现代大学英语精读5课后1,2,3,4,5,7,10课的句子解释

Lesson11. The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for somany 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 other people.2. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerfulweapon 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 hisown 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 atits 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’sability 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 andmoral fiber.A person was poor because he was lazy and not hard-working and lacked asense of right and wrong.7. It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by thetaskmaster, 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 iseliminated.…when the unfair practice of judhing human calue by the amount of money a person has irs done away with.9. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key thatunlocks 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 pressureof 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 21、I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one onfor size.I imagined myself as different types of prodigy trying to find out which onesuited me the best.2、I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts.I had new thoughts, which filled with a strong spirit of disobedience and rebellion3、The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley T emple.The girl was Shirley T emple-like, slightly rude but in an amusing way.4、it felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but italso 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 I felt scared. But at the same time if 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 I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point. I wanted to see it spillover.I could feel that her anger had reached the point where her self-control wouldcollapse, and I wanted to see what my mother would do when she lost complete control of herself.6、The lid to the piano was close, shutting out the dust, my misery, and herdreams.When the lid to the piano was closed, it shut out the dust and also put an end to my misery and her dreams..Lesson 31、yet globalization…” is a reality, not a choice”.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、In China, where xenophobia and economic ambition have often struggled forthe upper hand.In China, the two trends of closed-door & open-door policies have long beenstruggle for dominance.4、Those people out there should continue to live in a museum while we will haveshowers 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.After months of research and travel, I found that Westernization is a concept full of self-contradiction and held by people of very different background or views.6、Y ou 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 observant7、He… was up in the cybersphere far above the level of time zones.He was moving around, playing a game through the Internet with people living in different time zones, thus their activity on the computer broke down time zone limit.8、In its first to weeks of business the Gucci Store took in a surprising $ 100,000.The Gucci store didn’t expect that in the first tw o weeks of its opening in Shanghai its total sales amounted to $100,000.9、Early on I realized that I was going to need some type of compass to guide me through the wilds of global culture.From the very beginning I know I need some theory as guideline to help e in my study of global cultures or globalization, to guide me through such a great variety of cultural phenomena.10、The penitence may have been Jewish, but the aspiration was universal.The way of showing repentance might be peculiar to the Jews, but the strong desire of gaining forgiveness from God is common, shared by all..Lesson 41. Pianos and models, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, masters and mistresses, arenot needed by a writer.If you want to be musician or painter, you must own a piano or hire models, and you have to visit or even live in culture centers like Paris, Vienna and Berlin. And also you have to be taught by masters and mistresses. However, if you want to be a writer, you don’t need all this.2. She would have plucked the heart out of my writing.Those conventional attitudes would have taken away the most important part of my writing, the essence of my writing.3. Thus, whenever I felt the shadow of her wing or the radiance of her halo uponmy page, I took up the inkpot and flung it at her.Thus, whenever I felt the influence of the Victorian attitudes on my writing, I fought back with all my power.4. For though men sensibly allow themselves great freedom in theses respects,I doubt that they realize or can control the extreme severity with which theycondemn such freedom in women.It was a sensible thing for men to given themselves great freedom to talk about the body and their passions. But if women want to have the same freedom, men condemn such freedom in women. And I do not believe that they realize how severely they condemn such freedom in women, nor do I believe that they can control their extremely sever condemnation of such freedom in women.5. Indeed it will be a long time still, I think, before a woman can sit down to writea book without finding a phantom to be slain, a rock to be dasher against.It will take a long time for women to rid themselves of false values and attitudes and to overcome the obstacle to telling the truth about their body and passions.6. Even when the path is nominally open—when there is nothing to prevent awoman from being a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant—there are many phantoms and obstacles, as I believe looming in her way.Even when the path is open to women in name only, when outwardly there is nothing to prevent a woman from being a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant, inwardly there are still false ideas and obstacles im peding a woman’s progress.7. Y ou have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned bymen.(Through fighting against the Angel in the House, through great labor and effort,) you have gained a position or certain freedom in a society that has been up to now dominate by men.Lesson 51、Fads ,I submit, are the very negation of reason.I believe following passing crazes shows a complete lack of sound judgment.2、One afternoon I found Petey lying on his bed with an expression of suchdistress on his face that I immediately diagnosed appendicitis.One afternoon, when I went back to my dorm, Petey was lying on his bed. He wore such a depressed look that I came to the conclusion at once that he was suffering from appendicitis.3、My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.My brain, which is as precise as a chemist’s scales, began to work at high speed.4、She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions, but I was not one to letmy heart rule my head. I wanted Polly for a shrewdly calculated, entirely cerebral reason.She was beautiful and attractive enough to arouse the desires and passions of men, but I would not let feelings or emotions get the upper hand of reason or good sense. I wanted Polly entirely for a carefully thought out reason.5、She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt sure that time would supply thelack.She was not yet fully developed like pin-up girls but I felt sure that, given time, she would fill up and become just as glamorous.6、In fact, she veered in the opposite direction.In fact, she went in the opposite direction. This a sarcastic way of saying that she was rather stupid.7、If you were out of the picture, the field would be open.If you’re no longer involved with her (if you stop dating her) others would be free to compete for her friendship.8、Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.His head turned back and forth (looking at the coat then looking away from the coat). Every time he looked, his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to give away Polly became weaker.9、This loomed as a project of no small dimensions, and at first I was tempted togive her back to Petey.T o teach her to think appeared to be a very big task, and at first I even thought of giving her back to Petey.10、There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.There is limit to what any human being can beat.Lesson71、It took me a long time and much painful...nobody but myself.It took me a long time to get rid of illusion and realize the simple and apparent truth that I am nobody but myself. It was a painful process. I started with high expectations only to be deeply disappointed and thoroughly disillusioned.2、And yet I am no freak...eighty-five yeas old.I am perfectly normal physically, I am a natural product of history. Whenthings seemed likely to happen to me, or when I was fated to be the man as described in the novel, other things had been equal (or unequal) 85 years old.3、About eighty-five years ago they were told that they were free, unitedwith...separate like the fingers of the hand.The relationship between black and white is like fingers of the hand, implying that in social life the blacks and the whites are separated, though they are united in all things essential to the common interests.4、In those pre-invisible days…Booker T. Washington.In those days before I realized I was an invisible man, I imagined that Iwould become a successful man like Booker T. Washington.5、I wanted at one and the same time to run from…to love her and murder her.On the one hand, he felt so embarrassed that he wanted to run away from the ballroom, on the other hand ,he took pity on the girl and so wanted to protect the naked girl, but at the same time he wanted to destroy her because after all she was the immediate cause of their embarrassment.6、Should I try to win…for nonresistance?If I should try his best and win the fight, then I would be winning against the bet of that white man, who shouted “I got money on the big boy.” In that caseI would not behave with humility, essence of success. So maybe I should letthat big boy win without putting up resistance, for this was time for me to show humility.7、”Cast down your bucket where you are”---cast it down…we are surrounded…Make full use of what you have and do the best you can. Take this attitude in making friends in every honorable way, making friends with people of different races among whom we live.8、”You weren’t being smart, were you ,boy?”“we mean to do right byyou…place at all times.”You are trying to seem clever in a disrespectful way. We intend to do the right by setting you up as a role model, but you must never forget who you are.Lesson 101．We still remember that assassinated world as idyllic, secure…., we will speak of it in the reverent tones reserved for the dead.In our memory , the pre-September 11 world was peaceful ,happy and safe (overlooking the fact that this was not the case) and we will talk about those days with a feeling of deep respect and love which can only be found in talking about dead people.2． ...the spoils of war include some of our most cherished values and liberties.In order to win the way, we might have to give up some of the basic values and liberties we treasure most. This might be the cost we have to pay.3． Who are attempting to colonize the future with their own repressive agenda?They are planning to carry out the plan of expanding the power of law enforcement agencies at home and of striking at the “axis of evil ” abroad so as to extend American domination into areas originally beyond American reach ,such as Central Asia .Hence ,the colonization of the future .4． Which assumes the public is thinking in red, white and blue, when actually the spectrum of emotions, ideas and opinions is, like America itself, multihued.Which takes for granted that people think in a simple and uniform way while actually the feelings, thoughts and views of the American people are as varied as America itself?5．We too are mired near the bottom of Maslow’s pyramid, struggling to regain our lost sense of safety and security.The terrorist attacks put us at the bottom of the hierarchy of human needs, trying hard to reestablish our confidence in physical safety, the lowest type of safety.6． It is something we associate with repressive regimes, not with participatory democracies.We are used to thinking that Western democracies practice rule of law and individual rights and freedom are protected by law. Violation of individual rights and suppression of dissenting voices can only be found in repressive regimes.7． There was a relaxing of the rampant materialism, along with its ugly stepsisters isolation and compulsion, that has been the undoing of community in this country.People began to put less emphasis on the pursuit of wealth and possession of worldly goods. And the other two dangerous symptoms that went with materialism, that is physical separation from others and irrational behavior asa result of impulse also became less serious .Materialism, together with theaccompanying symptoms of separation and compulsion, had been the cause of the ruin of community in this country.8．…Discourages national introspection at a time when it would be most valuable.At a time when it is highly important for Americans to look into ourselves and ask ourselves why “they hate us”,this concept directs our attention and thinking away from such analysis.9．…History is a gallery of unspeakable crimes.History records many crimes committed by human beings which are so horrible that they defy description.10. We tend these images like poisonous flowers in a nightmare garden.In spite of the fact that these images are horrible images, images of large-scale atrocity, we still take care to keep alive these images.。