Where a Character Comes From · 人物的来源
| English | 中文 | Pinyin · 拼音 |
|---|---|---|
| Perspective/pəˈspektɪv/ | 视角 | shì jiǎo |
A character is made of details, not of a summary
- "He is proud" is your conclusion, not the text's.
- The text gave you description, dialogue and behaviour — three kinds of detail.
- Analysis means naming which detail produced the conclusion.
“He is proud” is a verdict; first let the description, dialogue and actions testify.
人物由细节构成,而不是由概括构成
- "他很骄傲"是你的结论,不是文本的。
- 文本给你的是描写、对话与行为——三种细节。
- 分析意味着说出是哪一处细节产生了这个结论。
“他很骄傲”是判词；先让描写、对话和行为上场作证。
Select all · 所有 three kinds of detail that reveal characters. · 选择所有揭示人物的三种细节类型。
The author's life is outside the text and outside the analysis. · 作者的生平位于文本之外，也位于分析之外。
Who is doing the describing?
- Descriptions of a character may come from a speaker, a narrator, other characters, or the character themselves.
- The same sentence means different things depending on the source.
- A rival's description of a character is evidence about the rival as well.
是谁在做这番描写?
- 对人物的描写可能来自叙述者、旁白、其他人物,或人物自己。
- 同一句话,依其来源不同,含义也不同。
- 对手对某个人物的描写,同时也是关于这个对手的证据。
When one character describes another, the description is evidence about both. · 当一个角色描述另一个角色时，该描述是关于两者的证据。
The source of a description is part of what the description means. · 描述的来源是描述含义的一部分。
Perspective
- Perspective 视角 is how narrators, characters or speakers understand their circumstances.
- It is informed by background, personality traits, biases and relationships.
- So perspective is not opinion — it is the position from which the character's opinions make sense.
视角
- 视角(perspective)是叙述者、人物或说话者如何理解自身处境。
- 它由背景、性格特点、偏见与人际关系所塑造。
- 因此视角不是观点——它是使该人物的种种观点得以成立的那个位置。
What kind of detail, and whose? · 什么样的细节，谁提供的？
Sort each piece of evidence by the kind of textual detail it is. · 根据细节类型对每段证据进行排序。
Perspective is best defined as... · 视角最好定义为……
The third option defines point of view, which the next lessons separate from perspective. · 第三个选项定义了视点，下一课将其与视角区分开来。
Select all · 所有 the things the CED says inform a perspective. · 选择CED所说的一切影响视角的因素。
All four — which is why a perspective can be read off the text around a character. · 以上四项——因此可以通过角色周围的文本来解读视角。
A description is evidence about its source as well as its subject. When one character describes another, the passage tells you about both — and an analysis that treats a rival's description as neutral fact has missed the more interesting half of the evidence.
**一段描写既是关于其对象的证据,也是关于其来源的证据。**当一个人物描写另一个人物时,这段文字同时告诉你两者的情况——而把对手的描写当作中立事实的分析,恰恰漏掉了证据中更有意思的那一半。
A character's perspective is both shaped and ____ by relationships, environment and plot. · 角色的视角既受人际关系、环境和情节塑造，也被其____。
Those things made it what it is, and they are where you can read it. · 这些因素使其成为现在的样子，你可以在那里读到它。
Perspective is both shaped and revealed
- A character's perspective is shaped and revealed by relationships, the environment, the events of the plot, and the ideas in the text.
- Shaped: those things made the perspective what it is.
- Revealed: those same things are where you can read it.
视角既被塑造,也被揭示
- 人物的视角被人际关系、环境、情节事件以及文本中的观念所塑造并揭示。
- 塑造:这些东西使这个视角成为现在的样子。
- 揭示:同样这些东西,正是你可以读出它的地方。
Reading for motive
- Point at a detail. Say which of the three kinds it is. Say who supplied it.
- Then say what it reveals about the character's perspective.
- Every step is checkable against the page, which is what makes it analysis.
读出动机
- 指出一处细节。说出它属于三类中的哪一类。说出是谁提供的。
- 然后说出它揭示了该人物视角中的什么。
- 每一步都可以对照书页加以核查,而这正是它成为分析的原因。
"She always did know best," said her brother. As a description of her, it may be admiration or complaint. As evidence about him, the always is the tell — he has been living with this judgement for a long time.
*"她一向就是最有主意的,"*她哥哥说。作为对她的描写,这句话可能是钦佩,也可能是抱怨。而作为关于他的证据,那个"一向"才是关键——他与这一评判共处已久。
Description, dialogue and behaviour reveal characters, and a description's source matters: a speaker, a narrator, another character or the character themselves. Perspective is how someone understands their circumstances, informed by background, traits, biases and relationships — and it is both shaped and revealed by the text around it.
描写、对话与行为揭示人物,而描写的来源很重要:叙述者、旁白、另一个人物,还是人物自己。视角是某人如何理解自身处境,由背景、性格特点、偏见与人际关系所塑造——并且被周围的文本同时塑造与揭示。