睡谷传说解析.ppt

Place Sleepy hollow Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley, or rather lap of land land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world. A small broke guides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occational whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that evehr breaks in upon the uniform tranquility. P62 Autumn The sleepy hollow is the writers ideal society. When the Irving wrote this novel, the American is in the evolution. After the independent war, the economy is developing rapidly. On this occasion, people started to pursue money greedily, which bored the writer. In the sleepy hollow, the quietest places in the whole world,there is no clash of material interests. That is the place Irving dream about. looks funny He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung toghter.His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew. P64 be greedy for money As the enraptured fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat...his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea, how they might be readily turned into cash, and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces in the wilderness. P71 superstitious He was, in fact, an odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity. His appetite for the marvellous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary; and both have been increased by his residence in this spellbound region. P67 Ichabod Crane is the object of satire in the novel. His arrival break