rhythm and turned out to be quite easy. "Pleading Child" was shorter but slower; "Perfectly Contented" was longer, but faster. And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song. (Para. 93)
我第一次，或好像感觉是第一次，注意 到右边的乐曲。它的名称是“心满意足”。我也试着弹这首曲子。它的曲调比较轻 松，但节奏同样流畅，不是很难。“祈 求的孩子”较短、较慢，而“心满意足” 更长、更快一些。在我弹了几遍后，我 意识到，原来这两个曲子是同一首歌的 两个组成部分。
Lesson three
Vocabulary
1. in the throes of: in the act of struggling with
2. Dynamic: a force producing motion or change
3. Agenda: program of things to be done
4. (be) Shot through: have a lot of , as if full of holes after a shotgun blast
5. Critical mass: a large number of young people who are decisive
6. To hang out: to spend much of one's time ;frequent
7. To take (sb) in hand: to control someone, as to show him how to behave or act
8. Pocket: an isolated area of a specified type
9. To catch: to become popular
10. Plunging: extending far down in a revealing way
Paraphrase
1. Yet globalization…“is a reality, not a choice”. (Para. 2)
However, as one report said, globalization “is now an ordinary fact of life, not something one can choose to have or not.”
2. Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties. (Para. 5)
Political groups favored by the general public have appeared in large numbers to take advantage of existing worries and uneasiness among the people about foreign “cultural assault.”
3. …where xenophobia and economic ambition have often struggled for the upper hand. (Para. 5)
...where the two trends — the dislike and fear of things foreign and the desire to build China into one of a powerful, industrialized economy — have often contended with each other for dominance.
4. Those people out there should continue to live in a museum while we will have showers hat work. (Para. 6)
Those people in countries like China should continue to live a backward life while we ourselves will enjoy a comfortable life with all modern facilities.
5. Westernization… is a phenomenon shot through with inconsistencies and populated by very strange bedfellows. (Para. 7)
Westernization is a concept full of self-contradictions and held by people of very different backgrounds and views.
6. You don’t have to be cool to do it; you just have to have the eye. (Para. 10)