托福听力涉及的内容广泛，同学们平时注重积累素材，对于考试是非常有帮助的，那么下面就和出国留学网的小编来看看托福听力素材：詹姆斯·乔伊斯以及他的作品Dubliners。
TPO23的conversation2里提到了作家James Joyce 詹姆斯·乔伊斯以及他的作品Dubliners，为啥叫都柏林人呢，因为James Joyce是爱尔兰人，于是他就把早年都柏林的社会景象描绘了出来，这个时候，乔伊斯的书还是能读懂的，属于大家能够理解的realism现实主义，比如其中一篇教授提到的Araby，大家感受一下：
“When the short days of winter came dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown somber. The space of sky above us was the color of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street. The career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes behind the houses where we ran the gauntlet of the rough tribes from the cottages， to the back doors of the dark dripping gardens where odors arose from ash pits， to the dark odorous stables where a coachman smoothed and combed the horse or shook music from the buckled harness. When we returned to the street， light from the kitchen windows had filled the areas. ”
（参考译文：到了日短夜长的冬天，晚饭还没吃完，夜幕就降落了。当我们在街上玩耍时，一幢幢房屋变得阴森森的。头上的夜空显出一片变幻的紫罗兰色，同街灯的微光遥遥相映。寒气刺骨，我们不停地玩着，直到浑身暖和。我们的喊叫声在僻静的街心回响。我们窜到屋子后面黑暗、泥泞的巷子里，遭到棚屋里那一伙野孩子的夹道鞭打；我们就跑到一家家幽暗阴湿的花园后门口，那里一个个灰坑发出难闻的气味。随后再到黑黝黝的满是马粪味的马厩去。马夫在那儿梳马，或敲着扣上的马具，发出铿锵的声音。当我们折回街道时，灯光已经从一家家厨房的窗子里透出来，把这一带照亮了。）
conversation里面professor评价乔伊斯的作品非常complex，是因为使用了stream of consciousness（意识流）的手法，教授形容意识流是“told through the na...
