华盛顿欧文自述第三段
睡谷传奇-华盛顿欧文
Part 3 The final fight
The final fight
Although the nature of the Headless Horseman is left open to interpretation, the story implies that the Horseman was really Brom Van Brunt in disguise (乔装).
Position in American literature
• • • • • Father of American literature the first American (true) literary writer the first American literary humorist the first modern short story writer the first to write history and biography as entertainment
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Part 1
The introduction of a village of Dutch settlers in Sleep Hollow, which was said to be bewitched by many ghosts and witch power. The dominated spirit was a headless horseman, who would come out at night in quest of his head.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
About the author
英美文学之华盛顿欧文
英美文学之华盛顿欧文华盛顿·欧文(Washington Irving, 1783 年4 月3 日– 1859年11月28日)美国作家。
出生于纽约。
他的父亲是纽约富有的五金商人，长老会执事，政治上反对英国殖民统治；他敬重华盛顿，因而给儿子取名为华盛顿。
欧文幼年体弱多病，16岁辍学，先后在几个律师事务所学法律，但对法律并没有兴趣，喜爱文学，从小喜欢看《鲁滨逊漂流记》、《格列佛游记》这种历险故事，还常常钻到剧院里去看戏。
欧文后来最知名的作品是《见闻札记》，写的就是在外游历的故事，不能不说是幼时受到了读书的影响。
1802年，19岁的欧文在《早晨纪事报》上发表了几篇书信体散文，崭露头角。
1804年因病赴欧洲休养，到过法国、意大利和英国，作了大量旅途笔记，为以后的创作积累了丰富的素材，一度想成为画家。
1806年回国后在弗吉尼亚州任律师，后帮助他的两个哥哥经营进口生意。
他对法律和经商之道都不甚精通。
这时他与律师霍夫曼的女儿玛蒂尔达订婚，妻子早逝于1809年，后来他虽有过几次恋爱，却一直过着独身生活。
1807年，他和哥哥威廉等人共同创办一种不定期刊物《杂拌》，沿袭18世纪英国作家乔纳森·斯威夫特、亨利·菲尔丁以及约瑟夫·艾迪生和理查德·斯梯尔的《旁观者》的传统，开始了他的文学创作活动，显露出他的幽默、风趣和含蓄的讽刺才能。
欧文的第一部重要作品是化名狄德里希·尼克尔包克尔所写《纽约外史》(A History of New York，1809年)，作者自称它的主要目的在于“以逗趣的形式体现我们这个城市的传统；阐述本地人的脾性、风俗和特色；给本地的风光与场所以及熟悉的人物披上一层唤起想象力的怪念丛生的联想”。
书中讽刺了荷兰殖民者在纽约的统治，驳斥了殖民主义者为奴役和屠杀印第安人所制造的荒谬的论据。
这部作品受到欧美广大读者的欢迎，英国小说家沃尔特·司各特曾说,他从未读过这样酷似斯威夫特的风格的作品。
欧文生平 英文
1.Early years’ experience and accumulation1、儿时Washington Irving was born in Manhattan, New York City, in 1783. His family was part of the city's small, vibrant merchant class. At the same week, The United States defeated the British achieved the victory of the revolution of independence. So his family named him after the hero of revolution, George Washington.Ivring was invalid when he was young and finally leave school when he was 16. After that he worked as a student in several law firms, but he has no interest in law. On the contrary, he was fond of literature ever since he was a child. He like to read adventure stories, such as Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels. And he had often sneaking into theatres to watch dramas. His brothers often encourage him to pursued his literary aspirations with financially support.In 1798, Manhattan outbreaks of yellow fever. Considered for Ivring’s safty, his family send him to Tarrytown. “Sleepy Hollow” is located a short distance away from Tarrytown. In there, Ivring became familiar with its quaint Dutch customs and local ghost stories. Ivring also made several other trips along the Hudson river. During these trips, he passed through the Gatskill mountain region, it’s the setting for “Rip Van Winkle”. These experiences have a powerful witching effect on Ivring’s boyish imagination, as himself said.2、少年时期At the age of 19, Irving began writing letters to the New York Morning Chronicle. These letters were comments on the city's news or theater scene. These letters bring Ivring both fame and infamy.Concerned for his health, Irving's brothers financed him to travel around Europe from 1804 to 1806. Irving bypassed many sites and locations which is be nefit for a of a young man’s development, including France, Italy and England. He had took a large number of travel notes during this experience, which accumulated meaningful materials for his later creation. While visiting Rome in 1805, he once want be a painter.二、成就After returned from Europe, he had been worked as a layer in Virginia, after that he helped his two brothers with their import business. But he’s not good at law, nor good at business. At the same time, Irving began actively socializing with a group of literate young men. And in 1807, Collaborating with his brother William and those young men, Irving created the literary magazine Salmagundi . In Salmagundi, Ivring comment New York culture and politics in a manner of lampoon. Ivring r evealed his talent of humor, witty and satire. It spreading Ivring’s fame beyond New York City.The first important work of Ivirng is A History of New-York under the pseudonymof Diedrich Knickerbocker. This work was making a great hit with the reading public.Before this, although America has been independence more than thirty years, but in literature, it has failed to get rid of the shackles of Britain all the time. Ivring use American’s local subject matters to write A History of New-York have important significance to promote American’s National literature.美国作为一个新生的独立国家，各方面百业待兴。
WASHINGTON IRVING 华盛顿·欧文
IRVING
Biography
CONTENTS
Writing style
Evaluation
Major works
Biography
CONTENTS
Writing style
Evaluation
Major works
Biography
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Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.
He settled down in a small village and began the
writing of The Sketch Book
Youth 2
By the time when he was 23 years old (1809),he had roamed England, Holland, France Italy and Hudson Valley. After collecting sufficient original materials for writing and a good practice of editing a journal ,he formed his particular political Idea and writing style .
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EARLY YEARS
The Irving family settled in Manhattan, New York
City, and was part of the city's small, vibrant merchant class when Washington Irving was born on April 3, 1783, the same week city residents learned of the British ceasefire that ended the American Revolution; Irving’s mother named him after the hero of the revolution, George Washington. At age six, with the help of a nanny, Irving met his namesake, who was then living in New York after his inauguration as president in 1789. The president blessed young Irving, an encounter Irving later commemorated in a small watercolor painting, which still hangs in his home today. The Irving's lived at 131 William Street at the time of Washington Irving's birth. The family later moved across the street to 128 William St. Several of Washington Irving's older brothers became active New York merchants, and they encouraged their younger brother's literary aspirations, often supporting him financially as he pursued his writing career.
华盛顿·欧文
Plot Summary
• Set in the years before and after the Revolution war, the story “Rip Van Wrinkle” relates the titular protagonist’s supernatural sleep of 20 years and his puzzlement over the changes effected by the establishment of US as a new nation. Rip Van Wrinkle, a hen-packed, goodnatured, good-for-nothing man, lives a peaceful life in the Pre-independent America. In an escape from his shrew wife, he meets some ghosts in the mountains, drinks their alcohol, and falls into a sleep that lasts 20 years.
名人传记英文短篇故事
名人传记英文短篇故事在历史上有很对伟大的人物，那么这些伟大的人物有哪些呢?下面是小编精心整理的英语名人传记，看看有没有你认识的吧。
名人传记：华盛顿Washington was the first president of the U.S. He was very clever even when he was still a 12-year-old-boy.Once a thief stole some money from Uncle Post, Washington's neighbor. The door of the house was not broken, and things in the room were in good order. Washington concluded that the thief must have been committed by one of the villagers.That evening at the villagers' meeting the said, "We don't know who stole the money but God does. God sends his wasp1 to tell good from evil. Every night the wasp flies among us but few people notice it…" Then, all of a sudden Washington waved his hand and cried out, "Look! The wasp has landed on the thief's hat. It is going to sting2!"The crowd burst into an uproar3. Everybody turned to look for the thief. But soon the noise died down. All eyes were fixed4 on a man who was trying hard to drive the "Wasp" off his hat."Now we know who stole the money," Washington said with a smile.华盛顿是美国的第一任总统，他在12岁时就十分聪明。
华盛顿欧文
The 1798 outbreak of yellow fever in Manhattan prompted his family to send him to healthier climes upriver, and Irving was dispatched to stay with his friend James Kirke Paulding in Tarrytown, New York. It was in Tarrytown that Irving became familiar with the nearby town of Sleepy Hollow, with its quaint Dutch customs and local ghost stories.
引用了英国诗人詹姆斯.汤姆逊( James Thomson, ) 的著名寓言体长诗《逍遥官》 ( Castle of Indoence) 中的两句。
In the third paragraph: The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitious, stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country ...,seems to make it the favourite scene of her gambols, and the nightmare, with her whole nine fold, 引用了莎士比亚《李尔王》中的一句 and the nightmare, with her whole nine fold ( 梦魇和她的九个小鬼).
名人励志故事坚持梦想的勇气与决心
名人励志故事坚持梦想的勇气与决心名人励志故事——坚持梦想的勇气与决心在人们的心目中，名人往往被赋予了无与伦比的光环，他们的成功被视为一种奇迹，似乎与常人的生活毫不相干。
然而，如果我们仔细研究名人们的经历，就会发现，无论是身处逆境还是面临困难，他们都展现了坚持梦想所需的勇气与决心。
本文将通过一些名人励志故事，探讨他们是如何在逆境中坚持梦想，并最终取得成功的。
【段落1】华盛顿·欧文是一位拥有强烈梦想的黑人运动员。
在20世纪30年代的美国，对于黑人而言，面临的种族隔离与歧视无所不在。
然而，欧文并没有被这些逆境和困难击垮。
他在1936年的柏林奥运会上，破天荒地获得了4枚金牌，成为了当时全世界瞩目的焦点。
【段落2】华盛顿·欧文的成功离不开他的勇气与决心。
虽然面对着美国社会的种族隔离，他始终坚持自己对运动的热爱与激情。
他勇敢地挑战了当时的局限，通过自己的努力与勇气，向世人证明了黑人也可以在运动领域取得辉煌的成就。
【段落3】另一个例子是史蒂夫·乔布斯，他是苹果公司的创始人之一。
乔布斯年轻时创办了苹果公司，然而由于多种原因，他被公司逐出，陷入了事业的低谷。
尽管面临巨大的压力和困境，乔布斯并没有放弃。
他坚持自己对科技创新的梦想，并最终重新回到苹果公司，将其带向了巅峰。
【段落4】乔布斯的故事告诉我们，坚持梦想需要有无尽的勇气与决心。
他曾说过：“记住你即将死亡，从而活出每一天。
”这句话凸显了他对于持续追求梦想的执着和决心。
正是这种勇气和决心，让乔布斯能够在逆境中找到机会，最终实现了他的梦想。
【段落5】除了华盛顿·欧文和史蒂夫·乔布斯，还有许多其他名人也展现了坚持梦想所需的勇气与决心。
比如，贝多芬在失去听力的情况下仍然坚持创作音乐，马克·扎克伯格在大学时期创立了Facebook，克里斯托弗·诺兰在拍摄电影《盗梦空间》时面临财政困境等等。
【段落6】这些名人励志故事告诉我们，坚持梦想的道路并不平坦，面对挑战和困难时需要有勇气和决心。
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Further reading and thinking, though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable bounds, only served to make it more decided. I visited various parts of my own country; and had I been merely a lover of fine scenery, I should have felt little desire to seek elsewhere for its gratification; for on no country have the charms of nature been more prodigally lavished. Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains, with their bright aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes ; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her broad deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling with the magic of summer clouds and glorious sunshine: －no , never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.
深思熟虑之余，纵使他们将此番模糊的向往更趋合理，却只愈加弥坚。
余已领略国之风骚，若只为那秀丽的风景驻足，则余本不应奢求远方之喜悦。
只因国之壮丽已无它可与之媲美。
其大湖，如粼光之海面；其山峰，如泛一缕青烟；其谷地，孕良田美池桑竹之属；其瀑布，于孤寂处飞流直下；其平原，风吹草低见牛羊；其河流，如滚滚长江东逝水；其森林，晓天江树绿迢迢；其碧空，映日祥云添荣光。
望苍茫天地，唯吾国山河之壮丽无与伦比也。