Willa Cather
Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873– April 24, 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontierlife on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Cather grew up in Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years,[2] then at the age of 33 she moved to New York, where she lived for the rest of her life.
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單字:
1. smirk [smɝk](v.) 嘻嘻作笑
2. high-pitched (a.)高調
3. portfolio (n.) 文件夾，公事包
4.adolescent (n.)青少年
5. stab (v.)拿短刀刺
6.jerking (n.) 把...猛地一拉
7.tenderness (n.) 柔軟; 溫和; 親切
8.irrevocably (adv.) 不能撤回地
voice
ex: evoke 喚起
9.jalopy=decrepit car (n.) 銅仔車 convertible(a.) 敞篷的
10.screen door (n.)紗窗
11.yeast(n.) 酵母菌
12. shaggy (a.) 長滿粗毛的, 有粗毛的 shabby (a.)破爛的; 破舊的
13. folly (a.) 愚蠢; 愚笨
14. principal(n.) 高中校長 principle (n.)原則
15. locomotive (n.)火車頭
動
16.perplexity (n.)困惑
17.dandy(n.) 花花公子
19.hysterical (a.)歇斯底里的
20. opal(n.) 乳白玻璃
21.befit (v.) 適合於, 對...適當
de:down
ex: depreciation, decrepit
slit her eye 不注視
One of Ours 女性主義的小說 Puliz 短篇小說
One of Ours is a novel by Willa Cather that won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native around the turn of the 20th century. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, he is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father's success and his own inexplicable malaise.
Disclossure 桃色機密 電影
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