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十: Dialogues /monologues:
1,The remarkable Chicago bull presented a striking contrast to its
opponent, and the crowd just went wild!
注意的词语: presented a striking contrast to: 和……成显著的对比.
翻译为: 那只非凡的西班牙公牛与它的对手形成鲜明的对比, 人群已开始疯狂起来.
2,I can book a court for this Tuesday.
注意的词语: Book: 预订
翻译为: 我能在这个星期二安排好一个场子.
3, Sports can really get me away from a stressful day and exercise my
brain.
注意的词语: get away from: 从……中逃离, 把……送走.
练习:
I love reading novels, especially those classics. My favorite writer is
Jane Austen, the one who wrote pride and prejudice. When BBC screened its latest
adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel pride and prejudice, it was watched by a
record 18 million British viewers. The series was then sold to 18 countries
round the world, from America to Australia, from Iceland to Israel, there are
Jane Austen fans in all corners of the globe, and even special Jane Austen
discussion groups on the internet.
Jane Austen never once traveled aboard in her life time and she hardly ever
left the south of England. When she died a spinster in 1817, only four of her
six novels had been published, all anonymous and she eared a grand total of
648.65 pounds from her books. Now, nearly 200 years later, sales of her novels
rival modern bestsellers, reaching 35,000 a week. There have been film and
television productions of not only pride and prejudice, but also Emma,
Persuasion, and the Oscar-winning Sense and Sensibility. Her house in Chawton in
Hampshire is visited by 200 people a day.
She wad born in 1775, the seventh of eight children. Her father was the
reverend George Austen. They were not well off, and lived in a village. By the
time when she was 12, Jane was writing stories about heroines imprisoned in
haunted castles, being rescued by glamorous heroes. In Jane’s own life there
were three romantic attachments. The first was a handsome Irish law student
called Tom Lefroy, who she met in 1795, but who had to return to Ireland a year
later. The second, in 1801, was a young man called Samuel Blackall who she fell
in love with when on holiday in Devon, but who tragically died suddenly soon
after. The third was a large young man called Harries whose proposal she briefly
accepted in 1802, “but he had nothing to recommend him but his size,” so she
changed her mind.
In 1801 the family moved to Bath, where she was very unhappy. To make
matters worse, in 1805 her father died, leaving his widow, Jane and her only
sister Cassandra, also unmarried, even poorer than before. For four years they
had to move from house to house, often staying with relatives. Finally in 1809
her brother Edward allowed them to live in a house on his estate in Chawton,
only a few miles from Steventon where she had grown up. Here she was much
happier, despite being the poor relation, dependent on charity. She not only
revised her earlier novel but was able to write new ones, using her experiences
to satirize and make fun of the social inequalities she saw around her. At last
in 1811, Sense and Sensibility was the first of her novels to be published. |
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