1、A Dill Pickle -by Katherine Mansfield Background Information Katherine Mansfield ,an outstanding short story writer. She was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888. She studied at Queens College, London, where she met D. H. Lawrence and John Middleton Murry, a famous critic, whom she later married.

2、 After years of ill-health and struggle as a freelancer and reviewer, she achieved success with Bliss and Other Stories(1920) and The Garden Party(1922).Bliss and Other StoriesThe Garden Party Critics praised her for her capturing the essence of Chekhovs art for stories emphasizing atmosphere and ac

3、tual life rather than exciting plot, and for her refreshing originality and sensitiveness to beauty. Just as she won world fame, however, her health grew worse. She died of tuberculosis in 1923.Queens CollegeDill: n. an aromatic herb native to Eurasia with finely dissected leaves and small yellow fl

4、owers clustered in umbels. 【植】蒔蘿(產(chǎn)于歐亞的一種芳香型草本植物，長有纖細(xì)分裂的葉子和成傘形花序的小黃花簇)，草茴香。 the leaves or seeds of this plant, used as a seasoning. 蒔蘿的種子(這種植物的葉子和籽可用作調(diào)味品)。dillseedsFlower Dill pickleKew GardenKew GardenGeraniummarigoldVerbena Chinese PagodaThe Volga The longest river in Russia and the whole of Europe. It comes from the northwestern part of Russia and flows 2,290 miles in a winding course to the Caspian Sea in the south. The boatmans song mentioned here