No Signposts in the Sea(excerpts) 海上无路标

No Signposts in the Sea(excerpts)海上无路标(节选)By Vita Sackville-West 薇塔·萨克维尔·韦斯特 这是《高级英语》的一个作业。

No Signposts in the Sea(excerpts) ) 节选) 海上无路标(节选)By Vita Sackville-West

No Signposts in the Sea(excerpts)海上无路标(节选)By Vita Sackville-West 薇塔·萨克维尔·韦斯特 这是《高级英语》的一个作业。

Brief introduction of WriterVita Sackville-West薇塔萨克维尔韦斯特

An English poet and novelist. She was born in Knole Castle, the seat of the Sackvillie family from the time that Queen Elizabeth Ⅰgave Knole to her cousin, Lord Treasurer Thomas Sackville. She was educated at home, and its tradition exerted a major influence on her life. In 1913 she married a diplomat Harold Nicolson and traveled extensively during his years in the Foreign Office.

No Signposts in the Sea(excerpts)海上无路标(节选)By Vita Sackville-West 薇塔·萨克维尔·韦斯特 这是《高级英语》的一个作业。

Brief introduction of WriterA prolific writer.15 novels as well as biographies and travel books Her poetry may be prove to be more enduring. She was viewed as one of the Britain's promising young writers in the 1920s. Her influences on others writers especially Virginia Woolf is perhaps greater than her own individual achievement. (Orlando: a Biography) (1928年)

No Signposts in the Sea(excerpts)海上无路标(节选)By Vita Sackville-West 薇塔·萨克维尔·韦斯特 这是《高级英语》的一个作业。

Main Idea about the NovelThree Characters Edmund CarrAn eminent journalist and self-made man; only a short time to live.

Laura

A beautiful and intelligent widow love

triangle DalrympleA Colonel in the same ship.

No Signposts in the Sea(excerpts)海上无路标(节选)By Vita Sackville-West 薇塔·萨克维尔·韦斯特 这是《高级英语》的一个作业。

Main Idea about the NovelEdmund Carr recently discovers that he has only a short time to live. He takes a passage on a cruise ship where he knows that Laura whom he secretly admires, will be a fellow passenger. Exhilarated by the distant vista of exotic islands never to be visited and his conversations with Laura, Edmund finds himself rethinking all his values. All these give him an unfamiliar peace and a profound change in perspective.

No Signposts in the Sea(excerpts)海上无路标(节选)By Vita Sackville-West 薇塔·萨克维尔·韦斯特 这是《高级英语》的一个作业。

DetailsThe young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in the tropics, and as, I think, is suitable if not seemly for a virgin. Not a star but might not shoot down and accept the invitation to become her lover. When all my fellow-passengers have finally dispersed to bed, I creep up again to the deserted deck and slip into the swimming pool and float, no longer what people believe me to be, a middle-aged journalist taking a holiday on an ocean-going liner, but a liberated being, bathed in mythological waters, an Endymion young and strong, with a god for his father and a vision of the world inspired from Olympus.Translation

No Signposts in the Sea(excerpts)海上无路标(节选)By Vita Sackville-West 薇塔·萨克维尔·韦斯特 这是《高级英语》的一个作业。

DetailsAll weight is lifted from my limbs; I am one with the night; I understand the meaning of pantheism . How my friends would laugh if they knew I had come to this! To have discarded , as I believe, all usual frailties , to have become incapable of envy, ambition, malice , the desire to score off my neighbor, to enjoy this purification even as I enjoy the clean voluptuousness of the warm breeze on my skin and the cool support of the water. Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleansed on leaving the confessional after the solemnity of absolution .Translation

No Signposts in the Sea(excerpts)海上无路标(节选)By Vita Sackville-West 薇塔·萨克维尔·韦斯特 这是《高级英语》的一个作业。

Translation今夜的一弯新月仰面斜躺在天空，这是月亮在热 带地区常见的姿势。在我看来，这种姿势对一个少女 来说虽说有些不雅，但

却还是适宜的。没有哪一颗星 星不愿飞射下来接受邀请做她的情人。当船上的其他 乘客最后一个个都回舱就寝之后，我一个人又悄悄爬 上空荡荡的甲板，滑人游泳池，在水面上浮游着。这 时我已不再是人们所熟悉的那位在远洋海轮上度假的 中年记者了，而是一个无拘无束的沐浴着天池神水的 自由快乐的人，就像神话中那位有天神作父亲并有一 双奥林匹斯山诸神所赐的观察人世的慧眼的年轻健壮 的恩底弥翁。Back

No Signposts in the Sea(excerpts)海上无路标(节选)By Vita Sackville-West 薇塔·萨克维尔·韦斯特 这是《高级英语》的一个作业。

Translation我只觉身体四肢轻飘飘的没有任何重量，并且和 夜的世界合为一体。我悟出了泛神论的真正意义。我 的那些朋友们若知道我已变成这样，他们不知会笑成 什么样子!在享受着这暖风浴肤，凉水托体所带来的清 新快感时，我相信我的心灵也得到了净化，丢弃了凡 人皆有的种种弱点，变得不会嫉妒，没有野心，没有 恶意，与世无争。照我想象，那些虔诚的教徒在做完 庄严的忏悔仪式离开忏悔室时，他们心灵得到净化的 感觉一定就像我此时的感觉一样。

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No Signposts in the Sea(excerpts)海上无路标(节选)By Vita Sackville-West 薇塔·萨克维尔·韦斯特 这是《高级英语》的一个作业。

Vocabularyvirginin its original pure or natural condition and not changed, touched, or spoiled.adj.

e.g. virginal forest/ land/ territory.

with no sexual experience.noun.

a person who has never had sex.

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No Signposts in the Sea(excerpts)海上无路标(节选)By Vita Sackville-West 薇塔·萨克维尔·韦斯特 这是《高级英语》的一个作业。

Vocabularydisperse1. to move apart and go away in different directions; to make sb./ sth. do this.verb.

e.g. The fog began to disperse. The crowd dispersed quickly.

2. to spread or make sth. spread over a wide area.e.g. The seeds are dispersed by the wind.Back

No Signposts in the Sea(excerpts)海上无路标(节选)By Vita Sackville-West 薇塔·萨克维尔·韦斯特 这是《高级英语》的一个作业。

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