5. In China, where Xenophobia and economic ambition …that Hollywood be burned. (5.1-5)
6. I feel it‘s a moral obligation not to say: ?these people out there should continue to live in a museum while we will have showers that work.‘ (6.6)
7. Westernization, I discovered over months of study and travel, is a phenomenon shot through with inconsistencies and populated by very strange bedfellows. (7.1)
8. In Los Angeles, the ostensible fountainhead of world cultural degradation, I saw more diversity than I could ever have supposed…(8.2)
9. We go to a smallish ?50s-style diner in a slightly seedy pocket east of Hollywood that has just become trendy. (11.1)
e. Rhetorical devices
1. Los Angeles is Fusion Central, where cultures mix and morph. (14. 1)
Morph: to develop a new appearance or change into something else, or to make something do this
The river flooded its banks and morphed into a giant sea that swamped the town.
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Text Analysis
A. 词义理解与翻译
1. When your secretary invited me to come here, she told me that your Society is concerned with the employment of women and she suggested that I might tell you something about my own professional experiences. a. Society: the Women‘s Service League b. concerned with c. employment 就业问题 增词：
The frequency, wave length, and speed of sound are closely related. 频率、波长和声速三方面是密切相关的
2. For the road was cut many years ago—by Fanny Burney, by …—many famous women, and many more unknown and forgotten, have been before me, making the path smooth, and regulating my steps. (1.7) a. cut 开辟
b. many more unknown and forgotten c. making the path smooth 铺平道路 d. regulating my steps：guide 步子
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3. Thus, when I came to write, there are very few material obstacles in my way. (1.10) a. material obstacles 物质方面/上的阻碍 b. in my way
4. You have only got to figure to yourselves a girl in a bedroom with a pen in her hand.(2.1)
a. figure：imagine vital statistics Fig. 1
5. She was intensely sympathetic. She was immensely charming. She was utterly unselfish. (3.10)
a. intensely sympathetic
sympathize：be in harmony with b. immensely charming c. utterly unselfish 她是这么善解人意；她是如此可爱迷人；她是那么毫无私心。 6. She would have plucked the heart of my writing. (3. 倒13) a. pluck the heart
她会使我的文章空洞无物。 隐喻
词义引申：
Every life has its roses and thorns . 每个人生活都有甜有苦。
7. Though I flatter myself that I killed her in the end, the struggle was severe.(3.倒4) a. flatter
8. Be sympathetic; be tender; flatter; deceive; use the arts and wiles of our sex. (3.倒21)
要善解人意；要言辞温婉；要善于迎合；要言不由衷；女人的十八般武器，都要用上。
B．词汇扩展
1. She had only to move that pen from left to right from ten o‘clock to one. From left to right
From age to age 世世代代
From China to Peru 天涯海角；到处 From bad to worse 每况愈下
From pillar to post 东奔西跑，到处碰壁
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From rags to riches 暴富
From strength to strength 越来越强大 From tip to toe 从头到尾
From the cradle to the grave 一生
2．For ten and sixpence one can buy paper enough to write all the plays of Shakespeare---if one has a mind that way.
(1.倒5) have a mind that way=have a mind like that （Shakespeare‘s mind） That way --I don‘t know your name yet. --Let‘s keep it that way.
My way or the highway. （The Matrix） Have one‘s way
Finders keepers. Losers weepers
Fair enough. 行，还算公平
Watt: Since there are other applicants on the line, we can't let you know our decision yet until all of them have got their chance for interview.
Ann: Fair enough, I am willing to wait until you have come to a decision.
C．句子理解
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. (1.5)
2. Pianos and models, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, masters and mistresses, are not needed by a writer. (1.倒4)
3. The cheapness of writing paper is , of course the reason why women have succeeded as writers before they have succeeded in the other professions. (1. 倒4)
4. It was she who used to come between me and my paper when I was writing reviews. (3.6)
Come between …and…
1. to make people argue and feel angry with each other, when they had been
friends before:
Nothing will ever come between us now. I didn't want to come between a husband and wife. 2 to prevent someone from giving enough attention to something: She never let anything come between her and her work.
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5. If there was a chicken, she took the leg; if there was a draught （draft）, she sat in it—in short she was so constituted that she never had a mind or a wish of her own. (3.12) 风口
6. For, as I found, directly 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. (3.倒12) directly: as soon as You can‘t
//smoke without making nonsmokers unhappy. 7. And she made as if to guide my pen.(3.倒19)
Make（seem） as if to do: to seem as if you are going to do something but then not do it:
She made as if to speak but then stopped.
8. I now record the one act for which I take some credit to myself, though the credit rightly belongs to some excellent ancestors of mine who left me a certain sum of money—shall we say five hundred pounds a year? (3.倒19) Credit: praise, approval for an act, ability or a quality. Examples：
He took his assistant‘s credit. She deserves credit for trying her best.
have something to your credit： to have achieved something She already has two successful novels to her credit. 下面我要说说多少是我自己做的一件事情，当然做此事的功劳主要还应归功于我的了不起的祖先，是他们给我留下了一笔财产－比如说每年五百英镑吧－这样我就不用完全靠女人的魅力去谋生了。 9．I turned upon her and caught her by the throat. I did my best to kill her. My excuse, if I were to be had up in a court of law, would be that I acted in self-defence. (3. 倒15)
Turn upon: attack 掐
Have sb. up : to take sb. to court Peeping Tom was had up for stalking. Curiosity kills the cat.
10．Thus, whenever I felt the shadow of her wing or the radiance of her halo， I took up the inkpot and flung it at her. (3.倒7)
The shadow and the radiance refer to the influence of the Victorian attitudes on my writing
D. Rhetorical devices
1. No demand was made upon the family purse. (1.倒6)
Purse: used figuratively to stand for money, financial conditions. This kind of
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