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Elizabeth M.Gilbert,born on July18,1969,is an American author.She is best known for her2006memoir,Eat,Pray,Love,which was also made into a film by the same name in2010.Eat,Pray,Love has been called"a generation's instruction manual"
by the Toronto Sun.^Exploding onto the scene in2006,the best ller famously chronicled the year Gilbert spent traveling the world after a2,shattering divorce.
Tran s lated into more than30languages,Eat,Pray,Love has sold over ten millio n copies worldwide.The book-which the New York Times Book Review says is"fueled by a mix
of intelligence,wit,and3,colloquial^exuberance that is clo to irresistible",catapulted its author from respected but little-recognized writer to a woman Oprah Winfrey has called a"rock star author".
Gilbert was born in Waterbury,Connecticut.Her father,John Gilbert,was a chemical engineer;her mother,1)Explod[ik'spleud]v.
爆发，爆炸
2)shatter['Jaeta(r)]v.
语人粉碎，破坏
3)colloquial[ks'leukwisl]adj.口语的
4)exuberance[ig'zju:berens]n.丰富，茂盛
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was a houwife.Along with her only
sister,novelist Catherine Gilbert
Murdock,Gilbert grew up on a small
farm in Litchfield,Connecticut.The
family lived in the country with
no neighbors;they did not own a
教师公寓television or record player.Conquently,the family read a great deal,and Gilbert and her sister entertained themlves by writing books and plays.
In an interview,Gilbert mentioned,"I am a writer today becau I learned to love reading as a child—and mostly on account of the "She has said she was particularly in f luenced by Charles Dicke n s,and has noted this in many in t erviews.She identifies Marcus Aurelius's Meditations as her favorite book on philosophy.
Gilbert earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from New York University in1991,after which she worked as a cook,a bartender,a waitress,and a magazine employee.Fearless reporting skills and an abiding appreciation for workingclass values have colored her writing from the beginning.Meanwhile,a5,persistent longing to understand the world and her place in it have made he
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r not merely a writer,but an explorer.Gilbert's writing was published in Harper's Bazaar,Spin,and the New York Times Magazine.Her work in Spin caught the attention of editors at GQ,and she became a6,stalwart at that publication,producing vivid,^provocative pieces that soon grew into books and even a film:2000's Coyote Ugly.
Gilbert's first book,a wide-ranging collection of short
fiction called Pilgrims,was a New York Times Most
Notable Book and won the Ploughshares prize,唐七公子的小说
among many other honors.Her first novel,Stern
Men,won the Kate Chopin Award in2001.Her
third book,The Last American Man,which
5)persistent[ps'sistsnt]adj.持续的
6)stalwart['stoJwst]n.忠实拥护者
键盘没反应是怎么回事
7)provocative[pre'vDketiv]adj.刺激的
Life Style / 人物志
f 08)compellingly explores America's long-
standing intrigue with the pioneer lifestyle,
was a Finalist for the National Book Award.
u \ think my gift, far beyond whatever gifts
that I have as a writer, my gift as a human is
that I can make friends with people very quickly.
Everything I learned about being a journalist I
learned by being a bartender. The most exquisite
less o n of all is that people will tell you an y thing.
Want to. There 5s no question you can't ask if your intention is not hostile. And ifs not like entrapment; ifs more like a gorgeous revelation. People want to tell the story that they have.”海子自杀
“I don't mind talking about my struggles becau I don't think there's anything to be embarrasd about. I feel very connected to the common difficulty of being a human. Ifs a s
trange thing to be a person, and nobody knows how to do it. I don't think there*s anything more interesting than talking about that."
I think that the more honest I am about my journey, the more connected I feel to everybody and their jo u rn e ys. The more I reveal that ems really vuln e rable and really private, the less private it becomes, becau all I hear is a chorus of voices saying, 'me too, me too.'”
8) compellingly [con'pxlinli] adv.咄咄逼人地
参考译文：
伊丽莎白•吉尔伯特于1969年7月18日出生，是一名美国作家。她最著名的是她在2006年出版的回忆录《美食、祈祷和恋爱》，2010年被翻拍成同名电影。《美食、祈祷和恋爱》被《多伦多太阳报》称为“一代
人的使用说明书”。这本畅销书在2006年引
起轰动，它记载了吉尔伯特离婚后在世界各地呆的拼音
度过的那一年。该书被翻译成30多种语言，
在全球范围内已售出超过一千万册。《纽约时
报书评》认为这本书“充满了智慧、机智和口
语化的文字，几乎令人难以抗拒”，这也使该
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书的作者从鲜为人知到受人尊敬，变成了奥普拉•温弗瑞口中的“摇滚明星作家”O 吉尔伯特出生于康涅狄格州的沃特伯里。她的父亲约翰•吉尔伯特是一名化
学工程师，她的母亲是一名家庭主妇。吉尔伯特和她唯一的妹妹，小说家凯瑟琳・
吉尔伯特•默多克，在康涅狄格州利奇菲尔德的一个小型农场长大。一家人住在
乡下，没有邻居。他们没有电视或电唱机。因此，一家人读了很多书，吉尔伯特
和她的妹妹通过写书和戏剧来娱乐自己。
吉尔伯特在一次采访中提到：“我今天是作家，因为我从小就爱读书，而且
主要是因为有《绿野仙踪》……”她在许多采访中都提到了她的创作受到了查尔斯・
狄更斯的影响。马库斯•奥雷留斯的《沉思录》是她最喜欢的哲学书。
吉尔伯特于1991年获得纽约大学政治学文学学士学位，之后担任过厨师、调
酒师、女服务员和杂志社员工。无畏的报告技巧和对工人阶级价值观的持久欣赏
从一开始就成为她的写作特色。同时，对理解世界及自我在世界中所处位置的不
断渴望使她不仅是作家，而且是探险家。吉尔伯特的著作发表在《哈珀集市》《旋
转》和《纽约时报》上。她在《旋转》的作品引起了《GQ》编辑的注意，她成为
该出版物的坚定支持者，制作了生动、具有启发性的作品，并很快发展成为书籍
甚至电影：2000年的《土狼丑陋》。
吉尔伯特的第一本书是一部名为《朝圣者》的短篇小说集，是《纽约时报》
最著名的书，并获得了科恩奖和许多其他荣誉。她的第一本小说《严肃的男人》
于2001年获得了凯特•肖邦奖。她的第三本书《最后的美国人》讲述了美国长期
以来对先锋生活方式的迷恋，并入围了国家图书奖。
“我认为，我的天赋，远非我作为作家的天赋，而是作为人类的天赋，是我
可以很快与人交朋友。我学到的关于成为一名记者的一切，都是我通过调酒师而
学到的。所有的教训就是人们会告诉你任何事情，想要的话。毫无疑问，你不能
问自己的意图是否敌对。这不像是陷害，它更像是一个华丽的启示。人们都想讲
述他们的故事。
我不介意谈论自己的挣扎，因为我认为没有什么可尴尬的。我感到与成为人
类的普遍困难紧密相关。成为一个人是一件奇怪的事，没有人知道如何去做。我
认为没有什么比这更有趣了。
我认为我对自己的旅程越诚实，与每个人及其旅程的联系就越紧密。我越揭
示似乎真正脆弱和真正私密的事物，它就变得越不私密，因为我听到的只是一堆
声音，说：'我也是，我也是。'”
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