選擇作品：?The Great Gatsby?by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

村上春樹、海明威、塞林格瘋狂迷戀

他的才華就像蝴蝶翅膀上繽紛的圖案，完全是天生的?—海明威

何等妙不可言的杰作！我真想把其中的妙處告訴別人?—村上春樹

20世紀“百部最佳英語小說榜”第二名

堪稱20世紀文學(xué)的“完美之書”

“美國夢”破滅之絕唱

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? ? ? ??一次偶然的機會，窮職員尼克闖入了揮金如土的大富翁蓋茨比隱秘的世界，尼克驚訝地發(fā)現(xiàn)，蓋茨比內(nèi)心唯一的牽絆竟是河對岸那盞小小的綠燈——燈影婆娑中，住著心愛的舊情人黛茜。

? ? ? ??蓋茨比曾因貧窮而失去了黛茜，為了找回愛情，他不擇手段成為有錢人，建起豪宅，只是想讓昔日情人來小坐片刻。然而，冰冷的現(xiàn)實容不下縹緲的夢，真正的悲劇卻在此時悄悄啟幕……

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1.作者簡介，本文概要

? ? ? ?作者簡介：“The Great Gatsby” was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and is considered an American classic. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896–December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularized.

????????Notable Works:?The Beautiful and Damned???The Great Gatsby????All the Sad Young Men Tender is the Night

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? ? ?? ?作品梗概：The Great Gatsby, third novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925. Set in Jazz Age New York, this novel is narrated by Nick Carraway, a recent Yale graduate, who moves to New York and lives next door to Gatsby, an affluent man who lives a frivolous and extravagant lifestyle. At a party, Nick finds out that Gatsby is in love with Nick’s cousin, Daisy, and Nick sets up a meeting between the two. When Daisy accidentally hits and kills a woman, Gatsby’s love persuades him to say he was driving the car so that he could protect Daisy and her reputation. The woman’s husband then goes to Gatsby’s house and kills him.

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2.單詞詞組，地道表達

? ? ? ?（1）In consequence，我inclined to對所有的人都保留判斷，這個習(xí)慣既使得許多怪僻的人肯跟我講心里話，也使我成為?the victim of not a few veteran bores.?

? ? ? ?（2）這個特點在正常的人身上出現(xiàn)的時候，心理不正常的人很快就會detect?并且?attach itself to this quality.

? ? ? ?（3）因為青年人的intimate revelations，或者至少他們表達這些intimate revelations所用的語言，往往是?plagiaristic，而且marred by obvious suppressions.

? ? ? ?（4）蓋茨比本人turned out無可厚非的；使我對人們abortive sorrows和short-winded elations暫時喪失興趣的，卻是那些preyed on蓋茨比心靈的東西，是在他的幻夢消逝后跟蹤而來的foul dust.

? ? ? ?（5）他經(jīng)歷了漫長的道路才來到這片藍色的草坪上，他的夢一定似乎近在眼前，he could hardly fail to grasp it.他不知道那個夢已經(jīng)丟在他背后了，丟在這個城市那邊那一片vast obscurity之中不知什么地方了，那里共和國的黑黝黝的田野在夜色中?rolled on.

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3.散文佳句，沉浸賞析

? ? ? ??"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

? ? ? ??“每逢你想要批評任何人的時候，”他對我說，“你就記住，這個世界上所有的人，并不是個個都有過你那些優(yōu)越條件?！被蛟S，我們都需要這樣一種道德自省，去審視自己而不是別人。

? ? ? ??l???It is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

? ? ? ??吞噬蓋茨比心靈的東西是什么？夢醒后惡濁的灰塵又是什么？

? ? ? ?l??So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

? ? ? ??拼命向前劃著，卻又被不斷地向后推，被推入過去……似乎永遠也無法擺脫過去……

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4.主旨哲思，流連賞玩

? ? ? ???欲壑難填，美國夢碎

? ? ? ??“No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”

? ? ? ??是什么吞噬了蓋茨比，在他消逝之后跟蹤而來的骯臟塵泥又是何物？

? ? ? ??我們?yōu)槭裁匆獡碛羞@么多財富？擁有這么多金錢后又該怎樣存在？

? ? ? ??“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And one fine morning—”

? ? ? ??蓋茨比追逐著一個泡沫般的夢境，同時力圖與過去的自己劃清界限，無論怎樣奮力向前，都好像逆水行舟，被不斷地向后推，被推入過去。

? ? ? ??The tragedy isn't in dreaming, it's in chasing an unworthy dream.

? ? ? ? ??保留判斷，三省吾身

? ? ? ??"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."?

? ? ? ??我們也不要忘記，尼克說“我傾向于保留所有的判斷”，也不免隨波逐流，評判小說中的其他人。其實我們也有著相同的缺陷，我們會下意識的去評判蓋茨比的執(zhí)著，黛西的自私，湯姆的自大......

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結(jié)語：

? ? ? ??你的心里是否也有一盞綠燈在粼粼海光的映襯下閃耀著？你清楚自己內(nèi)心真正想要的是什么嗎？你是否也在深夜思考過人生的價值所在？

? ? ? ??物欲橫流、紛紛擾擾的世界中，我們被一些虛無的東西打擾著甚至被裹挾著向某一方向前行，而你不確定那兒是不是你最想要去的地方。我以為看到“成功”的那一刻是我的人生，而這之前的時時刻刻都是我的人生；當(dāng)我想要擺脫現(xiàn)在看來不那么好的過去，才發(fā)現(xiàn)奮力掙脫只會越陷越深。所以不妨輕衣素履，去往心真正之所向處，真實地去生活。