新视野大学英语第一单元人物简介.pptx

人物及其作品简介;Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961);born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois near Chicago in 1899 father: a successful physician, love fishing and hunting; mother: music teacher, who was very interested in literature;In 1914, World War I broken out. Hemingway joined the Red Cross and enter the battle field. He was seriously wounded in the battlefield. The nightmarish war experience changed his life.;After WWI, he published his first influential novel——The Sun Also Rises. It describes the World War I makes young Americans feel lost，empty and depressed and they are called The Lost Generation;Then he was tortured by several kinds of diseases . He never created some influential works after that, and finally, may be discouraged by a troubled family background, illness and the belief that he was losing his gift for writing, in 1961, he shot himself with gun in his home.;Main Works;(1)The Sun Also Rises (1926)《太阳照样升起》 paints the image of a whole generation—the lost generation, spiritual crisis (2)A Farewell to Arms (1929) 《永别了，武器》based on his war experience in Italy, a love tragedy in the War, the lovers called “modern Romeo and Juliet”, firmly established his reputation ;Short story collections: Men without Women (1927)《没有女人的男人》 Winner Take Nothing (1933) 《胜者无所得》 Play: The Fifth Column (1940) 《第五纵队》;Direct, terse, and often monotonous Simple , natural ,conventional words and sentences Few conventional emotive language, few authorial comments Focus on facts Symbolism;“But a man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”人不是为失败而生的。一个人可以被毁灭，但不能给打败But, then, nothing is easy. 不过话得说回来，没有一桩事是容易的。 It is silly not to hope, he thought. 人不抱希望是很傻的。 Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.现在不是去想缺少什么的时候，该想一想凭现有的东西你能做什么 ;Oscar Wilde(16 Oct.1854---30 Nov.1900);Oscar Wilde was the second son born into an Anglo—Irish family at 21 Westland Row, Dublin. His father Willian Wil