together and they knew what it was like and understood the meaning of that experience. Such an experience posed the gravest test to people. If they stood the test, their friendship or marriage would be strengthened, and a sacred bondage would be formed between them. but if they failed the test, their relationship would be broken and they would flow on gently and8.Not risking a thing yet staying alive as a sweet trickle, an underground resource. Withthe weight of this now stillness on it, this seal.If they acted on love, they would take risks. They wouldn't do that or go further in their relationship, but they would rather let their love remain as a sweet trickle, which would flow on gently and...Lesson 5 The One Against the Many1. ....the national rejection of dogmatic preconceptions about the nature of the social andeconomic orderThere are such prejudices in an arrogant manner about the characteristic of the social order and economic order and they take it for granted. The country just rejected such prejudice.2. Nor can one suggest that Americans have been consistently vulnerability to secular ideology ever after No one can say that Americans have never been tempted by the approach of understanding, preserving or transforming the world according to rigid dogmas.3.and any intellect so shaped was ...ever afterA mind influenced by Calvinist theology would surely find it somewhat difficult to resist otherideological temptations to ideological thinking.4. Pragmatism is no more wholly devoid...experiencePragmatism is not completely free from abstract ideas just as ideology is not completely free from experience, that is to say, abstract ideas have a place in pragmatism just as experience hasa role in ideology.5. As an ideologist, however, Jefferson....historical curiosityAs a man following a fixed set of beliefs, Jefferson is only an interesting historical figure. His beliefs are out of date and are irrelevant to present-day reality.6....whose central dogma is confided to the custody of an infallible priesthoodTheir central beliefs are imprisoned by the whole body of priests who are always effective. 1....where free men may find partial truths, but where ...on Absolute TruthIn this universe a person whose mind is unconstrained may be able to discover relation truths but no man on earth can claim that he has already grasped the one and only truth.2.But ideology is a drug; no matter how ...it still persists.Ideology has the characteristic of a narcotic. In spite of the fact that it has been proved wrong many times by experience, people still long to commit themselves to ideology.3....the only certainty in an.....abuseThe only thing that is sure of a despotic system is the unrestricted exercise of power.10. The distinctive human triumph...lies in the capacity to understand the frailty of humanstriving ...nonethelessThe most outstanding achievement of humanity is they know that no matter how hard they try, they cannot achieve Absolute truth, yet they continue to make great efforts and refuse to give up.Lesson6 Death of a pig1. It is a tragedy enacted on most farms with ...The murder, being premeditated, is in thefirst degree...and the smoked bacon and ham provide...questionedThe tragedy has an ending---the killing of a pig and the serving of its meat. The killing deliberately planned and carried out efficiently, is the most type of murder. However, whether pigs should end their lives that way has never been questioned.2. A pig couldn't ask for anything better or none has, at any rateA pig could not ask for any better living conditions; at least no pig has ever complained. In aword, my pig lived in a pleasant environment3.You could see him down there at all hours, his white face parting ...his stethoscopedangling ...and grinning his corrosive grinFred was quite excited about the event. He was down at the pigpen all the time. Because of his swollen joints, he moved about unsteadily. His face set apart the grass along the fence as he moved about. He was like a doctor, with his long, drooping ears dangling like a stethoscope, and he scrabbled on the ground as if he were prescribing some medicine.4.When the enema bag appeared, and the bucket of warm suds, his happiness...full chargeof the irrigationWhen it was time to dose the pig, Fred became even more excited, and he managed to get through the fence, and acted as if he was taking charge of the medical treatment.5....and the premature expiration of a pig is...a sorrow in which it feels fully involvedIf a pig dies before he is supposed to, it is a serious matter for the whole community to remember. The whole community would share the sadness for his death.6.I have written this account in penitence and in grief, as a man who...and to explainmy...so many raised pigsThe purpose of this essay is to show that I am sorry for what has happened to my pig,since I have failed to raise the pig and cannot provide a reason why my pig could didn't grow the way other pigs have grown.7.The grave in the woods is unmarked, but ...and I know he and I...on flagless …ownchoosingThe pig's grave in the woods doesn't have a tombstone, but whenever somebody wants to visit it, Fred will show him the way.I know we will often visit it, separate or together, when we need to ponder over problems or when we are depressed.Lesson 9 The Bluest Eye1.Perhaps because they don’t have hometowns……and it never leaves them.This is perhaps because they only have places of birth, but no places where there feel at home and which they identify themselves with. But these girls are strongly influenced by their hometowns, and the influence stays with them forever even they leave their hometowns.2.Wherever it erupts, this Funk, they wipe it away…they find it and fight it until it dies.The brown girls try hard to repress their emotions and passions. However, these natural human emotions cannot be wiped out totally. Sometimes they will emerge and burst out. And they will develop, become stronger and stay with them. So whenever and wherever this Funk bursts out, the brown girls will do their best to stifle it.3.As long as his needs were physical, she could meet them—comfort and satiety.If these needs were physical, she could meet them. She could make him comfortable and give him enough or even more than enough to satisfy his physical needs.4.She had seen this little girl all of her life.Geraldine had seen black girls like Pecola at many places and many times in the past.5.Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything.On the one hand, they (girls like Pecola) were ignorant and uncomprehending. They did not ask the question that why their lives were so miserable. On the other hand, as they were poverty-stricken and practically had nothing, their eyes revealed their desire for anything that could make their lives easier.6.The end of the world lay in their eyes, and the beginning, and all the waste in between.In the eyes of these girls one can see that they were in despair, without any hope for the future, and that their life was nothing but a waste.7.Th e girls grew up knowing nothing of girdles……the bills of their caps backward.As the girls were growing into young women, they had neverworn girdles to make their figure look slimmer, and thus more elegant; and when the boys grew up, they just began to wear their caps with the bills turned backward to indicate that they had become adults.Lesson 10 Notes on the English Character1.Saint George may caper on banners and……who delivers the goods.As Saint George is a hero, the person of arms, symbolizing chivalry, his image often appears on banners, and his name is often mentioned in the speeches of politicians. Saint George is used as a symbolic figure for political purposes. But John Bull is a tradesman and he delivers the goods we need in our daily life while making money at the same time.2.With its boarding-houses, its compulsory games……all proportion to itsnumbers.The English public schools have unique features. First, all boys live in boarding houses. Second, sports and games are organized and compulsory as part of the school curricular. Third, older students have special duties to help control younger students while the latter must do jobs for the former. Lastly, great emphasis is placed on good form and team spirit. These features enable the public school students to have disproportionately great influence.3.Note the word “bankrupt”……anxious to meet any liabilities.Pay attention to my use of the word “bankrupt”, a word related to business. This reveals my identity as a member of the commercial nation, who would be careful and sensible enough to avoid any risks of failing to pay their debts.4.But my friend spoke as an Oriental……but of kingly munificence andsplendor.But my friend expressed his views as a member of the Oriental countries. They are nourished by a tradition of great generosity and richness, which is different from the English tradition of middle-class prudence.5.True love in this differs from gold and clay……not to take away.In this aspect, true love is different from material things such as clay or even gold which can be divided and taken away. Yet, if we share true love, it will never diminish.6.I will now descend from that dizzy……my business of notetaking.In the above anecdote, I have become an example of the English man for the moment. That put men in a high position which makes me dizzy and its unfamiliar to me. I will now come down from that height and return to my role as your commentator on the characteristics of the English man.7.Such a combination is fruitful, and anyone who possesses it had gone a longway toward being brave.The Englishman’s nervous system acts promptly and feels slowly. The combination of the two qualities is useful, and anyone who has this combination is most likely to be brave.8.Since literature rests on national character……hidden spirits…we see.As literature is based on national character, there must be in the English nature hidden resources of passion that have produced the great romantic literature we see.9.“Oh, I’m used to Bernard Shaw; monkey tricks don’t hurt me.That kind of criticism is just like Bernard Shaw’s attacks. It is nothing new and I’m used to these tricks and jokes; they won’t do any harm to me.10.And the “tolerant humorous attitude”...bounded by the titter and the guffaw.The Englishmen think they have a tolerant and humorous attitude toward criticism.In fact it is not so, because their attitude is limited by uncomfortable laughter, which indicates that beneath the surface of their tolerant humorous attitude, they are uneasy. When they try to be humorous and brush aside criticism, they would titter and guffaw. Such uncomfortable laughter is a sign of uneasiness.11.The cats are all out of their bags, and diplomacy cannot recall them.I have already made all my opinions known to you. What is said is said, and beingdiplomatic cannot unsay what has been said.Lesson 11 Beauty1.The festival of marriage has……can see their glory.In wedding ceremony, time seems to go slowly so everybody, even a fool, could observe things clearly and see how wonderful they are.2.So I can make up my darling……in her girlhood.My daughter may feel she has missed something when she was young. If so, I wish I could make compensation to her now, before she is married.3.The glow of happiness has to cool……crystalli ze into memory.With the passing of time, you will feel a bit more detached from the happy event and then you can recall things more clearly and they will stick in your mind.4. A wedding gown will eventually grow ……seep out of the brightest day.The clothes made for the occasion of wedding, though kept in a box specially treated to repel moths, will have a moldy smell as time goes on; flowers will gradually lose their color and die and even the brightest day will grow dim.5.I feel certain that genuine bea uty……alone but out in the world.I firmly believe that true beauty is not shallow and it exists not because we think itexists but because it actually exists outside of us.6.Yet I persist in believing there is……this tingle than an evolutionary reflex.An evolutionary response cannot adequately explain why there is this physical feeling of excitement. There must be another more important reason—beauty.7.You cannot pursue the law of nature……without pumping into the beauty.If you try to study the law of nature, very soon you will encounter beauty. The study of the law of nature will inevitably lead to the discovery of beauty.8.Because the Creation puts……beauty is free and inexhaustible.Since the birth of the universe, everything in it has revealed its own wonder continuously. Unlike ordinary commodities which cost money and whose supply is limited, beauty is free and inexhaustible.9.Beauty feeds us from the same source that created us.When God created us, He also created beauty.10. I find in that infinity a profound source of meaning and hope.This close relationship makes us see life is meaningful and worth living. Human beings are exactly and wonderfully made for life on Earth. We are powerful. We can appreciate beauty. We have a bright future.。
Lesson-4-Nettles讲解学习
• Para 91 is essential for understanding the meaning of the title of the story. While they were driving back, Mike and the narrator noticed an itch or burning on their bare forearms, the backs of their hands and around their ankles. She remembered the nettles . But those plants with big pinkish-purple flowers are not nettles. They are called joe-pye weeds.
NEW LESSON
Childhood memory (para 3-15)
1. How did Mike and the narrator meet each other?
2. What are the 3 memories about them leaving the deepest impression in narrator’s childhood memory?
Lesson-4-Nettles
“娶了红玫瑰，久而久之，红玫瑰就变成了墙上 的一抹蚊子血，白玫瑰还是“床前明月光”；
娶了白玫瑰，白玫瑰就是衣服上的一粒饭渣子， 红的还是心口上的一颗朱砂痣。”
-----张爱玲《红玫瑰与白玫瑰》
Francesca and Robert
Classic lines
“Nobody understands when a woman makes a choice to marry and have children, in one way her life begins, but in another way, it stops. You build a life of details, and you just stop and stay steady, so that your children can move. And when they leave, they take your life of details with them. You are expected to move on again, but you don't remember what it was that moved you, because no one's asked you in so long. Not even yourself.”
高级英语 Nettles 课后答案
Unit 4Nettles(Excerpts)Alice MunroAdditional Background Information(About the Author and her Short Story, “Nettles”)Regarded by many critics as one of the greatest living writers of short fiction in English literature, Alice Munro has often been compared to Chekhov.Born into a family of farmers in the small rural town of Wingham, Ontario, Munro began writing in her teens. She published her first story in 1950 when she was still a student at the University of Western Ontario. Her first collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades, was published in 1968. It received high acclaim and won that year’s Governor General’s Award, the most respected literary prize in Canada. Her next work was Lives of Girls and Women (1971), a collection of interlinked stories published as a novel, which won the Canadian Booksellers Association International Book Year Award. Her other books are all short story collections: Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (1974); Who Do You Think You Are? (1978, titled The Beggar Maid in English and American editions); The Moons of Jupiter (1982); The Progress of Love (1986); Friend of My Youth (1990); Open Secrets (1994); Selected Stories (1996); Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001); The View from Castle Rock (2006); Too Much Happiness (2009) and Dear Life (2012).“Nettles”, which first appeared in the New Yorker in 2000, is included in Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage. In this story, the author uses first-person narration. The plot of the story centers on a middle-aged woman’s 1979 reunion with a childhood male friend, but it moves back and forth between past and present. Like most other stories by Munro, the protagonist is a woman. The “I”in the story should not be taken as the author herself, although the subject matter of Munro’s stories is often developed from her own experiences. Munro has explained in various interviews that her stories are not autobiographical, but she does claim an “emotional reality”for her characters that is drawn from her own life.Munro’s life experiences of growing up in a relatively poor southwestern Ontario town during the depression, going through the rebelliousness and idealism of adolescence, discovering sex, leaving home, falling in love, getting married, having children, getting divorced, and being involved in a variety of complicated relationships, all inform the fiction she creates. “Nettles”is no exception. Her fictional world ranges across the breadth of Canada, but the stories that take place in Ontario are rooted in her own formative past, represent evocative settings experienced in childhood, and are recollected by a perceptive adult memory. In Lives of Girls and Women, Munro explains through a character what she hopes to achieve in writing a work of fiction about small-town Ontario life. The character works hard to portray not only what is actually “real”about the town, but what is meaningfully “true”. In order to do so, she must capture the dull and ordinary simplicity of her neighbors’daily lives. This character’s description of her efforts has often—andrightly—been used by critics to describe Munro’s own intentions as a writer: “What I wanted was every last thing, every layer of speech and thought, stroke of light on bark or walls, every smell, pothole, pain, crack, delusion, held still and held together—radiant, everlasting.”In “Nettles”, we see evidence of Munro’s realistic technique: details that have been arranged and illuminated memorably. “Nettles”is an example of the penetrating stories that led to Munro being lauded as one of the finest of living North American writers. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013.Although nearly all of Alice Munro’s fiction is set in southwestern Ontario, her reputation as a brilliant short-story writer goes far beyond the borders of her native Canada. Her accessible, moving stories offer immediate pleasure while simultaneously exploring the complexity and beauty of everyday life. This aspect of her writing is also demonstrated in “Nettles”.Structure of the TextPart I (Paras.1-2)The beginning of the story tells us when and where the story takes place—in 1979, at the summer home of the narrator’s friend, Sunny, in Uxbridge, Ontario.Part II (Paras. 3-26)This section serves as a prelude to the main story.The first part is narrated as a flashback, devoted to the narrator’s childhood memories and her friendship with Mike. The setting of this part of the story is rural Ontario. (Paras. 3-15) The time and place shift to that of the first paragraph. In 1979, Sunny invites the narrator to spend a weekend with her family. (Paras. 16-18)The narration moves back a few years to the time when the narrator and Sunny were friends in Vancouver. (Para. 19)In Paragraph 20, the narration shifts back again to 1979. The narrator explains the different reasons that prompted both her and Sunny to leave Vancouver. The narrator’s marriage has turned out to be unsuccessful and she has problems with her children. This leads her to phone Sunny and obtain the invitation to spend the weekend. (Paras. 20-26)Part III (Paras. 27-93)The major part of the story takes place in this section.At Sunny’s home, to her surprise, the narrator meets her childhood friend, Mike. She is filled with happiness by this chance reunion. (Paras. 27-38)The narrator feels sexual desire for Mike, but refrains from expressing her desire. (Paras. 39-49)When everyone is invited to a brunch the next morning, the narrator decides to accompany Mike to a golf course instead. (Paras. 50-68)There is a fierce storm. After the storm, Mike tells the narrator about the death of his son and how it occurred, something he normally does not speak of. (Paras. 69-90)Part IV (Paras. 91-95)They return to Sunny’s home. At the end of the story, the narrator explains her new understandingof the meaning of love.Note: During the detailed study of the text, it might be useful to draw students’attention to the shifts in time mentioned above.Detailed Study of the Text1. Why does the author choose “Nettles”as the title of the story?nettle: any of a genus of annual and perennial weeds of the nettle family with stinging hairs that make the leaves rough. 荨麻The verb “nettle”can be used metaphorically to mean “to irritate or to annoy”. The phrase “grasp the nettle”means dealing with an unpleasant or painful situation firmly and without delay.Note: What is the meaning of the title “Nettles”? Let us bear this question in mind while we read the story. Usually, we can find the answer to such a question in the process of or after reading a story.2. What is the narrative structure of the story?The author begins her story in a rather unusual way, and the plot of her story does not follow the normal chronological order. The brief beginning paragraph takes place in 1979. But immediately after that, in the second paragraph, she switches to “years afterward”. Then from Paragraph 3 to Paragraph 15, the time shifts to her childhood, when she met and made friends with Mike. Beginning with Paragraph 16, the narrative returns to 1979. Sebastian Smee, an Australian Pulitzer Prize-winning arts critic, in reviewing the collection of Munro’s short stories which includes “Nettles”, points out, “What is perhaps most noticeable about her technique is the way her narratives rock back and forth in time. This allows her to infuse her stories with a sort of floating suspense, which falls halfway between the meandering spaciousness we are used to in novels and the soft-pedal epiphanies or shocking twists of more conventional short stories.”3. I walked into the kitchen of my friend Sunny’s house near Uxbridge, Ontario, and saw a man standing at the counter, making himself a ketchup sandwich. (Para. 1)counter: a long table or cabinet top for preparing or serving food in a kitchen, store, or lunchroom.a ketchup sandwich: 夹番茄酱的三明治To use ketchup as the filling of a sandwich is quite unusual. The narrator remembers this peculiar habit of Mike’s so she recognizes him at once even after many years.4. In the countryside where I lived as a child, wells would occasionally go dry in the summer. (Para. 3)With this sentence, the narrator’s memory turns to her childhood. The section from Paragraph 3 to Paragraph 15 is devoted to her childhood memories, her friendship with Mike. The descriptions of her childhood show that the narrator is very nostalgic.5. ... we needed a good supply of water for our penned animals (Para. 3)penned animals: 圈养的动物A pen is a small yard or enclosure for domestic animals. To pen is to confine or enclose in a pen.6. boarding houses (Para. 5)a private house where you pay to sleep and eat 供膳食的寄宿处7. ... who went to whatever school was at hand…(Para. 5)at hand: near in space or time哪个学校离家近他就上哪个学校。
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Para(39----43)
1.Skimming and Scanning
2.Answering the questions
3.The explanation of the phrases
Questions
1.Can you find the detailed descriptions of the game of the war?(inPara9&10) 2.Can you summarize the main idea of Para(39--43)? 3.Where did “Mike” and “I” live? 4.What did Mike and Johnston do? 5.Where was Mike’s wife?
Explanation
• at some point 在某一时刻
• Each one of us is all alone at some point in our lives. 我们的每一个人，在人生的某些时候，都 是非常孤单的。 • At some point you came in contact with this Palestinian[,pælis'tiniən]. • 在某一时刻你遇到了这位巴勒斯坦人。
point to/point at
• point to与point at都含有“指……”的含义，但二 者侧重点不同。point to侧重指方向，意为“指 向”；point at侧重指的对象，意为“指着”。如 果表述的内容强调对象就用point at；如果强调方 向，则用point to。
例如：
It is rude to point at a person．指着人是失礼的。 The teacher is pointing at the map and saying“Here is Beijing．” 老师指着地图说：“这是北京。” The needle of a compass points to the north．罗盘针指向北方。 Both the hour hand and the minute hand pointed to twelve．It was no on．时针和分针都指着十二，是正午的时候。
at poilines cut at point A. • 这两条线在A点相交。 • Then ultimately, if they have enough patience, they will meet at point X. • 最终，如果,他们有足够的耐心，他们会在 点X相遇。