海事基础英语综合教程第一册Unit2_Maritime_Literature教材教学课件.pptVIP

Unit 2;Part ⅠWarming-up Activities;Part ⅡText A: The Old Man and the Sea; Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of these are considered classics of American literature.; The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954. ; The story tells of the Cuban fisherman Santiago who for 84 luckless days has rowed his skiff into the Gulf Stream in quest of marlin. Aged and solitary, he goes far out and hooks a great fish. As he sails slowly homewards sharks attack his catch and he keeps fighting them. When he makes land his marlin is but a skeleton. Yet the old man remains proud in defeat. ;Section 2: Text explanation;1. settle vi. 1) to sink slowly down and become still (使)缓慢沉落，(使)逐渐下陷 e.g. ① Once its impurities had settled, the oil could be graded. 一旦杂质沉淀下去，油就可以分级了。 ② Stir the coffee to settle the grounds. 把咖啡搅一搅好让渣滓沉淀. 2) If people settle an argument or problem, they solve it, by making a d