《现代大学英语精读5》 课后句子解释 Lesson1-5
Explain the following in your own words, bringing out any implied
meanings
Lesson 1: Where Do We Go from Here?
1. The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy.
It is no easy job to educate a people who have been told over centuries that they were inferior and of no importance to see that they are humans, the same as any ot3her people.
2. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.
If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a Man, equal to anyone else, you will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination.
3. The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation.
The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro himself/herself. Only when he/she is fully convinced that he/she is a
Man/Woman and is not inferior to anyone else, can he/she throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and become free.
4. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.
Power in the best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice in the best form of function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power. 5. At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individual’s ability and talents.
At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was to see how much money he had made (or how wealthy he was). 6. …the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber.
A person was poor because he was lazy and not hard-working and lacked a sense of right and wrong.
7. It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster, or by animal necessity.
This kind of work cannot be done by slaves who work because the work has to be done, because they are forced to work by slave-drivers or because they need to work in order to be fed and clothed.
8. …when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of
dollars is eliminated.
…when the unfair practice of judging human value by the amount of money a person has its done away with.
9. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.
Those who harbor hate in their hearts cannot grasp the teachings of God. Only those who have love can enjoy the ultimate happiness in Heaven.
10. Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds.
Let us be dissatisfied until America no longer only talk about racial equality but is unwilling or reluctant to take action to end such evil practice as racial discrimination.
Lesson 2: Two Kinds
1. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.
I imagined myself as different types of prodigy, trying to find out which one suited me the best.
2. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts.
I had new thoughts, which were filled with a strong spirit of disobedience
and rebellion.
3. The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple.
The girl was Shirley Temple—like, slightly rude but in an amusing way. 4. It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had surfaced, at last. When I said those words, I felt that some very nasty thoughts had got out of my chest, and so T felt scared. But at the same time I felt good, relieved, because those nasty things had been suppressed in my heart for some time and they had got out at last.
5. And T could sense her anger rising to its breaking point. I wanted to see it spill over.
I could feel that her anger had reached the point where her self—control would collapse, and I wanted to see what my mother would do when she lost complete control of herself.
6. The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams.
When the lid to the piano was closed, it shut out the dust and also put an end to my misery.
Lesson 3: Goods Move. People Move. Ideas Move. And Cultures Change. 1. Yet globalization… “is a reality, not a choice”.
Yet globalization is not something that you can accept or reject, it is
already a matter of life which you will encounter and have to respond to every day.
2. Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties.
Political groups with broad support have come into being 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…
…in China, the two trends of closed—door and open—door policies have long been struggling for dominance.
4. Those people out there should continue to live in a museum while we will have showers that work.
The Chinese people should continue to live a backward life while we live comfortably with all modern conveniences.
5. Westernization… is a phenomenon shot with inconsistencies and populated by very strange bedfellows.
…westernization is a concept full of self—contradiction and held by people of very different backgrounds or views.
6. You don’t have to be cool to do it; you just have to have the eye. In trying to find out what will be the future trend, you do not need to be fashionable yourself. All you need is awareness, that is to say, you need to be on the alert, to be observant.