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1、NettlesBy Alice MunroGuide to ReadingAlice Munro is a prolific writer, who has made a major career (事业的)成就，成功out of short fiction Described by The New York Times as the only living writer in the English language to have made a major career out of short fiction alone, Munros work has been compared to
2、 that of Flannery OConner, George Eliot, and Anton Chekhov. Mona Simpson, writing in The Atlantic Monthly, described Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage as a book that must be owned.The highest compliment a critic can pay a short-story writer is to say that he or she is our Chekhov.
3、More than one writer has made that claim for Alice Munro. In the past 35 years, she has produced numerous short stories that are read in and outside of Canada, often appearing in such prestigious magazines as The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly. Today she is still active in her writing career. L
4、ike her many other stories, the subject of the story “Nettles” is about the problem of a middle-aged womanthe passions, confusions and dilemmas that any woman in a modern society might be confronted with, regardless of race, color or nationality. In this story, the narrator meets her childhood frien
5、d by chance at the very stage of her life when she is caught up catch up: To become involved with, often unwillingly牵涉，牵连：被卷入，经常是不情愿地; 使陷入was caught up in the scandal涉及丑闻in a troubled relationship with her husband and her children. She is delighted with this reunion. This joy quickly turns into a te
6、nder and ambiguous feeling toward this man-a desire and passion she herself is not sure of. The two of them go through a wild狂暴的storm. In order to protect themselves from being knocked down打倒，击倒；撞倒；击落 by the violent wind, they hold each other firmly. When the wind passes终止；消失(常与 away 连用), they kiss
7、and press together in a gesture of recognition of survival. At this moment the man tells her his deepest secret. She realizes that “he was a person who had hit rock bottom also reach rock bottom: to reach the lowest possible level or be in the worst possible situation. She used illegal drugs for eig
8、ht years and quit before she hit rock bottom. The department has reached rock bottom, with employees being fired and supervisors facing criminal charges. Usage notes: also used in the form be at rock bottom: Grain prices are now at rock bottom.” She is happy that he treats her as a “person he had, o
9、n his own, who knew.” What happened or rather 确切地说,说得更准确些, what does not happen between them gives her a new perception感受；知觉；了解of love, “Love that was not usable, that knew its place. Not risking a thing yet staying alive as a sweet trickle细流；涓流, an underground resource.” The narration of this story
10、 is marked by a clear regional identity and shifts in time with a prominent element of retrospection回顾, 回想, 追溯revealing the protagonists ambiguous hold of the past, throwing light on 阐明,有助于说明,使.明白; 使人理解某事;使某事更为清楚 亦作 shed (或 throw a flood of) light on (或 upon) the present. The author employs a skillf
11、ul but natural narrative voice, which effortlessly leads the reader on toward an open正在考虑的，尚未决定的，悬而未决的，仍需要考虑的an open question悬而未决的问题and yet conclusive ending. While reading the story, the reader is likely to forget that this is only a fiction and that the protagonist is but a character created by ar
12、t. The author succeeds in bridging the gap between消除(之间的)隔阂；弥合(之间的)差别 art and reality and presenting the fictional character as an acquaintance or even a friend. Thus the reader is apt to往往；易于；动辄；有倾向；有可能 identify with跟产生共鸣 the protagonist, feeling what she feels and worrying about what worries her.
13、In this short story the author addresses处理，对付；讨论，论述several essential problems of everyday life such as friendship and love, marriage and divorce. Once again “Nettles” displays Munros lasting strength that arises from her ability to create an illusory 1. 幻觉的，错觉的；梦幻似的；迷惑人的2. 虚幻的；虚假的；不实际的simplicity tha
14、t combines the telling of a simple plot and the probing of complicated feelings and subtle meanings of life. Text1. In the summer of 1979, I walked into the kitchen of my friend Sunnys house near Uxbridge, Ontario, and saw a man standing at the counter A flat surface on which money is counted, busin
15、ess is transacted, or food is prepared or served柜台，餐桌：数钱，进行交易，准备食物或放食物的平面; (厨房中的)长台面，案子, making himself a ketchup sandwich.2. I have driven around in the hills northeast of Toronto, with my husbandmy second husband, not the one I had left behind that summerand I have looked for the house, in an idly
16、 persistent way, I have tried to locate the road it was on, but I have never succeeded. It has probably been torn down. Sunny and her husband sold it a few years after I visited them. It was too far from Ottawa, where they lived, to serve as a convenient summer place. Their children, as they became teenagers, balked (遇到障碍时)停止并拒绝向前，中止并拒绝做(指定的事情)；在面前犹豫，踌躇，畏缩，从退缩，回避(通常与at连用) at going there. And there was too mu
