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重游缅湖 Once More to the Lake (Excerpt)

重游缅湖(节选) Once More to the Lake (Excerpt) Elwyn Brooks White（埃尔文·布鲁克斯·怀特，1899—1985）We went fishing the first morning. I felt the same damp moss covering the worms in the bait can, and saw the dragonfly alight on the tip of my rod as it hovered a few inches from the surface of the water. It was the arrival of this fly that convinced me beyond any doubt that everything was as it always had been, that the years were a mirage and there had been no years. The small waves were the same, chucking the rowboat under the chin as we fished at anchor, and the boat was the same boat, the same color green and under the floor-boards the same freshwater leavings and debris—the wisps of moss, the rusty discarded fishhook. We stared silently at the tips of our rods, at the dragonflies that came and went. I lowered the tip of mine into the water, tentatively, pensively dislodging the fly, which darted two feet away,poised, darted two feet back, and came to rest again a little farther up the rod. There had been no years between the ducking of this dragonfly and the other one—the one that was part of memory. I looked at the boy, who was silently watching his fly, and it was my hands that held his rod, my eyes watching. I felt dizzy and didn't know which rod I was at the end of.When we got back for a swim before lunch, the lake was exactly where we had left it, the same number of inches from the dock, and there was only the merest suggestion of a breeze. This seemed an utterlyenchanted sea, this lake you could leave to its own devices for a few hours and come back to, and find that it had not stirred, this constant and trustworthy body of water. In the shallows, the dark, water-soaked sticks and twigs, smooth and old, were undulating in clusters on the bottom against the clean ribbed sand, and the track of the mussel was plain. A school of minnows swam by, each minnow with its small, individual shadow, doubling the attendance, so clear and sharp in the sunlight。

once more to the lake译文

那年夏天，大约是1904年吧，父亲在缅因州的一个湖边租了一间木屋。

他带着我们到那儿去过八月。

我们个个都患了小猫传染的金钱癣，【不得不在臂腿间日日夜夜涂上庞氏①浸膏；父亲则和衣睡在小划子里；但是除了这一些，假期过得很愉快。

自此之后，我们中无人不认为世上再没有比缅因州这个湖更好的去处了。

】我们在那儿度过了一个又一个夏天——总是八月一日去，接着待上一整月。

【我这样一来，竟成了个水手了。

夏季里有时候湖里也会兴风作浪，湖水冰凉，阵阵寒风从下午刮到黄昏，使我宁愿在林间能另有一处宁静的小湖。

】几周前，这渴望搅得我不能自已。

我于是买了两根锻木钓竿，一个旋转诱鱼器，打算故地重游，再访往日梦牵魂系的湖。

去时，我带着儿子。

他不曾见过齐颌深的淡水；睡莲的大叶盖儿，他也只是隔着火车窗子望过。

在去林湖的途中，我开始估摸着那湖如今的样儿，估摸着时间把这块无与伦比的地方糟蹋成了什么情形——那一个个小海湾，那一条条溪河，还有那一座座落日依偎的山峰，林中那一间间木屋以及屋后的一条条小道。

【我缅想那条容易辨认的柏油路，我又缅想那些已显荒凉的其他景色。

】也真怪，当你任思绪顺着一条条车迹回到往昔的那些地方，你对它们的记忆竟是如此真切。

你想起了一桩事，那事儿马上又让你想起另一桩事。

我想，最清晰地刻在我的记忆里的，是那一个个清晨；彼时，湖水清凉，凝滞不动。

我记得【木屋的卧室可以嗅到圆木的香味，这味道和从纱门透进来的树木的潮味混为一气。

】隔板很薄，没有伸到屋顶。

我总是最早起床，悄悄穿好衣服，蹑手蹑脚地溜到芬芳馥郁的野外。

我登上小木船，挨着岸边，轻轻地向前划着。

松树长长的影子挤在湖岸上。

我不曾让桨擦着船沿，【唯恐打搅了湖上大教堂似的宁静】——那小心翼翼的情状，至今历历在目。

那湖绝不是你想象的那种旷芜的湖。

它坐落在一个耕种了的乡野上，虽然周围有蓊蓊郁郁的树林环抱着。

一间间木屋点缀在它的四周。

有的屋子是邻近庄户人家的。

人们住在湖边，到上边的农庄就餐。

高级英语答案（全）

⾼级英语答案（全）⾼级英语答案UNIT 1Part 1 Text-processingTeacher-aided WorkLead-inListen to the recorder and take notes. Then fill in each gap in the following passage with ONE word according to what you have heard. Finish your work within 10 minutes.Tape script:E. B. White was born in 1899 in Mount Vernon, New York. He served in the army before going to Cornell University. There he wrote for the college newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. After he graduated, he worked as a reporter for the Seattle Times in 1922 and 1923. As he put it, he found that he was ill-suited for daily journalism, and his city editor had already reached the same conclusion, so they came to an amicable parting of the ways.In 1927 he became a writer for The New Yorker magazine, where he became well k nown. He wrote columns for Harper’s magazine from 1938 to 1943, which resulted in an anthology entitled One Man’s Meat and published in 1942.White’s career had already brought him much fame, but he was about totry something new. His nieces and nephews always asked him to tell them stories, so he began writing his own tales to read to them. In 1945 he started publishing these stories as books. All three, Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte’s Web (1952) and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970), are now considered cla ssics of children’s literature.His best essays appear in three collections: One Man’s Meat (1944), The Second Tree from the Corner (1954) and The Points of My Compass (1962).In 1959, White edited and updated The Elements of Style. This handbook of gramm atical and stylistic dos and don’ts for writers of American English had been written and published in 1918 by William Strunk Jr., one of White’s professors at Cornell. White’s rework of the book was extremely well received. The volume is a standard tool for students and writers, and remains required reading in many composition classes.In 1977 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his lifetime’s work.White died on October 1, 1985 at his farm home in North Brooklin, Maine, after a long fight with Alzheimer's Disease. He was cremated, and his ashes were buried beside his wife at the Brooklin Cemetery.A leading essayist and literary stylist of his time, White is known for his crisp, graceful, relaxed style. To him, “style not only reveals the man, it reveals hi s identity, as surely as would his fingerprints.” (The Elements of Style) The subtlety, the sentiment, the facility and sensitivity withwords—all mark him out from his fellow essayists.“Once More to the Lake”, selected from E. B. White’s One Man’s Meat, is the story of a man returning to his younger days by revisiting a lake from his childhood. Throughout the trip he hovered between being an older man and a younger boy and felt that “the years were a mirage and there had been no years.” But throughout the story, there are small hints that are just enough not to let him fall completely into his dream and to remind him that man is mortal after all.Passage for gap-filling:E. B. White, an American writer, was born in 1899. After his graduation from Cornell University in 1822, he reported for a newspaper. In 1927 he became a writer for The New Yorker magazine. He wrote 1) columns for Harper’s magazine from 1938 to 1943. In 1945 he started publishing 2) tales he had written for his nieces and nephews in book form. White wrote a large number of 3) essays, and the best of them were published in three collections. In 1959, he edited and updated The Elements of Style, a handbook by one of his professors at Cornell. In 1977 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his lif etime’s work, and he died in 1985.“Once More to the Lake”, selected from his One Man’s Meat, is the story of a man returning to his younger days by coming back to a lake he had visited when a boy. Throughout the trip he felt that he had a 4) double identi ty and that “there had beenno years.” But throughout the story,there are just enough hints to remind him that time passes and man must 5) die after all.In-depth Comprehension1. Questions1) Para 1: What happened to the author’s father when he was in a canoe? Was it good or bad? How do you know?His father’s canoe overturned and he fell into the lake with all his clothes on. That was something bad, for it is mentioned together with another bad thing—getting ringworm, and is excluded from what made the visit a success.2) Para 1: What does “a saltwater man” mean? Since when has the author become a saltwater man? Give your reasons.“Saltwater” here refers to seawater, which is salty. “A saltwater man” doesn’t mean a man who drinks saltwater, but one who bathes in the sea, because the intention in going to the seaside was to vacation there. (Attention: One should be careful about the actual relation between a noun as modifier and the noun modified) Most probably, the author has gone to the seaside for vacation instead of the lake in Maine since he got married and had a family of his own.3) Para 2: What does the author mean by saying his son “had never had any freshwater up his nose” and “had seen lily pads only from trainwindows?”He means that the boy had always gone with him to the seaside for his holidays and never bathed in a freshwater lake where you often find lily pads, that is, water lily with its large, floating leaves. He had only seen them from train windows. The author here states the result (freshwater up his nose) rather than the cause (swimming in freshwater), which is a case of metonymy.4) Para 2: How could the tarred road, which had no life, have “found out” the lake? What is the author’s real meaning? Was it good or bad in the author’s o pinion? What is your reason for this conclusion?The lifeless tarred road is here personified (compared to a human being) by the use of the verb “found out”. The author’s real meaning is that the tarred road must have extended to the lake. He views it as a bad thing, because he mentions it together with “other ways it (the lake) would be desolated.”5) Para 2: How can a person’s mind move in grooves, which are physical? How would the author have said it in plain words?A groove is a long narrow hollow path or track in a surface, esp. to guide the movement of something. Here a person’s mind is compared to something that moves in grooves. In plain words, the author would have said “Once you recall the past.”6) Para 2: What does “clear” in “extend clear to” me an? How would theauthor have probably described the partitions if he had used an affirmative sentence? What is the author’s intention in describing the partitions?Here “clear” means “all the way”. Using an affirmative sentence, the author would probably have said “The partitions in the camp were thin and there were blanks between their tops and the top of the rooms.” He describes the partitions to imply that they were not soundproof and that that was the reason for his soft actions.7) Para 2: Is it possible that there is a cathedral on the shores of the lake? If not, what does “cathedral” really refer to? And why does the author call it a cathedral?A cathedral is a big church that serves as the official seat of a bishop, which is usually located in a fairly large town or city. So it is impossible that there is a real cathedral by the lake. The author here is comparing the lake, which is holy to him, to a cathedral.8) Para 3: What is the author’s intention in saying “you would live at the shore and eat yo ur meals at the farmhouse?”He says this to imply that the farmhouses were very near to the shore of the lake, which in turn supports the idea that the lake had never been what you would call a wild lake.9) Para 5: What is a mirage? What does the author m ean by “the years were a mirage and there had been no years?”A mirage is an optical effect sometimes seen at sea or in a desert caused by bending or reflection of light by a layer of heated air (海市蜃楼). Here it refers to something unreal, illusory. The author means that the years that had passed appeared to be unreal because nothing of consequence had really changed.10) Para 5: Does a rowboat really have a chin? What does “chucking the rowboat under the chin” mean?Both the rowboat and the lake are personified by the use of the words “chuck” and “chin”. “Chuck”, here meaning “stroke gently with the hand”, refers actually to “beat very lightly”, and “chin” here refers to that part of the bow (the front part) which protrudes over the water.11) Para 5: Which does “catch” in “the dried blood from yesterday’s catch” refer to, an action or things? What is your reason?“Catch” here does not mean the action of catching, but what is caught, referring specifically to fish that had been caught, because “yesterday’s catch” could shed blood.12) Para 5: Was it really the author’s hands that held his son’s rod, his eyes that were watching? If not, what does he mean?“It was my hands that held his rod, my eyes watching” simply repeats what is meant by “I began to sustain the illusion that he was I” in Paragraph 4.13) Para 6: Which is usually bigger and stronger, a bass or a mackerel?Give your reasons.A bass is usually bigger and stronger than a mackerel, because the angler usually has to use a landing net when pulling in a bass, while he does not have to do so when landing a mackerel.14) Para 6: Can a lake move to another place? If not, why does the author say “the lake was exactly where we had left it?”Here “the lake” refers to the level of the body of water. If the level rises, it will cover a wider area, and will seem to have moved.15) Para 6: What does “attendance” mean? How is the attendance doubled?“Attendance” usually means the number of people present on a particular occasion, but here refers to the number of minnows swimming in the water. The attendance was doubled by their shadows.16) Para 6: What does “cultist” mean? Whom does “this cultist” refer to in this context?“Cultist” means “a follower of a particular custom”, here referring to the person always washing himself with a cake of soap.2. Multiple-choice Questions1) The author would like it better _______A________.A. if the lake were completely wildB. if there were more farmhouses near the lakeC. if the lake were more easily accessible by carD. if they could eat right in their campExplanation:The phrase “wish for the placidity of a lake in the woods” and the sentence “I was sure the tarred road would have found it out and I wondered in what other ways it would be desolated” show that the author likes a wild lake which is not spoilt by human activity.2) The arrival of the author and his family at the lake is described in Paragraph _______C_______.A. 2B. 3C. 4D. 5Explanation:Paragraph 4 begins with “I was right about the tar: it led to within half a mile of the shore” and that indicates that the a uthor is beginning to describe what he actually saw of the lake area on this trip, while the previous paragraphs only tell about hisrecollections and guesses.3) What is common to Paragraphs 4, 5, and 6 is _______D_______.A. that they are about the same lengthB. that they are of the same degree of difficultyC. that they tell about the experiences of the same peopleD. that they describe the illusion of the exact repetition of the same scenesExplanation:“It was going to be pretty much the same as it had been before” in Para4, “everything was as it always had been” in Para 5, “there had been no years” in Para 6 and the frequent repetitions of the word “same” in these paragraphs show that the answer is D.4) Which of the following is false? _______A_______A. Paragraph 3 describes the lake as the author sees it when he visits it this time.B. Paragraph 4 tells about the resemblance of the father and son of the present to those of the past.C. Paragraph 5 focuses on the sameness of the scenes of fishing at different times.D. Paragraph 6 emphasizes the unchangeableness of the lake.Explanation:“That’s what our family did” and “there were places in it which, to a child at least, seemed infinitely remote and primeval” hint that the author is describing his impressions of the lake when he came as a child with his father, not as a father on this trip.5) From this excerpt we can see that the author ________B________.A. is a conservativeB. is a nostalgic nature-loverC. is a muddle-headed person who cannot tell the present from the past.D. lives a double life.Explanation:The author loves the wild lake, and hates it’s being spoilt by human activity. He indulges in recollections of the past and often feels as if there had been no years. So we say that he is a nostalgic nature-lover.Extension from the Text1. SpeakingBased on clues in the text alone, say something about the author (his nationality, the approximate date of his birth, his age when he wrote this essay, his family, etc.) and give reasons for what you say.The author was American because when he was still a boy his family often visited a lake in Maine, which is a state of the US. In the year 1904, he was still a teenager, so he was probably born around 1890. When he wrote this essay he had a son about the same age as he had been when he went with his father to the lake, so he was now about forty. Most probably, he had a family of three, because he had only one son and must have hada wife though he never mentions her.2. ClozeUp to the farmhouse to dinner through the teeming, dusty field, the road under our sneakers was only a two-track road. The middle track was missing, the 1) one with the marks of the hooves and the splotches of dried, flaky manure. There had always been 2) three tracks to choose from in choosing which track to walk in; now the 3) choice was narroweddown to two. For a moment I 4) missed terribly the middle alternative. But the way led past the tennis 5) court, and something about the way it lay there in the sun reassured me; the tape had loosened along the backline, the alleys were green with plantains and other 6) weeds, and the net (installed in June and removed in September) sagged in the dry noon, and the whole place steamed with midday 7) heat and hunger and emptiness. There was a choice of pie for dessert, and one was blueberry and one was apple, and the 8) waitresses were the same country girls, there having been no 9) passage of time, only the illusion of it as in a dropped curtain—the waitresses were still fifteen; their hair had been washed, that was the only 10) difference—they had been to the movies and seen the pretty girls with the clean hair.Explanations:1) “The . . .” is in apposition to “the middle track” and refers to it. “One” is used to avoid the repetition of “track”.2) “A two-track road” and “the middle track was missing” tell us that there had been three tracks before.3) “Three tracks to choose from” and “. . . was narrowed down to two” show that the blank must refer to “the number of things to choose from”, which is the meaning of “choice”.4) As the middle track was missing, the relation between the author and the track can only be mental, and the word “terribly”shows that it isemotional—regretting the absence of something one loved. So “missed” is the right word.5) “The way led past . . .” and “it lay there” indicate that “the tennis . . .” refers to a location related to the game of tennis, so it must be the tennis “court”. This is further proved by the description of the “tape”, “alleys” and “net”.6) “Plantain” is a weed, “other . . .” must be “other weeds”.7) “June”, “September”, “noon”, “steamed” and “midday” all connote high temperature. In “steamed with . . . “, the blank states the reason for “steaming”, which can only be “heat”.8) The subject of “. . . were the same country girls” must refer to females. These females must be related to the supply of such foods as blueberry pie and apple pie. So they were either cooks or waitresses. But “the whole place” was not the author’s home,so the females were not cooks, but waitresses, who are further described later in the passage.9) In “no . . . of time”, the blank must refer to a phenomenon with “time”, which is either “passage” (a noun derived from the verb “pass”) or “stopping”, or “waste” or “saving”. “No passage of time” is reasonable because “the waitresses were the same country girls.”10) The waitresses were the same as those of the past in age—still fifteen. But they had washed their hair because they had been to the movies and seen the pretty girls with the clean hair, whereas the waitresses of the pasthad had no chance of seeing movies, which did not appear until 1911. So the clean hair was a “difference.”3. TranslatingTranslate the underlined part of the following passage into Chinese. Summertime, oh summertime, pattern of life indelible, the fade-proof lake, the woods unshatterable, the pasture with the sweet fern and the juniper forever and ever, summer without end; this was the background, and the life along the shore was the design, the cottagers with their innocent and tranquil design, their tiny docks with the flagpole and the American flag floating against the white clouds in the blue sky, the little paths over the roots of the trees leading from camp to camp and the paths leading back to the outhouses and the can of lime for sprinkling, and at the souvenir counters at the store the miniature birch-bark canoes and the post cards that showed things looking a little better than they looked. This was the American family at play, escaping the city heat, wondering whether the newcomers in the camp at the head of the cove were “common” or “nice,” wondering whether it was true that the people who drove up for Sunday dinner at the farmhouse were turned away because there wasn’t enough chicken.……这⼀切是底⾊，湖四周的⽣活是这底⾊上的图案。

考研英语美文诵读宝典60+30（晨读）

考研英语美文诵读宝典60+30（晨读）Section One 诵读经典60篇Part 1 智慧人生（38篇）成功悟语（9篇）Self-RelianceWhat I had lived forVirtue of AmbitionCompanionship of BooksHow should one read a bookWork and pleasureOn achieving successMan Is Here For The Sake of Other MenWhy to mark a book青春赞歌（8篇）Problem of YouthRushAdvice to a young manIf I were a boy againYouthOn the Feeling of Immortality in YouthIfAn illusion人生真谛（9篇）How to grow oldLooks Beyond TragedyThree days to seeI will live this day as if it is my lastLove your lifeIf you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive. Let it beApril Showers Bring May FlowersThe True Nobility自然之美（6篇）The most loved placeLate Summer Days in WarOnce more to the lakeAugustThe First SnowOut of Africa快乐箴言（6篇）Philosophy of ChineseThe Unhappy American WayTry to remember the good thingsDo this, and you’ll be welcome everywhereHave Faith, and Expect the BestHappiness is a journeyPart 2 名人之声（22篇）大学演讲（11篇）Don’t park 20 blocks from your destinationI Wish You Bad as Well as GoodThe Lost Children(1)The Lost Children(2)The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination(1)The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination(2)Advices to Avoid making the World Any Worse than It Already IsWe are What We ChooseAthenians and VisigothsNever sell your soulSee China in the Light of Her Development聚焦历史（11篇）The Generation that’s remaking ChinaThe Bishop of London's SermonThe Gettysburg AddressPeaceThe T orch has been passed to a New GenerationThe Strenuous LifeNobel Prize Acceptance SpeechThe Only Thing We Fear is Fear ItselfI Have a DreamBlood, toil, tears and sweatDuty, Honor, CountrySection Two 聚焦考研30篇真题精选（8篇）Herd MentalitySelling Classical MusicThe Amateur as CriticEducation Global workersWomen’s StressThe American Middle-Class on the PrecipiceCheap HappinessParalysis by Analysis同源时文（15篇）Electronic communications media tend to prevent communicationNothing to sell and nothing to buyOn not answering the phoneStresses of Being a CelebrityThe influence of knowledge on the way we perceive the worldWatching television and reading booksArab women’s rightsEaten awayE-publish or perishThe world’s lungsRomanies—A long roadToo narrow, too soon?Over to you, ChinaCritical thinkingThe skills from zapping ’em激情时刻（7篇）Change the inequality of the worldRemember you will be dead soonBarack Obama’s Inaugural Addr essAn Inconvenient truthTribute to Diana Three special choices Three Hamburgers。

林湖重游原文+译文

语篇作业2Once More to the LakeOne afternoon while we were there at that lake a thunderstorm came up. It was like the revival of an old melodrama that I had seen long ago with childish awe. The second-act climax of the drama of the electrical disturbance over a lake in America had not changed in any important respect. This was the big scene, still the big scene. The whole thing was so familiar, the first feeling of oppression and heat and a general air around camp of not wanting to go very far away. In mid-afternoon (it was all the same) a curious darkening of the sky, and a lull in everything that had made life tick; and then the way the boats suddenly swung the other way at their moorings with the coming of a breeze out of the new quarter, and the premonitory rumble. Then the kettle drum, then the snare, then the bass drum and cymbals, then crackling light against the dark, and the gods grinning and licking their chops in the hills.那天下午在湖畔，我们与一场暴风雨不期而遇。

once more to the lake 赏析

后来我来到上海市郊一所边远的农场中学教书,农场的环境与这篇文章描写的环境恰巧有某些相似之处,我曾和一些十几岁的孩子去海滩上捉螃蟹,在小河沟里钓鱼,或者划一只小船荡漾在夏日的池塘里。这一切促使我把这篇文章译成了中文,题为《再回湖上》,寄给了某个刊物，可是译文给退了回来。我知道我的文字功底有限,没有将原文的精髓完美地表达出来，我期待着有一天我会再译这篇美文。可是几年后,这篇文章由我所仰慕的前辈冯亦代先生翻译后发表在一九八六年第四期<世界文学>上。我拜读之后,发现许多我所未能传神地表达的东西得到了淋漓尽致的体现。
作者提到的鱼(bass)我想并非是鲈鱼,而是一种几寸长的淡水鱼---刺鳍鱼。学习这篇散文,还要学习它的叙述方法,看作者是怎样开头,怎样展开,怎样铺垫,怎样结尾。韩愈曾说过:“气盛而言之长短与声之高下皆宜。”这句话似乎点出了这篇散文的妙趣所在。此外,爸爸想让我通过阅读触摸大自然,我想他做到了。
对于英语原稿的翻译,我想提出一点与冯老先生对原文的不同理解:他在第一段中这样写道:“我这样一来,竟成了个水手了。夏季里有时候湖里也会兴风作浪,湖水冰凉,阵阵寒风从下午刮到黄昏,使我宁愿在林间能另有一处宁静的小湖。”而我是这样翻的：“我成了常去海边度假的人,可是夏天有时候好几天潮汐汹涌不息,海水冰凉刺骨,寒风不停地从下午一直刮到晚上,使我想往起那森林中湖alt-water”是海水,“sea water man”可以理解为“到海边度假的人”。“the restlessness of tides and the fearful cold of the sea water”:潮汐汹涌不息,海水冰凉刺骨。在文章后面,作者也提到过sea这个词,足见他们过去经常去海边度假。
故事发生在上世纪四十年代,作者带着儿子这个湖上度假时,发现一切都是当年(从1904年)他父亲带他到这儿时的重现。从前,他们每年八月都要到这儿来度假,钓一个星期的鱼,并再去看看那些梦魂萦绕的旧迹。他这样说道:

中考英语非谓语动词应用练习题30题

中考英语非谓语动词应用练习题30题1<背景文章>Tom is a diligent student. He wants to improve his English. So he decides to make a study plan. First, he plans to read English books for an hour every day. Reading books can help him expand his vocabulary and improve his reading comprehension. Second, he wants to listen to English podcasts for half an hour. Listening to podcasts is a good way to improve his listening skills. Third, he intends to write a short English essay once a week. Writing essays can help him practice using different grammar structures and expressions. Finally, he hopes to speak English with his friends for at least twenty minutes every day. Speaking English can improve his speaking fluency.1. Tom plans to read English books for an hour every day. Here “read” is used as a/an ___.A. gerundB. infinitiveC. participleD. verb答案：D。

2023-2024学年北京市通州区九年级上学期期中考试英语试题

2023-2024学年北京市通州区九年级上学期期中考试英语试题1. Mr. Black is a good teacher and we all like__________ classes very much.A．his B．her C．their D．its2. It is the best time to visit Beijing __________ autumn.A．at B．to C．in D．on3. Science is useful, __________ I will try my best to learn it well.A．but B．for C．so D．or4. —Excuse me, can I park my car here?—Sorry, you_________ .This is no parking area.A．can B．can’t C．must D．needn’t5. —__________students are there in your class?—There are thirty-six.A．How far B．How many C．How long D．How much 6. —Which subject is__________，English, science or geography?—science.A．interesting B．more interestingC．most interesting D．the most interesting7. —Mike, where is your sister?—She __________books in her home.A．read B．reads C．was reading D．is reading 8. The earthquake __________ on the night or September, 2023.A．happens B．happened C．will happen D．has happened 9. The famous singer __________ a song at the party tomorrow evening.A．will sing B．sings C．is singing D．sang10. —What an old building! I think it has a long history.—Yes, it __________ here for almost five hundred years.A．is B．was C．will be D．has been 11. English is important because it __________ all over the world.A．is used B．uses C．was used D．used12. —Lucy, can you tell me __________ the dictionary?—Sure. I bought it in the bookstore near my home.A．where you buy B．where you boughtC．where do you buy D．where did you buy阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选择最佳选项。

Unit 7 Once More to the Lake

VII. Once More to the LakeWhen as a child I laughed and wept,Time crept.When as a youth I waxed more bold,Time strolled.When I became a full-grown man,Time RAN.When older still I daily grew,Time FLEW.Soon I shall find, in passing on,Time gone.O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then?Amen.---- Henry Twells (1823 – 1900), English rhymster. Time’s Paces, poem fixed to the front of the clock-case in the North Transept of Chester Cathedral. Quoted in: Alan L. Mackay, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977).Time goes, you say? Ah, no!Alas, Time stays, we go.---- Austin Dobson (1840 – 1920), British author. The Paradox of Time.The years like great black oxen tread the world,And God the herdsman treads them on behind,And I am broken by their passing feet.---- W. B. Yeats (1865 – 1939), Irish poet, playwright. The Countess Cathleen, act 4.______________________________About the authorElwyn Brooks White was born in Mount Vernon, New York, in 1899. After graduating from Cornell University, he worked as a reporter, and in 1926, he joined the staff of The New Yorker. His delightful and insightful contributions to that magazine in great part helped set its past and present tone. White was versatile writer whose descriptions have delighted readers of all ages. In addition to his New Yorker writing, his legacy includes One Man’s Meat (1942), Here Is New York (1949), Charlot Web(1952) and the collected Essays of E. B. White(1977). Taken from White‟s Essays, this reflective description of a scene first visited some thirty-seven years in the past, amply supports President Kennedy‟s evaluation of White as “an essayist whose concisecomment on men and places has revealed to yet another age the vigor of the English sentence.” His strongly subjective, yet precise, descriptions help bridge the gaps between the actual, physical changes he sees in the place and the emotional, perceptual changes he feels._______________________________About descriptionTo bring readers sense what they themselves sense, writers turn to the language of the senses, to words that covey sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. What, in fact, other than an image –a sketch, a photograph, a painting, a film sequence, a cluster of sentences – immediately links the mind of the creator of the image with the mind of the observer? In any kind of writing an image can create a prose that lack sensory detail rarely achieve. Readers of description acknowledge the power of the image, the phrase or sentence that provides an indelible sensation in language. Description will find its way into much of your writing as a means of supporting your ideas with detail. In papers that narrate, compare and contrast, explain a purpose, or argue, for example, concrete sensory images will help you make a point with clarity and force.___________________________________About the textalong ---- (informal)Along about seven he showed up.He was along toward seventy.Maine ---- a state in the northern of the United StatesPond’s Extract ---- a kind of ointmentroll over ----There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor,and old age.----Bill Bryson (b. 1951), U.S. author, journalist. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small TownAmerica, ch. 4 (1989).outside of ---- (esp. Am.) except for; not withinOutside of us three, no one knows anything about the problem, yet.There‟s a lot of really good theatre and opera outside of London these days.a salt-water man ---- a man working on the sea (?)a couple of bass hooks and a spinner ---- Bass is the name of various families of fresh or salt water fish. A spinner is a fishing lure with attached blades that revolve or flutter when drawn through the water.haunt ---- a place much frequentedwho had never had any fresh water up his nose ---- The boy had always gone to the seaside for his holidays and never bathed in a lade where you often find lily pads, that is, water lily with its large, floating leaves. He had only seen them from train windows.I was sure the tarred road would have found it out ---- I was sure that by following the tarred road we would have found out how time had spoiled the beauty and disturbed the tranquility of this spot, and I wondered in what other ways this spot would be further affected.once you allow your mind to return into the grooves which lead back ---- once you recall the past.screen ---- screen door, a door consisting of wire net with very small holes stretched over a frame which allows air but not insects to move through it. (SEE also SUNSCREEN; WINDSCREEN)partition ---- (dividing structure) a vertical structure like a thin wall which separates one part of a room or building from anotherand sneak out into the sweet outdoors (until the end of the paragraph) ---- What a happy, peaceful and simple situation! The air outside is fresh and sweet. The lake is smooth and silky, like a mirror, reflecting the pines that surround it. Even the church bell refuses to ring lest the silence be broken.sprinkle ---- scatter; dot overChurches sprinkle over the city.People sprinkle the programme with songs.The speech was liberally sprinkled with jokes about the incident.settle into ---- also settle down in; become familiar with (some place) and feel comfortable in it (settled into a camp <literal> and settled into the kind of summertime <figurative>) It took Ed a long time to settle into living in London.She quickly settled down in her new house/job/school.creepy ---- giving you an uncomfortable feeling of strangeness and of fear or disgustcreepy film/stories/feelinghover ---- stay in the air in one place, esp. (of birds and insects) by moving the wings quicklyThe hawk hovered in the sky, waiting to swoop down on the rabbit on the ground.Swarms of mosquitoes hovered over the water.I heard the noise of a helicopter hovering overhead.She hovered outside her boss‟s office door, unsure whether to knock or not. (stand somewhere, esp. near another person, nervously waiting for their attention)I could sense him behind me, hovering and building up the courage to ask me a question.the years were a mirage ---- The years that had passed appeared to be unreal as nothing of consequence had really changed. (A mirage is an image you see in the distance or in the air in very hot weather, but which does not actually exist, or something in the future that you look forward, but that never actually happen.)the dead helgramite ---- Helgramite (or hellframmite) is a king of insect often used as a fish bait by anglers.catch ---- a quantity that is caughtThe fishermen were disappointed with their catch (= the amount of fish that they had caught) yesterday.The catch amounted to 50 fish.dart ---- to move suddenly and rapidlyThe dog darted across the street.The boy darted behind the sofa as his father stormed into the living-room.The lizard darted out its tongue but the fly escaped just in time.duck ---- to lower quickly, especially so as to avoid somethingI saw the ball hurtling towards me and ducking down.Duck, or you‟ll bang your head.I … didn’t know which rod I was at the end of. ---- I didn‟t know whether it was I or my son who holding the fishing rod.business-like ---- getting things done in a quick and practical way; efficient“Sigh here,” she said, suddenly business-like.The meeting was brief and business-like with a lot of decisions being made.dock ---- an area in a harbour where ships go to be loaded, unloaded, or repairedsuggestion ---- a hint or tracejust a suggestion of makeupthe first suggestion of trouble aheadshallow ---- a part of body of water of little depth; a shoal (often used in the plural) abandoned the boat in the shallowsundulating ----(esp. of land) having small hills and slopes that look like waves, or, less commonly, (of something which can move) moving gently up and downI prefer the gently undulating hills of Dales to the more dramatic landscape of the Moors. attendance ---- the persons or number of persons that are presentAt Easter, attendances at churches rose/double.Attendances at the cinemas are falling fast.There was a large attendance at the meeting.unsubstantial ---- imaginary, unreal, INSUBSTSNTIALthis cultist ---- the follower of a particular custom, here referring to the person always washing himself with a cake of sopteeming ---- (lots of people) moving around some placeSynonyms: teem, abound, bristle, crawl, overflow, swarm. The central meaning shared by these verbs is “to be abundantly filled or richly supplied”: a street teeming with pedestrians; a gardenabounding with flowers; roofs bristling with television antennas; a highway crawling with cars; a house overflowing with guests; a parade route swarming with spectators.The middle track was missing, the one with the marks of the hooves and splotches of dried, flaky manure. ---- Please note the change emerged here. This middle track was once used as a road for the running carriages pulled by horses/oxen. Now with the development of technology, they have been replaced by automobiles. In this case, the missing of the middle alternative is symbolic. The theme will re-appear in the latter part of the essay.reassure ---- to restore confidence to; to comfort (someone) and stop them from worrying The meeting was designed to reassure parents whose children were taking examsthat summer.I was nervous on my first day at college, but I was reassured to see some friendly faces.the alleys ---- on either side of a tennis court there is a narrow strip or lane which is outside the singles area but included in the doubles area. This strip is called an alley.sag ---- drop down to a lower level in the middleA sagging roof/floor/bedThe shelf sagged under the weight of the heavy books.Her spirits sagged (= She felt unhappy) at the thought of all the work she had to dothat evening.Half way through the lecture my interest began to sag (= began to lose the interest).and the whole place steamed with midday heat and hunger and emptiness ---- The image established seems to be a bit out of place in the context here. Any implying significance???as in a dropped curtain ---- This refers to the fact that in a play the curtain is often lowered to mark the change of scene and the passage of time.their hair had been washed, that was the only difference ---- Another case study to indicate the influence of modernization/civilization. How about White‟s attitude? Positive or negative???the life along the shore was the design ---- The life of the people there is the main pattern of the picture with the scenery as the background.the cottagers with their innocent and tranquil design ---- the farmers who live a happy and peaceful lifeThis was the American family at play. ---- This was a typical American family who spent their summer outside of town.common ---- unrefined or coarse in manner; vulgar; behaving in a way that shows lack of taste, education, and good mannersbehaviour that branded him as commonI‟ve always thought wearing make-up at breakfast was a bit common.nice ---- exhibiting courtesy and politeness; of good character and reputation; respectablea nice gestureNice boys (= boys who behave well) don‟t say nasty things like that.turn away ---- rejectThe college has been forced to turn away 300 prospective (= possible) students.jollity ---- merriment, laughter and joy; cheer, good cheerThere was a atmosphere of great jollity at the party, as people met up with old friends and chatted and laughed together.draw up ---- come to a place and stopA police car drew up outside their house.The driver drew the horses up in time to avoid hitting the child.The arriving (at the beginning of August) has been so big a business in itself … (Arriving was less exciting nowadays…) ---- A striking contrast is presented between them and …now‟. And the writer‟s attitude is obvious here. (Note the words or phrase he used when he described the arriving in the past, eg. …the pine-laden air, the smiling farmer etc.)sneak up ---- approach somewhere secretlysneak up on (behind) the enemy for a surprise attackI wondered how he had sneaked up so quietly.I thought I would sneak up on him (= move close to him without him seeing) and give hima surprise.I have a feeling that he‟s been sneaking into m y room and reading my diary while I‟m out. outboard motors ---- an outboard motor is a portable gasoline engine mounted on the outside of a boat to propel itjar ---- to be disturbing or irritating; grateThe incessant talking jarred on my nerves.The harsh colours jarred the eye (= were unpleasant to look at).His rather superior manner jars on me.She has a way of speaking that jars.the one thing that would sometimes break the illusion and set the years moving ---- something that would make people realize the change that had occurred to the lake areasome were make-and-break ---- This refers to a device in an engine operated by an electric current, for automatically opening or closing a circuit, to produce an electric spark for igniting the gasoline.some were jump-spark ---- engines in which sparks are produced by the jumping of electricity across a gap.one-lungers --- one-cylinder enginepetulant ---- unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevishShe always becomes petulant when people disagree with her.whine ---- to produce a sustained noise of relatively high pitchjet engines whiningIf you drive much faster than this the engine starts to whine (= make an unpleasantcontinuous high sound).like mosquitoes ---- a very unpleasant and annoying imagethe trick of choking it a little ----you would have it eating out of your hand ---- To eat out of one‟s hand means to be docile or do whatever one wishes. The metaphor is from an animal which is tame and docile enough to eat from a person‟s hand. (In the past, the relationship between human being and nature <including …the old one-lungers‟> was always friendly and harmonious, unlike what‟s going on today at all –harsh, technical, conquering, or being conquered.)drift in ---- be carried in by wind/waterThe clouds drifted away.A tiny fishing boat was drifting slowly along.tapping out its gay routine ---- singing in its usual cheerful and light manner; tap out means to produce (a sound) by hitting a surface lightly and repeatedly.like the lip of a Ubangi ---- A Ubangi is a woman of a certain tribe living near the Ubangi River in Central Africa. This tribe is said to have the custom of piercing the woman‟s lips and stretching them around wooden disks.and how quietly she ra n on the moonlight sails … ---- You might as well ask your students to refer tothe fig newtons ---- bar-shaped cookies having fig fillingthe Beeman’s gum ---- chewing gum produced by the Beeman CompanyCoca-Cola… Moxie, root beer, birch and sarsapari lla ---- They are all soft drinks. But while Coca-Cola is to, all intents and purposes, an image of modern society, all the others are old-fashioned ones and would be soon replaced by the former and the like.melodrama ---- [Gr., = song-drama], originally a spoken text with musical background, as in Creek drama. Popular in the 18th cent., it was varied to include drama interspersed with music, eg., The Beggar‟s Opera by John GAY. The term now applies to all plays with overdrawn characterizations, smashing climaxes, and sentimental appeal, including “tearjerkers” like Mrs. Henry Wood‟s East Lynne. True musical melodrama has been written in the 20th cent. by Arnold SCHOENBERG and Richard STRAUSS.the second-act climax of the drama ---- What was actually happening was exactly like the melodrama the author had seen long before a melodrama with the climax coming at the second act – the climax normally comes at the third act – with thunder roaring and lightning flashing over a lake.The whole thing was so familiar ---- Yes, it is indeed. You may refer students to a detailed description of a mid-afternoon storm inlinking the generations in a strong indestructible chain ---- such things as thunder and rain and return of light and the joke about getting drenched have been familiar happenings for generations, thus linking the past with the present.And the comedian … ---- and (there was) the comedian who waded in (the lake) carrying an umbrella. This was also a familiar sight.wing out ---- squeeze the water out by twisting strongly (with one‟s hands)She wrung out the shirt and hung it out to dry.As he buckled the swollen belt suddenly my groin felt the chill of death ---- The feeling revealed in this last sentence seems to be in contradiction to a theme running throughout the paragraphs (except the last one). Why so? It is a conclusion which can‟t be avoided with all those preparing passages???____________________________Translation“Summertime, oh summertime, ．．．．．．．．．there wasn‟t enough chicken.” (P 47 – P 48) 夏日，哦，夏日，持久不变的生活格式，永不消褪的湖光水色，挺立不朽的树木丛林，满目遍野的香树丛，天长地久的落叶松，无尽的夏日时光；在这背景的衬映下，是一幅岸边生活图，村民们自由自在，快乐祥和，他们小码头的旗杆上，美国国旗飘扬在蓝天白云之下；布满树根的小路通向一个又一个营篷，还通向一个个户外卫生间，旁边放着供喷洒的石灰；小商店的礼品柜上，出售微型白桦树皮舟，明信片印得比真景还更优美少许；美国人携家带小，逃避城市的酷暑，来此度假，他们猜测着河湾尽头营篷里刚来的人家是否“粗俗”抑或“文雅”，也想知道那些驱车前往农庄去吃周日晚餐的人，是否真的因为鸡不够吃而被挡驾了。

2020中考英语总复习翻译句子练习题提高版(含详解)

专题：翻译一、汉译英：整句1．我发现与同学相处是很容易的。

2．他们花了多长时间扑灭这场大火？3．我爸爸已经到上海出差三天了。

4．生活在这座美丽的城市我们是多么幸运啊！5．小女孩太害怕了，不敢告诉父母真相。

6．这个小男孩在公交车上给老人让座，很有礼貌。

___________________________________________________________________________ 7．这个公园是辛苦工作一天后放松的好去处。

___________________________________________________________________________8．在志愿者的支持下，奥运会成功举办。

___________________________________________________________________________ 9．我认为很难在如此短的时间内解答出这个数学题。

___________________________________________________________________________10．你介意向我展示如何在网上预定火车票吗？__________________________________________________________________________11．从你家到学校有多远？(how far )______________________________________________________________________12．我与我的同学关系都很好。

（get on well with）______________________________________________________________________13．当他仅有四岁的时候就开始写音乐了。

(at the age of)______________________________________________________________________14．做眼保健操对你的眼睛有好处。

Once More to the Lake

Once More to the Lake-the Stopped TimeFor us, time is restless, it always on the run without stop and rest. It changes things all the time with going forward. Just like the sea, time is dynamic, moving, changing and full of energy. However, in the text Once More to the Lake, time is stopped and inactive. It looks like the lake is placid, still and static. As time goes by it doesn’t have any change.When the author was a little boy, he often went to the lake in Maine with his father for vacation. He loved the placidity of the lake “there’s no place in the world like that in Maine” (p8) there’s no doubt that the lake left a deep impression on him.Many years later, he became a father and had his own son. He took along his son to the lake again. He missed the lake very much and he also wanted his son have a real visit to the lake. “On the journey over to the lake I began to wonder what it would be like, I wonder how time would have marred this unique, this holy spot.”(p8) The author worried the lake would be destroyed or desolated. The lake was a unique and holy spot. It seemed like a religious place. There were no place can compete with it. To the author, the lake was worth remembering. He can remember a series of places and things there. In the past, the lake was cool and motionless and the mornings at the lake were the clearest. He always went boating on a canoe. “I remembered being very careful never to rub my paddle against the gunwale for fear of disturbing the stillness of the cathedral.”(p9) It is a metaphor here. He awed the lake so that the lake looked like the cathedral which was still, scared, holy and full of magic. It had some relation with the religion.“The lake had never been what you could call a wild lake” (p9) although the lake was in farming country and there were cottages around the shore, it was a fairly large and undisturbed lake with heavy woods. “It seemed infinitely remote and primeval.”(p9) The lake was very original and pure as if untouched by human.When the author settled into a camp with his son, “I could tell that it was going to be pretty much the same as it had been before.”(p9) There was no change so “I began to sustain the illusion that he was I, and therefore, by simple transposition, that I was my father.” (p9) He had an illusion and mixed past and present together because things didn’t change after years. “This sensation persisted”“I seemed to be living a dual existence” He can not distinguish what was past and what was present, who was his father, who was him and who was his son. It looked like he is a dual body. He existed in a dual world. This imagery was very horrible and strange. It was a wired thing which gave him a creepy sensation.When they went fishing the first morning, the author felt the same damp moss and saw the same dragonfly which “convinced me beyond any doubt that everything was as it always had been.”(p9) He found the same small waves, the same boat, and the same color of the boat, the same broken place of the ribs and the same fresh-water leavings and debris. Everything was the same, without any change. So he said “the year were a mirage and there had been no years.”Things were all the same as his memory. He felt very dizzy and can not separate past from present. They mixed together as if time stopped and there had been no years. “This seemed an utterlyenchanted sea, this lake you could leave to its own devices for a few hours and come back to, and find that it had no stirred, this constant and trustworthy body of water.”The lake was very magical and odd. Over years there had been the same person with the same cake of soap along the shore. When the author had dinner at the farm house, the waitresses were the same country girls who were still fifteen.When the author went to the lake again, he said “It seemed to me, as I kept remembering all this, that those times had been jollity and peace and goodness.”(p11) The summer time was a indelible pattern of life. He cherished the memory at the lake and wished all the things could be the same-beautiful, happy and peace Thank you for your reading. If I have any mistakes, please correct me. Thank you. I like your course.Sunny。

Once more to the lake

意思更加清楚明白，感觉更地道。冯译：按照原文句式翻译，一个句子里包含过多的定语，就
造成了句子的拖沓和不流畅之感。
小结三：译者需完全根据中文心理
若是译者心中非先将此原文思想译成有意义之中国话，则据字直译，似中国话实非中国话，似通而不通，决不能达到通顺结果。我们读此种译文时之感觉，则其文法或且无疵可摘，然中国人说话绝非如此。
译文对比评析
• …… and from then on none of us ever thought there was any place in the world like that lake in Maine. We returned summer after summer--always on August 1st for one month. I have since become a salt-water man, but sometimes in summer there are days when the restlessness of the tides and the fearful cold of the sea water and the incessant wind which blows across the afternoon and into the evening make me wish for the placidity of a lake in the woods. ……
孙：译为“潮汐的起落”意义上并没有错，但是这种译法似乎过
于死板和拘泥。 ——Good!
2. . …… for a week‘s fishing and to
revisit old haunts. （para 1）
（冯） “还再去看看那些梦魂萦绕的老地方”

Once More to the Lake英文总结

The essay is about a little boy and his father. They go to a lake where the father had been in his childhood years. The father looks back at those years and tries to relive the moments through his son's eyes. The father is depressed and it’ obvious while r eading the beginning where he describes the lake of his childhood and the same lake during his elder yearsThe main reason for such kind of depression is the fact that he is not able to return his childhood and the fact that he is getting older as he is not able to remember all moments of joy on the lake.mentioned by the author is that the lake also had changed since the last time he was there.All of those things were gone, Author sees some kind of indifference in theeyes of his son and feels that everything had changed. He understands that he became a grown-up and his childhood is left only in his heart and in his mind. Childhood had transformed into simple memories of the past and that it became very private thing. Such feeling is very usual for people who return to the places which are associated with good memories, moments of happiness, joy and pleasure but instead of positive emotions people often fee unexplained melancholy. Lastly the father brings up the thunderstorm. To me this represents the birth of a new him. he begins to look at his son, and the entire trip in a different light. He forgets the years of old, and realizes that he is not his son, he stops trying to live his life through his son's eyes. The feel of cold chill of death at groin means thatthe author lets the trip to be just a trip without any expectations from his son to repeat his practices. He allows the boy to be an individual not an exact copy of himself.The essay also shows White's realization of the life cycle. White, once the son, has become the father, and realizes that he will soon pass on as his own father presumably has.By watching his son's movements on the shores of the lake, White vicariously feels danger as he is reminded of perhaps a childhood encounter with death at the lake. Ultimately, White suggests that nature reminds us of mortality.。

Once More To The Lake原文及译文

Once More To The LakeOne summer, along about 1904, my father rented a camp on a lake in Maine and took us all there for the month of August. We all got ringworm from some kittens and had to rub Pond's Extract on our arms and legs night and morning, and my father rolled over in a canoe with all his clothes on; but outside of that the vacation was a success and from then on none of us ever thought there was any place in the world like that lake in Maine. We returned summer after summer--always on August 1st for one month. I have since become a salt-water man, but sometimes in summer there are days when the restlessness of the tides and the fearful cold of the sea water and the incessant wind which blows across the afternoon and into the evening make me wish for the placidity of a lake in the woods. A few weeks ago this feeling got so strong I bought myself a couple of bass hooks and a spinner and returned to the lake where we used to go, for a week's fishing and to revisit old haunts.那年夏天，大约是1904年吧，父亲在缅因州的一个湖边租了一间木屋。

E. B. White

Literary Career

White, born in Mt. Vernon, New York, was educated at Cornell and then became a reporter for the Seattle Times. As production assistant in a New York City advertising agency,White began sending manuscripts to The New Yorker. He married a New Yorker editor, Katharine Angell, in 1929, and later moved to North Brooklin, Maine. He remained a New Yorker staff member and continued his work for the magazine.
Textual Analysis

In "Once More to the Lake," White revisits his ideal boyhood vacation spot. He finds great joy in his visit, which ironically causes him to struggle to remember that he is now a man The story shows him engaged in an internal struggle between acting and viewing the lake as he did when a boy and acting and viewing it as an adult, or as his father would have

OnceMoreToTheLake赏析

Once More To The Lake By E.B. WhiteOnce More to the Lake by E.B. White Once More to the Lake, by E.B. White was an essay in which a father struggles to find himself. The essay is about a little boy and his father. They go to a lake where the father had been in his childhood years. The father looks back at those years and tries to relive the moments through his son's eyes. He knows he can't, and has difficulty dealing with the fact that he can't go back in time. E.B. White's way of letting the reader know that the father is in a way depressed, is through great detail and description. The story mentions how the lake has changes since the father had seen it last. How the once gravel roads have been paved over, and the sail boats are now replace with boats with outboard motors. As the reader, one can sense a feeling of how the father isn't able to adapt to these changes. Thelittle boy in the story, the son, also doesn't seem to appreciate the lake as much as the father did when he was growing up. Like how when he was a boy, he would wake up early to fish. Now the father wishes his son would do the same. It seemed the little boy just too the trip for granted. He didn't appear to be as appreciative as the father once was. The father describes the view as pretty much being the same. How things felt the same, like the moss on his feet and such. He didn't feel that the lake had changed any, but everything around it did. This is when the idea of a duel personality comes into picture. The father can almost see himself as a child, doing the things he wished his son would do. When he was young he would get up especially early to fix his fishing pole and even help set the dinner table. Then he realizes that his son doesn't do any of these things, making the father feel as if the trip just isn't the same. As the story progresses, the father begins to point out the differences of his once peaceful get-a way. How when arriving wassomething to look forward to, seeing all of the other family's greet you, the madness of the train station, and the smells of the wilderness. All of those things were gone, replace by motor boats that would wake you up in the middle of a summer slumber. Lastly the father brings up the thunderstorm. To me this represents the birth of a new him. I say this because once the rain clears up and the dark skies disappear, he begins to look at his son, and the entire trip in a different light. He forgets the years of old, and realizes that he is not his son, he stops tryingto live his life through his son's eyes. When at the end he feel thecold chill of death at his groin, I feel this is him letting the trip be just a trip, not pushing his son to do exactly what he once did. He lets the boy do what he wants, not do what the father had done all thoseyears down by the lake.Free narrative essay: Once More to the LakeFebruary 11th, 2010Once more to the Lake is an essay written by E.B. in which the author tries toestablish the links of his present life with his past experiences when he was a little boy. The essay starts as a father and son go to the lake, which was a favorite place for camping and fishing of the father when he was a child. The father is full of expectations as the lake symbolizes his youth ages and the most careless period of his life. So the decision to go fishing again on this lake may be regarded as an attempt to return childhood or at least to return childhood impressions and memories.The father is depressed and it’ obvious while reading the beginning where he describes the lake of his childhood and the same lake during his elder years: “It was like the revival of an old melodrama that I had seen long ago with childish awe.”The main reason for such kind of depression is the fact that he is not able to return his childhood and the fact that he is getting older as he is not able to remember all moments of joy on the lake. Another important detail which is mentioned by the author is that the lake also had changed since the last time he was there. In childhood years it was nearly a virgin lake, with wildlife and absence of any kind of good roads to it. Now the lake had changed:“The lake had never been what you would call a wild lake. There were cottages sprinkled around the shores, and it was in farming although the shores of the lake were quite heavily wooded”Such attitudes show that the changes which happened to the lake and changes which affected the author: “the lake is no longer wild” it also makes him to understand that he is no longer a teenager, but a grown up with his own personal life, children and responsibilities. He understands that probably the impressions from this trip will be different as he is longer a child for whom the camping was the greatest event of the year. But nevertheless he is very attached to thoseme mories and the use of “same” in the description of t he lake only proves it.The description of new experiences shows that the father is not able to accept new changes and adopt them. It become a hard a trial for himself. At this episodes we observe the idea of dual personality, asthe reality which he has to perceive is different from his inner world and from his expectations and hopes. Besides, his expectations start to be ruined by the different attitude of the son to the lake trip. E.B. White thought his on would act the same as h did when he was a child and that for his son the trip to the lake would mean exactly the same as it meant for him. But his son considers the trip to be a usual camping on the lake event and sees nothing special in it. Father makes analogies between the behavior and attitude of his son of himself in childhood and sees that they are very different. The author also looked forward summer camping and it turned into a certain kind of ritual to fish on the lake and simply stay in cam ping. It’s clear while we read the description of the l ake and pieces of his memories from the past. Now it changed. Author’s son doesn’t want to get up earlier to go fishing as fishingis considered to be a regular hobby not something charming and special. Author sees some kind of indifference in theeyes of his son and feels that everything had changed. He understands that he became a grown-up and his childhood is left only in his heart and in his mind. Childhood had transformed into simple memories of the past and that it became very private thing. Such feeling is very usual for people who return to the places which are associated with good memories, moments of happiness, joy and pleasure but instead of positive emotions people often feel nostalgia and unexplained melancholy. The author feels the same on the lake as the lake is probably the only symbol left from his childhood:“The only thing that was wrong now, really, was the sound of the place, an unfamiliar nervous sound of the outboard motors. This was the note that jarred, the one thing that would sometimes break the illusionand set the years moving. In those other summertimes, all motors were inboard; and when they were at a little distance, the noise they made was a sedative, an ingredient of summer sleep.”The culmination of the essay is very optimistic and positive for the author. The author describes the thunderstorm over the lake:“The second-act climax of the drama of the electrical disturbance over a lake in America had not changed in any important respect. This was the big scene, still the big scene. The whole thing was so familiar, the first feeling of oppression and heat and a general air around camp of not wanting to go very far away.”Even though that he writes that storm had not changed much since his childhood it becomes clear that the storm made him to change. It opened his eyes on the new reality so that the author begins to perceive reality from another angle, in realistic colors and enjoys it. Thunderstorm may be considered to be a new birth for the author. As the rain, thunder and lighting are gone and the sky is cleared the vision of reality changes and he even looks on his son differently. He stops blaming his son in disrespect towards the ideal’s of his very own childhood and understands that everything had changed and he has to accept reality in order to feel comfortable in his surrounding and feel comfort in his soul. The last episode makes one more argument for such point. The feel of cold chill of death at groin means that the author lets the trip to be just a trip without any expectations from his son to repeat his practices. He allows the boy to be an individual not an exact copy of himself.Like Father Like SonE.B. Whit e’s essay “Once More to the Lake” is a piece about a father’s experience of nostalgia when the he (White) and his son visit a lake that White had visited as a child with his own father. Though it is a touching piece, one could easily consider it “ruined” b y the ending. The entire essay describes White and his son having adventuresat a lakeside cabin as White reminisces about his time as a boy by that very lake. While the essay is beautifully written and extremely eloquent, the final paragraph seems rushed and has a very sudden change in toneand diction which the essay would be far better without.The ending also leaves expectant readers with no climax or resolution, but rather with disappointment. The final paragraph of “Once More to the Lake” destroyed a piece of what would otherwise be art.The final paragraph describes White watching his son changing intoa cold, wet pair of swimming trunks. As his son does this, White feels the same sudden jolt of pain as the shorts reach his son’s groin that the boy mu st be feeling. It is hard to believe that this is the follow-up of a wonderful praise of the beauty of nature and the father-son relationship. In this final paragraph, all of the wonderful descriptive words and captivating imagery of the lake, the “unique holy spot, the coves and streams, the hills that the sun set behind, the camps and the paths behind the camps” disappear, only to be replaced by blunt, straightforward, and slightly upsetting description of a boy changinghis clothes. The final paragraph is unexpected, odd, and overall, not a great closer for such an moving essay.Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is often praised by critics, but many agree that the ending, in which everything ismagically resolved, seems rushed and poorly done. “Once More to the Lake” suffers from t he same basic problem. The essay is beautifully written, but the ending seems rushed and White resolves almost nothing. After dozens of paragraphs describing White feeling as though he’s aboy again, the story leads one into believing that it will end with White’s sudden realization that he is no longer the boy in his father-son relationship. Instead, the story ends with the disconcerting description of his son putting on swimming trunks and the father feeling the trunks along with his son. This misleading ending can throw off curious readers and cause disappointment in many a critic.White’s reasoning behind ending “Once More to the Lake” the way that he did is fair. One can assume that he was trying to say that, like the lake around him, the relationship between father and son had hardly changed, save the fact that he was no longer the son. Perhaps this is true, and he didn’t honestly feel any change during his trip, any epiphany of fatherhood. However, there is no excuse for the sudden change of tone at the end. The essay went from wonderful descriptions of nature to a final paragraph that could almost be considered crass. Though White’s reasoning behind ending his essay the way he did may never be known, there is no reas on why he couldn’t have ended it differently in order to give the essay a feeling of completeness, rather than stunned confusion.The freedom to write whatever you want can inspire writers, and has, into creating the most wonderful works one can imagine. It does not, however, excuse writers from making poor choices in their writings. Thesudden change of diction and tone and the unexpected ending make the closing paragraph of “Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White a conclusion that should not be repeated.1.will keep the family name alive2.role model for a childnot to judge or command; it is to guide and nurture. A lot of fathers are having little or no relations/interactions with their sons because of being judgmental and/or too controlling. A father should guide, inform, educate, have fun with and accept his son(s). At the proper age, educate your son about adulthood, manhood, fatherhood, how to treat women, how to care for himself and his family, and other such things. Without embarrassing him, get involved in his activities and play with him. If he needs to be consoled, do not tell him he is a man; console him, hug him and tell him you are there for him. Above all, be a dad and lead by example!communicationlove, attention, and nurturing a young boy needsA father- son relationship is very different from a mother-son relationship of care and tenderness; it is more like teaching the practicalities of life and preparing a son to face the real world.T he father does not expect his son to help him to realize his goals. In a certain respect, he even expects his son to set out on a new path, and is curious to see how his own nuclear potential will find newexpression in his son under different conditions and in a different generation.H owever, the deepest insult to parents is to forget them. Often, children desire to shake off the ropes that bind them to their parents. This natural inclination F or a child to mature, he must necessarily disengage from his total dependence on his parents。

bookreviewofoncemoretothelake

bookreviewofoncemoretothelake第一篇：book review of once more to the lakeBook Review of Once More to the LakeAprilThe prose tells us the author’s experience of his second visit to the lake.This is a beautiful prose which impresses us with a peaceful natural scene.‘...,when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen.’ From the author’s description ,we can feel the unique beauty and peace of the nature.As we live in a modern society, we tend to be anxious and annoyed since weare often under high pressure.In order to enjoy a better life,we might as well seek our inner peace from the nature for its splendid beauty would calm us down and make us forget all of the sufferings.‘...and suddenly it would be not I but my father who was saying the words or making the gesture.It gave me a creepy sensation.’ From this ,we can see the author’s reflection of time’s passing by.To some extent, we repeat the track of our ancestor’s life span, being young ,old and even dead.But we are together,since we live with the nature, which associates us with the old generations and young generations.The nature is our mother as well as our company.Maybe one day ,we would face death,but our young generation would still live on.Both of us and nature are full of life force.We are always together.Life is short,just be like the nature.like the development of its four seasons ,remember to be beautiful.We may be defeated by difficulties since life is a boat.Remember the beautiful things in life can give you a happy life.From the prose,I remembered mychildhood with the bamboo forest.Soft wind with green and beautiful bamboo leaves blows my heart.It is our company rather than a forest.Flowers ,birds ,frogs,butterflies were all my friends.I really enjoy myself in it.In children’s eyes ,everything is fresh and mysterious.I think it is the bamboo forest’s beauty and love that makes me love the nature and keep optimistic all of the time.When I have children ,I’ll glad to give them chances being close to nature.The more beauty children find ,the more their heart would be for the rest of their lives.‘As he buckled the swolle n belt suddenly my groin felt the chill of death.’ The cold death warm lives always exist together.They motivates all of the beautiful things and removes the old.This is a natural law.Life is a circle,no ends and no beginnings.The conflicts between born and death enables life to be splendid and dynamic.Life is short ,our spirits is permanent.We have culture and old wisdoms to record our life track.The calm tone of the prose can be felt,which keeps us readers away from the noise.The author himself was confused by the politic camps that time.But he just has a fight for those difficulties as much as possible.In his essay,we can see his patience and ease instead of his restlessness.Being older and older, he chose to live in Maine and be away from the noise.In fact, the author helps us seek a way to enjoy our limited life,that is to be in company with nature.Only the peace of the nature can calm us down.With time passing by,everything is changed,such as the tools,our inner world, and the generations.But it seems t hat everything hasn’t changed at all,such as our memories,the scenes nature shows us.Born and dead,the nature keeps the whole world vivid and energetic.Time would not stop.T o some degree,our heart can take a picture of all the beauty.Remember to be beautiful and you would alwaysbe.Don’t change the beauty of your heart.Several days ago,I went to Qixia Mountain.I was impressed by its beauty.With birds singing,flowers’s fragrance , I feel the great peace in my heart.It was in the early morning,and there are not so many people around.Walking along the mountain,no matter quick or slow, the pace depended on my heart.I saw many historic scenic areas all the way.I can feel people in ancient times enjoying the nature with me.Time hasn’t passed by ,I think.Once more to the lake,once more to the peace and beauty in your heart.When you are confused ,don’t lose yourself and never give up.Just like our peaceful nature,always remember to be beautiful although seasons keep changing.。