Unit1Thewrittenwordreading（Languagepoints）课件（牛津译林版选修8）.ppt

Module 8 Unit 1 Reading-2 Language points;1. They are novels, plays and poems that were written a long time ago and were so well written and so well received that people still read them today.;well-born well-built well-done well-fed well-informed well-known well-read well-spoken well-thought-of well-timed well-connected well-intentioned;2. Because a lot of classics were written so long ago, the language used in them is quite different from the language used today.;3. They have not disappeared and still have a place in the world today. 它们并没有消失，并且在当今世界仍占有一席之地;4. Why else would many films based on them be successful? 要不然为什么许多根据 经典文学作品改编的电影可以成功呢？;5. I do not think that these classic novels would be made into films if they had nothing to do with life today. 我想这些经典小说如果与现代生 活没有任何关系的话，是不会改编成电影的。;6. Great Expectations is set in England in the early 1800s. 《伟大的前程》以19世纪初的英格兰为背景。 be set in: represent the action of (a play, novel, etc.) happening in specific place or at specified time设置 (戏剧, 小说等的) 背景 This movie is set in London before the Second World War. 这部电影以第二次世界大战前的伦敦为背景。 ;7. Pip’s sister seldom has a kind of word to say, but Joe is a kind and simple man, who would rather die than see any harm come to Pip. would rather… than… 宁愿……也不愿…… We would rather walk to the cinema than take a bus. The mother would rather die than lose her children.;8. Classic novels often have symbols which add interest, tension or deeper meaning to the text. 经典小说中往往有一些象征，这些象征为 原文增添了趣味、紧张的气氛或者更深层次的意义。 tension 1) state or degree of stretching or being stretched：拉力；张力；紧张的状态 Massage helps relieve the tension in one’s muscles. 按摩可使紧张的肌肉放松。;2) mental, emotional or nervous strain; tenseness: 心理、情绪或神经方面的紧张： My doctor says that tension is a major cause of heart disease. …精神紧张是引起心脏病的主要原因. 3) condition when feelings are tense or relations between people groups, etc. are strained: 心情 的紧张状态；（人或