[精华版]张汉熙高级英语课文详解第2册1-5课

3. Yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hands of mankind’s final war

--Yet both groups of nations are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance

of terrible military power which restrains each group from launching mankind’ final war.

4. Sincerity is always subject to proof.

--People may say or promise all kinds of nice things but they must be proved by deeds.

Part4

I.Words and Expressions

1. testimony (n.): any form of evidence，indication. etc.;proof证明，证据

e.g.: (1) The eyewitness contradicted earlier testimony. (2) She gives her testimony to the lord in a low voice. (3) These results are a testimony to your hard work.

2. embattle (v.): [常用于被动语态]prepare，array，or set in line for battle使准备战斗，使严阵

以待

3. rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation: 在希望中欢欣，在苦难中忍耐

tribulation (n.) : great misery or distress, as from oppression;deep sorrow苦难;困苦;忧伤

4. forge (v.) : move forward steadily，as if against difficulties; form by heating and hammering;

produce(似乎迎着困难)稳步前进;形成;结成

e.g.: (1) The point is to forge consensus to get those policies enacted.

(2) Use passion and rationality to forge the future.

(3) (make false things) They forged their manager's signature on the cheque.

(4) The ship forged ahead under a favorable wind. 5. shrink (back) from: move back 退缩,畏缩 e.g.: (1) She shrink back from his grasp.

(2) Why do you always shrink back from the possibility of change? II.Paraphrase

1. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love.

--Our sure reward will be a good conscience. History will finally judge whether we have done

our task well or not. Lesson 5 Part I

1. Detailed Study

(1) Charles Lamb ... Dream's Children:

1) a month of Sundays: (colloquial) a long time

enterprising (adj.) :full of energy and initiative;willing undertake new projects有进取心的;

充满首创精神的;有胆量的

unfetter (v.) : free from fetters;free from restraint of any kind;liberate除掉?的脚镣;解

放;使获得自由

memorable: unforgettable

---Charles Lamb is a very merry and enterprising person. You'll meet such a person only after

a long time. He wrote the essays, Old China and Dream's Children, which set free the

informal essay.

2) Charles Lamb (1775-1834) ?English essayist and critic

?Best known for his Essays of Elia -- the epitome of the familiar essay style

?Tales from Shakespeare (1807) -- valuable retellings of classic works for children

?Specimens of English Dramatic Poets (1808) -- established his reputation as a critic

and did much in reviving the popularity of Elizabethan drama 3) Literary Style of Charles Lamb

?close-knit, subtle organization, self-revealing observations on life, and humor,

fantasy, and pathos combine to make him one of the great masters of the English

essay.

? developed a highly personal narrative technique to achieve the epitome of the

familiar essay style.

? a characteristically Romantic imagination akin to that of the poets Samuel Taylor

Coleridge and William Wordsworth.

(2) There follows an informal essay… beyond Lamb’s frontier: frontier: limitation

---The informal essay that follows here is freer than the one Lamb wrote.

(3) \

--- It would perhaps be more correct to call this essay a limp, flaccid-or a spongy essay.

limp: drooping; lacking firmness柔软的

flaccid: soft, flabby; hanging in loose folds 不结实的;松驰的;松软的 spongy: like a sponge; soft and porous 海绵(状)的;柔软有弹性的 (4) John Ruskin(1819-1900)

1) Victorian poet, artist, critic, social revolutionary and conservationist; the most brilliant

art critic of his age, perhaps the most brilliant that Britain has ever produced.

2) shaped the esthetic values and tastes of Victorian England, the study of art and

architecture

3) art is an expression of the values of a society 4) Career as a writer:

? First 20 years: concerned almost altogether with Art, chiefly Painting and

Architecture

? Later years, intensely absorbed in the problems of society and strenuously

working as a social reformer. 5) major works: ? The first period

The King of the Golden River (1841) Modern Painters (1843-60)

The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1848) The Stones of Venice (1851-53) ? The later period

Sesame and Lilies (芝麻和百合)(1865) The Crown of Wild Olive (1866)

(5) Par. 3: Logic, far from … and trauma: 1) far from (it): not at all

2) pedantic (adj.) : of or like a pedant迂腐的，书呆子气的 a pedantic attention to details.