弗.司各特.菲茨杰拉德的英文简介-菲兹杰拉德-英语学
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24,1896,and named after his ancestor Francis Scott Key,the author of The Star-Spangled Banner.Fitzgerald was raised in St.Paul,Minnesota.Though an intelligent child,he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911.Despite being a mediocre student there,he managed to enroll at Princeton in 1913.Academic troubles and apathy plagued him throughout his time at college,and he never graduated,instead enlisting in the army in 1917,as World War I neared its end.
Fitzgerald became a second lieutenant,and was stationed at Camp Sheridan,in Montgomery,Alabama.There he met and fell in love with a wild seventeen-year-old beauty named Zelda Sayre.Zelda finally agreed to marry him,but her overpowering desire for wealth,fun,and leisure led her to delay their wedding until he could prove a success.With the publication of This Side of Paradise in 1920,Fitzgerald became a literary sensation,earning enough money and fame to convince Zelda to marry him.
Many of these events from Fitzgerald’s early life appear in his most famous novel,The Great Gatsby,published in 1925.Like Fitzgerald,Nick Carraway is a thoughtful young man from Minnesota,educated at an Ivy League school (in Nick’s case,Yale),who moves to New York after the war.Also similar to Fitzgerald is Jay Gatsby,a sensitive young man who idolizes wealth and luxury and who falls in love with a beautiful young woman while stationed at a military camp in the South.
Having become a celebrity,Fitzgerald fell into a wild,reckless life-style of parties and decadence,while desperately trying to please Zelda by writing to earn money.Similarly,Gatsby amasses a great deal of wealth at a relatively young age,and devotes himself to acquiring possessions and throwing parties that he believes will enable him to win Daisy’s love.As the giddiness of the Roaring Twenties dissolved into the bleakness of the Great Depression,however,Zelda suffered a nervous breakdown and Fitzgerald battled alcoholism,which hampered his writing.He published Tender Is the Night in 1934,and sold short stories to The Saturday Evening Post to support his lavish lifestyle.In 1937,he left for Hollywood to write screenplays,and in 1940,while working on his novel The Love of the Last Tycoon,died of a heart attack at the age of forty-four.
Fitzgerald was the most famous chronicler of 1920s America,an era that he dubbed “the Jazz Age.” Written in 1925,The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest literary documents of this period,in which the American economy soared,bringing unprecedented levels of prosperity to the nation.Prohibition,the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1919),made millionaires out of bootleggers,and an underground culture of revelry sprang up.Sprawling private parties managed to elude police notice,and “speakeasies”—secret clubs that sold liquor—thrived.The chaos and violence of World War I left America in a state of shock,and the generation that fought the war turned to wild and extravagant living to compensate.The staid conservatism and timeworn values of the previous decade were turned on their ear,as money,opulence,and exuberance became the order of the day.
Like Nick in The Great Gatsby,Fitzgerald found this new lifestyle seductive and exciting,and,like Gatsby,he had always idolized the very rich.Now he found himself in an era in which unrestrained materialism set the tone of society,particularly in the large cities of the East.Even so,like Nick,Fitzgerald saw through the glitter of the Jazz Age to the moral emptiness and hypocrisy beneath,and part of him longed for this absent moral center.In many ways,The Great Gatsby represents Fitzgerald’s attempt to confront his conflicting feelings about the Jazz Age.Like Gatsby,Fitzgerald was driven by his love for a woman who symbolized everything he wanted,even as she led him toward everything he despised.
类似问题
类似问题1： 【十万火急~菲茨杰拉德英语文献综述~急求一份英语的关于菲茨杰拉德的文献综述最好能按照格式写WORD格式最好】百度作业帮[英语科目]
Every high school student in America has read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, usually in some tedious 10th grade English class, one of those “important” books you never think of revisiting once you’re out of school. This is a pity because The Great Gatsby is not particularly a story for the young – I know I didn’t appreciate it much at the age of 17 – but is rather a novel that gets better and better with age. No American author has ever written more gorgeously beautiful prose.
Fame came early to Scott Fitzgerald, at the age of 23 with the publication of This Side of Paradise in 1920 – arguably his worst book – and then it passed him by, ironically, as he became a master. The Great Gatsby was published in 1925, was greeted with mixed reviews and modest sales, and from there Fitzgerald’s career plummeted into an alcoholic oblivion. In the depressed 1930s no one cared to read about the flappers and philosophers of “the Jazz Age,” a term Fitzgerald himself coined. By the time of his early death in Hollywood at the age of 44 in 1940, Scott Fitzgerald was broke, a forgotten man. His wife Zelda was in a mental institution, his books for all practical purposes were out of print, and he was regarded by the literary establishment of the time as a has-been hack.
In the last years of his life, Fitzgerald turned his creative eye on his own down-and-out condition and wrote a series of personal memoirs detailing his despair that belong among his best writing. There are two different collections of these pieces, The Crack-Up and Afternoon of an Author, books that aren’t widely known. Oddly, I think high school students would understand the extremely modern tone of these essays more than the remotely beautiful Gatsby.
The Crack-Up, published in a New Directions paperback, contains eight essays written between 1931 and 1937, as well as excerpts from Fitzgerald’s personal notebooks. In the title essay, “The Crack-Up”, which appeared originally in Esquire magazine in 1936, Fitzgerald examines the failure of his life in stunningly honest detail. “I had been only a mediocre caretaker of most of the things left in my hands, even of my talent,” Scott admits, regarding himself without mercy. “Sleeping and Waking,” written in 1934, is surely the best essay ever written about insomnia. “It is astonishing how much worse one mosquito can be than a swarm,” Scott writes with wry humor, lying in bed in a state of terrible wakefulness. “A swarm can be prepared against, but one mosquito takes on a personality – a hatefulness, a sinister quality of the struggle to the death.”
In “Afternoon of an Author,” we experience a lost afternoon of Fitzgerald’s life as he roams about Baltimore. These essays are bleakly tragic but brilliantly written, not what you might think of as “depressing” – indeed, they are often hilariously, darkly funny. Anyone interested in a being an author should take a hard look at “One Hundred False Starts” and “How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year.”
In his late writing, Scott Fitzgerald shed the flowery, poetic style of his youth and found his way to a precise, sparse, hard prose that absolutely describes the truth of his own human state, an honesty that transcends time. These essays are as good as anything ever written in the English language and if you don’t know them, you should.
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类似问题2： 【求菲茨杰拉德述评翻译成英文】百度作业帮[英语科目]
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.[1] Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and his most famous, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age.
Novels such as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night were made into films, and in 1958 his life from 1937–1940 was dramatized in Beloved Infidel.
类似问题3： 【英语翻译1.除了有专业的冶金方面知识外,具备一定的金属材料方面知识.英语获得三级证书,听说读写能力很强.特别喜欢打篮球,并在班级一直担任主力球员.喜欢唱歌跳舞等文艺活动,性格活泼,】百度作业帮
1.除了有专业的冶金方面知识外,具备一定的金属材料方面知识.英语获得三级证书,听说读写能力很强.特别喜欢打篮球,并在班级一直担任主力球员.喜欢唱歌跳舞等文艺活动,性格活泼,兴趣广泛.
1 in addition to professional metallurgical aspectsknowledge, have certain knowledge of metal material.English level three certificate, speaking and writing ability is very strong. Especially like to play basketball, and has served as the main players in the class. Like singing and dancing and other art activities, personality and lively,broad interests.
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本人性格开朗、稳重、能吃苦、有活力,待人热情、真诚.工作认真负责,积极主动,能吃苦耐劳.英语能力很强,具备较强的英语沟通能力.有较强的组织能力、实际动手能力和团体协作精神,能迅速的适应各种环境,并融入其中.我不是最优秀的,但我是最用功的；我不是太显眼,但我很踏实；希望我的努力可以让您满意.
I am cheerful, sedate, able to endure hardship, vibrant,warm, sincere. Works is responsible earnestly, positive initiative, can bear hardships and stand hard work.English ability is very strong, have strong communication skills in english. Has the strong organization ability,practical ability and teamwork spirit, able to quickly adapt to various environments, and into which. I am not the best, but I was the most hardworking; I'm not too prominent, but I very dependable; hope that my effortcan make you satisfied.
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类似问题4： 急求菲茨杰拉德说的有关《了不起的盖茨比》的一句话的原版英文!《了不起的盖茨比》建立在“幻象的破灭”上.正因这样的幻象,世界才如此鲜艳.你无需理会真假,但求沾染那份魔术般的光[英语科目]
The whole burden of Gatsby is the loss of those illusions that give such
color to the world that you don’t care whether things are true or false
so long as they partake of the magical glory.
---- F.Scott Fitzgerald,1924
类似问题5： 关于弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德的一句名言“这是一个奇迹的时代,一个艺术的时代,一个嘲讽的时代,一个放纵的时代”这句话用英文怎么说,要作者说的原版,不要自己翻译的,急用啊,
This is a miracle of the age, an age of art, a cynical age, a permissive age
是“百度在线翻译”里的,你可以再问问百度大神