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当代散文练习1.The dangers of scofflawry vary wildly.)w lawless activities today add up to a colossal public 10)n 1)illegally 2)remains 3)risk 4)company 5)waste 6)beater7)than 8)dangerous 9)whose 10)nuisance.2.“Never 1. p off till tomorrow,” 2. e Lord Chesterfield in 1749, “9. f that even the most well-intentioned men have been 10. p ever.答案:1. put 2. exhorted 3. what 4. That 5. around 6. habit 7. like 8. heels 9. fact 10. Postponers3. So Grant and Lee were in complete contrast, 1)r his weaknesses from the 10)p he led.1)representing 2)opposed 3)man 4)on 5)cities 6)down 7)hand 8)over 9)both 10)people4. The teacher as mountaineer learns, as E. M. Forster urged, to connect.- w the wider national life beyond the classroom where pertinent.1. together 2. other 3. by 4. written 5. instructional 6. makes 7. its 8. where 9. joining 10. with 5So Grant and Lee were in complete contrast, 1)r two diametrically 2)o_ elements-from the 10)p he led.1)representing 2)opposed 3)man 4)on 5)cities 6)down 7)hand 8)over 9)both 10)people答案:翻译下划线的词语1. Appetite is the keenness of living: strong desire to live on2. you are still curious to exist: eager3. you still have an edge on your longings: are still driven by strong desires4. taste its multitudinous flavours and juices: numerous5. I dont mean the lust for food: overwhelming desire6. any burning in the blood: any strong desire that you have7. who never got their hearts desire: were never satisfied8. Ive always preferred wanting to having: being in the state of wanting something to having something9. the whole toffeeness of toffees: appeal for a child to eat toffees10.imperceptibly diminished: unaccountably答案:1. transmute trivial impulses into momentous consequences: be inspired by seemingly unimportant sudden ideas for the success in great achievements2. what he can do with physiological pressures and hunger: his capacity to suffer illness and hunger3. vexation: discomfort4. seminal: highly original and influencing the development of future events5. equidistant from：equally distant6. insights: understandings7. inordinate humanness shows itself in the ability to make the trivial and common reach an enormous way: excessive human feature is embodied8. thrive on dull routine: succeed on the basis of9. resources of the mature: ability of adaptation10. stave off boredom: prevent in time 第5题 1. Despite all the current fuss and bother about the extraordinary number of ordinary illiterates who overpopulate our schools, small attention has been given to another kind of illiterate.Another kind of illiterate has been _ ignored, despite all the current fuss and bother about the extraordinary number of ordinary illiterates who overpopulate our schools. 2. The person to whom I refer is the straight-A illiterate, and the following is written in an attempt to give him equal time with his widely publicized counterpart.By writing the following, I attempt _ to give the person, to whom I refer as the straight-A illiterate, equal time with his widely publicized counterpart. 3. Finally, with both of us combining our linguistic and imaginative resources, finally, after what seems another hour, we decode it. Finally, both of our _ respective linguistic knowledge and imagination help us decode it after what seems another hour. 4. Brights disease attacks the best minds, and gradually destroys the critical faculties, making it his own writing or in that of others.Because Brights disease attacks the best minds the sufferer is made_ unable to detect gibberish in his own writing or in that of others, because Brights disease attacks the best minds.5. Taking his cue from years of higher education, years of reading the textbooks and professional he writes in this way.His affliction mainly comes from his years of higher education, years of reading the textbooks and professionals, which causes him to write in this way.1. The half of the king was barbaric, as his ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled.2. He was such a man not only of exuberant fancy, but also of an authority, that he would turn his varied fancies into facts without being resisted.3. Thinking of such a thing like the public arena as one of his borrowed notions by which his barbarism had become semified, the king intended to make the minds of his subjects refined and cultured by exhibition of manly and beastly valor.4. The man was not guided or influenced by anyone or anything except the aforementioned impartial and incorruptible chance.5. The occasion was made more interesting just for this element of uncertainty, which it could not be otherwise.答案: 1. Mans creativeness is especially shown in the fact that he is able to transmute trivial impulses into momentous consequences.2. Mans ability to do with petty grievances and joys, and with common physiological pressures and hungers shows his greatness as a man.3. In an eventful life, mans creativity is hindered instead of being activated.4. It would have been impossible for me to do any thinking and composing on the companys time or even on my own time after returning from work if my work had been of absorbing interest.5. Finding dull jobs unendurable, those people, dull as well, dont know what to do with themselves when at leisure.答案: 1. Like an endangered species, manuscripts as vital records of an authors creative process are being threatened and fast disappearing.2. It is probable that Edna St. Vincent Millay had worked hard day and night, but not sure about her success.3. By reading his manuscripts almost a century later, in the National Library in Dublin, people can still feel the power of his passion.4. Like the disappearance of the burning books that he deplores, his various drafts may disappear into a memory bank, which, in that case, it might be so appropriate and even ironic. 5. The convenience of word processing should not be a reason for us to deprive future generations of learning, by manuscripts as our gift to our heritage, how we think and feel.答案: 1. In spite of the Greeks distinction between a persons “inside” and “outside”, they still expected that inner beauty would be matched by beauty of the other kind.2. Under the influence of Christianity, beauty was deprived of its central place in classical ideals of human excellence.3. The notion of beauty was deviatedas an alienated, arbitrary, superficial enchantment, when Christianity limited excellence to moral virtue only.4. It is more reliable for beauty to be doubted and attacked morally if it is associated with women.5. Assuming that one has these stereotypes, it is no wonder that beauty enjoys, at best, a rather mixed reputation.答案: 1. We realized that it is futile for us to rush out impulsively and catch him, so hope was all we could offer from our vantage point in Ketchum Hall.2.Thanks to this incident, I believed more strongly that mountaineering serves as an apt analogy for the art of teaching.3.The fewer the devotees allowed in to the society through this process, the more successful the connoisseur, according to his colleagues.4. Instead of slackness, misjudgment, or laziness which can bring doom, keen focus and rapt attention are needed in the precarious situation.5. Teaching is a sublime art of guided expedition into the most exciting and least understood terrain on earththe mind itself, which must be recognized by the society in order to encourage and further such mountain-top experiences.41)这个半开化的国王有个正处在豆蔻年华的女儿，其绝伦的美貌和他那异想天开的古怪念头 一样令人难以形容，其狂野与蛮横与他如出一辙。-那充满野性的爱使她的热情超乎寻常的炽热。答案:This semi-barbaric king had a daughter as blooming as his most florid fancies, and with a soul as fervent and imperious as his own. As is usual in such cases, she was the apple of his eye, and was loved by him above all humanity. Among his courtiers was a young man of that fineness of blood and lowness of station common; to the conventional heroes of romance who love royal maidens. This royal maiden was well satisfied with her lover, for he was handsome and brave to a degree unsurpassed in all this kingdom; and she loved him with an ardor that had enough of barbarism in it to make it exceedingly warm and strong. 1)很久很久以前，有一位半开化的国王。2)他这个人满脑子古怪念头，而且非常专横，他随心所欲地把自己各种古怪念头变为现实。3)他一向独断专行，当他自己决定了某件事时，这件事就要执行。4)在他的臣民都循规蹈矩的按照他的意志来行事时，他会变得更为和蔼可亲，5)因为没有什么事情能比打抱不平，维护公正更令他高兴的了。答案: In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled, as became the half of him which was barbaric. He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal, of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts. He was greatly given to self-communing; and, when he and himself agreed upon anything, the thing was done. When every member of his domestic and political systems moved smoothly in its appointed course, his nature was bland and genial; but whenever there was a little hitch, and some of his orbs got out of their orbits, he was blander and more genial still, for nothing pleased him so much as to make the crooked straight, and crush down uneven places.1)我们应该为手稿的绝迹而扼腕痛惜。-剥夺了子孙后代了解我们的思想和感受的机会。We should deplore the disappearance of manuscripts. How can anyone, student or scholar, learn anything about the creative process from a floppy disc? Can this wobbly plastic reveal the hours, the endless hours, where beauty was born out of I its own despair (as William Butler Yeats put it) and blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil? Manuscripts are these records of creative agony, often sweat-stained, coffee-splattered or cigarette-charred. Manuscripts tell us what went on in a writers soul, how he or she felt during the agony of creation. Manuscripts are our gift to our heritage, and we have no right to deprive future generations of learning how we think and feel, simply because we find word processing more convenient1,事实上，拖延这种现象的漫长而骄人的历史本身就已经表明，而是要在不急不忙的细细品味中，一点一滴地被逐步消化。”答案: In fact, there is a long and honorable history of procrastination to suggest that many ideas and decisions may well improve if postponed. It is something of a truism that to put off making a decision is itself a decision. The parliamentary process is essentially a system of delay and deliberation. So, for that matter, is the creation of a great painting, or an entree, or a book, or a building like Blenheim Palace, which took the Duke of Marlboroughs architects and laborers 15 years to construct. In the process, the design can mellow and marinate. Indeed, hurry can be the assassin of elegance. As T. H. White, author of Sword in the Stone, once wrote, time “is not meant to be devoured in an hour or a day, but to be consumed delicately and gradually and without haste.” 1) 在原始社会，人类把世界描绘成巨大而可怕，充满仇恨而且不为人类所驾驭的地方。因为对于死亡的恐惧是人们最强烈的恐惧。答案: In a primitive society, for example, men pictured the world as large, fearsome, hostile, and beyond human control. Therefore they built heavy, walls of huge boulders, behind which they could feel themselves to be in a delimited space that was controllable and safe; these heavy walls expressed mans fear of the outer world and his need to find protection, however illusory. It might be argued that the undeveloped technology of the period precluded the construction of more delicate walls. This is of course true. Still, it was not technology, but a fearful attitude toward the world, which made people want to build walls in the first place. The greater the fear, the heavier the wall, until in the tombs of ancient kings we find structures that are practically all wall, the fear of dissolution being the ultimate fear.1) 人们似乎普遍认为，杰出的人不能忍受单调刻板的生活，-而且还未具备成年人内在的应变能力。There seems to be a general assumption that brilliant people cannot stand routine; that they need a varied, exciting life in order to do their best. It is also assumed that dull people are particularly suited for dull work. We are told that the reason the present-day young protest so loudly against the dullness of factory jobs is that they are better educated and brighter than the young of the past. -People who find dull jobs unendurable are often dull people who do not know what to do with themselves when at leisure. Children and mature people thrive on dull routine, while the adolescent, who has lost the childs capacity for concentration and is without the inner resources of the mature, needs excitement and novelty to save off boredom.2) 1)对于古希腊人来说，美是一种美德：一种完美的品质-即可笑又可悲的历史是最重要的见证。For the Greeks, beauty was a virtue: a kind of excellence. Persons then were assumed to be what we now have to call - lamely, enviously - whole persons. If it did occur to the Greeks to distinguish between a persons “inside” and “outside,” they still expected that inner beauty would be matched by - beauty of the other kind. The well-born young Athenians who gathered around Socrates found it quite paradoxical that their hero was so intelligent, so brave, so honorable, so seductive - and so ugly. One of Socrates main pedagogical acts was to be ugly and teach those innocent, no doubt splendid-looking disciples of his how full of para