英美文学翻译练习

1.Renaissance humanists found in then classics a justification to exalt human natureand came to see that human beings were glorious creatures capable of individual development in the direction of perfection, and that the world they inhabited was theirs not to despise but to question, explore, and enjoy.2.Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance3.The goals of humanistic poetry are: skillful handling of conventions, force ofking1970uage, and, above all, the development of a rhetorical plan in which meter, rhyme, scheme, imagery and argument should all be combined to frame the emotional theme and throw it into high relief.4.Shakespeare’s sonnets are the only direct expression of the poet’s own feelings.5.Shakespeare’s history plays are mainly written under the principle that nationalunity under a mighty and just sovereign is a necessity.6.In his romantic comedies, Shakespeare takes an optimistic attitude toward loveand youth, and the romantic elements are brought into full play.7.The successful romantic tragedy is Romeo and Juliet, which eulogizes thefaithfulness of love and the spirit of pursuing happiness.8.Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth.They have some characteristics in common. Each portrays some noble hero.9.The most import works of his first group include The Advancement of Learning,Written in English; Novum Organum, an enlarged Latin version of The Advancement of Learning.10.One is the knowledge obtained from the Divine Revelation, the other is theknowledge from the workings of human mind.11.According to Bacon, man’s understanding consists of three parts: history to man’smemory, poetry to man’s imagination and creation, and philosophy to man’s reason.12.Bacon, as a humanist intellect, shows the new empirical attitudes toward truthabout nature and bravely challenges the medieval scholasticists.13.Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and powerfulness.14.The mid-century was, however, predominated by a newly rising literaryform---the modern English novel, which, contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people. 15.This urgency was provoked by two important revolutions: the French Revolutionof 1789-1794 and the English Industrial Revolution which happened more slowly, but with Astonishing consequences.16.The Romantic Movement, whether in England, Germany or France, expressed amore or less negative forward the existing social.17.The Romantics demonstrated a strong reaction against the dominant modes ofthinking of the 18th-century writers and philosophers. Where their predecessors saw man as a social animal, the Romantics saw him essentially as an individual in the solitary state.18.Thus, we can say that Romanticism actually constitutes a change of direction fromattention to the outer world of social civilization to the inner world of the human spirit.19.Wordsworth defines the poet as a “man speaking to men,”and poetry as “thespontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility.”20.The major theme of Jane’s novels is love and marriage toward which she holds ona practical idealism---love should be justified by reason and disciplined byself-control. She chooses to stay within the tiny field that she knows best. she has become a popular classic and has been admired for her wit, her common-sense, her insight into characters and social relationships.21.Gothic novel, a type of romantic fiction that predominated in the late eighteenthcentury, its principal elements were violence, horror, and the supernatural.22.Shelley held a lifelong aversion to cruelty, injustice, authority, institutionalreligion and the formal shams of respectable society, condemning war, tyranny and exploitation.23.Her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, tells a story about two sisters and their loveaffairs: Pride and Prejudice, the most popular of her novels, deals with five Bennet sisters and search for suitable husbands; and Northanger Abbey.24.The works of Jane Austen, at once delightful and profound, are among thesupreme achievements of English literature. With trenchant observation and in meticulous detail, she presents the quiet, day-to-day country life of the upper-middle-class English.25.Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, Jane Austenhas brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity, and she has been regarded by many critics as one of the greatest of all novelists.。