【外语学习】新编英语教程A NEW ENGLISH COURSE AdvEngI_01 Hit the Nail on the Head.pptVIP

新编英语教程A NEW ENGLISH COURSE主编: 李观仪____________________________________________ 5 英 语 专 业 用 REVISED EDITION  * Unit One Text 1 Hit the Nail on the Head Alan Warner * Cultural Background About the author: Alan Warner (1921-- ), English teacher at Makerere College, Kampala, Uganda. The selection is Chapter 7 of his book A Short Guide to English Style (1961), which consists of three parts: part One, How to write clean English; Part Two, the development of English style; And Part Three, English styles today. Gustave Flaubert (1821—1880), French novelist, was associated with, though not representative, the movement of naturalism and known as one of the greatest realists of nineteenth-century France. His writing is marked by exactness and accuracy of observation, extreme impersonality and objectivity of treatment, and precision and expressiveness in style, or the principle of the Mot juste (correct or exact word) * Cultural Background Mrs. Malaprop A famous character in Sheridan’s comedy The Rivals (1775). She is noted for her blunders in the use of words. “As headstrong as an allegory (alligator) on the banks of the Nile” is one of her grotesque misapplications. She also requests that no delusions (allusions) to the past be made. She has given us the word malapropism as a name for such mistakes. Dickens, Charles (1812 – 1870) the greatest representative of English critical realism was born in 1812 at Portsmouth and lived a bitter life during his childhood. At the age of 12, he was sent to work in an underground cellar at a blacking factory for 12 hours a day. Though he left the blacking factory later and studied at school again, his miserable life at the factory left him an everlasting, painful brand on the boy’s mind. Years later, when he was a man, he would not even walk by the place where the factory had once been situated. All this had a deep influe