Monkey Trial 猴子审判.ppt

The Trial That Rocked the Worldpara. 26-28 罗美欢 潘思娴 Spectators paid to gaze at it and ponder whether they might be related. people had to pay in order to have a look at the ape and consider carefully whether they and the apes could have a common ancestor. ridicule The reporter wrote in an assumingly sympathetically way for the ape, bue the intention was to ridicule the foolishness of the fundamentalists. Even the ape shrank in fear when it realized that it might share the same ancestry with those irrational human beings. When the court adjourned, we found Daytons streets swarming with strangers. adjourn v. close a session or meeting for the day or for a time 休会，闭 会；延期swarm v. be filled or crowded; teem with充满， 被挤满(常与with连用) para. 26 Hawkerscried their wares on every corner. One shop announced: DARWIN IS RIGHT – INSIDE. (This was J. R. Darwins everything to Wear Store.) 　　 hawker n. a person who hawks goods in the street; peddle；huckster(沿街叫卖的)小贩 rhetorical device DARWIN IS RIGHT --- INSIDE : (pun) The author or the shop owner plays on the different meanings of the words. Darwin can refer to the English naturalist or to the shop owner, while right can mean correct or directly. So when one pauses before the dash, the sign means Darwin (the naturalist) is correct; yet when you read out the whole sign in one breath, it means the shop owner is directly inside. One entrepreneur rented a shop window to display an ape. entrepreneur n. a person who organizes and manages a business undertaking, assuming the risk for the sake of the profit 企业家 ape n. any of a family of large，tailless monkeys that can stand and walk in an almost erect position 猿 gaze v. look steadily for a period of time 凝视 ponder v. weigh mentally; th