Briefly discuss Ernest Hemingway‘s art of fiction: his writing style and his attitude towards life in his work respectively known as “iceberg” and “grace under pressure”
Briefly discuss Ernest Hemingway‘s art of fiction: his writing style and his attitude towards life in his work respectively known as “iceberg” and “grace under pressure”
【正确答案】:

A. TYPICAL OF THE "ICEBERG" ANALOGY IS HEMINGWAY'S STYLE. HE THINKS GOOD LITERARY WRITING SHOULD MAKE READERS FEEL THE EMOTION OF THE CHARACTERS DIRECTLY AND THE BEST WAY TO PRODUCE THE EFFECT IS TO SET DOWN EVERY PARTICULAR FEELING WITHOUT ANY AUTHORIAL COMMENTS, WITHOUT EMOTIVE LANGUAGE, AND WITH A BARE MINIMUM OF ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS. 

B. HIS STYLE IS POLISHED AND TIGHTLY CONTROLLED, BUT HIGHLY SUGGESTIVE AND CONNOTATIVE.

C. HE DEVELOPS THE STYLE OF COLLOQUIALISM INITIATED BY MARK TWAIN. THE ACCENTS AND MANNERISMS OF HUMAN SPEECH ARE WELL PRESENTED AND THE USE OF SHORT, SIMPLE AND CONVENTIONAL WORDS AND SENTENCES HAS AN EFFECT OF CLEARNESS, TERSENESS AND GREAT CARE. 
D. HEMINGWAY DEALS WITH A LIMITED RANGE OF CHARACTERS IN SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES AND MEASURES THEM AGAINST AN UNVARYING CODE, KNOWN AS "GRACE UNDER PLEASURE," AN ATTITUDE TOWARDS LIFE THAT HE HAD BEEN TRYING TO DEMONSTRATE IN HIS WORKS. THOSE WHO SURVIVE IN THE PROCESS OF SEEKING TO MASTER THE CODE WITH THE HONESTY, THE DISCIPLINE, AND THE RESTRAINT ARE HEMINGWAY CODE HEROES. 
E. IN THE GENERAL SITUATION OF HIS NOVELS, MAN IS ALWAYS FIGHTING A LOSING BATTLE. IT IS A STRUGGLE MAN CAN DOMINATE IN SUCH A WAY THAT LOSS BECOMES DIGNITY: MAN CAN BE PHYSICALLY DESTROYED BUT NEVER DEFEATED SPIRITUALLY. 


【题目解析】:题干:简论海明威的小说艺术:他的写作风格和生活态度,分别被称为“iceberg——冰山”和“grace under pressure——在生活的重压下保持自尊”。A. 典型的“冰山(iceberg)”比喻是海明威的风格。他认为,好的文学作品(literary)应该让读者直接感受到人物的情感(emotion),而产生这种情感效果的最好方法就是把每一种特定的情感(every particular feeling)都写下来,不加任何作者的评论,不加情感语言(without emotive language),只加上极少的形容词和副词。B. 他的风格是优雅(polished)和精心修饰的(tightly controlled),但极富暗示性(suggestive)和底蕴(connotative)。C. 他发展了马克·吐温(Mark Twain)倡导的口语(colloquialism)风格。人类语言的口音和习性都能很好地表现出来,使用简短(short)、简单(simple)和常规(conventional)的单词和句子有着清晰(clearness)、简洁(terseness)和非常谨慎(great care)的效果。D. 海明威在相似的环境中处理有限范围(in similar circumstances)的人物,并根据一种不变的准则来衡量他们,这种准则被称为“愉悦下的优雅”,一种他一直试图在作品中表现出来的对生活的态度。那些以诚实(honesty)、纪律(the discipline)和克制(the restraint)在寻求掌握准则的过程中生存下来的人是海明威准则中的英雄。E. 在他的小说中,人总是在打一场败仗(a losing battle)。虽然打败仗,但是打败仗也是有尊严的:人类的肉体可以消亡,但精神永远不可战胜(man can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually.)。
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