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托福TPO/Official 69 Con2听力原文What is the man's initial reaction to the professor's criticism?【新东方在线】

听一段学生和教授之间的对话。

Narrator: Listen to a conversation between a student and a professor.

Professor: I'm going to suggest you rewrite this paper. Brown

你的论文写得很好，但存在一个大问题，我们得谈谈。

Professor: Your paper is very well written, but it has a major problem, one that we need to talk about.

《宽阔的萨尔加索海》，它是基于另一部小说的，对吧？

Professor: the wide Sargasso Sea, you know that's based on another novel, right?

是的，它是基于《简·爱》的。

那你为什么在论文里没有讨论《简·爱》？

Professor: Right.So why didn't you discuss Jane Eyre in your paper?

嗯，我没读过《简·爱》，但我也觉得《宽阔的萨尔加索海》可以独立成立。

Student: 
Well, I've never read Jane Eyre, but I also think that the wide Sargasso Sea can stand on its own.

Professor: 
I don't think anyone would dispute that.

Jean Rhys 是个很棒的作家，如果你只是为了娱乐读书的话，

Professor: Jean Rhys is a wonderful author and if you were just reading the book for fun,

但如果你是要写一篇学术论文，那我觉得你不能忽视《简·爱》。

Professor: but if you want to write an academic paper on this book, well, I don't think you can do that without acknowledging Jane Eyre.

我不太确定，因为说实话，每本书或多或少都受其他书的影响，不是吗？

Student: 
I'm not sure II because really isn't every book that's ever been written influenced by other books?

所以，要分清界限真的挺难的。

Student: So, like, it's difficult to know where to draw the line.

但我们现在不是在讨论那种微妙的影响。

Professor: 
But we're not talking about subtle influences.

这个问题是非常具体的：一个作家直接以另一本非常有名的书为基础来创作自己的小说。

Professor: In this case. The issue here is a very concrete case of one writer basing her book directly on another book, and a very famous one.

Jean Rhys 并不只是重写了《简·爱》，对吧？

Student: 
Jean Rhys didn't just rewrite Jane Eyre, did she?

如果你读过《简·爱》，你就会知道 Rhys 做的是在某种意义上对它的再创造，她是从《简·爱》中一个次要角色的视角来写的。

Professor: 
If you'd read Jane Eyre, you'd know that what Rhys did was, in a sense, she reinvented it by writing it from the view of a secondary character in Jane Eyre .

你在论文中重点分析的那个角色，其实在《简·爱》中只是个小角色，我们听说过她，但几乎没真正见过她。

Professor: Tonight, the main character that you wrote so much about in your paper, she's just a minor character in Jane Eyre, someone we hear about, but hardly ever see.

那你觉得，如果《简·爱》从未被写出来，Rhys 还会写出《宽阔的萨尔加索海》吗？

Professor: So, do you think that Rhys would have written the wide Sargasso sea if Jane Eyre had never been written?

我在 Antoinette 和 Jean Rhys 之间看到了很多相似之处。

Student: I saw a lot of parallels between Antoinette and Jean Rhys.

她们都出生在西印度群岛，年轻时搬到英国。

Student: They were both born in the West Indies, and then they moved to England as young women.

也许 Rhys 无论如何都会写出类似的书吧。

Student: Maybe Reese would have written a similar book anyway.

那她为什么不直接以自己的生活为蓝本来创作 Antoinette 呢？

Professor: 
Then why didn't she just base Antoinette on her own life?

Professor: Why use a character someone else invented?

而且小说的背景不只是跟作者的出生地有关吧？

Professor: And isn't there more to the setting than just where the author happens to come from?

你不觉得重点在于《简·爱》发生在英国，而《宽阔的萨尔加索海》大多设定在牙买加吗？

Professor: Don't you think there's more to the fact that Jamie takes place in England, but the wide Sargasso Sea is mostly set in Jamaica?

Student: It's just that I already work so hard.

Student: So hard and, my schedule is so tight.

现在我真希望在写论文之前就来找你谈谈。

Student: Now, I wish I'd scheduled a conference with you before I started my paper.

我安排那些一对一讨论是有原因的。

Professor: 
I hold those conferences for a reason.

你提出了一些非常独到的观点。

Professor: You make some really original points.

这也是为什么我希望你能再试一次。

Professor: And I guess that's why I'd like to see you take another stab at this.

现在你可以拿到一个不错的分数，但我觉得如果你读了《简·爱》，你可能会写出一篇真正特别的论文。

Professor: Right now, you'll get an okay grade, but I think if you just read Jane Eyre, you could write something really special.

好吧。但要读一本新书再重写论文……

Student: 
Ok.But reading another book and rewriting the paper.

就算我能挤出时间，我也不确定自己还有什么新东西可写了。

Student: Even if I can find a time, I'm not sure I've got anything creative left to say.

Why does the professor criticize the man's efforts on an assignment?

What is the man's initial reaction to the professor's criticism?

The professor suggests that the student failed to discuss an important fact about the main character, Antoinette, in The Wide Sargasso Sea. What fact was it?

Why does the professor discuss the setting of The Wide Sargasso Sea?

What does the man imply about rewriting his paper?

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