英美文学欣赏知识点

英美文学欣赏知识点100句

1.The work that presented,for the first time in English literature,a comprehensive

realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.

首次在英国文学，中世纪英国社会的全面逼真的画面，创造了从各行各业生动的人物整体画廊是杰弗里·乔叟的坎特伯雷故事集。

2. Geoffrey Chaucer is regarded as the father of English poetry.

乔叟被看作是英国诗歌之父。

3. The verse form of heroic couplet was introduced into English poetry and employed in the poem with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English literature by Geoffrey Chaucer.

3.英雄对联的诗体被引入英国诗歌和诗与真正的轻松和魅力，第一次在英国文学的杰弗里·乔叟的历史就业。

4. The Canterbury Tales presents a whole gallery of vivid characters,the team of pilgrims,people from all walks of life,including 31 members altogether.

4.坎特伯雷故事呈现生动的人物整体画廊，朝圣者的队伍，来自各行各业，其中包括31名成员共有人。

5. Generally,Renaissance refers to the intellectual movement during the period between 14th and mid-17th centuries,its essence was humanism.

5.一般来说，文艺复兴是指智力运动在14和中17世纪之间的时期，它的本质是人文精神。

6. English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama.

6.英国文艺复兴时期的诗歌和戏剧的时代。

7. William Shakespeare’s writing is widely regarded as one of the three main sources of the English literature,while the other two are Greek and Roman myths and the Bible.

7.威廉·莎士比亚的创作被广泛认为是英语文学的三个主要来源之一，而另外两个是希腊罗马神话和圣经。

8. William Shakespeare leaves a great body of literary works to the world,including 37 plays,154 sonnets and 2 narrative poems.

8.莎士比亚叶文学作品到世界各地，包括37部戏剧，154首十四行诗和2叙事诗的巨大的身躯。

9. In reading Shakespeare,you must have come across the line “To be or not to be -- that is the question ”by Hamlet in Hamlet.

9.在读莎士比亚，你一定遇到过线“生存还是毁灭- 这是个问题”哈姆雷特哈姆雷特。

10. “So long as men can breathe,or eyes can see,/So long lives this,and this gives life to thee.”

10.“只要人们能呼吸，或眼睛可以看到，/只要生命这一点，这赋予生命给你。”(Shakespeare,“Sonnet18”)The word “this”refers to poetry.

（莎士比亚，“Sonnet18”）这个词“这”指的是诗歌。

11. Shakespeare’s four great tragedies include Hamlet,King Lear,Othello,and Macbeth,usually considered as some of the finest works in the English language. 11.莎士比亚的四大悲剧哈姆雷特包括，李尔王，奥赛罗，麦克白和，通常被认为

是一些最优秀的作品，在英语。

12. In Romeo and Juliet,Shakespeare’s humanism is evidently seen in his praise of human love and in his defiance of feudal discord.

12.在罗密欧与朱丽叶，莎士比亚的人文主义明显的看出他的人爱的赞美和他的封建不和谐的蔑视。

13. A sonnet is a poem of 14 lines,usually in iambic pentameter,with rhymes arranged according to a certain definite patterns.

13.十四行诗是14号线一首诗，通常在抑扬五音，与按一定的图案明确安排押韵。

14. Francis Bacon’s words,“Some books are to be tasted,others to be swallowed,and some few to be chewed and digested; that is,some books are to be read in parts; others to be read,but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly,and with diligence and attention,”describes the importance of reading,and different ways to deal with different books as well.

14.弗朗西斯·培根的话来说，“有些书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。也就是说，有些书是要读的部分;别人要读，但不奇怪;而少数则须全读，并用勤劳和关注，“描述了阅读的重要性，以及不同的方式来处理不同的书籍为好。

15. The Glorious Revolution in 1688 meant the supremacy of Parliament, the beginning of modern England and the triumph of the principle of political liberty. 15.光荣革命在1688年议会的意思，现代英国的开头和政治自由的原则，胜利至上。

16. Metaphysical poetry refers to the works of the 17th-century writers who wrote