1.Fallois proposed that Proust had tried to begin a novel in 1908, abandoned it for what was to be a long demonstration of Saint-Beure's blindness to the real nature of great writing, found the essay giving rise to personal memories and fictional developments, and allowed these to take over in a steadily developing novel.
参考答案:
Fallois提出Proust 1908年就开始写小说了,因为Saint-Beure对于写作的真实性质的忽视,他把小说放置了。后来开始流行个人回忆录和科幻小说,这些东西和小说一起稳步地发展。
2.The teacher was not wrong to draw attention to the errors, but if his priorities had centred on the child' s ideas, an expression of his disappointment with the presentation would have given the pupil more motivation to seek improvement.
参考答案:
老师注重错误没错,但是如果他更注重孩子的思想的话,他失望的表现会使孩子有提高的动力。
3.He was puzzled that I did not want what was obviously a "step up" toward what all Americans are taught to want when they grow up: money and power.
参考答案:
他很迷惑我并不想要明显的是所有美国人被教导长大后要追求的东西:金钱和权力。