外研社新时代核心英语教程 综合英语2教学课件unit 7.pptxVIP

;7;;;;2;;Lucy Tan Lucy Tan, American writer. She grew up in New Jersey and has spent most of her adult life in New York and Shanghai. She received B.A. from New York University and M.F.A from the university of Wisconsin-Madison, in which she was awarded the 2016 August Derleth Prize.;What we were promised Her fiction has been published in journals like Asia Literary Review and Ploughshares, where she was the winner of the 2015 Emerging Writer’s Contest. What we were promised is her first novel exquisitely exploring class, family and self.;;;1. I spoke it almost exclusively until the very first day of pre-school... (Para. 2) Paraphrase: I only spoke Chinese until the first day of pre-school...;2. I struggled against it, partly because I didn’t possess the full range of vocabulary through which to express myself, and partly because it was a language in which I couldn’t address my emotions. (Para. 2) In this sentence, parallel structure is used, i.e. partly because...and partly because... This sentence shows the author’s attitude toward Chinese before she read “Love” by Eileen Chang.;3. On parents’ visiting day at school... (Para. 3) Paraphrase: By general standards, my family was very poor, but my father or mother could usually find some jobs offering the lowest wage that an employer should pay, and this allowed us to reach the level of middle class by reservation standards.;4. …I tried never to cry in front of them. I held my tears through dinner. I cried only alone, in my room, or on the phone with friends. (Para. 3) This sentence is to support the idea that Chinese are reluctant to address emotions explicitly. Note that three parallel structures are used, i.e. I tried..., I held..., I cried...;5. It seemed to me that the heart was a dangerous territory for Chinese and so I kept the two apart. (Para. 3) Paraphrase: As for me, to address emotions in Chinese is quite difficult, so I would deliberately treat them differently when choosing one of the two languages to ex