“The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapour—walled landscape. The clear heights where she expected to walk in full communion had become difficult to see even in her imagination; the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior had been shaken into uneasy effort and alarmed with dim presentiment. When would the days begin of that active wifely devotion which was to strengthen her husband’s life and exalt her own?”
Questions:
A．Identify the author and the title of the story from which the passage is taken.
B．Explain the meaning of “the white vapour—walled landscape”
C．How do you undersdand “the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior”?
【正确答案】：A.George Eliot; Middlemarch
B.The landscape covered with white snow.
C.It refers to Dorothea's dream of fulflling something great by marrying somebody superior, somebody who can guide her.
