選擇作品：The Story of An Hour?by?Kate Chopin

????“美國‘20世紀(jì)女性解放運動先驅(qū)作家’凱特·肖邦（Kate Chopin）代表作品！”

????“一小時的故事，一個人的房間，一小時的自由”

????“生命與自由：時代背景下女性意識的禁錮、追求與毀滅”

????《一小時的故事》講述了患有心臟病的露易絲·瑪爾拉德夫人在得知丈夫喪生而又幸存這段時間里，行為舉止與心路歷程的變化，并以小見大，展示了女性意識的發(fā)展和女權(quán)主義運動的走向。

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內(nèi)容干貨

1.?作者簡介，本文概要

????作者簡介：Kate Chopin, an American novelist and short story writer who mainly writes realistic fictions. She is regarded as a forerunner of American 20th?century feminist authors. The Story of An Hour?is written in 1894 and is regarded as her most famous short story.

????Notable Works:?The Story of An Hour, The Awakening, Désirée’s Baby, Bayou Folk, A Night in Acadie

?????作品梗概：The story focuses on the exact hour after Mrs. Mallard, who suffered from serious heart disease, heard about her husband’s death, during which time her feelings changed significantly. However, there is a huge turning in the end, leaving the sense of irony and deep thoughts in reader’s mind.

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2.?單詞詞組，地道表達

????“當(dāng)那噩耗傳來，veiled hints that revealed in half concealing會讓罹患心臟病的瑪爾拉德夫人作何反應(yīng)？

????這年輕貌美的女子與其他女性不同，她沒有拒絕接受現(xiàn)實的paralyzed inability，而是wept又撲入姐姐的懷中with sudden, wild abandonment。然而，當(dāng)她進入房間，看到trees aquiver, 聞到雨的delicious breath，聽到peddler cries his ware和note of a distant song，藍天白云之下她完成了全新的蛻變。

????自由是什么？它是subtle and elusive的感覺，是她bosom?rising and falling tumultuously，是vacant?stare，是鼓動的pulses和coursing的血液。自由是清晰的，exalted perception，也是an elixir of life，她會用opened and spread out arms來歡迎。

3.?散文佳句，沉浸賞析

????窗外歲月靜好，窗內(nèi)思緒洶涌。當(dāng)一生順從的夫人驟然失去依靠，隨之而來的除了心碎之悲，是否還有更深更遠(yuǎn)處的覺醒？

·????There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.

????噩耗重?fù)糁?，瑪爾拉德夫人只身回到房間里。這位年輕貌美的姑娘，會如何面對身體和心理的雙重折磨？

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????There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window.

????蒼穹無際，云卷云舒。憑欄遠(yuǎn)眺，從未有過的戰(zhàn)栗擊中了她的身軀。

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????When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under the breath: "free, free, free!"

一聲情不自禁的輕喃，道盡了多少受壓迫女性的呼號。

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4.?主旨哲思，流連賞玩

????性別若枷鎖，負(fù)重亦前行

????“She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. (…) It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought.”

????縱受盡束縛抑制，與生俱來的力量與優(yōu)雅不會褪色。

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????沖破桎梏，獨立自由

????“But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely.”

????“There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.”

????在那個夫唱婦隨的時代，為自己而活，為自己的心意而活從來都是女性的一種奢侈。失去丈夫，何嘗又不是失去枷鎖，失去鐐銬……

????20世紀(jì)，在那個女性沉默無聲的時代里，有這樣一位姑娘，她身嬌體弱，卻意志頑強，思想深遠(yuǎn)，在短短一個小時時間內(nèi)，她在收獲自由的狂喜中涅槃重生，又在夢境破碎的絕望中猝然長逝。這何嘗不是近代女權(quán)運動的縮影？我們負(fù)重前行，理想不熄，然前路坎坷，道阻且長。