高级英语拍句子课堂

高级英语拍句子课堂
第一课：Where Do We Go from Here?
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1、We must massively---dignity and worth.
massively: in an impressive way /to assert: to state clearly
2、The job of arousing---is not easy.
manhood hood: the state of being--e.g. childhood, manhood /nobody: a person of no importance It‘s not an easy job to educate a people who have been told over centuries that they were inferior and of no importance to see that they are humans, the same as any other people.
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3、Even semantics---ugly and degrading.
连语义学都合谋把一切凡有―黑‖字的东西说成丑的,卑劣的.
semantics: it is not only concerned with the meaning of words as lexical items, but also with the level of language below the word and above it.
4、A white lie is better than a black lie.一个无关紧要的谎言总比一个恶意的谎言要好。

white lie: a lie concerning a trivial matter used for a good intention
5、The most --- ―black sheep‖家中最为其他成员所不齿的是―黑羊‖, 即败家子。

black sheep: a family member shunned because of disreputable behavior 败家子
antithesis(对照): features: contrasting ideas and parallel arrangements of words, clauses and sentences
e.g.：1.One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. 2.Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
And so, my fellow American, ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country.A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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6、To upset--- Olympian manhood.
to upset: to overthrow or defeat, esp.unexpected /homicide: human killing /homo : a man /cide : killing /Olympian: like an Olympian god; majestic
为了挫败这种蓄意培植的低人一等的心态, 黑人必须直起腰来宣布自己高贵的人格。

7、Psychological freedom--- physical slavery.
If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a Man, equal to anyone else, you will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination.
8、The Negro--- emancipation proclamation.
The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro himself. Only when he is fully convinced that he is a Man and is not inferior to anyone else, can he throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and become free.
9、And, with a spirit--- self-abnegation.
to strain: to exert, use or tax to the utmost /manacle: fetter or shackle for the hand; any restraint 黑人必须以一种竭尽全力自尊自重的精神,大胆抛弃自我克制的枷锁。

10、I’m somebody---to make me a slave.
somebody:a person of importance
11、this self-affirmation--crimes against him.
黑人需要这种自我肯定，而白人反对黑人的罪行使这种自我肯定更显必要。

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12、Stripped of the right--- power structure.
1) strip of: to take away 2) subject to: bring under one‘s control 3) whimsical: unpredictable 4）被剥夺了决定自己生活和命运的权利，他只能听任这个白人权利机构所作出的决定摆布。

这些决定是专断的，有时甚至是反复无常的。

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13、What is needed---and anemic. 必须懂得没有爱的权利是毫无节制、易被滥用的，而没有权利的爱则是多愁善感、苍白无力的。

14、Power at its best---against love.
at its best: in one‘s best form power in its best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice in its best form of function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power.
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15、It is precisely---crisis of our times.
正是这种邪恶的权利和毫无权力的道义的冲突构成了我们时代的主要危机。

the rhetorical device used here: chiasmus [k?'?zm?s] 把相同的词汇或句子，在下文中调换位置或颠倒过来，产生首尾回环的情趣，叫做回文，也叫回环。

Eg. 信言不美，美言不信. 日往则月来，月往则日来。

字母回文：1)Madam, I‘m Adam. Sir, I‘m Iris. 2)Able was I ere I saw Elba.
单词回文：1)So patient a doctor, to doctor a patient so.
2)You can cage a swallow, can‘t you? But you can‘t swallow a cage, can you?
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16、Now early in this ---and responsibility.
to greet: to meet, to receive in a specified way
在本世纪初，这种建议会受到嘲笑和讽刺，认为对主动性和责任感起负面作用。

17、At that time---ability and talents.
measure: a standard for determining extent, dimensions, etc.
At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was was to see how much money he had made.
17、And, in the thinking---moral fiber.
moral fiber: the sense of right or wrong
And, the common view at that time was a person was poor because he was lazy and not hard-working and lacked a sense of right or wrong.
18、We’ve come a long---system.
在对人的动机的理解和对我们的经济体制的无序运作的了解上，我们已经取得了很大的进展。

19、Now we realize--- their will.
我们现在懂得，我们经济市场运作混乱,歧视盛行.迫使人们无事可做并违背他们意愿使他们长期或不断失业。

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20、New forms of work---are not available.
有必要创造对社会有好处的新的工作形式，提供给那些找不到传统工作的人。

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21、The fact is--- to secure a living.事实上，人们从事改善人类处境的工作，从事传播知识、
增强实力、丰富文学财富以及升华思想的工作并不是为了谋生。

22、It is not the work---necessity.
This kind of work cannot be done by slaves who work because the work has to be done, because they are forced to word by slave-drivers or because they need to work in order to
be fed and clothed.
23、It is the work---want is abolished. 这是这样一类人的工作，他们通过某种方式找到了一种工作模式，这种模式出于自身的需要，带来安全保障并创造了一种废除了匮乏的社会形态。

24、The poor transformed ---housing decay.
When the poor people have money to buy worldly goods, they themselves will be able to do a lot to change the dilapidated state of their housing.
25、When the unjust---is eliminated.( Para.14)
When the unfair practice of judging human value by the amount of money a person has is done away.
26、it can spend billions---on earth.( Para.15)
1)on their own feet: financially independent
2)它能够花费几十亿美元帮助上帝的孩子自立于这个世界。

Para.17
27、a few water-sprinkler---of the ghettos. water sprinkler:喷水设施
在街上增加一点喷水设施，使得贫民窟的孩子可以在天热时喝上几口凉水，或浇一下身子，凉快一下。

28、It is something like---behind bars.
incarcerate: to imprison; to jail
29、Nowhere have---protest demonstration.
Eg: 1)We had hoped to give you a chance such as nobody else ever had.
2) It is the purpose of this article to furnish information such as is not furnished by 99% of the newspapers in the United States.
30、Furthermore, ---the nonresistent majority.除非主张暴力的少数人得到大多数人的同情和支持，不和他们对抗，否则，暴力革命很少或者说几乎没有成功的。

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31、This is no time---for action.
现在不是进行浪漫幻想和对自由进行空洞的哲学辩论的时候。

现在是行动的时候。

32、Solutions that don’t solve---explanat ions that don’t explain.
rhtorical device: paradox【隽语、悖论】and parallel.
features of paradox: logically contradictary, yet maybe true.
Eg:1)make a way out of no way 2)War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Para.20
33、I’m not talking about---demanding love.
demanding: making difficult claim on one‘s resources, patience and energy
A white supremacist group established in the South following the Civil War, and revived in the early 20th century.
White Citizen‘s Council: Since 1954 the segregatio n in school is unconstitutional, school desegregation has progressed slowly. In many parts of the South, Segregationists organized White Citizen‘s Cou ncils to threaten black activist. / Klansman: Ku Klux Klan：三K党
34、He who hates---ultimate reality. the rhetorical device: metaphor
Those who harbor hate in their hearts cannot grasp the teaching of God. Only those who have love can enjoy the ultimate happiness in Heaven.
35、We are called upon---marketplace. (Para.21) rhetorical device: metaphor
the discouraged beggars: those who have been defeated in life and theysee no hope in the future Para.25
36、divine dissatisfaction:
divine: inspired by God; holy. By this he means two things:
1)this dissatisfaction does not involve bitterness, hatred and would not lead to confrontation; the remedy lies in love. 2)the cause of dissatisfaction comes from God‘s teaching---God creates people equal.
37、Let us be---an anemia of deeds.
creed:a statement of belief, principles, or opinions on any subject
Let us be dissatisfied until America no longer only talk about racial equality but is unwilling or reluctant to take action to end such evil practice as racial discrimination.
38.Let us be---the forces of justice.
tragic walls: transferred epithet 移就definition: a figure of speech in which the epithet is transferred from the appropriate noun to modify another to which it does not really appropriate. transferred epithet 的两种格式：
1)修饰语+名词eg: tragic wall; sleepless night She has expensive tastes in clothes.
2)名词+of+名词eg：a hell of life;地狱般的生活an angel of a woman 貌若天仙的女人outer city of wealth and comfort and the inner city of poverty and despair
rhetorical device: antithesis
battering rams: An ancient military machine with a heavy wooden beam, sometimes w ith an iron ram‘s head at its head, for battering down the gates, walls and doors, etc. ―the tragic walls‖ and ―the battering ram‖
rhetorical device: metaphor The population movement in 1960s:
In the 1960s, there emerged a population movement in the United States. Many white upper middle and middle class people moved to live in suburban towns, leaving the inner city to the
minorities and the poor. This put the city government in a difficult state because the local government could not collect enough tax to improve infrastructure.
39.Let us be---sanitary home.
the junk heaps of history:历史的垃圾堆
Let us be dissatisfied until the dark yesterdays of segregated schools will be transformed into bright tomorrows of quality, integrated education. rhetorical device: antithesis
40.Let us be---with his God.
Some of the state governors were notorious for their racist views and actions:1)Governor of Arkansas:1954 Little Rock Accident 2)Governor of Mississippi: ―the Negro is different because God made him different to punish him‖ in 1961.
3)Alabama‘s governor: refused two black students to the University of Alabama in 1963
41.Let us be---a mighty stream.
city hall: synecdoche 提喻definition: a figure of speech by which a parties for the whole, the whole for the part, species for genus, the genus for the species or the name of the material for the thing made, and the individual for a
class.
Eg.1.a part for the whole
eg.They were short of hands at harvest time. 2)I will count three hundred---that‘s five minutes--- and not one of you is tomove a muscle.
2.the whole for the part
eg.England won the football game. 2)Then the surgeon cut me open and take out the appendix and stitched me up again.（abdomen）
3.species for genus
eg: He manages to earn his bread.
4.genus for species
eg:Oh, seeing him, the miserable creature fell upon his shoulder, sobbing and crying, and pointing to the fountain, where some women were stooping over the motionless bundle and moving gently about it.
synecdoche:
5.the name of material for the thing made
eg:1) Do you have any coppers? 2) The prisoner was bound in irons for ten years.
6. the individual for a class
eg:This young man is very clever; he maybe another Edison. Justice will roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.公平如浪涛滚滚，正义如江河滔滔。

2) rhetorical device: simile
eg: 1.The cheque fluttered to the floor like a bird with a broken wing. /doc/1c5332055.html,e a book as a bee does flowers. 3.He was a beautiful horse that looked as though he had come out of a painting by Velasquez. 4.The pen is to writer what the gun is to a fighter. 5.He compare his genius to
a lightening flash.
42.Let us be---none shall be afraid.
lion and the lamb shall lie down together: rhetorical device used here: alliteration头韵biblical allusion圣经典故
alliteration(头韵):definition: the use of words beginning with the same letter or sound.
eg: 1.Spare the rod, and spoil the child. 2.Money makes the mare go. 3.Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility biblical allusion(圣经典故):Isaiah: ―The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and
the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.‖And men will recognize---the earth.Rhetorical device used here: biblical allusion. Genesis(创世纪): ―So God c reated man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.‖
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43、There will be---bewilderment.
frustration: being prevented from achieving and objective; efforts directed to some end being rendered worthless to meander: to take a winding or tortuous course rocky places of frustration: a land path that is bumpy and uneven meandering points of bewilderment: a stream that has so many windings
44、Our dreams--- blasted. v-n collocation: dream-shattered 打破梦想/hope-blasted 希望破灭Para.27
45、It will give---city of freedom.
这种信念使我们疲惫不堪的双脚赢得力量，继续我们迈向自由之城的步伐。

46、When our days---bright tomorrows.rhetorical device: metaphor, antithesis and paradox
当绝望的阴云密布，我们的日子变得阴郁无望，当我们的夜晚变得比一千个深夜还要黑时，让我们记住宇宙中有一种创造的力量，能把邪恶的巨岭拉平，有一种力量能在无路之处开出路来，把黑暗的昨天变
成光辉灿烂的明天。

47、Let us realize---toward justice. 我们要懂得道义的苍穹长又长，但它终将落向正义。

48、we will be able to sing---past tense.( Para.28)
cosmic: of the universe; grandiose cosmic may mean two things: 1)in terms of universe the time is not long 2)the terrible time of racial oppression will then be over
第二课、Two Kinds
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1、with almost no money down几乎不用首付现款
down:in cash or when bought eg:down payment 首付
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2、Instead of getting---black fuzz.
我的头发没有做出我要的大卷花，而是给我弄成了一头乱蓬蓬的黑色小卷毛。

crinkly: full of ripples fuzz: thin, soft hair
3、I pictured this prodigy---for size. (Para.9)
I imagined myself as different types of prodigy, trying to find out which one suited me the best.
4、She checked to see---the answer. (Para.15)
在她告诉我答案前，她对了对手中的杂志，看看赫尔辛基是否能够这样发音。

Para.16
multiplying numbers in my head:心算乘法
a deck of cards: Hearts, Clubs, Spades, Diamonds
stand on my head without using my hands 不用手扶的倒立
Para.18 the raised hopes and failed expectations 过高的期望和达不到的期盼
5、I had new thoughts---lots of won’ts. (Para.19)
I had new thoughts which were filled with a strong spirit of disobedience, rebellion.
Para.21 short out: 短路
6、It was like a --- the TV set. 她和电视好像上演了一段舞蹈，二者不相拥抱，动作僵硬。

sound dial: a piece of equipment of an old fashioned radio or TV set that you turn to adjust the volumn of the sound
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7、She seemed --playful parts.
entranced: be very interested in and pleased with something that make someone feel that you pay a lot of attention mesmerize:make someone feel that they must watch or listen to because they are so interested
8、She seemed --playful parts. 她似乎被这音乐吸引住了。

这首钢琴曲不长，有点狂乱，有着迷人的特点，乐曲一开始是快节奏的，接着是欢快跳跃的节拍，然后又回到嬉戏的部分。

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9、The girl had the sauciness---Temple.
sauciness:rudeness in an amusing way / fluffy: soft and airy/cascade: to fall like a waterfall
The girl was Shiley Temple-like, slightly rude but in an amusing way. And she also did this---carnation.
她做了一个花哨潇洒的屈膝礼，那白色蓬松的裙子慢慢地垂落到地上，好似一大朵康乃馨。

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reams of: a large amount of writing on paper /sheet music: music that is printed on single sheets and not fastened together inside a cover 活页乐谱/bad-mouth: to find fault with, to criticize /pick on sb:blame sb for sth, esp,unfairly
Para.33 If she had as---be famous now. 如果她的脾气和才气一样大的话，她早就出名了。

Para.34 always tapping---invisible orchestra.用手指随着一支无形乐团的无声音乐打着拍子。

Para.38
keep time: to play a piece of music using the right rhythm and speed /time: 节奏，节拍
eg: 1)She began moving her body in time to the music.
2)While his friends were singing, he beat time for them.
Para.40 reverie:dreamy thinking, imagining of especially
agreeable things; day dreaming Para.42
sibling rivalry: competition between brothers and sisters for their parents‘s attention or love. Para.47 talent show: a competition in which people show how well they sing, dance, or tell jokes,etc.才艺表演
Para.44the only showpiece of our living room: 我们起居室里唯一的摆设
Para.48 repeat parts:the part played of song twice复奏部分/dawdle: take a long time to do/bars: notes (in music) Para.49
10、The part I liked---look up and smile.我最喜欢练习的部分是花哨的谢幕礼动作：先出右脚，脚尖点在地毯的玫瑰图案上，身子侧摆，左腿弯曲，抬头，微笑。

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debut: a first appearance in public as of an actor
11、They recited---enthusiatically.
squawk:to utter a loud, harsh sound /twirl: to turn quickly /prance: rise up with hind legs
他们背诵简单的童谣，用微型小提琴拉出又响又粗的调子，跳呼啦圈舞，穿着粉色的芭蕾舞短裙蹦蹦跳跳.当他们鞠躬行谢幕礼时，观众同声发出“啊，啊”的赞叹，然后热烈地鼓掌。

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12、A chill started---the right track.
bewitch: put a magic on sb /switch:move a train onto track 一股凉气从头顶开始，然后一点点传到全身。

但我却不能停止演奏，双手好像着了魔似的。

我不停地想我的手指会调整好，就像火车会被扳回正确的轨道上。

jumble: untidy mixture of things /sour: wrong or off pitch
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13、“Only two kinds of daughters---Obedient daughter!‖
只有两种女儿：顺从听话的和自行其事的。

这个家里只能有顺从
听话的女儿。

14、I felt like worms---at last.
When I said those words, I felt that some very nasty thoughts had got out of my chest, and so I felt scared. But at the same time I felt good and relieved, because those nasty thoughts had been suppressed in my heart for a long time and now they had got out at last.And I could sense---spill over. I could feel that her anger had reached the point where her self-control collapsed, and I wanted to see what my mother would do when she lost complete control of herself.
15、---and her face went blank---lifeless. 她的脸部失去了表情，嘴巴紧闭，双臂无力下垂。

她退出了房间，神色惊异，好像一小片枯黄的树叶被风吹走，那样单薄，脆弱，毫无生气。

Para.77 :fall short of expectations: to fail to meet the expectations /recital: public performance by a small group
16、The lid to the piano---her dreams (Para.81)
When the lid to the piano was closed, it shut out the dust and also put an end to my misery and her dreams.
Para89: why proud and take it as a trophy?
symbol—my misery and mom‘s dream vs. forgiveness and reconciliation now. Her mom‘s encouragement and compliment is like a trophy she ultimately won.
moth-proof: treated chemically so as to repel the clothes moths
Para 90: rubbed the silk and took them home
Symbol: June loved and missed her mom, and was determined to reserve the typical Chinese dresses as part of her Chinese heritage. (Chinese Identity)
Para 93:
17、or so it seemed—her attention was only focused on
“Pleading Child‖ that she neglected what was on the right hand when she was practicing. As for the first time---the same song.第一次，或好像感觉是第一次，我注意到右边的乐曲。

它的名称是“心满意足”。

我也试着弹这首曲子。

它的曲调比较轻松，但节奏同样流畅，不是很难。

“祈求的孩子”较短，较慢，而“心满意足”更长，更快一些。

在我弹了几遍后，我意识到，原来这两个曲子是同一首歌的两个组成部分。

Pleading Child: shorter but slower—one side of her childhood, didn‘t understand h er mom, regarded her expectations as torture and pressure—misery
Perfectly Contented: finally realized her mom loved and appreciated her, she felt completely contented, moment of insight and revelation—attitude altered
June finally realized that her childhood was composed of two parts. Despite the suffering and painful occasions, it was on the whole filled with perfect happiness, while in the past she was blind by the bitter memories only to neglect the maternal sacrifice and love. Fortunately her view altered as a grown-up.
Epiphany(顿悟)：definition: a moment of insight, discovery or revelation, by which the character‘s v iew is greatly altered.
According to the length, 3 kinds of stories:1) Novel/2) Novelette/3) Short story
parts of the plot: Exposition/Rising action/Climax/Falling action/resolution
point of view: The first person /The third person/The second person
point of view:
1) 3rd-person narration –the author does not appear in the story, he does not know what is going on in the minds of the characters, and only describes what the characters do, thus
objective.
2) 1st-person narration—from the perspective of ―I‖. But fictional ―I‖and the author are not the same person, though many events ―I‖experience are based on the author‘s own life experiences.
①Adv antages: 1st-person narrator is part of the story, can move freely within the fictional world and approach other fictional characters. 1st-person narrator addresses readers directly—either a participant or witness of the events—more authoritative; he/she tells what happens in the physical world as well as in the mental world. 1st-person narration allows readers to enter the mind of the narrator.
②Disadvantages or restrictions: tightly controlled in access to information only tell what the narrator sees and feels cannot let readers enter the minds of other characters theme theme: (different from main idea) –general meaning, the central and dominating idea that unifies and controls the total work. e.g main idea and the theme of The Dream of Red Mansions main idea: the love story of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu /theme: inevitable declining of feudalism Main idea is concerned about the content of the story while theme deals with the purpose of the writing, and tries to reveal the implied meaning behind the story. It is the basic idea abstracted from the fusion of setting, characters, and plot.
Synecdoche: The substitution of the naming of a part for the whole, a material for a thing, or the reverse of any of these. Eg. We had dinner at ten dollars a head. /No eye saw him, but a second later every ear heard a gunshot. /He cut me open and took out the appendix and stitched me up again. /Cotton suits you.
Oxymoron: The link of two sharply contrasting terms
Eg. Cheerful pessimist, the wisest fool, living death, freezing fires, glorious defeat Tearful joys, Cruel kindness
第三课、Globalization
Globalization: Proponents stress the positive effect of globalization, saying that it helps developing nations ?catch up‘ to industrialized nations much faster through increased employment and technological advances. /Critics emphasize the negative effect of globalization, saying that it weakens national sovereignty and allows rich nations to ship domestic jobs overseas where labor is much cheaper.
One of the aspects to resistance is the reassertion of local identities. Some people accept the economic advantages of globalization and seek to maintain something of great value—language, tradition and custom.
Para1
1、In place of the old wants we find new wants, requiring for their satisfaction the products of distant lands and climes.‖ wants: sth. needed but lacking; needs
their: Human beings have endless desires and needs. After the old needs are satisfied, new ones come into being. And in order to meet these new needs, we demand goods from distant and far-off places.
2、How people feel about this depends a great deal on where they live and how much money they have.‖ (para.2) this: People‘s attitude towards globalization is to a great extent determined by whether they are in the developed countries or not and whether they are among the haves or the have-nots.
3、Yet globa lization, as one reporter stated, ―is a reality, not
a choice.‖ (para.2) Globalization is not something you can accept or reject; it is a matter of life that you will encounter and have to respond to every day.
4、―Telegraph, telephone, radio, and televisi on tied tighter and more intricate knots between individuals and the wider world.‖ (para.2)
Telegraph,...made the connection between individuals and the outside world closer but at the same time the connection was more complex, less direct, not easy to detect.
5、―...Western –often equated with American –influences will flatten every cultural crease, producing, as one observer terms it, one big‘McWorld’.‖ (para.4)
cultural crease: cultural diversities /McWorld: a world filled with American goods and culture
Western influences will overwhelm all other non-Western cultures, making them lose their own unique characteristics, and in the end there exists only one Westernized or Americanized culture.
6、―Popular factions sprout to explore nationalist anxieties.‖ (para.5)
Political groups that have broad support have come into being to take advantage of / make use of existing worries of the people who are afraid of foreign cultural assault.
7、―In China, where xenophobia and economic ambition have often struggled for the upper hand.‖ (para.5)
In China there are two trends, one is fear of foreign things (closed-door) and the other is the desire to build China into an industrialized country (open-door). The two trends have long been struggling for dominance.
8、Those people out there should continue to live in a
museum while we will have showers that work.(para.5) museum: backwardness, the kind of life you can only find in museums now /showers that work: modern life high-tech gadgets
The Chinese people should continue to live a backward life while the westerners live comfortably with all modern conveniences.
9、―Westernization, ... is a phenomenon shot through withinconsistencies and populated by very strange bedfellows.‖(para.7)
shot through with: full of (holes after a shotgun blast) /populated by: supported by, held by Westernization is a concept full of self-contradiction and held by people of very different backgrounds or views.
10、―Apparently westernization is not a straight road to hell, or to paradise either.‖ (para.7) Westernization is neither terribly bad nor extremely good.
11、―The critical mass of teenagers...is one of the powerful engines of merging global cultures.‖ (para.9)
engine: sth. powerful that causes great changes in society
The large number of teenagers, which is decisive, is one of the great forces that generate/cause the cultural globalization.
12、―...you don’t have to be cool to do it, ... You just have to have the eye.‖ (para.10)
In trying to find out what will be the future trend, you do not need to be fashionable yourself. All you need is awareness, that is to say, you need to be on the alert, to be observant.
13、―If it’s not going to be affordable, ... it’s never going to catch on.‖ (para.11)
If the trend is too expensive and cannot be followed by
people, it will not become popular. 14、―This being America, he has found a way to marry these two passions and sell the result.‖ (para.14)
This being America: absolute construction, playing the role of an adverbial clause of cause marry: (metaphorically) to combine (a metaphor)
America is an open and technologically advanced country with a large market for unusual things.
15、―...and it is still played all over Asia in small roo ms that are full of smoke and... It is also played by rich society women at country clubs in Beverly Hills and in apartments on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.‖ (para.14)
This sentence shows the sharp contrast between the lower class people in Asia and the upper class people in America.
16、―...he told me with that detached friendliness of those whose true connection is with
machines.‖ (para.16)
detached: not involved by emotion, interests
...he told me in a friendly way, but this friendliness lacks emotion because his interest is in the computer, in those people who are connected with him through the Internet.
17、―He, an American playing a Chinese game with people in Germany,...was up in the cybersphere far above the level of time zones.‖ (para.19)
He was roaming in the cyber world, playing games with people living in different time zones, thus their activity on the computer broke down time zone limit.
18、―If it seems that life in the West has become a fast-forward blur, consider China.‖
Life in the West is moving so fast into the future that outlines
are blurred as if images of a video tape being played on fast forward.
如果说西方的生活太超前了，已经看不太清轮廓了，那么就看看中国。

19、―The Cosmopolitan, plunging necklines and all, is read by 260,000 Chinese women every month.‖
The Cosmopolitan, a fashion magazine with pages showing low necklines and other content, is read by...
26万中国妇女每个月都在阅读《时尚》杂志，那些开领坦胸的画页及其他内容。

20、In a decade scores of gleaming new skyscrapers have shot up to crowd and jostle the skyline, cramp the narrow winding streets, and choke the parks and open spaces with their sheer soaring presence. (para.22)
Everywhere there are soaring skyscrapers, surrounding the open spaces and making the streets even narrower. As a result, when you look out, you can only see these tall buildings one after another and the vision is lost.
21、― In a decade scores of gleaming new skyscrapers have shot up to crowd and jos tle the skyline, cramp the narrow winding streets, and choke the parks and open spaces with their sheer soaring presence.‖
十年中几十座闪闪发亮的新的高层建筑拔地而起，挤压空间，使人张目不能远眺，使原本狭窄弯曲的街道更嫌压抑，而这些高耸大楼的存在也使公园和空地感到憋气。

22、In it’s first two weeks of business the Gucci Store took in a surprising $100,000.(para.22) In it‘s first two weeks of business the Gucci Store made a profit of $100,000, which they didn‘t expect.
23、―The Chinese are very good at dealing with ambiguity.‖。