广州大学邓挺-铁道游击队读后感
Unit1
1. Virtue is ... self-
centered.
By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest.
2.... (Poverty) was a product
of their excessive fecundity...
The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children.
3.
...the rich were not responsible for either its
creation or its amelioration.
The rich were not to blame for the existence of poverty so they should not be asked to undertake
the task of solving the
problem.
4. It is merely the working
out of a law of nature and a law of God.
It is only the result or effect of the law of the survival of the fittest applied to nature of to human
society.
5. It declined in popularity, and
references to its acquired a condemnatory tone.
People began to reject Social Darwinism because it
seemed to glorify brutal force and oppose
treasured
values
of
sympathy,
love
and
friendship.
Therefore,
when
it
was
mentioned,
it
was
usually the target of criticism.
6. ...the search for a way of getting
the poor off our conscience was not at an end; it
was only
suspended.
The desire to find a way to justify the unconcern for the poor had not been abandoned; it had
only been put off.
7.
...only rarely given to overpaying for monkey
wrenches, flashlights, coffee makers, and toilet
seats.
Government officials, on the whole, are good; it is very rare that some would pay high prices for
office equipment to get kickbacks.
8. This is perhaps our most highly
influential piece of fiction.
It is a very popular story and has been accepted by many but it is not true.
9.
Belief can be the servant of truth---but even more
of convenience.
Belief can be useful in the search for truth, but more often than not it is accepted because it is
convenient and self-serving.
10. George Gilder... Who tells to much
applause that the poor must have the cruel spur of
their
own suffering to ensure effort...
George Gilder advances the view that only when the poor suffer from great misery will they be
stimulated to make great
efforts to change the situation, in other words,
suffering is necessary to
force the
poor to work hard.
Unit2
11. But these marks of wild country
called to may father like the legendary siren
song.
Though the place was not pleasant or disagreeable, my father was deeply attracted to it precisely
because of
its unexplored, uncultivated natural state, and
the challenge.
12.
afraid
the
day's
going
to
catch
us,
I
explained,
wondering
what
great
disaster
might
befall us
if it did.
As a little girl, I believed my father's words, and was genuinely afraid of the possible disaster--if
we
didn't hurry up, the day would catch us and
terrible things might happen.
13.
...from time to time he was halfheartedly sought
for trial, though few crimes seemed to lead
directly to his door.
In
this
place,
though
the
police
wound
make
some
effort
without
real
earnest
to
investigate
Watson and bring him
to court, there seemed to be little concrete
evidence to prove that he was
responsible for certain illegal
activities.
14.
The
stranglehold
Watson
had
over
this
section
of
Florida
was
not
dissimilar
to
the
unscrupulous activities of certain
lawmen, other legal crooks, and even governors
that our state
was to suffer through
its history.
The
control
Watson
had
over
this
part
of
Florida
was
much
similar
to
the
dishonest
or
illegal
activities of the law-enforcing
officials and governors which Florida witnessed in
the 20th century.
15. There was the
little shack, not the most gracious of living
quarters, and there was a murderer
for
our nearest and only neighbor, about thirty miles
away.
Before the family built their own house, they lived in a shabby cabin at Gopher Key, close to the
merciless
Watson.
16. King Richard in his
gluttony never sat at a table more sumptuous than
ours was three times a
day...
We
had
abundant
food
on
the
island,
and
even
the
meals
enjoyed
by
King
Richard,
who
was
famous for his love of food, couldn’t
possibly compare with ours.
17.
Despite the unrelenting heat, we were happy to be
let off from our hours of school indoors,
sessions which our mother kept every
day, rain or shine.
Although it was very hot outside in the sun, we were happy to be dismissed from my mother's
sessions
indoors. we would have to read and write with her
every day no matter what the weather
was like.
Unit3
18. But this image, now repeatedly
thrust before us in photographs, posters, and
advertisements, is
misleading.
The Earth we see in photos, posters, and ads, which appears so beautiful, is not the true reflection
of the world we
live in, such image lulls us into complacency.
19. The technosphere has become
sufficiently large and intense to alter the
natural processes that
govern the
ecosphere.
Human
activities
have
taken
place
over
such
large
areas
and
with
such
intensity
that
they
have
already caused disastrous effects on
ecology.
20. ...which could establish
itself only because it fitted properly into the
preexisting system.
the fish could play its role because it became a necessary link with the processes preceding it and
the processes following it in the
ecological system.
21.
Defined
so
narrowly,
it
is
no
surprise
that
cars
have
properties
that
are
hostile
to
their
environment.
When
cars
are
produced
to
serve
such
narrow
purposes,
it
is
not
surprising
that some
of
their
characteristic qualities
are harmful to the environment.
22.
Yields rose, but not in proportion to the rate of
fertilizer application...
the farmer applied more and more fertilizer, and the production did rise but did not increase at
the same rate of the fertilizer.
23...their
waste
is
flushed
into
the
sewer
system
altered
in
composition
but
not
in
amount
at
treatment
plant...
People
eat
plants
and
animals,
and
their
waste
is
flushed
into
the
sewer
system.
After
being
processed, the waste is still waste.
the residue will go into rivers, oceans, and will
have harmful
effect on the aquatic
ecosystem.
24. Left to their own
devices, ecosystems are conservative...
If the ecosystems are not upset by outside intrusion, they will remain the same with very little
change
contrast to the ecosphere, the technosphere is
composed of objects and materials that reflect
a
rapid and relentless process of change and variation.
The characteristics of the objects and materials in the technosphere are rapid change and great
variety.
this is done
only at the cost of understanding.
if we take side in the war of the two words, we are doing so at the risk of failing to have a clear
understanding of the
nature and cause of the war, thus, we lose the
chance to really solve the grave
environmental crisis.
Unit 4
Nettles
1. How all my own territory
would be altered, ad if a landslide had gone
through it and skimmed
off all meaning
except loss of Mike.
The impact of Mike's leaving on my life was beyond my imagination. I didn't expect that Mike's
leaving would have such a tremendous
power that it would change the meaning of my
existence
completely. All my thoughts
were about loss of Mike.
2. During that
time of life that is supposed to be a reproductive
daze, with the woman's mind all
swamped
by maternal juices, we were still compelled to
discuss Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur
Koestler and
At that time, we were young mothers, and we were supposed to lead a terribly busy life full of
confusion
and
bewilderment
caused
by
giving
birth
to
and
raising
babies.
and
our
minds
were
supposed
to
be
fully
occupied
by
how
to
feed
the
babies
and
things
like
that.
However,
in
the
midst of all this we still felt the
need to discuss some of the important thinkers of
our time like
Simone de Beauvoir and
Arthur Koestler and T. S. Eliot's sophisticated
work
3. ...I would be frightened, not
of any hostility but of a kind of nonexistence.
I would be frightened, and my fear was not caused by my neighbor's visibly hostile and violent
way
of
life,
but
by
a
kind
of
formless
and
hidden
emptiness
and
meaninglessness
of
human
existence.
What
happened
around
me
was
totally
irrelevant
to
me,
and
I
felt
very
isolated
and
alienated.
4. She
did not ask me---was it delicacy or disapproval?
---about my new life.
She did not ask me about my new life, either out of subtle consideration for my feeling about this
sensitive subject or out of disapproval
for my new life style.
5. It would be a
sleazy thing to do, in the house of his friends.
It would be a morally low thing, an indecent thing to commit infidelity in the house of a friend.
6. I knew now
that he was a person who had hit rock bottom.
I
knew
that
he
was
a
person
who
had
experienced
the
worst
in
life,
the
hardest
experience
a
person might have to endure.
7. He and wife knew that together and
it bound them, as something like that would either
break
you apart or bind you, for life.
They experienced the worst together and they knew what it was like and understood the meaning
of that
experience. Such an experience posed the gravest
test to people. If they stood the test, their
friendship
or
marriage
would
be
strengthened, and
a
sacred
bondage
would
be
formed
between
them.
But
if
they
failed
the
test,
their
relationship
would
be
broken
and
they
would
be
driven
apart.
8.
Not
risking
a
thing
yet
staying
alive
as
a
sweet
trickle,
an
underground
resource.
With
the
weight of this now stillness on it,
this seal.
If
they
acted
on
love,
they
would
take
risks.
they
wouldn't
do
that
or
go
further
in
their
relationship, but they would rather let
their love remain as a sweet trickle, which would
flow on
gently and permanently, and as
an underground resource, which would never be
fully tapped but
would never go dry.
Unit7
1. For man holds in his
mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of
human life.
As a result of
technological development, human belongs now have
the power to put an end to
poverty and
human, misery, but at the same time they also
possess the power to destroy the whole
world, rendering it uninhabitable and
lifeless.
2. ...unwilling to witness or
permit the slow undoing of those human rights...