高英第一册4课.ppt

1、Lesson 4 Everyday UseFor Your Grandmamma,By Alice Walker,About the author,Walker, Alice (1944- ), American author and poet, most of whose writing portrays the lives of poor, oppressed African American women in the early 1900s. Born in Georgia, she was educated at Spelman and Sarah Lawrence colleges.

2、 Walkers experiences during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence, including undergoing an abortion and making a trip to Africa, provided many of the books themes, such as love, suicide, civil rights, and Africa. Walker received many additional honors and awards. She was also active in the movements for

3、 civil and womens rights.,Walkers other works,The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970) Meridian (1976) The Color Purple (1982) The Temple of My Familiar (1989) Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) By the Light of My Fathers Smile (1998),The author wrote quite a number of novels, among them were The C

4、olor Purple which won the Pulitzer Prize of Fiction （普利策小说奖） and The American Book Award（美国图书奖）. In 1985, The Color Purple was made into a movie which won great fame.,Text analysis,Words and expressions Paraphrase some key sentences in the text Translation Figure of speech,Words and expressions,wavy

5、: characteristic of waves, resembling waves. Here the word describes the marks in wavy patterns on the clay ground left by the broom. an extended living room: an enlarged living room by a new addition to the original space. Extended means prolonged, continued; enlarged in influence, meaning, scope,

6、etc. e.g. extended care: nursing care provided for a limited time after a hospital stay extended family: a group of relatives by blood, marriage or adoption, often including a nuclear family, living together, esp. three generations are involved.,groove: a long narrow path or track made in a surface,

7、 esp. to guide the movement of sth.(here the explanation is not proper) A groove is a wide, deep line cut into a surface. The cupboard door slides open along the groove it fits into.,homely: simple, not grand, (of people, faces, etc.,) not good-looking, ugly If someone is homely, they are not very a

8、ttractive to look at; used in Am.E.,awe: Awe is the feeling of respect and amazement that you have when you are faced with sth. wonderful, frightening or completely unknown. The child stared at him in silent awe.,To have made it: if you make it, you are successful in achieving sth. Difficult, or in

9、surviving through a very difficult period. I believe I have the talent to make it. You are brave and courageous. You can make it.,confront: to face boldly or threateningly, encounter If a problem, task, or difficulty confronts you, or you are confronted with it, it is sth. that you cannot avoid and

10、must deal with I was confronted with the task of designing and building the new system.,totter: to move in an unsteady way from side to side as if about to fall, to walk with weak unsteady steps The old lady tottered down the stairs.,curse: If you curse, you use rude or offensive language,usu. becau

11、se you are angry about sth. insult: If sb. insults you, they say sth. rude to you or offend you by doing or saying sth. which shows they have a low opinion of you.,limousine: A limousine is a large and very comfortable car, esp. one with a glass screen between the front and back seats. Limousines ar

12、e usually driven by a chauffeur,Sedan / saloon is a car with seats for four or more people, a fixed roof, and a boot (the space at the back of the car, covered by a lid, in which you carry things such as luggage, shopping or tools) that is separate from the seating part of the car.,gray / grey: used

13、 to describe the colour of peoples hair when it changes from its original colour, usu. as they get old and before it becomes white Johnny Carson: a talk show anchorman 9. tacky: (Am.E, slang) shabby,overalls: are a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket.工装裤 Your wear overalls o

14、ver your clothes in order to protect them from dirt, paint, etc. while you are working,hog: pig, esp. a fat one for eating sledge hammer: large, heavy hammer for swinging with both hands, a large heavy hammer with a long handle, used for smashing concrete.长把大锤 barley: 大麦 pancake: a thin, flat circle

15、 of cooked batter (糊状物) made of milk, flour and eggs. usu. rolled up or folded and eaten hot with a sweet or savory filling inside Who ever knew a Johnsonthe womans family name,sidle: walk as if ready to turn or go the other way If you sidle somewhere, you walk there uncertainly or cautiously, as if

16、 you do not want anyone to notice you A man sidled up to me and asked if I wanted a ticket for the match.,shuffle: slow dragging walk If you shuffle, you walk without lifting your feet properly off the ground He slipped on his shoes and shuffled out of the room. cf: totter (n.6), sidle(n. 15), shuff

17、le,blaze: to burn with a bright flame A wood fire was blazing, but there was no other light in the room. n. the sudden sharp shooting up of a flame, a very bright fire The fire burned slowly at first, but soon burst into a blaze.,sweet gum tree: a large North American tree of the witch hazel (榛子) fa

18、mily, with alternate maplelike leaves, spiny (多刺的) fruit balls, and flagrant juice 美洲金缕梅, 落叶灌木或小乔木. 原产于北美和亚洲. 其分叉小枝从前用为魔杖, 这寻找地下水, 故俗称魔杖.,dingy: dirty and faded A building or place that is dingy is rather dark and depressing and does not seem to have been well looked after,. This is the dingiest str

19、eet of the town. Clothes, curtains, etc. that are dingy are dirty or faded.(stop here),Stand off: stand away, in a distance. Augusta: city in eastern Georgia on the Savannah River. It is obvious that the family lives in the rural area in Georgia, a southern state in America. dimwit: (slang) a stupid

20、 person, a simple organdy (or organdie): a very sheer, crisp cotton fabric used for dresses, curtains, etc to her graduation: to attend her graduation ceremony pumps: low-cut shoes without straps or ties,church songs: hymns in praise or honor of God. hook: to attack with the horns as by a bull. shin

21、gle: a thin wedge-shaped piece of wood, slate, etc. laid with others in overlapping rows as a roof. furtive: done or acting in a stealthy manner, as if to hinder observation; surreptitious , stealthy, sneaky hang about: (or around) a. to cluster around; b. (colloquial) to loiter or linger around was

22、hday: a day, often the same day every week, when the clothes, linens, etc. of a household are washed,tripped over it: mispronounced it, failed to say it correctly trip, to stumble, catch ones foot and lose ones balance. Here it is used figuratively, treating the name as something like a stone that c

23、auses one to stumble. e.g. The fisherman tripped over a root and fell into the river.,stumped: (colloquial) puzzled, perplexed, baffled member: (spoken English) = remember a kind of dopey, hangdog look: dopey: (colloquial) mentally slow or confused: stupid hangdog: ashamed and cringing e.g. a hangdo

24、g expression portion: ones lot; destiny,Paraphrase some key sentences in the text,She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand Paraphrase: She thinks that her sister has a firm control of her life. She washed us in a river of make-believe Paraphrase: She imposed on us lots of f

25、alsity.,You can see me trying to move a second or two before I make it. Paraphrase: You can see me trying to move my body a couple of seconds before I finally manage to push myself up.,Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the branches. Paraphrase: As I

26、see Dee is getting tired of this, I dont want to go on either. In fact, I could have traced it far back before the Civil War along the branches of the family tree.,Every once in a while he and Wangero sent eye signals over my head. Paraphrase: Now and then he and Dee communicated through eye contact

27、 in a secretive way.,Less than that. Paraphrase: If Maggie put the old quilts on the bed, they would be in rags less than five years. This was the way she knew God to work. Paraphrase: She knew this was Gods arrangement.,Translation,In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working

28、hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes after

29、it comes steaming from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. But of course all this does hot show on television. I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter,

30、 my skin like an uncooked barley pancake. My hair glistens in the hot bright lights. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.,译文：在现实生活中，我是一个大块头、大骨架的妇女，有着干男人活儿的粗糙双手。冬天睡觉时我穿着绒布睡衣；白天身穿套头工作衫。我能像男人一样狠狠地宰猪并收拾干净。 我的一身脂肪使我在寒冬也保持温暖。我能整天在户外干活儿，敲碎冰块，取水洗衣。我能吃在明火上烧熟的猪肝，而这猪肝还冒着热气，从刚

31、宰死的猪身上切下来的。有一年冬天，我用一把大铁锤砍倒一头公牛，锤子正打在小牛两眼之间的大脑上。天黑之前，我把牛肉挂起来凉着。不过，这一切当然都没有在电视上出现过。我的女儿希望我的样子是：体重减去一百磅，皮肤像下锅煎之前的大麦面饼那样细腻光滑，头发在炽热耀眼的灯光下闪闪发 亮。而且，我有一口伶牙俐齿，能够妙语连珠。就连乔尼卡森也望尘莫及。,1)一场大火把贫民区三百多座房子夷为平地。 2)咱们一边喝咖啡一边谈这件事吧。 3)只要我们坚持这些原则，我们就会成功。 4)他们的生活方式可以追溯到一千多年前他们的祖先所开创的古老传统。 5)这个消息使她大为震惊，但她很快就镇定了下来。,译文： 1) A b

32、ig fire burned to the ground more than 300 homes in the slum neighborhood. 2) Lets talk about the matter over a cup of coffee. 3) As long as we stick to these principles, we will surely be successful. 4) Their way of life could be traced to the ancient traditions handed down to them by their ancesto

33、rs more than one thousand years ago. 5) She was shocked at the news, but before long she recomposed herself.,Figure of Speech,Hyperbole: Understatement: Personification: Metonymy: Sarcasm: Parallelism: Metaphor:,Theme,The story addresses itself to the dilemma of African Americans who, in striving to escape prejudice and poverty, risk a terribl