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1、英美文学名词解释1. Allegory: A tale in verse or prose in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities. Anallegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.寓言:用诗歌或散文讲的故事,在这个故事中人物、事件或背景往往代表抽象的概念或道德品质。所有的寓言都是一个具有双重意义、文学内涵或象征意义的故事。2. Alliterati

2、on: The repetition of the initial consonant sounds in poetry. 头韵:诗歌中单词开头读音的重复。3. Allusion: A reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work that a writer expects the reader to recognize andrespond to. An allusion may be drawn from history, geography, literature, or religion.典故:文学作品中作家希

3、望读者能够认识或做出反应的一个人物、地点、事件或文学作品。典故或来自历史、地理、文学或宗教。4. American Naturalism: American naturalism was a new and harsher realism. American naturalism had been shaped by the war;by the social upheavals that undermined the comforting faith of an earlier age. Americas literary naturalists dismissed thevalidity

4、of comforting moral truths. They attempted to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness, presenting characters of lowsocial and economic classes who were determined by their environment and heredity.In presenting the extremes of life, thenaturalists sometimes displayed an affinity to the sensational

5、ism of early romanticism, but unlike their romantic predecessors,the naturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and women had no free will, that lives were controlled byheredity and environment, that the destiny of humanity was misery in life and oblivion in death. Although naturalis

6、t literaturedescribed the world with sometimes brutal realism, it sometimes also aimed at bettering the world through social reform.美国自然主义:美国自然主义是一种新的、更具批判性的现实主义。美国自然主义是在战争和影响人们早期信念的社会动乱的影响之下形成的。美国的自然主义者往往否定了广为接受的道德真理的正确性,他们想达到极端的客观与直率,他们所展现的人物往往都是下层社会的人,他们的命运受到环境和遗传的制约。在反应生活方面,自然主义作家往往表现出早期浪漫主义中感伤主

7、义特征,但和浪漫主义不同的是,自然主义者认为,世界缺乏道德,人不论男女都没有自由的意愿,他们的生活都受到遗传和环境的控制,人在生前过着悲惨的生活,死后便被人所遗忘。虽然自然主义文学通过更为苛刻的现实主义手法来展现这个世界,但是他有时也是为了通过社会改革来改善这个世界。5. American Puritanism: Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans. The Puritans were originally members of adivision of the Protestant Church. The first

8、 settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few ofthem. They were a group of serious, religious people, advocating highly religious and moral principles. As the word itself hints,Puritans wanted to purity their religious beliefs and practices. They accepted the doct

9、rine of predestination, original sin and totaldepravity, and limited atonement through a special infusion of grace form God. As a culture heritage, Puritanism did have aprofound influence on the early American mind. American Puritanism also had a enduring influence on American literature.美国清教主义:清教主义

10、是新教徒的原来的一个分支清教徒的行为和信仰。在美国的第一批居民中有很多就是清教徒,他们有着严格的宗教信仰和道德准则。就像这个词所暗指的那样,清教徒们想“清化”他们的宗教信仰和行为习惯。他们相信宿命论、原罪说、全体堕落和有限的赎罪。作为一种文化遗产,美国清教主义在早期美国人的思想上有着深刻的影响,他对美国文学的影响也是颇为持久的。6. American Realism: In American literature, the Civil War brought the Romantic Period to an end. The Age of Realism cameinto existence

11、. It came as a reaction against the lie of romanticism and sentimentalism. Realism turned from an emphasis on thestrange toward a faithful rendering of the ordinary, a slice of life as it is really lived. It expresses the concern for commonplaceand the low, and it offers an objective rather than an

12、idealistic view of human nature and human experience.美国现实主义:在美国文学史上,内战宣告了浪漫主义的终结和现实主义的开始。现实主义反对浪漫主义和感伤主义的谎言,它从一个陌生的世界转向了普通人的真实生活的描写。它所关心的是普通的下层劳动人民而非理想中的人类本性和现实经历。7. American Romanticism: The Romantic Period covers the first half of the 19th century. A rising America with its ideals ofdemocracy and

13、equality, its industrialization, its westward expansion, and a variety of foreign influences were among theimportant factors which made literary expansion and expression not only possible but also inevitable in the period immediatelyfollowing the nations political independence. Yet, romantics freque

14、ntly shared certain general characteristics: moral enthusiasm,faith in value of individualism and intuitive perception, and a presumption that the natural world was a source of goodness andmans societies a sourceof corruption. Romantic values were prominent in American politics, art, and philosophy

15、until the CivilWar. The romantic exaltation of the individual suited the nations revolutionary heritage and its frontier egalitarianism.美国浪漫主义:浪漫主义阶段涵盖了19 世纪前半页。美国的不断壮大和发展以及随之而来的明珠和平等的思想、工业化的发展、西北边疆的不断扩展和国外的各种影响使浪漫主义作家文学不但成为一种可能,而且使它成为美国政治独立后的一种必然。然而,浪漫主义文学往往有很多共性:他们热心于道德、相信个人主义价值观和对世界的直观感受,并且他们认为自然

16、世界是真、善、美的源泉而人类社会则是堕落的根源。在内战以前,浪漫主义价值观占据是政治、艺术、和哲学等领域,浪漫主义者对个人的赞扬正好迎合了美国的革命遗风和边疆开拓者的品均主义。8. American Transcendentalism: the emergence of the Transcendentalists as an identifiable movement took place during the late1820s and 1830s, but the roots of their religious philosophy extended much farther back

17、 into American religious history.Transcendentalism and evangelical Protestantism followed separate evolutionary branches from American Puritanism, taking astheir common ancestor the Calvinism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They spoke for cultural rejuvenation andagainst the materialism

18、 of American spirit, or the Oversoul, as the most important thing in the Universe. They stressed theimportance of the individual. To them, the individual was the most important element of society. They offered a fresh perceptionof nature as symbolic of the Spirit or God. Nature was, to them, alive,

19、filled with Gods overwhelming presence.Transcendentalism is based on the belief that the most fundamental truths about life and death can be reached only by goingbeyond the world of the senses. Emersons Nature has been called the “Manifesto of American Transcendentalism” and his TheAmerican Scholar

20、has been rightly regarded as Americas “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”.美国超验主义:美国超验主义出现的 19 世纪 20 年代末期到三十年代,但是它的根源在宗教史上要远得多。超验主义和福音派新教分别是美国清教主义的两个分支,他们的祖先是 17 世纪和 18 世纪的加尔文神教。超验主义者主张文化的复兴,认为“超灵”是宇宙中最重要的事物。他们强调个人的重要性,反对精神上的物质主义。对他们来说,个人是一个社会最重要的元素。他们认为自然就是“精神”或“上帝”的象征,它是有生命的,而上帝又无处不在。他们认为生与死

21、最基本的真理可以超越感官的世界而获得。艾默生的自然被称为是“美国超验主义的宣言” ,他的美国学者则被认为是美国的“文化独立宣言书” 。9. Analogy: (a figure of speech) A comparison made between tow things to show the similarities between them. Analogies areoften used for illustration or for argument.类比: (修辞)把两种事物放在一起进行对比从而发现他们的相同点,类比一般用于说明或论述。10. Anapest: Its made u

22、p of two unstressed and one stressed syllables, with the two unstressed ones in front.抑抑扬格:抑抑扬格由两个非重度音节和一个重读音节组成,两个非重度音节在前。11. Antagonist: A person or force opposing the protagonist in a narrative; a rival of the hero or heroine.反面人物:一个故事中和主人公相对立的人物或一种力量,是男女主人公的对手。12. Antithesis: (a figure of speech

23、) The balancing of two contrasting ideas, words phrases, or sentences. An antithesis is oftenexpressed in a balanced sentence, that is, a sentence in which identical or similar grammatical structure is used to expresscontrasting ideas.对偶: (修辞)相互对称的两个短语、句子或思想。对偶往往用一个对称的句子来表达,也就是,一句话中使用相同或相似的语法结构来表达相互

24、对照的两种事物。13. Aphorism: A concise, pointed statement expressing a wise or clever observation about life.警句:用一种简练、准确的方式来表达对生活充满智慧的观点。14. Apostrophe: A figure of speech in which an absent or a dead person, an abstract quality, or something nonhuman isaddressed directly.顿呼:演说或诗歌等中对某人, 常为死者或不在场者, 或对拟人的事物所

25、说的话。15. Argument: A form of discourse in which reason is used to influence or change peoples idea or actions. Writers practiceargument most often when writing nonfiction, particularly essays or speeches.议论:用讲道理的方法来影响人们的思想或行动的一种文本形式。作家往往是在写非小说文体,尤其是散文或演讲的时候用这种方法。16. Aside: In drama, lines spoken by a

26、 character in an undertone or directly to the audience. An aside is meant to be unheard bythe other characters onstage.旁白:在戏剧中低声说出或直接说给观众的台词。旁白在舞台上其他人物是听不到的。17. Assonance: The repetition of similar vowel sounds, especially in poetry. Assonance is often employed to please the ear oremphasize certain

27、sounds.类韵:在诗歌中相同或相似元音的重复,它的目的主要是用来使句子悦耳动听或用来强调某个音。18. Atmosphere: The prevailing mood or feeling of a literary work. Atmosphere is often developed, at least in part, throughdescriptions of setting. Such descriptions help to create an emotional climate for the writers to establish the readersexpectat

28、ions and attitudes.气氛:文学作品中主要的基调或感觉。气氛的渲染主要是通过对环境的描写来展开的,这种描写有助于作家创造一种情绪气氛来时感染读者19. Autobiography: A persons account of his or her own life. An autobiography is generally written in narrative form andincludes some introspection.自传:一个人对他或她自己生活的描述,自传是一种叙述性的文体,多包含回忆性的描写。20. Ballad: A story told in vers

29、e and usually meant to be sung. In many countries, the folk ballad was one of the earliest formsof literature. Folk ballads have no known authors. They were transmitted orally from generation to generation and were not setdown in writing until centuries after they were first sung. The subject matter

30、 of folk ballads stems from the everyday life of thecommon people. Devices commonly used in ballads are the refrain, incremental repetition, and code language. A later form ofballad is the literary ballad, which imitates the style of the folk ballad.民谣:民谣是一种做诗配唱的故事。在很多国家,民谣是最早的文学形式之一,都是无名作家所写,它们从开始传

31、唱到真正写下来要在口头流传好几代人。民谣中所采用的手法多为叠句、重复和暗语。后来民谣就变成了有文字的歌谣,其风格模仿民间歌谣。21. Ballad stanza: A type of four-line stanza. The firstand third lines have four stressed words or syllables; the second andfourth lines have three stresses. Ballad meter is usually iambic. The number of unstressed syllables in each lin

32、e may vary. Thesecond and fourth lines rhyme.民谣体诗节:一种四行诗节,第一、三行由四个重读单词或音节组成,二、四行由三个重音组成。民谣的韵脚往往采用抑扬格的形式,每一行中非重度音节的数目不等,二、四行押韵。22. Biography: A detailed account of a persons life written by another person.23. Blank verse: Verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.素体诗:用五音步抑扬格写的无韵诗。24. Caesura: A bre

33、ak or pause in a line of poetry.休止:一行诗中的间断或停顿。25. Canto: A section or division of a long poem.诗章:长诗的一部分。26. Caricature: The use of exaggeration or distortion to make a figure appear comic or ridiculous. A physical characteristic, aneccentricity, a personality trait, or an act may be exaggerated.漫画:用

34、夸张或扭曲的手法来描写一个人物的外貌特征、怪癖、个性或某个动作来产生滑稽可笑的效果。27. Character: In appreciating a short story, characters are an indispensable element. Characters are the persons presented in adramatic or narrative work. Forst divides characters into two types: flat character, which is presented without muchindividualizin

35、g detail; and round character, which is complex in temperament and motivation and is represented with subtleparticularity.人物:在短篇小说的欣赏中,人物是必不可少一个元素。人物是喜剧或小说中所描写的人。福斯特把人物划分为两类,扁平型人物和圆型人物。扁平型人物往往缺乏个人化的细节描写而圆型人物则在性格和行为动机上较为复杂。28. Characterization:the means by which a writer reveals that personality.人物描写

36、:一个作家描写某个人物的方法。29. Classicism: A movement or tendency in art, literature, or music that reflects the principles manifested in the art of ancientGreece and Rome. Classicism emphasizes the traditional and the universal, and places value on reason, clarity, balance, andorder. Classicism, with its conce

37、rn for reason and universal themes, is traditionally opposed to Romanticism, which isconcerned with emotions and personal themes.古典主义:在艺术、文学或音乐方面反映古希腊、罗马文学原理的运动。古典主义强调传统,追求理性、明晰、平衡和秩序。因为古典主义强调理性和普遍主题,在传统上反对强调感情和个人主题的浪漫主义。30. Climax: The point of greatest intensity, interest, or suspense in a storys

38、turning point. The action leading to the clim ax andthe simultaneous increase of tension in the plot are known as the rising action. All action after the climax is referred to as thefalling action, or resolution. The term crisis is sometimes used interchangeably with climax.高潮:小说中最紧张、最有趣或最具悬念的转折点。情节

39、中引起高潮的动作和情节紧张度的增加称作“上升”,高潮后的动作称为“回落”或“结局” 。有时候高潮又称作“转折点” 。31. Conceit: A kind of metaphor that makes a comparison between two startlingly different things. A conceit may be a briefmetaphor, but it usually provides the framework for an entire poem. An especially unusual and intellectual kind of conce

40、it is themetaphysical conceit.新奇的比喻:将两种截然不同的食物进行对比的一种隐喻。它虽被视为是一种隐喻,但是它往往构建了整首诗的框架,最为奇特的应属玄学诗里面的。32. Conflict: A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem. Usually theevents of the story are all related tothe conflict, and the conflict is reso

41、lved in some way by the storys end.矛盾:在小说、短篇小说、戏剧或叙事诗中相互对立的两种力量。故事中的事件往往都和矛盾有关,并且在故事的结尾矛盾都会得以解决。33. Connotation: All the emotions and associations that a word or phrase may arouse. Connotation is distinct from denotation,which is the literal or “ dictionary” meaning of a word or phrase.内涵:一个词或短语所指的所

42、有的情感和联系。与外延不同,外延则是指一个词的字面意思或词典上的解释。34. Consonance: The repetition of similar consonant sounds in the middle or at the end of words.谐音:单词词尾或中间相似辅音的重复。35. Couplet: Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. A heroic couplet is an iambic pentameter couplet.对句:两个连续押韵的诗行。英雄双行体的对句一般都为抑扬格五音步。36. Critical

43、Realism: The critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the beginning of fifties. The realistsfirst and foremost set themselves the task of criticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the cryingcontradictions of bourgeois reality. But they did

44、 not find a way to eradicate social evils.批判现实主义:批判现实主义在 19 世纪 40 年代达到高潮。批判现实主义作家们往往把从民主的角度批评和揭露资本主义社会的丑恶视为己任,但他们并没有找到治疗社会弊病的良方。37. Dactyl: Its made up of one stressed and two unstressed syllables, with the stressed in front.扬抑抑格:扬抑抑格由一个重度音节和两个非重度音节组成,重读音节在前。38. Denotation: The literal or “dictionar

45、y” meaning of a word.外延:单词的字面意义或“词典”解释。39. Denouement: The outcome of a plot. The denouement is that part of a play, short story, novel, or narrative poem in whichconflicts are resolved or unraveled, and mysteries and secrets connected with the plot are explained.结局:情节的结尾部分。在戏剧、小说、短篇小说的结尾部分,矛盾得以解决,和

46、情节相关的秘密都得以揭露。40. Diction: A writers choice of words, particularly for clarity, effectiveness, and precision.措辞:一个作家用词的选择,主要是为了清楚、有效和简练等目的。41. Dissonance: A harsh or disagreeable combination of sounds; discord. 不和谐音:刺耳或无法融洽的音的组合,噪音。42. Dramatic monologue: A kind of narrative poem in which one charact

47、er speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are notgiven in the poem. The occasion is usually a crucial one in the speakers personality as well as the incident that is the subject ofthe poem.戏剧独白:在一种叙事诗里面,一个人物对其他的人物讲话但并没有交代他们的回答,这种场合往往对反映说话人的性格特征和诗歌的主题是至关重要的。43. Elegy: A poem of mourning, usual

48、ly over the death of an individual. An elegy is a type of lyric poem, usually formal inlanguage and structure, and solemn or even melancholy in tone.挽歌:为某个死去的人所做的诗,挽歌往往属于抒情诗,在语言和机构上比较正式,语气上比较庄重甚至是哀伤的。44. Emblematic image: A verbal picture or figure with a long tradition of moral or religious meaning

49、 attached to it.象征性意象:蕴含道德或宗教意义的文字描述或人物。45. Enlightenment: With the advent of the 18th century,in England, as in other European countries, there sprang into life apublic movement known as the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment on the whole, was an expression of struggle of the thenprogressive class of

50、 bourgeois against feudalism. The social inequality, stagnation, prejudices and other survivals of feudalism.They attempted to place all branches of science at the service of mankind by connecting them with the actual deeds andrequirements of the people.启蒙主义:启蒙主义是在18 世纪在英国发生的。总体上,启蒙主义是当时的资产阶级对封建主义,社

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