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北京联盟_本文原题：8月SAT小说难？3大解题误区在作怪
作者： 张弢 北京新东方北美留学
and|8月SAT小说难？3大解题误区在作怪
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小说难读懂 。
至少参加了8月份SAT亚太区考试的同学们是这么想的 。
本次考试的小说选自哥伦比亚著名作家Juan Gabriel Vasquez的小说《声誉》 ， 小说主角Mallarino是一位政治漫画家 。
It took just an instant to spot three people reading the paper, his paper, and he thought that all three would soon pass or had already passed their eyes over the letters of his name in print and then his signature, that clear uppercase letter that soon deteriorated into a chaos of curves and ended up disintegrating into a corner. Everyone knew the space where his cartoon had always been: in the very center of the first page of opinion columns, that mythic place where Colombians go to hate their public figures or find out why they love them, that great collective couch of a persistently sick country. It was the first thing anyone’s eyes saw when they reached those pages. The black square, the slender strokes, the line of text or brief dialogue beneath the frame: the scene that left his desk each day and was praised, admired, commented on, misinterpreted, later repudiated in a column of the same newspaper or another, in the irate letter of an irate reader, in a debate on some morning radio show. Yes, it was a terrible power. There was a time when Mallarino desired it more than anything else in the world; he worked hard to get it; he enjoyed it and exploited it conscientiously. And now that he was sixty-five years of age, the very political class he’d so attacked and hounded and scorned from his redoubt, mocked without consideration or respect for the ties of family or friendship (and he’d lost quite a few friends as a result; even a few relatives no longer spoke to him), that very same political class had decided to put the gigantic Colombian machinery of sycophancy into action to create a public homage that, for the first time in history, and perhaps the last, would celebrate a cartoonist.（小说节选）
我们读不懂小说是因为我们陷入了以下三大误区 。
误区一：孤立地翻译内容
比如 ， 第一句里提到了三个人在读paper ， 此处paper指什么呢？指“报纸” ， 文章小字处本有提示 ， 说主角工作于报社；后文也有提到newspaper 。
【and|8月SAT小说难？3大解题误区在作怪】解决方法：不要孤立地阅读 ， 要联系上下文来理解内容 。
再如 ， 第一段很多同学没读明白作者的写作意图 。 读开头没有弄懂时 ， 可以不求甚解 ， 先放在那儿 ， 带着疑问往下读 。 当读到 “Yes, it was a terrible power” 这一句时会豁然开朗 ， 本句意指主角Mallarino因为在报刊上画政治漫画具有了社会影响力 。
有时 ， 我们甚至要学会由题目倒推回原文理解 。 “Yes, it was a terrible power”这一句之后的内容较难理解 ， 尤其有一个长难句成了很大障碍 。 这时候我们注意到4&5这一组寻证题目 ， 寻证行数基本就围绕在这一句周围 。 4题题干问到主角Mallarino如何看待政府对他的认可（recognition by the government） 。 所以我们就明白了“Yes, it was a terrible power”这一句后面内容正是讲政府对其影响力的认可 。


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