新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列教材 (修订版)(第二版)U8B3.ppt

Knowledge and Wisdom By Bertrand Russell Learning Objectives Master the style of Exposition. Get familiar with rhetoric devices like parallelism and identify varied functions of it in the sentences. Master the key words and expressions in the text. Background Information Bertrand William Russell, (1872 -1970) A prolific writer, also a popularizer of philosophy and a commentator on a large variety of topics, ranging from very serious issues to the mundane. A British philosopher, logician, and mathematician A prominent anti-war activist for most of his long life, championing f