高级英语(第三版)第一册第六课 Mark Train
高级英语1 lesson6课件
Clemens and he ranged across the nation for more than a third of his life,
the
new American experience
•Translation:印刷工，领航员，南部邦联游击队员，淘金者，不切实际的乐观主 义者，言语刻薄的讽刺家---这就是马克吐温，原名塞缪尔·朗格合恩·克勒孟斯。 他的一生有超过三分之一的时间游历于美国各地，亲身体验美国新气象， 以作家和演说家的身份与全世界分享他所感受到的一切。
Cynical adj. 愤世嫉俗的，玩世不恭的 英英释义： scornful of the motives,virtue,or integrity of others. eg: Most residents are cynical about efforts to
clean mobsters out of their city. 大部分居民对将歹徒清除出城市心存怀疑。
Some similar expresion: Clear-headed:头脑清楚的 Red-faced: 面红耳赤的
Grey-haired: 头发花白的
3 The geographic core, in Twain's early years, was the great valley of the Mississippi River, main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart. Keelboats ，flatboats,and large rafts carried the first major commerce. Lumber, corn, tobacco, wheat, and furs moved downstream to the delta country; sugar, molasses,cotton, and whiskey traveled north. In the 1850's, before the climax of westward expansion, the vast basin drained threequarters of the settled United States.
高级英语第三版_课文翻译
第一课迎战卡米尔号飓风小约翰。
柯夏克已料到，卡米尔号飓风来势定然凶猛。
就在去年8月17日那个星期天，当卡米尔号飓风越过墨西哥湾向西北进袭之时，收音机和电视里整天不断地播放着飓风警报。
柯夏克一家居住的地方——密西西比州的高尔夫港——肯定会遭到这场飓风的猛烈袭击。
路易斯安那、密西西比和亚拉巴马三州沿海一带的居民已有将近15万人逃往内陆安全地带。
但约翰就像沿海村落中其他成千上万的人一样，不愿舍弃家园，要他下决心弃家外逃，除非等到他的一家人——妻子詹妮丝以及他们那七个年龄从三岁到十一岁的孩子——眼看着就要灾祸临头。
为了找出应付这场风灾的最佳对策，他与父母商量过。
两位老人是早在一个月前就从加利福尼亚迁到这里来，住进柯夏克一家所住的那幢十个房间的屋子里。
他还就此征求过从拉斯韦加斯开车来访的老朋友查理?希尔的意见。
约翰的全部产业就在自己家里(他开办的玛格纳制造公司是设计、研制各种教育玩具和教育用品的。
公司的一切往来函件、设计图纸和工艺模具全都放在一楼)。
37岁的他对飓风的威力是深有体会的。
四年前，他原先拥有的位于高尔夫港以西几英里外的那个家就曾毁于贝翠号飓风(那场风灾前夕柯夏克已将全家搬到一家汽车旅馆过夜)。
不过，当时那幢房子所处的地势偏低，高出海平面仅几英尺。
“我们现在住的这幢房子高了23英尺，”他对父亲说，“而且距离海边足有250码远。
这幢房子是1915年建造的。
至今还从未受到过飓风的袭击。
我们呆在这儿恐怕是再安全不过了。
”老柯夏克67岁．是个语粗心慈的熟练机械师。
他对儿子的意见表示赞同。
“我们是可以严加防卫。
度过难关的，”他说?“一但发现危险信号，我们还可以赶在天黑之前撤出去。
” 为了对付这场飓风，几个男子汉有条不紊地做起准备工作来。
自米水管道可能遭到破坏，他们把浴盆和提俑都盛满水。
飓风也可能造成断电，所以他们检查r手提式收音机和手电筒里的电池以及提灯里的燃料油。
约翰的父亲将一台小发电机搬到楼下门厅里．接上几个灯泡。
高级英语第三版第一册1-7课修辞整理
Lesson 1 Face to Face with Hurricane Camille1.We can battle down and ride it out.<metaphor>2.Wind and rain now whipped the house. <metaphor>3.Camille, meanwhile, had raked its way northward across Mississippi.<metaphor>4.and the group heard gun-like reports as other upstairs windows disintegrated. Water rose above their ankles. <simile>5.The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. <simile>6.The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. <simile>7.Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown-down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads.<simile>8.A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40feet through the air.<personification>9.Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point. <transferred epithet>10. "Everybody out the back door to the cars!" John yelled. <elliptical>Lesson 2 Hiroshima—the "Liveliest〞 City in Japan1. "Seldom has a city gained such world renown, and I am proud and happy to welcome you to Hiroshima, a town known throughout the world for its-oysters〞. <anticlimax>2. …as the fastest train in the world slipped to a stop... <alli teration>3. …where thousands upon thousands of people had been slain in one second, where thousands upon thousands of others had lingered on to die in slow agony. <parallelism, transferred epithet>4. At last this intermezzo came to an end… <metaphor>5. This way I look at them and congratulate myself of the good fortune that my illness has brought me. <irony>6. Each day that I escape death, each day of suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares, I make a new little paper bird, and add it to theothers.<euphemism>7. Hiroshima—the "liveliest〞 [pun]City in Japan<irony>8. I felt sick, and ever since then they have been testing and treatingme.<alliteration>9. The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt<synecdoche, metonymy>10. There were fresh bows, and the faces grew more and more serious each time the name Hiroshima was repeated. <synecdoche>11. Was I not at the scene of the crime? <rhetorical question>12. Because I had a lump in my throat…. <metaphor>13.Whose door popped open at the very sight of a traveler. <onomatopoeia>14.No one talks about it any more, and no one wants to, especially the peo ple who were born here or who lived through it. <climax>Lesson 3 Blackmail1.As a result the nerves of both duke and duchess were excessively frayed when the muted buzzer of the outer door eventually sounded.<metaphor>2. His wife shot him a swift, warning glance. <metaphor>3. You drove there in your fancy Jaguar, and you took a lady friend.<euphemism>4. The Duchess of Croydon kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind.<metaphor>5. In what conceivable way does our car concern you? <rhetorical question>6. Her voice was a whiplash. <metaphor>7. The obese body shook in an appreciative chuckle. <transferred epithet>8. Two high points of color appeared in the paleness of the Duchess of Croydon’s cheeks.<transferred epithet>9. The house detective clucked his tongue reprovingly. <onomatopoeia>10. Eyes bored into him. <metaphor>Lesson 4 A Trial that Rocked the World1> The trial that rocked the world <hyperbole>2> Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder<transferred epithet>3> The case had erupted round my head <synecdoche>4> Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was assisted <ridicule>5> and it is a mighty strong combination <sarcasm>6> until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century <irony>7> There is some doubt about that.<sarcasm>8> No one, ... that may case would snowball into...<metaphor>9> The streets around the three-storey red brick law court sprouted with rickety stands selling hot… <metaphor>10> Resolutely he strode to the stand, [carrying a palm fanlike a sword to repel his enemies]. <ridicule,simile>11> Bryan mopped his bald dome in silence. <ridicule>12> Dudley Field Malene called my conviction a "victorious defeat〞 <oxymoron>13> ...our town ...had taken on a circus atmosphere. <metaphor>14> He thundered in his sonorous organ tones. <metaphor>15〕...champion had not scorched the infidels... <metaphor>16〕…after the preliminary sparring over legalities… <metaphor>17>Now Darrow sprang his trump card by calling Bryan as a … n. <metaphor>18>Then the court broke into a storm of applause that … <metaphor> 19〕...swept the arena like a prairie fire<simile>20>The oratorical storm … blew up in the little court in Dayton swept like a fresh wind<simile>21>...tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers... <Metonymy>22>The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.<Metonymy>23>His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world . <Hyperbole>24>The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes t hat he must have come from below. <antithesis>25>when bigots lighted faggots to burn... <Consonance>26>There is never a duel with the truth," he roared. "The truth always wins -- and we are not afraid of it. The truth does not need Mr. Bryan. The truth is eternal.<Repetition>27>Darrow walked slowly round the baking court. <transferred epithet>28>Gone was the fierce fervor of the days when Bryan had swept the political are na like a prairie fire.<Alliteration>29>DARWIN IS RIGHT—INSIDE<pun>Lesson 5 The Libido for the Ugly1. Here was the veryheart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity <metaphor, transferred epithet, antithesis>2. Here waswealth beyond computation, almost beyond imagination--and here werehuman habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats. <Antithesis,Repetition, hyperbole>3. There was not one in sight from the train that did not insult and lacerate the age. <synecdoche>4. There was not a single decent house within eye range from the Pittsburgh to the Greensburg yards. There was not one that was misshapen, and there was not one that was not shabby. <Understatement; Litotes>5. The country is not uncomely, despite the grim of the endless mills. <Litotes,Overstatement>6. They would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides. <personification>7. On their low sides they bury themselves swinishly in the mud. <Metaphor>8. And one and all they are streaked in grim, with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping through the streaks. <Metaphor>9. When it has taken on the patina of the mills, it is the color of a fried egg. When it has taken on the patina of the mills, it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring. <Metaphor, ridicule>10. I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer. <Irony, sarcasm>11. N.J. and Newport News, Va.Safe in a Pullman, I have whirled through the gloomy…<Metonymy>12. But in the American village and small town the pull is always towards ugliness, and in that Westmoreland valley it has been yielded to with an eagerness borderingupon passion. <Ridicule>13. It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror. <Irony>14.On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be positive libido for the ugly, as on the other and less Christian levels there is a libido for the beautiful. <Antithesis>15. The taste for them is as enigmatical and yet as common as the taste for the dogmatic theology and the poetry of Edgar A.Guest. <Metaphor>16. And some of them are appreciably better.<Sarcasm>17. They let it mellow into its present shocking depravity. <Metaphor; sarcasm>18. The effect is that of a fat woman with a black eye. <Metaphor>19. The boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth.<hyperbole>20. What I allude to is the unbroken and agonizing ugliness, the sheer revolting monstrousness of every house in sight. <hyperbole>21. A steel stadium like a huge rat-trap somewhere further down the line. <simile, ridicule>22. Obviously, if there were architects of any professional sense of dinity in the region, they would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides. <sarcasm>23. By the hundreds and thousands these abominable houses cover the bare hillsides, like gravestones in some gigantic and decaying cemetery. <simile>24. They have the most loathsome towns and villages ever seen by a mortal eye.<hyperbole>25. They are incomparable in color, and they are incomparable in design. <sarcasm>26. It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius, uncompromisingly inimical to man, had devoted all ingenuity of Hell to the making of them. <hyperbole and irony>27. Beside it, the Parthenon would no doubt offend them. <sarcasm>28. In precisely the same way the authors of the rat-trap stadium that I have mentioned made a deliberate choice. <metaphor>29. They made it perfect in their own sight by putting a completely impossible penthouse, painted a starting yellow, on top of it. <ridicule>30. The effect is that of a fat woman with a black eye. <metaphor>31. It is that of a Presbyterian grinning. <metaphor>32. This they have converted into a thing… low-pitched roof. <inversion>33. But nowhere on this earth, at home or abroad, have I seen anything to compare to the village<inversion>34. coal and steel town<synecdoche>35. boy and man<synecdoche>36. Was it necessary to adopt that shocking color? <rhetorical question>37. Are they so frightful because the valley is full of foreigners – dull, insensate brutes, with no love of beauty in them? <rhetorical question>38. a crazy little church. <transferred epithet>39. a bare leprous hill <transferred epithet>40. preposterous brick piers <transferred epithet>41. uremic yellow <transferred epithet>42. the obscene humor <transferred epithet>Lesson 6 Mark Twain --- Mirror of America1>saw clearly ahead a black wall of night... <Metaphor>2>main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart<Metaphor>3>All would resurface in his books...that he soaked up... <Metaphor>4>When railroads began drying up the demand... <Metaphor>5>...the epidemic of gold and silver fever... <Metaphor>6>Twain began digging his way to regional fame... Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles... <Metaphor>7>Most American remember M. T. as the father of... ...a memory that seemed phonographic<Simile>8>Americalaughed with him. <Hyperbole, personification>9>...to literature's enduring gratitude...<Personification>10>the grave world smiles as usual... <Personification>11>Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh<Personification>12>America laughed with him. <Personification>13>...between what people claim to be and what they really are… <Antithesis>14>...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever<Antithesis>15>… a motley band of Confederate guerrillas who dilige ntly avoided contact with the enemy. <Euphemism>16>...the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home<Alliteration>17>...with a dash and daring... ...a recklessness of cost or consequences...<Alliteration>18>...his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxe<Metonymy>19>For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent, and was rebuffed. <metaphor>20>From the discouragement of his mining failures, Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.<metaphor>21>He boarded the stagecoach for San Francisco, then and now a hotbed of hopeful young writers. <metaphor>22>he commented with a crushing sense of despair on men's final release from earthly struggles <euphemism>23>...took unholyverbal shots at the Holy Land... <metaphor, antithesis>24> Most Americans remember ... the father of [Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure.]<parallelism, hyperbole>25>The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied --a cosmos <hyperbole>26> the vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United States<metaphor>27> Steamboat decks teemed...main current of...but its flotsam<metaphor>28> Twain began digging his way to regional fame... <metaphor>29> life dealt him profound personal tragedies... <personification>30> the river had acquainted him with ... <personification>31> ...an entry that will determine his course forever... <personification>32> Personal tragedy haunted his entire life. <personification>33>Keelboats, ...carried the first major commerce <synecdoche>Lesson 7 Everyday Use for your grandmamma1. "Maggie’s brain is like an elephant’s〞. Wangero said, laughing. <irony>2. "Mama,〞 Wangero said sweet as a bird. "can I have these old quilts?〞<simile>3. …showing just enough of her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blouse… <metaphor>4. After I tripped over it two or three times he told me …<metaphor>5. And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe. <hyperbole>6. Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail. <simile>7. Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car,sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind of him? <metaphor>8. I feel my whole face warming from the heat waves it throws out.<hyperbole>9. Impressed with her they worshiped the well-turned phrase, the cute shape, the scalding humor that erupted like bubbles in lye. <simile>10. It is like an extended living room. <simile>11. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.<assonance>12. My skin is like an uncooked barley pancake. <simile>13. She gasped like a bee had stung her. <simile>14. You didn’t even have to look close to see where hands pushing the dasher up and down to make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood. <metaphor> 15. Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? <rhetorical question>。
高级英语1-第三版课后答案-句子理解和翻译-paraphrase-translation
第一课Face to face with Hurricane Camille1.We ’re elevated 23 feet. We’re 23 feet above sea level. 2.The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has bothered it. The house has been here since 1915, andno hurricane has ever caused any damage to it. 3.We can ba en down and ride it out. We can make the necessary prepara ons and survive the hurricane without much damage. 4.The generator was doused, and the lights went out. Water got into the generator and put it out. It stopped producing electricity, so the lights also went out. 5.Everybody out the back door to the cars! Everybody goes out through the back door and runs to the cars! 6.The electrical systems had been killed by water. The electrical systems in the car (the ba ery for the starter) had been put out by water. 7.John watched the water lap at the steps, and felt a crushing guilt. As John watched the water inch its way up the steps, he felt a strong sense of guilt because he blamed himself f endangering the whole family by deciding not to flee inland. 8.Get us through this mess, will you? Oh God, please help us to get through this storm safely 9.She carried on alone for a few bars; then her voice trailed away. Grandmother Koshak sang a few words alone and then her voice gradually grew dimmer and finally stopped. 10.Janis had just one delayed reac on. Janis displayed the fear caused by the hurricane rather late. 1.Each and every plane must be checked out thoroughly before taking off. 每架飞机起飞之前必须经过严格的检查。
高级英语第一册第六课Mark Twain
• 29 feud: long-lasting and bitter quarrel or dispute • between two people or groups.
• 30 • •
piracy: robbery of ships on the high seas, robbery carried out by pirates, persons who sail the seas stopping and robbing ships.
• 12 acid-tongued: if sb. is acid-tongued, he makes unkind or critical remarks. • 13 • • • digest: a. When you digest food, the food passes through your stomach and is broken down so that your body can use it. b. If you digest information, you think about it, understand it, and remember it. c. A digest is a collection of things that have
• 18 • • • 19 •
keel: a long bar along the bottom of a boat or ship from which the whole frame of the boat or ship is built up. raft: floating platform made from large pieces of wood, oil-drums, etc, that are tied
高级英语Lesson 6 Mark Twain课文翻译
Lesson 6 Mark Twain ---Mirror of America马克.吐温--美国的一面镜子(节选) 诺埃尔.格罗夫Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure. In-deed,this nation's best-loved author was every bit as ad-venturous,patriotic,romantic, and humorous as anyone has ever imagined.I found another Twain as well–one who grew cynical,bitter,saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him,a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race,who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.在大多数美国人的心目中，马克•吐温是位伟大作家，他描写了哈克•费恩永恒的童年时代中充满诗情画意的旅程和汤姆•索亚在漫长的夏日里自由自在历险探奇的故事。
的确，这位美国最受人喜爱的作家的探索精神、爱国热情、浪漫气质及幽默笔调都达到了登峰造极的程度。
但我发现还有另一个不同的马克•吐温——一个由于深受人生悲剧的打击而变得愤世嫉俗、尖酸刻薄的马克•吐温，一个为人类品质上的弱点而忧心忡忡、明显地看到前途是一片黑暗的人。
Tramp printer,river pilot,Confederate guerrilla,prospector,starry-eyed optimist, acid-tongued cynic:The man who became Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens and he ranged across the nation for more than a third of his life,digesting the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer.He adopted his pen name from the cry heard in his steamboat days,signaling two fathoms (12feet)of water--a navigable depth.His popularity is attested by the fact that more than a score of his books remain in print,and translations are still read around the world.印刷工、领航员、邦联游击队员、淘金者、耽于幻想的乐天派、语言尖刻的讽刺家：马克•吐温原名塞缪尔•朗赫恩•克莱门斯，他一生之中有超过三分之一的时间浪迹美国各地，体验着美国的新生活，尔后便以作家和演说家的身分将他所感受到的这一切介绍给全世界。
(完整word版)高级英语1(外研社;第三版;张汉熙主编)
第一课FacetofacewithHurricaneCamilleParaphrase:Weare23feetabovethesealevel.Thehousehasbeenheresince1915,andhasneverbeendamagedbyanyhurricanes.Wecanmakethenecessarypreparationsandsurvivethehurricanewithoutmuchdamage.Watergotintothegeneratorandputitout.Itstoppedproducingelectricitysothelightsalsowentout.Everybodygooutthroughthebackdoorandruntothecar.6.Theelectricalsystemsinthecar(thebatteryforthestarter)hadbeenputoutbywater.AsJohnwatchedthewaterinchitswayupthesteps,hefeltastrongsenseofguiltbecauseheblamedhimselfforendan geringthewholefamilybydecidingnottofleeinland.OhGod,pleasehelpustogetthroughthisstormsafely7.GrandmotherKoshaksangafewwordsaloneandthenhervoicegraduallygrewdimmerandstopped.8.Janisdisplayedratherlatetheexhaustionbroughtaboutbythenervoustensioncausedbythehurrican e.Translation(C-E)1.Eachandeveryplanemustbecheckedoutthoroughlybeforetakingoff. 每架飞机起飞之前必须经过严格的检查。
高级英语第一册第六课教学教案ppt课件
Detailed study
• 3. cryptic: hidden, secret, mysterious • 4. excessively frayed • excessive: derog. too much, too great, too large • Excessive rainfall washes out valuable minerals from the soil.
Lesson 6
•Blackmail
• •
Arthur Hailey
Teaching Objectives
1. learn the words/phrases and understand the text. 2. paraphrase the text. 3. figures of speech such as metaphor, metonymy, euphemism, antithesis, parallelism. 4. Finish exercises No. IV, V, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII. 5. Group work: (A short play) • Blackmail
Plot:
• Then we have the present text. • ... ...
Type of writing
• This kind of novels are called thrillers.Generally defining, a thriller is a work of fiction or drama designed to hold the interest by the use of a high degree of intrigue, adventure or suspense.
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高级英语（第三版）第一册第六课 Mark Train
Teaching Aims
1) To acquaint students with the major events in the history of USA.
2) To acquaint students with the life and writing of Mark Twain.
3) To acquaint students with the writing of biography.
4) To help students to appreciate the rich rhetorical devices in the text
Mirror of America
“Mirror ” is a piece of glass or other shinny/polished surface that reflects images. Here, it is a metaphor.
• As a writer, he grew up with America, moved along with America, from innocence to experience.
Mark Twain: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(1835--1910). two fathoms deep.
Part One
. Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and
His Life
______ Historic Events of USA
Tramp printer
River pilot --
Prosperous Mississippi River
Transcontinental Railroads
Guerrilla –
The Civil War
Prospector --
Part I (Para.1): It serves as an introduction of the whole text.
Part II(Para2-19): It provides his life his success and comments on his works.
Part III (Para.20-22): It devotes to his personal tragedy.
Part One
Question: How was Mark Twain introduced?
-- his outstanding achievements as a writer who created two immortal characters -- his multi-sided personality: adventurous, patriotic, romantic, humorist, cynical, bitter, sad.
made in two senses.
First, Mark Twain’s exciting, adventuresome life stories themselves mirror a part of American history, and the life of ordinary American people.
• Mark Twain is a part of America. His personal success and failure were those of America.
• As a man, he grew up with America as a country (a young country)
ห้องสมุดไป่ตู้Gold Rush
Reporter --
Westward Expansion
Correspondent -- Europe, the Holy Land
Writer
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Tom Sawyer’s innocence
Huck Finn’s experience
Mark Twain —Mirror of America
It means a faithful representation or description of something (the country).
• • Why does the author say that Mark Twain is the
mirror of America?
The assertion that Mark Twain is the mirror of America is
adventure. In-deed, this nation's best-loved author was
every bit as adventurous, patriotic, romantic, and humorous as anyone has ever imagined. I found another Twain as well – one who grew cynical, bitter, saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him, a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race, who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.