Passage 64
In the life of Charlotte Bronte(1857), the first and the most celebrated biography of novelist Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell promoted the long-persisting romantic view of Bronte as having no connection with the rest of English society at a time when industrialization was causing much turbulence, but as having sprung naturally, like so much purple heather, out of the English countryside. Gaskell also portrayed Bronte as irreproachably proper, incapable of “unladylike” feelings or dangerous views; this was at variance with the subversive spirit Matthew Arnold accurately discerned, albeit with distance, deep within Bronte’ s fiction. While correcting many of
Gaskell’ s errors and omissions at last, even Winifred Gerin’ s Charlotte Bronte: The Evolution of Genius(1967) failed to discard Gaskell’ s viewpoint. Feminist have introduced new interpretations of Bronte’ s life, but it is primarily Juliet Barker who takes into account the larger world that impinged on that life-- the changing England in which old divisions of class and gender were under pressure.
2. The passage suggest that Matthew Arnold disapproved of Charlotte Bronte’ s fiction insofar as he believed that it
A. overly romanticized the English countryside
B. contained dangerous ideas buried within it
C. perpetuated outmoded social distinctions
D. failed to represent industrialized society realistically
E. reflected an excessive concern with propriety
这道题就是看这句话
Gaskell also portrayed Bronte as irreproachably proper, incapable of “unladylike” feelings or dangerous views; this was at variance with the subversive spirit Matthew Arnold accurately discerned, albeit with distance, deep within Bronte’ s fiction.
实在看不懂
Gaskell also portrayed Bronte as irreproachably proper, incapable of “unladylike” feelings or dangerous views; this was at variance with the subversive spirit Matthew Arnold accurately discerned, albeit with distance, deep within Bronte’ s fiction.
G的理解是, B十分地“ladylike”, 而MA则认为B有其深寓其中的反叛精神. 一柔一刚, 问MA为何反对G, 答案就是MA的想法. 选B.
分号后面的这句话, spirit后面的内容作其同位语(或者其他什么语吧我也不懂哈哈哈哈哈, 你知道是一个修饰成分就好了), 其中albeit with distance是个插入语, 意思是尽管(和真实情况)有些脱节(我认为这是作者观点, 也就是作者认为MA的说法并不完全准确). 所以整个的意思就是这种spirit 1.深深扎根于B的小说, 而且2.是由MA观察到的, 3.尽管MA的观察并不准确.
In the life of Charlotte Bronte(1857), the first and the most celebrated biography of novelist
Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell promoted the long-persisting romantic view of Bronte as
having no connection with
the life of Charlotte Bronte(1857)是G的小说,写的内容是the first and the most celebrated biography of novelist Charlotte Bronte。G写Bronte的biography。M disapprove小说也就是diss作者G