综英句子解释

综英句⼦解释
Lesson One: Salvation
1、Then just before the revival ended, they held a special meeting for children, “to
bring the young lambs to the fold.”
To bring the children into the Christian community
2、God had not struck Westley dead for taking his name in vain or for lying in the temple.
God had not punished who had talked disrespectfully about him and lied in the church.
3、I couldn’t bear to tell her that I had lied, that I had deceived everybody in the
church, and I hadn’t seen Jesus, and that now I didn’t believe there was a Jesus any more, since he didn’t come to help me. It was Jesus who is lying, I don’t believe he is the son of God anymore/I don’t believe in God, I believe he is just a common people.
Lesson Two: The Game of the Name
1、Our initial decision about the appropriate address form is based on relative ages.
Our first decision about the proper form of address is based on relative ages of speakers.
2、If the person being addressed is a child, then almost all the rules that we have
unconsciously assimilated can safely be ignored.
Then almost all the rules that we learned with little conscious effort can be completely disregarded.
3、I, too, have the relative age of a child to a 75-year-old acquaintance who calls me
Pete.
Comparatively speaking, to a 75-year-old acquaintance who calls me by my FN, I am also a child.
4、Such a suspension is his privilege to bestow and it is usually handled humorously,
with a remark like, “I answer quicker to Bruce.”
It’s his right to disregard the rules of address and allow the others to call him by his first name…If you call me Bruce, I would be happier.
5、We are friends outside of our social roles.
We are personal friends, not just business associates or people we have come to know in our work.
Lesson Three: Thinking of Words
1、It is often said that, provided we are not of the unfortunate minority of people
who have pathological language defects, our language mechanism automatically equips us to say anything we need to say. If we are not among the small unfortunate group of people who have language deficiency, our language capacity unconsciously enables us to say whatever w want to say.
2、What it does mean is that if my job or my hobby entailed a knowledge of these
activities, my language would rise to the occasion.
My language would respond well to any occasion when I am required to talk about these matters.
3、There are many such arbitrary little limitations on our language.
There are many such random restrictions imposed on our language.
4、But we cannot ask him how many brothers and sisters he has without getting
precisely these irrelevant subanswers and then totalling them.
Without having such uncalled-for answers and then add them. We lack a world that means totality of brothers and sisters as the word “Children”.
5、This word is mainly confined to technical health-authority usage.
This word is only used by officials in public-health department, not everyday expression.
6、We are very largely the helpless prisoners of the language in general use around
us.
We are mostly confined to the limitations of language in general use around us and unable to break through them.
7、V ery few communications in the world seem to have settled the means whereby
remedies can be agreed upon and adopted.
V ery few communications in the world seem to have found the curing ways in which people share and adopt.
8、Can we not begin to imagine how near to despair these people must come who
can almost never find the word they are hunting for?
We certainly can begin to imagine how despairing these people must be when they can almost never find the right word they are searching for.
9、prisoners of the language: persons confined by the limitations of the language.
Lesson Five: What Body Language Can Tell Y ou That Words Cannot
1、The best salesmen, the best teachers, the best business managers have an intuitive
ability to read body language and put it to profitable use.
The best salesmen, the best teachers, the best business managers have an instinctive ability to understand body language and make a profitable use of it. 2、Who can look at a jury and a judge and pick up little cues that tip off what people
are thinking.
Who can look at a jury and a judge and get suggestions from them that indicate what people are thinking.
3、They adapt their presentation to the messages they pick up.
They change the manner and content of their speech according to the cues they get from the body language of listeners. 4、When people show rapport with each other, they swivel their upper bodies toward
each other and align their shoulders in parallel.
When people are in agreement with each other, they turn round and face to each other and bring their shoulders into a line.
5、Do people more often than not try to exhibit dominant behavior in the presence of
others?
Do people usually try to give a sign of superior behavior before others?
6、When the boss pats an employee on the back, the employee’s toes will invariably
pigeon-toe inward—a classic sign of submission—and the boss will toe out, a sign of dominance.
The employee will certainly have his feet turned in—a typical sign of obedience.
7、It’s an “I give up”signal: It’s a signal which means “I surrender to your
attraction”.
Lesson Six: Americans and the Land
1.I have often wondered at the savagery and thoughtlessness with which our early
settlers approached this rich continent.
I often find it impossible to believe that our early settlers could have been so
savage and thoughtless when they came to this rich continent.
2.Perhaps they felt that it was limitless and could never be exhausted and that a
man could move on to new wonders endlessly.
Perhaps they thought that the natural resources of the continent were limitless and could never been used up and they could move on to new places full of the same wonderful things.
3.This tendency toward irresponsibility persists in very many of us today.
People’s irresponsible pillage of the country continues to exist in many of us today.
4.…stealing from the future for our clear and present profit.
Without leaving anything for our future generation.
5.Suspicion lasted a long time, and was fed by clashes sometimes amounting to
full-fledged warfare.
Distrust lasted a long time, and was increased by conflicts sometimes as much as large-scale fighting activities.
6.It is little wonder that they went land-mad, because there was so much of it.
It is not surprising that they became crazy about land.
7.They abandoned their knowledge of kindness to the land in order to maintain its
usefulness.
They gave up their knowledge that the land should be treated kindly in order to make full use of it.
8.For the searching clouds could find no green and beckoning woods to draw them
on and milk them.
Because the searching clouds could not find the green and welcoming forests to pull the clouds forward and suck raindrops from the clouds.
9.our packaged pleasure: anything that consumers buy in packages
Lesson Seven: Mental Depression: The Recurring Nightmare
1.The ordinary everyday “blues” are fortunately usually brief and self-curing and,
although they take the edge off life, are not terribly incapacitating.
Luckily, the ordinary everyday sadness lasts for a short time and seeks no medical treatment. And although they reduce the pleasure of life, they are not terribly paralyzing.
2.And for others, depression happens “out of the blue,”unrelated to any particular
situation, and totally incapacitates the victims.
Depression happens unexpectedly, which is unrelated to any particular situation and totally takes away the victim’s capacity.
3.Loss of a sense of belonging to or believing in some stable, larger-than-self
institution—foster a society especially prone to depression.
Y ou feel you have lost contact with the groups larger than yourself, such as school, government, institutions, society and so
on—promote a society extremely likely to suffer from depression.
4.Some stable, larger-than-self institution: It refers to such things as family, school,
church, nation, political party, etc.
5.“reactive”or “exogenous”depression: depression that originates from external
causes
“endogenous” depression: depression that originates within the body
Lesson Nine: Appetite
1.That you still have an edge on your longings and want to bite into the world and
taste its multitudinous flavors and juices.
Y our desires for life are still intense or passionate and you desperately want to
taste all the desires and expectations in life.
2.Besides, the whole toffeeness of toffees was imperceptibly diminished by the
gross act of having eaten it.
Besides, the whole pleasure of eating toffees unnoticeably disappeared by the rough manner of eating them.
3.Which is why I would carry the preservation of appetite to the extent of deliberate
fasting, simply because I think that appetite is too good to lose, too precious to be bludgeoned into insensibility by satiation and over-doing it.
That is why I would go so far as to eat no food for a period of time in order to maintain the keenness of appetite, simply because I think appetite is too good to lose, too valuable to destroy all its keenness by eating too much or satisfy my desire too readily.
4. A day of fasting is not for me just a puritanical device for denying oneself a
pleasure, but rather a way of anticipating a rarer moment of supreme indulgence.
If I do not take in any food the whole day, it is not simply because I want to deny myself a pleasure on the same belief as held by puritans; but rather it is by doing so I can create a moment in which I can experience the highest degree of self-gratification.
5.We live too much on top of each other.
Our life becomes too increasingly better. If I live better than you, you will catch up and live better than I, and after that I live better again than you and so on.
6.Everybody gorged themselves silly, and appetite came into its own.
Everybody are greedily that their appetite almost became insensible, and appetite began to show its true value.
7.So if we are to enjoy this short life we should respect the divinity of appetite, and
keep it eager and not too much blunted.
If we want to enjoy our short life, we should pay homage to the majesty of appetite, and keep it eager and not too much insensible.
8.The springs are still there to be enjoyed—all one needs is the original thirst.
The springs, from which my cup of cold water came, remain the same as when I
enjoyed the bliss, but we no longer have that same thirst.
9.No, the best was in wanting it: No, the best was not in eating it, but in wanting it.
Lesson Ten: What Is It Like to Be Poor?
1.It is altogether curious, your first contact with poverty.
It is curious because what actually happens is far removed from what you have imagined.
2.It is the peculiar lowness of poverty that you discover first: the shifts that it puts
you to, the complicated meanness, the crust-wiping.
Y ou first discover that poverty brings you low in every aspect. Y ou are obliged to face the devices or ways of managing in spite of difficulties, the complicated bad things that come along with poverty, and stripping off your outward appearance and revealing your true self.
3.Y ou discover, for instance, the secrecy attaching to poverty. At a sudden stroke
you have been reduced to an income of six francs a day.
Y ou find that the constant practice of keeping secret is definitely linked with life in poverty. By a sudden change in fortune, you are forced to have an income of six francs a day.
4.From the start it tangles you in a net of lies, and even with the lies you can hardly
manage it.
From the very beginning life on six francs a day traps you so tight that you have to tell one lies after another which forms a net, and even with the lies you can hardly manage life on six francs a day.
5.Sometimes, to keep up appearances, you have to spend sixty centimes on a drink,
and go correspondingly short of food.
Sometimes, in order to maintain an outward appearance of being proper, decent and well-off, and as a result you lose sixty centimes’ worth of food.
6.Y ou discover the extreme precariousness of your six francs a day.
Y ou find you are uncertain that you always have the worth of six francs in your hand, for unexpected things may happen everyday.
7.One could multiply these disasters by the hundred. They are part of the process of
being hard up.
Y ou could tell lots and lots more disasters of the similar kind. They are part of the process of having little or no money.
8. A snivelling self-pity comes over you at the sight of so much food.
Y ou got annoyed and feel sorry for yourself when you see so much food.
9.When you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs
some of the others.
Y ou make one discovery which is more important than some of the others, such as boredom, mean complications and the beginnings of hunger.
10.Y ou discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but
you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future.
Y ou find boredom, ignoble activities you are engaged in, and the approaching poverty. But you also find the great profitable thing that poverty brings you: the fact that it completely ruins your future.
11.“This…is life on six francs a day. Thousands of people in Paris live it…”
Thousands of people in Paris live a life on six francs a day.
Lesson Eleven: Befriending
1.The trouble with folk-wisdom is that it tends to come in pairs of statements,…are
mutually exclusive.
The trouble with people’s intuitive knowledge is that it tends to exist in the form of two remarks. And if one is true, the other must be false.
2.Students of animal behavior have pointed out that social attraction has an obvious
adaptive function.
Experts who study animal behavior have pointed out that the bringing together of men or animals has an obvious function of fitting themselves to their environment.
3.One function friendship seems to fulfill is that it supports the image we have of
ourselves.
One function friendship seems to fulfill is that we become more confident of our self-image by making friends.
4.Certainly we appear to project ourselves onto our friends.
We tend to think we share the same feelings, attitudes with our friends.
5.When we find others obnoxious, we dislike them more if they are like us than
when they are dissimilar!
When friends are similar, the quarrels between them may be more bitter than if they are dissimilar to each other.
6.Similarity can breed contempt.
This is an alteration of the proverb “Familiarity breeds contempt.”
Lesson Sixteen: She’s an Unwilling Tool of Middleclassdom
1.No one ever told me that aspiring to a place in middleclassdom was the easiest
road to selling my time, energy and creativity to the never-ending task of “keeping things running.”
If you hope to become a member of the middle class, you must be prepared to make the immediate sacrifice of applying yourself to the perpetual task of keeping everything in the house in good working condition.
2.It’s not that when we set up housekeeping we were bent on hedonistic
consumption; it just crept in very unobtrusively.
The reason is not that when we got married and started a home of our own we had the strong wish to buy and use things as wastefully and affluently as a hedonist would; that way of consumption came into our life unnoticeably.
3.…I took a step toward the small-is-better school and bought a $2 manual one.
I began to feel that the small is better than the big.
4.Ensconced already in the heart of middle America, neither child would suffer
lessons.
As the two children had already adapted themselves firmly and comfortably to the life of America’s middleclass, neither child was willing to take piano lessons
which would involve a lot of effort.
5.Even after my consciousness was gashed open to the brutal realization that we
had inundated ourselves with things, a little over a year ago we acquired two—yes, two—more stereos.
Even after I realized the cruel reality, we still filled ourselves with things, a little over a year ago we acquired two—yes, two—more stereos.
6.I am dropping out of the conspicuous-consumption gang before I self-consumpt.
I am withdrawing from the middleclass people before I use up all my energy.
7.the small-is-better school: the economical and more practical way of life.
8.neither child would suffer lessons: no child was willing to take piano lessons.。