Unit 8 Life

Text: A Romance That War Cannot Silence

A book that is shut is but a block.

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• Sentimentality 感伤 narrator 叙述者• Measured style 审慎文章的风格• Section （文章的）节• Irony 冷嘲 / 反语

How do you say it?

书评 book review

残疾 disabled

女主人公 heroine

出版商 publisher

听觉 hearing

情节 plot

Make up a sentence.

• “Deafening” demonstrates a perfect ear fir the tragic mingling of joy and grief at the arrival of a wounded loved one.

Background Information & Additional Notes

• 1. The book “Deafening”. In Deafening, Canadian writer Frances Itani’s American bebut novel, she tells two parallel stories: a man’s story of war and a woman’s story of waiting for him and of what it is to be deaf.

• 2. Readers’ reviews of the book “Deafening”. “This is a wonderful first novel about sound, silence, deafness, communication and love…Itani is a wonderful writer, and manages to convey to those of us who hear what it is like not to be able to—she also shows what we the hearing might be missing!

3. Sign language: Sign language is a system of hand movements for expressing meanings, esp. as used by deaf people. (cultural notes: Though the US and Britain share a spoken language, the sign language used by deaf people in the two countries is not the same.)

4. Lip reading: people who cannot hear watch people’s lip movements so as to understand what is being said.

5. The 1918 Influenza Epidemic: The 1918 Influenza epidemic was the most deadly epidemic to ever strike the world. It occurred in 1918 and soon spread in Europe, America and other countries.

6. The Christian Science Monitor: “The Christian Monitor”( 基督教科学笺言报）， established in 1909, is a daily American newspaper that reports on matters of national and international interests. It is sold in cities across the nation.

Learn about the text• Section A

• 1-5 BACDA 6-8 ABC

• Textual Organization

• 1. At the age of 5, she was robbed of her hearing.

• 2. At about 7 years old, she was taught by her grandmother to read.

• 3. she was sent to a progressive school for the deaf.

• 4. Soon after she graduated, she met Jim and they got married.

• 5. Two weeks after the marriage, Lloyd was sent to Europe as a stretcher-bearer while she stayed at home, missing her husband and fighting against the influenza epidemic.

• 6. She and Lloyd were finally reunited.

Learn from the text• II. Vocabulary study• A. • 1. process 2. procedure 3. procedure 4. lightly • 5. slightly 6. slightly 7. dividing 8. dividing • 9. split 10. deliberate 11. deliberate• 12. considerable 13. alternate 14. alternative• 15. alternative 16. suffered 17. has suffered• 18. endured

• B

• 1. was submerged 2. affection 3. survive

• 4. in the hope of 5. shallow 6. reassured

• 7. progressive 8. attend to 9. disabled 10. intensify

Translation • 1. English –Chinese

• 这部小说特别引人注目之处是作者伊塔坭平静和慎重的写作风格，这种风格用于描绘家庭生活的俭朴琐碎十分有效，没想到用于描写战争时会变得如此震撼人心。

• 从最初爱国激情的迸发到后来的目不暇接的恐惧和疾病等种种磨难，吉姆多年来艰难地在一个“人人都难以置信的世界”里挣扎。当现代科技使我们盲目地认为战争中的杀戮可以是精确的，而且并非随意实施的时候，这些关于连绵不断的混乱、流血和荒芜的记事认真地提醒我们不要忘记战争的残酷本质。

• II. Chinese-English• During the World War II, Catherine Jon

es worked as a nurse in the army. Like many other young people, she was sent to the front kine in Europe. Everyday she had many patients to attend to, giving them injections and treating their wounds. Some of the soldiers had been robbed of hands and feet, and some others had been robbed of their sight and hearing.

• They had suffered so much that those who were seriously wounded had to resort to painkillers. Despite all this, they were still brave and optimistic, which moved Catherine so much, and which made her see the twilight of the victory.