《研究生英语精读教程》(第三版·上).ppt

Part Summary [1] My mother, Jane Lampton Clemens who died at the age of 88th , is an amazing person. Part Summary [2~6] She was concerned with everyones griefs and joys and could find every excuses to love even the toughest human beings or animals. Even the wild cats could be taken care of by her and had a friend in her. Part Summary [7~9] She feared nothing except for the snakes and bats which I hid in pockets and sewing baskets when I made mischief. Her fearlessness even conquered the most fierce and brutal man of the town who was afraid of by all of us, and they became friends later. She was also courageous enough to defend me when she heard the neighbor condemned me. Part Summary [10] She would not allow others to abuse animals. When she saw a burly cartman beating his horse over the head with the butt of a heavy whip, she took the whip away from him and made a persuasive appeal. Part Summary [11] She was fond of attending lectures, conventions and church revivals and always joined the parades and circus procession. She never missed a funeral and excused that if she did not go to other peoples funerals, they would not come to hers. Part Summary [12] She had a love which was concealed from us for 64 years. That was when she was 18 she had loved a young medical student. Their love ended with a misunderstanding and he left the country, while she had immediately married to show she did not care. At the year when she was 82, she heard that he was going to attend a convention of old settlers of Mississippi Valley. She went to there immediately. But she was 3 hours late and did not meet him. It became a lifelong regret for her. Part Summary [13~19] From then on, her memory began to fail. And four years later she died. But to the last she was capable with her tongue. She refuted the kind of saying that she was uneasy about me when I was a sickly child. Part Summary [20] My mothers character, striking and lovable, appears in my books as Tom Sawyers Aunt Polly who