(完整版)高级英语第七课课件第三版EverydayUseforYourGrandmama

”The Color of Purple”
故事发生于1909年美国南部。未受过教育的黑人女孩西莉被继父强 奸后，又被迫嫁给了
凶狠的黑人男子，西莉称其为“先生”。在惊恐和胆怯中她开始了奴仆一般的痛苦生活。
泪水中才多了一些欢乐。不久，这短暂的幸福也从西莉身边消
“先生”强 奸南蒂不成，恼羞成怒地将南蒂赶了出去，姐妹二人被残酷的分开。
……(从中大家可以看到当时的整个社会的缩影，以及黑人生活的社会环境和社会地位，
)
: a shy,young woman made even more self-concious by scars she got in a house fire years
She hasn` t has much formal education but has learned traditional skills, such as quilting,
johnson): the narrator of the story. She is a middle-aged or even older African
woman living with her younger daugter, Maggie. Athough poor, she is strong and
and she may even has caused the fire that disfigured （损毁···的外貌）her sister.
a young muslim man who accompanies Dee on her visit. Mama, unable to
“Hakim-a- Baber”. The muslim greeting he gives to her means
peace and happiness to you. ” This maybe ironic because their visit disturbs the peaceful lives of
and Mama. The relationship between him and Dee is unknown. He may be a friend, a
content:The story begins when the mother and Maggie wait for Dee to come back
goes back home with her lover. She asks for some traditional household appliances,
百纳被) are the cultural heritage of

The prelude: the three family members.
’s recollections / flashback:the three persons’relationships——mother;
...Maggie and I made so clean and wavy...(wavy:波动起伏的。 It shows that Maggie and
It is like a extended living room. (extended: enlarged, prolonged. Expressions with extend:
```homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs...(homely: 不好看的，不
later we will know how she got the scar, so that is a suspense.)
she thinks her sister has held life always...to say to her.(she think that her sister has always
课后习题paraphrase )
totter: 蹒跚。 Backstage: 背后。
Johnny Carson: he is famous for such TVprograms, On TV he was a sporty man with gray hair
In real life i am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands.(that means
My fat keeps me hot in zero weather.(because I am fat, I feel hot even in freezing
课后习题paraphrase )
I am the way my daughter...an uncooked barely pancake.( this sentence tells that Dee was
Johnny Carson has much to do ...witty tongue.(johnney carson has a witty and glib tongue.
超过，胜过 him and so he has to try hard if he wants to catch up with me.)(课后习题
who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue?(that is a rhetorical question. The obvious
It seems to me i have talked to them always with one foot raised... from them.(I am ready to
from them in order to avoid them as much as

possible for the same reason.)课后习题
She would always look anyone in the eye.(she would always look at somebody directly and
课后习题paraphrase )
have you ever seen a lame跛足的 animal ...to be kind to him? （here the narrator compares
）
she has been like this, chin on chest, eyes on ground..to the ground. (Maggie has been very
Dee is lighter than Maggie..,(lighter means the color of one` s skin, not weight.)
And Dee.(an elliptical sentence, meaning”and there was Dee”)
she had hated the house that much.(so she was glad to see it burn down. This shows Dee is
her family.)
she used to read to us without pity, forcing...underneath her voice.(The narrator implies that
books Dee read to them were written by white people and full of their language and ideas,
life.)
she washed us in a river of ...need to know.(she imposed on us lots of falsity and so-called
课后习题paraphrase )
her eyelids 眼皮would not flicker闪烁 for minutes at a time.（it shows that Dee was
勇敢的，无畏的, with a strong character. She would look at anybody steadily and
）
Often I fought off the tempation to shake her.( Often I wanted so much to shake her , but I
At sixteen she had a style of her own, and knew what style was.( she had her own unique way
she stumbles along good-naturedly...(she often makes mistakes while reading, but never loses
like good looks and money, quickness passed her by.(she was homely and poor. Besides she
课后习题paraphrase )
”when did Dee ever had any friends ?” (a rhetorical question that means Dee never really had
furtive:鬼鬼祟祟的，秘密的，



but there they are!

. I stop her from dashing off with my hand.
stay: to stop, halt or check somebody from doing sth.
Note that the simple present tense --- the purpose is to make the story telling more

’s hair to a mule tail
“Uhnnnh” escapes her mouth.
课后习题Ⅳ-B-3 an elliptical sentence --- it was like the reaction you have when you
Wriggle: to move to and fro with a twisting and writhing motion
A dress down to the ground, in this hot weather
-B-4 an elliptical sentence ---she is wearing a dress long enough to touch the ground
a dress so loud…
an elliptical sentence --- she is wearing a dress in loud colors
课后习题Ⅳ-A-12 loud: attracting attention by being unpleasantly colorful and bright
there are yellows … the light of the sun
earrings gold, … her shoulder
-B-5 an elliptical sentence ---her earrings are gold, too, and they are hanging down to
it is her sister’s hair.
time it is her sister’s hair style that makes Maggie utter an exclamation of dislike and
it is black as night … behind her ears.
black as night: a simile
rope about: metaphor --- compare the moving of Dee’s pigtails to that of a rope
like small lizards: a simile
Dee’s new hairstyle is African, and looks bizarre to the country girl Maggie.
“Aa

lamalakim, my mother and sister!”
“y mother and sister” is not the American way of greeting, but a Muslim habit
he moves to Maggie but she falls back…
’t know.
kisses me on the forehead
meanwhile Asalamalakim is going through … hand.
-8 paraphrase---meanwhile Dee’s boyfriend is trying to shake hands with Maggie in a
Maggie’s hand is as limp as a fish… sweat…
Maggie’s hand lacks firmness and is cold though she is sweating
or maybe he doesn’t know how…
…. He soon gives up on Maggie
he knows that won’t do for Maggie, so he stops trying to shake hands with her in that
“gives up on Maggie”, not gives up Maggie, the meanings are diffirent.

“slave names” and adopting Africans names,
’t know the meaning or how to spell them correctly. And they also wore African
’’ experience.
“Dee” no longer existed. So that, she describes her daughter’
“Dee” vs. “Big Dee”
’s name was after her aunt, and then we added “Big” to aunt’s name to make a
“Though, in fact, … through the branches”.
’t go on either.
“There you are”.
’s boyfriend meant “I knew you couldn’t trace it further back”
1. “Looking down … a Model A car”.
“a Model A car” meant something old and out-of-date.
2. “every once … my head”
“Ream it out again”
“Well, soon … the way”
2. “I tripped it out”
’s foot and lose balance
“I accepted some of their doctrines”
’ search for a new identity by this.
– green leafy vegetables eaten cooked or raw.
2. “She talked … potatoes”
3. “Everything delighted her”
New interest” vs. “Old hatred”
-----Indicated a change of value.
“Maggie’s … an elephant’s”
“I can use … alcove table”
– an ornament
– a secluded section of a room for meal. 凹室
“Sink” is used figuratively meant a depression in the wood of the handle left by the
2. “You could … the wood”
rifle:plunder;to search messily
Eg: The men rifled through his clothing and snatched the wallet.
:to be reluctant to advance,as from timidity and shyness
Eg: I saw him step forward momentarily but then hang back, nervously massaging his
dishpan:a pan in which dishes,cooking utensils,etc,are washed
teeny(colloquial):tiny
Eg: I forgot to mention one teeny wittle item.
stroke 中风; 一件(幸运的)事n.
vt.
It didn't rain, which turned out to be a stroke of luck..
She held the quilts securely in her aarms,stroking them.(this is a sentence in our
“That was Maggie’s portion.”
Here “portion” means fate in our textbook.
“You ought to try ro make something of yourself,too…”
Here in our textbook,“make” means to turn out to be;to prove to have the essential

In the quilts there were bits and pieces of Grandpa Jarrell’s Paisly shirts.
old

quilts?”(para56)
“MaMa,”Wangero said in an extremely sweet voice.

It should be “I promised to give these quits to Maggie when she marries

“She gasped like a bee had stung her.”(para65)
She breathed suddenly in painful surprise.

grammer. It should be”God knows I have been saving them long enough with
g somebody would use them.”

The quilts would be in rags or in an even worse condiction.

I do not need the quilts to remind me of Grandma Dee.She lives in my
For us colored people,this is a new era,and we must seize our opportunities.
She smiled a real smile from the bottom of her heart,not nervous.
“She held the quilts securely in her arms,stroking them. ”
para.63,she was “clutching them closely to her bosom.”All this shows how much she wanted
determined she was to have them.
：“She’d probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use.”
behind times,and not as well educated as she was and that
value of the quilts and would use them just as quilts,not
.
：“It was Grandma Dee and Big Dee…to quilt herself. ”
inherited the cultural legacy from the maternal ancestors.
climax.Mama did something she had never done
Wangero’s hands and putting
’s lap.
“Your heritage…”“heritage ”is a key word. Wangero understood that old quilts
outcome of
conflicts.This story ens with Mama and Maggie sitting in the yard,just enjoying a dip of
have experienced. When Mama was growing up, she had few civil liberties as a colored
is happy with the life she has been given. Although she has not accomplished much