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1、Unit11CultivatingaHobbyWinstonChurchillCulturalBackgroundTextanalysisWritingSkillQuestionsontheTextLanguagePointsDiscussionExercisesCulturalbackgroundAbouttheauthor—SirWinstonChurchillWinstonChurchill(1874-1965),Britishstatesmanandauthor.Besidesbeingoneoftheoutstandingleadersinworldhistoryandon
2、eofthegreatBritishprimeminister,Churchillwasaprolificwriterandanamateurpainter.HereceivedtheNobelPrizeforliteraturein1953.Hispaintingsweregivenaretrospectiveone-manshowinthegalleriesoftheRoyalAcademyofArtsin1958.BackTextAnalysisThisessayisanexposition.Thethemeisaboutthesignificanceofcultivating
3、ahobby.Accordingtotheauthor,thesignificanceofahobbyliesinitsrelaxingthemindofrational,industrious,usefulhumanbeings.Toexplainhowahobbyworks,hefirstofallexplainswhatworryreallyis.(para.1)Nowweseethathobbyistheonlywaytoattenuateworry,soit’softhefirstimportancetoapublicman.Buthowcanahobbybecultiva
4、ted?Para2answersthequestion.Inordertobetterexplainhowhobbyattenuateworry,theauthorclassifiespeopleinto3catagraries:thosewhoaretoiledtodeath,thosewhoareworriedtodeath,andthosewhoareboredtodeath.(para.3and4)Inthisway,hestatesthathobbyshouldberightlychosen.Thoughhobbycanreleaseworry,itcanonlydotot
5、herational,industrious,usefulhumanbeing.Soinpara.5,ChurchillagaindividespeopleintotwoBackclasses:thosewhoseworkisworkandwhosepleasureispleasure;andthosewhoseworkandpleasureareone.Thus,thethirdcategoryofhumanbeingsinthefirstclassification,i.e.,thosewhoareboredtodeath,isexcluded.Obviously,inChurc
6、hill’sopinion,thesecan’tberegardedasrational,industrious,usefulhumanbeings,andintheircase,nohobbycanhelptorelievetheirboredom.BackWritingSkillMetaphorMetaphorisoneofthefiguresofspeechusedincomparingpersons,objects,actions,andideas.Ametaphorisanimpliedorindirectcomparisoninwhichthepersonsorthing
7、scomparedare,ingeneral,notsimilar,forexample,“Theloveofmoneyistherootofallevil.”Inthepresentessay,inanumberofplaces,Churchillspeaksmetaphorically,creatinganimaginativeandemotionalimpression.(findoutthemetaphors)BackUseofSynonymous
