自考高英上_lesson12.ppt

5…were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. 6…I had a facility with words… 7…I could get my own back for my failure. 8…picture myself as the hero of thrilling adventures… 9…be running through my head… 10 A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table… 11 Although I had to search, and did search, for the right words, I seemed to be making this descriptive effort almost against my will, under a kind of compulsion from outside. 12...it always had the same meticulous descriptive quality. 13…an added pleasure. 14…full of descriptions and arresting similes, and also full of purple passages. 15 His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in---at least this is true in tumultuous, revolutionary ages like our own---but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. It is his job, no doubt, to discipline his temperament and avoid getting stuck at some immature stage, or in some perverse mood: but if he escapes from his early influences altogether, he will have killed his impulse to write. 16…to get your own back on grown-ups who snubbed you in childhood… 17…It is humbug to pretend that this is not a motive… 18 …store them up for the use of posterity. 19…to alter other people’s idea…that they should strive after…(alter,change) 20…no book is genuinely free from political bias. 21 It can be seen how these various impulses must war against on another, and how they must fluctuate form person to person and from time to time. 22 By nature…I am a person in whom the first three motives would outweigh the fourth. 23…an accurate political orientation. 24…turned the scale… 25 Everyone writes of them in one guise or another. 26 The job is to reconcile my ingrained likes and dislikes with the essentially public, non-individual activities that this age forces on all of us. 27 In any case I find that by the time you have perfected any s