Spring Sowing 现代大学英语课件.ppt

II. Introductions 1. About the author (see P. 204 of the Student’s Book) 2. Brief Introduction to the Text Liam O’ Flaherty is considered one of the most important modern Anglo-Irish authors together with James Joyce. He was born in 1896 on an island in Ireland, which must have had very big influence on his character as well as on his writing. “Spring Sowing” is taken from his first collection of short stories which bears the same title responsibility for the happiness of your wife/husband, parents, and children. In spite of their almost primitive living and working conditions, however, they also had their joys and love, and their longings for the future as does the newly-married couple described here. For Mary and Martin Delaney, this was an extremely important day, because it not only would determine the crop they would harvest in autumn, but would also show what kind of wife and husband they would prove to each The story here does not have much of a plot. But the author has seized a very dramatic moment in the young couple’s life and has shown their life and dreams through his descriptions of their spring planting in minute detail. It is in this quality that the power of this story mainly lies. better off: in a more favourable position or financial circumstances They would be better off flying than driving there. They were not rich, but they were better off than most of their neighbours. 2. And somehow, as they embraced, all their irritation and sleepiness left them. And they stood there embracing until at last Martin pushed her from him with pretended roughness and said: “Come, come, girl, it will be sunset before we begin at this rate.” the center of their world: the center of their life throbbing: beating rapidly or violently to take complete hold of: to gain complete control or influence over sb; to have great power over sb; to overpower sb, e. g. She felt a strange excitement taking hold of her. She was determined not to let the