文学英语赏析课程作业评讲(4)

《文学英语赏析》课程作业评讲（4）

中央电大

题目：

1. Reading English literature is a necessary activity for English majors like you. Do you agree or disagree with the statement? Why or why not?

2. The following quotations are all from the coursebook. Do you agree or disagree with them? Why or why not? Choose one of the quotations to comment on.

a. Freedom and power bring responsibility.

b. Studies pass into and influence manners.

c. They (meaning suspicions) dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, wise men to irresolution and melancholy.

d. The tongue… is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.

e. To keep your marriage brimming/with love in the loving cup, /whenever you’re wrong, admit it;/whenever you’re right, shut up!

f. Words and eggs must be handles with care. /Once broken they are impossible/things to repair.

g. A poor life this, if, full of care, /We have no time to sand and stare.

知识点

1. 对于文学阅读以及赏析的重要性的认识。

2. 对于英语文学作品中一些经典语句的的理解以及小论文的写作。

标准答案

1. （key points）

Reading English literature shall help us learn more language and improve our proficiency in English overall.

(1)The language of literary texts is generally much more carefully and artfully used than for most other kinds of texts (such as newspaper, etc.). This means that literary texts offer a resource for expanding your range of vocabulary, your repertoire of grammatical structures, and your sensitivity to style, and the way the language is used to convey subtle nuances of meaning.

(2)Literature is also the vehicle for cultural information and for knowledge about world. This should help us to become more curious about the ways other people live, more tolerant about difference, and more able to see our own ways of doing

things more clearly. Literature opens windows on the world.

(3)Literature touches our lives as people. It helps us to become more reflective, more sensitive and ultimately, more mature as people. We not only acquire more language in the process but we also acquire a better understanding of ourselves and how we relate to others.

2． (Students answers will vary).

分析说明

1. 这个题目实际上是就同学们对本课程学习意义的理解的一个强化。在教材的第一单元就已经很明确的向同学们分析了学习该课程的意义。所以同学们在动笔之前，可以再重新复习一下unit 1的内容。这里做了3个方面的提示，同学们可以全部提及，也可以主要论述其中的一个方面。因为这是陈述个人观点和感受的小论文，所以没有必要大而全，同时，在论述观点的时候如果加一些个人实际的example会比较真实。

2. 要以这些quotation为主题写小论文，必须理解其涵义。这几句quotations的主要意思如下：

a. Freedom and power bring responsibility.

自由和权力与责任是密不可分的。

b. Studies pass into and influence manners.

学习对人的言行举止有潜移默化的影响。

c. They (meaning suspicions) dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, wise men to irresolution and melancholy.

猜疑让统治者施暴政，猜疑使大丈夫生嫉妒，猜疑致聪明人履彷徨。

d. The tongue… is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.

语言……尤若利刃，弑人无血。

e. To keep your marriage brimming/with love in the loving cup, /whenever you’re wrong, admit it;/whenever you’re right, shut up!

若要保持您的婚姻/情意绵绵，/认错切莫犹豫，/无错其口三缄。

f. Words and eggs must be handles with care. /Once broken they are impossible/things to repair.

鸡蛋要轻拿轻放，言语要仔细思量。蛋破无法补，言出不可收。

g. A poor life this, if, full of care, /We have no time to stand and stare.

这是多么贫乏的人生，充满烦愁

若我们没时间停留下来凝眸。

最后这句诗如果脱离全问理解起来很难。这里提供英文全文及翻译。