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1、Lesson 10,Rod W. Horton correctlye.g. You must learn to see things in perspective. sensational: arousing strong curiosity, interest, or reaction degeneration: moral corruption jazzmad: blindly and foolishly fond of jazz music,Figures of speech (Para. 1),The slightest mention of the decade brings nos
2、talgic recollections to the middle-aged and curious questionings by the young transferred epithet,Para. 1 Main idea,Young peoples interest in the Revolt of the Younger Generation of the 1920s.,Detailed study of the text (Para. 2),logical outcome: necessary or expected result aftermath: a consequence
3、, esp. of a disaster or misfortune subconscious: occurring without conscious perception,Detailed study of the text (Para. 2),stature: high level of respect provincial: narrow bordering oceans,Figures of speech (Para. 2),and that we had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us f
4、rom retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality Metaphor (comparing “provincial morality” to “artificial walls”),Para. 2 Main idea,The revolt was a logical outcome of the conditions in the age.,Detailed study of the text (Para. 3),Victorian: showing the middle-class respectabilit
5、y, generally of Victorian England gentility: the quality of being genteel, elegant boom: develop rapidly roar: to make a loud noise,Detailed study of the text (Para. 3),corporate: individuals acting together impersonality: lack of human character or feelings aggressive: a ruthless desire to dominate
6、 code: principles or rules of conduct,Detailed study of the text (Para. 3),well-bred: well-mannered and refined bustling: full of energetic and noisy activity medium: environment catalytic agent: stimulus to speed up precipitate: throw suddenly,Detailed study of the text (Para. 3),inhibit: put down
7、by force, repress obsolescent: getting old and becoming unacceptable; being in the process of passing out of use,Figures of speech (Para. 3),they were expected to battle for success. Metaphor (They had to fight as in a battle in order to become successful.) The war acted merely as a catalytic agent
8、in this breakdown of . Metaphor,Para. 3 Main idea,The rejection of Victorian gentility was inevitable.,Detailed study of the text (Para. 4),mores: customs tempt: try to get sb. to do sth. wrong air: an outward appearance; general impression sophistication: being artificial, worldly-wise精于世故的,Detaile
9、d study of the text (Para. 4),pose: pretense Bohemian: a person, esp. an artist, poet, unconventional in habits, dress, and sometimes in morals, material poverty because they prefer their art faddishness: following fashion novelty: newness hectic: excited; confused; feverish,Detailed study of the te
10、xt (Para. 4),gaiety: merriment; a gay feeling perversion: a sexual practice Prohibition: The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic liquors for beverage purposes much-publicized: reported often in newspapers and magazines orgy: any wild, immoderate indulgence放荡,P
11、rohibition,specially in the U.S., the period (1920-1933) of prohibition by Federal Law.,Detailed study of the text (Para. 4),defiant: boldly resisting authority manifesto: a public declaration of principles, policies Greenwich Village: section of New York City, a center for artists, writers, etc, fo
12、rmerly a village,Detailed study of the text (Para. 4) Greenwich Village,Several generations of writers and artists have lived and worked here. 19th century: Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane turn of the 20th century: O. Henry, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser betwe
13、en the 1920s and 1930s, John Dos Passos, Norman Rockwell, Sinclair Lewis, John Reed, Eugene ONeill,Para. 4 Greenwich Village,late 1940s and early 1950s: painters Franz Kline ;Beat writers Jack Kerouac the 1960s: folk musicians and poets, Bob Dylan,Detailed study of the text (Para. 4),spree: overindu
14、lgence in an activity狂欢 crash: a sudden economic failure the crash of the world economic structure: the Great Economic Depression (started in the U. S. in 1929) reveler: a celebrant who shares in a noisy party; merrymaker sober up: cause sb. to become serious，solemn,Figures of speech (Para. 4), unti
15、l the crash of the world economic structure at the end of the decade called the party to a halt and forced the revellers to sober up and face the problems of the new age. Metaphor (the escapists wild, riotous living - a party; the escapists- drunken revelers),Para. 4 Main idea,Young peoples escapism
16、.,Detailed study of the text (Para. 5),stalemate: a situation in which no progress can be made the stalemate of 1915-1916: the stalemate on the Western Front in Europe. The battle lines remained stationary for three years insolence: rudeness,Detailed study of the text (Para. 5),insolence of Germany
17、towards the U. S.: beginning of WWI :U.S. , a neutral nation 1915, a German submarine (U-boat) attacked a British liner, the Lusitania, killing 1,195 people(128 Americans). No sympathy for Germany; demands for war 1917 , U.S. broke off relations with Germany; soon declared war on Germany,Detailed st
18、udy of the text (Para. 5),belligerent: at war；of war strenuous: vigorous, zealous jingoism: chauvinism characterized by an aggressive, threatening, warlike foreign policy 侵略主义，沙文主义,Detailed study of the text (Para. 5),Theodore Roosevelt西奥多罗斯福 (1859-1919) 26th President of the U.S. (1901- 09) critici
19、zed for his glorification of military strength and his patriotic fervor. After the outbreak of World War I, he attacked Wilson s neutrality policy.,Detailed study of the text (Para. 5),John Dos Passos (1896-1970) American novelist Publications: Three Soldiers Manhattan Transfer U. S. A. District of
20、Columbia,Detailed study of the text (Para. 5),turn belly up: finish, end (In fishing, a fish that floats belly up is dead.) the strife of 1861-65: strife: bitter conflict, the Civil War between the Northern (Federal) States and Southern (Confederate) States, which resulted in victory for the former
21、and the abolition of slavery,Detailed study of the text (Para. 5),magnolia-scented: very sweet magnolia: a kind of flower soap opera: radio or television serial drama of a highly sentimental nature,Detailed study of the text (Para. 5),fracas: a noisy fight fracas with Spain in 1898: the Spanish-Amer
22、ican War (1898), U. S. navy sailed into the harbor of Manila and in a few hours thoroughly defeated the Spanish fleet there. dissolve: fade; come to an end,Detailed study of the text (Para. 5),charge: rush San Juan Hill: in East Cuba, the scene of a battle in the Spanish-American war assembly orator
23、: public speaker otherwise: in other respects or ways corps: army unit,Detailed study of the text (Para. 5),infantry: an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot merchant marine: the vessels that helped to carry supplies and ammunitions,Detailed study of the text (Para. 5),National Guard:
24、United States military reserves 国民自卫队 In peace time, used by governors to quell local disturbances In wars, absorbed into the active service of the U.S.,Detailed study of the text (Para. 5),enlist: enter the army recruitment: enlisting people for the army harassed: troubled, worried sergeant: noncom
25、missioned officer of the fifth grade中士 draft: choosing individuals for military service 征兵,Detailed study of the text (Para. 5),craze: an interest followed with exaggerated zeal unabated: adj. maintaining full force with no decrease,Para. 5 Main idea,Enlistment craze.,Detailed study of the text (Par
26、a. 6),spirit of carnival: festive spirit, spirit of merrymaking,Detailed study of the text (Para. 6),dissipate: disappear; break up contingent: a temporary military unit,Detailed study of the text (Para. 6),Fourth-of-July: U. S. Independence Day, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Inde
27、pendence, celebrated with the firing of guns and fireworks, parades, open-air meetings, and patriotic speeches. bombast: pompous or pretentious talk or writing 浮夸的言语, 高调,Detailed study of the text (Para. 6),Fourth-of-July bombast: pompous and patriotic speeches made during the Fourth of July celebra
28、tions recession: decline outgrow: grow too large for ones clothes bewildering: confusing whip up: rouse; excite,Detailed study of the text (Para. 6),Gopher Prairies: backward, undeveloped areas of the prairies prairie: a treeless grassy plain,Detailed study of the text (Para. 6),curb: restrain, cont
29、rol resume: continue outmoded: old-fashioned sodden: expressionless, stupid, or dull, esp. from drink,Detailed study of the text (Para. 6),Napoleonic cynicism: As conqueror, Napoleon cynically rearranged the whole map of Europe. The victorious allies(协约国) of World War I did the same at Versailles (t
30、he Versailles Palace in Paris: Treaty of Versailles). cynicism: a scornful attitude; a general distrust of the integrity of other people,Detailed study of the text (Para. 6),hypocritical: deceptive, just pretending to be good smug: self-satisfied,Detailed study of the text (Para. 6),profiteers: some
31、one who makes much profit tension-ridden: full of tension,Detailed study of the text (Para. 6),resentment:the feeling of anger or bitterness genteel: polite, refined,Figures of speech (Para. 6),once the eager young men had received a good taste of twentieth- century warfare. Metaphor (real or thorou
32、gh experience of -a good taste) ; they had outgrown town and families Metaphor (their unsuitability- growing too large for ones clothes),Para. 6 Main idea,Reasons for the youths overthrow of the genteel standards of behavior.,Detailed study of the text (Para. 7),dubious reputation: a reputation that
33、 was questionable dubious: rousing suspicion Bohemianism: the practice of an unconventional lifestyle; mainly musicians, artists, writers eccentricity: strange and unconventional behavior,Detailed study of the text (Para. 7),harbor: give a home or shelter to inflame: arouse or excite feelings Babbit
34、try: narrow minded materialism低级趣味, 市侩作风 Babbit: George Babbitt, title character of a satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis, a smugly conventional person interested chiefly in business and social success and indifferent to cultural values,Detailed study of the text (Para. 7),gentility: the quality of be
35、ing polite, gentle, or graceful flout: be scornful; show contempt; mock at,Figures of speech (Para. 7),Greenwich Village set the pattern. Metonymy转喻 (Greenwich Village- the writers and artists living in Greenwich Village) hopeful young writers, their minds and pens inflamed against war, Babbittry, M
36、etonymy转喻 (“pens”- their writing; “Babbittry”-qualities displayed by Babbitt),Para. 7 Main idea,Greenwich Village set the pattern.,Detailed study of the text (Para. 8),defy: resist; oppose conflagration: a big, destructive fire fast: living in a reckless, wild way 放纵的 set: a group of persons sharing
37、 a common interest country club: a club with sporting and social facilities, set in a suburban area pulpit: preachers collectively神职人员,Detailed study of the text (Para. 7),obliquely: indirectly implied: suggested but not directly expressed render: provide; give marble: a small ball of colored glass
38、used as a toy,Detailed study of the text (Para. 7),Belleau Wood: small forest in France; site of a battle in WWI between Germany and U.S.,Detailed study of the text (Para. 8),Chateau Thierry: a town in France, a major battlefield during World War I. German occupiers were driven away. vulgar: common;
39、 popular,Detailed study of the text (Para. 8),flapper: (in the 1920s) A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior,Detailed study of the text (Para. 8),Model T: one of the early Ford cars,Detailed study of the text (Para. 8),Dutch Colonial home
40、: spacious houses following the style of Dutch Colonial architecture Floral Heights: a residential suburb of New York,Figures of speech (Para. 8 ),and to add their own little matchsticks to the conflagration metaphor( matchsticksmisdeeds) (conflagration- the revolt of the young) Before long the move
41、ment had become officially recognized by the pulpit metonymy (pulpit - the church),Figures of speech (Para. 8 ), it was Greenwich Village that fanned the flames. metonymy (Greenwich Village- the young intellectuals living in Greenwich Village) metaphor (flames -revolt) and who had suffered no real d
42、isillusionment or sense of loss, now began to imitate the manners of their elders and play with the toys of vulgar rebellion. metaphor (play with the toys-live unconventional lives),Para. 8 Main idea,Unconventionality was imitated, recognized, accepted and became common.,Detailed study of the text (
43、Para. 9),avid: keenly interested susceptible: easily influenced; sensitive standardization: the imposition(强迫接受) of standards or regulations conventionalized: adapting to conventions,Detailed study of the text (Para. 9),Rotary: 扶轮会 organization of service clubs (Rotary Clubs), founded in 1905, busin
44、ess and professional people, Rotary clubs throughout the world, more than 32,000 clubs, open to all persons regardless of race, color, creed, gender, or political preference, meeting in rotation at the members places of business,Detailed study of the text (Para. 9),luncheon: a formal lunch acute: sh
45、arp diatribe: bitter criticism or denunciation boobery: self-satisfied conformist市侩 grandiose: impressive or magnificent in appearance or style rallying point: a point on which scattered groups can come together,Detailed study of the text (Para. 9),burden: central idea；theme adjunct: connected or ad
46、ded to something crook: dishonest person keep up with the Joneses: try to get all the material things ones neighbors have Joneses: a persons neighbors show the way: be an example glint: small flash of light,Detailed study of the text (Para. 9),remedy: something that corrects an evil, a fault, or an
47、error follow suit: follow the example,Figures of speech (Para. 9),An important book was the rallying point of sensitive persons disgusted with America. metaphor (the book-the rallying point) -,but since the country was blind and deaf to everything save the glint and ring of the dollar, personificati
48、on,Figures of speech (Para. 9),but since the country was blind and deaf to everything save the glint and ring of the dollar, Metaphor (America-a blind and deaf person) ,but since the country was blind and deaf to everything save the glint and ring of the dollar, Metonymy (glint and ring of the dolla
49、r-attraction of wealth and money),Para. 9 Main idea,Expression of the intellectuals dissatisfaction through the book.,Detailed study of the text (Para. 10),defiant: boldly resisting authority expatriation: residing in a country other than the persons homeland Gertrude Stein(1874 - 1946): an American writer, most of her life in France, a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature,Detailed study of the text (Para. 10),common denominator: a shared characteristic；a feature in common cynical: dis