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高级英语第六课 从天窗中消失

高级英语第六课  从天窗中消失

第六课从天窗中消失1. How does the writer substantiate his statement that science is committed to the universal? There are broad agreemants about the basic concepts of science, for example, there is only a single science of thermodynamics whose basic concepts are accepted by all countries, including such diverse countries as China, Americaor the Soviet Union. For a short time there were two genetics, a Soviet genetics as proposed by Lysenko and a Western genetics. However, Soviet Lysenko' s theories were refuted and in 1956 the Soviet Union accepted the Western genetic concepts.2. How does technology exhibit this universalizing tendency?It makes the world look more and more uniform. Different styles in architecture, dress, music and eating that exist in various countries and among different people are tending to disappear. They are being replaced by more uniform styles or world styles. The houses the people live in, the cars they drive, etc. , are becoming more alike.3. How does the automobile illustrate this universalizing tendency?A technological innovation in the manufacture of automobiles like streamlining or all-welded body construction may be initiated by one company in one country, but when it proves to make cars more efficient and cheaper, it is soon adopted universally by all automobile manufacturers. Today, the basic features of an automobile are to be found in automobiles in general, no matter who makes them. Besides this feature, all large automakers are now international companies. Americans have auto plants in Europe, Asia and South America, and Europeans and Japanese have plants in America and South America, and so on.4. How has man become cosmopolitan?He drives cars that have the same basic features. When he goes shopping, he finds the climate in all the shops is the same because they are all similarly air-conditioned. When he travels he finds all the airports to be familiar because they are all constructed along similiar lines and the hotels to have the same amenities. In a word, he finds himself at home in all countries and places.5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of being a cosmopolitan?He no longer has a fixed home with all the emotional ties144 that are usually attached to such a home with its fixed location surrounded by well-known neighbors, etc. His home is now everywhere and he is always surrounded by all kinds of neighbors. He feels the old home limited his activities and his emotions.6. What does Madame Gabrille Buffet-Picabia say about "machine aesthetic"?She says in the past artists regarded machines and machinelike structures like the Eiffel Tower in Paris as ugly and irreverent. After 1949 the artists discovered a new beauty in machines which could now be shaped and moulded very easily into various artistic designs.7. What is the "real world" according to the writer?The writer doesn’t t directly answer the question. He says science has now thrown doubt on "the thingliness of things". It does not produce the material objects we see with our eyes but images, geometric and mathematical, of the reality underlying these things. It has made the world rather "insubstantial". The writer in his prologue states: "Today, nature has slipped, perhaps finally, beyond our field of vision. We can imitate it in mathematics -- we can even produce convincing images of it -- but we can never know it. We can only know our own creations.8. How is the playfulness of modern aesthetic displayed?. It is displayed in the architectural styles found in cities of the developed world -- styles thattypify collage city and urban adhocism. It is also displayed in the mosaic architecture of facadism and the playful theme parks and museum villages. It abounds in images and sounds and values utterly different from those of the world of natural things seen from a middle distance.9. Why do the banks appear to be disappearing through their own skylights?The banks are no longer the solid, ponderous buildings of the past but airy structures Of steel and glass. People need not go to the banks directly for many financial transactions which can now be carried out in stores or trailers with slot- machinelike terminals linked to the banks. Money is now recorded, erased, processed and reprocessed as digital signals by a computer.Ⅲ. Questions on appreciation:1. Sum up the main views of the writer and comment on how they are organized and presented.ment on the use of topic sentences.ment on the use of the present tense and universal statements.ment on the use of some figurative language. Cite examples.5.What stylistic features of scientific English are to be found in this piece.9 Cite examples.Ⅲ.1.In the passage, the writer puts forward his central theme of "disappearance" -- nature disappears, history disappears and even the solid banks disappear. Besides expressing the central theme of the book, the metaphorical phrase, "Disappearing Through the Skylight", is used also specifically in this chapter to describe the changed appearance of modern banks which seem to be disappearing. The second important idea he puts forward is the universalizing tendency of science and technology. The basic concepts of science are understood, accepted and adopted by scientists all over the world. There is only one science of thermodynamics, genetics, etc. This universalizing effect is reflected in architectural styles, dress styles, musical styles, etc. They all tend to become world styles. The third concept is, "If man creates machines, machines in turn shape their creators. " The modern man is no longer a unique individual, the product of a special environment and culture. The homogeneous world he now lives in universalizes him. He becomes a cosmopolitan, a citizen of the world. Finally, the disappearance of history is a form of liberation and this feeling of liberation is often expressed through play. the playfulness of science has produced game theory and virtual particles, in art it has puoduced the paintings of Picasso and Joan Miro and so on.2. The writer' s views are generally clearly and succinctly presented as a topic sentence at the beginning of each paragraph and then developed or illustrated in the paragraph itself. or by succeeding paragraphs. For example, the first sentence in the opening paragraph is a topic sentence that presents a very important view of the writer, "Science is committed to the universal. " This idea of universality is developed and illustrated in the five paragraphs that follow and each paragraph that follows also has its own topic sentence. The organizational pattern is very clear and logical.3. The writer uses tha present tense and universal statements to attain the goal of objectivity.4. The writer uses figurative language freely to make his ideas more vivid and forceful. Readers can find many metaphors, analogies, rhetorical questions, repetition and balanced structure, etc. in this piece. The very title of this piece, " Disappearing Through the Skylight ", is a metaphorical phrase that immediately stirs the imagination of readers.5. A lot of scientific and technical terms are used in this piece, such as thermodynamics, genetics, genetic mutations, etc. Many sentences are complex and compound ones; some of them, though simple sentences, are complicated in structure, for example, "The skepticism of modern science "" from the soul. " "It surrounds its citizens with "-" and geodesic domes and lunar landers. " Allthese are stylistic features.。

高级英语Lesson 6 Mark Twain课文翻译

高级英语Lesson 6 Mark Twain课文翻译

Lesson 6 Mark Twain ---Mirror of America马克.吐温--美国的一面镜子(节选) 诺埃尔.格罗夫Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure. In-deed,this nation's best-loved author was every bit as ad-venturous,patriotic,romantic, and humorous as anyone has ever imagined.I found another Twain as well–one who grew cynical,bitter,saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him,a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race,who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.在大多数美国人的心目中,马克•吐温是位伟大作家,他描写了哈克•费恩永恒的童年时代中充满诗情画意的旅程和汤姆•索亚在漫长的夏日里自由自在历险探奇的故事。

的确,这位美国最受人喜爱的作家的探索精神、爱国热情、浪漫气质及幽默笔调都达到了登峰造极的程度。

但我发现还有另一个不同的马克•吐温——一个由于深受人生悲剧的打击而变得愤世嫉俗、尖酸刻薄的马克•吐温,一个为人类品质上的弱点而忧心忡忡、明显地看到前途是一片黑暗的人。

Tramp printer,river pilot,Confederate guerrilla,prospector,starry-eyed optimist, acid-tongued cynic:The man who became Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens and he ranged across the nation for more than a third of his life,digesting the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer.He adopted his pen name from the cry heard in his steamboat days,signaling two fathoms (12feet)of water--a navigable depth.His popularity is attested by the fact that more than a score of his books remain in print,and translations are still read around the world.印刷工、领航员、邦联游击队员、淘金者、耽于幻想的乐天派、语言尖刻的讽刺家:马克•吐温原名塞缪尔•朗赫恩•克莱门斯,他一生之中有超过三分之一的时间浪迹美国各地,体验着美国的新生活,尔后便以作家和演说家的身分将他所感受到的这一切介绍给全世界。

高级英语第六课词组

高级英语第六课词组

With caoculated coolness the Duchess reasoned,….
公爵夫人冷静地盘算了一番,,,,
The situation came down to one essential.
限制需要解决的是一个关键的问题。

Buy off 收买,出钱以摆脱。

A slim chance 一个渺茫的机会。

The incriminating evidence removed. 罪证也就消失了。

Highway patrol 公路巡警。

Be on the lookout for…..注意
Fall victime to…屈服于
Sharp-eyed policeman 目光锐利的警察
There were plenty of places to pull off the highway and be unobserved
有许多偏僻地方远离公路,不会受人注意。

Wait here for certain detection 坐等受擒
Back roads 乡间小路
Adept at using map 善于看地图
Speech and manner 言谈举止
The abruptness took him by surprise.这突如其来的问话把他吓了一跳。

Sb is pretty well fixed 某人很富有。

高级英语上册第6课

高级英语上册第6课

高级英语上册第6课A Good ChanceWhen I got to Crow Creek, Magpie was not home. I talked to his wife Amelia.“I need to find Magpie,” I said. “I've really got some good news for him.”I pointed to1the briefcase2I was carrying. “I have his poems and a letter of acceptance from a University in California3 where they want him to come and participate in4the Fine Arts Program5they have started for Indians.”“Do you know that he was on parole6?”“Well, no, not exactly,” I said hesitantly, “I haven't kept in touch with him but I heard that he was in some kind of trouble.” She smiled to me and said, “He's gone a lot. It's not safe around here for him, you know. His parole officer really watches him all the time and sosometimes it is just better for him not to come here. Besides, we haven't been together for a while. I hear he's in town somewhere.”“Do you mean in Chamberlain?”“Yes, I live here with his sister and she said that she saw him there, quite a while ago. But Magpie would not go to California. He would never leave here now even if you saw him and talked to him about it.”“But he did before,”I said. “He went to the University of Seattle.”“Yeah, but... well, that was before,”she said, as though7to finish the matter.“Don't you want him to go?” I asked.Quickly, she responded, “Oh, it's not up to me to say. He isgone from me now. I'm just telling you that you are in for8 a disappointment. He no longer needs the things that people like you want him to need,” she said positively.When she saw that I didn't like her reference to “people like you”, she stopped for a moment and then put her hand on my arm. “Listen,”she said, “Magpie is happy now, finally. He is in good spirits, handsome and free and strong. He sits at the drum and sings with his brothers: he's okay now. When he was saying all those things against the government and against the council, he became more and more ugly and embittered and I used to be afraid for him. But I'm not now. Please, why don't you just leave it alone now?”------------------------------------------------------------------I was sitting at the café with Salina. Abruptly she said, “I don't know where Magpie is. I haven't seen him in four days.”“I've got his poems here with me,”I said. “He has a good chance of going to a Fine Arts school in California, but I have to talk with him and get him to fill out9some papers. I know that he is interes ted.”“No, he isn?t,” she broke in. “He doesn't have those worthless,shitty dreams anymore.”“Don't say that, Salina. This is a good chance for him.”“Well, you can think what you want, but have you talked to him lately? Do you know him as he is now?”“I know he is good. I know he has such talent.”“He's Indian, and he's back here to stay this time.”“Would you drive into Chamberlain with me?” I asked.She said nothing.“If he is Indian as you say, whatever that means, and if he isback here to stay this time and if he tells me that himself, I'll let it go. But Salina,” I urged, “I must talk to him and ask him what he wants to do. You see that, don't you?”“Yes,”she said finally. “He has right to know about this, but you?ll see...”Her heels clicked on the sidewalk in front of the cafe as we left, and she became agitated as she talked. “After all that trouble he gotinto during that protest at Custer when the courthouse was burned, he was in jail for a year. He's still on parole and he will be on parole for another five years and they didn't even prove anything against him! Five years! Can you believe that? People these days can commit murder and not get tha t kind of a sentence.”Elgie was standing on the corner near the Bank as we drove down the main street of Chamberlain, and both Salina and I knew without speaking that this man, this good friend of Magpie's, would know of his whereabouts. We parked the car, Elgie came over and settled himself in the back seat of the car. A police car moved slowly to the corner where we were parked and the patrolmen looked at the three of us intently and we pretended not to notice. The patrol car inched down the empty street and I turned cautiously toward Elgie. Before I could speak, Salina said, “She's got some papers for M agpie. He has a chance to go to a writer's school in California.”Always tentative about letting you know what he was really thinking, Elgie said, “Yeah?”But Salina wouldn't let him get away so noncommittally. “Elgie,” she scoffed. “You know he wouldn't go!”“Well, you know,” Elgie began,”one time when Magpieand me were hiding out after that Custer thing, we ended up on the Augustana College Campus. We got some friends there. And he started talking about freedom and I never forget that, and then after he went to the pen it became his main topic of conversation. Freedom. He wants to be free and you can't be that, man, when they're watching you all the time. Man, that freak that's his parole officer is some mean watch-dog."“You think he might go for the scholarship?” I asked, hopefully.“I don't know. Maybe.”“Where is he?” I asked.There was a long silence. Then Elgie said at last, “I think it's good that you've come, because Magpie needs some relief from thisconstant surveillance, constant checking up. In fact, that's what he always talks about. …If I have to associate with the whites, then I'm not free: there is no liberty in that for Indians.? You should talk to him now. He's changed. He's for10complete separation, segregation, total isolation from the w hites.”“Isn?t that a bit too radical? Too unrealistic?” I asked.“I don't know. Damn if I know."“Yeah,” said Salina, “Just what do you think it would be like for him at that university in California?”“But it's a chance for him to study, to write. He can find a kind of satisfying isolation in that, I think.”After a few moments, Elgie said, “Yeah, I think you are right.”Soon he got out of the back seat and said, “I'm going to walk over the bridge. It's about three block s down there. There is an old, white two-story house on the left side just before you cross the bridge. Magpie's brother just got out of the NebraskaState Reformatory andhe is staying there with his old lady, and that's where Magpie is."At last! Now I could really talk to him and let him make this decision for himself.“There are things about this though,”Elgie said, “Magpie shouldn't have been there, see, because it's a part of the condition of his parole that he stays away from friends and relative and exconvicts and just about everybody. But Jesus, this is his brother. Wait until just before sundown and then come over. Park your car at the service station just around the block from there and walk to the back entrance of the house and then you can talk to Magpie about all this."Salina was talking, telling me about Magpie's return to Crow Creek after months in exile and how his relatives went to his sister's house and welcomed him home. “They came to hear him sing with his brothers, and they sat in chairs around the room and laughed and s ang with him.”Several cars were parked in the yard of the old house as we approached, and Salina, keeping her voice low, said, “Maybe they are having a party.”But the silence which hung about11the place filled me with apprehension, and when we walked in the back door which hung open, we saw people standing in the kitchen, I asked carefully, “What's wrong?”Nobody spoke but Elgie came over, his bloodshot eyes filled with sorrow and misery. He stood in front of us for a moment and then gestured us to go into the living room. The room was filled with people sitting in silence, and finally Elgie said, quietly, “They shot him.”“They picked him up for breaking the conditions of his parole and they put him in jail and... they shot him.”“But why?” I cried. “How could this have happened?”“They said they thought he was resisting and that they were afraid of him."“Afraid?” I asked, incredulously. “But... but... was he armed?"“No,”Elgie said, seated now, his arm on his knees, his head down. “No, he wasn't armed.”I held the poems tightly in my hands, pressing my thumbs, first one and then the other, against12the smoothness of the cardboard folder.1 point to 指向2briefcase 公事包3a University in California 指California的一所大学,并非California University4participate in参加,在许多非正式情况下可以用take part in 替换5 Program 指的是非固定的课程6Be on parole 宣誓后被释放, 被假释7as though 好像,仿佛8Be in for 免不了9 fill out 填写10be for 拥护,赞成11hang about v.闲荡12Press against 使贴着C.1、H is wife is in very poor health, so he is rather hesitant about telling her the bad news.2、H e is a very busy person and has so many engagements that only his secretary knows of his whereabouts.3、I n some areas, in order to provide education to girls, they have segregate classes in schools.4、A s they didn?t have enough time to discuss the plan fully, they could only draw a few1tentative conclusions2.5、T he old man heard the click of the lock and knew that the son?s family had left and he would be alone again.6、“Can I go swimming on Sunday, Dad?”“We?ll see,” he said noncommittal.7、T he children were so noisy that she had to listen veryintently in order to catch the conversation.8、T he news created a lot of agitation in the community.1only a few 仅仅少数, 一点点2draw a conclusion 得出结论,告一段落D.1、S outh Africa used to be a country where black people andwhite people were segregated.2、T he letter from her sister so agitated her that the stayed awake half the night, trying to think of away to get back at her.3、“You haven?t seen him for over a year?”he soundedincredulous.4、N o matter what he said, the only response he got from himwas a noncommittal“I see”.5、T hat plan was too unrealistic to be adopted.6、W hen people looked at him too intently, he felt veryuncomfortable.7、S ince she didn?t know anybody in that city, she was ratherhesitant when accepting the job offer.8、“Do you really think he will give up the position?”hescoffed.F.当我得知喜鹊获得了加利福尼亚州一所大学的奖学金,可以到大学的艺术学院去学习的时候,我为他感到十分高兴。

高级英语第一册课文翻译,词汇,课后答案6,7课

高级英语第一册课文翻译,词汇,课后答案6,7课

第六课讹诈阿瑟•黑利负责饭店保安工作的欧吉维探长打了那个神秘的电话,本来说好一个小时后光临克罗伊敦夫妇所住的套房的,可实际上却过了两个小时才到。

结果,当外间门上的电铃终于发出沉闷的嗡嗡声时,公爵夫妇的神经都紧张到了极点。

公爵夫人亲自去开门。

此前她早已借故把女仆支开,并且狠心地给那位脸儿圆圆的、见到狗就怕得要死的男秘书派了一个要命的差事,让他牵着贝德林顿狼犬出去散步。

想到这两个人随时都会回来,她自己的紧张情绪怎么也松弛不下来。

随着欧吉维进屋的是一团雪茄烟雾。

当他随着她走进起居室时,公爵夫人目光直射着这个大肥佬嘴里叼着的那烧了半截的雪茄。

“我丈夫和我都讨厌浓烈的烟味,您行行好把它灭了吧!”探长那双夹在面部隆起的肉堆中的猪眼睛轻蔑地将她上下打量了一番。

接着,他便移动目光,对这个宽敞豪华、设备齐全的房间扫视了一周,看到了那位正背朝窗户、神色茫然地望着他们的公爵夫人。

“你们这套房间布置得倒挺讲究的呢。

”欧吉维慢条斯理地从口中拿下雪茄,敲掉烟灰,然后将烟蒂扔向靠右边的一个装饰性壁炉,但他失了准头,烟蒂掉到地毯上,他也不去管它。

公爵夫人的嘴唇绷得紧紧的。

她没好气地说道,“我想你该不是为谈论房间布置到这儿来的吧。

”他乐得咯咯直笑,肥胖的身子也跟着抖动起来。

“不是的,夫人,怎么会呢!不过,我确实喜爱高雅的东西。

”他压低了他那极端刺耳的尖嗓音接着说,“比如像你们那辆小轿车,就是停在饭店的那辆,美洲虎牌,是的吧?”“噢!”这声音不像是从口中说出来的,倒像是从克罗伊敦公爵鼻子中呼出来的。

他的夫人马上瞪了他一眼,以示警告。

“我们的车子与你有什么相干呢?”公爵夫人的这句问话似乎是个信号,一听到这个信号,探长的态度马上就变了。

他猝然问道,“这儿还有别的人么?”公爵回答道,“没有。

我们早把他们都打发出去了。

”“还是检查一下的好。

”这个大胖子以敏捷得出奇的动作对整个套房前前后后地巡查了一遍,凡是有门的地方就打开往里看看。

显然,他对整套房间布局是极为熟悉的。

高级英语第一册lesson6-Blackmail-课文详解2-detail-study、背景知识、文章结构及修辞学习

高级英语第一册lesson6-Blackmail-课文详解2-detail-study、背景知识、文章结构及修辞学习

高级英语第一册lesson6-Blackmail-课文详解2-detail-study、背景知识、文章结构及修辞学习高级英语第一册lesson6 Blackmail 课文详解2 detail study、背景知识、文章结构及修辞学习2008-02-11 12:11:18| 分类:默认分类| 标签:|字号大中小订阅高级英语第一册lesson6 Blackmail 课文详解2 detail study、背景知识、文章结构及修辞学习2007年01月01日星期一下午11:4896. bulbous: shaped like a bulb, swelling and disgustingly fat and roundbulbous dome / nose97. peremptorily: (fml) showing an expectation of being obeyed at once and without questi on, impolitely and unfriendly, commanding, insisting obedience98. rivet: metal pin for fasten plates.to hold or fasten with or as if with rivetscf: glare, stare, fix99. feature: any of the noticeable parts of the facea man with Oriental featuresHer mouth is her worst feature / best feature, like a cherry.100. set in a mould:When you take a picture, you set your body, your countenance ...in a certain way. That is to set in a mould.(A lame one-eyed king taking a picture)mould (Am.E) = mould (Br.E): character, distinctive nature, a person's character, nature, et c., considered as having been shaped by family type, education, training, experience, etc.Be cast in a mould of a particular kind means to have the characteristics, attitudes, behavio ur or lifestyle that are typical of that kind of personbe made / cast in mould ofHe is made in his father's mould. (He has the same personality and character as his father' s)101. imperious: in tensely compelling, marked by arrogant assurance, dominating. This wo rd is related to imperial.The whole sentence can be paraphrased as follows:Her handsome high-cheekboned features were set in a way which shows her imperial char acter.102. respite: a short period of pause or rest, during a time of great effort pain, or trouble, a t ime of relief (as from labour, suffering or war) or delay (as before sentencing or executing).The patient said he never had any respite from the pain.Sentence sb. to death with 2-years' respite.103. bore: make a hole inThis machine can bore through solid rock.104. swallow: to take back, to keep from expressing or showing, to accept without question ing, protest or resentmentto swallow one's words: take back what was said105. sullen: silently bad-tempered, unforgiving, dark, gloomylook sullen, to wear a sullen look106. comply: act according to a demand, order, ruleto comply with the law / regulations107. vacillation: hesitation, uncertainty, waver, continuous changing of one's opinionsThis word implies prolonged hesitation resulting from one's inability to reach a decisionHe vacillates between accepting & not accepting.The earthquake caused the entire house vacillate.108. dally: to waste time or be slowDon't dally or we'll be late.dally over one's work109. bulge: to swell out as a result of the pressure from within110. bead: small ball of glass or other material with a hole through it for a string worn with other others on a thread, esp. round the neck for ornament.She is wearing a string of green beads.背景知识Background informationTitle of the novel: HotelSetting:The story happened in a hotel named St. Gregory /'greg ri/ in New Orleans, Louisiana which is in the south of US.Main character of the novel:Peter McDermott, assistant general managerMain characters in this part of the novel:Ogilvie: chief house officerthe Duke of Croydon: newly appointed British ambassador to the United Statesthe Duchess of Croydon: wife of the Dukea prostitute called lady friend by OgilviePlot:Gregory was now at the brink of bankruptcy, but Peter McDermott is trying every means he could to save it.Several events happened during the week with the present text as part of it.The Duke of Croydon was an internationally famous statesman and the newly appointed Br itish ambassador to Washington. They occupied the best suite of the hotel.Monday evening, the Duke went to the gambling house. Later, his wife pursued and found him. On their way back, the car Jaguar knocked down a woman and her child. Both killed.Then we have the present text....At one o'clock Thursday morning, Ogilvie drove the car north. But he was seen leaving the hotel by McDermott. Later in the afternoon, McDermott witnessed the funeral of the two victims o f the accident. He suddenly realized the relation between these two events and contacted police.Ogilvie was caught in Tennessee and sent back to New Orleans.The Duke decided to go to the police to confess his crime (to surrender himself / to give hi mself up). But he was hurled out the elevator due to the breakdown of it. He hit the cement groun d and died instantly.Anyway, the novel had a pleasant ending.One of the guests, who looked old and sick, turned out to be a millionaire. Earlier he was s eriously ill and was saved by McDermott and his girl friend. To show his gratitude and to repay t he hotel staffs' kindness, he bought the hotel and appointed McDermott executive vice president of the hotel.This kind of novels are called thrillers. Generally defining, a thriller is a work of fiction or dr ama designed to hold the interest by the use of a high degree of intrigue, adventure or suspense. (thrill: to cause sudden strong feeling of joy, fear, excitement, pleasure etc. that seems to flow r ound the body like a wave)Others can be called cop-criminal novels, detective novels. The main purpose is for enterta inment, amusement. Very often this kind of novels contain a lot of action, usu. suspension, not v ery much deep thought, without moral intention, not considered classic.The basic technique is to make the whole story of crime into sth. like a jigsaw puzzle. You c an not see the outcome until the final part is put in.文章结构Structural and stylistic analysisPart 1. PreludeThe chief house officer...Ogilvie remained standing {p.84 (old book, ditto)}.Section 1. The chief house officer...that both might return at any moment.The setting, main characters, and the suspension.Section 2. A wave of cigar smoke...Ogilvie remained standing.The preliminary encounter between the house detective and the Croydons.Part 2: Process of unveiling the crimeNow then...the Duchess turned away (p. 89).Section 1. Now then...Now we're getting somewhere (p. 86).First round of clash. the Duke confessed his crime.Section 2. Wearily, in a gesture...I can prove all I need to (p.87).Second round of clash. Ogilvie spelt out what he found out about the activity of the Croydo ns and tried to confirm all the detailed. The Duchess tried to win back the upper hand.Section 3. The Duke cautioned...the Duchess turned away (p. 89).The Croydons realized that they were convicted of the crime. The conviction was undeniabl e.Part 3. The Dirty DealSection 1. Her husband asked...You people are hot (p.91).Eliminating the possibility of having the car repaired in New Orleans.The possibility of not being found.Section 2. The Duchess ...Or had they? (p. 93)The interior monologue of the Duchess. Her judgement, analysis and calculation of the situ ation, weighing the advantages and disadvantages, the pros and cons.Section 3. (The Duchess faced Ogilvie... the silence hung (p. 94)The Duchess' decision to gamble on the greed of the house detective.Section 4. The ending.The dirty deal reached.修辞学习RHETORICMetaphor:...the nerves of both ... were excessively frayed...his wife shot him a swift, warning glance.The words spat forth with sudden savagery.Her tone ...withered......self-assurance...flickered...The Duchess kept firm tight rein on her racing mind. Her voice was a whiplash.eyes bored into himI’ll spell it out.Euphemism:...and you took a lady friend.Metonymy:won 100 at the tableslost it at the barthey'll throw the book,...Onomatopoeia:appreciative chuckleclucked his tongue。

高级英语Lesson-6-(Book-2)-Disappearing-Through-the-Skylight-课文翻译

高级英语Lesson-6-(Book-2)-Disappearing-Through-the-Skylight-课文翻译

Lesson 6 Disappearing Through the Skylight从天窗中消失小奥斯本·本内特·哈迪森科学是能够为人们普遍接受的。

有一个事实可用来说明这一点:一门科学发展程度越高,其基本概念就越能为人们普遍接受。

举例而言,世界上就只有一种热力学,并不存在什么分开独立的中国热力学、美国热力学或者苏联热力学。

在二十世纪的几十年的时间里,遗传学曾分为两派;西方遗传学和苏联遗传学。

后者源于李森科的理论,即环境的作用可能造成遗传基因的变异。

今天,李森科的理论已经被推翻,因此,世界上就只有一种遗传学了。

作为科学的自然产物,工艺技术也显示出一种世界通用的倾向。

这就是为什么工艺技术的发展传播使世界呈现出一体化特征的原因。

原本各异的世界各地的建筑风格、服饰风格、音乐风格——甚至饮食风格——都越来越趋向于变成统一的世界流行风格了。

世界呈现出同一性特征是因为它本来具有同一性。

在这个世界上长大的儿童感受到的是一个千篇一律的世界而不是一个多样化的世界。

他们的个性也受到这种同一性的影响,因此,在他们的感觉中,不同文化和个人之间的差异变得越来越小了。

由于世界各地的建筑越来越千篇一律,居住在这些建筑里的人也越来越千人一面了。

这样带来的结果用一句人们已经听熟的话来描述再恰当不过:历史要消失了。

以汽车为例即可非常清楚地证明这一点。

诸如流线型或全焊接式车身结构一类的技术革新,一开始可能不被人接受,但假如这种技术革新在提高汽车制造业的工作效率和经济效益方面确有巨大作用,它便会一再地以各种变异的形式出现,直到最终它不仅会被接受,而且会被大家公认为是一种宝贵的成果。

今天的汽车再也找不出某个汽车公司或某个民族文化的标志性特征了。

一般的汽车,不管产于何地,其基本特征都大同小异。

几年前,福特汽车公司制造出一种菲爱斯塔牌汽车,并将其称为“世界流行车”。

这种车出现在广告上的形象是周围环绕着世界各国的国旗。

福特公司解释说,这种汽车的汽缸活塞是英国产的,汽化器是爱尔兰造的,变速器是法国产的,车轮是比利时产的,诸如此类,等等等等。

高级英语Unit6 blackmail

高级英语Unit6 blackmail
Hope them could suggest something
Ogilvie Help you out of trouble, but I got to live Would accept money to keep silent
blackmail
Duchess
It would do no good The car would be discovered in any case It would not be easy to leave the South. The possibility of repairing the car at first?
Paraphrase
• You people are hot.(L.213,Para74) • Paraphrase: You two are wanted by the police. • Translation:他们被警局通缉。(反语)
• It seems they are discussing and try to work out a solution to a problem together.
After the unveiling of the fact
Duchess Duck desperate
A hand to her face
Words and phrases
• head out:离去,出发,启程 • get around to: to find the necessary time to do sth. 抽出时间做某事,考虑某事 • twig: to suddenly understand or realize sth. (突然地)理解,明白,意识到 discreet: careful about what one says or does; prudent言行谨慎的 • emphatic: be given with force to show that is important 强调的,有力的 • holler: to shout loudly, yell 叫喊

高级英语Lesson-6-(Book-2)-Disappearing-Through-the-Skylight-课文

高级英语Lesson-6-(Book-2)-Disappearing-Through-the-Skylight-课文

Lesson 6 Disappearing Through the SkylightOsborne Bennet Hardison Jr.1 Science is committed to the universal. A sign of this is that the more successful a science becomes, the broader the agreement about its basic concepts: there is not a separate Chinese or American or Soviet thermodynamics, for example; there is simply thermodynamics. For several decades of the twentieth century there was a Western and a Soviet genetics, the latter associated with Lysenko's theory that environmental stress can produce genetic mutations. Today Lysenko's theory is discredited, and there is now only one genetics.2 As the corollary of science, technology also exhibits the universalizing tendency. This is why the spread of technology makes the world look ever more homogeneous. Architectural styles, dress styles, musical styles--even eating styles--tend increasingly to be world styles. The world looks more homogeneous because it is more homogeneous. Children who grow up in this world therefore experience it as a sameness rather than a diversity, and because their identities are shaped by this sameness, their sense of differences among cultures and individuals diminishes. As buildings become more alike, the people who inhabit the buildings become more alike. The result is described precisely in a phrase that is already familiar: the disappearance of history.3 The automobile illustrates the Point With great clarity. A technological innovation like streamlining or all-welded body construction may be rejected initially, but if it is important to the efficiency or economics of automobiles, it will reappear in different ways until it is not only accepted but universally regarded as an asset. Today's automobile is no longer unique to a given company or even to a given national culture, its basic features are found, with variations, in automobiles in general, no matter who makes them.4 A few years ago the Ford Motor Company came up with the Fiesta, which it called the "World Car." Advertisements showed it surrounded by the flags of all nations. Ford explained that the cylinder block was made in England, the carburetor in Ireland, the transmission in France, the wheels in Belgium, and so forth.5 The Fiesta appears to have sunk Without a trace. But the idea of a world car was inevitable. It was the automotive equivalent of the International Style. Ten years after the Fiesta, all of the large automakers were international. Americans had Plantsin Europe, Asia, and South America, and Europeans and Japanese had plants in America and South America, and in the Soviet Union Fiat Fiat (= Fabbrica Italiana Automobile Torino ) workers refreshed themselves with Pepsi-Cola). In the fullness of time international automakers will have plants in Egypt and India and the People's Republic of China.6 As in architecture, so in automaking. In a given cost range, the same technology tends to produce the same solutions. The visual evidence for this is as obvious for cars as for buildings. Today, if you choose models in the same price range, you will be hard put at 500 paces to tell one makefrom another. In other words, the specifically American traits that lingered in American automobiles in the 1960s--traits that linked American cars to American history--are disappearing. Even the Volkswagen Beetle has disappeared and has taken with it the visible evidence of the history of streamlining that extends from D'Arcy Thompson to Carl Breer to Ferdinand Porsche.7 If man creates machines, machines in turn shape their creators. As the automobile is universalized, it universalizes those who use it. Like the World Car he drives, modern man is becoming universal. No longer quite an individual, no longer quite the product of a unique geography and culture, he moves from one climate-controlled shopping mall to another, from one airport to the next, from one Holiday Inn to its successor three hundred miles down the road; but somehow his location never changes. He is cosmopolitan. The price he pays is that he no longer has a home in the traditional sense of the word. The benefit is that he begins to suspect home in the traditional sense is another name for limitations, and that home in the modern sense is everywhere and always surrounded by neighbors.8 The universalizing imperative of technology is irresistible. Barring the catastrophe of nuclear war, it will continue to shape both modern culture and the consciousness of those who inhabit that culture.9 This brings us to art and history again. Reminiscing on the early work of Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp, Madame Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia wrote of the discovery of the machine aesthetic in 1949:"I remember a time ... when every artist thought he owed it to himself to turn his back on the Eiffel Tower, as a protest against the architectural blasphemy with which it filled the sky.... The discovery and rehabilitation of ... machines soon generated propositions which evaded all tradition, above all, a mobile, extra human plasticit y which was absolutely new....”10 Art is, in one definition, simply an effort to name the real world. Are machines "the real world" or only its surface? Is the real world that easy to find? Science has shown the in substantiality of the world. It has thus undermined an article of faith: the thingliness of things. At the same time, it has produced images of orders of reality underlying the thingliness of things. Are images of cells or of molecules or of galaxies more or less real than images of machines? Science has also produced images that are pure artifacts. Are images of self-squared dragons more or less real than images of molecules?11 The skepticism of modern science about the thingliness of things implies a new appreciation of the humanity of art entirely consistent with Kandinsky's observation in On the Spiritual in Art that beautiful art "springs from inner need, which springs from the soul." Modern art opens on a world whose reality is not "out there" in nature defined as things seen from a middle distance but "in here" in the soul or the mind. It is a world radically emptied of history because it is a form of perception rather than a content.12 The disappearance of history is thus a liberation--what Madame Buffet-Picabia refers to as the discovery of "a mobile extra-human plasticity which [is] absolutely new." Like science, modern art often expresses this feeling of liberation through play--in painting in the playfulness of Picasso and Joan Miro and in poetry in the nonsense of Dada and the mock heroics of a poem like Wallace Stevens's "The Comedian as the Letter C."13 The playfulness of the modern aesthetic is, finally, its most striking--and also its most serious and, by corollary, its most disturbing--feature. The playfulness imitates the playfulness of science that produces game theory and virtual particles and black holes and that, by introducing human growth genes into cows, forces students of ethics to reexamine the definition of cannibalism. The importance of play in the modern aesthetic should not come as a surprise. It is announced in every city in the developed world by the fantastic and playful buildings of postmodernism and neo-modernism and by the fantastic juxtapositions of architectural styles that typify collage city and urban adhocism.14 Today modern culture includes the geometries of the International Style, the fantasies of facadism, and the gamesmanship of theme parks and museum villages . It pretends at times to be static but it is really dynamic. Its buildings move and sway and reflect dreamy visions of everything that is going on around them. It surrounds itscitizens with the linear sculpture of pipelines and interstate highways and high-tension lines and the delicate virtuosities of the surfaces of the Chrysler Airflow and the Boeing 747 and the lacy weavings of circuits etched on silicon, as well as with the brutal assertiveness of oil tankers and bulldozers and the Tinkertoy complications of trusses and geodesic domes and lunar landers. It abounds in images and sounds and values utterly different from those of the world of natural things seen from a middle distance.15 It is a human world, but one that is human in ways no one expected. The image it reveals is not the worn and battered face that stares from Leonardo's self-portrait much less the one that stares, bleary and uninspired, every morning from the bathroom mirror. These are the faces of history. It is, rather, the image of an eternally playful and eternally youthful power that makes order whether order is there or not and that having made one order is quite capable of putting it aside and creating an entirely different or the way a child might build one structure from a set of blocks and then without malice and purely in the spirit of play demolish it and begin again. It is an image of the power that made humanity possible in the first place.16 The banks of the nineteenth century tended to be neoclassic structures of marble or granite faced with ponderous rows of columns. They made a statement" "We are solid. We are permanent. We are as reliable as history. Your money is safe in our vaults."17 Today's banks are airy structures of steel and glass, or they are store-fronts with slot-machinelike terminals, or trailers parked on the lots of suburban shopping malls.18 The vaults have been replaced by magnetic tapes. In a computer, money is sequences of digital signals endlessly recorded, erased, processed, and reprocessed, and endlessly modified by other computers. The statement of modern banks is "We are abstract like art and almost invisible like the Crystal Palace. If we exist at all, we exist as an airy medium in which your transactions are completed and your wealth increased."19 That, perhaps, establishes the logical limit of the modern aesthetic. If so, the limit is a long way ahead, but it can be made out, just barely, through the haze over the road. As surely as nature is being swallowed up by the mind, the banks, you might say, are disappearing through their own skylights.(from Disappearing Through The Skylight )--------------------------------------------------------------------NOTES1. Hardison: Osborne Bennet Hardison Jr. was born in San Diego, California in 1928. He was educated at the University of North Carolina and the University of Wisconsin. He has taught at Princeton and the University of North Carolina. He is the author of Lyrics and Elegies (1958), The Enduring Monument (1962), English Literary Criticism: The Renaissance(1964), Toward Freedom and Dignity: The Humanities and the Idea of Humanity(1973), Entering the Maze: Identity and Change in Modern Culture (1981) and Disappearing Through the Skylight (1980).2. Ford Motor Company: one of the largest car manufacturing companies of America3. International Style: as its name indicates, an architectural style easily reproduced and accepted by countries throughout the world. These structures use simple geometric forms of straight lines, squares, rectangles, etc., in their designs. It is often criticized as a rubber-stamp method of design. These structures are meant to be simple, practical and cost-effective.4. Fiat: the biggest Italian car manufacturing company. Fiat is an acronym of the Italian name, Fabbrica Italiana Automobile Torina.5. Pepsi-Cola: a brand name of an American soft drink. It is a strong competitor of another well-known American soft drink, Coca-Cola.6. Volkswagen Beetle: model name of a car designed and manufactured by the German car manufacturing company, Volkswagen7.D'Arcy Thompson: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948) placed biology on a mathematical foundation. In his book On Growth and Form. Thompson invented the term Airflow to describe the curvature imposed by water on the body of a fish, The airflow or streamling influenced the future designing of cars and airplanes to increase their speed and reduce air friction.8. Carl Breer: auto-designer, who designed the Chrysler Airflow of 1934.9. Ferdinand Porshe: auto-designer of the original Volkswagen10. Holiday Inn: name adopted by a hotel chain11. Picabia: Francis Picabia (1878-1953). French painter. After working in an impressionist style, Picabia was influenced by Cubism and later was one of the original exponents of Dada in Europe and the United States.12.Duchamp: Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), French painter. Duchamp is noted for his cubist-futurist painting Nude Descending a Staircase, depicting continuousaction with a series of overlapping figures. In 1915 he was a cofounder of a Dada group in New York.13. Madame Gabrille Buffet-Picabia: perhaps wife of Francis Picabia14. Eiffel Tower: a tower of iron framework in Paris, designed by A.G. Eiffel and erected in the Champ-de-Mars for the Paris exposition of 188915. self-squared dragons: a picture of a four-dimensional dragon produced by computer technique16. Kandinsky: Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Russian abstract painter and theorist. He is usually regarded as the originator of abstract art. In 1910 he wrote an important theoretical study, Concerning the Spiritual in Art.17. Picasso: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish painter and sculptor, who worked in France. His landmark painting Guernica is an impassioned allegorical condemnation of facism and war.18. Miro: Joan Miro (1893-1983), Spanish surrealist painter. After studying in Barcelona, Miro went to Paris in 1919. In the 1920s he came into contact with cubism and surrealism. His work has been characterized as psychic automatism, an expression of the subconscious in free form.19. Dada: a movement in art and literature based on deliberate irrationality and negation of traditional artistic values; also the art and literature produced by this movement20. Stevens: Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), American poet, educated at Harvard and the New York University Law School. A master of exquisite verse, Stevens was specifically concerned with creating some shape of order in the "slovenly wilderness" of chaos.21. game theory: a mathematical theory of transactions developed by John Von Neumann. He called this theory, which has important applications in economic, diplomacy, and national defense, "game theory". Even though they are serious, however, the games are often so intricate and their rules so strange that the game becomes overtly playful.22. virtual particles: particles that serve all practical purposes though they do not exist in reality23. black hole: A star in the last phases of gravitational collapse is often referred to asa "black hole". Even light cannot escape the black hole but is turned back by the enormous pull of gravitation. Therefore it can never be observed directly.24. lunar lander: a vehicle designed to land on the surface of the moon25. collage city: Collage City (1975) by Colin Rowe. In it he calls for a city that is a rich mixture of styles. It also implies the preservation of many bits and pieces of history. collage: an artistic composition made of various materials (as paper, cloth or wood) glued on a picture surface26. adhocism: This is a key term used by Charles Jencks in his book. The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977). The ad hoc city is intended to avoid the horrors of the totally planned city. The ad hoc city clearly shows a fondness for clashing styles and queer postmodern buildings as well as fantastic architectural complexes.27. facadism: It is a form of mosaic architecture. In mosaic architecture bits and pieces of older buildings are combined with bits and pieces of modern buildings. In facadism fronts of nineteenth-century buildings may be propped up while entirely new buildings are created behind them and often beside and above them.28. theme parks and museum villages: Such places try to reproduce history certain themes through architectural complexes. For example, Disneyland Anaheim, California, tries to reproduce the main street of a typical nineteenth centutry American town, but everything is stage set and nothing is real.29. Chrysler Airflow: a car model manufactured by the Chrysler Corporation of America30. Boeing 747: an airplane model manufactured by the Boeing Company of America31. Tinkertoy: a trademark for a toy set of wooden dowels, joints, wheels etc., used by children to assemble structures32. Crystal Palace: building designed by Sir Joseph Paxton and erected in Hyde Park, London, for the great exhibition in 1851. In 1854 it was removed to Sydenham, where, until its damage by fire in 1936, it housed a museum of sculpture, pictures, and architecture and was used for concerts. In 1941 it demolition was completed because it served as a guide to enemy bombing planes. The building was constructed of iron, glass, and laminated wood One of the most significant examples of 19th century proto-modern architecture, it was widely imitated in Europe and America.。

高级英语Lesson-6-(Book-2)-Disappearing-Through-the-Skylight-课文翻译word版本

高级英语Lesson-6-(Book-2)-Disappearing-Through-the-Skylight-课文翻译word版本

Lesson 6 Disappearing Through the Skylight从天窗中消失小奥斯本·本内特·哈迪森科学是能够为人们普遍接受的。

有一个事实可用来说明这一点:一门科学发展程度越高,其基本概念就越能为人们普遍接受。

举例而言,世界上就只有一种热力学,并不存在什么分开独立的中国热力学、美国热力学或者苏联热力学。

在二十世纪的几十年的时间里,遗传学曾分为两派;西方遗传学和苏联遗传学。

后者源于李森科的理论,即环境的作用可能造成遗传基因的变异。

今天,李森科的理论已经被推翻,因此,世界上就只有一种遗传学了。

作为科学的自然产物,工艺技术也显示出一种世界通用的倾向。

这就是为什么工艺技术的发展传播使世界呈现出一体化特征的原因。

原本各异的世界各地的建筑风格、服饰风格、音乐风格——甚至饮食风格——都越来越趋向于变成统一的世界流行风格了。

世界呈现出同一性特征是因为它本来具有同一性。

在这个世界上长大的儿童感受到的是一个千篇一律的世界而不是一个多样化的世界。

他们的个性也受到这种同一性的影响,因此,在他们的感觉中,不同文化和个人之间的差异变得越来越小了。

由于世界各地的建筑越来越千篇一律,居住在这些建筑里的人也越来越千人一面了。

这样带来的结果用一句人们已经听熟的话来描述再恰当不过:历史要消失了。

以汽车为例即可非常清楚地证明这一点。

诸如流线型或全焊接式车身结构一类的技术革新,一开始可能不被人接受,但假如这种技术革新在提高汽车制造业的工作效率和经济效益方面确有巨大作用,它便会一再地以各种变异的形式出现,直到最终它不仅会被接受,而且会被大家公认为是一种宝贵的成果。

今天的汽车再也找不出某个汽车公司或某个民族文化的标志性特征了。

一般的汽车,不管产于何地,其基本特征都大同小异。

几年前,福特汽车公司制造出一种菲爱斯塔牌汽车,并将其称为“世界流行车”。

这种车出现在广告上的形象是周围环绕着世界各国的国旗。

福特公司解释说,这种汽车的汽缸活塞是英国产的,汽化器是爱尔兰造的,变速器是法国产的,车轮是比利时产的,诸如此类,等等等等。

高级英语Lesson6词汇整理

高级英语Lesson6词汇整理

高级英语Lesson6词汇整理Lesson 6Part 1. V ocabulary1. deterioration [di,ti?ri?'rei??n]n. a、a symptom of reduced quality or strengthb、process of changing to an inferior statee.g. deterioration in the quality of goods货物品质的降低mental deterioration精神衰颓There will also be much discussion of the deterioration of global economic prospects since 11 September.Synonyms: corruption , regression , degradationAntonyms:amelioration (改进)2. premeditate [ pri'mediteit ]V. a. consider, ponder, or plan (an action) beforehand 预谋b. think or reflect beforehand or in advance 预先考虑e.g. "premeditated murder" “谋杀”She carefully premeditated each step of her plan.And actually , the strategy already " premeditate long already " Synonym: prepende.g. to make jokes with malice prepended 怀着恶意开玩笑3.farcical [ 'fɑ:sikl ]adj. broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce滑稽的;闹剧的;引人发笑的e.g. a farcical afterpiece in the ancient Roman theater.在古罗马喜剧里引人发笑的短喜剧。

高级英语Lesson 6 (Book 2) Disappearing Through the Sky

高级英语Lesson 6 (Book 2) Disappearing Through the Sky

Lesson 6 Disappearing Through the Skylight词汇(Vocabulary): a window in a roof or ceiling天窗: the branch of physics dealing with the reversible transformation of heat into other forms or energy,esp. mechanical energy.and with the laws governing such conversions of energy热力学: the branch of biology that deals with heredity and variation in similar or related animals and plants 遗传学: a change,as in form,nature,qualities,etc.(在形式、本质等上)变化: reject as untrue;disbelieve不相信;怀疑: an inference or deduction推理,推论: of the same race or kind同类的,同族的: the quality or condition of being clear;clearness明晰;清辙: design or construct with a contour that offers the least resistance in moving through air,water,etc.把…制成流线型: anything owned that has exchange value;a valuable or desirable thing to have财产;有交换价值的占有物;有价值的东西: the chamber in which the piston moves in a reciprocating engine 汽缸: an apparatus for carbureting air or gas;eap.a device in which air is mixed with gasoline spray to make an explosive mixture in an internal—combustion engine化油器,汽化器;碳化器: the part of an automobile,truck,etc.that transmits motive force from the engine to the wheels,usually by means of gears or hydraulic cylinders传动;变速器: a completely enclosed,air-conditioned shopping center密闭式空调商场: common to or representative of all or many parts of the world;not national or local 世界主义的,属于世界的;不限于国家或地区范围的: a binding or compelling rule,duty, requirement,etc.规则;义务;要求;必须履行的责任: a disastrous end,bringing overthrow or ruin;any great and sudden calamity,disaster or misfortune 悲惨的结局;毁灭;骤然而来的大灾难: think,talk,or write about remembered events or experiences追忆往事;怀旧:profane or contemptuous speech,writing。

高级英语第6课blackmail

高级英语第6课blackmail

Arthur Hailey(1920-2004)
• ●Born in England • ●Began his writing career while an RAF (British Royal Air Force) pilot during the Second World War • ●Became a Canadian citizen as well as British • ●Hailey’s novels have been published in thirtynine languages • ●Most of his books have been made into films or TV series
Arthur's writing features • He is good at transferring the daily story into a detective novel. Under the background of competition in finance and hotel business, the author always depict the hero as manager or doctor.
• The Duke decided to go to the police to confess his crime (to surrender himself / to give himself up). But he was hurled out the elevator due to the breakdown of it. He hit the cement ground and died instantly.
Hotel
• The novel was adapted Into a movie in 1967 and later into television series.

高级英语第一册unit6 blackmail

高级英语第一册unit6 blackmail

• Ignoring the Duke, Ogilvie waved the unlighted
cigar under his adversary 's nose. "You listen to me, your high-an'-mightiness. This city's burnin' mad – cops, mayor, everybody else. • adversary: a person who opposes or fights against another;opponent敌手;敌方;对手 • Here ―the Duchess‖. Ogilvie knew that the Duchess was the stronger character of the two and it was she that he had to deal with, she was his enemy. • Connotation隐含义: active hostility.
• Cigar:随着事情的发展,雪茄也在欧吉维 探长的手中不断变化
• When they find who done that last night, who killed that kid an' its mother, then high-tailed it, they'll throw the book, and never mind who it hits, or whether they got fancy titles neither. • high—tail ( v.) :[colloq.]leave or go in a hurry; scurry off (chiefly in high—tail it )[口]匆忙离开, 匆忙走开;迅速撤退;迅速逃走 • throw the book:. charge or punish sb. as severely as possible or permitted • 严惩;严厉处罚/斥责 • To throw the book is an idiom, in which the word book means the law book. Metonymy(转喻). • fancy: of superior grade; fine优良的;好的:

高级英语Lesson 6 Mark Twain课文翻译

高级英语Lesson 6 Mark Twain课文翻译

Lesson 6 Mark Twain ---Mirror of America马克.吐温--美国的一面镜子(节选) 诺埃尔.格罗夫Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure. In-deed,this nation's best-loved author was every bit as ad-venturous,patriotic,romantic, and humorous as anyone has ever imagined.I found another Twain as well–one who grew cynical,bitter,saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him,a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race,who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.在大多数美国人的心目中,马克•吐温是位伟大作家,他描写了哈克•费恩永恒的童年时代中充满诗情画意的旅程和汤姆•索亚在漫长的夏日里自由自在历险探奇的故事。

的确,这位美国最受人喜爱的作家的探索精神、爱国热情、浪漫气质及幽默笔调都达到了登峰造极的程度。

但我发现还有另一个不同的马克•吐温——一个由于深受人生悲剧的打击而变得愤世嫉俗、尖酸刻薄的马克•吐温,一个为人类品质上的弱点而忧心忡忡、明显地看到前途是一片黑暗的人。

Tramp printer,river pilot,Confederate guerrilla,prospector,starry-eyed optimist, acid-tongued cynic:The man who became Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens and he ranged across the nation for more than a third of his life,digesting the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer.He adopted his pen name from the cry heard in his steamboat days,signaling two fathoms (12feet)of water--a navigable depth.His popularity is attested by the fact that more than a score of his books remain in print,and translations are still read around the world.印刷工、领航员、邦联游击队员、淘金者、耽于幻想的乐天派、语言尖刻的讽刺家:马克•吐温原名塞缪尔•朗赫恩•克莱门斯,他一生之中有超过三分之一的时间浪迹美国各地,体验着美国的新生活,尔后便以作家和演说家的身分将他所感受到的这一切介绍给全世界。

高级英语第6课blackmailppt课件

高级英语第6课blackmailppt课件

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The text
Structure analysis
Part Ⅰ Prelude Para.1—Para.13
Part Ⅱ Process of the unveiling
the crime Para .14—Para.47
PartⅢ The dirty deal Para.48—Para.109
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Each of his novels has a different industrial or commercial setting and includes, in addition to dramatic human conflict, carefully researched information about the way that particular environment and system functions and how these affect society and its inhabitants. Critics often dismissed Hailey's success as the result of a formulaic "potboiler" style in which he caused an ordinary character to become involved in a crisis, then increased the suspense by switching among multiple related plot lines. However, he was so popular with readers that his books were almost guaranteed to become best-sellers.

高级英语 lesson6 blackmail(1-5段)

高级英语 lesson6 blackmail(1-5段)

同根词:
词根:declare adj. declared公然的;公开宣布的 declarative宣言的;陈述的,说明的 n. declaration(纳税品等的)申报;宣布;公告;申诉书 declarer申报者;宣言者
词语辨析:
advertise, broadcast, announce, proclaim, publish, pronounce, declare 这组词都有“宣布,公开”的意思,其区别是:
fray[freɪ]
n. 1 争论;争斗 enter/join the fray 加入争辩 At 71,he has now retired from the political fray. 他现年71岁,已经退出了政治角逐。 They were ready for the fray. 他们准备好了争斗。 2 (Fray)人名;(法)弗雷;(德)弗赖;(匈)弗劳伊 3 (织物、绳索等的)破损处,绽裂处 vt. 1 使磨损;使紧张;使急躁 frayed cuffs 磨破的袖口 Relations between us have become frayed through a series of misunderstandings.
加封为阿基坦公爵。为突出公爵特殊地位,以后多年里除 女王配偶和王子外,其他王亲均不许称王,最高可获公爵 爵位。随后,爱德华三世及其继承人又先后建立了兰开斯 特公国(1351年)、克拉伦斯公国(1362年)、约克公国 和格洛斯特公国(1385)、赫里福德公国(1397)、贝特 福德公国(1413)和萨默塞特公国(1443)等。这些公国 的领有人都是王室宗亲,他们得到高级爵位后,在贵族中 鹤立鸡群,威势不凡,为以后争夺王权、扰乱朝纲、制造 战乱埋下了隐患。自从1483年建立诺福克公国以后,公爵 爵位开始授予王亲以外者,但很少建立公国。而且能获此 最高爵位者多是军功显赫的统帅。行政界政务家即使任职 多年,政绩昭著,也难获此殊荣。 在正规场合公爵也穿深红色的丝绒外套,帽子上镶四 条貂皮。其冠冕上有一个金环,上饰8枚红色金叶片。国 王则称公爵为“我们真正可信和最为敬爱的伙伴。”

高级英语第六课blackmail

高级英语第六课blackmail

The istinctive Jaguar badge (above)
1966 Jaguar Series 1 4.2 E-type roadster (above), A 1963 Series 1, 3.8 E-Type (left)
• “the way I hear it, you won a hundred at the tables, then lost it at the bar. You were into a second hundred — with a real swinging party —when your wife here got there in a taxi.”
Bayou, New Orleans
Bayou is the term used mainly in Louisiana and Mississippi to describe a swampy, slowly moving or stationary body of water that was once part of a lake, river, or gulf. Bayou is not originally a French word. It was the Choctaw 乔克托族 Indians, who showed the French around when they began to arrive in what they called Louisiana early in the eighteenth century.
• “One thing I‟d like to know. I got a curious nature, ma‟ am. How „d you figure where he was?” “There is one thing I‟d like to know”, Ogilvie said to the Duchess, “ Madam, how do you know the place which you husband was at ?”
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公爵舔了舔嘴唇。“我想现在那已经没什么要紧了。”
“不过,你也有可能会在那儿留下一点什么蛛丝马迹,”欧吉维欲擒故纵地说。“不管怎么说,我的发现促使我去侦察了一番——去警察局打听了一下,那儿的人也都和我相熟。”他停下来吸了口雪茄,他的听众则静静地等候着。雪茄烟头发出红光时,他对它细看了一眼,又接着说下去。“他们那儿掌握了三件可供追查的东西。他们找到了一个车前灯框圈,那一定是撞倒那孩子和女人时从车上掉下来的;他们找到了一些车前灯玻璃的碎片;查验那小孩的衣服时,他们判断一定有一种摩擦印痕。”
“那能有多久才会来呢?”
“大约要等三四天吧。他们有很多地方要先去搜索。”
“那对我们又有什么帮助呢——几天的拖延?”
“也许会有帮助,”欧吉维说。“只要没人注意到你们的车子——没有发现它所停的地方,你们就可能会有这样的好运气。只要你能把它弄走。”
“你是说弄出这个州去?”
“你得了钱便对你所知道的事守口如瓶吗?”
“我想可能是这样。”
“但照你所讲的情况看来,”此刻已恢复了往日镇定自若的神态的公爵夫人指出,“那根本没用,反正车子迟早会被人发现的。”
“我看你们也只能去碰碰运气了。不过车子也不一定会被发现,有些情况我还没对你们讲呢。”
“那就请快讲吧。”
欧吉维手指着公爵说:“昨晚,入夜不久;你去了爱尔兰牛轭湖的林迪娱乐城。你是开着你们那辆豪华的美洲虎去的,并且还带着一个女朋友。至少,你若不过份挑字眼的话,我想你是会这么称呼她的。”
说到这儿,欧吉维目光瞥向公爵夫人,一边还咧着嘴笑。见此情形,公爵厉声吼道:“接着说下去!”
“好哇”——那张得意洋洋的胖脸又转了回来——“据我所知,你先在赌桌上赢了一百,跟着又在酒吧里全花掉了。正当你准备——同一些有头有脸的人物——赌上第二个一百时,你的夫人乘坐出租车赶到了那儿。”
“你是怎么得知这一切的?”
“告诉你吧,公爵——我在这个城市和这个旅馆呆的时间都很久了。到处都有我的朋友。我时常为他们帮忙,他们也同样帮我的忙,比如说告诉我哪儿发生了些什么事儿,住在这个旅馆的人们做了些什么事情,凡是有点儿出格的,那就很少能瞒得过我。他们多半都不知道我会知道,而且也不认识我。他们以为自己的那些小秘密被隐瞒住了——也的确有瞒住的时候——可是这一回却瞒不住了。”
“一种什么?”
“公爵夫人,假如你把衣服擦在硬物上,尤其是像汽车防护板这种光滑的硬物上时,那上面会留下类似指纹的印痕。警察局的化验室有办法像提取指纹一样处理这种印痕——涂药粉、印痕便显现出来了。”
“这倒挺新鲜的,”公爵说起话来就好像是在谈论什么与己无关的事情似的。“我以前可从来没有听说过。”
“这就对了,,,欧吉维说道。“好好坐着听我讲。昨天夜里,我看见你们进来的——为了不穿过门厅,你们走的是地下室,而且看起来还是一副惊魂未定的样子,你们两人都是。我本人也恰在那时进屋,一看那情形就觉得奇怪,想探个究竟。我刚才说过,我这人生性好奇。”
公爵夫人轻声道,“说下去。”
“昨晚深夜,汽车撞人的消息传开了。我觉得有点儿不对劲,就去车库里悄悄地查看了一下你们的汽车。你们大概没注意到吧一它刚好停在一个角落里,又隐在一个柱子背后,使得那些开车经过的人都无法看见。”
公爵冷冷地说,“原来如此。”
“有一件事我想弄明白。我生性好奇,夫人。你是如何猜到他的去处的呢?”
公爵夫人说道,“你知道得这么多……说给你听也无所谓了。我丈夫打电话时有做记录的习惯,而打完电话后又总是忘了毁掉这些记录。”
探长连啧舌头,表示责备。“就这么一个小小的粗心大意的习愤,公爵——你看它为你带来多大的麻烦。对啦,接下来的情况我猜是这样的。你和你的夫人一起回家了。是你开的车,尽管后来的结果表明,若是换了她来开车,那情形也许会好些。”
“这还有点像话,”欧吉维说着点燃了那支新掏出的雪茄。“豌在我们总算是谈到点子上了。”
克罗伊敦公爵夫人疲乏地做了一个认输的手势后,颓然坐回到椅子上。她双手对握着,以掩饰自己的手在颤抖,嘴里发话问道:“你都知道些什么?”
“好吧,我就全说出来。”探长要紧不慢,悠然自得地喷吐出一团青色的雪茄烟雾,同时还把那一双眼睛带着嘲弄意味地瞟向公爵夫人,仿佛有意要逗她表示反感似的。但公爵夫人一言未发,只是厌恶地皱了皱鼻子。
“噢!”这声音不像是从口中说出来的,倒像是从克罗伊敦公爵鼻子中呼出来的。他的夫人马上瞪了他一眼,以示警告。
“我们的车子与你有什么相干呢?”
公爵夫人的这句问话似乎是个信号,一听到这个信号,探长的态度马上就变了。他猝然问道,“这儿还有别的人么?”
公爵回答道,“没有。我们早把他们都打发出去了。”
“听说过的人本就不多。不过,在这件案子上,我想那也没多大差别。你们车上有一只前灯破了,框圈也掉了。毫无疑问,他们会核查无误的,即使没有发现擦痕和血迹也能查出来的。哦,我还忘了告诉你们,车上有许多血迹,不过在黑漆面上不大显眼。”
“哦,天哪!”公爵夫人一手捂着脸,转过面去。 她的丈夫问道,“依你看该怎么办?”
“我夫人不会开车。”
欧吉维点了点头,表示理解。“这个是清楚了。反正,我估计你当时是已经醉酒了,但是好……”
公爵夫人打断了他的话:“这么说你并不知道!你并没有掌握什么真实情况,你拿不出任何真凭实据……”
“夫人,凡是需要证实的,我都能证实。”
公爵规劝她说,“老婆子,还是让他把话说完吧。”
“你们这套房间布置得倒挺讲究的呢。”欧吉维慢条斯理地从口中拿下雪茄,敲掉烟灰,然后将烟蒂扔向靠右边的一个装饰性壁炉,但他失了准头,烟蒂掉到地毯上,他也不去管它。 公爵夫人的嘴唇绷得紧紧的。她没好气地说道,“我想你该不是为谈论房间布置到这儿来的吧。”
他乐得咯咯直笑,肥胖的身子也跟着抖动起来。“不是的,夫人,怎么会呢!不过,我确实喜爱高雅的东西。”他压低了他那极端刺耳的尖嗓音接着说,“比如像你们那辆小轿车,就是停在饭店的那辆,美洲虎牌,是的吧?”
“还是检查一下的好。”这个大胖子以敏捷得出奇的动作对整个套房前前后后地巡查了一遍,凡是有门的地方就打开往里看看。显然,他对整套房间布局是极为熟悉的。他再次打开外间的房门并重新关上之后,面带满意的神色回到了起居室。
公爵夫人已端坐在一张直背靠椅上,欧吉维还是站立着。
“我说,”他开口了,“你俩怎么撞了人就开车逃跑呢?!”
那两位听完这话后慢慢拾起了眼睛。
“我倒是希望,”欧吉维说,“你们俩能想出点儿什么办法来。”
公爵狐疑地说:“我听不明白。”
“我听明白了,”克罗伊敦公爵夫人说。“你想要钱,是不是?你是来这儿敲诈我们的。” 假如她是想以这话来产生震慑效果的话,那她的期望就落空了。探长只耸了耸肩。“你说得再难听,夫人,我也不会在乎的。我来这儿的目的只是为了帮助你们摆脱困境,但我也要吃饭呀。”
随着欧吉维进屋的是一团雪茄烟雾。当他随着她走进起居室时,公爵夫人目光直射着这个大肥佬嘴里叼着的那烧了半截的雪茄。“我丈夫和我都讨厌浓烈的烟味,您行行好把它灭了吧!”
探长那双夹在面部隆起的肉堆中的猪眼睛轻蔑地将她上下打量了一番。接着,他便移动目光,对这个宽敞豪华、设备齐全的房间扫视了一周,看到了那位正背朝窗户、神色茫然地望着他们的公爵夫人。
大胖子搓着双手,低下头看着自己那粗大多肉的手指。“我方才已经说过,我是来先听你们的说法的。”
公爵绝望地说,“我还能说什么呢?发生的一切你都知道了。”他作势想挺起胸来,可就是挺不起来。“你还是通知警方来处理此事吧。”
“依我说呢,这事也不用着急。”他那刺耳的尖嗓音此时带着一种沉思的声调。“事已至此,急也无益,再急也不能让那小孩和她的母亲复生。况且,到了警察局.他们用来处置你的办法,公爵,你是不会喜欢的。真的,阁下,你绝不会喜欢的。”
克罗伊敦公爵夫人——依仗着三个半世纪祖传下来的狂傲天性——并没有轻易就范。她猛地一下跳了起来,怒容满面,灰绿色的眼睛里喷射出火光,直直地逼视着肥肉成堆的探长。她说话的声调简直可以把熟悉她的任何人都吓得矮掉半截。“你这下流的恶棍,竟敢撒野,真是狗胆包天!”
欧吉维虽有那股自信劲儿,也不禁为之一震。但在这时克罗伊敦公爵插话了:“这恐怕也不是个办法,老婆子。不过这样试试也好。”他面向欧吉维说道:“你对我们的指控属实,肇事者是我,是我开车撞死那小姑娘的。”
第六课
讹 诈
阿瑟?黑利
负责饭店保安工作的欧吉维探长打了那个神秘的电话,本来说好一个小时后光临克罗伊敦夫妇所住的套房的,可实际上却过了两个小时才到。结果,当外间门上的电铃终于发出沉闷的嗡嗡声时,公爵夫妇的神经都紧张到了极点。
公爵夫人亲自去开门。此前她早已借故把女仆支开,并且狠心地给那位脸儿圆圆的、见到狗就怕得要死的男秘书派了一个要命的差事,让他牵着贝德林顿狼犬出去散步。想到这两个人随时都会回来,她自己的紧张情绪怎么也松弛不下来。
克罗伊敦公爵夫人极力控制自己那如脱缰野马般的思绪。她知道保持自己头脑的冷静和理智是至关重要的。方才那最后几分钟的谈话似乎变得非常随便,仿佛他们所讨论的只是一些无关紧要的家常琐事,而不是人命关天的大事。她有意要使谈话照这样进行。她意识到,唱主角的责任又一次地落到了自己的肩上。此时此刻,在她与这个存心恶毒的肥佬之间的激烈交锋中,她的丈夫只当了一名紧张而被动的旁观者。没关系,既然躲不过,就只好去面对它了。要紧的是对各种可能发生的意外变故预作考虑。她突然想出了一个主意。
“你说警方拿到了我们车上掉下来的一件东西,它叫什么来着?”
“我的意思是离开南方。”
“那恐怕不容易吧?”
“是不容易,夫人。邻近各州——得克萨斯、阿肯色、密西西比、亚拉巴马以及其余各州都会密切注意搜寻一辆损坏得像你们那辆一样的汽车。”
公爵夫人沉思起来。“有没有可能先修理一下呢?如果能把车子悄悄修理一下,我们会出大价钱。”
探长使劲摇着头。“那样的话,还不如现在就去警察局投案自首。路易斯安那州境内的每一家修车铺都已接到通知,一旦发现像你们那样需要修理的汽车送来修理,立即向警方报告。他们也都会照办的,你们的事谁都知道。”
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