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#《Gone with the wind》

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《飘》TS打卡_Part I_Chapter 1

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TS   TS 2018-03-10 00:29 阅读(1751)

继续和上次学习《The Great Gatsby》一样,这次和大家一起研究《Gone with the wind》。我的侧重点依旧是那些不熟悉的历史文化背景的东西。


1) General Beauregard: 

(1818-93), Confederate army officer; full name Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. He served as superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point, but resigned in 1861 to join the Confederacy. He commanded the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, which officially began the Civil War. 


2) Battle of Fort Sumter: April 12 - 13, 1861

It was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army. In March 1861, General Beauregard, the first general officer of the newly formed Confederate States Army, was placed in command of Confederate forces in Charleston. Beauregard energetically directed the strengthening of batteries around Charleston harbour aimed at Fort Sumter. The resupply of Fort Sumter became the first crisis of the administration of the newly inaugurated U.S. President Abraham Lincoln following his victory in the election of November 6, 1860. 

The battle is usually recognised as the first battle that opened the American Civil War.  


3) plague of Egypt

also called the ten biblical plagues, were ten calamities that, according to the biblical Book of Exodus, God inflicted upon Egypt to persuade the Pharaoh to release the ill-treated Israelites from slavery. The Pharaoh capitulated after the tenth plague, until which God had prevented him from being swayed, triggering the Exodus of the Hebrew people.  ( Book of Exodus 出埃及记)


ten plagues:

  1. Water into blood:血水灾 Ex. 7:14-24 ——  This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD: With the staff that is in my hands I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood. The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink and the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water. 

  2. Frogs:青蛙灾 Ex. 7:25-8:15 — — This is what the great LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs. The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your official and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. The frogs will go up on you and your people and all your officials. 

  3. Lice:虱子灾 Ex. 8:16-19 — — “And the LORD said […] Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.” […] When Aaron stretched out his hand with the rod and struck the dust of the ground, lice came upon men and animals. All the dust throughout the land of Egypt became lice. 

  4. Mixture of wild animals or flies:苍蝇灾 Ex. 8:20-32 — — The fourth plague of Egypt was of creatures capable of harming people and livestock. The Torah emphasises that the ‘rob (meaning “mixture” or “swarm”) only came against the Egyptians, and that it did not affect the Land of Goshen (where the Israelites lived). Pharaoh asked Moses to remove this plague and promised to allow the Israelites’ freedom. However, after the plague was gone, the LORD “hardened Pharaoh’s heart”. and he refused to keep his promise. 

  5. Diseased livestock 畜疫灾 Ex. 9:1-7 — — This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them back, the hand of the LORD will bring a terrible plague on your livestock in the field - on your horses and donkeys and camels and on your cattle and sheep and goats. 

  6. Boils 泡疮灾 Ex. 9:8-12 — — Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from a furnace and have Moses toss it into the air in the presence of Pharaoh. It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on men and animals throughout the land.” 

  7. Thunderstorm of hail  冰雹灾 Ex. 9:13-35 — — This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me, or this time I will send the full force of my plagues against you and against your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth. For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth. But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth. You still set yourself against my people and will not let them go.  Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will send the worst hailstorm that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded till now. Give an order now to bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to a place of shelter, because the nail will fall on every man and animal that has not been brought in and is still out in the field, and they will die. […] The LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt; hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. 

  8. Locusts 蝗灾 Ex. 10:1-20 — — This is what the LORD; the god of the Jews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow. They will cover the face of the ground so that it cannot be seen. They will devour what little you have left after the hail, including every tree that is growing in your fields. They will fill your houses and those of all your officials and all the Egyptians - something neither your fathers nor your forefathers have ever seen from the day they settled in this land till now. 

  9. Darkness for three days 黑暗之灾  Ex. 10:21-29 — — Then the LORD said the Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness will spread over Egypt - darkness that can be felt.” So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days. No one could see anyone else of leave his place for three days. 

  10. Death of firstborn 长子灾 Ex. 11:1-12:36 — —  This is what the LORD says: “About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn of the slave girl, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well. There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt - worse than there has ever been or ever will be again.” 



4) Seminole

塞米诺尔人,美国原住民的一支,被列为文明化五部族之一。

A member of an American Indian people of the Creek confederacy, noted for resistance in the 19th century to encroachment on their land in Georgia and Florida. Many were resettled in Oklahoma. 


5) Seminole Wars

  • Seminole Wars, also known as the Florida Wars, were 3 conflicts in Florida between the Seminole, a Native American tribe that formed in Florida in the early 18th century, and the United States Army. Taken together, the Seminole Wars were the longest and most expensive (both in human and monetary terms) Indian Wars in United States history. 
    • First Seminole War  1816 - 1819
    • Second Seminole War  1835 - 1842
    • Third Seminole War  1855 - 1858


6) Mexican War

also known as the Mexican-American War in US and in Mexico called American intervention in Mexico. It was an armed conflict between the US and Mexico from 1846 - 1848. It followed in the wake of the 1845 American annexation (扩张,吞并) of the independent Republic of Texas, which Mexico still considered its northeastern province and a part of its territory after its de facto secession in the 1836 Texas Revolution a decade earlier. 



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