高级英语第二册 The Sad Young Man.pptVIP

The Sad Young Man Ⅷ. Explain how the meaning of the following sentences is affected when the italicized words are replaced with the words in brackets: 　 1. The booming of American industry, with its gigantic, roaring factories, its corporate impersonality, and its large-scale aggressiveness, no longer left any room for the code of polite behavior (flourishing) (aggression） flourish意为向很理想的状况发展或正处于 该状况，即发展的鼎盛时期。 boom意为突然迅速地蓬勃发展。 aggressiveness在这里指大胆积极的开拓进取。 aggression指无故地攻击别人或喜欢争吵。 2. ...it released their inhibited violent energies which, after the shooting was over, were turned in both Europe and America to the destruction of an obsolescent nineteenth-century society (obsolete) obsolete指废旧的，不再时兴，不再使用的。 obsolescent指向废旧转变的，过渡的。 4. Those who were reluctant to serve in a foreign army talked excitedly about Preparedness (preparations) preparedness指有所准备的状态， preparations则指做准备的行动或过程。 6. Their energies had been whipped up and their naiveté destroyed by the war (innocence) naive指真正的单纯或没有人为的痕迹，但有时又含有愚蠢、缺乏社会知识的意思。 innocent指无罪，不会耍花样，或不做、不想不道德的事。 　 8. ...there was little remedy for the sensitive mind but to emigrate to Europe... (migrate) migrate意为从一地区、一国家迁移到另一地区、另一国家。指人时，意为迁往外地定居，指动物时，意为出于气候原因 和食物供给等进行季节性迁移。 emigrate和immigrate仅用于人，emigrate具体指人离开一个国家到另一个国家定居 THANK YOU