现代大学英语精读6-Lesson-1-How-to-Get-the-Poor-off-Our-Conscience

1、2021/8/61How to Get the Poor off Our ConscienceJohn Kenneth Galbraith2021/8/62John Kenneth Galbraith(1908-2006) An economist, author, professor, presidential counselor and U.S. ambassador to India The “last American Institutionalist” an unabashed popularizer of economics The Affluent Society (1958)

2、2000 the Presidential Medal of Freedom,the U.S. governments highest civilian honor. 2021/8/63John Kenneth Galbraith2021/8/64Discussion and Pre-class Works: Why do you think the author choose this title? （Wealth situation) What do you think of the gaps in wealth between the rich and the poor? Is ther

3、e any way to solve this problem? 2021/8/65Detailed study:I(1-2):*Get the poor off our conscience: conscience, a sense of right and wrong, with an urge to do right*intellectual: appealing to the intellectII (3-9):*The poor suffer in the world but: in the next, after they die; when they go to the next

4、 world, i.e. heaven or paradise*This is, in some ways, an admirable solution. : why? And does the author really think that this is an admirable solution? (Discuss about it)* “the principle of utility”: an artion is judged by whether it will increase or decrease the benefits of those who are affected

5、 by the action.*Poverty being caused in the bed: Poverty was caused by overproduction of children. *overriding: Prevailing2021/8/66*The American Beauty Rose can be : 美国这朵玫瑰花后以其华贵让观众倾倒、赞不绝口。而她之所以 能被培植出来，就是因为在早期其周围的花蕾给掐掉了。在经济 生活中情况亦是如此。这是自然规律和上帝意志在起作用。III(10-11)What was the Roosevelt revolution? Why d

6、oes the author call it a revolution? Is he for or against the revolution? How do you know?How did people feel when a number of social measures were put into practice? Were they right in thinking so?IV(12-20)What is the argument of the first design? Essence?*We have great corporate bureaucracies repl

7、ete with corporate bureaucrats, ,(When these , all been in the Pantagon.): What is the basic view of the author? What is the tone of this statement?2021/8/67What is the second design? Does the author agree to the argument? What is the argument of the third design?How dose the author refute this argu

8、ment?*corporate executive: 企业经理人员*Belief can be the servant of truth-but even more of convenience: Belief can be used in the search for truth. But more often than not it is accepted because it is convenience and self-serving.What is the fourth design?*Finally, when all else fails, we resort to simpl

9、e psychological denial: 最终，当一切办法都无济于事时，我们就干脆装作没看见。 *All, save perhaps the last, : save: (prep.) except2021/8/68*A.F.D.C.: 对有未成年子女家庭的补助*food stamps: 食品券*Workers Compensation: 工人（失业）补助金*subsidized housing: 住房补贴*disability insurance: 伤残保险*Cut the knot, for there is no way to untie it: 这是一堆解不开的疙瘩， 只能快刀斩乱麻，统统取消。 V(21)Compassion, is the least comfortable, the least convenient course of behavior and action in our time. : 同情心，加上与之相关的社会努力是我们这个时代最麻烦、最令人不快的 行为和行动方针。*Also, it is, in the end, the most truly conservative course. To the extent that ,above all, should yearn. : Why dose the author t