Paper Pills 纸球
He was an old man with a white beard and huge nose and hands. Long before the time during which we will know him, he was a doctor and drove a jaded white horse from house to house through the streets of Winesburg. Later he married a girl who had money. She had been left a large fertile farm when her father died. The girl was quiet, tall, and dark, and to many people she seemed very beautiful. Everyone in Winesburg wondered why she married the doctor. Within a year after the marriage she died.
The knuckles of the doctor's hands were extraordinarily large. When the hands were closed they looked like clusters of unpainted wooden balls as large as walnuts fastened together by steel rods. He smoked a cob pipe and after his wife's death sat all day in his empty office close by a window that was covered with cobwebs. He never opened the window. Once on a hot day in August he tried but found it stuck fast and after that he forgot all about it.
Winesburg had forgotten the old man, but in Doctor Reefy there were the seeds of something very fine. Alone in his musty office in the Heffner Block above the Paris Dry Goods Company's store, he worked ceaselessly, building up something that he himself destroyed. Little pyramids of truth he erected and after erecting knocked them down again that he might have the truths to erect other pyramids.
Doctor Reefy was a tall man who had worn one suit of clothes for ten years. It was frayed at the sleeves and little holes had appeared at the knees and elbows. In the office he wore also a linen duster with huge pockets into which he continually stuffed scraps of paper. After some weeks the scraps of paper became little hard round balls, and when the pockets were filled he dumped them out upon the floor. For ten years he had but one friend, another old man named John Spaniard who owned a tree nursery. Sometimes, in a playful mood, old Doctor Reefy took from his pockets a handful of the paper balls and threw them at the nursery man. "That is to confound you, you blithering old sentimentalist," he cried, shaking with laughter.
The story of Doctor Reefy and his courtship of the tall dark girl who became his wife and left her money to him is a
他是一个白胡子老人，鼻子和手都很大。早在我们认识他之前，他就是一个医生，经常骑一匹老白马，穿过温斯堡街边的一户户人家。后来，他跟一个有钱的姑娘结了婚。父亲死时留给她一个肥沃的大农场。姑娘安静、高挑，皮肤有些黑，在不少人眼力她很美。温斯堡人人都奇怪她为什么会嫁给医生。结婚不到一年，她就死了。
医生的指关节异乎寻常地大。他把手握起来时关节大得就像一簇用钢针串起来，未曾上过漆、像胡桃一般大的木球。他抽一种根雕的烟斗。妻子死后他就整天靠窗坐在空荡荡的办公室里，窗上布满了蜘蛛网。他从不开窗。有一次，在8月，天很热，他想打开窗户，却发现窗户已经纹丝不动。此后，他几乎忘了这回事。
温斯堡已经忘记了这位老人。但是里菲医生心中仍然酝酿着某些非常优美的事物。他海甫纳区巴黎绸缎公司的楼上，在那间充满霉味的办公室里，他孤独地无休止地工作着，构建某种东西，然后又亲手毁坏它。他在建立真理的小金字塔，建成后又把它们毁掉，这样就可以又拿这些真理去构建别的金字塔。
里菲医生身材高大，一套衣服可以穿上10年。袖子磨坏了，膝盖和肘儿都露出小洞。在诊室，他也穿一件亚麻的防尘外套，上面带着很大的口袋，他永不停息地往口袋里塞纸片。几星期后纸片变成坚硬的小圆球，等口袋满了，他就把它们全倒在地板上。10年来，他只有一个朋友，一个叫约翰·斯潘尼尔德的老头，他有一个苗圃。有时，处于好玩，老里菲医生从口袋里抓住一把纸球向苗圃主人扔去。“打昏你这个爱说话、多愁善感的老家伙。”他尖叫着，笑得浑身直颤抖。
里菲医生以及他向那位成为自己妻子、留给他一大笔钱、黑皮肤的高个姑娘
very curious story. It is delicious, like the twisted little apples that grow in the orchards of Winesburg. In the fall one walks in the orchards and the ground is hard with frost underfoot. The apples have been taken from the trees by the pickers. They have been put in barrels and shipped to the cities where they will be eaten in apartments that are filled with books, magazines, furniture, and people. On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all of its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.
The girl and Doctor Reefy began their courtship on a summer afternoon. He was forty-five then and already he had begun the practice of filling his pockets with the scraps of paper that became hard balls and were thrown away. The habit had been formed as he sat in his buggy behind the jaded white horse and went slowly along country roads. On the papers were written thoughts, ends of thoughts, beginnings of thoughts.
One by one the mind of Doctor Reefy had made the thoughts. Out of many of them he formed a truth that arose gigantic in his mind. The truth clouded the world. It became terrible and then faded away and the little thoughts began again.
The tall dark girl came to see Doctor Reefy because she was in the family way and had become frightened. She was in that condition because of a series of circumstances also curious.
The death of her father and mother and the rich acres of land that had come down to her had set a train of suitors on her heels. For two years she saw suitors almost every evening. Except two they were all alike. They talked to her of passion and there was a strained eager quality in their voices and in their eyes when they looked at her. The two who were different were much unlike each other. One of them, a slender young man with white hands, the son of a jeweler in Winesburg, talked continually of virginity. When he was with 求婚的故事非常有意思。它很有味道，就像温斯堡果园里产的那种形状怪异的小苹果。秋天的时候，如果你在果园里散步，脚下的土地已经结霜冻硬，这时苹果已经被人摘走。苹果装上箱后运到大城市，然后在那些充满了书籍、家具和人的房间被吃掉。树上仅剩下零星的几只采果人不想要的有结疤的苹果。它们的样子就像里菲医生的手指关节。轻轻地咬一口，苹果的味道很鲜嫩，它全部的甜味都集中在侧面那一小块圆滑的部位。有人在干硬的地上从这棵树跑到那棵树去摘那种带结疤的怪状苹果，装满衣袋。只有不多的几个人知道那怪状苹果有多甜。
姑娘和里菲医生的感情始于一个夏天的午后。那年他45岁，已经开始把纸片塞进口袋，等变成硬球时再倒掉—坐在那个老白马拉的马车里缓缓穿过乡间公路时，他养成了一个习惯。纸上写着思想，以这个思想终，以另一个思想始。
在里菲医生的头脑中，一个思想接着一个思想慢慢酝酿成形。他拿这么多的思想再去构造某一个真理，这个真理在他头脑中逐渐发展成一个庞然大物。真理庞大得笼罩住整个世界。它变得可怕，接着又渐渐消退淡化下去，接着小小的思想萌芽又开始在酝酿中了。
高挑的黑皮肤姑娘来找里菲医生，因为她怀孕了，很害怕。她处境变成这样是由一连串同样奇怪的事情造成的。
父母死了，肥田沃地突然落到她手里，于是求婚的人跟了一大堆。有两年时间他几乎天天晚上接见求婚的人。除了两个人外，他们全都一样。他们向她表白自己的激情时语气和凝视她的眼神中带着某种迫不及待的渴望。那两个与众不同的人彼此也很不一样。其中一个少年身材细长，手指白晰，是温斯堡一个珠宝商的儿子，不停地提到处女的贞洁。他跟她在一起时永远离不开这个话题。另一个是位黑发少年，
her he was never off the subject. The other, a black-haired boy with large ears, said nothing at all but always managed to get her into the darkness, where he began to kiss her.
For a time the tall dark girl thought she would marry the jeweler's son. For hours she sat in silence listening as he talked to her and then she began to be afraid of something. Beneath his talk of virginity she began to think there was a lust greater than in all the others. At times it seemed to her that as he talked he was holding her body in his hands. She imagined him turning it slowly about in the white hands and staring at it. At night she dreamed that he had bitten into her body and that his jaws were dripping. She had the dream three times, then she became in the family way to the one who said nothing at all but who in the moment of his passion actually did bite her shoulder so that for days the marks of his teeth showed.
After the tall dark girl came to know Doctor Reefy it seemed to her that she never wanted to leave him again. She went into his office one morning and without her saying anything he seemed to know what had happened to her.
In the office of the doctor there was a woman, the wife of the man who kept the bookstore in Winesburg. Like all
old-fashioned country practitioners, Doctor Reefy pulled teeth, and the woman who waited held a handkerchief to her teeth and groaned. Her husband was with her and when the tooth was taken out they both screamed and blood ran down on the woman's white dress. The tall dark girl did not pay any attention. When the woman and the man had gone the doctor smiled. "I will take you driving into the country with me," he said.
For several weeks the tall dark girl and the doctor were together almost every day. The condition that had brought her to him passed in an illness, but she was like one who has discovered the sweetness of the twisted apples, she could not get her mind fixed again upon the round perfect fruit that is eaten in the city apartments. In the fall after the beginning of her acquaintanceship with him she married Doctor Reefy and in the following spring she died. During the winter he read to her all of the odds and ends of thoughts he had scribbled on the bits of paper. After he had read them he laughed and 耳朵很大，几乎什么话也不说，一心想做的就是设法把她弄到黑暗中来吻她。
有一段时间，高挑的黑皮肤姑娘觉得还是跟珠宝商的儿子结婚吧。她一连几个小时安静地坐在那里听他讲话，接着心里就怕起来了。她开始觉得，在他关于贞操的谈论之外，实质上潜藏着比其他所有的人都要厉害的情欲。有时她感觉他讲话时手正在抱着她的身体。她仿佛看到他把她的肉体在她那双白皙的手里慢慢地转动和玩弄，而且目不转睛地凝视着它。晚上她梦见少年咬她的身体，下巴上滴着血。这个梦她做了三回。就这样她跟另外一个什么话也不讲的人怀孕了，而且这位在情欲迸发的刹那间真咬她的肩膀，牙齿印过了好多天都不退。
等高挑的黑皮肤姑娘逐渐对里菲医生有深入地了解后，似乎觉得再也不想离开他了。一天早晨，她走进医生的诊室，什么话也不用说，医生似乎已经明白是怎么回事了。
医生的诊所里有个女人，她是温斯堡书店老板的妻子。跟其他所有老式乡村医生一样，里菲医生也给人拔牙，那个候诊的女人用手帕捂住嘴呻吟着。丈夫陪她一起来，等牙齿拔出来后他们俩都尖叫起来，血流到这女人洁白的衣服上。黑皮肤高个姑娘对此完全无动于衷。那女人和丈夫走了后医生才笑来。“我带你坐上车到乡下去。”他说。
好几个星期，这个黑皮肤的高个姑娘几乎天天跟医生呆在一起。促使她去找医生的那事件在一种痛苦中过去了，但她就像发现了怪状苹果的甜味的人，再也无法留恋那在城市公寓里被吃掉的光滑完美的苹果了。就在他们开始相识的那年秋天，她嫁给了里菲医生，可是第二年春天，她就死了。冬天的时候，他把所有的记录在纸片上的那些不成系统的零星思想读给她听。他读完后大笑一阵，接着把纸片塞进
stuffed them away in his pockets to become round hard balls. 衣服口袋里，让他们去变成圆圆的硬纸球。
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tongue; look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under 't. he that ' s coming Must be provided for; and you shall put This night ' s business into my dispatch, Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom. Macbeth: We will speak further. (Macbeth) Questions 1. Which of the following is the proper paraphrase for the line ” To beguile the time, look like the time ” ? (Write the letter representing your choice on the answer sheet.) A. Seize the hour. Seize the day. B. Make your appearance fit the occasion. C. Enjoy as you may, for tomorrow you may die. 2. In her speech, Lady Macbeth _____________ . (Write the letter representing your choice on the answer sheet.) A. tells Macbeth to behave normally as hospitable host and leave the murdering part to her to arrange B. persuade Macbeth to act as a serpent and carry out the murder in person
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英语文学考试复习提纲 一、I’m am Nobody!Who are you? 1、主体思想： 1）作者是想成为nobody还是somebody？为什么？在哪里看出？ She wants to be a Nobody，because she feels peaceful and quiet. Being Nobody won’t be disturbed by others and can do what we want to do. The author is proud of being Nobody,and she wants to find somebody to be her friend,who is also Nobody,too. And being Somebody will face the facts that they will be watched by others,their life will be disturbed by others with many noisy. Furthermore, there will be less private room. Use the soliloquy独白 and interpunction 标点符号 2）成为somebody和nobody各有什么好的和不好的地方？ 2、写作手法、修辞手法（rhetorical device/figure of speech） 1）比喻（metaphor /simile）：frog？an admiring bog？ 2）对话形式（conversation） 3）独白（soliloguy） 4）对比（contrast/comparison）：somebody and nobody 5）大写（capitals）：强调（emphasize）/特指某一类人（refer to a particular type of person） 二、Theme for English B 1、theme 是指homework，the paper that say somet about oneself。 B：一是指black people，二是指不同英语水平level的英语班 2、中心思想： 1）racial pride种族自豪感，作为一个黑人，班上唯一的黑人。 2）强调（emphasize）大家都是一样，具有共性的（share the commonalities），呼吁（call on）黑人与白人的平等地位（equal social status）。 3、写作手法、修辞手法（rhetorical device/figure of speech） 1）对比（contrast/comparison）：白人和黑人受到的不同的对待 三、A clean well-lighted place 1、海明威的写作方法：极简主义Minimalism 、冰山原则Ice Principle、存在主义哲学理念Existentialist Ideal 1）文中只出现三个人物角色（no names）：young waiter 、old waiter ，and the old man
第二部分作业1参考答案 1. Read the following fables and figure out the morals of the fables Passage A. The moral of the story is C. You can’t please everybody. PassageB The moral of the story is B. Look before you leap. The Chinese translation could be “三思而后行” . Passage C The moral of the story is A ____________________. A. One good turn deserves another. The Chinese translation could be “善有善报”. 2. Name the figures of speech used in the following lines A. Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit. （simile） B. Out,out, brief candle! / Life is but a walking shadow. （Metaphor） C. Edelweiss, edelweiss, every morning you greet me, small and white, clean and bright, you look happy to meet me. （Personnification） D. He has the microwave smile that warms another person without heat. （Metaphor） E. An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an Irishman, afterward. （Parallelism） F. Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit. （simile）
文学、艺术、音乐） 李仕才 导读：一位美国早期的作家曾经说过： 吗？美国人究竟有哪些音乐爱好呢？ 美国人对音乐艺术几乎是相当无知。”你认可这种观点 American Music Styles James Fenimore Cooper, an early American writer, once said, "The Americans are almost ignorant of the art of music." If that was once true, you would never know it today. Most Americans--even those without a musical bone in their bodies--have a favorite style of music. Many people enjoy classical and folk music from around the world. But other popular music styles in America were "made in the U.S.A." Country and western music lies close to the heart of many Americans. This style originated among country folks in the southern and western United States. Country music tells down-to-earth stories about love and life ′s hardships. Guitars, banjos and violins give country music its characteristic sound. The home of country music is Nashville, Tennessee--Music City U.S.A. Jazz music, developed by African-Americans in the late 1800s, allows performers to freely express their emotions and musical skill. ①Instead of just playing the melody, jazz musicians improvise different tunes. The peak of jazz music came in the 1920s. This period produced musicians like Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington. Different styles of jazz developed in different cities, ②such as New Orleans, Chicago, New York and Kansas City. ③The 1950s saw the development of an explosive new music style: rock ′n ′roll. This powerful music style addresses issues like love, sex, drugs, politics and death. Often it rebels against the accepted values of society. Rock concerts, featuring loud music and sometimes weird stage acts, have become a major part of American youth culture. Music videos on television have spread the message of rock to the far corners of the globe. And the beat goes on. Pop music represents popular styles that have wide appeal. "Golden oldies" from the past bring back pleasant memories for many. Rap music, which burst onto the
Isaac Bashevis Singer 艾萨克·巴什维斯·辛格（Isaac Bashevis Singer，1904-1991）美国作家。出生于沙俄统治下的波兰，祖父与父亲都是犹太教的长老。他从小接受正统犹太教教育，学习希伯来文和意第绪文，熟悉犹太教的经典和宗教仪式以及犹太民族的风俗习惯等，这一切都铸就了他作品的重要特色。由于受到作家和记者的哥哥的影响，他违背父命，走进了华沙犹太人文学界。在哥哥的帮助下，1935年迁居美国纽约。 辛格15岁开始文学创作。迄今为止已创作30余部作品，全都用意第绪文写成，大部分已译成英文。长篇小说《莫斯卡特一家》（195o）、《庄园》（1967）和《农庄》（1969）等主要写在现代文明和排犹主义双重压力下，波兰犹太社会的解体过程，其中《庄园》是这类作品的代表作。另一类小说主要写爱情与宗教问题，主要作品有《撒旦在戈雷》（1955）、《卢布林的魔术师》（196o）、《奴隶》（1962）、《仇敌；一个爱情故事）（1972）和《童爱）（1979）等。其中最著名的是《卢布林的魔术师》，西方评论家说它是辛格最佳的长篇小说。 辛格的短篇小说创作也很突出，至今已发表I0余部短篇小说集，重要的有《傻瓜吉姆佩尔及其他故事》（1957）、《市场街的斯宾诺莎》（1961）、《羽毛的王冠》（1973）、《短篇小说集》（1982）、《意象集》（1985）、《梅休塞拉赫之死及其他故事》（1988）等。此外还有2个剧本、3部回忆录。11部儿童故事集。1978年，由于“他的充满激情的叙事艺术，这种艺术既扎根于波兰犹太人的文化传统，又反映了人类的普遍处境”，辛格获诺贝尔文学奖。 辛格被称为当代最会讲故事的作家。在创作上，他尊重传统，又吸收了意第绪文学中的营养，创造出自己的独特风格。他的小说有不少以性爱为题材，他认为“在爱情和性爱中比在任何其他关系中，人的本性显露得更充分”。但他不耽于色情描写，而重在探索和揭示激情对个人命运的影响。他主张作家创作要起到娱乐读者的作用，让读者得到艺术享受。所以他的故事叙述生动，文笔轻松幽默，作品中丰富的成语和活泼的句法受到评论界的高度赞扬，认为那是任何译文无法传达的。
英语美文欣赏50 Run Through the Rain 雨中奔跑 She had been shopping with her Mom in Wal-Mart. She must have been 6 years old, this beautiful brown haired, freckle-faced image of innocence. It was pouring outside. The kind of rain that gushes over the top of rain gutters, so much in a hurry to hit the Earth, it has no time to flow down the spout. 她和妈妈刚在沃尔玛结束购物。这个天真的小女孩应该6岁大了，头发是 美丽的棕色，脸上有雀斑。外面下着倾盆大雨。雨水溢满了檐槽，来不及排走，就迫不及待地涌涨上地面。 We all stood there under the awning and just inside the door of the Wal-Mart. We all waited, some patiently, others irritated, because nature messed up their hurried day. I am always mesmerized by rainfall. I get lost in the sound and sight of the heavens w ashing away the dirt and dust of the world. Memories of running, splashing so carefree as a child come pouring in as a welcome reprieve from the worries of my day. 我们都站在沃尔玛门口的遮篷下。大家都在等待，有人很耐心，有人很烦 躁，因为老天在给他们本已忙碌的一天添乱。雨天总引起我的遐思。我出神地 听着、看着老天冲刷洗涤这世界的污垢和尘埃，孩时无忧无虑地在雨中奔跑玩 水的记忆汹涌而至，暂时缓解了我一天的焦虑。 Her voice was so sweet as it broke the hypnotic trance we were all caught in, "Mom, let's run through the rain." she said. 小女孩甜美的声音打破了这令人昏昏欲睡的气氛，“妈妈，我们在雨里跑吧。”她说。 "What?" Mom asked. “什么？”母亲问。 "Let's run through the rain!" She repeated. “我们在雨里跑吧，”她重复。 "No, honey. We'll wait until it slows down a bit." Mom replied. “不，亲爱的，我们等雨小一点再走。”母亲回答说。 This young child waited about another minute and repeated: "Mom, let's run through the rain." 过了一会小女孩又说：“妈妈，我们跑出去吧。” "We'll get soaked if we do." Mom said. “这样的话我们会湿透的。”母亲说。 "No, we won't, Mom. That's not what you said this morning," the young girl said as she tugged at her Mom's arm."
《文学英语赏析》课程作业评讲（4） 中央电大 题目： 1. Reading English literature is a necessary activity for English majors like you. Do you agree or disagree with the statement? Why or why not? 2. The following quotations are all from the coursebook. Do you agree or disagree with them? Why or why not? Choose one of the quotations to comment on. a. Freedom and power bring responsibility. b. Studies pass into and influence manners. c. They (meaning suspicions) dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, wise men to irresolution and melancholy. d. The tongue… is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood. e. To keep your marriage brimming/with love in the loving cup, /whenever you’re wrong, admit it;/whenever you’re right, shut up! f. Words and eggs must be handles with care. /Once broken they are impossible/things to repair. g. A poor life this, if, full of care, /We have no time to sand and stare. 知识点 1. 对于文学阅读以及赏析的重要性的认识。 2. 对于英语文学作品中一些经典语句的的理解以及小论文的写作。 标准答案 1. （key points） Reading English literature shall help us learn more language and improve our proficiency in English overall. (1)The language of literary texts is generally much more carefully and artfully used than for most other kinds of texts (such as newspaper, etc.). This means that literary texts offer a resource for expanding your range of vocabulary, your repertoire of grammatical structures, and your sensitivity to style, and the way the language is used to convey subtle nuances of meaning. (2)Literature is also the vehicle for cultural information and for knowledge about world. This should help us to become more curious about the ways other people live, more tolerant about difference, and more able to see our own ways of doing
全市高三英语 第6讲高考文学作品阅读及任务型阅读经典题分析、策略 指导与训练 （一）文学作品阅读 一、题型分析 “文学与艺术”是高中新课标24话题之一。该话题主要包括各种文学类型、艺术形式、文化名人以及艺术家等方面。高考英语阅读理解常涉及文学与艺术话题，旨在要求考生在日常生活中多关注当代文学与艺术的发展动向，多涉足文学与艺术领域，亲自去感受文学与艺术的魅力，开阔视野，提升文学素养。本课我们将主要探讨如何做好文学作品的阅读。 1.高考英语阅读理解中文学作品的常见形式： 1）文学作品原文或选段，如2019年江苏高考试题阅读理解D篇。 2）与经典文学作品相关的介绍、评论、反思等文章，如2012年江苏高考试题阅读理解D 篇。 2.高考英语阅读理解中文学作品的命题特点： 1）文章普遍较长，字数多在600字以上。 2）文章多以记叙文为主，在阅读时需关注文学作品的常见六大要素（setting,characters,plot,feeling,symbolism,theme） 3. 真题链接 【2019年江苏高考试题阅读理解D篇】 The 65-year-old Steve Goodwin was found s uffering from early Alzheimer’s(阿尔楚海默症). He was losing his memory. A software engineer by profession, Steve was a keen lover of the piano, and the only musician in his family. Music was his true passion, though he had never performed outside the family. Melissa, his daughter, felt it more than worthwhile to save his music, to which she fell asleep catch night when she was young. She thought about hiring a professional pianist to work with her father. Naomi, Melissa’s best friend and a talented pianist, got to know about this and showed willingness to help. “Why do this?” Steve wondered. “Because she cares.” Melissa said. Steve nodded, tears in eye. Naomi drove to the Goodwin home. She told Steve she’d love to hear him play. Steve moved to the piano and sat at the bench, hands trembling as he gently placed his fingers on the keys. Naomi put a small recorder near the piano, Starts and stops and mistakes. Long pauses, heart sinking. But Steve pressed on, playing for the first time in his life for a stranger. “It was beautiful." Naomi said after listening to the recording. “The music was worth saving.” Her responsibility, her privilege, would be to rescue it. The music was sill in Steve Goodwin. It was bidden in rooms with doors about to be locked.