Saki_the_open_window_分析.pptVIP

The Open Window Essential words and phrases Words: annoy vt. 使生气 affect vt. 影响 tremble v. 颤抖 relief n. 缓解，救助 scarcity n. 短缺，不足 muddy adj. 泥泞的 sympathetic adj. 同情的 extraordinary adj. 不一般的 graveyard n. 墓地 Creature n. 生物 Phrases: go through 经历 a number of 许多 make a statement 声明 apologize for 因…道歉 on the matter of 就…来说 lose one’s nerve 失去勇气，吓坏 make up 虚构，杜撰  ☆Three years ago  ☆Her aunt‘s husband and two brothers  ☆They went hunting for snipe with a little spaniel(西班牙猎犬) . They left through that very window, but they never returned because they were engulfed by a piece of bog（沼泽). Their bodies were never found. ☆Vera’s aunt believes that the men will return one day, that they will enter the house the way they left, through the open window. That is why the window is kept open every evening until dark;  “Do you know, sometimes on quiet evenings like this, I almost get a strange feeling that they will all walk in through that window - 你知道吗，有时候像今天这样寂静无声的傍晚，我总会有一种感觉，那就是他们会从那个窗子里走进来,一想到这里就会让人觉得毛骨悚然……” Mrs. Sappleton rattled cheerfully about her husbands and brothers as if they were alive, but to Framton it was all purely horrible. He made a desperate but only partially successful attempt to turn to talk on to a less ghastly topic….. “我想那是因为这狗吧，”那年轻小姐平静的说，“他告诉过我他害怕狗。有一次在印度，他被一群流浪狗一直追赶到了某个公墓里，实在没办法只好在一个新挖的墓穴里呆了一晚上，那些可怕的野狗就在他的头顶上。换成是谁，魂儿也得被吓飞了。” Plot Analysis: 1、unexpected ending 2、foreshadowing伏笔 3、story within story 4、ghost story elements “MY AUNT will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel,” said a very calm young lady of fifteen years of age; “in the meantime you must try and bear my company.” 忍受？？  She wanted to check whether there was any possibility that Mr. Nuttel would see through the story about the hunters. If he knew her aunt, she would not succeed in her plan to play the trick on him. He was wondering whether Mrs. Sappleton was married; perhaps she had been married and her husband was dead. But there was somethi