《英美报刊选读》重点词汇整理.docVIP

一，who we are now 1.But the president was openly ambivalent, too. 2.Because who we are now-a country in which traditional barriers of race, age and gender are crumbling-flows in many ways from what LBJ did then. 3.Why exhume the long-dead Johnson on the occasion of one of the most engaging inaugural since George Washington took the oath at Federal Hall… 4.His conflicting language underscores the nation’s occasionally wary view of the changes wrought by immigration. 5.There is something quintessentially American about a lumbering white man from Texas… 6.In the understandable thrill of the inaugural season, all eyes are turned to this single man, all ears attuned to his voice. 7.Whatever your politics, the election of the 44th president represents a kind of redemption from the long and tragic history of blacks… 8.If you count a generation as roughly 21 years, he was off the mark, since the rapidly inspired backlash shaped politics for more than 40 years 9.In 1909,…proposed a literary test to restrict the influx of the “Italians, Russians,Poles,Hungarians”… 10.Then,in1952,Congress passed the…Act,which essentially made naturalization colorblind.(平等的对待不同肤色的人) 11.The tension between assimilation and separation is eternal, but there is no doubt that this flood of immigration and the breaking down of barriers between previously estranged (疏远的，隔离的)groups within the country has created a much more fluid culture than… 12.The key cohort is the 75 million-strong generation known as the millennials(1980-2000) 13.perennial:lasting for a long time or forever 14.The disparity between older and younger voters was greater in 2008 than at any other time… 15.The younger cohort is more diverse than the general population, more female, more secular, less socially conservative and more willing to describe themselves as liberals. 16.In the wake of a possible terrorist attack, fear could easily lead to tension, resent and discord. 17.witch hunts: an attempt to find and punish people with diff