Thesadyoungmen.ppt

translation 尽管现实中这种有意识的反传统行为正迅速地成为全国范围内那些乡村俱乐部的富人以及财力稍逊的效仿者的基本特征。 Play with the toys of vulgar rebellion Metaphor-----to immitate the unconventional lives Vulgar rebellion: 叛逆和玩玩具一样普通化，庸俗化了。 也玩起了这种通俗的大众反叛游戏了。 Wild party: metaphor---living and acting in wild and unconventional way As commonplace a factor in American life as As a common sight and an accepted mode of American life as…. 美国生活中普通的场景/司空见惯的事 Floral Heights referring to Floral Park on Long Island, a residential suburb of New York. It has a commercial flower industry. Dutch colonial home: spacious houses Who widened the rebellion? The Greenwich Village The pulpit ( denounced it ) The movies and magazines Advertising ( obliquely encourage it ) From intellectuals to non-Intellectuals From Greenwich village to the whole country Form the war generation to their younger Bs Ss Paragraph 9 The true intellectuals who started the revolt against society didn’t feel pleased or honored by the immitation of their lifestyle. …远远谈不上受宠若惊。 Less susceptible to standardization susceptible: 易受影响的，易动情的 不拘泥于规则的/ 不受传统准则影响的 Their behavior had contributed to that standardization [by furnishing a pattern of Bohemianism (that had become as conventionalized as a Rotary luncheon.) ] Furnish: provide …with 而他们的行为提供了波西米亚式的生活模式，使其变得如同伏轮社午餐会一样常规化，因此也助长了这种模式化的观念。 Rotary luncheon 扶轮社午餐会 扶轮社是依循国际扶轮的规章所成立的地区性社会团体，以增进职业交流及提供社会服务为宗旨；其特色是每个扶轮社的成员需来自不同的职业，并且在固定的时间及地点每周召开一次例行聚会。每个扶轮社都是独立运作的社团，但皆需向国际扶轮申请通过后才可成立，通常会以所在地的城市或地区名称作为社名。 Flaming diatribes poured from their pens denouncing the materialism and what they considered to be the cultural boobery of our society. Flaming diatribes[dai?traib] : passionate and violent denunciation Poured from their pens: write bitter and abusive criticism (metaphor) 激烈的抨击之词从他们的笔尖喷出，谴责物质主义以及他们所认为的社会的文化渣滓。 = babbitry Was the rallying point of sensitive persons disgusted with America. Rallying point: 聚焦点----metaphor: critical articles 汇集了一些憎恶美国的敏感人士的抨击性言论。 The burden of the volume was that the best minds