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rent meanings of the words. Darwin can refer to the English naturalist or to the shop owner, while right can mean correct or directly.
So when one pauses before the dash, the sign means Darwin (the naturalist) is correct; yet when you read out the whole sign in one breath, it means the shop owner is directly inside.
related.
gaze v. look steadily for a period of time 凝视 ponder v. weigh mentally; think deeply about; consider
carefully 默想；深思；考虑
paraphrase
rhetorical device
people had to pay in order to have a look at the ape and consider carefully whether they and the apes could have a common ancestor.
para. 27
"The poor brute cowered in a corner with his hands over his eyes,"a reporter noted, " afraid it might be true. "
H. L. Mencken wrote sulphurous dispatches sitting in his Pants with a tan blowing on him, and there was talk of running him out of town for referring to the local citizenry as yokels .
Monkey Trial 猴子审判
Hawkerscried their wares on every corner. One shop announced: DARWIN IS RIGHT – INSIDE. (This was J. R. Darwin's everything to Wear Store.)
telegraphist n. someone who transmits messages by telegraph 报务员
休庭期间，我们发现戴顿镇的街头巷尾到处挤满 了陌生人，每个角落里都有一些小商小贩在叫卖货物 。有家商店的招牌上写道：达尔文：没错——就在里 面。(这是小达尔文的服装店。)还有一个承包商租了 一个商店橱窗来展出一只猿猴。有些人便花钱去观看 这只猿猴，并思量着自己是否可能与它有什么渊源。
One entrepreneur rented a shop window to display an ape.
entrepreneur n. a person who organizes and manages a business undertaking, assuming the risk for the sake of the profit 企业家
ape n. any of a family of large，tailless monkeys that can stand and walk in an almost erect position 猿
Spectators paid to gaze at it and ponder whether they might be
hawker n. a person who hawks goods in the street; peddle；huckster(沿街叫卖的)小贩
rhetorical device
DARWIN IS RIGHT --- INSIDE : (pun) The author or the shop owner plays on the
的)(新闻)电讯，电文，通讯
yokel n. a person living in a rural area；rustic；country bumpkin [贬]乡巴佬，土包子
para. 28
Twenty-two telegraphists were sending out 165,000 words a day on the trial.
cower v. shrink and tremble，as from someone's anger，threats，or blow (因别人发怒、威胁或打击而)畏缩；发抖，哆嗦
rhetorical device
ridicule
The reporter wrote in an assumingly sympathetically way for the ape, bue the intention was to ridicule the foolishness of the fundamentalists. Even the ape shrank in fear when it realized that it might share the same ancestry with those irrational human beings.
sulphurous adj. violently emotional；heated；fiery 异常
激 动 的；激烈的；暴怒的
dispatch n. a news story sent to a newspaper, radio station, etc．as by a special reporter or news agency (特派记者或新闻社发给报社、电台
So when one pauses before the dash, the sign means Darwin (the naturalist) is correct; yet when you read out the whole sign in one breath, it means the shop owner is directly inside.
related.
gaze v. look steadily for a period of time 凝视 ponder v. weigh mentally; think deeply about; consider
carefully 默想；深思；考虑
paraphrase
rhetorical device
people had to pay in order to have a look at the ape and consider carefully whether they and the apes could have a common ancestor.
para. 27
"The poor brute cowered in a corner with his hands over his eyes,"a reporter noted, " afraid it might be true. "
H. L. Mencken wrote sulphurous dispatches sitting in his Pants with a tan blowing on him, and there was talk of running him out of town for referring to the local citizenry as yokels .
Monkey Trial 猴子审判
Hawkerscried their wares on every corner. One shop announced: DARWIN IS RIGHT – INSIDE. (This was J. R. Darwin's everything to Wear Store.)
telegraphist n. someone who transmits messages by telegraph 报务员
休庭期间，我们发现戴顿镇的街头巷尾到处挤满 了陌生人，每个角落里都有一些小商小贩在叫卖货物 。有家商店的招牌上写道：达尔文：没错——就在里 面。(这是小达尔文的服装店。)还有一个承包商租了 一个商店橱窗来展出一只猿猴。有些人便花钱去观看 这只猿猴，并思量着自己是否可能与它有什么渊源。
One entrepreneur rented a shop window to display an ape.
entrepreneur n. a person who organizes and manages a business undertaking, assuming the risk for the sake of the profit 企业家
ape n. any of a family of large，tailless monkeys that can stand and walk in an almost erect position 猿
Spectators paid to gaze at it and ponder whether they might be
hawker n. a person who hawks goods in the street; peddle；huckster(沿街叫卖的)小贩
rhetorical device
DARWIN IS RIGHT --- INSIDE : (pun) The author or the shop owner plays on the
的)(新闻)电讯，电文，通讯
yokel n. a person living in a rural area；rustic；country bumpkin [贬]乡巴佬，土包子
para. 28
Twenty-two telegraphists were sending out 165,000 words a day on the trial.
cower v. shrink and tremble，as from someone's anger，threats，or blow (因别人发怒、威胁或打击而)畏缩；发抖，哆嗦
rhetorical device
ridicule
The reporter wrote in an assumingly sympathetically way for the ape, bue the intention was to ridicule the foolishness of the fundamentalists. Even the ape shrank in fear when it realized that it might share the same ancestry with those irrational human beings.
sulphurous adj. violently emotional；heated；fiery 异常
激 动 的；激烈的；暴怒的
dispatch n. a news story sent to a newspaper, radio station, etc．as by a special reporter or news agency (特派记者或新闻社发给报社、电台