1. literature 文學(xué) 文藝
    [例] Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unit.
    2. genre 類型 流派
    [例] His six String Quartets were regarded as the most important works in the genre since Beethoven's.
    3. satire 諷刺文學(xué)
    [例] The political satire was censored by the government.
    4. fable 寓言 傳說
    [例] Many fables were first told by an old Greek story teller named Aesop.
    5. byword 格言 諺語
    [例] The general's name had become a byword for cruelty in war.
    6. comedy 喜劇
    [例] The candidate's campaign turne dout to be a political comedy.
    7. tragedy 悲劇
    8. masterpiece 杰作 名著
    9. author 作家 創(chuàng)造者
    10. profound 深刻的 意義深遠的
    [例] We had a profound lesson in ideological education yesterday.
    11. contemporary 當(dāng)前的 現(xiàn)代的
    [例] the composer Salieri had the misfortune o f being contemporary with Mozart.
    12. classic 杰作 名著
    [例] Her daughter particularly likes reading the classics of English literature.
    13. diction 措辭 用語
    14. manuscript 手稿 原稿
    15. analects 文選 論集
    16. literatus 文學(xué)界 學(xué)者
    17. renaissance 復(fù)興
    18. criticism 批評 批判
    19. essay 散文 小品文
    [例] The other day I came an interesting essay on the war with Napoleon.
    20. preliterate 文字出現(xiàn)以前的
    [例] It is difficult to study preliterate societies.
    21. mainstream 主流
    [例] You need not accept the nominee's ideology, only to be able to locate it in the American mainstream.
    22. nostalgia 思鄉(xiāng)病 鄉(xiāng)愁
    23. connoisseur 鑒賞家 鑒定家
    [例] He is a connoisseur of fine wines.
    24. editorial 社論 編輯上的
    25. column 專欄
    [例] He writes for the column of that newspaper.
    26. circulation 發(fā)行量
    [例] This magazine has a circulation of over a million.
    27. feature 特寫
    [例] Did you read the frontpage feature on coal-mining.
    28. drama 戲劇 戲劇藝術(shù)
    [例] The old man is fond of the Elizabethan drama.
    29. playwright 劇作家