自考高级英语上册Lesson_11
高级英语第一册unit11
But What's a Dictionary For?The storm of abuse in the popular press that greeted the appearance of Webster's Third New International Dictionary is a curious phenomenon. Never has a scholarly work of this stature been attacked with such unbridled fury and contempt. An article in the Atlantic viewed it as a "disappointment," a "shock," a " calamity ," "a scandal and a disaster. " The New York Times, in a special editorial, felt that the work would " accelerate the deterioration " of the language and sternly accused the editors of betraying a public trust. The Journal of the American Bar Association saw the publication as " deplorable ," "a flagrant example of lexicographic irresponsibility," "a serious blow to the cause of good English." Life called it "a non-word deluge " monstrous ", " abominable ," and "a cause for dismay." They doubted that "Lincoln could have modelled his Gettysburg Address" on it – a concept of how things get written that throws very little light on Lincoln but a great deal on Life.What underlies all this sound and fury? Is the claim of the G. R C. Merriam Company, probably the world's greatest dictionary maker, that the preparation of the work cost $3.5 million, that it required the efforts of three hundred scholar s over a period of twenty – seven years, working on the largest collection of citations ever assembled in any language -- is all this a fraud, a hoax ?So monstrous a discrepancy in evaluation requires us to examine basic principles. Just what's a dictionary for? What does it propose to do? What does the common reader go to a dictionary to find? What has the purchaser of a dictionary a right to expect for his money?Before we look at basic principles, it is necessary to interpose two brief statements. The first of these is that a dictionary is concerned with words. Some dictionaries give various kinds of other useful information. Some have tables of weights and measures on the flyleaves . Some list historical events and some, home remedies . And there’s nothing wrong w ith their so doing. But the great increase in our vocabulary in the past three decades compels all dictionaries to make more efficient use of their space. And if something must be eliminated , it is sensible to throw out these extraneous things and stick to words.The second brief statement is that there has been even more progress in the making of dictionaries in the past thirty years than there has been in the making of automobiles The difference, for example, between the much-touted Second International (1934) and the much-clouted Third International (1961) is not like the difference between yearly models but like the difference between the horse and buggy and the automobile. Between the appearance of these two editions a whole new science related to the making of dictionaries, the science of descriptive linguistics, has come into being.Modern linguistics gets its charter from Leonard Bloomfield's Language (1933). Bloomfield's for thirteen years professor of Germanic philology at the University of Chicago and for nine years professor of linguistics at Yale, was one of those inseminating scholars who can’ t be relegated to any department and don't dream of accepting established categories and procedures just because they're established. He was as much an anthropologist as a linguist, and his concepts of language were shaped not by Strunk's Elements of Style but by his knowledge of Cree Indian dialects.The broad general findings of the new science are:1. All languages are systems of human conventions , not systems of natural laws. The first -- and essential – step in the study of any language is observing and setting down precisely what happens when native speakers speak it.2. Each language is unique in its pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. It cannot be described in terms of logic or of some theoretical, ideal language. It cannot be described in terms of any other language, or evenin terms of its own past.3. All languages are dynamic rather than static, and hence a "rule" in any language can only be a statement of contemporary practice. Change is constant -- and normal4. "Correctness" can rest only upon usage, for the simple reason that there is nothing else for it to rest on. And all usage is relative.From these propositions it follows that a dictionary is good only insofar as it is a comprehensive and accurate description of current usage. And to be comprehensive it must include some indication of social and regional associations.New dictionaries are needed because English changed more in the past two generations than at any other time in its history. It has had to adapt to extraordinary cultural and technological changes, two world wars, unparalleled changes in transportation and communication, and unprecedented movements of populations.More subtly , but pervasively, it has changed under the influence of mass education and the growth of democracy. As written English is used by increasing millions and f-or more reasons than ever before, the language has become more utilitarian and more informal. Every publication in America today includes pages that would appear, to the purist of forty years ago, unbuttoned gibberish . Not that they are; they simply show that you can't hold the language of one generation up as a model for the next.It's not that you mustn't. You can't. For example, in the issue in which Life stated editorially that it would folly the Second International, there were over forty words constructions, and meanings which are in the Third International but not in the Second. The issue of the New York Times which hailed the Second International as the authority to which it would adhere and the Third International as a scandal and a betrayal which it would reject used one hundred and fifty-three separate words, phrases, and constructions which are listed in the Third International but not g the Second and nineteen others which are condemned in the Second. Many of them are used many times, more than three hundred such uses in all. The Washington Post, in an editorial captioned "Keep Your Old Webster's, " says, in the first sentence, "don't throw it away," and in the second, "hang on to it." But the old Webster's labels don't "colloquial" and doesn't include "hang on to," in this sense, at all.In short, all of these publications are written in the language that the Third International describes, even the very editorials which scorn it. And this is no coincidence , because the Third International isn't setting up any new standards at all; it is simply describing what Life, the Washing-ton Post, and the New York Times are doing. Much of the dictionary's material comes from these very publications, the Times, in particular, furnishing more of its illustrative quotations than any other newspaper.And the papers have no choice. No journal or periodical could sell a single issue today if it restricted itself to the American language of twenty-eight years ago. It couldn't discuss halt the things we are inter ester in, and its style would seem stiff and cumbrous . If the editorials were serious, the public -- and the stockholders -- have reason to be grateful that the writers on these publications are more literate than the editors.And so back to our questions: what's a dictionary for, and how, in 1962, can it best do what it ought to do? The demands are simple. The common reader turns to a dictionary for information about the spelling, pronunciation, meaning, and proper use of words. He wants to know what is current and respectable. But he wants – and has a right to – the truth, the full truth. And the full truth about any language, and especially about American English today, is that there are many areas in which certainty is impossible and simplification is misleading.Even in so settled a matter as spelling, a dictionary cannot always be absolute. Theater is correct, but so is theatre. And so are traveled and travelled, plow and plough, catalog and catalogue, and scores of other variants The reader may want a single certainty. He may have taken an unyielding position in an argument, he may have wagered in support of his conviction and may demand that the dictionary "settle" the matter. But neither hisvanity nor his purse is any concern of the dictionary's; it must record the facts. And the fact here is that there are many words in our language which may be spelled, with equal correctness, in either of two ways.So with pronunciation. A citizen listening to his radio might notice that James B. Conant, Bernard Baruch, and Dwight D. Eisenhower pronounce economics as ECKuhnomiks, while A. Whitney Griswold, Adlai Stevenson, and Herbert Hoover pronounce it EEKuhnomiks. He turns to the dictionary to see which of the two pronunciations is "right" and finds that they are both acceptable.Has he been betrayed‘? Has the dictionary abdicated its responsibility? Should it say that one must speak like the president of Harvard or like the president of Yale, like the thirty-first President of the United States or like the thirty-fourth? Surely it's none of its business to make a choice. Not because of the distinction of these particular speakers; lexicography, like God, is no respecter of persons. But because so wide-spread and conspicuous a use of two pronunciations among people of this elevation shows that there are two pronunciations. Their speaking establishes the fact which the dictionary must record.The average purchaser of a dictionary uses it most often, probably, to find out what a word "means." As a reader, he wants to know what an author intended to convey. As a speaker or writer, he wants to know what a word will convey to his auditor s. And this, too, is complex, subtle, and for ever changing.An illustration is furnished by an editorial in the Washington Post (January 17, 1962). After a ringing appeal to those who "love truth and accuracy" and the usual bombinations about "abdication of authority" and " barbarism ," the editorial charges the Third International with " pretentious and obscure verbosity " and specifically instances its definition of "so simple an object as a door.” The definition reads:a movable piece of firm material or a structure supported usu. along one side and swinging on pivots or hinges , sliding along a groove , roiling up and down, revolving as one of four leaves, or folding like an accordion by means of which an opening may be closed or kept open for passage into or out of a building, room, or other covered enclosure or a car, airplane, elevator, or other vehicle. Then follows a series of special meanings, each particularity defined and, where necessary, illustrated by a quotation Since, aside from roaring and admonishing the "gentle men from Springfield" that "accuracy and brevity are virtues,” the Post's editorial tails to explain what is wrong with the definition, we can only infer from "so simple" a thing that the writer takes the plain, downright, man-in-the street attitude that a door is a door and any damn fool knows that.But if so, he has walked into one of lexicography's biggest booby traps: the belief that the obvious is easy to define. Whereas the opposite is true. Anyone can give a fair description of the strange, the new, or the unique. It's the commonplace, the habitual, that challenges definition, for its very commonness compels us to define it in uncommon terms. Dr. Johnson was ridiculed on just this score when his dictionary appeared in 1755. For two hundred years his definition of a network as "any thing reticulated or decussated , at equal distances, with interstices between the inter sections” has been good for a laugh. But in the merriment one thing is always overlooked: no one has yet come up with a better definition! Subsequent dictionaries defined it as a mesh and then defined a mesh as a network. That's simple, all right.Anyone who attempts sincerely to state what the were door means in the United States of America today can't take refuge in a log cabin. There has been an enormous proliferation of closing and demarking devices and structure in the past twenty years, and anyone who tries to thread his way through the many meanings now included under door may have to sacrifice brevity to accuracy and even have to employ words that a limited vocabulary may find obscure.Is the entrance to a tent a door, for instance? And What of the thing that seals the exit of an air plane‘? Is this a door? Or what of those sheets and jets of air that are now being used, in place of old-fashioned oak and hinges, to screen entrances and exists? Are they doors? And what of that accordion-like things that set off various sections of many modern apartments? The fine print in the lease takes it for granted that they are doors and that spaces demarked by them are rooms -- and the rent is computed on the number of rooms.Was I gypped by the landlord when he called the folding contraption that shuts off my kitchen a door? I go to the Second Inter national, which the editor of the Post urges me to use in preference to the Third International. Here I find that a door isThe movable frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges or pivots or sliding, by which an entranceway into a house or apartment is closed and opened; also, a similar part of a piece of furniture, as in a cabinet or book case. This is only forty-six words, but though it includes the cellar it excludes the barn door and the accordion-like thingSo I go on to the Third International. I see at once that. the new definition is longer. But I'm looking for accuracy,and if I must sacrifice brevity. to get it, then I must. And sure enough, in the definition which raised the Post's blood pressure, I find the words "folding like an accordion.” The thing is a door, and my landlord is using the word in one of its currently accepted meanings.The new dictionary may have many faults. Nothing that tries to meet an ever-changing situation over a terrain as vast as contemporary English can hope to be free of them and much in it is open to honest and informed, disagreement. There can be linguistic objection to the eradication of proper names. The removal of guides to pronunciation from the toot of every page may not have been worth the valuable space it saved. The new method of defining words of many meanings has disadvantages as well as advantages. And of the half million or more definitions, hundreds, possibly thousands, may seem inadequate or imprecise. To some (of whom I am one) the omission of the label "colloquial" will seem meritorious ; to others it will seem a loss.But one thing is certain: anyone who solemnly announces in the year 1962 that he will be guided in matter s of English usage by a dictionary published in 1934 is talking ignorant and pretentious nonsense.。
自考高级英语上册 lesson 11课后答案
On Getting Off to Sleepby J.B. Priestley课后练习(Exercises on the text)A.1. The author thinks that humor: can save grace of us andweshould die of vexation without it.2.Yea.3.No. .4. No.5. No.6. The author thinks that the matter of sleep can bestillustrate the contrariness of things.7. He can do anything but sleep when he lies between thesheets at a late hour.8. The author thinks that the best way of inducing sleep isto imagine a dialogue with a friend, whose task ,withoutanything like fancy and wit, is boring.B.1．人是一个矛盾的集合体！2．我们的思想和头脑中的意象是完全有形的东西。
3．我过去常常怀着惊奇的心情去读那些吹捧好战的超人的故事……4．人为的催眠法有很多，但都不灵。
5．当她的大脑对这种单调的生活感到厌倦时，睡眠自然就会来。
6．她最喜欢的方法就是想象一幅画在墙上没挂正，她去把它弄正。
7．但是我还没有放弃寻找加快睡眠的方法。
8. 今天晚上，我就要抛弃诸如数跳羊和扶歪画之类的想象。
C.1. clenched2. refreshed3. straighten4. remonstrated5. of no avail6. eventual7. meditated8. inhumanD.1. contradiction2. dim3. tormented4. induces5. meditated6. literal7. imaginary8. crookedE.1. the opposites in a contradiction2. go on shilly-shally3 .inconsistent provocation4. come in continuous crowds5. coming out6. considering these words to be true, I would do accordingto the fables.7. protest8.lullingF.Someone will sleep as soon as his head touches the pillow. Someone will pass hours in sleeplessness in bed. The very actof concentration makes him more wakeful than ever. 1 belongto the latter. I die of sleepiness when I write. But when I getinto bed, 1 can do anything but sleep. I can compose grand symphonies, paint magnificent pictures and write wonderful articles. The artificial ways of inducing sleep are legionbut are only alike in their ineffectuality. When 1 can't sleepat night, I imagine a dialogue with an imaginary friend till 1 either laugh or fall asleep. I find that it answers to induce sleep.G.In this essay, sleeplessness is talked about ironically. Therefore, touches of humour and exaggerations can be seen here and there. For instance, "… stare at the reproachfully blank paper…", "sleep is a coy mistress, much given to a teasing inconsistency …" Reading these, the audienc e can' t help laughing. In the mean time, the author's meaning is forcefully conveyed. One example will suffice to show that the author isa master of exaggeration. In the essay, he said, "When I am in the humour, I can compose grand sy mphonies …" In this way, the author's ideas are vividly presented. According to the author, insomnia is an agony. But it is praiseworthy. It shows the man lacks no sympathy or depth if he suffers from sleeplessness. On the other hand, those who find no difficulty in falling asleepare inhuman and are lacking in depth.。
自考高级英语上册11课课文翻译
Lesson Eleven On Getting off to Sleep谈睡眠人真是充满矛盾啊! 毫无疑问，幽默是惟一帮助我们摆脱矛盾的办法，要是没有它，我们就会死于烦恼。
What a bundle of contradictions is a man! Surety, humour is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation.在我看来，没有什么比睡眠更能说明事物间的矛盾。
With me, nothing illustrates the contrariness of things better than the matter of sleep.比如，我打算写一篇文章，面前放好了笔、墨和几张白纸，准保没写几个字我就会困得要命，无论当时是几点都会那样。
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.我瞪着那似乎在谴责我的白纸，直到眼前一片模糊，声音也难以辨清，只有靠意志力才能勉强坚持。
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.即使这时，我也会迷迷糊糊地像在做梦一样继续坚持工作。
高级英语第一册讲义11
Lesson 11But What’s a Dictionary For?1. abuse: n. & v. abusive, adj.a. unkind, cruel or rude words,He burst into a storm of abuse.He constantly addressed her in terms of abuse.You are always abusing and offending people.b. wrong use, MISUSE, improper treatment, MALTREATBorrowing money is an abuse of friendship.abuse of power, drug abuse,to abuse one's power, authority, position, wealth, etc.2. popular press: newspapers, journals that are aimed at the needs or tastes of ordinary people and not the specialists in a particular subject3. phenomenon: pl, phenomena. a fact or event in nature or society4. scholarly: concerned with serious detailed study---opposite POPULAR. Scholarly matters, activities, etc involve or relate to scholars or their work.His name is known in scholarly circles throughout the world.5. staturea. Someone's stature is their height and general size.She was rather small in stature.b. The stature of a person or of their achievements is the importance and reputation that they have.a musician of international stature6. unbridled: not controlled or limited in any way, used to show disapproval; too violent and active unbridled tongue / anger7. fury: violent or very strong angerThere was fury in the Duchess' grey eyes.Hearing this, they jumped on (scold) him in a fury.He flew into a fury and said that the whole thing was disgusting.8. contempt: lack of respect.If you have contempt for someone or something, you do not like them and think that they are unimportant or of no value.They would look at us with unmistakable contempt.Her contempt for foreigners was obvious.hold sb. / sth in contempt9. calamity: an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal sadness and distress; serious misfortune10. scandal:If sth is a scandal, a lot of people know about it and think that it is very shocking and immoral.The way that official wastes public money is a scandal.She brought scandal to her family by her outrageous behaviour.11. DISASTER, CATASTROPHE, CALAMITY, CATACL YSM mean an event or situation that is a terrible misfortune.Disaster is an unforeseen, ruinous, and often sudden misfortune that happens either through lack of foresight or through some hostile external agency; general word. 12. editorial: an article in a newspaper which gives the opinion of the editor or publisher on a topic or item of the news.13. deteriorate: cause to become worse, worsenHis sight began to deteriorate.She has suffered progressive deterioration of health.14. stern: very firm or hard towards others' behaviour.Someone who is stern is very serious and expects to be obeyed.a stern teacher / fatherHe walked to the boy and said to him very sternly, "Give that to me."15. betray:a. If you betray someone's trust, confidence, etc, or you betray your principles, you fail to act in the good and morally correct way that was expected of you.He betrayed his friends to the enemy.She betrayed her promise.Judas betrayed Jesus (to the authorities.b. If you betray a secret, a plan, etc, you tell people things that you have been asked to keep secret.16. bar: the railing in a courtroom that encloses the place about the judge，barrier in a lawcourt separating the judge, prisoner, lawyers, etc from the spectators，the prisoner at the bar 受审讯的犯人She will be judged at the bar of public opinion.17. deplorable: disgraceful, distressing, heartbreaking, lamentable, pitiable, wretched,18. flagrant / /: used to describe a bad or shocking action, situation, or attitude that is very obvious and not concealed in any way, conspicuous, notorious, shameless, outrageous notorious, open, scandalousa flagrant violation of human rights, a flagrant injustices / cheating19. non-word deluge:It's like a flood of unacceptable words.non: so bad as not to deserve the nameIt was really a bad book --- non-story with non-characters.non-words: words that are not yet acceptable, such as new slang or newly coined words.20. abominable: disgusting, heinous, villainousSomething abominable is very unpleasant, very bad, or very poor in quality, causing disgust and strong dislike used showing strong disapproval.They work six days a week in abominable conditions.Wages for primary school teachers in some area were abominable.21. dismay: feeling of fear and discouragement, disappointment, distressbe struck with dismay at the news22. They doubted that "Lincoln could have modelled ... a concept of how things get written that throws very little light on Lincoln but a great deal on Life.doubt (affirm. + that): to consider unlikelyI doubt that he will come.I doubt that he is honest.23. model...on: take as a model, or exampleShe modelled herself on her mother.24. If something throws light or shadow on a particular thing or area, it causes that thing or area to have light or a shadow on it.A spotlight threw a pool of violet light onto the stage.25. underlie: to be present as an explanation or real meaning ofWhen you say A underlies B, then A is the cause or basis of B.26. citation: the act of quotation, a short passage taken from something written or spoken by someone else27. fraud:sth that deceives people in a way that is illegal or immoral, a crime of gaining money or other benefits by trickery. It suggests the perversion of the truth for the sake of persuading sb. to surrender some valuable possession or a legal right, or an act or practice involving concealment of truth, violation of trust and confidence, or nonperformance of contracted act by which one gains an advantage over another to the injury of the latter.The judge found him guilty of fraud.The elder brother gained control of the property by fraud.28. hoax: a trick in which sb. tells the police, emergency services, or the public sth. that is not true,a bomb / dinosaur-egg somewherea forged work of art to be genuine29. discrepancy: difference. If there is a discrepancy between two things, they ought to be the same.You say you paid $5 and the bill says $3; how do you explain the discrepancy?30. interpose: to place, put in between; interrupt with a comment or question interpose a barrier between31. remedy: sth that is intended to cure you when you are ill or in pain, sth prescribed or used for the treatment of disease. It applies to a substance or treatment that is known or regarded as effective in bringing about recovery or restoration of health or the normal functioning of the body.32. compel: to make sb. do sth. by or as if by force.Compel differs from force in typically requiring a personal object. Compel commonly implies the exercise of authority, the exertion of great effort or driving force, or the impossibility for one reason or another of doing anything else.There is no possible method of compelling a child to feel sympathy or affection.But nobody emerged, and he was compelled to carry the bag himself.33. extraneous: not belonging to what is being dealt with, unrelated, alien, and foreign to avoid extraneous thingsto eliminate extraneous interference34. tout: to praise loudly or extravagantlyclout: to hit forcefully35. buggy: a light one-horse carriage made with two wheels in England and with four wheels in the US36. linguistics: the systematic study of language37. charter: written or printed statement of rights, permission to so sth., constitution the Charter of the United Nationsthe Atlantic Charterthe citizens’ rights laid down by charter38. philology:a. the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature.b. linguistics. esp, historical and comparative linguistics.39. inseminating: to sow seed in, to implantinseminate the minds of the young with revolutionary ideasinseminating scholar: a scholar who implants new ideas in the minds of others. semen: liquid containing sperm of male animals40. relegate: to assign to an appropriate place or situation on the basis of classification or appraisal; to dismiss to a lower position or condition. If you relegate sth. you cause it to have a less important position or status.He relegated his wife to the position of a mere housekeeper.be relegated to the garbage can of history.You can't relegate the pop song singer / movie star to the third rate.。
高级英语Lesson 11 第1-3段
Lesson 11 – 第1-3段组长苑力超，组员潘家琪，刘欢欢段落重点词汇和表述1.A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma, north and west of the Wichita Range. For my people, the Kiowas, it is an old landmark, and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain. Th e hardest weather in the world is there. Winter brings blizzards, hot tornadic winds arise in the spring, and in summer the prairie is an anvil's edge. The grass turns brittle and brown, and it cracks beneath your feet. There are green belts along the rivers and creeks, linear groves of hickory and pecan, willow and witch hazel. At a distance in July or August the steaming fol iage seems almost to writhe in fire. Great green-andyellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to stingthe flesh, and tortoises crawl about on the red earth, going nowhere in the plenty of time. Lo neliness is an aspect of the land. All things in the plain are isolate; there is no confusion of o bjects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the e arly morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.…词语用法knoll n. a small natural hill 小山There is a bower on the Knoll.小山上有一个凉亭。
高级英语(第三版)第一册第十一课 The Way to Rainy Mountain
Detailed Analysis of the Text
Paragraph 2
• The author explains his purpose of his visit to Rainy Mountain: to be at his grandmother’s grave. This paragraph serves as a transitional link between the description of the land in Paragraph 1 and the narration of his grandmother’s and his people’s stories in the following paragraphs.
• Warfare for the Kiowas was preeminently a matter of disposition rather than of survival.
The Kiowa often fought just because they felt that war was sacred because it could demonstrate their courage and strength, because they were good warriors, because they fought out of habit, character, nature, not because they needed extra lands or material gains for the sake of surviving and thriving.
Structure of the Text
Part I: Paras 1-3: introduction to the whole text
高级英语第一册课件11
III. Background information Two major shorter editions exist: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English and the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Other advances in lexicography are reflected in the frequently revised collegiate or desk dictionaries, such as the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary.
III. Background information Webster, Noah (Oct. 16, 1748 - May 28, 1843) American lexicographer and philologist, born in West Hartford, Conn. A Yale graduate.
III. Background information Dictionary: a published list, in alphabetical order, of the words of a language, explaining and defining them, or in the case of a bilingual dictionary, translating them into another language.
III. Background information In 1840, the second edition was a failure and he had to sell the copy right to Merriam Publishing Company which thereafter became the Merriam-Webster Incorporation. Webster's other contributions include efforts in the passage of a national copyright law, in the founding of the Amherst College etc.
大学高级英语第一册第11课译文及课后答案
大学高级英语第一册第11课译文及课后答案篇一：高级英语第一册课后Lesson 1The Middle Eastern BazaarI．1)A bazaar is a market or street of shops and stands in Oriental countries．Such bazaars are likely to be found in Afghanistan，the Arabian Peninsula，Cyprus，Asiatic Turkey and Egypt．2)The bazaar includes many markets：cloth—market，copper— smiths’market．carpet—market，food—market，dye—market，pottery—market，carpenters’market，etc．They represent the backward feudal economy．3)A blind man could know which part 0f the bazaar he was in by his senses of smell and hearing．Different odours and sounds can give him some ideas about the various parts 0f the bazaar．4)Because the earthen floor，beaten hard by countless feet，deadens the sound of footsteps，and the vaulted mudbrick walls and roof have hardly and sounds to echo. The shop-keepers also speak in slow, measured tones, and the buyers follow suit.5)The place where people make linseed oil seems the most picturesque in the bazaar. The backwardness of their extracting oil presents an unforgetable scene.II .1)little donkeys went in and out among the people and from one side to another2)Then as you pass through a big crowd to go deeper into the market, the noise of the entrance gradually disappear, and you come to the much quieter cloth-market.3)they drop some of items that they don t really want and begin to bargain seriously for a low price.4)He will ask for a high price for the item and refuse to cut down the price by any significant amount.5)As you get near it, a variety of sounds begin to strike your ear.Ⅲ. See the translation of text.IV.1)n. +n..seaside, doorway, graveyard, warlord2)n. +v..daybreak, mooise, bullfight3)v. +n..cutback, cutthroat, rollway4)adj. +n..shortterm, softcoal, softliner, hardware5)adv. +v. .output , upgrade, downpour6)v. +adv..pullover, buildupV.1)thread (n.) she failed to put the thread through the eye of the needle.(v.) He threaded through the throng.2)round (v.) On the 1st of September the ship rounded the Cape of Good Hope. (adv.) He wheeled round and faced me angrily.3)narrow(v.) In the discussions we did not narrow the gap any further. (adj．)He failed by a very narrow margin．4)price(n．) The defence secretary said the U．S．was not looking for an agreement at any price．(v．)At the present consumption rates(of oil)the world may well be pricing itself out of its future．5) (v．)live About 40％of the population lives on the land and tries to live off it． (adj．)The nation heard the inaugural speech in a live broadcast．6)tower (n．)The tower was built in the 1 4th century．(v．)The general towered over his contemporaries．7)dwarf (v．)A third of the nation s capital goods are shipped from this area，which dwarfs West Germany s mighty Ruhr Valley in industrial output．(n．)Have you ever read the story of Snow White and the Dwarfs?Ⅵ．1)light and heat：glare，dark，shadowy，dancing flashes．the red of the live coals，glowing bright，dimming，etc．2)sound and movement：enter，pass，thread their way．penetrate，selecting，pricing，doing a little preliminary bargaining，din，tinkling，banging，clashing，creak，squeaking，rumbling，etc．3)smell and colour：profusion of rich colours，pungent and exotic smells，etc．Ⅶ．1)glare指刺眼的光；brightness指光源发出的强烈稳定的光，强调光的强度。
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.。
【ppt课件】高级英语课件第十一课
4. stature:originally a person’s bodily height. Figuratively,
mental or moral quality , development, growth, or level of
attainment, especially as worthy of esteem. Not to be confused
doesn't accelerate. 尽管人们努力想根除腐败，但腐败现象仍存在着，虽然 没有恶化。
Precipitate表示通常引起某事突然地或在时机未成熟时发 生的突然性或匆促性：
The mere mention of the issue precipitated an outburst of indignation during the meeting. 会议上刚一提到这件事就引发了一阵愤怒
dictionary.
flagrant:conspicuously bad, offensive, or reprehensible: 臭名远扬的，丑恶可耻的、讨人厌的
flagrant glaring gross egregious rank:These adjectives refer
to what is conspicuously bad or offensive flagrant crime 滔天罪行 a glaring error; 明显的错误；
deluge of words滔滔不绝的话
After me the D-! After us the D-! (死)后(之)事与我何干! 14. monstrous: ( colloquial )quite absurd,scandalous adj.巨大的, 怪异的, 恐怖的, 凶暴的 adj.<口>难以置信的, 荒谬的 15. abominable : disgusting 16. cause ( for dismay ): a reason, motive or ground for some action or feeling, etc, . Especially sufficient reason (cause for complaint ) When cause means something producing an effect or result, it is followed by the preposition of , e.g. causes of the traffic accidents. 17. They doubted that : “ Lincoln could have modelled his Gettysburg Address” on it: They didn’t believe that Lincoln could have written his famous Gettysburg Address with the language described in the Third International as model.
大学高级英语第一册第11课译文及课后答案
大学高级英语第一册第11课译文及课后答案1）谐趣园是仿照无锡的一座花园建造的。
The Garden of Harmonious Interest was modeled on a garden in Wuxi.2）他号召孩子们以 ___英雄为榜样。
He called on the children to model themselves on the PLA heroes.3）这本书应归入哲学类。
This work may be related to philosophy.4）本杰明·富兰克林不仅是政治家，而且还是科学家、发明家。
Benjamin Franklin was as much a scientist and an inventor as a statesman.5）他把每次试验的结果都记在本子上。
He set down all the findings of every experiment in his notebook.6）你能用简明的语言概括这首古诗的中心思想吗？Can you sum up the central idea of this ancient poem in plain terms?7）我们应不断地使自己的思想适应变化的情况。
We should constantly adapt our thinking to the changing conditions.8）年轻的士兵冻死在雪地里，手里还紧握着枪。
The young soldier was frozen to death in the snow, his hands still hanging on to a gun.9）该公司将为他们提供住宿和交通工具。
The said pany will furnishthem with lodging and transportation.10）车速限制在每小时55公里之内。
高级英语上讲义Lesson11
Lesson Eleven On Getting Off to Sleep一、Words and Expressions1. avail n. 效用 usebe of little/no avail 没有多大（一点儿）帮助、用处Your advice is of no avail to us. 你的建议对我们一点儿帮助都没有。
to little/no avail, without avail 徒劳无功v. avail oneself of sth. 使用，利用 make use of, make advantage ofYou must avail yourself of every opportunity to speak English. 你要利用一切机会说英语。
adj. available2. bovine adj. i. 牛的ii. 迟钝的，笨拙的 dull, stupid3. callous adj. 冷酷无情的 cool, indifferent, cruel, unsympathetic4. corporal adj. of the human body体罚 corporal punishment5. crooked adj. 歪的，弯曲的 not straight, twisted, bent, curved不老实的，不正当的dishonest, illegalcrooked business 奸商6. crushing 强烈的，压倒一切的dominant, overwhelmingdashing：energetic7. depth/width/strength/length8. event—eventful（变故多的, 重要的, 多事的）—eventual（最后的）a eventful year/lifeeventual: final, ultimate9. perish: v. 破坏，灭亡destroy, dieThousands of people perished in the earthquake. 那次地震死者数以千计。
高级英语lesson11复习重点
⾼级英语lesson11复习重点单词through light on 帮助说明，阐明much-touted ⼴受好评的sound and fury 吵闹场⾯，喧哗骚动take refuge in 逃到，在…中避难booby trap 陷阱furnish with 提供hail v. 赞扬eliminate =get rid of vt. 消除，淘汰clout n. 影响⼒，势⼒v.敲打much-clouted 猛烈抨击的in terms of 根据，按照dynamic adj. 有⽣⽓的，充满活⼒的fury n. 愤怒，狂怒insofar as 在范围之内no respecter of persons 平等待⼈verbosity n. 冗长，赘⾔take refuge in a log cabin 过多追究往事elevation n. 晋级，提升Paraphrase1. a flagrant example of lexicographic irresponsibility.(Para. 1)编者极其不负责的典范。
a shameless example of irresponsibility in making the dictionary2. What underlies all this sound and fury? (Para. 2)究竟是什么导致了这场喧闹？What causes the abuse in the popular press?3. It cannot be described in terms of any other language, or even in terms of its own past. (Para.9)每种语⾔都不能通过其他语种来描述，甚⾄不能从其⾃⾝的早期形式来形容。
Each language cannot be described according to other language, or even by its own past.4. All languages are dynamic rather than static… (Para. 10)所有语⾔都处于发展之中⽽⾮静⽌。
高级英语（1）第三版Lesson11TheWaytoRainyMountain翻译答案
⾼级英语（1）第三版Lesson11TheWaytoRainyMountain 翻译答案Lesson 111.政治局势的新变化使得这两个⽐较⼩的政党结成了联盟。
2.他的失败在于他的性情⽽不是能⼒。
3.我有个重要问题想和你讨论。
你能抽出半个⼩时吗？4.有很多⼈喜欢在⽹上聊天，这样他们可以免除当⾯谈话时可能遇到的尴尬。
5.这些河流再也不清澈了，河⽔的质量降低到了劣五级，连灌溉农⽥都不能⽤了。
6.⽂章虽短，但其象征性含义却很丰富，值得深⼊分析。
7.雪⼭⾼耸⼊云，其神秘的美丽⽆与伦⽐。
8.他从⼩离开家，和⽗母很少见⾯，所以在⽗亲⾯前总是有些约束。
9.这次会议⼗分重要，谁也不得⽆故缺席。
10.在她的记忆中，母亲既严厉⼜慈爱。
参考答案1.Changes in the political situation brought the two small parties into alliance.2.His failure was due to his disposition rather than his ability.3.I have something important to discuss with you. Could you spare half an hour?4.Many people prefer to chat online as this can spare them any awkwardness thatmay occur when talking face to face.5.No longer are the rivers clean and clear, and the water quality has reduced toworse than Level V, unfit even for agricultural irrigation.6.Short as it is, the article is very rich in symbolic implications which deserve athrough analysis.7.The snow mountain reached into the sky, its beauty beyond all comparison.8.He left home as a child and has seen little of his father since then. So he neverfeels at home in his father’s presence.9.As this meeting is very important, nobody should be absent without cause.10.In her memory, her mother was at once severe and kind.。
自考高级英语上册
Leap: leapt 或 leaped, leaping 跳跃，跳越
• • • • • • The dog leapt over the fence. 狗跳过了围栏。 Leap: 闪过；突然想起 The idea leaped into his mind. 这个想法突然闪过他的脑海。 Those memories and fancies which had been buried deep in one’s mind for ten years will sometimes crop up突然出现 .
Lesson 11 On getting off to sleep
By J.B. Priestley
Contradiction, contrariness
• Contradiction:u. 矛盾，对立 c.对立的事物 • --I found no contradiction between his publicly expressed ideas and his private actions. • --His private actions are in contradiction to/with his publicly expressed ideas. • --A round square is a contradiction in terms 用词矛盾. • Contrariness (u.) (contrary) 相反，对立面， • --Hot and cold are contrariness.
自考高级英语考前串讲第11章
Serve one’s turn 适用
This job will serve my turn. 这项工作将适合我的需要。 I think this book will serve my
worked. Literal: 按照原文的 a literal translation Idioms usually can not be
earthly parts into oblivion No difficulty in forgetting their
functions in the world No difficulty in falling sleep
be given to 癖好的；喜爱的； 习惯的
She is a young girl given to tears.
Deft: skilful and quick, esp with the hands 熟练的,灵巧的
She is deft at dealing with reporters.
With deft fingers she undid the wire.
fare: get on, progress 进展,过日子
We remonstrate against his cruelty to old people.
I remonstrated with him about his rudeness.
Inhuman:非人的, 不近人情的, 非人道的,残忍的,
inhuman treatment 虐待 Treatment of prisoners in that
自考高英上 lesson11综述
Main idea of the text
This lesson is on sleeplessness. Adults without exception suffer from sleeplessness. It is well - known that sleep is vital to one's mental and physical health. Sleep and sleeplessness are not medically and scientifically dwelt on. Instead, sleeplessness is used as an example to illustrate the contrariness of things and the contradictions a man is confronted with. According to the author, a man is a bundle of contradictions and only humour is the saving grace of us. Those who fall asleep as soon as they get into bed are satirized in a
tends shakes Down dream
Words
1. avail
n. [一般用于否定句或疑问句中]效用；(有效的)帮助；利 益，好处; [复数](遗产或拍卖之后，扣除佣金、债务等后 的)余额 no avail没有效果的；没有作用的 His efforts were to no avail. 他的努力是徒劳的。 vt. 有益于，有助于，有利于，有用于，使有利： All our efforts availed us little in trying to effect a change. 在企图实现一个变革中我们徒劳无功。 vi.有益,有用,有帮助(against, to)： Nothing could avail against the enemy attack. 没有什么可以挡得住敌人的进攻。
高级英语TheWayToRainyMountain
高级英语Lesson 11 The Way to Rainy MountainQuestions1.Where is the Rainy Mountain? Why is the place important for the Kiowa? What is the weather like there? What is the most important feature of this landscape?2.Why did the author like to think of his grandmother as a child? Could you infer when his grandmother Aho was born? When was the great moment in the history of the Kiowa?3.What kind of fighters were the Kiowa? Why were they driven onto the Staked Plains? What did they do in order to save themselves? Why was it humiliating to them? Was the author’s grandmother also humiliated?4.Where did the Kiowa come from three centuries ago? When did they begin their long migration to the south and east? What changes did this migration bring to them? In what way were the Kiowa transformed?5.According to their origin myth, how did the Kiowa enter the world? Why did the author say that, from one point of view, their migration was the fruit of an old prophecy?6.What did the author think of Y ellowstone? Why did he say that one may have a sense of confinement there? Did the Kiowas enjoy perfect freedom in the wilderness of Y ellowstone?7.What kind of feeling does Devil’s Tower evoke in one’s heart? Why? What legend did the Kiowa make at the base of the rock?8.How did the author’s grandmother regard the sun? What was the author’s feeling about the sun?9.When was the last Sun Dance held? What was the essential act of their religious ceremony? What was Tai-me? Why did a delegation of old men journey into Texas for a bull bison?10.When did the Kiowas come together for the last time as a living Sun Dance culture? Were they able to hold their ceremony this time? What happened to them? Why did the government forbid this ancient ceremony?11.How did his grandmother’s house look to him at the time of his writing? How did he feel when he saw it again? What strange sight did he catch when he looked at the moon as he was sitting on the stone steps?Answers1.Rainy Mountain rises out of the plain in Oklahoma, north and west of the Wichita Range. Because it is an old landmark for the Kiowa.The weather there is very hard. There are blizzards in winter, hot tornadic winds in spring, and it is burning hot in summer.The most important feature of this landscape is loneliness and isolation.2.Because his grandmother was born at a time when the Kiowas were living in the last moment of their golden time.Y es, we can infer that his grandmother Aho was born eight or ten years after the Kiowa’s failure in the war against US Cavalry.The great moment in the history of the Kiowa had lasted for more than a hundred years when they controlled the open range from the Smoky Hill River to the Red, from the headwaters of the Canadian to the fork of the Arkansas and Cimarron, and ruled the whole of the southern Plains inalliance with the Comanches.3.They were good warriors. They fought for their militant tendency rather than their need for survival.Because they were divided by the US Cavalry and ran out of adequate supplies, especially food. In order to save themselves, they surrendered to the US Cavalry at Fort Sill.Because they were imprisoned in the old stone corral which was used to hold animals.No, she was spared the humiliation, because she was born eight or ten years after the event.4.The Kiowa came from the high country in western Montana three centuries ago.They began their long migration to the south and east in the late seventeenth century.The migration brought them culture and religion of the plains, including horses, Tai-me, and the sense of destiny, therefore, courage and pride.The Kiowa transformed from the slaves to the simple necessity of survival to a lordly and dangerous society of fighters and thieves, hunters and priests of the sun.5.According to their origin myth, the Kiowa entered the world through a hollow log.Because the Kiowa’s migration confirmed their origin myth for they did emerge from the sunless mountain forests.6.The author thought Y ellowstone had the perfect freedom, but only animals can enjoy. Because the skyline in all directions, that is, the high wall of the woods and deep cleavages of shade was close at hand.No, because that perfect freedom only belonged to the animals and for the Kiowa, they could hardly stand straight or see very far in the dense forests, therefore, it was a sense of confinement for the Kiowas as hunters.7.Devil’s Tower evokes the inspiring awe and awful quietness of people.Because we caught sight of Devil’s Tower upthrust against the gray sky as if in the birth of time the core of the earth had broken its crust and the motion of the world was begun. It was very powerful and impressive.They made a legend in which a boy turned into a bear and wanted to kill his sisters, who were saved by a tree and were borne into the sky, and finally became the stars of the Big Dipper.8.His grandmother had a reverence for the sun.The author also had a holy regard for the sun as his grandmother had.9.The last sun dance was held in 1887.The essential act of their religious ceremony was to impale the head of a buffalo bull upon the medicine tree.Tai-me was the sacred object of worship in their Sun Dance religion.Because there was no buffalo left in the area of Rainy Mountain, and the Kiowa needed buffalo to consummate the Sun Dance.10.The Kiowas came together for the last time as a living Sun Dance culture on July 20, 1890. No, they were unable to hold their ceremony this time.They were dispersed by a company of soldiers under orders and forbidden to hold the ceremony. The government gave no reason for the action. In fact, the US government thought the native American culture inferior and perceived the Sun Dance as idolatry, so they forbade this ancient ceremony by force.11.At the time of his writing, he hadn’t realize that his grandmother’s house was small. But when he saw it again, he felt the house was very small.In his line of vision, a cricket which had perched upon the handrail filled the moon like a fossil.。
高级英语(第三版)第一册 练习答案 Lesson 11 Key
《高级英语》（第三版）重排版（第一册）Lesson 11 The Way to Rainy MountainKey to ExercisesIII. Paraphrase1. The landscape makes your imagination vivid and lifelike, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was begun right here.2. The Kiowa often fought just because they were good warriors, because they fought out of habit, character, nature, not because they needed extra lands or material gains for the sake of surviving and thriving. And they could not understand why the U.S. Cavalry never gave up pushing forward even when they had won a battle.3. Luckily, my grandmother did not suffer the humiliation of being put into a closure for holding animals, for she was born eight or ten years after the event.4. They moved toward the east, where the sun rises, and also toward the beginning ofa new culture, which led to the greatest moment of their history.5. Now they got horses. Riding on horseback, instead of walking on foot, gave them this new freedom of movement, thus completely liberating their ancient nomadic spirit.6. The earth unfolds and the limit of the land is far in the distance, where there are clusters of trees and animals eating grass. This landscape makes it possible to see far into the distance and in all directions.7. I was not sure that I had any right to overhear her praying, which did not follow any customary way of praying, and which I guess she did not want anyone else to hear.8. In this way she was completely moved to another state in the dancing light among the shadows of her room, and she seemed to be timeless (what she represented would last for ever).9. On these special occasions, women might make loud and elaborate jokes and talk among themselves. Their gossip revealed their position as servants of men and was also a reward for their servitude.IV. Practice with Words and ExpressionsA.1. knoll: a hillock2. anvil: an iron or steel block on which metal objects are hammered into shape3. writhe: to twist and turn the body as in agony4. infirm: weak or ill especially because one is old5. headwaters: the beginning of a large stream or river6. fork: the point where a river is divided into two or more branches, or where branches join to form a river7. pilgrimage: a journey made by a pilgrim, especially to a shrine or holy place; any long journey to a place of historical interest8. engender: to bring into being, bring about, produce9. consummate: to make complete, perfect10. beadwork: decorative work in beads11. warlord: a military leader, especially an unofficial one fighting against a government or king12. hie: to hurry or hastenB.In language, alliteration refers to repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words and/or phrases. Alliteration has historically developed largely through poetry and is still used often in poetry. In the essay “The Way to Rainy Mountain,” the author uses alliteration a lot. Here are some examples from the essay: brittle and brown (Para. 1), willow and witch hazel (Para. 1), great green-and-yellow grasshoppers (Para. 1), the eagle and the elk (Para. 6), the badger and the bear (Para. 6), bent and blind (Para. 6), sad in the sound (Para. 11), lean and leather (Para. 13), jest and gesture (Para. 13), fright and false alarm (Para. 13). The frequent use of alliteration shows the author’s special interest in the sound of language, the rhythm of language, and how words sound to him and the reader. Alliteration helps to achieve a poetic effect of description.C.1. The weather here is extremely harsh.2. In summer the prairie is very hot.3. They were no longer dominated by the simple necessity of survival; they werea proud and dangerous group of fighters and thieves, hunters and pious believers in the sun as their god.4. In a sense, their migration confirmed the ancient myth that they entered the world from a hollow log, for they did emerge from the sunless mountain forests.5. Although my grandmother never left Rainy Mountain in her long life, the immense landscape of the Great Plains existed clearly in her memory as if she had lived there herself.6. As hunters, it was very important for the Kiowa to be able to see a long way. So if a Kiowa could see very far, he would be respected by his fellow Kiowa.7. They would not yet change the direction southward to the land lying below which was like a large kettle. First, they must give their bodies some time to get used to the plains. Second, they didn’t want to lose sight of the mountains so soon.V. TranslationA.1. Changes in the political situation brought the two small parties into alliance.2. His failure was due to his disposition rather than his ability.3. I have something important to discuss with you. Could you spare half an hour?4. Many people prefer to chat online as this can spare them any awkwardness that may occur when talking face to face.5. No longer are the rivers clean and clear, and the water quality has reduced to worse than Level V, unfit even for agricultural irrigation.6. Short as it is, the article is very rich in symbolic implications which deserve a thorough analysis.7. The snow mountain reached into the sky, its beauty beyond all comparison.8. He left home as a child and has seen little of his father since then. So he never feels at home in his father’s presence.9. As this meeting is very important, nobody should be absent without cause.10. In her memory, her mother was at once severe and kind.B.1. 虽然那里很美丽，但人们可能有受束缚、被禁锢的感觉。
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publicly expressed ideas. --A round square is a contradiction in terms用词矛盾.
A saving grace is a good quality or feature in a person or thing that prevents them from being completely bad or worthless. 可取之处
例： Aging's one saving grace is you worry less about what people think. 年迈的一个可取之处是你不那么担心他 人的想法了。
也难以辨清，只有靠意志力才能勉强坚持。
proceed
Work is proceeding slowly.工作正在慢慢地继续进行着。
If you proceed to do something, you do it, often after doing something else first. (做完某事之后) 接着 (做另一 事)
Main idea of the text
This lesson is on sleeplessness.
Adults without exception suffer from sleeplessness. It is well - known that sleep is vital to one's mental and physical health. Sleep and sleeplessness are not medically and scientifically dwelt on.
Dim: not bright, not clearly to be seen不亮的 dim light of a candle 微弱的烛光 a dim room 光线不好的房间 the dim outline of a building 房屋的模糊轮廓 我瞪着那似乎在谴责我的白纸，直到眼前一片模糊，声音
Instead, sleeplessness is used as an example to illustrate the contrariness of things and the contradictions a man is confronted ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱith.
According to the author, a man is a bundle of contradictions and only humour is the saving grace of us. Those who fall asleep as soon as they get into bed are satirized in a humorous tone.
What a bundle of contradictions is a man! Surely, humor is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation.
Contradiction :u. 矛盾，对立 c.对立的事物 --I found no contradiction between his publicly
Vexation is a feeling of being annoyed, puzzled, and frustrated. 恼火
例： He kicked the broken machine in vexation. 他懊恼得 踢了这台坏机器一脚。
人真是充满矛盾啊! 毫无疑问，幽默是惟一帮助我 们摆脱矛盾的办法，要是没有它，我们就会死于烦 恼。
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.
In his opinion, those who are equipped with an iron will lack human feelings. He points out that there is no lack of human feelings, sympathy or depth in a man who has difficulty in falling asleep. The author thinks he belongs to the latter.
Lesson 11 On getting off to sleep
By J.B. Priestley
Background Knowledge
J. B. Priestley, British novelist, playwright, and essayist, noted for his varied output and his ability for shrewd characterization, who wrote prolifically in fiction, drama, biography, the essay and literary and social criticism. Most of his early books were poetry, literary biography and literary criticism. His first book was Brief Diversions.