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Extract from Tis: A Memoir Unit 1 Quit Irish brogue Reformation Greenwich Village NYU The Pilgrims Puritan Melville Dostoyevsky Home Feodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881): an outstanding 19th-century Russian novelist, the creator of the modern psychological novel. His most famous novels: Crime and Punishment The Idiot Home Back • NYU is the shortened form for New York University. Founded in 1831, New York University is the largest private university in the United States. Home Back • The Pilgrims refer to the 17th-century settlers who left England to avoid religious persecution. • They are traditionally known as the Pilgrim Fathers, i.e. fathers or founders of the US. Mayflower: first voyage to America, 1620 Home Back • A brogue is a strong local accent, especially an Irish or a Scottish accent. • An Irish brogue means the person has a strong Irish accent. Click and listen to a sample of Irish accent Click and listen to a sample of NY accent Home Back Greenwich Village is an area of New York City that was especially fashionable in the 1960s. The area was famous for avant-garde (先锋派，前卫) writers, poets, artist and film-makers. Home Back Puritan refers to the strict English religious group, which the Pilgrims belong to, and who wanted religious worship to be as simple as possible. It also refers to people with strict moral or religious principles, who disapprove of others enjoying themselves. Home Back 1. book jackets 2. scribble away 3. be supposed to 4. in the long run 5. frighten the life out of 1. memoir 2. admirable 3. inadequate 4. detect 5. persecute Expressions Home An admirable quality or action is one that deserves to be praised and admired. admirably adv. admiration n. Home Back If something is inadequate, there is not enough of it or it is not good enough. Home Back If you detect something, you notice it or sense it, even though it is not very obviou