殚精竭虑 一生只写一部著作的巨匠.docVIP

殚精竭虑 一生只写一部著作的巨匠（双语） 很多著名作家因一书而成名，且一生只出版了这一部小说。 For 55 years, Harper Lee had been one of the best-known literary one hit wonders: she won the Pulitzer prize for her only published novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. But now the 88-year-old has revealed that she will publish a second novel this summer, which she technically wrote before To Kill a Mockingbird and which even inspired her only book to date. 55年来，哈珀·李的名作一直只有那部使得获得普利策奖的《杀死一只知更鸟》。而现已88岁的她最近表示今年夏天要发表第二部小说，即将出版的第二部小说实际上写于《杀死一只知更鸟》之前，且为这部名作的书写提供了不少灵感。 But Lee leaves a number of literary one-hit wonders behind her. Here are a few of the best: 和之前的哈珀·李一样，很多著名作家因一书而成名，且一生只出版了这一部小说。 literary adj. 文学（上）的;精通文学的;爱好文学的;从事文学研究（或写作）的 literary一词源自拉丁语的litera‘文字’，后者演变出英语中的letter。literary一词的-ary部分一般加在名词之后，构成对应的形容词，因此literary一词字面意思即【文字相关的】。-ary后缀对比英语中的：基础element-基础的elementary；荣誉honor-荣誉的honorary；第二second-其次的secondary。 1. Margaret Mitchell - Gone With The Wind (1936) 1. 玛格丽特·米切尔--《乱世佳人》（1936） Published in 1936, the sweeping tale of Scarlett OHara and the dashing Rhett Butler was an instant success. Mitchell, a writer for her local Atlanta newspaper, won the Pulitzer Prize and saw her debut novel turned into a Hollywood epic. 小说于1936年发表后，斯嘉丽和瑞德的故事立刻横扫全球，获得了巨大的成功。小说作者米切尔不仅获得了普利策奖，还见证了自己的首部出版小说被搬上荧屏成为了好莱坞的经典。 Mitchell hated fame and declared that she would not write another word as long as she lived. She died in a road accident in 1949. In 1995, an unpublished manuscript she had written as a teenager was discovered. It was published the following year as Lost Laysen, a romantic novella set in the South Pacific. 米切尔是个不喜名誉的人，她宣称在有生之年不再写任何东西。1949年她死于一场车祸。1995年，她写于青少年时期的一份未经发表的手稿被发现，次年这部描写南天平洋一个小岛上的爱情故事的名为《失去的莱松岛》的短片故事被发表。 manuscript ? n. 手稿;原稿;底稿;手写本 adj. 手写的，手抄的 英语的manuscript一词由manu-‘手’和-script‘书写、字迹’构成，字面意思即【用手所写】。manu-意为‘手’，故有：手册manual【手翻书】、演习maneuver 【用手操作】、管理manage【操作】、手铐manacle【手铐】。-script意为‘书写、字迹’，故有：附言postscript【写在后面】、处方proscription【写在前面】等。 2. Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Grey (1890) 2.奥斯卡·王尔德--《道林·格雷的画像》（1980） Whil