unit8_掷铁饼者课堂.pptVIP

FURTIVE ADJECTIVE ? attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive e.g. He stole a furtive glance at her. ? suggestive of guilty nervousness the look in his eyes became furtive ? Derivatives furtively adverb furtiveness noun 31 2020/4/3 Richard Selzer THE DISCUS THROWER 1 ABOUT THE AUTHOR ● Richard Selzer ● 1928: born in Troy, New York ● 1948: graduated from Union college Surgeon Writer 2 2020/4/3 AS A SURGEON ● 1953: received M.D from Albany Medical College ● 1960: completed a surgical internship and residency at Yale University ● Until 1985: remained as Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery back 3 2020/4/3 AS A WRITER ● 1973: Rituals of Surgery ( first collection of short stories ) ● 1976: Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery ● 1979: Confessions of a Knife ( a collection of 24 essays , roughly half of which are surgical memories ) ● 1982: Letters to a Young Doctor ● 1986: Taking the World in for Repairs ● 1990: Imagine a Woman ● 1990: A Mile and a Half of Ink (a diary ) 4 2020/4/3 5 2020/4/3 AWARDS ● National Magazine Award ● American Medical Writers Award ● Guggenheim Fellowship ● His articles have appeared in many magazines 6 2020/4/3 ABOUT HIS WRITING ● In 1991, he contracted Legionnaires disease but went on to document his recovery in Raising the Dead: A Doctors Encounter with His Own Mortality ● In his writing, he draws upon his experience as a surgeon, and as one critic points out, he “force physicians to think about the morality of medicine.” 7 2020/4/3 This text is a piece of narration . The narrator, as a doctor, had a unique habit of “spying on” his patients for the sake of better medical treatment. He met with a particular patient who is blind and has amputations （截肢） of both legs . Though the patient is legless, he requires a pair of shoes everyday. He refuses his food and has a strange habit of throwing his china plate agai