第25单元格雷厄姆•斯威夫特
25.1复习笔记
Graham Swift（1949-）（格雷厄姆·斯威夫特）
1.Life（生平）
Graham Swift,a prominent English writer,was born in London.He has ever studied in Cambridge,obtaining BA and MA.After graduated from college in1975, he taught English in several schools in London,and he did literary creativity in spare time.
Swift is a writer with special apperception and opinions towards literary creativity.Characters of her works are usually mid-aged people,and by reflecting on their fate,Swift talks about history,life,love,marriage and death,etc.,vividly describing the life phenomena and contemporary spirit of the modern English society.Swift employs complicated narrative methods to indicate all kinds of relationships between personal experiences and historical events,revealing that by imagination and fiction,stories embody the nature of human being’s life experience.
格雷厄姆·斯威夫特出生于伦敦，是英国当代杰出的小说家。
他曾就读于剑桥大学，并获得文学士和文学硕士学位。
1975年毕业后，他在伦敦多所学校教英语，并利用空闲时间进行文学创作。
斯威夫特是一位对文学创作有着独到感悟和见解的作家。
作品主人公往往是中年人，作
者通过对小说人物命运的考察，思考历史、生命、爱情、婚姻、死亡等方面的问题，生动地描绘了当代英国社会的人生百态和时代风貌。
斯威夫特复杂的叙述方式涉及个人经历与历史事件之间的种种关系，揭示了小说通过想象和虚构表现人类生活经验的本质。
2.Major Works（主要作品）
The Sweet Shop Owner（1980）《糖果店主》
Shuttlecock（1981）《羽毛球》
Learning to Swim（1982）《学游泳》
Waterland（1983）《水之乡》
Out of This World（1988）《世外桃源》
Ever After（1992）《从此以后》
Last Orders（1996）《杯酒留痕》
The Light of Day（2003）《日之光》
3.Selected works（选读作品）
◆Our Nicky’s Heart《咱家尼基的心脏》
Our Nicky’s Heart tells a story with a very unique narrative method,focusing on a boy named Nicky who dies from traffic accident and donates his heart to a woman.The narrator Mark is Nicky’s elder brother and is the spectator of the whole event.Nicky is the youngest child of the family.After three boys were born, the mother wanted to have a daughter,but she did not realize her dream.She accepted Nicky willingly and loved him very much.Nicky was spoiled,haughty,and
capricious since he was very young.Unlike his brothers,he took notice of dressing up when he was young.When he was17years old,the family bought a second-hand motorcycle for him and he rode it very carelessly on big streets and small alleys;finally,he crashed with a truck and died.Then,the family made a hard decision to denote his heart to a stranger.His mother was seriously toured by the fact that Nicky was dead but his heart was still beating in someone else.Mark inquired that Nicky’s heart was donated to a46-year-old woman.He dared not to tell the truth to his mother and only said that Nicky’s heart was donated to a young girl so that to comfort the mother who wanted to have a daughter.
《咱家尼基的心脏》是一则叙述独特的故事，主要围绕一个叫尼基的男孩死于车祸后给一个女性捐献心脏的展开。
叙事者马克既是死者兄长，又是整个事件的旁观者。
尼基是最小的孩子，母亲原来希望有了三个儿子后能有个女儿，但愿望没实现。
她欣然接受事实，并十分宠爱小儿子。
尼基自幼娇生惯养，傲慢任性，与兄长不同，他小小年纪就很在意打扮。
17岁时买了一辆旧的雅马哈摩托车，在大街小巷横冲直撞，结果与一辆客车相撞，葬身车轮下。
尼基的家人随后做出一个艰难的决定，将儿子的心脏捐献出来。
尼基已经离开人世，但他的心脏依然在一个陌生人的体内跳动，对此母亲内心经受着痛苦的煎熬。
马克最后打听到接受尼基器官的是一位46岁的中年妇女。
他不敢将实情告诉母亲，只是说尼基的心脏移植到了一位年轻姑娘的身上，从而给本想生个女儿的母亲带来一些安慰。
25.2课后习题详解
1.What do you think of the relationship between the mother and her son Nick?
Key:The mother wanted to have a baby girl after she gave birth to three boys,but she still gave birth to a boy a fourth time,naming him Nick.Although her dream did not come true,she loved Nick very much.
2.How will you characterize Mark’s attitude towards his younger brother Nick? Key:Mark thinks that his younger brother Nick was a cocky,reckless young stud. And their mother loved Nick very much.In the family,Nick was always the baby and something of an amusement.
3.What is your view on the organ donation?
Key:I think that the organ donation is a kind of lofty deed that can help others to release pains or prolong life.We should support it.During this kind of donation, the most important thing is that the donation must be permitted by the donator willingly.。