《现代大学英语 精读6（第二版）》教学课件Unit 9-(2003版).pptVIP

* Text Analysis In the record of this conflict, ideology … has produced—those whom Sir Isaiah Berlin, termed the “hedgehogs”, who know one big thing, as against the “foxes”, who know many small things. (Para. 7) What is the one big thing hedgehogs know? When hedgehogs encounter danger, they invariably curl themselves up into a ball with sharp spines sticking out as a defense. This is the only protective strategy they know. What is the characteristic of foxes? Foxes use many different methods of deceiving their pursuers. The hedgehog is being compared here to the ideologist, who blindly follows the dogma he believes in. * Text Analysis Nor can one suggest that Americans have been consistently immune to the ideological temptation—to the temptation, that is, to define national goals in an ordered, comprehen-sive, and permanent way. (Para. 8) P: No one can say that Americans have never been tempted by the alternative of understanding, preserving or trans-forming the world according to a rigid dogma. ……以一种有序、全面、永恒的方式来确定国家目标。 * Text Analysis After all, the American mind was conditioned by one of the noblest and most formidable structures of analysis ever devised, Calvinist theology, and any intellect so shaped was bound to have certain vulnerability to secular ideology ever after. (Para. 8) mind: way of thinking condition: to affect, modify or influence formidable: strikingly impressive; commanding respect structures of analysis: 分析问题的理论体系 [加尔文主义] is a system of theological thought contained in John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, including the ideas of predestination, the elect, covenant and calling. The Calvinist believer holds that his faith, rather than atonement for his sins, is what will save him. * Text Analysis After all, the American mind was conditioned by one of the noblest and most formidable structures of analysis ever devised, Calvinist theology, … (Para. 8) 毕竟，美国人的思维方式深受加尔文派神学的影响，这种神学是有史以来人类创造的最崇高、最令人敬畏的分析体系之一…… … and any intellect so shape