Lesson Six.ppt

1、Lesson Six,Dream Children: A Reverie,Personal Essay (个人小品文，个人随笔),A kind of informal essay which developed and flourished in England in the 19th century. Responding to the romantic impulses of the time, the personal essay usually has an intimate style, some autobiographical elements, and an urbane (r

2、efined, elegant) conversational manner.,Authors of this form include Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, James Hunt, and others. Lambs Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia exhibited a personal style, an autobiographical interest, a sad humor and sentiment, an unfailing urbanity and an unerring (准确的) li

3、terary taste, which have made Lamb a master of this form and a favorite essayist of all time.,Later in the century, a worthy successor to Lamb was found in Robert Louis Stevenson, with his whimsical humor, nimble （机敏的）imagination, meticulous craftsmanship, and buoyant （轻快的） personality.,梦幻中的孩子选自兰姆的伊

4、利亚随笔初集 （Essays of Elia）。恰如副标题所示，这片文章记叙的是“一段奇想” （A Reverie）。 兰姆很喜欢孩子。本篇成语其兄约翰去世之后，他缅怀祖母，怀念兄长，思念初恋情人，向往有自己的孩子。悲痛、回忆、渴望、想象，可谓白干交集，情深意长。全篇文笔优美，构思巧妙，至情至性。,grandame: grandmother the little ones: the children. Lamb remained single all over his life. The children here mentioned are fictitious. their great-g

5、randmother Field: 确有其人。兰姆的外祖母叫玛丽菲尔德，曾在英国赫特福郡的布来克斯威尔为乡绅普鲁默当了50年管家,the ballad of the Children in the Wood:英国的一首歌谣， 讲述一对小兄妹的故事。他们的乡绅父亲死后，叔父为夺取财产，派两个凶手到森林中去杀害他们，其中一人不忍下手杀害幼小的孩子，便杀死同伙，然后自杀，但最后小兄妹也在森林中因又冻又饿而死。,the Robin Redbreasts: 红胸知更鸟。上述歌谣中讲到小兄妹死后，这种鸟衔来树叶覆盖两兄妹的尸体。 Alice: the imaginative little girl,the

6、 Abbey: the Westminster Abbey Lady C: 不详 tawdry: gaudy & cheap in appearance gilt: covered with gold and gilt John: the imaginative son concourse: crowd gentry: the class under the nobility,the Psaltery: the Book of Psalms 旧约中的诗篇 the Testament: 指圣经中的新约（The New Testament） spread her hands: that is, i

7、n surprise till upon my looking grave: looking serious, or even unpleasant desist: to cease/ stop doing sth,apparition: spectre, ghost 幽灵 two infants: 据说，在普鲁默家族里，17世纪时曾有两个小孩失踪 innocents: harmless children Bust : a sculpture representing a persons head, shoulders and upper chest,the twelve Caesars: 指从 Augustus 到 Domitian 的12位罗马皇帝，他们的大理石胸像 (bust) 当时常作为富人房间里的摆设 flutter: wave irre