自考高级英语上册_Lesson_15_The_Beauty_Industry
2015年4月18日自学考试高级英语部分真题课程代号00600
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I. Each of the following sentences is given four choices of words or expressions. Choose the right one to complete the sentence and blacken the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (15 points, 1 point for each)【此处15道题目与课本内容相关联】Read the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding three items II, IV, V.【此处一篇阅读理解文章，文章主旨大概为：论浩瀚的宇宙拥有无穷无尽的美丽，大自然的奇妙景观难以用言语或相片来表达及描述。
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自考00600《高级英语》历年翻译重点
2011年1月57.这一解决方式的弊端在于它已不再广泛适用。
58.当这个富足的国家没有孩子饿着肚子上床时，我可能会乐于回去教书。
59.美国人做的比看电视更多的事情只有工作和睡觉。
60.那种认为艺术应该与政治脱钩的观点本身就是一种政治态度。
61.鱼露出水面，闪动着身子在线的另一端挣扎。
他紧紧地将鱼攥在手里，把鱼钩从嘴里取出来。
62.瓦茨那里有抱负又有远见的年轻人谈论的是走出去创业。
他们正是那样做的。
有才能的年轻人成群结队地离开瓦茨。
他们共同拥有的一个本领就是逃离这个贫民窟。
57. The drawback of such solution is that it's not widely applied any more.58. When there're no children going to bed while being hungry in this rich country, I may be willing to go back to teach school.59. What the Americans do more than watch TV are only work and sleep.60. The kind of opinion which thinks that art should separate from politics is a kind of political attitude itself.61. The fish came out of the water, flashing and struggling on the end of the line, and he grasped it firmly in his hand to take the hook from its mouth.62. The talk among the ambitious and future-minded youth in Watts was on getting out so that careers could begin . And they did just that . The talented young people left Watts in droves . The one skill they had in common was the ability to escape the ghetto .2010年10月57．心情好时，我可以谱写出恢弘的交响乐，绘制出壮丽的画卷。
大学高级英语第一册第15课译文及课后答案
※ 今夜的一弯新月仰面斜躺在天空，这是月亮在热带地区常见的姿势。在我看来，这种姿势对一个少女来说虽说有些不雅，但却还是适宜的。没有哪一颗星星不愿飞射下来接受邀请做她的情人。当船上的其他乘客最后一个个都回舱就寝之后，我一个人又悄悄爬上空荡荡的甲板，滑人游泳池，在水面上浮游着。这时我已不再是人们所熟悉的那位在远洋海轮上度假的中年记者了，而是一个无拘无束的沐浴着天池神水的自由快乐的人，就像神话中那位有天神作父亲并有一双奥林匹斯山诸神所赐的观察人世的慧眼的年轻健壮的恩底弥翁。我只觉身体四肢轻飘飘的没有任何重量，并且和夜的世界合为一体。我悟出了泛神论的真正意义。我的那些朋友们若知道我已变成这样，他们不知会笑成什么样子!在享受着这暖风浴肤，凉水托体所带来的清新快感时，我相信我的心灵也得到了净化，丢弃了凡人皆有的种种弱点，变得不会嫉妒，没有野心，没有恶意，与世无争。照我想象，那些虔诚的教徒在做完庄严的忏悔仪式离开忏悔室时，他们心灵得到净化的感觉一定就像我此时的感觉一样。
※ 有时，劳拉和我一起倚在船尾栏杆上，这对我是一种幸福。倘是在白天，我们凭栏远眺大海，只见海面上时而翻卷起白色的浪花，时而平静得宛若一幅微微飘动起伏着的蓝色缎面，完全见不到翻起的浪花，只有我们的轮船驶过之处才泛起一道道如大理石般的波纹。若是在夜晚，我们翘首望天，这儿的夜空比故乡的更黑，星光却显得更加璀璨。此时此景令我不由想起一个粗通文墨的士兵在日记中写的这样一句话：“星星看起来就像一个黑锅盖上挖的许多小窟窿，透过这些小窟窿可以看见锅盖外面的亮光。”有时候那些没念过书的人信笔涂鸦写的东西倒也有那么两下子。
可是看看现在的我吧，竟然像一个老处女正用水彩画着西下的残阳，十分地多愁善感!我曾自诩为老成持重，现在却意识到自己原来这么幼稚无知。就像那个改弦易辙的克洛维一样，我竟然对自己过去所鄙视的一切开始热爱起来，并且还要遭受少年初恋的痛苦。我想在离开人世之前尽情享受一切美好的东西。我不知道也不想知道自己身处何方。茫茫大海无路标。
高级英语第一册第十五课
③Desert n. 沙漠； 荒地；应得的赏罚； 功劳，美德 adj. 沙漠的； 荒芜的，不毛的； 无人的 v. 丢开，抛弃；擅离职守; 逃亡,逃走;开小差 Mrs Roding's husband deserted her years ago... 罗丁太太的丈夫数年前抛弃了她。 He has been deserted by most of his advisers. 他的大多数顾问都弃他而去。
By V.Sackville-West
2012-05-17
1. The young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in the tropics, and as, I think, is suitable if not seemly for a virgin. Questions : ☺What kind of rhetorical devices does the sentence uses? ☺How does "as" fuction in the sentence? ☺How to translate t one's back 仰卧 The pose that sleep in order to lie on one's back is best. 睡觉的姿势以仰卧最好 As 单独引导定语从句。句中有两个由as引 导的定语从句 seemly: suitable, proper, fitting, as regarded by conventional standards of conduct or good taste.
00006自考高级英语-上下册-单词中英文释义表格
n
a way in which sb/sth appears，often in a way that is different from usual or that hides the truth about them / it：伪装掩饰假装(古）装束态度相貌
socilologist
n
社会学家
sprinkle
vt
sprinkle A on / onto / over B｜sprinkle B with Ato sliquid on sth:撒，洒
swelter
Vi
to be very hot in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable:热气逼人,（使）汗流浃背；（使)中暑
variety show
[c]a television or radio programme, or a performance that consists of many different shorter performances, especially musical and humorous ones（电视上的）歌舞杂耍节目；(马戏团的）演出
高级英语上册01课单词中英文释义表格
adulation
n
［U］(formal) admiration and praise, especially when this is greater than is necessary过分赞美，奉承
amphitheater
n
a large circular building without a roof and with many rows of seats圆形露天剧场
全国高等教育自学考试指定教材高级英语上下主编张中载王家湘外语教学与研究出版社高级英语上册01课单词中英文释义表格adulationnuformaladmirationandpraiseespeciallywhenthisisgreaterthanisnecessary过分赞美奉承amphitheaternalargecircularbuildingwithoutaroofandwithmanyrowsofseats圆形露天剧场baptismaladjonlybeforenounconnectedwithbaptism
TheBeautyIndustry翻译
It is a success in so far as more women retain their youthful appearance to a greater age than in the past.从更多的女人比过去更长久地保持年轻外貌这一点看，这是个成功。
"Old ladies" are already becoming rare.“老太太”已经很少见了。
In a few years, we may well believe, they will be extinct絕跡.我们可以相信，几年后她将绝迹。
White hair and wrinkles, a bent back and hollow cheeks will come to be regarded as medily 中世紀old-fashioned.满头白发、满脸皱纹、弯腰曲背、两颊深陷会被看作是中世纪般的过时The crone of the future will be golden, curly 卷曲and cherry-lipped, neatankled勻側 and slender.未来的老太婆将有卷曲的金发，樱桃红唇，匀侧脚踝，苗条身材。
The Portrait of the Artist's Mother will come to be almost indistinguishable難以分辯, at future picture shows, from the Portrait of the Artist's Daughter.在未来的画展上，艺术家母亲的画像与其女儿的画像将变得几乎难以分辨，This desirable consummation will be due in pan to skin foods and injections of paraffin-wax, facial surgery, mud baths泥浴, and paint, in part to improved health, due in its turn to a more rational mode of life.这一令人满意的结果一部分是由于有了护肤品和使胸部丰满的石蜡，整形外科，泥浴，化妆品，另外也由于更合理的生活方式造成的健康状态的改善。
lesson15the beauty industry
4. consummate v. adj. complete or perfect sth完善,使完美
consummation n. 完善,圆满
~ of life
~ of work
~ of one’s ambition
5. up to a point = to some extend, in some degree在某种程度上
transform sth from sth
e.g. In time, the ugly caterpillar will transform itself into a beautiful
butterfly.
The local government has taken measures to transform the area
b. print 印,盖上…图案
e.g. The students ran out of the classroom, stamping on the stairs.
The police officer stamped my passport.
6. repel v. push away sth排斥 ; feeling disgusted反感,厌恶
from desert into grassland.
Paragraph 3-5 the reasons of the beauty mania
1. cultivate v. 耕种; 陶冶,雕琢; 建立或发展某种关系
e.g. He believes that reading best authors cultivates a person’s disposition. Being a salesman, you must cultivate people who can help you in business.
自考高级英语上册_Lesson_15_The_Beauty_Industry
大耳朵英语2011-01-21 22:35:03【打印】Lesson 15: The Beauty Industry美容用品业The one American industry unaffected by the general depression of trade is the beamy industry.美国工业中惟一未受贸易大萧条影响的是美容用品业。
American women continue to spend on their faces and bodies as much as they spent before the coming of the slump經濟蕭條前—about three million pounds a week.美国妇女仍不断在她们的脸上和身体上花费与经济萧条到来之前同样多的钱——每周约300万英镑。
These facts and figures are "official", and can he accepted as being substantially 充分true.这些事实与数字都是官方的，可大致属实。
Reading them. I was only surprised by the comparative 相對較小smallness of the sums expended.当读到这时，我只为花费的数目相对较小而感到惊奇。
From the prodigious巨大number of advertisements of aids to beauty contained in the American magazines,从美国杂志上铺天盖地的化妆品广告来看，I had imagined that the personal appearance business must stand high up among the champions of American industry—the equal, or only just less than the equal, of bootlegging販賣私酒and racketeering,敲詐勒索movies and automobiles.从美国杂志上铺天盖地的化妆品广告来看，我原以为美容用品业一定居美国工业群雄之首，与贩卖私酒和敲诈勒索，电影和汽车业并驾齐驱或稍逊一筹。
自考00600《高级英语》背熟重点
Lesson 1: Rock Superstars: What Do They Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society?How do you feel about all this adulation and hero worship? When Mick Jagger’s fans look at him as a high priest or a god, are you with them or against them? Do you share Chris Singer’s almost religious reverence for Bob Dylan? Do you think he – or Dylan – is misguided? Do you reject Alice Cooper as sick? Or are you drawn somehow to this strange clown, perhaps because he acts out your wildest fantasies?Lesson 2: Four Choices for Young PeopleThe trouble with this solution is that it no longer is practical on a large scale. Our planet, unfortunately, is running out of noble savages and unsullied landscaped; except for the polar regions, the frontiers are gone. A few gentleman farmers with plenty of money can still escape to the bucolic life – but in general the stream of migration is flowing the other way.Lesson 4: Die as You ChooseIn January the Journal of the American Medical Association published a bizarre letter, in which an anonymous doctor claimed to have killed a 20-year-old cancer patient at her own request. This started a debate that will rumble on into the autumn, when Californians may vote on a proposed law legalizing euthanasia. The letter was probably written for polemical impact. It is scarcely credible. It’s author claims that he met the cancer patient for the first time, heard five words from her – “Let’s get this over with” – then killer her. Even the most extreme proponents of euthanasia do not support such an action in those circumstances.Lesson 5: I’d Rather Be Black than FemaleIt is still women – about three million volunteers – who do most of this work in the American political world. The best any of them can hope for is the honor of being district or county vice-chairman, a kind of separate-but-equal position with which a woman is rewarded for years of faithful envelope stuffing and card-party organizing. I n such a job, she gets a number of free trips to state and sometimes national meetings and conventions, where her role is supposed to be to vote the way her male chairman votes.Lesson 6: A Good Chancethe 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.”Lesson 7: Miss BrillAlthough it was so brilliantly fine – the blue sky powdered with gold and the great spots of light like white wine splashed over the Jardins Publiques – Miss Brill was glad that she had decided on her fur. The air was motionless, but when you opened your mouth there was just a faint chill, like a chill from a glass of iced water before you sip, and now and again a leaf came drifting – from nowhere, from they sky. Miss Brill put up her hand and touched her fur. Dear little thing! I t was nice to feel it again. She had taken it out of its box tat afternoon, shaken out the moth-powder, given it a good brush, and rubbed the life back into the dim little eyes. “What has been happening to me?” said the sad little eyes. Oh, how sweet it was to see them snap at her again from the red eiderdown! …But the nose, which was of some black composition, wasn’t at all firm. It must have had a knock, somehow. Never mind – a little dab of black sealing-wax when the time came – when it was absolutely necessary. … Little rogue! Yes, she really felt like that about it. Little rogue biting its tail just by her left ear. She could have taken it off and laid it on her lap and stroked it. She felt a tingling in her hands and arms. But that came from walking, she supposed. And when she breathed, something light and sad – no, not sad, exactly – something gentle seemed to move in her bosom.Lesson 8: A Lesson in Living"It was the best of times and the worst of times. . ." Her voice slid in and curved down through and over the words. She was nearly singing. I wanted to look at the pages. Were they the same that I had read? Or were there notes, music, lined on the pages, as in a hymn book? Her sounds began cascading gently. I knew from listening; to a thousand preachers that she was nearing the end of her reading, and I hadn't really heard, heard to understand, a single word.I have tried often to search behind the sophistication of years for the enchantment I so easilyI said aloud, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done…" tears of love filled my eyes at my selflessness.Lesson 9: The Trouble with TelevisionEverything about this nation—the structure of the society, its forms of family organization, its economy, its place in the world— has become more complex, not less. Yet its dominating communications instrument, its principal form of national linkage, is one that sells neat resolutions to human problems that usually have no neat resolutions. It is all symbolized in my mind by the hugely successful art form that television has made central to the culture, the 30-second commercial: the tiny drama of the earnest housewife who finds happiness in choosing the right toothpaste.When before in human history has so much humanity collectively surrendered so much of its leisure to one toy, one mass diversion? When before has virtually an entire nation surrendered itself wholesale to a medium for selling?Lesson 11: On Getting Off to SleepWhat a bundle of contradictions is a man! Surety, humour is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation. With me, nothing illustrates the contrariness of things better than the matter of sleep. If, for example, my intention is to write an essay, and 1 have before me ink and pens and several sheets of virgin paper, you may depend upon it that before I have gone very far I feel an overpowering desire for sleep, no matter what time of the day it is. I stare at the reproachfully blank paper until sights and sounds become dim and confused, and it is only by an effort of will that I can continue at all. Even then, I proceed half-heartedly, in a kind of dream. But let me be between the sheets at a late hour, and I can do anything but sleep. Between chime and chime of the clock I can write essays by the score. Fascinating subjects and noble ideas come pell-mell, each with its appropriate imagery and expression. Nothing stands between me and half-a-dozen imperishable masterpieces but pens, ink, and paper.Lesson 12: Why I Writeof good prose or the rhythm of a good story. Desire to share an experience whichvaluable and ought not to be missed…Lesson 14: I Would Like to Tell You SomethingThe investigation was not staged so that veterans could spill out their hearts or purge their souls; it was done to prove that the policy of the United States in Indochina is tantamount to genocide, and that not only the soldiers are responsible for what is happening, but that everyone here in America who has allowed the brutalization and de-personalization to go on is responsible. It was done also to show that you don't start making things right by prosecuting William Galley, no matter how guilty he may be; you also prosecute the men who encouraged the situation. It was done to show that there is not just one Mylai but countless Mylais and they are continuing every single day. There was an almost total press blackout on the testimony of those veterans.Lesson 15: The Beauty IndustryWomen, it is obvious, are freer than in the past. Freer not only to perform the generally unenviable social functions hitherto reserved to the male, but also freer to exercise the more pleasing, feminine privilege of being attractive. They have the right, if not to be less virtuous than their grandmothers, at any rate to look less virtuous. The British Matron, not long since a creature of austere and even terrifying aspect, now does her best to achieve and perennially preserve the appearance of what her predecessor would have described as a Lost Woman. She often succeeds. But we are not shocked—at any rate, not morally shocked. Aesthetically shocked—yes; we may sometimes be that. But morally, no. We concede that the Matron is morally justified in being preoccupied with her personal appearance. This concession depends on another of a more general nature—a concession to the Body, with a large B, to the Manichaean principle of evil. For we have now come to admit that the body has its rights. And not only rights—duties, actually duties. It has, for example, a duty to do the best it can for itself in the way of strength and beauty. Christian-ascetic ideas no longer trouble us. We demand justice for the body as well as for the soul. Hence, among other things, the fortunes made by face-cream manufacturers and beauty-specialists, by the vendors of rubber reducing belts and massage machines, by the patentees of hair-lotions and the authors of books on the culture of the abdomen.下册Lesson One The Company in Which I workOn days when I ‘m especially melancholy , I began constructing tables of organization….classifying people in the company on the basis of envy , hope , fear , ambition , frustration, rivalry , hatred , or disappointment . I call these charts my Happiness Charts . These exercises in malice never fail to boost my spirits ----but only for a while . I rank pretty high when the company is analyzed this way , because I ‘m not envious or disappointed , and I have no expectations . At the very top , of course , are those people , mostly young and without dependents , to whom the company is not yet an institution of any sacred merit but still only a place to work , and who regard their present association with it as something temporary . I put these people at the top because if you asked any one of them if he would choose to spend the rest of his life working for the company , he would give you a resounding No ! , regardless of what inducements were offered . I was that high once . if you asked me that same question today, I would also give you a resounding No ! and add:Lesson Two EvelineBut in her new home , in a distant unknown country , it would not be like that . Then she would be married ---she , Eveline . People would treat her with respect then . She would not be treated as her mother had been . Even now , though she was over nineteen , she sometimes felt herself in danger of her father’s violence . She knew it was that that had given her the palpitations . When they were growing up he had never gone for her , like he used to go for Harry and Ernest , because she was a girl ; but latterly he had begun to threaten her and say what he would do to her only for her dead mother’s sake . And now she had nobody to protect her , Ernest was dead and Harry ,who was in the church decorating business , was nearly always down somewhere in the country . Besides , the invariable squabble for money on Saturday nights had begun to weary her unspeakably . She always gave her entire wages ----seven shillings ----and Harry always sent up what he could , but the trouble was to get any money from her father . He said she used to squander the money , that she had no head , that he wasn’t going to give her his hard-earned money to throw about the streets ,elbowed her way through the crowds and returning home late under her load of provisions . She had hard work to keep the house together and to see that the two young children who had been left to her charge went to school regularly and got their meals regularly . It was hard work ----a hard life ----but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life .She stood among the swaying crowd in the station at the North Wall .He held her hand and she knew that he was speaking to her , saying something about the passage over and over again . The station was full of soldiers with brown baggages . Through the wide doors of the sheds she caught a glimpse of the black mass of the boat , lying in beside the quay wall , with illumined portholes . She answered nothing . She felt her cheek pale and cold and , out of a maze of distress , she prayed to God to direct her , to show her what was her duty . The boat blew a long mournful whistle into the mist . If she went , tomorrow she would be on the sea with Frank , steaming towards Buenos Ayres . Their passage had been booked . Could she still draw back after all he had done for her ? Her distress awoke a nausea in her body and she kept moving her lips in silent fervent prayer .Lesson Three What’s Wrong With Our Press ?The fact is that although network television still allots too little time to the vital service of informing the public , it does a better job in that little time than the nation’s press as a whole . And when I speak of the nation’s press as a whole , I am not speaking of the five or six splendid newspapers ----and the one great newspaper -----which serve the world as models of responsible public information . I am speaking of the local press which in hundreds of American communities is the only news available , aside from those recitals of ticker tape that pass for radio news .Fortunately for the American public , television does not tolerate the kind of distortion of fact , the kind of partisan virulence and personal peeve , that many newspapers not only welcome but encourage . In its entertainment , television caters far too much to the lowest instincts of man , particularly the lust for violence . But there is one appetite it does not feed and which the partisan newspapers of the nation do : the appetite for hate ---hate of whatever is different . I do not find on televison the kind of editorials chronic in the New York tabloids as well as in many local papers across the country .that elevates news above dogfood . it is easier to write editorial copy that appeal to emotion rather than reason .Lesson Four The Tragedy of Old Age in AmericaWhat can we possibly conclude from these discrepant points of view ? Our popular attitudes could be summed up as a combination of wishful thinking and stark terror . We base our feelings on primitive fears , prejudice and stereotypes rather than on knowledge and insight . In reality , the way one experiences old age is contingent upon physical health , personality , earlier-life experiences , the actual circumstances of late –life events ( in what order they occur , how they occur , when they occur ) and the social supports one receives : adequate finances , shelter, medical care , social roles , religious support , recreation . All of these are crucial and interconnected elements which together determine the quality of late life .Lesson Seven Ace in the HoleNo sooner did his car touch the boulevard heading home than Ace flicked on the radio . He needed the radio , especially today . In the seconds before the tubes warmed up , he said aloud , doing it just to hear a human voice , “ Jesus . She ‘ll pop her lid . “ His voice , though familiar , irked him ; it sounded thin and scratchy . In a deeper register Ace added , “ She’ll murder me . “ Then the radio came on , warm and strong , so he stopped worrying . The five Kings were doing “ Blueberry Hill “ ; to hear them made Ace feel so sure inside that from the pack pinched between the car roof and the sun shield he plucked a cigarette , hung it on his lower lip , snapped a match across the rusty place on the dash . He rolled down the window and snapped the match so it spun end-over-end into the gutter . “ Two points , “ he said , and cocked the cigarette toward the roof of the car , sucked powerfully , and exhaled two plumes through his nostrils . He was beginning to feel like himself , Ace Anderson , for the first time that whole day , a bad day . He beat time on the accelerator . The car jerked crazily .The run must have tuned Bonnie up . When they got back home , as soon as he lowered her into the crib , she began to shout and wave her arms . He didn’t want to play with her . He tossed some blocks and rattle into the crib an walked into the bathroom , where he turned on the hot water andwent bald first . He remembered reading somewhere , though , that baldness shows virility .Lesson Eight Science Has Spoiled My SupperEconomics entered . It is possible to turn out in quantity a bland , impersonal , practically imperishable substance more or less resembling , say cheese ---at lower cost than cheese . Chain groceries shut out the independent stores and “ standardization “ became a principal means of cutting cost .Lesson Ten How Market Leaders Keep Their EdgeThe third value discipline we have named customer intimacy . Its adherents focus on delivering not what the market wants but what specific customers want . Customer-intimate companies do not pursue one-time transactions ; they cultivate relationships . They specialize in satisfying unique needs , which often only they recognize , through a close relationship with ---and intimate knowledge of ----the customer . Their proposition to the customer: We have the best solution for you , and we provide all the support you need to achieve optimum results , or value , or both , from whatever products you buy . Long distance telephone carrier Cable& Wireless , , for example , practices customer intimacy with a vengeance , achieving success in a highly competitive market by consistently going the extra mile for its selectively chosen , small-business customers .Lesson Eleven On Human Nature and PoliticsBut great as is the influence of the motives we have been considering , there is one which outweighs them all... Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. And as it is especially the vice of energetic men, the casual efficacy of love of power is out of all proportion to its frequency. It is, indeed, by far the strongest motive in the lives of important men. Love of power is greatly increased by the experience of power, and this applies to petty power as well as to that of potentates. In the happy days before 1914,when well-to-do ladies could acquire a host of servants, their pleasure in exercising power over the domestics steadily increased with age. Similarly, in any autocratic regime, the holders of power become increasingly tyrannical with experience of the delights that power can afford. Since power over human beings is shown inconsent. If you require a building permit, the petty official concerned will obviously get more pleasure from saying "No" than from saying "Yes". It is this sort of thing which makes the love of power such a dangerous motive . But it has other sides which are more desirable . The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique. In politics, also, a reformer may have just as strong a love of power as a despot . It would be a complete mistake to decry love of power altogether as a motive. Whether you will be led by this motive to actions which are useful, or to actions which are pernicious, depends upon the social system, and upon your capacities.Lesson Twelve The Everlasting WitnessThe three were eating breakfast on the terrace, a thousand and one felicitous birds in the garden trees. In unsullied damp brown circles of soft earth the roses bloomed serenely against the pink Mexican wall. Marian's brother-in-law read the English page, as dedicated as a nice little boy reading the funnies, and Theresa, Marian's sister, chatted softly and merrily about their next week-end holiday. Theresa's bright smile had always been her mark and now, childless and with a husband beyond war age, and a life both ordered and gay, it looked as if that smile had justified itself.Lesson Thirteen Selected SnobberiesAll men are snobs about something. One is almost tempted to add : There is nothing about which men cannot feel snobbish. But this would doubtless be an exaggeration. There are certain disfiguring and mortal diseases about which there has probably never been any snobbery. I cannot imagine, for exam4ple, that there are any leprosy-snobs. More picturesque diseases, even when they are dangerous, and less dangerous diseases, particularly when they are the diseases of the rich, can be and very frequently are a source of snobbish self-importance. I have met several adolescent consumption-snobs , who thought that it would be romantic to fade away in the flower of youth , like Keats or Marie Bashkirtseff. Alas, the final stages of the consumptive fading are generally a good deal less romantic than these ingenuous young tubercle-snobs seem to imagine . To anyone who has actually witnessed these final stages, the complacent poeticizings of these adolescents must seem as exasperating as they are profoundly pathetic. In the case ofexasperation is not tempered by very much sympathy. People who possesssufficient wealth, not to mention sufficient health, to go travelling from spa to spa. from doctor to fashionable doctor, in search of cures from problematical diseases (which, in so far as they exist at all. probably have their source in overeating) cannot expect us to be .very lavish in our solicitude and pity.lesson fourteen Saturday Night and Sunday MorningHe sat by the canal fishing on a Sunday morning in spring, at an elbow where alders dipped over the water like old men on their last legs, pushed by young sturdy oaks from behind. He straightened his back, his fingers freeing nylon line from a speedily revolving reel. Around him lay knapsack and jacket, an empty catch-net, his bicycle, and two tins of worms dug from the plot of garden at home before setting out. Sun was breaking through clouds, releasing a smell of earth to heaven. Birds sang. A soundless and minuscular explosion of water caught his eye. He moved nearer the edge, stood up, and with a vigorous sweep of his arm, cast out the line.Lesson Fifteen Is America Falling Apart?During my year's stay in New Jersey I let my appetite flower into full Americanism except for one thing. I did not possess an automobile. This self-elected deprivation was a way into the nastier side of the consumer society. Where private ownership prevails, public amenities decay or are prevented from coming into being. The rundown rail services of America are something I try, vainly, to forget. The nightmare of filth, outside and in, that enfolds the trip from Springfield, Mass., to Grand Central Station would not be accepted in backward Europe. But far worse is the nightmare of travel in and around Los Angeles, where public transport does not exist and people are literally choking to death in their exhaust fumes . This is part of the price of individual ownership.Lesson sixteen Through the TunnelAs for Jerry, once he saw that his mother had gained her beach , he began the steep descent to the bay . From where he was, high up among red-brown rocks, it was a scoop of moving bluish green fringed with white. As he went lower, he saw that it spread among small promontories and inlets of rough, sharp rock, and the crisping, lapping surface showed stains of purple and darkerblue.。
《高级英语》自考真题试题及答案解析
《高级英语》自考真题试题及答案解析卷面总分：90分答题时间：70分钟试卷题量：45题一、单选题（共46题，共0分）1.We must try to create a more caring, more _____ society.• A. compassionate• petitive正确答案：A2.It was _____ and she did not know enough to analyze each problemproperly.• A.encouraging• B.exhausting正确答案：B3.Although each TV series will be rated on the basis of its usual content,the ratings can _____ from week to week• A.flow• B.fluctuate正确答案：B4.His _____ and unwillingness to learn from others prevent him frombeing an effective member of the team• A.arrogance• B.advantage正确答案：A5.This _____ factor means that there is often a connection in appearanceand temperament between parents and children.• A.historical• B.hereditary正确答案：B6.Though she _____ and pleaded, he refused to go to the dance.• A.coaxed• B.admonished正确答案：A7.Jack managed to get 147 tapes and 100 books plus lots of magazinesthrough customs in a(n> _____ way• A.incredulous• B.miraculous正确答案：B8.These days people are becoming more and more _____ about the foodthey eat.• A.sophisticated• B.selective正确答案：B9.The question of going to the United States for a doctor _____ his mind • A.preoccupied• B.intruded正确答案：A10.In the last twenty years, breakthroughs in technology have _____advanced the way we communicate, bringing us computers, cell phones and the Internet.• A.profoundly• B.deeply正确答案：A11.除哪项外，下列皆可为血瘀的病因• A.气虚• B.气滞• C.血寒• D.饮食停滞• E.外伤正确答案：D12.In our culture, we are accustomed to sophisticated prescription drugscontaining a _____ of chemical ingredients• A.plenty• B.variety正确答案：B13.We cannot _____ the country ’s telecommunications to unqualifiedpeople。
自学考试本科高级英语串讲讲义
４．这种方法的问题在于无法大规模地实践。
The trouble with the solution is that it no longer is practical on a large scale. ５．我要说的只是无论成败与否，干革命的理想主义者们注定要失望。
My point is merely that the idealists who make the revolution are bound to be disappointed in either case. ６．它惟一的长处是有时这个办法会起作用。
Then came The Band mixing the more traditional ideas of country and western music into the more radical “city” ideas of the hard rock. 4. 有些社会学家认为你对这些问题的回答可以充分说明你在想些什么以及 社会在想些什么。 Some sociologists say that your answers to them could explain a lot
whentheydoreachbetterpositionstheyareinvariablypaidlessthanamanforthesamejob3是妇女能够把同情宽容远见忍耐与毅力带到政府中去这是我们3是妇女能够把同情宽容远见忍耐与毅力带到政府中去这是我们天生的品质或者说是因为男人的压制而不得不培养的品质
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o Signposts in the SeaIn the dining-saloon I sit at a table with three other men; Laura sits some way off with a married couple and their daughter. I can observe her without her knowing, and this gives me pleasure, for it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures, whether she raises a glass of wine to her lips or turns with a remark to one of her neighbours or takes a cigarette from her case with those slender fingers. I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women, but I get the impression that Laura is always in grey and white by day, looking cool when other people are flushed and shiny in the tropical heat; in the evening she wears soft rich colours, dark red, olive green, midnight blue, always of the most supple flowing texture. I ventured to say something of the kind to her, when she laughed at my clumsy compliment and said I had better take to writing fashion articles instead of political leaders.The tall Colonel whose name is Dalrymple seems a nice chap. He and I and Laura and a Chinese woman improbably galled Mme Merveille have made up a Bridge-tour and thus beguile ourselves for an hour or so after dinner while others dance on deck. The Colonel, who is not too offensively an Empire-builder, sometimes tries to talk to me about public affairs; he says he used to read me, and is rather charmingly deferential, prefacing his remarks by “Of course it’s not for me to suggest to you…” and then proceeding to tell me exactly how he thinks some topical item of our dome, the or foreign policy should be handled. He is by no means stupid or ill-informed; a little opinionated perhaps, and just about as far to the Right as anybody could go, but I like him, and try not to tease him by putting forward views which would only bring a puzzled look to his face. Besides, I do not want to become involved in discussion. I observe with amusement how totally the concerns of the world, which once absorbed me to the exclusion of all else except an occasional relaxation with poetry or music, have lost interest for me eve to the extent of a bored distaste. Doubtless some instinct impels me gluttonously to cram these the last weeks of my life with the gentler things I never had time for, releasing some suppressed inclination which in fact was always latent. Or maybe Laura’s unwitting influence has called it out.Dismissive as Pharisee, I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane. Protests about damage to natural beauty froze me with contempt, for I believed in progress and could spare no regrets for a lake dammed into hydraulic use for the benefit of an industrial city in the Midlands. And so it was for all things. A hard materialism was my creed, accepted as a law of progress; any ascription of disinterested motives aroused not only my suspicion but my scorn.And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water-colour s of sunsets! I once flattered myself that I was an adult man; I now perceive that I am gloriously and adolescently silly. A new Clovis, loving what I have despised, and suffering from calf-love into the bargain, I want my till of beauty before I go. Geographically I did not care and scarcely know where I am. There are no signposts in the sea.The young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in the tropics, and as, I think, is suitable if not seemly for a virgin. Not a star but might not shoot down and accept the invitation to become her lover. When all my fellow-passengers have finally dispersed to bed, I creep up again to the deserted deck and slip into the swimming pool and float, no longer what people believe me to be, a middle-aged journalist taking a holiday on an ocean-going liner, but a liberated being, bathed in mythological waters, an Endymion young and strong, with a god for his father and a vision of theworld inspired from Olympus. All weight is lifted from my limbs; 1 am one with the night; I understand the meaning of pantheism. How my friends would laugh if they knew I had come to this! To have discarded , as I believe, all usual frailties , to have become incapable of envy, ambition, malice , the desire to score off my neighbour, to enjoy this purification even as I enjoy the clean voluptuousness of the warm breeze on my skin and the cool support of the water. Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleansed on leaving the confessional after the solemnity of absolution.Sometimes Laura and I lean over the taffrail, and that is happiness. It may be by daylight, looking at the sea, rippled with little white ponies, or with no ripples at all but on-ly the lazy satin of blue, marbled at the edge where the passage of our ship has disturbed it. Or it may be at night, when the sky surely seems blacker than ever at home and the stars more golden. I recall a phrase from the diary of a half-literate soldier, “The stars seemed little cuts in the black cover, through which a bright beyond was seen.” Sometimes these untaught scribblers have a way of putting things.The wireless told us today that there is fog all over England.Sometimes we follow a coastline, it may be precipitous bluffs of grey limestone rising sheer out of the sea, or a low-lying arid stretch with miles of white sandy beach, and no sign of habitation, very bleached and barren. These coasts remind me of people; either they are forbidding and unapproachable , or else they present no mystery and show all they have to give at a glance, you feel the country would continue to be flat and featureless however far you penetrated inland. What I like best are the stern cliffs, with ranges of mountains soaring behind them, full of possibilities, peaks to be scaled only by the most daring. What plants of the high altitudes grow unravished among their crags and valleys? So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura’s Character, so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the venturesome.My fellow-passengers apparently do not share my admiration.“Drearee sorter cowst,” said an Australian. “Makes you Iong for a bit of green.”Darkness falls, and there is nothing but the intermittent g1eam of a 1iahthouse on a solitary promontory.We rounded just such a cape towards sunset, the most easterly point of a continent, dramatically high and lonely, a great purple mountain overhung by a great purple cloud. The sea had turned to a corresponding dusk of lavender. Aloof and on the top, the yellow 1iaht revolved, steady, warning; I wondered what mortal controlled it, in what must be one of the loneliest, most forbidding spots on Earth. Haunted too, for many wrecks had piled up on the reefs in the past, when there was no beacon to guide them.The Colonel joined us.“How would you care for that man’s job?” he said.“I suppose he gets relieved every so often?”“On the contrary, he refuses ever to leave. He is an Italian, and he has been there for years and years, with a native woman for his only company. Most people would think him crazy, but I must say I find it refreshing to think there are still a few odd fish left in the world.”This is the unexpected kind of remark that makes me like the Colonel; there is a touch of roughpoetry about him. I like also the out-of-the-way information which he imparts from time to time without insistence; he has traveled much, and has used his eyes and kept his ears open. I have discovered also that he knows quite a lot about sea-birds; he puts me right about the different sorts of gull, and tells me very nicely that that couldn’t possibly be an albatross, not in these waters. The albatross, it appears, follows a ship only to a certain latitude and then turns back; it knows how far it should go and no farther. How wise is the albatross! We might all take a lesson from him, knowing the latitude we can permit ourselves. Thus, and no farther, can I foIlow Laura. I suspect also that there is quite a lot of lore stored away in the Colonel’s otherwise not very interesting mind. Laura likes him too, and although I prefer having her to myself I don’t really resent it when he lounges up to make a third.In all this great serenity of ocean it is seldom that we espy so much as another ship; the jolly dolphins and the scratchy little flying-fish have the vast circle all to themselves; the Flying Fish, who has a part with the birds, doubtless are glad to see the last of the monster which bears us into and out of sight. Our wake closes up and we might never have been. But it does happen from time to “Time that an island appears on the horizon, nameless to us and full of mystery, the peak of a submarine mountain range, lonely, unblemished, remote. Does one like islands because one unconsciously appropriates them, a small manageable domain in a large unmanageable world? I cannot tell why it should give me such a queer sensation to reflect that that island has always been there (unless indeed it be no more than the work of the patient coral and will be there still, should I return to find it waiting for me. It is the same sensation as I have experienced in looking at a photograph of, say, some river valley of innermost China, and seen a boulder, and thought that if I could find myself transported to that spot I could touch the reality of that particular piece of rock ... It is there. For me. I could sit on that very boulder. I explain myself badly, and it is not a sensation I could expect anyone save Laura to understand, but of such incommunicable quirks is the private mind made up.Well, the islands. I divert myself by inventing the life upon them, and am amused to find my imagination always turning towards the idyllic. This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance. If we have seen a skiff sailing close in shore, I follow the fisherman as he beaches his craft in the little cove and gives a cry like a sea-bird to announce his coming. His woman meets him; they are young, and their skins of a golden-brown; she takes his catch from him. In their plaited hut there is nothing but health and love.One night we passed two islands, steeply humped against faint reflected moonlight; and on each of them, high up, shone a steady yellow gleam.“Not lighthouses.” I said to Laura. “Villages.”We gazed, as the ship slid by and the humps receded into darkness and even the lights were obscured by the shoulder of a hill, never to be seen by us again. So peaceful and secret; so self-contained.One of the ship’s officers joined us, off duty.“Yes,” he said, following our gaze. “‘One of them is a leper colony and the other a penal settlement.”God, is there no escape from suffering and sin?Laura and I amuse ourselves by watching for the green flash which comes at the instant the sundisappears below the line of the horizon. This does not happen every day, for sky must be entirely clear of cloud and clouds seem very liable to gather along the path of the setting sun, but we are as pleased as children when our game succeeds. Laura claps her hands. Only a second does it last, that streak of green light; we wait for it while the red ball, cut in half as though by a knife, sinks to its daily doom . Then come the twilight colours of sea and heaven (we have discovered the fallacy of saying that darkness falls suddenly in these latitudes, at any rate on sea level), the wine pink width of water merging into lawns of aquamarine, and the sky a tender of pink and blue. But the green flash is our chief delight.“creme de menthe ,” says Laura.“Jade,” I say.“Emerald,” says Laura. “Jade is too opaque.”“icious viridian,” I say, not to be outdone.“You always did lose yourself in the pleasure of words.”“Edmund, say green as jealousy and be done with it.”“I have never known the meaning of jealousy.”I am sorry to see the sun go, for one of the pleasures I have discovered is the warmth of his touch on my skin. At home in London I never noticed the weather, unless actually inconvenienced by fog or rain; I had no temptation to take a flying holiday to the South and understood little when people spoke or wrote of sunlight on white walls. Now the indolence of southern latitudes has captured me. I like to see dusky men sitting about doing nothing. I like the footfall of naked feet in the dust, silent as a oat passing. I like turning a corner from the shade of a house into the full torrid glare of an open space. I put my hand on metal railings and snatch it away, burnt. But it is seldom that I go ashore.I would never have believed in the simple bliss of being, day after day, at sea. Our ports of call are few, and when they do occur I resent them. I should like this empty existence to be prolonged beyond calculation. In the ship’s library stands a large globe whose function so far as I am concerned is to reveal the proportion of ocean to the landmasses of the troubled would; the Pacific alone dwarfs all the continents put together. Blue, the colour of peace. And then I like all the small noises of a ship: the faint creaking, as of the saddle-leather to a horseman riding across turf, the slap of a rope, the hiss of sudden spray. I have been exhilarated by two days of storm, but above all I love these long purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been.(from o Signposts in the Se a, 1961)。
The Beauty Industry译文
The Beauty Industry——Aldous Huxley美容业——奥尔德斯·赫胥黎【译者注：个人不太喜欢这文章，觉得说服力不强，太主观。
跟中国的国情好像也差得远了些，只当练习翻译吧。
翻得也糙，考完试就懒得弄了。
不过原文里有句话是rosily and creamily, peachily and pearly，其中有作者自造的英文单词，我给翻译成“笑魇如花，肤如凝脂，粉嫩如桃，珠光异彩”，感觉还挺合适，英语里有些小词还是很简练有趣的。
另外，experienced soul我翻成“有阅历有智慧的灵魂”，这个加了些主观成分。
最后，已经考完英语了，估计基本不会再有同学搜这最后一篇文章了。
考试前一天我博客日访问230次（平时都低于100次），七成都是在搜the inner ring翻译的，看来比我临时抱佛脚的人更多啊。
祝大家都能有个不错的分数！】美国30年代经济贸易大萧条时期，唯一未受影响的行业就是美容业。
美国女人们仍旧像大萧条之前一样敢于为自己的脸蛋及身材破费——每周消费约300万英镑。
这是官方的统计数值，应该是真实可靠的。
但读到这个，我为这个相对较小的数字感到惊奇。
从美国杂志中海量的美容广告来看，我想象中认为美容业应该在美国各个行业中一马当先，或者与非法售酒、欺诈、电影业、汽车业持平，至多稍逊一筹。
每年1560万英镑这个数字是印度年收入的两倍还多，如果我没记错的话，但终归这个数字还是太小了。
我不知道欧洲的数据是多少，但毫无疑问肯定更少。
欧洲很穷，保养一张脸的花费和保养一辆劳斯莱斯一样贵，欧洲女人们最多就是把脸洗干净然后幻想着自己是最美的。
也说不定香皂会产生广告中的惊人效果，把她们转变成为就像那些极品美人一样：从任何一面看都是笑魇如花，肤如凝脂，粉嫩如桃，珠光异彩。
另一方面，也可能达不到这个效果。
无论如何，欧洲人花在美容上的越来越多的钱，和花在超出他们经济能力的高排量汽车和电冰箱上的钱一样多。
Lesson15高级英语课程教案第一册
Teaching Activities
Discussion Practice I .Warming up
II．Introduction to Additional Background Knowledge ． III. Text Analysis 1. Introduction to the Passage 2. Effective Writing Skills 3. Rhetorical Devices 4. Special Difficulties IV. Questions Assignment Describe a place that you have visited. 1. 2. 3. 4. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English A Handbook of Writing English Rhetoric & Writing Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English
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《高级英语》由张汉熙主编, 外语教学与研究出版社
Unit 15 No Signposts in the Sea Teaching Activities (Vocabulary)
In enriching students’ vocabulary, focuses are to be on the following aspects: Spelling and Pronunciation Synonyms Opposites Similar words and expressions Cultivate students’ sensitiveness to world-building 附页
英语自考本科高级英语笔记-上册-Lesson_Fifteen
Lesson Fifteen The Beauty Industry Words and ExpressionsText Explanation1From the prodigious number of advertisements of aids to beauty contained in the American magazines, …aids to beauty: virous cosmetic and toilet articles2…a face can cost as much in upkeep as a Rolls-Royce.To keep a face youthful and beautiful by means of cosmetics may cost as much as to keep a luxury car like the Rolls-Royce in good working condition.3who smile so rosily and creamily, so peachily and pearlilyThe advertisements for soap and other cosmetics usually show a smiling girl with skin as white as cream and pearl, as rossy as peach and rose.4In any case, the more costly experiments in betification are still as much beyond most European means as are high-powered motor-cars and electric refrigerators.beyond most European means: Most European can't afford it. The word "means" here has the meaning of the money a person earns or has inherited which he can use.5Not quite so much more as in America, that is all.The increase is remarkable in Europe, although compared with the increase in the United States it is not fast enough."that is all" means “仅此而已”，即也就是比不上美国而已，增加得还是不少的。
自考高级英语上册Lesson 15 the Beauty Industry
In turn
• One after the other; in succession依次，逐 个地 • He has been in turn a peasant, teacher, and a writer.他先后当过农民，教师和作家。 • The applicants were interviewed in turn by the manager.求职者逐个接受经理的面试。
• cult of beauty 对美的崇拜 • the cult of surfing 冲浪狂 • the personality cult 个人崇拜
retrench
• V. Cut down, make economies节省开支， 缩减支出 • We must retrench now in order to buy a new big house.为了买一套大房子，我们现 在必须节省开支。 • We had to retrench our expenditure because of inflation.因通货膨胀我们不得不 减少开支。
In any case
• at any rate, whatever may happen无论如 何；不管怎样 • In any case, you can have a try.无论如何 你可以试一试。 • You’ve tried your best, in any case.总之， 你尽力了。
consummate
• V. Make complete or perfect使完整或圆满 • This award consummated my life’s work. 这个奖是我一生努力的圆满结果。 • His desire was consummated as last.他的 愿望终于实现了。
高级英语第一册15课 No Signposts In The Sea
Marriage
In 1913, at age 21, married the 27 year-old diplomat and journalist Harold George Nicolson.
The couple had an open marriage. Both Sackville-West and her husband had consecutive sam Death of Noble Godavary and Gottfried Künstler (1932)
Best Known Novels
§The Edwardians (1930)
• (belongs to the genre of the Bildungsroman 成长小说)
• describes the development of the main character Sebastian within his social world .
After a tentative(尝试性的) start, they began a sexual relationship,
which, according to Sackville- West, was only twice consummated.
Woolf: Her relationship with Vita Sackville-West
Affairs and Bisexuality （双性恋）
Rosamund Grosvenor
first real friend ---Rosamund Grosvenor (London, England, September 1888-30 June 1944), who was 4 years Vita’s senior.
高级英语Lesson_15_No_Signposts_in_the_Sea..
Knole is an English stately home ( 富丽堂皇的住宅) in the town of Sevenoaks in west Kent, surrounded by a 1,000-acre (4.0 km2) deer park.
She was born in Knole Castle
Honour
Hawthornden Prize
霍桑登奖
• The Hawthornden Prize, the oldest of the famous British literary prizes, was founded in 1919 by Alice Warrender. • It is awarded annually to an English writer for the best work of imaginative literature. It is especially designed to encourage young authors.
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The Bloomsbury Group came from mostly upper\ middle-class professional families.
Almost everything about Bloomsbury appears to be controversial, including its membership and name. Same-sex relations are common among the Bloomsbury Group
A voyage on many levels, those long purposeless days at sea find Edmund relinquishing the past as he discovers the joys and the pain of a love he is simultaneously determined to conceal.
自考英语本科高级英语上下册课后短文翻译
1Rock music began in America in the late 1950’s . It was not only a new musical form , but a forum for the American youth to express their ideas of the world and life . In this forum , the stars sang out the attitudes of the youth towards civil rights , war and peace ,the disaffection of their society , and a range of emotions between love and hate . Allin all , in this forum , the American youth redefined the beliefs and feelings of their society . The typical representatives of the early rock music were Elvis Presley , singer and poet Bob Dylan , the Bealtles , the rolling Stones and so on . They were the culture heroes whom the young people worshipped .2The American young people in 1960’s were a generation of rebellion . They found that the affluent American society was filled with poverty , injustice and gypocrisy . They didn’t trust the adult world that didn’t belong to them and refused to take their beliefs and values . Many young people took active part in the struggle which protested against poverty , racial discrimination and Vietnam War . Some young people even tried to overthrow this world by armed revolution. Many other young took passive ways to show their disaffections . They took drugs , refused to take any responsibilities and lived a parasitic way of life . Or they escaped to the frontiers and lived a primitive way of life .3Mathilda had been ill for three days . Her mother had given her some medicine, but it did n’t do any good . So they had to ask the doctor to come . There had been a number of cases of diphtheria in Mathilda’s school and two of them had been dead . When the doctor arrived at Olson’s home , he wanted to examine Mthilda’s throat first . But no mat ter how he coaxed ,,She wouldn’t open her mouth . So the doctor had to get the tongue depressor into her mouth . But Mathilda reduced it to splinters . In order to protect Mathilda herself and other children , the doctor had to make surewhether she had diphtheria or not , so that he could treat her in time . Letting Mathilda ‘s father hold her wrists he tried his best to open her mouth and found she really had diphtheria. This story made us can think such a question that something in life can’t only depend on self willingness . Under some circumstances , certain force seems necessary .4The need for laws on euthanasia can’t be dodged for much longer . Euthanasia is a taboo in most countries . In these countries doctors can only practise it secretly . But it is openly practiced in some countries , such as Holland . Right now more and more countries are going over the arguments about legalizing euthanasia .When a patient suffers from illness for a long time and there is no hope of curing it , why do we l et him polong the throes ?Why can’t we practise euthanasia to stop the throes ?But if we legalize euthanasia , there will be a danger Someone may use it for killing . All in all , euthanasia is question we can’t dodge .5The American women made great c ontributions to the nation’s development , but they received different forms of prejudices because of their sex . In politics , they did all the tedious details that made the differene between victory and defeat on election day and seldom had the chance to reach a better position , while the men reaped the rewards . In economy , most women did the lower-paying and dead –end jobs and they were paid less than the men for the same job . Many American people didn’t admit it was prejudice against women . They said it was only a different division of labour in society . Even many women were content with their roles as second-class citizens . So the author said it was a long painful struggle for the women to get real equality .6When I knew Magpie got a scholarship of a California University and could go to the Fine Arts School to study , I was very pleased for him . I knew he wanted to become a poet all the time. I also knew he had a good talent . It was a very good chance for him . So I went back to Crow Creek to tell him about the good news and let him fill out some papers . But I didn’t find him at his home . His wife said they had not been together for a while and only heard he was in Chamberlain . Then I went for Salina and asked her to help me find Magpie . Salina said Magpie had changed a lot since he was taken into prison . She thought he was not interested in going to the university of white people . But I said Magpie had a right to know this news and make the decision whether to go or not by himself . She agreed and took me to his good friend , Elgie . But when I could really see Magpie at last , he had been shot by the police .7Miss Brill was an English who lived in a coastal city in France . She was old and poor . She would go to the park on every Sunday afternoon . She always sat on the same bench , listening people around her talk , or watching other people’s lives in front of her . She suddenly had a feeling on that Sunday afternoon . She felt the life was like a play and she was one part of the community . She had a part in the performance . At this time , the feeling of loneliness began to escape her .But just at this time she heard a couple of young people talk about her with contempt . Even the young man asked her to leave in a low voice . The short feeling of happiness disappeared . she went home with a broken heart .8Man created language . It was man’s way of communicating with his fellow man . The difference between oral and written language was that oral language could take the human voice to infuse it with the shades of deeper meaning . Flowers was nearly singing when she read A Tale ofTwo Cities . It sounded beautiful . Her reading made me realize the wonder of language. Mrs. Flowers gave me novels and poems . I learned value of life from these books and realized how beautiful the language of literature works was .Man created language . It was man’s way of communicating with his fellow man . The difference between oral and written language was that oral language could take the human voice to infuse it with the shades of deeper meaning . Flowers was nearly singing when she read A Tale of Two Cities . It sounded beautiful . Her reading made me realize the wonder of language. Mrs. Flowers gave me novels and poems . I learned value of life from these books and realized how beautiful the language of literature works was .9People have a short attention span . So in order to capture the viewer’s attention , television must provide constant stimulation through variety , novelty , action and movement . The result of doing so is that news is too brief and results in inefficient communication . Many news programs are like “ machine –gunning with scraps “and figh t coherence of mind.The appeal to the short attention span will decivilize as well. To avoid complexity means to give up thinking . The “ functionally illiterates “ among adult Americans are continually increasing . They even do not know how to answer the want ad. Or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle . At least television should be responsible for part of it .10One night , two German military officers were murdered by Frenchmen . The next day , a German officer declared to thirty French prisoners , “ My order is that one man in every ten shall be selected and shot tomorrow . That is to say , three of you thirty people will die tomorrow . We are indifferent as to which three . You can choose for yourselves .”The prisoners had a heated discussion about who should die. Someone said the old people should go first . This was the way of nature . Some people said the unmarried should go first because they had no responsibilities . At last , all consented to drawinglots to decide which three went to die . A rich lawyer unfortunately got the death draw . He said , “ I ‘ll give a hundred thousand francs to anyone who will die for me . “11Some people will fall asleep as soon as their heads touch the pillows . Some people can’t go to sleep although they have been lying in bed several hours . The more he wants to go to sleep , the more wakeful he is . I belong to the latter . When I write an essay , I feel an overpowering desire for sleep . But when I go to bed , I can do anything but sleep . I can compose grand symphonies , paint magnificent pictures and write good essays . The artificial ways of inducing sleep are legion , but they are of no avail . When I can’t go to sleep at night , I imagine a dialogue with a friend till I either laugh or fall asleep . I find this is a good way to go to sleep .12As a very small child , I made up my mind to become a writer in future . When I become a writer , what I have most wanted to do is to make political writing into a work of art . The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is wrong . Writing is exposing lies , protecting truth and also an aesthetic experience . Animal Farm was the book in which I tried to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole . Writing should serve the society and the public . This is the principle I must follow . I f a writer lacks political purpose , he will only write some purple passages , even some humbug .13The first thing Russell thinks is the most ordinary function of work , namely the relief o ftedium. He thinks even the dullest work is less painful than idleness to most people . Then he talks about how the work can provide the people with opportunities for their ambitions. Man, as a member of the society , hopes that he can procure more and more social achievements . He pointsout that most women are so unfortunate that they can not work outside their homes . They are deprived of this chance .It seems that different kinds of work give people satisfaction to different degrees . Russell studies the concerning two chief elements , that is the exercise of skill and construction .When he analyzes the latter , Russell finds an opportunity to express his profound hatred to the war and social violence .14John F. Kerry was a discharged veteran from Vietnam War and took part in the investigation held in Detroit in December in 1970 . He thought the purpose for the veterans to attend the investigation was not only to confess their war crimes in order to purge their souls . It was not the individual but the American government that should have been responsible for the war crimes . He hoped to arouse the sense of responsibility of American people by this text . He criticized that the mass of people in America lit erally didn’t give a damn and pointed out that the policy of the American government was hypocritical. He revealed the veterans’ miserable conditions after they came back : racial discrimination ,drug taking , unemployment , no good medical care , etc. In the end he told the readers that members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War would march on Washington to the Capitol . Their most important demand was that the government set a date for withdrawl of troops from Vietnam, otherwise , they would camp and sta y there and won’t move .15The author first pointed out that American and European women expended a large sum of money on cosmetics in order to make them look younger and more beautiful . Unlike the people of 19th century , they didn’t think that only women who were not virtuous could use cosmetics . But the author worried that women only paid attention to their appearances and ignored the necessity to overcome the ugliness of theirhearts . He thought the people would be really beautiful only when the human beings had an opportunity to live harmoniously . But the author did not think the objective could be realized .16The three interviewers hid the truth of the firm to McDeere and only told him that the firm mainly did tax work . The clients of the firm were all big corporations , banks and wealthy people . Although the firm was not large in size and only consisted of forty –one lawyers , the salaries an all other benefits of the members were incredibly high . For the first year , McDeere could receive a base salary of eighty thousand dollars , plus bonuses , a low –interest mortgage and a luxurious car . If he worked hard , he would become a partner in ten years . If he put in ten more years , he could be a millionaire .All these were very appealing to Mcdeere . He agreed to accept this job without hesitation . But he could not imagine that he mistakenly went into a lawyer firm which was controlled by a black organization and specialized in illegal activities .1It’s not easy to work in a big comp any . There is strict hierarchy in the company , and if you hope to be successful and get promotion , you have to obey directions and disciplines in addition to bear heavy pressure of work and work hard . Every day you are under rigid supervision and live in panic . If what you do is a job which will not provide you any chance to get promotion and for some reasons you have no way to find another job , you will be bored with it and feel dull . You will be in despair , lose ambition and working motivation , and finally become a mediocre .2Eveline agreed to marry Frank –an Irish sailor who lived in Buenos Ayres . They got to know each other when Frank just came back Dublin to spend his holidays . They would go to Buenos Ayres by boat that night . The boat was going to leave in a few hours , but she was still in doubtwhether it was wise or not to go to such a distant country with Frank . Although she didn’t like the job in the store , and her father didn’t treat her well , it was the only life that she was f amiliar with , after all . Besides , Eveline had promised to her mother that she would keep the home together as long as she could before her mother died . But the vision of the miserable life of her mother made her feel horrible . She would live a happy life with Frank .But she changed her mind before boarding the boat . The boat left with Frank . Everybody dreamed of happy life , but one must have courage to realize his dream .3Television has much more advantages than newspapers . When watching TV, we use our eyes as well as ears ; we can see the words and picture on the screen , and listen to the language and music as well . TV news broadcasting is quicker than that of newspapers . But television lives on commercial advertising to an even greater extent than newspapers . Profits drive television to cater to the lowest instinct of man . There are violence and sex in entertainment programmes of American television . Very often , television coverage of news is superficial and inadequate .There are a lot of problems in American newspapers too . the most prominent problem is that newspapers distort fact , and attack the countries ,people and the social systems which Americans do not like .4The life circle includes birth , being old , and death . Death is an unavoidable end for everybody . Aging is the neglected period of human life circle . Death happens within a few seconds while aging is a long period which means illness , poverty , and loneliness advertisements and travel folders show relaxed , happy , well-dressed older people enjoying recreation,travel and their grandchildren . But all these can not be enjoyed by the poor elder . They have to struggle to survive in old age . Many old people struggle to exist in an inhospitable world . There are more and more old people in the world now , and the government of every country is beginning to pay attention to the problems of old people .5Mrs . Wright was a town girl before she married John Wright and lived in his farm . She used to be a lively girl who liked singing . But during the thirty years living together with Wright , she totally changed . Wright was miserly and never paid attention to his wife’s needs . There was no joy in their house , and even the neighbours were reluctant to call at their house . One winter morning , Mr. Hale , their neighbour , found that Wright was strangled on his bed .Mrs Wright said that shedidn’t know who killed her husband . Her behaviour was very queer . She didn’t call the police , but just sat in the rocker rocking back and forth in the kitchen . The policemen arrested her . Next morning , county sheriff and county attorney took Hale back to the farm to investigate who had killed Wright .6The county sheriff and county attorney couldn’t find out any sign of anyone having come from the outside , and they were sure that Wright had been killed by his wife . In order to make juries believe the story , they had to find out Mrs . Wright’s motive for killing her husband , but they failed . While they were busy investigating ,the two women sitting in the kitchen found a dead canary which was wrapped up in a piece of silk lying in a box . The canary had been wrung to death . The two women could imagine what kind of life Mrs . Wright had spent while living with Wright in this house . They didn’t want the box containing the dead canary to be seen by sheriff and county attorney . In order to protect Mrs . Wright , they hid the box .7Ace was in a plight . He lost the job and was afraid to see his wife .Evey had to work as a saleswoman because Ace could not earn enough money to support the family . She was always very tired after working a whole day . She always had no time to cook dinner . now he was sacked , so he was worried that Evey would be ma d . Ace ‘s mother took care of their daughter Bonnie for them . Evey always took Bonnie back , but Ace went to take Bonnie that day . Ace’s mother was glad that Ace lost the job , for she thought Ace should have a better job . Evey was not very angry with Ace this time , but did Ace get rid of the plight ?8Why are so many people overweight in the United States ? Most people may say that there are two reasons . One is that American food is tasty ; the other is that they take few exercises . But the author doesn’t think this way . He proposes such a hypothesis that people eat in order to satisfy the sense of taste . When food has the flavor of library paste , people need to eat more so as to satisfy the frustrated taste buds . “ Science “ causes the blandne ss of American food which is the real reason why obesity has become a national curse . We should not be very serious about the author’s strange opinion which is merely a way that the author used to satirize the American food .9I was born , grew up and finished high school in Watts , so I have deep feelings to Watts . I decided to make a career in Watts because it was supposed to be impossible . At that time , many young blacks left Watts in droves . They thought they could make a career only outside the ghetto .I also left Watts and went to study in Oxford University and Yale University . The riots in ghetto in 1960s showed the ever increasing militancy of the blacks . The riots were the most significant massive action taken by Northern Negroes . It was a watershed in the ghetto’s history . The deepest impact of the riots was on the people of Watts . I will never escape from the ghetto . I have staked my all on its future . Watts is my home .10Customers have different values about products and services . Some customers demand low prices with the least inconvenience . Some customers don’t care much about the prices , but they demand that the products should represent the hottest style and technology on the market . Other customers demand that products and services should meet their specific needs . Thus , if a company hopes to become the market leader and keep its edge , it must focus on one dimension and create a breakthrough to reach new heights of performance according to its own situation . It can win through cost or with great products or through customer intimacy .11Human beings have four major desires ; acquisitiveness , rivalry , vanity and love of power . Acquisitiveness is the wish to possess as much as possible of goods . Satiety is a dream which will always elude you . Acquisitiveness is the mainspring of the capitalist system , but rivalry is a much stronger motive than acquisitiveness . Vanity is a motive of immense potency . It is scarcely possible to exggerate the influence of vanity throughout the range of human life . But love of power is a motive which overweighs vanity . love of power is insatiable . Love of power is by far the strongest motive in the lives of important men . love of power is greatly increased by the experience of power .12Jerry ----Marian’s son -----had to join the army and was sent to Vietnam to fight a losing battle shortly after he spent twenty –year –old birthday . Later , he was captured in one battle and was sent to a prison –compound . Young Jerry couldn’t stand such a heavy blow and broke down . the handsome young man changed into another person . He was expressionless with a dull look in his eyes . His face muscles were jerking . He looked like an idiot . Marian’s heart broke when she saw her idiot son in the newsreel . What made her relieved was the fact that her son was still alive and she would wait for her son patiently .13Huxley states in the article that most people are snobs about something . He says that some people even feel that they are important just because of having certain diseases . But so far I have never met any disease –snobs . In china , during the Culture Revolution , the snobbery of family and the snobbery of ignorance and stupidity were most popular . Twenty years later , modernity –snobbery is making headway today . our media encourage modernity –snobbery desperately . TV advertisements urge people to buy new goods . In addition , they make you feel that you are shameful if you don’t have the most fashionable goods . For u p-to-dateness means that you are wealthy , and wealth is a symbol of strong capability . Only a man knowing his own mind can resist the flood of propaganda .14Arthur likes to go fishing along the canal on Sunday mornings . After six days’ tiring labor work , he wants to leave the factory , leave the city as soon as possible to go to the tranquil countrysideand sit by the canal , fishing . He thinks it is a best way to relax himself and a best way to forget all the troubles . The factory is dirty stinking and ugly and people do not want to stay there for one more minute . The countryside has a picturesque view : fresh air , enchanting spring scene , green grass and trees , fragrant earth . The factory is hell while the countryside is heaven .15Most people believe that American education is of the highest quality in the world , but the author has his unique opinion . He thinks that there are serious problems in American education . The low quality of American education can not be faulted on the low teaching level . Teachers are working hard , but the problem is that they are teaching so rigidly that they work rigidly from the approved rigidly programmed primers . They are afraid of losing the job . They can’t cultivate rare genius in this way . Another serious problem in american education is that children are not taught how to respect and inherit cultural heritage of human beings . What the author states here is the situation of primary education . Are the secondary education and higher education in the same situation .?16Jerry was tired of swimming and sunbathing . He wanted to swim down to the bottom of the sea to see what it was like there and play with other boys . But he felt he should not leave his widowed mother alone . His mother was also considerate of him . she hoped Jerry to stay on the safe beach with her care at his side . But she was afraid that her son felt that she tried to keep him close and she was possessive . Her son was eleven years old . She should give him freedom , and let him go wherever he likes to go . He could take care of himself without her . When Jerry swam far , he kept looking back to see whether his mother was still on the beach .。
高级英语自考题-15
高级英语自考题-15(总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、{{B}}Ⅰ.{{/B}}(总题数：1，分数：25.00)I. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of woods or expressions marked A to Y. One word or expression for each blank only.Women have not even reached the level of {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}that blacks are reaching. No women sit {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}the Supreme Court. Only two have held Cabinet rank, and {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}do at present. Only two women hold {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}rank. But women predominate in the lower-paying, menial, {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}, dead-end jobs, and when they do reach better positions, they are {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}paid less than a man for the same job.Literacy may not be an {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}human right, but it is one that the highly {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}Founding Father might not have found unreasonable or {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}unattainable. We are not only not attaining it as a nation, statistically speaking, {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}we are falling further and further short of attaining it. And, while I would not be so simplistic as to suggest that television is the {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}, I believe it contributes and is an influence."Sort of like Kansas State," Mitch replied. All the three people {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}, and for a few seconds stared {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}at each other. This guy McDeere knew Lamar Quin went to Kansas State. He had never met Lamar Quin and had no {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}who would appear on behalf of the firm and {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}the interview. Yet, he knew. He had {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}them out. He had read the {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}sketches of all of the forty-one lawyers in the firm, and in a {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}second he had recalled that Lamar Quin had gone to Kansas State. They were {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}.The value of snobbery in general, its humanistic "point", consists in its power to {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}activity. A society with plenty of snobberies is like a dog with plenty of fleas: it is not {{U}} {{U}} 21 {{/U}} {{/U}}to become comatose. Every snobbery {{U}} {{U}} 22 {{/U}} {{/U}}its devotees unceasing efforts, a succession of sacrifices. The society-snob must be {{U}} {{U}} 23 {{/U}} {{/U}}lion-hunting; themodernity-snob can never rest from trying to be up-to-date. Swiss doctors and the Best that has been thought or said must be the daily and nightly preoccupation of all the snobs {{U}} {{U}} 24 {{/U}} {{/U}}of disease and {{U}} {{U}} 25 {{/U}} {{/U}}.A. noneB. invariablyC. butD. perpetuallyE. frozeF. tokenismG. inalienable H. cause I. respectivelyJ. unrewarding K. literate L. incredulouslyM. likely N. demands of O. ideaP. ambassadorial Q. on R. evenS. culture T. conduct U. checkedV. stimulate W. biographical X. splitY. impressed（分数：25.00）填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：F）解析：[解析] 这段话的第一句为段落的主题，指出妇女甚至还没有达到黑人所达到的象征性的平等水平。
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2011-01-21 22:35:03【】Lesson 15: The Beauty Industry美容用品业The one American industry unaffected by the general depression of trade is the beamy industry.美国工业中惟一未受贸易大萧条影响的是美容用品业。
American women continue to spend on their faces and bodies as much as they spent before the coming of the slump經濟蕭條前—about three million pounds a week.美国妇女仍不断在她们的脸上和身体上花费与经济萧条到来之前同样多的钱——每周约300万英镑。
These facts and figures are "official", and can he accepted as being substantially 充分true.这些事实与数字都是官方的，可大致属实。
Reading them. I was only surprised by the comparative 相對較小smallness of the sums expended.当读到这时，我只为花费的数目相对较小而感到惊奇。
From the prodigious巨大number of advertisements of aids to beauty contained in the American magazines,从美国杂志上铺天盖地的化妆品广告来看，I had imagined that the personal appearance business must stand high up among the champions of American industry—the equal, or only just less than the equal, of bootlegging販賣私酒and racketeering,敲詐勒索movies and automobiles.从美国杂志上铺天盖地的化妆品广告来看，我原以为美容用品业一定居美国工业群雄之首，与贩卖私酒和敲诈勒索，电影和汽车业并驾齐驱或稍逊一筹。
Still, one hundred and fifty-six million pounds a year is a tidy 相當大的sum.虽然如此，每年1亿5，600万英镑是一个相当不小的数目，Rather more than twice the revenue收入of India, if I remember rightly.如果我没有记错的话，超出印度年收入的两倍。
I do not know what the European figures are. Much smaller undoubtedly.我不知道欧洲的数字是多少，毫无疑问要小得多。
Europe is poor, and a face can cost as much in upkeep as a Rolls-Royce.欧洲很穷，保养一张脸需要花费和保养一辆罗尔斯——罗伊斯牌汽车一样多的钱。
The most that the majority of European women can do is just to wash and hope for the best.大多欧洲妇女最多只能洗洗脸，听天由命。
Perhaps the soap will produce its loudly advertised effects;也许肥皂会产生广告中大肆宣扬的效果，perhaps it will transform them into the likeness of those ravishing creatures who smile so rosily and creamily紅潤白嫩, so peachily艷如桃李and pearlily美若珠肌, from every hoarding廣告牌.也许能把她们变成像那些在每块广告牌上绽开令人陶醉的红润白嫩、艳如桃李、美若珠玑般笑容的女郎。
Perhaps, on the other hand, it may not.另一方面，或许肥皂不具有这种效能。
In any case, the more costly experiments in beautification are still as much beyond most European means as are high-powered motor-cars and electric refrigerators.无论怎样，在装饰自己上更为昂贵的试验和大马力汽车及电冰箱一样都是欧洲人的经济能力所不及的。
Even in Europe, however, much more is now spent on beauty than was ever spent in the past.然而即使在欧洲，如今花在化妆品上的钱比过去任何时候都要多得多，Not quite so much more as in America, that is all.只不过比起美国来要逊色些罢了。
But, everywhere, the increase has been undoubtedly enormous.增長無疑是巨大的但无论在任何地方，增长无疑是巨大的。
The fact is significant.这一事实意义重大。
To what is it due?为什么会出现这种现象呢？In part, I suppose, to a general increase in prosperity繁榮.我认为部分是由于普遍增长的繁荣。
The rich have always cultivated their personal appearance.有钱的人总是追求个人容貌的修饰，The diffusion擴散of wealth—such as it is—now permits those of the poor who are less badly off than their fathers to do the same.财富的扩散——尽管程度并不大，境况比其父辈稍好一些的穷人也能这样做。
But this is, clearly, not the whole story.但显然这并非事情的全部。
The modern cult of beauty is not exclusively 不隻是a function (in the mathematical sense) of wealth.现代对美貌的狂热崇拜并不只是财富的作用（从数学意义上看），If it were, then the personal appearance industries would have been as hardly hit by the trade depression as any other business.因为如果是这样，那么美容用品业就会和其他企业一样受到贸易萧条的沉重打击。
But, as we have seen, they have not suffered.但是正如我们所见，它并未受到损失。
Women are retrenching緊縮on other things than their faces.女人们在美容之外的一切方面紧缩开支，The cult of beauty must therefore be symptomatic of changes that have taken place outside the economic sphere因而对美貌的狂热崇拜必定表现了经济领域以外产生的变化。
. Of what changes? Of the changes, I suggest, in the status of women; of the changes in our attitude towards "the merely physical."單純是肉體的變化什么变化？我认为表现了妇女地位的变化，表现了我们对“单纯是肉体”的态度的变化。
Women, it is obvious, are freer than in the past.很显然，妇女比过去自由了，Freer not only to perform the generally unenviable social functions hitherto 迄今為止reserved保留to the male,不仅在完成迄今为止由男性完成的并值得羡慕的社会职能上比较自由了，but also freer to exercise the more pleasing, feminine privilege of being attractive.而且在运用更令人愉快的女性吸引力的特权上比较自由了。
They have the right, if not to be less virtuous than their grandmothers, at any rate to look less virtuous貞淑.如果她们没有权利不如祖母们贞淑，至少可以有权利看起来不那么贞淑。
The British Matron, not long since a creature of austere嚴峻and even terrifying aspect,英国的命妇不久前还是神色严厉可怕的人物，now does her best to achieve and perennially 永久preserve保持the appearance of what her predecessor前輩would have described as a Lost Woman. She often succeeds.现在也尽一切努力获得并常年保持她的前辈会称作为荡妇的外表,她们常能做到这点。
But we are not shocked—at any rate, not morally shocked.但我们并不感到震惊，至少在道德上没有震惊。
Aesthetically shocked—yes; we may sometimes be that. But morally, no.审美上受到震惊——是的，有时是这样，但道德上没有We concede 讓步that the Matron is morally justified正當的in being preoccupied with her personal appearance.我们作出让步，承认命妇专注于个人容貌在道德上是正当的，This concession讓步depends on another of a more general nature—a concession to the Body, with a large B, to the Manichaean principle of evil这一让步是基于另一个性质更为一般的让步，即将带有大写B的肉体让与摩尼教中说的邪恶，For we have now come to admit that the body has its rights.因为我们现在已经承认了肉体具有自己的权利。