17. The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. 公众惊人地宽容。他们可以原谅一切,除了天才。 18. Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. 雄心壮志是失败最后的避难所。 19. Life is never fair…And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not....
B. What is the time C. have a wonderful time D. start packing E. be great fun F. What could I get G. What should I take H. where to Mary: How do you like the idea of having a picnic this Saturday? John: Wonderful. But 56 ? Mary: What about the Blue Mountain? It’s quite...
What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2007. Print.Eggers, Dave. What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2006.Eggers, D. 2006 What Is the What: The Autobiography of ...
What is an autobiography? An autobiography is a nonfiction account of someone’s life that they wrote themselves. Usually, an autobiography covers the author’s entire life up to the point of writing in chronological order and is sometimes (though not always) drafted in the later years of the...
Autobiographyisa“termforaparticularpracticeoflifenarrativethatemergedin theEnlightenmentandwhichhasbecomecanonicalintheWest”(Smith,Watson3, italics mine). Examples: Rousseau’s Confessions Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Source of Information: Personal memory is the primary archival resource...
the day's activities before bedtime tend to remember more of the day's special event than those whose mothers don't. Talking about an event in this way helps a child to remember it. And learning to organize memories as a continuous story is the key to a permanent mental "autobiography (...
The first volume of the set will be available in November, and the trilogy is being published by the University of California, Berkeley. “There are so many biographies of Twain, and many of them have used bits and pieces of the autobiography,” editor Robert Hirst told The Independent. “...
and certainly not as Literature.Perhaps literature is definable not according to whether it is fictional or 'imaginative', but becauseit uses language in peculiar ways.On this theory, literature is a kind of writing which, in the words of the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, represents an 'organi...
1. Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative 谈论天气是无趣人类最后的避难所。 2. I have nothing to declare except my genius. 除了我的天才,我没什么好申报的。 3. I am not at all romantic. I am not old enough. I leave romance to my seniors. ...