新时代核心英语教程综合英语4教学课件U2.pptxVIP

;2;;;;;;Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston established her reputation as a writer with the publication of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts in 1976, which has been widely taught and anthologized. This book is also possibly one of the most controversial works in Chinese American literature. The word “memoir” used in the title indicates the reader, especially the Western reader, a sense of cultural “authenticity” about China, which has been severely criticized by other writers and critics like Frank Chin and Jeffery Paul Chan by accusing the book of providing the fake “authenticity” and negative Chinese images. ;;;1. The plane had to be light, so no matter how tired she felt, she dared not rest her spirit on a wing but continuously and gently pushed up on the plane’s belly. She had already been waiting at the airport for nine hours. She was wakeful. (Para. 1) Paraphrase: The plane needed to be light, so even though Brave Orchid was very tired, she kept using her willpower to push the plane up. She was waiting at the airport for nine hours and she was not sleepy at all. The two sentences show Brave Orchid’s anxiety to meet her sister. ;2. Brave Orchid had made two of her own children come too because they could drive, but they had been lured away by the magazine racks and the gift shops and coffee shops. (Para. 2) Paraphrase: Brave Orchid asked two of her American children to come with her because they could drive, but her American children had been tempted by the magazine racks and the gift shops and coffee shops at the airport, refusing to sit and wait with her. ;;3. They hurried, folding up their mother’s encampment. She was glad her children were not useless. They must have known what this trip to San Francisco was about then. (Para. 4) Paraphrase: They came quickly and folded up their mother’s blanket. Brave Orchid was glad that her children were helpful and knew what this trip to San Francisco meant to their mother.;;4. Brave Orchid s