人的青春英语讲演.ppt

Page ? * Man’s Youth by Thomas Wolfe 去哪儿玩捏？ The joys of youth The troubles of youth Thomas Wolfe was born in Asheville, North Carolina, a mountain town in the year 1900 and died in 1938. When he was 16, he started his writing. During his short life, he mainly wrote four autobiographical novels、several novellas、short stories and some essays and so on. Because of his brilliant works, he was regarded as one of the foremost American writers of 20th century and was once considered to be an equal of Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner. Page ? * 作家简介 托马斯·沃尔夫，1900年生于美国北卡罗来纳州山区小城阿什维尔，卒于1938年。16岁时,他开始了自己的写作。在其短暂的一生，他主要写有四部自传体长篇小说以及数十篇中、短篇小说和一些随笔等。 因其杰出的作品，他被认为是20世纪美国最著名的作家之一，而且与欧内斯特·海明威、司各特·菲茨杰拉德和威廉·福克纳等并驾齐驱。 Page ? * New words anguish [??gw?? ] n. 痛苦；苦恼 vt. 使极度痛苦 vi. 感到极度的痛苦 2. lament [l?ment] n. 挽歌；恸哭；悲痛之情 vi. 哀悼；悲叹；悔恨vt. 哀悼；痛惜 3. poignantly [p?ign?ntli] adv. 深刻地；辛辣地；令人辛酸地 4. phantasmal [f?n‘t?zm?l] adj. 幻影的；幽灵的；空想的 5. avarice [?v(?)r?s] n. 贪婪；贪财 6. paltry [p?ltri] adj. 不足取的；无价值的；琐碎的；卑鄙的 7. devour [d?va??] vt. 吞食；毁灭；凝视 Page ? * Man’s youth 人的青春是件令人惊奇的事：它充满苦恼和神奇，直到青春逝去，他才明白青春的真正内涵。青春是一个人不肯轻易失去的东西，每当他怀着无尽的悲痛和悔恨，亲眼看着青春流逝，他一定会遗憾终生。但是对于青春的逝去，他又怀着一种忧愁而神秘的快感，即使有种魔力能让他青春永驻，他也永远不愿再次重新体验。 Man’s youth is a wonderful thing. It is so full of anguish and of magic and he never comes to know it as it is, until it has gone from him forever. It is the thing he cannot bear to lose, it is the thing whose passing he watches with infinite sorrow and regret, it is the thing whose loss he must lament forever, and it is the thing whose loss he really welcomes with a sad and secret joy, the thing he would never willingly relive again, could it be restored to him by any magic. Page ? * Why is this? The reason is that the strange and bitter miracle of life is nowhere else so evident as in our youth. And what is the essence of that strange and bitter miracle of li