On Jan 9, 4:34=A0pm, sprocket <buc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> dreaminggirl wrote:
> > I am a Chinese graduate student. The following is part of my master's
> > thesis. Who can help me polish my language. Thank you very much.
>
> > William Somerset Maugham (1874--1965), born in Paris, is one of the
> > most popular writers in British literature. He has created
>
> "He wrote"... you would only use "he has written" if you were expecting
> him to write more.
>
> > about 20
> > novels, more than 100 short stories, 32 plays as well as lots of
> > memoirs, travel essays, comments etc., all his life.
>
> "During his life"... which is of course a bit redundant, as few writers
> write after death, so leave it out. Or recast the whole sentence to
> something like "During his career he wrote"...
>
> "Lots of" and "what's more" are rather informal.
>
> > Maugham has shown
>
> "showed"
>
> > his versatility in all the literary fields except poem.
>
> "poetry"
>
> > what's more, a
> > number of his novels have been adapted to movies. The income from
> > these successful movie adaptations and his writings allow
>
> "allowed" .. there seems to be a general problem with tenses here,
> perhaps because the convention when writing history is to use the
> imperfect, whereas in literary criticism the present is usually used.
> Compare the history of his life in Wikipedia
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham)
with the outline of
> one of his works
(e.g.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_and_Sixpence).=
>
> Maugham to
>
> > live a very comfortable life. Maugham's creation
>
> "creative"
>
> > period spans as long
> > as 65 years and his works are very popular around the world. However,
> > despite his popularity among ordinary readers all over the world, he
> > has not received the due recognition from the literary critics or his
> > peers
>
> , (comma)
>
> =A0 for many of them hold that he is just a writer in"the very first
>
> > row of the second raters". (maugham The Summing Up, 1938)Maugham's
> > main works include Of Human Bondage, which is considered as his
> > representative work, The Moon and Sixpence, The Razor's Edege, Cakes
> > and Ale and so on. It can be said safely that Maugham's works have the
> > strongest exotic flavor among British writers. Due to his hobby,
>
> What hobby?
>
>
>
> > Maugham all his life has visited
> Leave out "has"
> > lots of countries and regions such as
> > Russia, South America, the South Pacific islands and so on. Maugham is
> > also very interested in the Oriental culture especially Chinese
> > culture and he visited China in 1999
>
> Date?
>
> > with his life-long companion
> > Gerald Haxton. Based on his travel
>
> "travels" would be more usual. Don't ask me why.
>
> > around China, he has created the
> > travel essays collection On a Chinese Sreen, the novel The Painted
> > Veil , the short story The Letter which is latter
>
> "was later"
>
> > adapted to the play
> > The Letter, and the play East of Suez. Other works related to China or
> > Chinese people include Of Human Bondage, short stories Ah King, The
> > Narrow Corner, A Casual Affair, The Door of Op****tunity and so on. By
> > adopting
>
> the ?
>
> > Imagology of comparative literature, this thesis will
> > research the images of China in Maugham
>
> "Maugham's"
>
> > works. Meanwhile, Said's
> > Orientalism
>
> =A0 "theory of Orientalism"?
>
> > theory is also adopted as an auxiliary theory in this
> > thesis. Since the images of China are mainly depicted and reflected in
> > On a Chinese Sreen, this thesis will focus on this work.
>
> Tenses, and a few idioms. Otherwise it seems very good. At least, you
> write English better than I could write French.
>
> JS
Thank you so much. I learn a lot from your correction. Thank you so
much,
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