Unit 2 Welcome to the Unit and Reading 课件-2022-2023学年高中英语牛津译林版（2020）必修第一册

Unit 2 Let's talk teens Welcome to the Unit & Reading Welcome to the unit I don't know what “home” is, but unhappiness and worries melt away once there. —— Bing Xin What's your understanding of the following sentence? “家”是什么，我不知道，但烦闷和忧愁都在此中融化消灭。 ——冰心 2 Welcome to the unit Bing Xin is the pen name of Xie Wanying (October 5, 1900–February 28, 1999), who was a distinguished writer, translator, poet, and social activist. She is one of China's most prolific writers of the twentieth century. Her work in both prose and poetry were literary achievements in their time and she was heavily influential to Chinese writers who emerged in the decades that followed. 3 Welcome to the unit A Maze of Stars & Spring Water Inspired by Tagore's Stray Birds, she started gathering her “scattered and fragmentary thoughts,” not originally intended as poetry, but which would eventually become the present collection. The popularity of the poems and the distinction of the form led the genre to become known as the