英语国家概况 谢福之 复习资料(5)

Middle English: Geoffrey Chaucer, the first court poet The Canterbury Tales杰弗里乔叟，第一

个宫廷诗人坎特伯雷故事集

2. Renaissance 文艺复兴

莎士比亚代表作：Romeo and Juliet（罗密欧和朱丽叶）Hamlet（哈姆雷特）Othello（奥赛罗）

King Lear（李尔王）Macbeth（麦克白）

Alexander Pope：An Essay on Criticism（批评论）, the greatest English poet of the classical school

3. Jonathan Swift → Gulliver’s Travels 格列佛游记

Daniel Defoe → Robinson Crusoe 鲁滨逊漂流记

4. William Wordsworth, passive Romanticism → Lake poets

Second generation of Romanticism → George Gordon Byron

5. It was in the Victorian Era that the novel became the leading form of literature The United States of America

Chapter 8 Geography and People

1. The United States consist of 48 contiguous states in North America, plus Alaska, and Hawaii.

四十八个州+阿拉斯加半岛&夏威夷群岛

Alaska: largest area全美最大 Rhode罗德岛中: smallest area Texas德克萨斯州: the

largest state on the mainland本土最大

2. New England is

省理工）

3. Climate: temperate, with some mild subtropical zones 温带&温和的亚热带 4. Major Cities:

New York → the commercial, financial and entertainment center. ( the biggest city)商业金融

娱乐中心

San Francisco → a center of oil-refining, chemicals, commerce, finance and shipping industry

炼油、化工、商业、金融和航运业的中心

Los Angeles → second largest city, where Hollywood好莱坞 is located

Chicago → “the Windy City”风城 is the nation s third largest city

5. The longest river: Mississippi River, the longest in the world 密西西比河，也是世界上最长的

河

The Great Lakes: from west to east

由西向东

Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, & Lake Ontario

Chapter 9 History

1. It is traditionally believed that the first Americans were Indians, descendants of the Mongoloid

people in Asia.传统意义上来说第一个美国人是印第安人，亚洲黄种人的后裔

2. In 1781, the United States of America won its independence美国独立