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A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner Guide to Reading Published in 1930, “A Rose for Emily” is one of the best known and the most widely read among Faulkner’s short stories. The story took place in a mythical想象的；虚构的 town that William Faulkner called Jefferson, Mississippi. The time of the story is during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the town was learning to live with [口语]容忍：忍受(不愉快的事)；承认；接受；；顺应; 学会适应(常与have to，must连用)We have to live with the fact that this experiment is a complete failure.我们得承认这次实验彻底失败。I dont enjoy the pain, but I can live with it.我虽然不以疼痛为乐,但还可以忍受。 South’s loss in the Civil War of 1861-1865 and the consequent作为结果的；随之发生的，继起的；因…而引起的 dismantling取消；废除 of the slavery-based society that had preceded it. The end of slavery, however, did not end white supremacy白人至上；白人至上主义; supremacy至高; 至尊; 无上权威; 霸权 , nor in particular the social dominance of the prominent white families who, though small in number, had owned the largest plantations and the largest numbers of slaves. The prestige of those families persisted, even in their unaccustomed poverty. One of their long-standing social problems was to find suitable marriage partners for their offspring since so few outside the family were deemed worth to join it. The status of upper class white womanhood in Southern slavery- based society was both superior and limited. The wife of a plantation owner was raised 提高(名声等)： His prestige has been raised greatly since he was promoted to the president of the university.自从他升为大学校长以后，他的声望大大提高。 up above ordinary womanhood so that she was treated with a chivalrous尤指对女人体贴及彬彬有礼的; (对妇女)殷勤有礼的 deference尊重；顺从 . Though the white women gave birth to the only legitimate heirs, they were powerless to control the behavior of their men. What the white women did acquire was social power, to the point where 到...的程度 a whole community might feel bound (道德上或法律上)有义务的，应尽责任的，受到约束的，受束缚的，被迫的 to accede同意，答应；依从，应允(申请、条件等)(to) to their wishes. The older such a wom