高级英语06_Blackmail

Structural Analysis -- part 3 • Part 3. The Dirty Deal
• Section 1. Eliminating the possibility of having the car repaired in New Orleans. ( Her husband asked...You people are hot). • Section 2. The interior monologue of the Duchess. (The Duchess ...Or had they? ) Her judgement, analysis and calculation of the situation, weighing the advantages and disadvantages, the pros and cons.
Structural Analysis -- part 1
• Part 1. Prelude：(The chief house
officer ... Ogilvie remained standing) • Section 1. The setting, main characters, and the suspension. (The chief house ...that both might return at any moment.) • Section 2. The preliminary encounter between the house detective and the Croydons. (A wave of cigar smoke... Ogilvie remained standing)
Structural Analysis -- part 2
• Section 3. The conviction was undeniable.(The Duke cautioned...the Duchess turned away ). • The Croydons realized that they were convicted of the crime
• The Duke of Croydon was an internationally famous statesman and the newly appointed British ambassador to Washington. They occupied the best suite of the hotel--- the Presidential Suite
·Section 4. The ending.
The dirty deal reached.
Detailed study of part 1
1. blackmail: the obtaining of money or advancement by threatening to make known unpleasant facts about a person or group
Type of writing
• This kind of novel is called thriller. • A thriller is a work of fiction or drama designed to hold the interest by the use of a high degree of intrigue, adventure or suspense.(刺激的小说、电影，恐怖片) • Others :cop-criminal novels, detective novels. The main purpose is for entertainment, amusement. • The basic technique is to make the whole story of crime into sth. like a jigsaw puzzle. You can not see the outcome until the final part is put in.
Structural Analysis -- part 2 • Part2: Process of unveiling the crime
(Now then...the Duchess turned away） • Section 1. First round of clash. the Duke confessed his crime（Now then...Now we're getting somewhere). • Section 2. Second round of clash.(Wearily, in a gesture...I can prove all I need to ) • Ogilvie spelt out what he had found out about the activity of the Croydons and tried to confirm all the details. The Duchess tried to win back the upper hand.
Language points of section 2
Language points in section 1
3). The different title of different class of nobleman. Duke / Duchess（公爵） Marquis (marquess)/ Marchioness（侯爵） Count / Countess（伯爵） Viscount / Viscountess（子爵） Baron / Baroness（男爵） 4). cryptic: hidden, secret, mysterious 5). excessively frayed excessive: (derog). too much, too great, too large e.g: Excessive rainfall washes out valuable minerals from the soil.
Plot
• Monday evening, the Duke went to the gambling house. Later, his wife pursued and found him. On their way back, the car Jaguar knocked down a woman and her child. Both were killed. • Then we have the present text. • ... ...
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1.
Section 1 : (The chief house ...that both might return at any moment.) Main idea: The setting, main characters, and the suspension.
2. Language points in section 1 1). Croydon: The name of a manor supposed to belong to the Duke 2). suite: a set of rooms. A suite in a hotel is usually expensive. The suite the Croydons are staying in is St. Gregory Hotel's largest and most elaborate, called the Presidential Suite.
· Title of the novel： Hotel
Main characters
• McDermott: assistant general manager of the hotel • Ogilvie: chief house detective • the Duke of Croydon: newly appointed British ambassador to the United States • the Duchess of Croydon: wife of the Duke • a prostitute called lady friend by Ogilvie
1. piggy eyes: small eyes lost in the mess of flesh. piggy: dirty, greedy 2. sardonically: disdainfully, scornfully, cynically, 3. gross: unpleasantly fat, vulgar, not refined gross weight / net weight
Structural Analysis -- part 3
• Section 3. The Duchess' decision to gamble on the greed of the house detective.(The Duchess faced Ogilvie... the
silence hung )
Background information
• Arthur Hailey：
born in 1920, and educated in Britain. emigrated to Canada in 1949. famous novels: Hotel, Airport, The
mΒιβλιοθήκη Baiduneychanger.
3. Questions
1). Did Ogilvie deliberately delay his call at the Croydons’ suite? Why? 2). Why did the Duchess send her maid and secretary out?
section 2
Setting
• The story happened in a hotel named St. Gregory in New Orleans, Louisiana which is in the south of US.
Plot
• Gregory was now at the brink of bankruptcy, but Peter McDermott, the assistant general manager, is trying every means he could to save it. Several events happened during the week with the present text as part of it.
Lesson 6 Blackmail
--Arthur Hailey
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Background information Main characters Setting, plot, and the end Type of writing Structural analysis Detailed study Character analysis Rhetorical devices
Section 1
6). fray: to cause a person's temper, nerves, etc. to become worn out His nerves were frayed by the noises in the street. 7). Bedlington terrier：贝德林顿小长毛狗 • wolfdog 狼狗, hound 猎狗, • Pekinese 京吧, pug-dog 狮子狗, • bull dog 牛头犬