选择作品：Once More to the Lake by Elwyn Brooks White

        “二十世纪最伟大的美国随笔作家”、“《纽约客》主要撰稿人”、《夏洛的网》作者E.B.White的另一名作！

       “年幼的我们曾经为小猪威尔伯和蜘蛛夏洛真挚的友情所打动，在《重游缅湖》中我们依然为其的直白、美丽、空灵所倾倒！”

       “生存与死亡的哲学思考，人性美与自然的水乳交融。”

       怀特讲述了他和儿子在缅因州的一次度假。回到宁静的湖畔，他现在与儿子之间的许多细节和上一代人的经历是那样相似。他的心灵又回到了他的童年时代。夏季、湖上的小屋和家庭聚会、正在玩耍的美国人，聚集了我们生活中美好、和平和快乐的东西。最后，当他看到儿子冲进暴雨中去游泳时，他突然感到了死亡的寒意......

内容干货

1. 作者简介，本文概要

       作者简介： Elwyn Brooks White, 1899—1985, American essayist, author, and literary stylist, whose eloquent, unaffected prose appealed to readers of all ages. He worked as a reporter and freelance writer before joining The New Yorker magazine as a writer and contributing editor in 1927. White’s essays for The New Yorker quickly garnered critical praise. Written in a personal, direct style that showcased an affable sense of humour, his witty pieces contained musings about city life, politics, and literature, among other subjects.

        Notable Works:“Charlotte’s Web” “Harper’s Magazine” “Is Sex Necessary?”

 

        作品梗概：Recounting a visit he takes with his son in Maine, White recalls how so many of the details he now experiences with his son are the same as those he experienced with his father a generation ago. In effect, his mindset transforms to go back to his childhood. Later, White suggests that in particular, the combination of summertime, lake cabins, and family get-togethers describes Americans at play and this represents much that is good, peaceful, and joyful in our lives. In the end, when he saw his son dash into the rain for a swim, he felt the chill of death......

2. 单词词组，地道表达

    （1）revisit old haunts，在远离尘嚣的林中湖泊边上钓鱼，会看到什么东西？

    （2）湖水永远保持placidity, felt thin and clear and unsubstantial, 水中有着游动的bass。高举起鱼竿，挂上spinner ，beyond any doubt，一切都美好的像mirage. There are days when return into the grooves which lead back, 时间好像没有流逝，这种感觉is cropping up. 每年总有一些老派的cultists，用旧时的a cake of soap洗涤灵魂，泡沫在阳光下闪闪发亮。一切都沉溺于安静，但a lull in everything that had made life tick. 你坐在椅子上，languidly，看着一个孩子穿着soggy的短裤，把脚伸进冽凉的水里，轻轻wince了一下。 你呢，一个父亲？不知怎么，你看着他，自己的groin突然感觉到the chill of death.

3. 散文佳句，沉浸赏析

        当散文遇上文艺片，潮湿的雾气，影影绰绰漏下神明的声音。

        ▶I felt the same damp moss covering the worms in the bait can, and saw the dragonfly alight on the tip of my rod as it hovered a few inches from the surface of the water.

        童年的蜻蜓颤动透明的翅膀，透过它你看到了什么？

        ▶Summertime, oh summertime, pattern of life indelible, the fade-proof lake, the woods unshatterable, the pasture with the sweetfern and the juniper forever and ever, summer without end.

        无尽夏，无尽夏，几个特写镜头里，想象力无限绵延。

 

4. 主旨哲思，流连赏玩

        ▶岁月流逝，回忆不朽

        “The lake was exactly where we had left it, the same number of inches from the dock, and there was only the merest suggestion of a breeze.”

        “The only thing that was wrong now, really, was the sound of the place, an unfamiliar nervous sound of the outboard motors.”

       世界上没有什么是恒定的。只是有些事情是不会轻易改变，比如一个人的想法，一个人对别人的感受，对某事的渴望......

        ▶代际更迭，轮回不休。

        “I began to sustain the illusion that he was I, and therefore, by simple transposition, that I was my father.”

        “As he buckled the swollen belt suddenly my groin felt the chill of death.”

        从儿子到父亲，人们成长又消逝，生命节律的潮汐永恒拍打着月光海岸......

       山陵浸远，岁月驰骛，记忆顽固。夏日是把脚趾伸进清冽的溪水，还是剖开一个沙沙甜甜的西瓜，或是送上一个冰淇淋味黏黏糊糊的吻？

       你可曾有过这样一段夏日呢?