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会计学;I. About the Author:;Lesson 9 – A Dill Pickle;Lesson 9 – A Dill Pickle;Famously, Mansfield remarked risk, risk everything. It was largely through her adventurous spirit, her eagerness to grasp at experience and to succeed in her work, that she became ensnared in disaster. . . If she was never a saint, she was certainly a martyr, and a heroine in her recklessness, her dedication and her courage. Her last words were: I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.;Lesson 9 – A Dill Pickle;Themes: different human relationships interacting with each other; social classes and inequality in bourgeois society; the frenzied exhortation to live, which is central to all her writings; the opposition of convention and nature; the elevation of the great artist as the model for living and, by extension; art as a means of beingreal; the notion that destiny is a function of desiring—to want something strongly enough is to legitimise the means of getting it. In her most persuasive work, Mansfield found a way of pressing the threads of such a credo into the weave of her fiction. The story of the rises and falls in Mansfields popularity is fasci5nating, as it shifts with the major social, political and literary trends. ;Mansfields portrayal of social classes and the injustices of bourgeois society had obvious appeal to the Chinese. One of the translators, Tang Baoxin, writes: “With remorseless irony she lays bare the hypocrisy and shallowness of the leisured class and their men of letters.”;Lesson 9 – A Dill Pickle;Kew Gardens, on the banks of the River Thames in southwest London, represents 250 years of landscape and garden history. The site also houses 40 historically significant buildings, including Kew Palace, Queen Charlottes Cottage, and the Palm House. ;Pictures;Pictures;Pictures;Pictures;Pictures;Pictures;The Black Sea (known as the Euxine Sea in antiquity) is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and Asia Minor. It is connected to the Mediterranea