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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,*,本资料仅供参考，不能作为科学依据。谢谢,Unit 15 Argentia Bay,-By Herman Wouk,第1页,Argentia Bay,第2页,Learning Focus,I.,Background information,II.,Questions,III.,Detailed Study of the Text,IV.,Structure and style,V.,Rhetorical devices,第3页,I.Background Information,1.,Herman Wouk,2.,The origin of,Argentia Bay,3.,Argentia Bay,(,阿真舍湾,),4.,The Winds of War,(,战争风云,),第4页,1.,Herman Wouk,Herman Wouk(1915-)is an American novelist.He is better known for his epic war novels.,After graduation from Columbia University,he became a radio scriptwriter.Though he achieved considerable social and financial success in the radio show business world,he found both the work and environment unsatisfying.He enlisted in the navy after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and spent three years as an officer on a destroyer-minesweep in the pacific.,第5页,Much of Aurora Dawn(1947 极光),the first novel of the New York advertising world,was written while Wouk was in service.,With the publication of his first novel in 1947,Herman Wouk began a career in letters which has brought him renown,the Pulitzer,Prize and a long international audience for his books and plays.,第6页,He has published nine additional works of fiction.Several of them have been filmed,including The Caine Mutiny(1951),which helps him win the Pulitzer Prize in 1952.Wouks two volume histerical novel set in World War two,The Winds of War(1971)and War Remembrance(1978),is also very successful as a television mini-series.,第7页,2,.,About the origin of,Argentia Bay,:,Originally settled by the French in the 1630s that fishing settlement was called Petit Plaisance,meaning“Pleasant Little Place”.The name was retained in English(Little Placentia)when the French lost control of the area following the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.The community adopted its present name(unofficially in 1895 and officially in 1901),for the presence of silver ore in the Broad Cove region of the community.,第8页,The name“Argentia”is Latin,meaning“Land of Silver”and was chosen Father John St.John,the parish prest at Holy Rosary Parish from September 18,1895 to February 11,1911.The Silver Cliff Mine operated until the early 1920s but was never profitable.Through most of the 19,th,century,the fishery was the lifeblood of the community.,第9页,3,.Argentia Bay,Argentia Bay,located in the south-eastern Newfoundland,Canada,was leased by Britain to the United States for a military base in 1941.In August 1941,Roosevelt and Churchill signed,the Atlantic Charter,on the warship,Prince of Wales,parking in the Gulf.,第10页,第11页,4.About,The Winds of War:,The story is a fiction with the main character,Pug Victor Henry being a mid-rank officer who witnesses all the major events during World War,.,A novelty of this fiction is,with the ongoing of the story itself,an imaginary reminiscences by a German strategist was put in at intervals of chapters.That is to say,every a couple of chapters into the novel,an episode of that reminiscences,(回想录),was quoted to provide an opposite-side view of the war situation,which enables the reader to view the historical events with and all-round angle.,第12页,II.,Questions,1.What is this section of the novel about?,2.Why did Henry think he went from peace to war when he passed from the,Augusta,to the,prince of wales,?,3.Why was Pug sent over to the Prince of wales?Who was Harry Hopkins?How did Hopkins estimate the situation on the Eastern front?What did the Soviet Union need most?,4.What was the real reason Winston Churchill had crossed the Ocean to meet Roosevelt according to Hopkins?Why was the handshake between Churchill and Roosevelt regarded as dramatic?,5.What problems came up after Henry and other planners got down to work?What came first?Why did the planners give top priority to this plan?,第13页,6.What was Britains immediate need?Why did the author consider this need pathetic?,7.Why did Burne-Wilke invite Henry into his cabin?What was the request from the British?Did Churchill know about the request?Did the American side meet the request?,8.What was the main content of Attlees broadcast?Why did Henry think Roosevelt was a tough customer?What was the British officers reaction to Attlees broadcast?,第14页,II.,Structure and style,1.,Passage structure,2.,The main idea,3.,Writing Style,第15页,1.,Passage structure,1.Argentia bay阿真舍湾-waiting for the arrival of Winston Churchill.,2.Harry Hopkins哈利霍普金斯-the view of the meeting with two great people,3.Churchill calls丘吉尔来访-having a meeting for the war with Hitler,4.Roosevelt hobbles across罗斯福蹒跚着登上英舰,5.A request from the British英国人一项请求-sen,ding,the Churchill back safely,6.U-boat sightings德国潜艇布局图,7.We,ll have to pay the price我们终不免要付出代价,第16页,2.About the m,ain idea:,This passage tells how British Prime Minister Churchill risked dangers of U-boat sinking and traveled across the ocean to Argentia Bay to meet the U.S.President Roosevelt for talks on strengthening the alliance between the two countries.As a result of the negotiations,the Atlantic Charter was signed.,第17页,3.,Writing Style,1.T,ype of literature:narration,2.M,ethod of writing a narration:arrange the events in time order,3.This part of the story is narrated from the point of view of Henry.We readers learn about these events through Henrys observations,thoughts,feelings and impressions.This type of narration is called the limited third-person narration.,第18页,III.Detailed Study of the Text,第19页,1.Argentia Bay,The story took place at Argentia Bay in Newfoundland,Canada.The time was at nine oclock.The story involved Winston Churchill and American President Roosevelt.,2.This was HMS Prince of Wales,bigger,Bismarck.,英国皇家海军“威尔士亲王号”,HMS,:His(Her)Majestys Service,Ship,or Steamer,Prince of Wales,:The ship was sunk by the Japanese in the South China Sea in December 1941.,Bismarck,:German battleship of 45,000 tons,completed early in 1940,for operations against British convoys in the North Atlantic.,俾斯麦号,第20页,3.,God Save the King（P234，L17）,The British national anthem.,上帝保佑吾王,4.The Star-Spangled Banner,The American national anthem.,星条旗永不落,5.Pug Henry（P234,L18）,Victor Pug Henry,a navy captain and presidential aide.,He is in a way the narrator of this story,and the hero of the book,The Winds of War,.,第21页,6.Harry Hopkins:(1890-1946),American social worker and public administrator,intimate associate and adviser of President Franklin D.Roosevelt,and U.S.Secretary of Commerce.As the personal representative of President Roosevelt,he went on missions to London and Moscow,conferring with Churchill and Stalin.He also attended the major war conferences at many important cities.,第22页,Gray peace pervaded,Winston Churchill.,pervade,:to spread through,saturate or permeate every part of it;spread all over the place;fill in air,Paraphrase:Gray peace spread through Argentia Bay in Newfoundland which is surrounded by wilderness,where,Haze and mist a tint of green.,haze:,light thin mist or smoke,第23页,3.Sailors and officers loudspeaker squawks,.,-go about their chores:,be in the habit of doing their routine work.,-go about:,move from place to place;to do;to perform,4.But a primeval hush normal ships noises.,-primeval:,ancient;primitive,-a primeval hush:,like the silence in very ancient times when the world was first created,P:With the routine chores going on,some noise could be heard on the ships in the Bay,but beyond that(but outside the range of the noise)it was all tranquility.,第24页,5.At nine oclocklike snakeskin:,-camouflage:,disguised,concealed,-swirls:,twists and curls,P:At nine oclock,three destroyers came rapidly in sight,immediately followed by a camouflaged battleship painted in snakeskin-colored twists and curls.,第25页,6.The president towered,resembled him.,brace:,device that clamps things together or holds and supports them in position,P:the president was taller than everyone else.He seemed stiff because his legs was supported by braces.He wore a big brown suit,and with one hand holding his hat on his heart,he extended his other hand to hold tightly the arm of his son,who was an Air Corps Officer and looked exactly like him.,第26页,7.Well!I,ve never heard and Roosevelt laughed too,.,“My country Tis of thee”is the first line of“America”which is sung to the music of the British national anthem,“God Save the King(Queen).(The tune of“America”is the same with the tune of“God Save the King.”When the band played the British anthem,Roosevelt humorously took it for“America.”,第27页,2.,Harry Hopkins,Harry Hopkins:(1890-1946),American social worker and public administrator,intimate associate and adviser of President Franklin D.Roosevelt,and U.S.Secretary of Commerce(1938-40).As the personal representative of President Roosevelt,he went on missions to London and Moscow,conferring with Churchill and Stalin.He also attended the major war conferences at Washington,Casablanca,Quebec,Cairo,Tehran,and Yalta(in Russia,第28页,Admiral King:Ernest Joseph King(1878-1956),American naval officer.He was appointed commander in chief of the U.S.Atlantic fleet(1949)and of the entire U.S.fleet(Dec.1941).He served(March,1942-Dec.,1945)as chief of naval operations during World War II.He was appointed(Dec.1944)admiral of the fleet(five-star rank).,第29页,Para.5,Take my barge put yourself at Mr.Harry Hopkinss service,A barge is a boat with a flat bottom.Barges are used for carrying heavy loads,esp.on canals.,a motorboat carried by naval ships for the use of officers,put sb.at sbs service:to get ready to obey orders or be used by sb.;to get ready to serve or cooperate with one;to put sb./sth.at sbs disposal,第30页,Para.7,fr,om peace to war,The author has employed a few metaphors here to bring out the complete change of atmosphere.The,Augusta,is an American cruiser and at that time the United States nominally was not at war with Hitler while the,Prince of Wales,was a British battleship and Britain had been fighting against Hitlers Germany for over a year.Hence the statement“from America to England and from peace to war.”,第31页,It was a shocking jump,This refers to the crossing from the,Augusta,to the,Prince of Wales,from Peace to War.,Kings spick-and-span flagship belonged to a different world than the storm-whipped British vessel.,-spick-and-span:(only in the phrase)bright,clean,and tidy;neat and clean;very neat or smart and new,第32页,droves of blue jackets were doing an animated scrub-down,drove:1)a moving crowd of people cf.throng,2)a group of esp.farm animals driven in a body:a drove of cattle,Blue jacket:an enlisted man in the U.S.or British army;metonymy,animated scrub-down:transferred epithet,第33页,On the superstructure,Bismarck,s salvos,At places on the part above the main deck there were new welds.These were damages caused by the gunfire of the German battleship,Bismarck,.The welds looked like sticking plaster put to new wounds.,The author is comparing the steel patches to sticking plasters and the damages on the ship to wounds of the human body.Metaphor,第34页,Para.10,in a blaze of worldwide newspaper attention,Hopkins flew to London in late July and arranged with Churchill the date and rendezvous of the conference between Roosevelt and Churchill.Then he took a British flying boat to Moscow to hold talks with Stalin.His visits to London and Moscow were widely covered by newspapers all over the world.,in a/the blaze of:metaphor;in the blaze of publicity/fury/anger/effort,第35页,Para.13,in one he carefully placed;in the other he threw as they came to hand:,Note the contrast between“he carefully placed papers.”and“he threw clothesas they came to hand”:He was very careful,very meticulous about official papers but very careless about his own things.This throws light on the character of Hopkins.,第36页,Para.14,He,s having the time of his life.,Hes having a rare experience of pleasure in his life;hes having the best time of his life.,The time of ones life:(colloq.)an experience of great pleasure for one,第37页,Para.16,The Russians will hold.But itll be a near thing,a near thing:a narrow escape;sth.achieved only by a narrow margin,The Russians will be able to fight on but theres a very small margin between success and failure.They will barely mange to carry on the fight.,第38页,Para.17,Hitlers bitten off a big bite this time,This time Hitler has attacked a country too big for him to conquer or to put it idiomatically,he has bitten off more than he can chew.He has taken more than he can manage.(a comparison).Russian is difficult for Germans to control in comparison with other countries such as Poland.,第39页,Para.20,the stern rose high on a swell,then dropped away from under him,:,-stern:the back end of a ship/c.f.brow,-swell:slow rise and fall of the seas surface with large but unbroken waves,A wave raised the tail of the barge high and when the wave subsided,the tail of the barge dropped down suddenly.,第40页,Para.23,the real reason Winston Churchill has crossed the ocean,The real reason Churchill has come to meet Roosevelt here.,Whats the purpose for the meeting?,Churchill wants America to give a warning to Japan that any move against the British in Asia means war with America,第41页,Their empire is mighty rickety at this point.,Their empire is very weak in that area(in Asia).The British do not have the naval strength or the necessary manpower to defend its colonies in Asia.,to shore up,:to add support to(sth.)where weakness is shown;make(sth.)stronger where support is needed,第42页,Theyll also try,subtly but hard they come ahead of Russia.,The last point,the most important is try for an understanding that in getting American aid they come ahead of Russia.,The British will try for an understanding/to reach an agreement.,Theyll also try hard,though not obviously,to reach an agreement that having American aid they become stronger than Russia.,第43页,build up for the final assault:,strengthen the military forces,to build up has several meanings:,He dissipated all the money his father had built up for life(accumulate gradually).,He has built up a flourishing business(establish and develop).,Promote physical culture and build up the peoples health(strengthen or to increase).,She has built up a good reputation in her small factory(set up or establish).,The singer has been built up into a great success.(praise),第44页,Para.27,Hopkins gave Victor Henry a sad smile,:,Why?,Hopkins meant that this was all the United States could do at present,that the United States could only go thus far at present and he was sorry about that.,Oxymoron,第45页,this is the changing of the guard.,The phrase,the changing of the guard comes from the changing of the guard outside Buckingham Palace.The Queens guard is changed every morning at 11:30 and the ceremony lasts for about half an hour.The new guard enters the palace courtyard at exactly 11:30.The band then starts to play the tune of the regiments slow march,and the new guard advances slowly towards the old guard.,第46页,The captain of the old guard hands the key of Buckingham Palace,and also St.James Palace,to the captain of the new guard.The new sentries are then mar
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