高级英语（第三版）第一册第五课_The_Libido_for_the_Ugly教材教学课件.pptVIP

Lesson 5 Libido for the Ugly -- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956);Objectives of Teaching Unit 7;Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956); Mencken’s quotationsA cynic is a man who, when he smells a flower, looks around for a coffin. ;;;Objective vs. Subjective;Dominant impression of ugliness;---The writer contrasts the great wealth of this region with the abominable human habitations seen everywhere. libido -concept originated by Sigmund Freud to signify the instinctual physiological or psychic energy associated with sexual urges and, in his later writings, with all constructive human activity. In the text, it means psychic energy generally; specifically, a basic form of psychic energy, comprising the positive, loving instincts manifested variously at different stages of personality development. Drive, desire. 欲望 appalling: horrifying, shocking, 令人震惊的 roll: to travel in a wheeled vehicle ;lucrative: producing wealth or profit; profitable; 有利可图的 hideous: horrible to see, hear, etc; very ugly or revolting; dreadful 非常丑陋的 bleak: cheerless, gloomy, desolate, depressing 荒凉的 forlorn: in pitiful condition; wretched; miserable 悲惨的, 不幸的 aspiration: strong desire or ambition, as for advancement, honor 热望,渴望 macabre: gruesome; grim and horrible; ghastly 令人毛骨悚然的 abominable: nasty and disgusting; vile; loathsome 讨厌的 alley: a narrow street or walk; especially, a lane behind a row of buildings or between two rows of buildings that face the adjacent streets. 胡同 ;Here … heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity, the boast and pride of the richest and greatest nation ever seen on earth— Metaphor, comparing this center to the heart of a human body; hyperbole: exaggerating the richness and grandeur of the region and of America as a