《基础英语》课件 the damned human race.pptVIP

(4) he was at in France for a couple of centuries: This line by Mark Twain is to be understood against the background of the French history from the events leading up to and the events following in the wake of the French Revolution. One only has to remember the poverty and misery of the people; the corruption and cruelty of the lords, the monarch and the Church; the storming of the Bastille; the overthrow of the king; and the way Jacobins guillotined first the king and queen, lords and royalists, and finally guillotined each other to see what Twain had in mind. (5) (Queen) Mary: Mary I (1516-1558), commonly known as Bloody Mary, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and half sister to Elizabeth I, who succeeded her. She alienated her subjects by marrying King Philip of Spain, reestablishing the Roman Catholic Church, reviving the church courts and the laws against heresy, and initiating religious persecution resulting in the death of 300 Protestants. And we are told that they are going to be left out, in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste. in the Hereafter: in the world to come after death句中的the Hereafter指的是“来世，来生”。 questionable taste: poor judgment on the part of God (God does not seem to know what is good and what is bad. ) Paraphrase: And we are told that they will not be allowed to go to the next world (Heaven). I wonder why? It seems to show poor taste to leave out the higher animals and allow only human beings to go to Heaven. Para 15 Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. to be open to dispute: If sth is open to dispute, it means that it is not certain and you can argue about it. Paraphrase: Human beings say that they are the only animals who have reasoning power (who can think). But I think this is rather doubtful (or: debatable). It seems plain to me that whatever he is he is not a reasoning animal. Paraphrase: It seems clear