陈大宝老师的高级英语阅读课件四

7. sour: v. go sour or spoil adj. having a sharp biting taste
e.g. The milk has turned sour. 这牛奶发酸了。 She gave me a sour look. 她狠狠地瞪了我一眼。 What a sour face she has! 她的脸色多难看！ Every white hath its black, and every sweet its sour. [谚]有白必有黑，有甜必有苦；事物各有缺 陷。
4. ketchup - thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes e.g. I enjoy the taste of the fresh ketchup.
Part 2: (para.3-15)
• 1. pen n. :a fenced enclosure for animals; any of various enclosures, such as a bullpen or playpen, used for a variety of purposes • v. :to confine in ore.g. • He was kept chained in a pen at the rear of the fort, and here Beauty Smith teased and irritated and drove him wild with petty torments.
• The “I” in the story should not be taken as the author herself although the subject matter of Munro‟s stories has often developed from her own experience. Munro has explained in various interviews that her stories are not autobiographical, but she does claim an “emotional reality” for her relatively poor provincial southwestern Ontario town during the depression, going through the rebelliousness
II. Outline
• Part 1(para. 1-2): Meeting again by chance in 1979 • Part 2 (para. 3-15): Childhood memory, her friend, Mike. • Part 3 (para. 16-93): The detailed story that happened in 1979
Lesson 4 Nettles I. Preparation:
1. • Author: Alice Munro She was born in Wingham, Ontario, Canada on 10 July 1931. Nearly all of Alice She began writing in her teens. She published her first story in 1950 while a student at Western Ontario University. While at school, she also worked as waitress, tobacco picker and a library clerk.
4. About the story “ Nettles”
• The short story “ Nettles”, which first appeared in New Yorker in 2000, is included in this book. In this story, the author uses first person narration. The plot of story evolves around a middle-aged woman‟s reunion with a childhood boy friend in 1979, but it moves back and forth between past and present. Like most other stories by Munro, the leading actor is a woman.
2. Why does the author choose “Nettle” as the story‟s title?
• 3. counter - a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers • e.g. • The counter is covered with • a plastic cloth.
• Part 4 (para 94-95): conclusion--- a new
perception of love
III. Theme • Life is not always smooth; love is not always sweet. Nettles are here and there in the journey of people‟s life .
Alice Munro at Giller Prize ceremony of 2004. (CP file photo)
2. Cultural notes:
• 1. Uxbridge, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is Canada's second largest province, covering more than one million square kilometers, an area larger than France and Spain combined. More than 12 million people live in Ontario. The province is bounded by Quebec on the east, Manitoba on the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay on the north, and the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes on the south.
• and idealism of adolescence, discovering sex, leaving home, falling in love, getting married, having children, getting divorced, and getting along in a variety of complicated relationships, all inform the fiction she creates. “Nettles” is no exception. Her fictional world ranges across the whole breadth of Canada, but her stories that take place in Ontario are rooted in recollected by a perceptive adult memory.
6. racket: n. a loud and disturbing noise
(≈ noise)
• A racket is a wooden paddle, as one used in table tennis. Here it refers to “loud noise” • e.g. • My neighbors are making an unholy racket. 我的邻居们吵闹得厉害。 • The students kicked up no end of a racket in the street. 这些学生在街上大吵大闹. • What's your racket? 你是干哪一行的?
• 4. at hand: A) close by; near. • B) soon in time; imminent • e.g. • I haven„t my photograph album at hand, but I‟ll show it to you later. 我的照像簿不在手边，以后我再拿给你看。 • As the selling season is at hand, lots of fresh orders will pour in. 由于销售旺季即将来临， 大量新订单会源源不断地涌来。
playpen: 婴儿用围栏
2. mug: n. with handle and usually cylindrical
• • • • e.g. Bear mug Coffee mug He asked me to make him a mug of coffee. 他要我给他弄杯咖啡。 • I've Latin to take for the examination, I suppose I must mug it up somehow 我要考拉丁文了，我想我得临时抱一下佛 脚了。
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• Munro‟s fiction is set in southwestern Ontario, but her reputation as a brilliant short-story writer goes far beyond the borders of her native Canada.
• Her accessible, moving stories offer immediate pleasures while simultaneously exploring human complexities in what appear to be effortless anecdotal re-creations of everyday life. In one novel and eight collections of stories she has established herself as a major voice among fiction writers.
• 5. cab: a taxi can be called a cab, but here is a compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits. • e.g. • Shall we walk or take • a cab? 我们走路还是坐出租车？
• 3. boarding house: a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests (公寓） • e.g. • He had no wife and no • home save his two-room • office in a boarding house.
IV. Detailed Study of the Text
• • • • • • • • Part 1 (para.1-2) 1. Nettle: any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact