Ship in the Desert-张旭.ppt

Unit 12 Ships in the Desert;Aral Sea from space, August 1964;1.Figures of speech;Definition 下定义;Illustration 例证;Repetition 重复;Metaphor 隐喻;Personification 拟人;Hyperbole 夸张;2. Language points;Now, I wanted to see the pole it-self, and some eight hours after we met the submarine, we were crashing through that ice, surfacing, and then I was standing in an eerily beautiful snowcape, windswept and sparkling white, with the horizon defined by little hummocks, or pressure ridges of ice that are pushed up like tiny mountain ranges when separate sheets collide.(para.4);But, without even considering that threat, shouldnt it startle us that we have now put these clouds in the evening sky which glisten with a spectral light? Or have our eyes adjusted so completely to the bright lights of civilization that we cant see these clouds for what they are – a physical manifestation of the violent collision between human civilization and the earth?(para.8);