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GRE阅读真题第79段

Elizabeth Bishop’s Complete Poems (1927-1979) has come to seem to most of its readers so achieved and sufficient as a life’s work that it is hard not to lose sight of how slowly Bishop wrote poems and of how few poems, finally, she completed. But Bishop herself never ceased to find her productivity inadequate. The size and pace of her output were always in her eyes a failing (vaguely moral in complexion) for which she apologized throughout her career, although, as I will argue in this essay, Bishop’s inability to write more poems than she did was also a refusal to do so. The small, manageable size of Bishop’s body of work has facilitated its extraordinary critical reception since her death. (Robert Lowell, whose oeuvre is so much larger, has never had a complete edition of his poetry published.) Yet the size of her work is also a sign of Bishop’s alienation, that is, her uneasy, resistant relation to the literary culture that today claims her as the major poet of her generation.

GRE文章解析

第一句：

白话版讲解：

Elizabeth Bishop 的诗集 Complete Poems 作为其代表作，对读者来说，它的成就如此之高，以至于人们都没有注意到 Bishop 写诗的速度非常慢，最终写完的诗歌作品也很少。

第二句：

But Bishop herself never ceased to find her productivity inadequate.

白话版讲解：

但是 Bishop 自己一直都认为自己的产出效率是不够的。

第三句：

The size and pace of her output were always in her eyes a failing (vaguely moral in complexion) for which she apologized throughout her career, although, as I will argue in this essay, Bishop’s inability to write more poems than she did was also a refusal to do so.

白话版讲解：

在她自己看来，自己完成作品的数量以及产出速度一直都是她不足的一点（这更多的是一个道德感的问题），并且她也一直因为这一点而感到抱歉，尽管我认为，Bishop 没有能够写出更多的诗歌其实也是因为她不愿意这么做。

第四句&第五句：

The small, manageable size of Bishop’s body of work has facilitated its extraordinary critical reception since her death. (Robert Lowell, whose oeuvre is so much larger, has never had a complete edition of his poetry published.)

白话版讲解：

Bishop 的作品数量不多，这让她在其离世之后获得了很高的评价。（Robert Lowell 的作品数量就要多得多，但他的诗歌并不是每一首都有得到发表）。

第六句：

Yet the size of her work is also a sign of Bishop’s alienation, that is, her uneasy, resistant relation to the literary culture that today claims her as the major poet of her generation.

白话版讲解：

但是，她的作品不多也表明她远离，或者说是不愿意接近文坛，而文学界现在认为她是她那个年代的重要诗人。

GRE题目解析

Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply. 1. The passage indicates that the small size of Bishop’s body of work contributed to bringing about which of the following? A. bishop’s alienation from the literary culture of her generation B. the favorable scholarly attention that Bishop’s work has received since her death C. an interest among readers regarding why Bishop wrote so slowly

第一道题问的是，文章认为，Bishop 的诗歌产出不多，这为她带来了什么？ A. Bishop 远离她那个时代的文学界、文坛。 B. 在她去世之后，学者们对她的作品有很高的关注。 C. 很多读者对于 Bishop 为什么写作的进度这么慢产生了兴趣这道题应该选 A 和 B。 A 选项的内容对应原文最后一句话（Yet the size of her work is also a sign of Bishop’s alienation, that is, her uneasy, resistant relation to the literary culture ……）。B 选项的内容对应原文的第四句话（The small, manageable size of Bishop’s body of work has facilitated its extraordinary critical reception since her death.）。C 选项的内容在原文没有提及。 2. In the context in which it appears, “complexion” most nearly means A. appearance B. constitution C. hue D. intricacy E. personality

第二道题问的是，这个词在原文的意思是什么？这道题应该选 C 。原文中 complexion 的意思是事物总的特性或方面（overall aspect or character），而选项中，只有 C 选项可以表达类似的含义，hue 的意思是 overall character or appearance to the mind。