1、Between the ages of about seventeen and twentyTranslate the sentences below into Chinese1 1Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down a
2、nd write books.2 I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight- For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my schooldays.3 For min
3、utes at a time this kind of thing would be running through my head: He pushed the door open and entered the room. A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table, where a matchbox, half open, lay beside the inkpot. With his right hand in his pocket he moved
4、across to the window. Down in the street a tortoiseshell cat was chasing a dead leaf, etc., etc.4 His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in at least this is true in tumultuous, revolutionary ages like our ownbut before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional att
5、itude from which he will never completely escape.Four motives for writers to write1) Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on grown-ups who snubbed you in childhood, etc. , etc. It is humbug to pretend that this is not a motive, a
6、nd a strong one. . . (2) Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story. Desire to share an experience which one
7、 feels is valuable and ought not to be missed (3) Historical impulse. Desire to see things, as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity. (4) Political purpose using the word political in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to ater other peoples idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude
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