Nettles-Alice-Munro艾丽斯·芒罗-荨麻英文介绍PPT教学内容

2. Nettles
1. “Nettles”
Nettle: a wild plant with rough leaves that sting people
荨麻 【别名】蜇人草、咬人草、蝎子草，防盗草、 无情草、植物猫、咬人猫 【分类】荨麻科 Urticaceae，荨麻属 Urtica L. 【习性】喜阴植物，生命旺盛，生长迅速， 对土壤要求不严，喜温喜湿。 【生境分布】广泛分布于亚欧大陆，在我国 分布在云南中部、贵州、四川东南部、湖北和 浙江。
In 1951,she left university to marry fellow student James Munro.
2. Middle-aged life
Munro married James Munro in 1951. They had four daughters, one died 15 hours after birth.
5. The Nobel Prize
On 10 October 2013,Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, cited as a “master of the contemporary short stories”.
She is the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Nettles-Alice-Munro艾丽斯· 芒罗-荨麻英文介绍PPT
Alice Munro
(1931--- )
<“Our Chekhov ">
2013 Nobel Prize in Literature
“master Biblioteka Baiduf the contemporary short story”
1. Early life
1. “Nettles”
英国沙玛歇特地方的人，昵称白色野 荨麻花为“树荫下的亚当与夏娃”。 因为在花瓣的金冠下，有一对宛若亚 当和夏娃的黑色和金黄色的雄蕊，所 以白色野荨麻花的花语是“相爱”。 凡是受到这种花祝福而生的人，非常 重视人与人的相遇。他相信可以和美 好的人相亲相爱而度过快乐的人生。
4. Career
The Governor General‘s Award 总督文 学奖 Munro’s first collection of stories Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) won the General’s Award.
In 1978,Munro’s collection interlinked stories Who Do You Think You Are earned a second Governor General’s Literary Award.
Munro and Fremlin moved to a farm outside Clinton, Ontario, and later to a house in Clinton, where Fremlin died in 2013.
In 2009 Munro indicated that she had received treatment for cancer.
6. Major Works
✓ Dance of the Happy Shades—1968 ✓ Lives of Girls and Women—1971 ✓ Who Do You Think You Are—1978 ✓ Friend of My Youth—1990 ✓ The Love of a Good Woman—1998 ✓ Runaway—2004 ✓ Too Much Happiness—2009
Munro began writing as a teenager. She published her first story, "The Dimensions of a Shadow,” in 1950.
She study English and Journalism at the University of Western Ontario.
In 1963,the Munros moved to Victoria where they opened Munro’s Books.
Alice and James Munro divorced in 1972. In 1976,she married Gerald Fremlin.
3. Recent life
6. Writing Style
Strong regional focus. Many of Munro’s stories are set in Huron County, Ontario.
The omniscient narrator who serves to make sense of the world. Her male characters tend to capture the essence of the everyman, while her female characters are more complex.
1. “Nettles”
As we can see, the word “nettles” in the story has both meanings, the literary meaning, that is the plant with rough leaves that sting people Figurative meaning, that is something irritate and annoy people. It may not be farfetched to suggest that the author is comparing life, human relationships, etc. to the effects of nettles.