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第七课
aA
1
…
boy and man, I
had been through it often before.
As a
boy and later when I was a grown-up man, I had of-
ten travelled through the region.
2. But somehow I had never quite sensed
its appaling desolation.
But somehow in
the past I never really perceived how shocking and
wretched this whole region was.
3
…
.it reduced the
whole aspiration of man to a macabre and
depressing joke.
This dreadful scene
makes all human endeavors to advance and improve
their lot appear as a ghastly,saddening joke.
country itself is not
uncomely, despite the grim of the endless mills.
The country itself is
pleasant to look at, despite the sooty dirt spread
by the innumerable mills in this region.
have taken as their model
a brick set on end.
The
model they followed in building their houses was a
brick standing upright. / All the houses they
built looked like bricks
standing
upright.
they have
converted into a thing of dingy clapboards, with a
narrow
, low-pitched roof.
These brick-like houses were made of
shabby,thin wooden boards and their roofs were
narrow and had little slope.
it has taken on the patina of the
mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope
or caring.
When the brick
is covered with the black soot of the mills it
takes on the color of a rotten egg.
brick, even in a steel town, ages with
some dignity.
Red brick,
even in a steel town, looks quite respectable with
the passing of time. / Even in a steel town, old
red bricks sti
ll
appear
pleasing to the eye.
9.I
award this championship only after laborious
research and incessant prayer.
I have
given
W
estmoreland
the
highest
award
for
ugliness
after having
done
a
lot
of
hard
work
and
research and
after
continuous praying.
show grotesqueries of
ugliness that, in retroapect, become almost
diabolical.
They show such
fantastic and bizarre ugliness that, in looking
back, they become almost fiendish and wicked./
When one
looks back at these houses
whose ugliness is so fantastic and bizarre, one
feels they must be the
work of the
devil himself.
is
incredible that mere ignorance should have
achieved such masterpieces of horror
.
It is hard to believe that
people built such horrible houses just because
they did not know what beautiful houses were like.
certain levels of the
American race, indeed, there seems to be a
positive libido for the
ugly
…
People
in
certain
strata
of
American
society seem
definite-
ly
to
hunger
after ugly
things;
while in
other
less Chris-
tian
strata, people seem to long for things
beautiful.
meet, in some
unfathomable way, its obscure and unintelligible
demands.
These ugly
designs, in some way that people cannot un-
derstand, satisfy the hidden and unintelligible
demands of this typ
e
of
mind.
14
…
.they made it
perfect in their own sight by putting a completely
impossible penthouse, painted a staring
yellow
, on top of
it.
They put a penthouse on top
of it, painted in a bright, conspicuous yellow
color and thought it looked perfect but they only
managed to make it absolutely
intolerable.
of the
melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as
it hates truth.
From
the
intermingling
of
different
nationalities
and
races
in
the
United
States emerges
the
American
race
which
hates
beauty as strongly as it hates
truth
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第八课
1
…
.by the very
fact of production, he has risen above the animal
kingdom
…
Because of the fact itself that man
produces, he has developed far beyond all other
animals.
is also his
liberator from nature, his creator as a social and
independent being.
Work
also frees man from nature and makes him into a
social being independent of nature.
3…
all are expressions of the
creative transformation of nature by
man
’
s reason and skill.
All the above-mentioned work shows how
man has trans formed nature through his reason and
skill.
is no split of work
and play, or work and culture.
Therefore pleasure and work went
together so did the cultural development of the
worker go hand in hand with the work
he
was doing.
became
the
chief
factor
in
a
system
of
“
innerwordly
asceticiam,
”
an
answer
to
man
’
s
sense
of
aloneness
and
isolation.
Work
became the chief element in a system that preached
an austere and self-denying way of life. Work was
the only thing
that brought relief to
those who felt alone and isolat ed leading this
kind of ascetic life.
has become alienated from the working
person.
In capitalist society the
worker feels estranged from or hostile to the work
he is doing.
7. Work is a
means of getting money, not in itself a meaningful
human activity.
Work helps the worker to earn some
money; and earning money only is an activity
without much significance or pur pose.
8
…
a pay check is
not enough to base one
’
s
self-respect on.
Just
earning some money is not enough to make a worker
have a proper respect of himself.
9
…
most industrial
psychologists are mainly concerned with the
manipulation of the worker
’
s
psyche,
Most industrial
psychologists are mainly trying to manage and
control the mind of the worker.
is going to pay off in cold dollars
and cents to management.
Better relations with the public will
yield larger profits to management. The management
will earn larger profits if
it has
better relations with the public.
this usefulness often serves only as a
rationalization for the appeal to complete
passivity and receptivity
.
The fact that many gadgets are indeed
useful is often used by advertisers as a more
a vulgar, base appeal to idleness and
willingness to accept things.
12
…
.he has a
feeling of fraudulency about his product and a
secret contempt for it.
The
businessman knows the quality or usefulness of his
product is not what it should be. He despises the
goods he produces,
conscious of the
deception involved.
第九课
a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring,
the Festival of Summer came to the city Omelas.
The
1oud
ringing
of
the
bells,
which
sent
the
frightened
swallows
flying
high,
marked
the
beginning
of
the
Festival
of
Summer in Omelas.
2
…
their high
calls rising like the
swallows
’
crossing flights
over the music and the singing.
The
shouting
of the
children
could
be
heard
clearly
above
the music
and singing
like
the
calls
of the
swallows
flying
by
overhead.
3
…
exercised their
restive hoeses befor the race.
The riders were putting the horses
through some exercises because the horses were
eager to start and stubbornly resisting
the control of the riders.
a description such as this one tends to make
certain assumptions.
After
reading the above description the reader is likely
to assume certain things.
were not
simple folk, not dulcet shepherds, noble savages,
bland utopian.
The citizens
of Omelas were not simple people, not kind and
gentle shepherds, not savages of high birth, nor
mild
idealists
dreaming of a
perfect society.
is the treason of the
artist:a refusal to admit the banality of evil and
the terrible boredom of pain.
An
artist
betrays
his
trust
when
he
does
not
admit
that
evil
is
nothing
fresh
nor
novel
and
pain
is
very
dull
and
uninteresting.
were mature, intelligent, passionate
adults whose lives were not wretched.
They were fully developed and
intelligent grown-up people full of intense
feelings and they were not miserable people.
s it would be best if you imagined it
your own fancy bids, assuming it will rise to the
occasion.
Perhaps it would
be best if the reader pictures Omelas to himself
as his imagination tells him, assuming his
imagination will
be equal to the task.
faint insistent sweetness of drooz may
perfume the ways of the city
.
The faint but compelling
sweet scent of the drug drooz may fill the streets
of the city
.
s
it was born defective, or perhaps it has become
imbecile through fear
, malnutrition,
and neglect.
Perhaps the
child was mentally retarded because it was born so
or perhaps it has become very foolish and stupid
because of
fear
, poor
nourishment and neglect.
habits are too uncouth for it to respond to humane
treatment.
The habits of
the child are so crude and uncultured that it will
show no sign of improvement even if it is treated
kindly and
tenderly.
tears at the bitter injustice dry when
they begin to perceive the terrible justice of
reality,and to accept it.
They shed tears when they see how
terribly unjust they have been to the child, but
these tears dry up when they realize how
just and fair though terrible reality
was.
第十课
slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic
recollections to the middle aged.
At
the very mention of this post-war period, middle-
aged people begin to think about it longingly.
rejection of Victorian gentility was,
in any case, inevitable.
In any case,
an American could not avoid casting aside its
middle-class respectability and affected
refinement.
war acted merely as a
catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian
slcial structure,
…
The war only helped to speed up the
break
down of the Victorian social
structure.
4
…
it
was
tempted,
in
America
at
least,
to
escape
its
responsibilities
and
retreat
behind
an
air
of
naughty
alcoholic
sophistication
…
In
America
at
least,
the
young
people
were
strongly
inclined
to
shirk
their
respons
ibilities.
They
pretend
ed
to
be
worldly-
wise, drinking and behaving naughtily.
ition afforded the young the additional
opportunity of making their pleasures
illicit,
…
The
young people found greater pleasure in their
drinking because Prohibition, by making drinking
unlawful added a sense
of adventure.
6
…
our young men
began to enlist under foreign flags.
Our young men joined the armies of
foreign countries to fight in the war.
7
…
they
“
wanted
to get
into the fun before the whole thing turned belly
up”
.
The young people wanted
to take part in the glorious ad-venture before the
whole war ended.
8
…
.they had
outgrown towns and families
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