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一:Sugar

二:Shy fish

三:New App

四:Music and well-being

五:Smell of the library

六:Dropping birth rate

七:Chest x-ray

八：Animal behavior

American literature

主要内容介绍：

教授从Wilson和美国现代文学的角度出发，

分析了Wilson这位作者在

美国现代文学建立的初期的经历，

最后提到了他如何变成美式现代文学的

核心人物和他如何让美国大众

从他的文学作品中了解欧洲的各种文化。

笔果还原听力原文：

And I want, to say that Wilson who died over thirty years ago began his career before modern lit(erature) was taught and analyzed in the universities. As he said, at one time, and I think of piece about Christian Goth, (I call him Gothism), my father and his generation at Princeton a year or two after Wilson called him. When Wilson was studying there, that, the latest daring writers to get into the curriculum were wits of the 90s, and maybe, Goth had his reputation as a Bohemian romantic because he had known Oscar Wilde in Paris, but there was no modern lit(erature). Wilson came then from a different world, and he became the focal point of a broad mainstream American culture, and for that modern literature, and wanted modern literature to be able to be read and appreciated by ordinary people. They were not modernists in an abstract sense, and certainly some of them like…(人名/文学流派) were too difficult for some of their writings to be read by ordinary people. But this was a world before the division between the ‘brows’, or between the lit or whatever, had established itself as part of our consciousness. Wilson was a major player in the successful effort of his generation to establish at the heart of American life and innovative literature that would equal the great cultures of Europe. And he knew that the great cultures of Europe were there. He was not a product of a narrow American studies, kind of training at all.

听力词汇/词组：

Retell lecture要点：

1. 描述这段录音的主要内容：

Wilson和美国现代文学的关系

The speaker talked about Wilson and his relationship between the modern literature in America.

2. 描述在Wilson的时代和他的学生经历：

Wilson was studying at Princeton, where all the wits of the 90s were in the same curriculum. He has a reputation as a Bohemian romantic because of his relationship with Oscar Wilde when there wasn’t modern literature.

3. 描述Wilson是如何开展他的事业的：

Wilson came from a different world and he became the focal point of mainstream American culture, he wanted modern literature to be read and appreciated by ordinary people.

4. 描述当时的情景和Wilson的特别之处：

Despite the division between different types of literature, Wilson succeeded at establishing modern literature at the heart of American life and innovative literature with the great cultures from Europe. He was not a product of narrow American studies.