普拉斯

Pǔlāsī

proper noun #32,540

Meanings

1 Plath / Plus / Plas - phonetic transliteration; most commonly the surname of American poet Sylvia Plath (西尔维娅·普拉斯)

About Sylvia Plath

1932–1963 · 诗人 poet

American poet and novelist whose confessional poems in Ariel and novel 钟形罩 (The Bell Jar), about a young woman's breakdown, are widely read. She took her own life at 30.

Also called 西尔维娅·普拉斯

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Examples

HSK 5

普拉斯是著名的美国女诗人。

Pǔlāsī shì zhùmíng de Měiguó nǚ shīrén.

Plath is a famous American female poet.

HSK 7-9

我读了西尔维娅·普拉斯的《钟形罩》。

Wǒ dú le Xī'ěrwéiyà Pǔlāsī de 《 Zhōngxíngzhào 》.

I read Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar.

Tips

culture

Her Collected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982, nearly twenty years after her death, the first time the prize went to a poet who had died. The book was edited by her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, 泰德·休斯.

usage

Mandarin syllables never start with a consonant cluster, so 'Pl-' is split in two, 普 + 拉. The same trick gives 普拉达 for Prada and 柏拉图 for Plato.

Stroke Order

普 pǔ

拉 lā

斯 sī

普拉斯