Lesson6LovingandHatingNewYork爱恨纽约预案.ppt

Para. 19 The mix is much wider- Asians, Africans, Latins - that when that tumultuous variety of European crowded ashore at Ellis Island. 1)tumultuous: making loud, confused noise; excited and confused There is a much wider mixing of nationalities now in New York than when all kinds of wild and noisy Europeans landed at Ellis Island because it now also included Asians, Africans and Latins. Para. 19 The mix is much wider- Asians, Africans, Latins - that when that tumultuous variety of European crowded ashore at Ellis Island. 现在比当时各种各样的欧洲人吵吵嚷嚷登上埃利斯岛的时候更为混杂一一又有了亚洲人、非洲人和拉丁系人。 Para. 19 The newcomers are never fully absorbed, but are added precariously to the undigested many. 1)precarious: unstable The newcomers to New York are never fully assimilated. They mix in a very unstable manner with many who are also not fully absorbed. 新来者永远不会被完全同化。只是不稳定地加入到未被消化的多数中去。 Para. 20 Wasps: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant [Date:1957] sometimes derogatary: an American of Northern European and especially British ancestry and of Protestant background; especially: a member of the dominant and the most privileged class of people in the United States Hispanic: a Spanish-speaking person, especially one of Latin American descent, living in the US （尤指住在美国的拉美人后裔）说西班牙语的人 Para. 20 All have their little sovereignties, all are sizable enough to be reckoned with and tough in asserting their claims, but none is powerful enough to subdue the others. 1)sovereignty: self-governing state 2)sizable：sizeable, fairly large 3)reckon with: deal with; consider sth seriously 所有这些集团都有他们小小的天地，人数相当多，不容忽视；在维护他们的要求方面都很坚韧，但没有一个强大到足以制服其他集团。 Para. 20 Characteristically, the city swallows up the United Nations and refuses to take it seriously, regarding it as an unworkable mixture of the idealistic, the impractical, and the hypocritical. Characteristically, NY swallows up the UN and the New Yorkers refuse to take the United Nations seriously. They regard it as an unworkable institution because it is a m