英语短篇小 说赏析Chapter I Plot and Structure.ppt

Chapter I  Plot and Structure “The moods were many and transient” (W.H. Hudson). “心绪纷繁但往往如过往烟云” 。 “This false world is but transitory” (William Dunbar). “这个虚幻的世界只是昙花一现” 。 We stayed at the inn as transient guests. 我们在小酒馆中只作短暂停留。 The accident prompted a review of school safety policy. 这场事故引起对学校安全制度的反思。 transient adj.短暂的, 瞬时的 n. 瞬时现象 Inform me if there is a vacant position. 如果这里有职位空缺的话请通知我。 Her vacant eyes told us she was suffering the pain of loss. 她空虚的眼神告诉我们她沉浸在失落的痛苦中。 vacant without an incumbent or occupant; unfilled: 空缺的;没有现任者或占有者； 空的 原文：As the housekeeper moved away he put, for the thousandth time, the question that he carried at the end of his tongue. Interpret: Before the housekeeper left, he asked the question he was ready for. He could not wait for he had repeated the question at heart for many times. 原文: Each plank in the floor owned its particular cant and shriek as from a separate and individual agnoy. Interpret: The floor was embodied with the emotion of people, who felt oppressed and lonely and uttered voice of pain. Trans: 地板的每一块拼木各自构成一个斜面，并且好像由于互不干连、各自独有的哀怨而发出尖叫。 Margaret Atwood (1939 - ) is a noteworthy Canadian writer who wins both international prizes and immense popularity among readers. She was born in a forest entomologist family in Ottawa in 1939, and lived in her youth in northern Quebec and Ontario, and later in Toronto. She attended the University of Toronto, majoring in English, with minors in Philosophy and French and received her B.A. with honors in 1961. She finished her postgraduate study in 1962 and received a masters degree from Radcliff College in Massachusetts. But the Ph.D. study at Harvard was suspended by her writing career, which she has never accomplished. Margaret Atwood is now the author of more than thirty books: novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, political essays, social history, ecological writings, and books for children. She has published over 15 poetry collections, 12 novels, 8