他们从当地的文化中汲取了很多东西, 但也保留了他们自己的本色。
Linking is humanity’s natural impulse, its common destiny. (Para. 40)
相互联系是人类自然的欲望, 是人类共同的命运。
They are the powerful cords of the heart. (Para. 40)
这些联系是连接人们心灵的强有力的纽带。
Lesson four
Vocabulary
1. Stage: the theater, drama, or acting as a profession
2. Reputable: in a good repute; having a good reputation; well-thought-of; respectable
3. Phantom: ghostly image or figure; ghost
4. Angel: a messenger of God; a person regarded as being as beautiful, good, innocent, etc. as an angel, esp. Said of women or children.
5. Draught: a current of air in a room
6. Art: 1 ) ability, skill or application of a skill; 2) (pl) sly, cunning tricks fine skill or aptitude in creating or expressing what is beautiful, sep. in visual form
7. Credit: praise; approval for an act; ability or a quality
8. Proceeds: (pl) the money or profit derived from a sale, business venture, etc.
9. To induce: (fml) to cause a particular physical condition
10. To nose: to look closely and inquisitively
11. Trance: a state in which you behave as if you were asleep but are still able to hear and understand what is said to you, similar to the unconscious state.
12. Nominally: in name only
Paraphrase
1. Pianos and models, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, masters and mistresses, are not needed by a writer. (Para. 1)
Unlike a pianist or a painter who must have a piano or hire models, or visit famous cities like Paris, Vienna and Berlin, or be taught by masters and mistresses, a writer does not need all this.
2. She would have plucked the heart out of my writing. (Para. 3)
Those conventional attitudes and beliefs (represented by the Angel) would have taken away the essence / soul of my writing.
3. Thus, whenever I felt the shadow of her wing or the radiance of her halo upon my page, I took up the inkpot and flung it at her. (Para. 3)
Thus, whenever I felt the influence of traditional Victorian values and attitudes (about gender roles) on my writing, I fought back with all my power.
4. For though men sensibly allow themselves great freedom in these respects, I doubt that they realize or can control the extreme severity with which they condemn such freedom in women. (Para. 5)
This is because, even though men readily allow themselves full freedom in speaking or writing about such as the body and passions, I don’t think they realize how severely they condemn, or can control their extremely severe condemnation of, such freedom in women.