高级英语第一册第十五课

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①Disperse：break up and move in different directions; scatter（使）分散;（使）散布 The oil appeared to be dispersing... 油好像在扩散。 Police fired shots and used teargas to disperse the demonstrators... 警方鸣枪并使用催泪弹来驱散示威者。 The crowd dispersed peacefully after prayers. 祈祷仪式过后，人们静静散去。 ②creep up同： sneak up advance stealthily or unnoticed The cat crept up on the bird and pounced. 那只猫悄悄地爬近那只鸟，接著便猛扑过去。 You did give me a scare, creeping up on me like that! 你那样悄悄地过来，真把我吓了一大跳！
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本句由前面的时间状语和主句的三个谓语结构（由 两个and连接）构成，no longer 后的what 从句是与 a middle-aged journalist… 并列或同位关系。Taking 后的非谓语从句作journalist的定语。前一个名词短 语，bathed in过去分词作它的后置定语；young and strong 形容词短语作后置定语，介词with短语为an Endymion作解释。 Here the narrator uses this allusion because he feels he has become incapable of envy, ambition, malice, etc. while floating in the swimming pool, as if the pool had changed him completely by a miracle just like mythological waters.
Personification (拟人）:It gives human form of feelings to animals, or life and personal attributes(赋予) to inanimate( 无生命的) objects, or to ideas and abstractions(抽象). eg.1>.The night gently lays her hand at our fevered heads.（把夜拟人化） 2>.I was very happy and could hear the birds singing in the woods.（把鸟拟人化）
3. 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 middleagedjournalist 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 the world inspired from Olympus. ☺Why the allusion of Endymion is used here？
Personification: The moon which has just risen lies on her back, which is her habit in the tropics, and I think the way the young moon lies is suitable if no tropics for a virgin. Here the narrator personifies the moon, describing it as a beautiful virgin.
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。
Pantheism offers a different sort of solution: a downward exit, an abandonment of our tragic self-consciousness, a remerger with the natural world our ancestors half-escaped millennia ago. 泛神论提供了一种不同的解决方法： 向后的退路，抛弃我们悲剧性的自我意 识，与我们祖先数百万年前半逃出的自 然再次融合。
恩底弥翁是一个凡人猎 手(牧羊人)。他的外貌俊 美无比，被这种惊人的 美貌迷住的塞勒涅请求 宙斯让恩底弥翁永葆青 春。但塞勒涅得知，请 求神赐予凡人永生是不 可能的，于是这个请求 变成了让恩底弥翁永远 沉睡，这样他就既不会 死去也不会离开她。， 塞勒涅给恩底弥翁生育 了50个女儿，这是对古 希腊历法中一年有50个 星期的反映。
Paraphrase: I come up stealthily again to the empty deck and slip into the swimming pool and let myself float in the water freely. At this moment I am not a middle-aged journalist that people believe me to be spending a holiday on an ocean-going liner. I have now become a liberated person, bathed in magic waters, and I feel I am like Endymion, a young and strong youth who has a god for his father and gifted with the power to see the world given by gods at Olympus.
mythological waters
magic waters, that appear in mythology, such as the Lethe, the river of forgetfulness whose water produced loss of memory in those who drank of it. Lethe【希腊、罗马神话】忘川，忘河(冥府的河流 之一，饮其水者会忘掉过去) Endymion [en'dimiən] 【希腊神话】恩底弥翁(埃特里俄斯俊美的儿子,为月 亮女神塞勒涅所钟爱) 以希腊爱情故事为烘托，勾画相似的情景，运用 意识流手法stream of thoughts,幻想着他希望得到 Laura的爱恋，以及超脱凡尘、灵魂得到净化的轻 盈.
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Early Pantheism
Pantheism can be thought of as a natural development of animism, arguing that everything is part of a universal spirit rather than that everything has spirits. On the other hand, pantheism has also tended to resist the personal and anthropomorphic depictions which typify the spirits in animism - and not all pantheists have regarded the "god" of the universe to be spiritual in nature.
lie on 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.
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 the sentence?
4. All weight is lifted from my limbs; I am one with the night; I understand the meaning of pantheism.
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definition of pantheism
Pantheism is a way to equate nature with God, to emphasize the supremacy of the philosophical views of nature. That God exists among all things in nature, and no other masters of the supernatural or spiritual force.This view was popular in the sixteenth century to the eighteenth-century Western Europe, the representatives are Bruno, Spinoza and so on.
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2. Not a star but migwenku.baidu.comt not shoot down and accept the invitation to become her lover. (简单句) 没有哪一颗星星不想飞奔而下,应邀成为她的情人
but: adv. used for emphasis Not a star but might not shoot down—Every single star might come down quickly.(双重否定) Personification shoot down 击落