现代大学英语精读5 Unit 2,3,4,6,7句子解释

2021年1月24日发(作者：视听语言)
句子解释

Lesson 2
1. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each
one on for size.


I
imagined
myself
as
different
types
of
prodigy,
trying
to
find
out
which one suited me the best.
2. I had new thoughts , willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots
of won
’
ts.


I
had
new
thoughts,
which
were
filled
with
a
strong
spirit
of
disobedience and rebellion.
3. The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple.



The
girl
was
Shirley
Temple
—
like,
slightly
rude
but
in
an
amusing
way.
4. It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest,
but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had surfaced, at last.
When I said those words, I felt that some very nasty thoughts had got
out of my chest, and so T felt scared. But at the same time I felt good,
relieved,
because
those
nasty
things
had
been
suppressed
in
my
heart
for some time and they had got out at last.
5. And T could sense her anger rising to its breaking point. I wanted to
see it spill over.


I
could
feel
that
her
anger
had
reached
the
point
where
her
self
—
control
would
collapse,
and
I
wanted
to
see
what
my
mother
would do when she lost complete control of herself.
6. The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and
her dreams.



When the lid to the piano was closed, it shut out the dust and also put
an end to my misery.



Lesson 3
1.

Yet
globalization…

“
is a reality, not a choice
”
.




Yet globalization is not something that you can accept or reject, it is
already
a
matter
of
life
which
you
will
encounter
and
have
to
respond to every day.
2.

Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties.
Political
groups
with
broad
support
have
come
into
being
to
take
advantage of existing worries and uneasiness among the people about
foreign
“
cultural assault
”
.
3.

…
where xenophobia and economic ambition have often struggled for
the upper hand
…

…
in China, the two trends of closed
—
door and open
—
door policies
have long been struggling for dominance.
4.

Those people out there should continue to live in a museum while we
will have showers that work.
The Chinese people should continue to live a backward life while we
live comfortably with all modern conveniences.
5.

Westernization
…

is
a
phenomenon
shot
with
inconsistencies
and
populated by very strange bedfellows.
…
westernization is a concept full of self
—
contradiction and held by
people of very different backgrounds or views.
6.

You don
’
t have to be cool to do it; you just have to have the eye.
In trying to find out what will be the future trend, you do not need to
be fashionable yourself. All you need is awareness, that is to say, you
need to be on the alert, to be observant.

7.

He
…
was up in the cybersphere far above the level of time zones.
He
was
moving
around,
playing
a
game
through
the
Internet
with
people
living
in
different
time
zones,
thus
their
activity
on
the
computer broke down time zone limit.
8.

In the first two weeks of business the Gucci Store took in a surprising
＄
100,000.
The
Gucci
store
did
not
expect
that
in
the
first
two
weeks
of
its
opening in Shanghai business could be so good.
9.

Early on I realized that I was going to need some type of compass to
guide me through the wilds of global culture.
From the very beginning I know I need some theory as guideline to
help me in my study of global cultures as globalization, to guide me
through such a variety of cultural phenomena.
10.

T
he penitence may have been Jewish, but the aspiration was universal.
The way of showing repentance might be peculiar to the Jews, but the
strong desire of gaining forgiveness from God is common, shared by
all.

Lesson 4
1.

Pianos and models, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, masters and mistresses,
are not needed by a writer.
If you want to be musician or painter, you must own a piano or hire
models, and you have to visit or even live in culture centers like Paris,
Vienna
and
Berlin.
And
also
you
have
to
be
taught
by
masters
and
mistresses.
However,
if
you
want
to
be
a
writer,
you
don
’
t
need
all
this.
2.

She would have plucked the heart out of my writing.
Those
conventional
attitudes
would
have
taken
away
the
most
important part of my writing, the essence of my writing.
3.

Thus, whenever I felt the shadow of her wing or the radiance of her
halo upon my page, I took up the inkpot and flung it at her.
Thus,
whenever
I
felt
the
influence
of
the
Victorian
attitudes on
my
writing, I fought back with all my power.
4.

For
though
men
sensibly
allow
themselves
great
freedom
in
theses
respects, I doubt that they realize or can control the extreme severity
with which they condemn such freedom in women.
It was a sensible thing for men to given themselves great freedom to
talk about the body and their passions. But if women want to have the
same freedom, men condemn such freedom in women. And
I do not
believe that they realize how severely they condemn such freedom in
women,
nor
do
I
believe
that
they
can
control
their
extremely
sever
condemnation of such freedom in women.
5.

Indeed
it
will
be
a
long
time
still,
I
think,
before
a
woman
can
sit
down to write a book without finding a phantom to be slain, a rock to
be dasher against.
It will take a long time for women to rid themselves of false values
and
attitudes
and
to
overcome
the
obstacle
to
telling
the
truth
about
their body and passions.
6.

Even
when
the
path
is
nominally
open
—
when
there
is
nothing
to
prevent a woman from being a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant
—
there
are many phantoms and obstacles, as I believe looming in her way.
Even when the path is open to women in name only, when outwardly
there is nothing to prevent a woman from being a doctor, a lawyer, a
civil
servant,
inwardly
there
are
still
false
ideas
and
obstacles
impeding a woman
’
s progress.