英语听力精选进阶版 12495

 

Minds at War - Non-Combatants and Others

Mon, 7 Jul 14

Rose Macaulay is perhaps best remembered for her final novel, The Towers of Trebizond, but her biographer, Sarah LeFanu, has long believed that her earlier 1916 novel, Non-Combatants and Others, is a work of striking originality¹. She argues for its importance to our understanding of the impact of the First World War, not only on soldiers at the front, but on the entire nation.

1 originality   

n.创造力，独创性；新颖

参考例句：

• The name of the game in pop music is originality.流行音乐的本质是独创性。
• He displayed an originality amounting almost to genius.他显示出近乎天才的创造性。