Lesson5TheLibidofortheugly爱丑之欲分析.ppt

Para. 7 It is impossible to put down the wallpaper that defaces the average American home of the lower middle class to mere inadvertence , or to the obscene humor of the manufacturers. 1. put down (to)： attribute (to) 2. deface: spoil the surface/appearance of ; disfigure 损坏外表 3. inadvertence: the quality of being inadvertent; oversight, 粗心大意， 4. obscene: offensive to one’s feelings, dirty 猥渎的， 可憎的 Para. 7 Such ghastly designs, it must be obvious, give a genuine delight to a certain type of mind. 1. ghastly: terrible/scary It is clear that the horrible ugly designs on the wallpaper give real delight to a certain type of mind. Para. 7 They meet, in some unfathomable way, its obscure and unintelligible demands. 1. unfathomable: which cannot be understood; which cannot be reached. 2. obscure: ambiguous; unclear;hidden 3. unintelligible: impossible to understand/incomprehensible These ugly designs, in some way that people cannot understand, satisfy the hidden and unintelligible demands of this type of mind. 它们以某种莫名其妙的方式满足了这种人的某种晦涩难解的心理需要。 Para. 7 The taste for them is as enigmatical and yet as common as the taste for dogmatic theology and the poetry of Edgar A Guest. 1. enigmatical: difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious 2. dogmatic : having ideas or beliefs that you are completely certain about and expept other people to accept without questioning.固执己见，教条主义 3. theology： the study of religion and religious ideas and beliefs. The taste for them is mysterious and difficult to understand or explain and also as common as the appreciation of the dogmatic theology and poetry of Edgar A. Guest. Para. 7 Guest, Edgar Albert (1881-1959) 　American poet, born in Birmingham, England. He went to the U.S. in 1891 and became a citizen in 1902. Starting in 1895 Guest wrote a column in the Detroit Free Press, and his verse and sketches of a simple, colloquial quality won him a wide audience. The verse, “Home,” beginning “It takes a heap o livin in a house t m