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Unit 2 Exploring English
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英语·必修 第一册(WY)
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Unit 2 Exploring English
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英语·必修 第一册(WY)
导读:《飘》是美国女作家玛格丽特·米切尔十年磨一剑的作品,也是其唯一的作品。作品刻画了那个时代的许多美国南方人的形象,成功地再现了林肯领导的南北战争和美国南方地区的社会生活。
Gone with the Wind(excerpt)
If the educational equipment which Gerald brought to America was scant,he did not even know it. Nor would he have cared if he had been told. His mother had taught him to read and to write a clear hand. He
Unit 2 Exploring English
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was adept at ciphering. And there his book knowledge stopped. The only Latin he knew was the responses of the Mass and the only history the manifold wrongs of Ireland. He knew no poetry save that of Moore and no music except the songs of Ireland that had come down through the years. While he entertained the liveliest
Unit 2 Exploring English
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respect for those who had more book learning than he,he never felt his own lack. And what need had he of these things in a new country where the most ignorant of bogtrotters had made great fortunes in this country which asked only that a man be strong and unafraid of work?
Unit 2 Exploring English
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He liked the South,and he soon became,in his own opinion,a Southerner. There was much about the South-and Southerners-that he would never comprehend;but,with the whole heartedness that was his nature,he adopted its ideas and customs,as he understood them,for his own-poker and horse racing,redhot politics and the code duello,States’ Rights and damnation to all Yankees,slavery and
Unit 2 Exploring English
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King Cotton,contempt for white trash and exaggerated courtesy to women. He even learned to chew tobacco. There was no need for him to acquire a good head for whisky;he had been born with one.
But Gerald remained Gerald. His habits of living and his ideas changed,but his manners he would not change,even had he been able to change them. He admired the drawling elegance of the