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第七课
aA
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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.
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…
.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 still
appear pleasing to the eye.
9.I award this championship only after
laborious research and incessant prayer.
I
have
given
Westmoreland
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 type
of mind.
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…
.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
.
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.
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…
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.
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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.
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…
.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.
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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.
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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 breakdown of the
Victorian social structure.
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…
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
responsibilities.
They
pretended
to
be
worldly-wise, drinking and behaving
naughtily.
ition afforded the young the
additional opportunity of making their pleasures
illicit,
…
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