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中英文本
Naguib Mahfouz was born in 1911 and died in 2006. He was an Egyptian novelist and winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is considered as the father of modern Arabic literature and is popular throughout the Arab world. Many of his books were about Egyptian nationalism. He said politics “is the very axis of our thinking”.
纳吉布·马哈富兹出生于1911年,并于2006年逝世
Mahfouz came from a lower middle-class Muslim family in Cairo, the youngest of seven children. He had a very strict Islamic upbringing. He later wondered how “an artist would emerge from that family". Mahfouz was an avid reader and spent his early years with his head buried in books. His interests included traditional Arab literature and Western classics and detective stories.
马哈富兹出生于开罗的下层中产阶级家庭,在所有7名兄弟姐妹中排名最末
He graduated in philosophy from the University of Cairo and decided to be a professional writer. He got a job in the Ministry of Culture, where he stayed until 1972, as a movie censor. While working as a civil servant, Mahfouz wrote 34 novels, 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts and five plays. Many of his works were made into Arabic-language movies.
他毕业于开罗大学哲学系,并决定成为职业作家
Mahfouz was not a stranger to controversy. Many Arab countries banned his books because of his support of Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. He also supported Salman Rushdie after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini condemned the author to death. Mahfouz received many death threats, and he survived an assassination attempt in 1994. He is the only Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
对马哈富兹的非议不断
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重点讲解
1.because of 因为
例句:It is mainly because of my fault.
这主要是由于我的过错
。2.Ministry of Culture 文化部
例句:Both funds are supervised by the Ministry of Culture.
这两项基金均由文化部监管
。3.civil servant 公务员
例句:The civil servant's expression, however, did not change, not so much as by a flicker.
然而,那位公务员的表情还是那样,丝毫没变
。4.condemn to 宣判
例句:He was condemned to life imprisonment.
他被判终身监禁
。