Lesson2 two kinds-luo 现代大学英语精读5课件.ppt

The immediate and compelling quality of the first-person narration enables the author to capture the moment as if it were taking place this very instant and right here. The first-person is either a participant or an eyewitness of the events. So there is authority in the first-person narration. The first-person narration can also allow the reader to enter the mind of the narrator. This extremely popular book was made into a play, and Peter Pan became a well-known figure in Disneyland. Everybody was familiar with Peter Pan’s looks with his short hair and a few straight-across bangs above his eyebrows. The complete rhyme goes like this: “ Hey, diddle, diddle闲荡, The cat and the fiddle小提琴, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed, To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.” (7) curtsy: n. curtsy is a gesture of respect or reverence made chiefly by women by bending the knees with one foot forward and lowering the body. 屈膝礼一种主要由妇女做的表示尊重或恭敬的动作，弯曲双膝，一脚向前迈并使身体下坐 v. to make a curtsy.行屈膝礼 (8) fluffy: light and airy; soft轻柔的；蓬松的，松软的fluffy curls:松软的卷发 (9) cascade: v. To fall or cause to fall in or as if in a cascade泻落瀑布似的或使瀑布似的下落 In a letter he wrote to his brother about his deafness in 1802, he said: “ What humiliation when anyone standing beside me could hear a distant flute that I could not hear, or a shepherd singing, and I could not distinguish a sound! Such circumstances brought me to the brink of despair and almost made me put an end to my life: nothing but my art held my hand.” There was no time to pack anything else, my mother has explained to my father after they boarded the boat. Still his hands swam frantically between the slippery silks, looking for his cotton shirts and wool pants. When they arrived in San Francisco, my father made her hide those shiny clothes. (3) prance: to rise up on the hind legs in a lively way, while moving along: said of a horse; to move about in a way suggestive of a prancing horse 腾跃, 欢蹦乱跳 8. This