考研英语阅读真题
【篇章剖析】
本文讲述了英国著名诗人特德·休斯作品的特点和其所反映的诗人的一些情况。第一段讲述休斯诗歌的特色;第二段讲述因其妻子的原因而创作了一部书信集的情况。第三段讲述这本书信集的特点和反映的内容。第四段讲述休斯对诗歌的看法和态度。
词汇注释:
wry adj. 枯燥乏味的
predecessorn.前辈, 前任
rhetoric n. 浮夸与修饰
fervour n.热情
armorial adj.徽章的, 家徽的
lifeblood n. 生命力或生命之源的力量
stink n. 气息,气味
vilifie vt.诽谤, 辱骂, 贬低, 轻视
muffle vt.压抑;阻止
eavesdropping n.偷听
trajectory n. 道路选择好的或采用的路径:
notoriety n.恶名, 丑名, 声名狼藉
absorbing adj.吸引人的, 非常有趣的
【难句突破】
(1)But then, in 1963, Sylvia Plath, a young American poet whom he had first met at Cambridge University in 1956, and who became his wife in the summer of that year, committed suicide.
主体句式:But then Sylvia Plath committed suicide.
结构分析:这是一个同位语带有定语从句的复合句。whom和who引导的两个定语从句修饰a young American poet, 整体作为Sylvia Plath的同位语。
句子译文:但是在1963年,西尔维亚·普拉斯自杀了,这个美国年轻诗人与他第一次见面是在1956年的剑桥大学,而当年夏天又成为了他妻子。
(2)These letters are filled with his wrestling with the consequences of being the part-private, part-public creature that he became, desperate to devote himself to his writing, and yet subject to endless invasions of his privacy.
主体句式:These letters are filled with his wrestling.
结构分析:这是一个简单句,难点在于最后两个形容词词组的成分(desperate to devote himself to his writing, and yet subject to endless invasions of his privacy)。这两个形容词词组是用来修饰前面的名词creature, 而creature后面紧跟着的that 引导的从句也是修饰它的定语从句。
句子译文:这些信中处处都显现出休斯因为自己成为半私人、半公开这么样一个人物而心理反复挣扎,他渴望将自己奉献给文字,但又时时受到私人空间受到侵袭的威胁。