2017_2018学年高中英语Module2FantasyLiteraturePhilipPullmanSectionⅣOtherPartsoftheModule教学案外研版选修.docVIP

Module 2 Fantasy Literature Philip Pullman Section Ⅳ Other Parts of the Module [原文呈现] [读文清障]　 The Story of J．K. Rowling and Harry Potter The elder stateswoman① of British fantasy literature is J．K. Rowling, the gifted② creator of Harry Potter. Joanne Rowlings roots③ are in the southwest of England, where she grew up④. But the idea for Harry Potter came to her⑤while she was on a delayed train⑥ between Manchester and London. She wrote down⑦ her ideas on the back of an envelope. She then went to teach English in Portugal, where she continued to add flesh⑧ to the bones of the first Harry Potter story⑨. But her name is forever associated with⑩ Edinburgh in Scotland, where she lived and developed the format? for the whole series of seven books?. ①stateswoman/steIts?w?m?n/n.在某一领域受尊敬的女性领导人物 gifted/gIftId/adj.有天才的，有天赋的 roots/ru?ts/n.(喻)根，根基 grow up成长，长大 come to sb.此处指“某种观点、念头、想法在某人脑海中出现”。 while she was on ...是时间状语从句。 write down写下(＝take/put/set down) flesh/fle?/n.肉 where 引导非限制性定语从句，修饰Portugal。 be associated with与……有联系 format/f??m?t/n.(节目、计划等的)构成，安排 where 引导非限制性定语从句，修饰Edinburgh。 J．K.罗琳与哈利·波特的故事 [第1段译文] 哈利·波特的天才般的创造者——J.K.罗琳，是英国魔幻文学的元老。乔安妮·罗琳在老家——英格兰西南部长大。而关于哈利·波特的想法是在从曼彻斯特开往伦敦的一列晚点的火车上闯入她的脑海的。她在一个信封的背面写下了她的想法。随后她前往葡萄牙教英语，在那里她继续给她的第一部哈利·波特小说的框架添加情节。但是她的名字却永远与苏格兰的爱丁堡联系在一起，她生活在那儿，并在那儿把整个系列7本书的框架构思出来。 There are many anecdotes? about how, in 1990, J．K. Rowling began the first draft of HarryPotterandthePhilosophersStone. She had the extra burden? of looking after her baby daughter while she worked, and because she was too poor to? own a typewriter, she wrote by hand?. She spent many hours over a single cup of coffee in a warm cafeteria in Edinburgh because she had no money to pay for? the heating? at home. Success was not swift? and Rowling might have given up. But she was stubborn and overcame all the difficulties. It was only in 1997 that she completed the first Harry Potter story， which, because the publishers in the USA requested a