现代大学英语精读四.pptxVIP

;Author Alan Paton (1903-1988) ; Alan Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He started his career by teaching? at a school in Ixopo. The dramatic career change to director of a reformatory (管教所）for black youths at Diepkloof, near Johannesburg, had a profound effect on his thinking. The publication of Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) made him one of South Africa’s best known writers, and by the time he died, it had sold over 15 million copies. Following his non-racial ideals, he helped to found the South African Liberal Party and became its president. ;His Works Cry, the Beloved Country; Apartheid;Apartheid; Apartheid;; The news caused a sensation because it proved that Dorlin still had gold deposits. This is a show that would cause a sensation in London or New York.; a feeling that you get from one of your five senses, 感官的感觉能力 The sensation of sight 视觉 Sensation of tiredness 疲劳感 He could feel no sensation in his arm. 他觉得自己的手臂麻木了。; Caroline had the sensation that she was being watched. It was a strange sensation—I felt I’d been there before.;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;;;;;In Orlando you develop a throat of iron, and you just put back your head and put it down, in case the police should arrive. ;;;;They gave a window to it, with a white velvet backdrop, if there is anything called white velvet, and some complimentary words. ;;;;;;… so I thought I’d go and see the window, and indulge certain pleasurable human feelings. I must have got a little lost in the contemplation of my own genius… ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;I wasn’t only feeling what you may be thinking, I was thinking that one of the impersonal doors might open at any moment, and someone might see me in “white” building, and see me and van Rensburg breaking the liquor laws of the country. ;Anger could have saved me from the whole embarrassing situation, but you know I can’t easily be angry. Even if I could have been, I might have found it hard to be angry with this particular man. ;;;;;;;;;;;All of us w