Lesson 6 高级英语1第六课自主课件.pptVIP

O.B. Hardison Jr. (1928 -1990) O.B. Hardison, Jr. Born in San Diego, California in 1928 Died in 1990 B.A 1949 M.A 1950 Ph.D 1956 Princeton the University of North Carolina He became University Professor of English at Georgetown in 1984. O.B. Hardison, Jr. numerous books and articles Lyrics and Elegies (1958)： The Enduring Monument (1962) English Literary Criticism: The Renaissance (1964) Toward Freedom and Dignity: The Humanities and the Idea of Humanity (1973), Entering the Maze: Identity and Change in Modern Culture (1981) and Disappearing Through the Skylight (1980). In the nineteenth century, science presented nature as a group of objects set comfortably and solidly in the middle distance before the eyes of the beholder. In the work of D’Arcy Thompson, published around the turn of the century, nature has disappeared. It has become a set of geometric and mathematical relations that lie under the surface of the visible…. ….Today, nature has slipped, perhaps finally, beyond our field of vision. Para.9: “我记得有一个时期,每一位艺术家表示对埃菲尔铁塔的蔑视，谴责这座污染天空，亵渎神明的建筑是自己义不容辞的责任,机器的发明与发展很快就提出了一些传统思维完全无法解决的命题，一种全新的、灵活的、超出人的理解力的可塑性.” Reminisce: v. recall the past 老朋友们总喜欢谈论那“美好的往昔”。 Old friends like to reminisce about the “good old days” aesthetic: a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful Owed it to himself to turn his back on Owe it to someone to do sth.:认为自己有必要为某人做 Blasphemy(line6):expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred n. 亵渎神明；轻视上帝或神祗 Eiffell Tower Plasticity:可塑性；适应性；柔软性 The discovery and rehabilitation of machines…all tradition Machines soon originated new ideas and problems that could not be handled by the old ways of thinking. Para. 10: 这就动摇了人们认为世界的物质是客观实在的信念。同时，科学又创造出了潜存于客观实在之中的各种不同种类和范畴的现实世界的形象。机器的形象与细胞、分子或是银河系这些物体形象相比较，哪一个更实在呢?科学还创造出了纯属人造物的形象。一个张牙舞爪的龙的形象比分子的形象是更接近现实还是更远离现实呢? Insubstantiality(line3):n. 虚体 It has produced images of orders of reality underlying the thingliness of things. Science has produced images o