《高级英语 上》笔记.doc

高级英语 （上）L1-10 笔记 Lesson 1 一.句子 How do you feel about this adulation and hero worship? When Mick Jagger’s fans look at him as a high priest or a god, are you with them or against them? Do you share Chris Singer’s almost religious reverence for Bob Dylan? Do you think he-or Dylan-is misguided? Do you reject Alice Cooper as sick? Or are you drawn somehow to this strange clown, perhaps because he acts out your wildest fantasies? There aren’t idle questions. Some sociologists say that your answers to them could explain a lot about what you are thinking and about what your society is thinking-in other words, about where you and your society are. “Music expresses its times,” says sociologist Irving Horowitz, Horowitz sees the rock music arena as a sort of debating forum, a place where ideas clash and crash .He sees it as a place where American society struggles to define and redefine its feelings and beliefs. “The redefinition,” Horowitz says, “is a task uniquely performed by the young. It is they alone who combine invention and exaggeration, reason and motion, word and sound, music and politics. 你如何看待这种赞美和英雄崇拜？当米克.贾格尔的歌迷把他视作大主教或神时，你对他们是持赞成还是反对态度？你是否赞同克里斯.辛格对鲍勃.狄佗的近乎宗教般的崇敬？你认为是他-还是狄伦-迷入歧途了？你是否认为艾利斯.库珀的表演令人讨厌因而拒绝接受他呢？你是否因为这位奇怪的小丑表达出了你狂热的幻觉而多少被他吸引？ 这些并不是随便提出的毫无价值的问题。一些社会学家认为，你对这些问题的回答在很大程度上表明你在想什么，你所在的社会在想什么-换句话说，可以说明你和你所在社会的立场。社会学家欧文.霍罗威茨说：“音乐表现它的时代”他认为摇滚舞台是一个论坛，在此不同的观点互相交锋碰撞，他认美国社会力图阐明和重新定义自已的感情及信仰的地方。霍罗威茨说：“这种重新解释，是只有年轻人才能完成的工作，只是他们才把创造与夸张、理性与运动、言词与声音、音乐与政治结合了起来。 Feelings, always a part of any musical statement, were a major subject. 感情作为任何音乐形式的一个组成部分，是个永恒的主题。 二. 单词 Adulation amphitheater baptismal bewilderment clown coliseum crunch editorialize ghoul guillotine jug lyrics onstage piety pilgrimage rambler rebellion reverence sociological sprinkle swelter 三. 短语 Rather …than …. 不是…而是… I, rather than you, should do the work. In return 作为回报 We invited him to have dinner in return for his help. Conceive of 设想，想象 It is difficult to conceive of traveling