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Mike It sounds quite informal.

Chris It is , yes , and sometimes if we haven’t enjoyed the book , the meal

becomes more important than the discussion. But it’s fairly rare that no one likes the book, and it gets quite interesting when opinions about it are divided

Mkie and what sort of books do you read?

Chris Oh, all kinds, actually, not just novels, although I must admit that being a member of the club makes me read more modern fiction than I might do otherwise. But we also read the classics, you know the novels we all read or should have read 30 years ago, and it’s quite good fun to revisit them, to see if our views of the books have changed. We re-read Thomas Hardy recently, and whereas I used to love it when I was a student, this time I thought it was exasperatingly dull. And we read non-fiction, quite a lot of history and travel writing. A couple of the members like poetry, which I don’t, but you know, we’re tolerant of each other’s choice, and it gives us a chance to try things we wouldn’t usually read Mike And how do you choose the books?

Chris Well,at the end of the evening the person who hosts the dinner-basically, the cook-Has the right to choose the next book. Mike And that works OK?

Chris Yes, although there’s quite a lot of stress on choosing something that will earn everyone else’s respect. And we’ve got one member who likes science fiction, so we try not to goto his place too often!

迈克所以你的书有多久组已经运行？

克里斯嗯，让我看到，它现在已有20多年。我认为它实际上是一个最古老的书，因为它只有大约20年前，他们开始在英国成为时尚。 迈克和你经常开会吗？

克里斯我们满足大约每隔四，五个星期，但我们尽量避免在夏季假期的会议，并在运行到圣诞节时，我们都开始忙其他的事情。 迈克和多少成员，你有吗？

克里斯，我们在所有10个。虽然这是罕见的，每个人都可以参加。 迈克和什么发生在会议期间？

克里斯嗯，我们通常满足于我们的家园，和我们开始比较晚约8.30，，和主机准备吃晚饭，和一段期间用餐，有人问“所以什么没有你觉得这本书吗？”和这当讨论开始。

麦克听起来很正规。

克里斯它是，是，有时，如果我们不喜欢的书，吃饭变得比讨论更重要。但它是相当罕见的，没有人喜欢的书，关于它的意见分歧时，它变得很有趣 mkie什么书你读？

克里斯哦，，其实，不只是小说，但我必须承认，作为一个俱乐部的成员，让我读更多的现代小说比我可以做，否则。但是，我们也读经，你知道我们都读过或30年前应该已经读过的小说，它是相当不错的乐趣，重温他们，如果我们的书籍的看法已经改变。我们重新读托马斯·哈代最近，而我喜欢它，当我还是一个学生，这个时候我还以为是exasperatingly沉闷。和我们读非小说，很多很多的历史和旅游写作。几个成员喜欢诗歌，我不知道，但你知道，我们容忍对方的选择，它使我们有机会尝试的事情，我们通常不会读

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迈克和你是怎么选择的书籍？

克里斯嗯，在晚上结束的人主持的晚宴，基本上，厨师，有权利选择下一本书。 迈克，工程确定的？

克里斯：是的，虽然有不少很大的压力，选择的东西会赢得别人的尊重。 ，我们已经有一个人喜欢科幻的成员，所以我们尽量不要转到他的地方，往往！

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Well, thank you for your kind welcome, and for giving me the opportunity to give this brief tour of Literary England. I can’t claim it’s an authoritative tour, as I’m not a professional literary specialist. However, I have two amateur passions: one is travel and the other is reading, and English literature in particular. And this lecture is a description of different visits I have made to places in Britain and Ireland, chosen specifically for their close links with well-known writers of what we call the classics of English literature. Just to give you an overview of the lecture, I’m going to start in my home town of London, which is also the home of many well-known writers. But I think that the picture we have in our mind of London has been largely fashioned by the work of Charles Dickens and Shakespeare. Dickensian London illustrated most clearly by his book Oliver Twist, and Shakespeare’s London brings to mind the plays written and performed here, such as Romeo and Juliet. We’ll also have a look at the memorial of great British writers, Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Then off we go to Oxford, another city rich in its literary history. I’m going to focus on the greatest of Oxford’s literary alumni, JRR Tolkien, the professor of English who wrote Lord of the Rings, which is now famous throughout the world because of the recent series of films.

Then we turn south towards the gentle countryside of Hampshire, home of Jane Austen, where her various novels, including Pride and Prejudice are set. She also spent a period of her life in the magnificent Georgian city Bath.

Then we turn north to the hills of West Yorkshire where we find Bronte country, so called because it was the home of the three sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte. Perhaps the two best known novels are Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, also made into successful films.

Then up to the northwest, to the stunning land of mountains and Lakeland poets. Perhaps its most famous son is William Wordsworth, whose poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud” has been learnt by generations of school children not just in Britain, but around the English-speaking world. So that’s the basic route Literary England, although I’ll be taking several days to visit other famous writers whose work contributes to the glory which is English literature. Let’s start?

很好，谢谢你的善意表示欢迎，并给我这个机会给这个参观英国文学。我不能说，它是一个权威的旅游，因为我不是一个专业的文学专家。不过，我有两个业余的激情：一个是旅游和其他正在读，尤其是英语文学。这个讲座是我曾经的地方，在英国和爱尔兰，专门选择与我们所说的英国古典文学名著的知名作家的密切联系，说明了不同的访问。只是给你一个概述的讲座，我要开始在我的家

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乡伦敦，这也是许多知名作家的故乡。但我认为我们在我们的头脑伦敦的照片已很大程度上是由查尔斯·狄更斯 …… 此处隐藏：8671字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……