大學精讀英語unit4-professional-for-women-重點

1、1. My profession is literature; and in that profession there are fewer experiences for women than in any other, with the exception of the stage-fewer, I mean, that are peculiar to women. (Para. 1)Translation: 我的專業(yè)是文學，而在這個專業(yè)中，婦女的特殊經(jīng)歷比其他專業(yè)中婦女面臨的特殊經(jīng)歷要少，舞臺藝術是個例外。2. For the road was cut. (Para. 1)Paraphr

2、ase: Early women writers had made their way into the profession of literature. The road was shaped.Translation: 道路已經(jīng)開辟出來了。 3. Writing was a reputable and harmless occupation. (Para. 1)Translation: 寫作是個受人尊敬且無害的職業(yè)。4. No demand was made upon the family purse. (Para. 1)Paraphrase: There was no need for

3、a writer to spend much of the family money in order to write.5. Pianos and models, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, masters and mistresses, are not needed by a writer. (Para. 1)Paraphrase: If you want to be a musician or a painter, you must own a piano or hire models, and you have to visit or even live in

4、cultural centers like Paris, Vienna and Berlin. And also you have to be taught by masters and mistresses. However, if you want to be a writer, you dont need all these.Translation: 當個作家不需要鋼琴、模特，也無需住在巴黎、維也納、柏林等文化之都, 或受教于專業(yè)教師。6. The cheapness of writing paper is, of course, the reason why women have su

5、cceeded as writers before they have succeeded in the other professions. (Para. 1)Translation: 當然，正是由于寫字紙價廉，婦女才得以在她們在其他職業(yè)里取得成功之前先在文學方面有所建樹。7. It was she who used to cause arguments or problems between me and my paper when I was writing. (Para. 3)Paraphrase: The false belief about what a proper woman

6、should be often caused arguments or problems between me and what I was writing. Here the word “paper” stands for what she was writing. Translation: 就是她，在我寫評論時，總是在我和我的寫作之間制造麻煩。 8. she was so constituted that she never had a mind or wish of her own. (Para. 3)Paraphrase: She was made up, formed or desi

7、gned in such a way that she never had an opinion or wish of her own. 9. Above allI need not say itshe was pure. (Para. 3)Paraphrase: Of all the qualities, purity was the most important one. The word pure: virgin, chaste, and virtuous. 10. Directly, that is to say, I took my pen in hand to review the

8、 novel by a famous man, she slipped behind me and whispered. (Para. 3)Paraphrase: As soon as I began to review that novel by a famous man, she got behind me quickly and quietly, and whispered. 11. And she made as if to guide my pen. (Para. 3)Paraphrase: She moved in a way that made it seem that she

9、was going to guide my writing. 12. I now record the one act for which I take some credit to myself a certain sum of money-shall we say five hundred pounds a year? - so that it was not necessary for me to depend solely on charm for my living. (Para. 3)Translation: 下面我要說說多少是我自己決定做的一件事情，當然做此事的功勞主要還應歸功于

10、我的了不起的祖先，是他們給我留下了一筆財產(chǎn) (比如說每年五百英鎊吧) ，這樣我就不必完全靠女人的魅力去謀生了。13. I turned upon her and caught her by the throat. (Para. 3)Paraphrase: I turned upon her: Suddenly I attacked her violently. 14. She would have plucked the heart out of my writing. (Para. 3)Translation: 否則她定會把我的寫作精髓抽掉。15. For, as I found, dire

11、ctly I put pen to paper, you cannot review even a novel without having a mind of your own, without expressing what you think to be the truth about human relations, morality, sex. (Para. 3)Paraphrase: For, I found that as soon as I began writing, one must have an ability of independent thinking and h

12、ave the courage to express what one thinks to be the truth about human relations, morality and sex. Translation: 因為當你開始寫作時，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)，如果沒有自己的獨立思考能力，如果不能表述你是如何看待人與人之間的關系、道德和性，那么你連評論一本小說也做不到。16. And all these questions, according to the Angel in the House, cannot be dealt with freely and openly by women; th

13、ey must charm, they must conciliate, they must-to put it bluntly-tell lies if they are to succeed. (Para. 3)Paraphrase: According to the Victorian attitudes, women are not supposed to discuss and explore these questions freely and openly. They must use their feminine charm to gain recognition from m

14、en; they must make concessions in their arguments; they must tell lies in order to succeed in the profession of writing.Translation: 按照“家里的天使”的看法，婦女不能自由地公開地解決這所有的問題； 假如她們要成功，她們必須以魅力取勝，必須妥協(xié)，直白地說，必須說謊。17. Thus, whenever I felt the shadow of her wing or the radiance of her halo upon my page, I took up

15、the inkpot and flung it at her. (Para. 3)Paraphrase: Explain the implied meaning of the sentence in your own words: Thus, whenever I felt the influence of the Victorian attitudes on my writing, I fought back with all my power. Note that this sentence is part of her extended metaphor of killing the A

16、ngel in the House.Translation: 這樣，每當我感覺到寫作紙上有天使翅膀的影子或頭上光環(huán)的話，我會抓起墨水瓶，用力地向天使拋去。18. Her fictitious nature was of great assistance to her. It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. (Para. 3)Translation: 她的虛幻本質(zhì)給她幫了大忙：殺死一個幽靈遠比殺死一個真人要困難得多。19. Though I flatter myself that I killed her in the end, t

17、he struggle was severe; it took much time that had better have been spent upon learning Greek grammar; or in roaming the world in search of adventures. (Para. 3)Paraphrase: Although I made myself believe that I killed her in the end, the struggle was severe and it took so much more time than one wou

18、ld have expected, time one would rather spend learning Greek grammar or traveling in the world in search of adventures. Translation: 我自認為最后殺死了“家里的天使,” 但斗爭是嚴酷的，并消耗了大量時間，這些時間還不如用于學習希臘語法，或者周游世界，需求探險。20. she had rid of herself of falsehood. (Para. 4)Paraphrase: She had got rid of those untrue ideas and

19、stopped telling lies.21. I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill. (Para. 4)Paraphrase: I believe that to know what is a woman, we women have to participate in all the arts and professions open to human knowledge and u

20、nderstanding and to give expressions to our feelings in creative forms.Translation: 我相信，只有婦女在人類知識所涉及的全部文學藝術和專業(yè)領域中用創(chuàng)造形式表達自己的情感后，她們才能知道什么是婦女。22. I hope I am not giving away professional secrets if I say that a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. (Para. 5)Translation: 假如我說小

21、說家的主要愿望是盡量處于無意識狀態(tài)，我希望我沒有泄露行業(yè)秘密。23. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. (Para. 5)Paraphrase: He has to cause in himself a particular condition in which he will remain abnormally drowsy and sluggish for a long time.Translation: 他不得不使自己處于一種持續(xù)的慵懶狀態(tài)。24. He wants to see the same fac

22、es, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day, month after month, while he is writing, so that nothing may break the illusion in which he is living-so that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings round, darts, dashes and sudden discoveries of that ver

23、y shy and illusive spirit, the imagination. (Para. 5)Paraphrase: Meeting people, reading books and doing things are some of the external factors of the authors life, the routine, and the predictable social events. Wanting to see the same people, to read the same books and do the same things further

24、explains her idea about life with the utmost quiet and regularity. Reducing everyday life to unchanging routines avoids having to pay much attention to the people or the events. This orientation has led to the establishment of some writers colonies or retreat centers where for a time writers do not

25、have to worry about meals, children or housecleaning and simply write.Translation: 他希望在他寫作時，他每天見的人、讀的書、做的事都是相同的，這樣任何事物都不會打破他生活的幻覺，也不會攪亂他的四處探求摸索以及對那令人難以捉摸的容易被嚇跑的東西想象力的突然發(fā)現(xiàn)。25. Be that as it may, I want you to imagine me writing a novel in a state of trance. (Para. 5)Translation:盡管如此，我請你想象我在似睡非睡的狀態(tài)中創(chuàng)作

26、小說。 26. The image that comes to my mind when I think of this girl is the image of a fisherman lying sunk in dreams on the verge of a deep lake with a rod held out over the water. (5)Translation: 當我想到這女孩時，腦海里浮現(xiàn)出一個形象：一位垂釣者躺在深水湖邊，手握釣竿，睡夢正酣。27. She was letting her imagination sweep unchecked round every

27、 rock and cranny of the world that lies submerged in the depths of our unconscious being. (Para. 5)MetaphorParaphrase: Explain the meaning of the sentence in non-figurative English: She was letting her imagination explore freely every corner of the inner world that lay hidden in the deepest parts of

28、 her unconscious existence.28. Now came the experience, the experience that I believe to be far commoner with women writers than with men. (Para. 5)Translation: 現(xiàn)在，這個經(jīng)歷開始了，而我相信，這種經(jīng)歷對于婦女來說遠比男人來得更為經(jīng)常。29. The line raced through her fingers. Her imagination had rushed awayThe imagination had dashed agai

29、nst something hard. (Para. 5)Translation: 釣魚線從她的手指縫中滑掉了。她的想象力消失了。方才，這想象力正在搜尋水池，它的深處，那些最大的魚沉睡的昏暗地方。突然發(fā)生了猛烈撞擊，隨之是一聲巨響，湖水激起了泡沫，變得渾濁。原來她的想象力撞擊到一個堅硬的物體上。30. To speak without figure she had thought of something, something about the body, about the passions which it was unfitting for her as a woman to say.

30、 Men, her reason told her, would be shocked. (Para. 5)Translation: Her imagination was exploring freely until she thought of something, something about the body, about the passions. But she realized that it was unfitting for her as a woman to tell the truth about the body and about the passions beca

31、use men would be shocked.Translation: 不用修辭手段、直截了當?shù)卣f，她想起了什么，一些關于身體和激情的事，是作為女人不宜說出口的事。她的理性告訴她，男人聽了會震驚的。31. The consciousness of what men will say of a woman who speaks the truth about her passions had roused her from her artists state of unconsciousness. (Para. 5)Paraphrase: She realized that men didn

32、t approve of a woman daring to tell the truth about her body and her passions. They would surely say bad things about such a woman. This realization interrupted her imagination and roused her from the state of unconsciousness, the state in which an artist desired to be. Translation: 她意識到男人們會如何議論一個敢講

33、有關激情真話的女人，這使她從藝術家的無意識狀態(tài)中驚醒了。32. For though men sensibly allow themselves great freedom in these respects, I doubt that they realize or can control the extreme severity with which they condemn such freedom in women. (Para. 5)Paraphrase: It was a sensible thing for men to give themselves great freedom

34、 to talk about the body and their passions. But if women want to have the same freedom, men condemn such freedom in women. And I do not believe that they realize how severely they condemn such freedom in women, nor do I believe that they can control their extremely severe condemnation of such freedo

35、m in women.33. Inwardly, I think, the case is very different; she has still many ghosts to fight, many prejudices to overcome. (Para. 6)Paraphrase: Regarding the mental and spiritual world, the inner nature of a person, it is not simple at all for a woman writer, for she still has many obstacles and

36、 prejudices to fight and overcome.Translation: 從內(nèi)心精神世界看，情況頗為不同。婦女還要與許多幽靈鬼怪展開斗爭，還有許多偏見需要去克服。34. Indeed, it will be a long time still, I think, before a woman can sit down to write a book without finding a phantom to be slain, a rock to be dashed against. (Para. 6)Metaphor.Paraphrase: It will take a long time for women to rid themselves of false values and attitudes and to overcome the obstacle to telling the truth about their bodies and passions.35. Even when the path is nominally open-when there is nothing