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Doris Lessing 多丽丝·莱辛 Doris Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in Persia (now Iran) on October 22, 1919. Lessing was educated at the Dominican Convent High School, a Roman Catholic convent all-girls school in Salisbury. She left school at the age of 14, and was self-educated from there on; she left home at 15 and worked as a nursemaid. She started reading material on politics and sociology that her employer gave her, and began writing around this time. Vocabularies 1、Cascade [k?s‘ke?d] n. 层叠；小瀑布；喷流 vi. 像瀑布般冲下或倾泻 v. 使瀑布似地落下 2、Diabetes (n)糖尿病 3、subsist on 靠…来生存 4、Congenial [k?nd?i?n??l] adj. 意气相投的；性格相似的；适意的；一致的 Isn’t it common? We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. SO as to the author. She’s wrote about her father before, but novels, don’t have to be ”true”. writing this article is difficult because it has to be “true”. Now, let’s talk about the content of this essay~~~ 1、how the author describe her father‘s family as a poor??????? Little game~~ 2、father describe his elder brother as ( ), and has ( )brains, but father always had a ( ) So easy~ Last question~ How did the father’s life reflect the British people in the first half of the 20th century? * My Father By Doris Lessing Her novels and short stories are largely concerned with people caught in the social and political upheavals of the 20th century. Central themes in Lessing‘s works are feminism , the battle of the sexes, and individuals in search of wholeness. 5、just as well 幸好 6、engage [?nɡed?] vt. 吸引，占用；使参加；雇佣；使订婚(be engaged to)；预定 vi. 从事(in)；答应，保证(for)；交战；啮合 7、commission (n) 军衔官职 8、congeal [k?nd?i?l] vi. 凝结；凝固 vt. 使…凝结；使…冻结 · 9、shrapnel [?r?pn(?)l] (n) 榴散弹 · 10、look up things 把事情 封藏在心里 · 11、mortgage [‘m??g?d?] 抵押 12、neurotic [nj??r?t?k] adj. 神经过敏的；神经病的 n. 神经病患者；神经过敏者 13、captive [k?pt?v] adj. 被俘虏的；被迷住的 n. 俘虏；迷恋者 14、disorder [d?s??d?] n. 混乱；骚乱 vt. 使失调；扰乱 15、ponder about 思索 clever by half clever Slow brain 3、what t