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1.idyllic.adj. of or having the nature of an idyll;
simple and carefree 田园诗般的，质朴宜人的，简单而美妙的
eg:1.an idyllic holiday 恬静愉快的假日 2.At this time, I absent minded can imagine
4.frailtyn. a fault, especially weakness of resolution,
arising from the im- perfections of human nature 品格上的缺点,短处 eg：1.Our frailties are invisible, our virtues barren. ( Robert Louis Stevenson我们看不到自身的缺点，而我们的美德却又十分贫乏。 ( 罗伯特 ·路易斯 ·斯蒂文森）
2.We triumph over each other with human frailty . 我们以人类的弱点彼此去战胜对方。
在大多数美国人印象中 , 马克 ·吐温作为作家，向我们描述了哈克 ·费恩在其永恒的童年时代所进行的牧歌式的旅行 , 还有汤姆 ·索亚在漫长的夏日里自由自在的生活及探险故事。的确，这位最受美国人民喜爱的作家完全像人们想象中那样冒险爱国、浪漫和幽默。但我同样发现还有另外一个马克 ·吐温 - - 一个由于饱受了人生悲剧的打击而变得玩世不恭、痛苦的马克，吐温，一个为人类的弱点所困扰而忧心仲忡，清楚地看到前途是一片黑暗的马克 ·吐温。

高级英语Lesson-6-(Book-2)-Disappearing-Through-the-Skylight-课文

Lesson 6 Disappearing Through the SkylightOsborne Bennet Hardison Jr.1 Science is committed to the universal. A sign of this is that the more successful a science becomes, the broader the agreement about its basic concepts: there is not a separate Chinese or American or Soviet thermodynamics, for example; there is simply thermodynamics. For several decades of the twentieth century there was a Western and a Soviet genetics, the latter associated with Lysenko's theory that environmental stress can produce genetic mutations. Today Lysenko's theory is discredited, and there is now only one genetics.2 As the corollary of science, technology also exhibits the universalizing tendency. This is why the spread of technology makes the world look ever more homogeneous. Architectural styles, dress styles, musical styles--even eating styles--tend increasingly to be world styles. The world looks more homogeneous because it is more homogeneous. Children who grow up in this world therefore experience it as a sameness rather than a diversity, and because their identities are shaped by this sameness, their sense of differences among cultures and individuals diminishes. As buildings become more alike, the people who inhabit the buildings become more alike. The result is described precisely in a phrase that is already familiar: the disappearance of history.3 The automobile illustrates the Point With great clarity. A technological innovation like streamlining or all-welded body construction may be rejected initially, but if it is important to the efficiency or economics of automobiles, it will reappear in different ways until it is not only accepted but universally regarded as an asset. Today's automobile is no longer unique to a given company or even to a given national culture, its basic features are found, with variations, in automobiles in general, no matter who makes them.4 A few years ago the Ford Motor Company came up with the Fiesta, which it called the "World Car." Advertisements showed it surrounded by the flags of all nations. Ford explained that the cylinder block was made in England, the carburetor in Ireland, the transmission in France, the wheels in Belgium, and so forth.5 The Fiesta appears to have sunk Without a trace. But the idea of a world car was inevitable. It was the automotive equivalent of the International Style. Ten years after the Fiesta, all of the large automakers were international. Americans had Plantsin Europe, Asia, and South America, and Europeans and Japanese had plants in America and South America, and in the Soviet Union Fiat Fiat (= Fabbrica Italiana Automobile Torino ) workers refreshed themselves with Pepsi-Cola). In the fullness of time international automakers will have plants in Egypt and India and the People's Republic of China.6 As in architecture, so in automaking. In a given cost range, the same technology tends to produce the same solutions. The visual evidence for this is as obvious for cars as for buildings. Today, if you choose models in the same price range, you will be hard put at 500 paces to tell one makefrom another. In other words, the specifically American traits that lingered in American automobiles in the 1960s--traits that linked American cars to American history--are disappearing. Even the Volkswagen Beetle has disappeared and has taken with it the visible evidence of the history of streamlining that extends from D'Arcy Thompson to Carl Breer to Ferdinand Porsche.7 If man creates machines, machines in turn shape their creators. As the automobile is universalized, it universalizes those who use it. Like the World Car he drives, modern man is becoming universal. No longer quite an individual, no longer quite the product of a unique geography and culture, he moves from one climate-controlled shopping mall to another, from one airport to the next, from one Holiday Inn to its successor three hundred miles down the road; but somehow his location never changes. He is cosmopolitan. The price he pays is that he no longer has a home in the traditional sense of the word. The benefit is that he begins to suspect home in the traditional sense is another name for limitations, and that home in the modern sense is everywhere and always surrounded by neighbors.8 The universalizing imperative of technology is irresistible. Barring the catastrophe of nuclear war, it will continue to shape both modern culture and the consciousness of those who inhabit that culture.9 This brings us to art and history again. Reminiscing on the early work of Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp, Madame Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia wrote of the discovery of the machine aesthetic in 1949:"I remember a time ... when every artist thought he owed it to himself to turn his back on the Eiffel Tower, as a protest against the architectural blasphemy with which it filled the sky.... The discovery and rehabilitation of ... machines soon generated propositions which evaded all tradition, above all, a mobile, extra human plasticit y which was absolutely new....”10 Art is, in one definition, simply an effort to name the real world. Are machines "the real world" or only its surface? Is the real world that easy to find? Science has shown the in substantiality of the world. It has thus undermined an article of faith: the thingliness of things. At the same time, it has produced images of orders of reality underlying the thingliness of things. Are images of cells or of molecules or of galaxies more or less real than images of machines? Science has also produced images that are pure artifacts. Are images of self-squared dragons more or less real than images of molecules?11 The skepticism of modern science about the thingliness of things implies a new appreciation of the humanity of art entirely consistent with Kandinsky's observation in On the Spiritual in Art that beautiful art "springs from inner need, which springs from the soul." Modern art opens on a world whose reality is not "out there" in nature defined as things seen from a middle distance but "in here" in the soul or the mind. It is a world radically emptied of history because it is a form of perception rather than a content.12 The disappearance of history is thus a liberation--what Madame Buffet-Picabia refers to as the discovery of "a mobile extra-human plasticity which [is] absolutely new." Like science, modern art often expresses this feeling of liberation through play--in painting in the playfulness of Picasso and Joan Miro and in poetry in the nonsense of Dada and the mock heroics of a poem like Wallace Stevens's "The Comedian as the Letter C."13 The playfulness of the modern aesthetic is, finally, its most striking--and also its most serious and, by corollary, its most disturbing--feature. The playfulness imitates the playfulness of science that produces game theory and virtual particles and black holes and that, by introducing human growth genes into cows, forces students of ethics to reexamine the definition of cannibalism. The importance of play in the modern aesthetic should not come as a surprise. It is announced in every city in the developed world by the fantastic and playful buildings of postmodernism and neo-modernism and by the fantastic juxtapositions of architectural styles that typify collage city and urban adhocism.14 Today modern culture includes the geometries of the International Style, the fantasies of facadism, and the gamesmanship of theme parks and museum villages . It pretends at times to be static but it is really dynamic. Its buildings move and sway and reflect dreamy visions of everything that is going on around them. It surrounds itscitizens with the linear sculpture of pipelines and interstate highways and high-tension lines and the delicate virtuosities of the surfaces of the Chrysler Airflow and the Boeing 747 and the lacy weavings of circuits etched on silicon, as well as with the brutal assertiveness of oil tankers and bulldozers and the Tinkertoy complications of trusses and geodesic domes and lunar landers. It abounds in images and sounds and values utterly different from those of the world of natural things seen from a middle distance.15 It is a human world, but one that is human in ways no one expected. The image it reveals is not the worn and battered face that stares from Leonardo's self-portrait much less the one that stares, bleary and uninspired, every morning from the bathroom mirror. These are the faces of history. It is, rather, the image of an eternally playful and eternally youthful power that makes order whether order is there or not and that having made one order is quite capable of putting it aside and creating an entirely different or the way a child might build one structure from a set of blocks and then without malice and purely in the spirit of play demolish it and begin again. It is an image of the power that made humanity possible in the first place.16 The banks of the nineteenth century tended to be neoclassic structures of marble or granite faced with ponderous rows of columns. They made a statement" "We are solid. We are permanent. We are as reliable as history. Your money is safe in our vaults."17 Today's banks are airy structures of steel and glass, or they are store-fronts with slot-machinelike terminals, or trailers parked on the lots of suburban shopping malls.18 The vaults have been replaced by magnetic tapes. In a computer, money is sequences of digital signals endlessly recorded, erased, processed, and reprocessed, and endlessly modified by other computers. The statement of modern banks is "We are abstract like art and almost invisible like the Crystal Palace. If we exist at all, we exist as an airy medium in which your transactions are completed and your wealth increased."19 That, perhaps, establishes the logical limit of the modern aesthetic. If so, the limit is a long way ahead, but it can be made out, just barely, through the haze over the road. As surely as nature is being swallowed up by the mind, the banks, you might say, are disappearing through their own skylights.(from Disappearing Through The Skylight )--------------------------------------------------------------------NOTES1. Hardison: Osborne Bennet Hardison Jr. was born in San Diego, California in 1928. He was educated at the University of North Carolina and the University of Wisconsin. He has taught at Princeton and the University of North Carolina. He is the author of Lyrics and Elegies (1958), The Enduring Monument (1962), English Literary Criticism: The Renaissance(1964), Toward Freedom and Dignity: The Humanities and the Idea of Humanity(1973), Entering the Maze: Identity and Change in Modern Culture (1981) and Disappearing Through the Skylight (1980).2. Ford Motor Company: one of the largest car manufacturing companies of America3. International Style: as its name indicates, an architectural style easily reproduced and accepted by countries throughout the world. These structures use simple geometric forms of straight lines, squares, rectangles, etc., in their designs. It is often criticized as a rubber-stamp method of design. These structures are meant to be simple, practical and cost-effective.4. Fiat: the biggest Italian car manufacturing company. Fiat is an acronym of the Italian name, Fabbrica Italiana Automobile Torina.5. Pepsi-Cola: a brand name of an American soft drink. It is a strong competitor of another well-known American soft drink, Coca-Cola.6. Volkswagen Beetle: model name of a car designed and manufactured by the German car manufacturing company, Volkswagen7.D'Arcy Thompson: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948) placed biology on a mathematical foundation. In his book On Growth and Form. Thompson invented the term Airflow to describe the curvature imposed by water on the body of a fish, The airflow or streamling influenced the future designing of cars and airplanes to increase their speed and reduce air friction.8. Carl Breer: auto-designer, who designed the Chrysler Airflow of 1934.9. Ferdinand Porshe: auto-designer of the original Volkswagen10. Holiday Inn: name adopted by a hotel chain11. Picabia: Francis Picabia (1878-1953). French painter. After working in an impressionist style, Picabia was influenced by Cubism and later was one of the original exponents of Dada in Europe and the United States.12.Duchamp: Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), French painter. Duchamp is noted for his cubist-futurist painting Nude Descending a Staircase, depicting continuousaction with a series of overlapping figures. In 1915 he was a cofounder of a Dada group in New York.13. Madame Gabrille Buffet-Picabia: perhaps wife of Francis Picabia14. Eiffel Tower: a tower of iron framework in Paris, designed by A.G. Eiffel and erected in the Champ-de-Mars for the Paris exposition of 188915. self-squared dragons: a picture of a four-dimensional dragon produced by computer technique16. Kandinsky: Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Russian abstract painter and theorist. He is usually regarded as the originator of abstract art. In 1910 he wrote an important theoretical study, Concerning the Spiritual in Art.17. Picasso: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish painter and sculptor, who worked in France. His landmark painting Guernica is an impassioned allegorical condemnation of facism and war.18. Miro: Joan Miro (1893-1983), Spanish surrealist painter. After studying in Barcelona, Miro went to Paris in 1919. In the 1920s he came into contact with cubism and surrealism. His work has been characterized as psychic automatism, an expression of the subconscious in free form.19. Dada: a movement in art and literature based on deliberate irrationality and negation of traditional artistic values; also the art and literature produced by this movement20. Stevens: Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), American poet, educated at Harvard and the New York University Law School. A master of exquisite verse, Stevens was specifically concerned with creating some shape of order in the "slovenly wilderness" of chaos.21. game theory: a mathematical theory of transactions developed by John Von Neumann. He called this theory, which has important applications in economic, diplomacy, and national defense, "game theory". Even though they are serious, however, the games are often so intricate and their rules so strange that the game becomes overtly playful.22. virtual particles: particles that serve all practical purposes though they do not exist in reality23. black hole: A star in the last phases of gravitational collapse is often referred to asa "black hole". Even light cannot escape the black hole but is turned back by the enormous pull of gravitation. Therefore it can never be observed directly.24. lunar lander: a vehicle designed to land on the surface of the moon25. collage city: Collage City (1975) by Colin Rowe. In it he calls for a city that is a rich mixture of styles. It also implies the preservation of many bits and pieces of history. collage: an artistic composition made of various materials (as paper, cloth or wood) glued on a picture surface26. adhocism: This is a key term used by Charles Jencks in his book. The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977). The ad hoc city is intended to avoid the horrors of the totally planned city. The ad hoc city clearly shows a fondness for clashing styles and queer postmodern buildings as well as fantastic architectural complexes.27. facadism: It is a form of mosaic architecture. In mosaic architecture bits and pieces of older buildings are combined with bits and pieces of modern buildings. In facadism fronts of nineteenth-century buildings may be propped up while entirely new buildings are created behind them and often beside and above them.28. theme parks and museum villages: Such places try to reproduce history certain themes through architectural complexes. For example, Disneyland Anaheim, California, tries to reproduce the main street of a typical nineteenth centutry American town, but everything is stage set and nothing is real.29. Chrysler Airflow: a car model manufactured by the Chrysler Corporation of America30. Boeing 747: an airplane model manufactured by the Boeing Company of America31. Tinkertoy: a trademark for a toy set of wooden dowels, joints, wheels etc., used by children to assemble structures32. Crystal Palace: building designed by Sir Joseph Paxton and erected in Hyde Park, London, for the great exhibition in 1851. In 1854 it was removed to Sydenham, where, until its damage by fire in 1936, it housed a museum of sculpture, pictures, and architecture and was used for concerts. In 1941 it demolition was completed because it served as a guide to enemy bombing planes. The building was constructed of iron, glass, and laminated wood One of the most significant examples of 19th century proto-modern architecture, it was widely imitated in Europe and America.。

高级英语第六课

Lesson sixBlackmailThe First Period (3 hours)I. Teaching Objectivesintroduction to the excerptfrom the beginning to the second paragraph on page 97II. Difficult and important pointbackground knowledgestylistic meaning of English vocabularywords for psychological statedifficult sentencesIII. Classroom Activitiesexplaininganswering questionstranslatingDetaild Study of the Text1. The chief house officer, Ogilvie, who had declared he would…took twice that lime: The chief house officer, Ogilvie, gave the Croydons a mysterious telephone call telling them he would pay lit an hour later,but actually he appeared 81 their suite1) chief house officer: Hotels in the U. S. employ detectives to take care of hotel security, celled ‘house dicks’, dignified appellation—house officer.2) suite: a set of rooms. A suite in a hotel is usually expensive. The suite the Croydons are staying in is St. Gregory Hotel's largest and most elaborate, called the Presidential Suite, which has housed, according to the book, a succession of distinguished guests, including visiting presidents and royalty.3) cryptic telephone call: The message over the phone was brief and with mysterious implications.4) actually took twice that time: He was slow in coming because he wanted to create the impression that he was a busy and important man and to keep the Croydons on tenterhooks.2. the Duke: (in Britain) a nobleman, whose rank is just below that of a prince. Below the duke are the marquis, earl, viscount and baron.3. the Duchess: wife or widow of a duke, or a woman with a rank equal to that of duke4. the nerves of both the Duke and Duchesswere excessively frayed: the nerves of both the duke and duchess were worn out by the long wait, were over-strained. Both the Duke and Duchess were extremely nervous. More examples with the word fray:Clothes frayed at the neck, knees, etc.Frayed cuffs, button-holes, etcTempers become frayed.the muted buzzer: muted to render the noise of the bell less harsh and stridentshe had dispatched her maid on an invented errand: they sent her out to get her out of the way; the ‘errand’ being just an excuse, a trip which was not necessary. Obviously the talk between Ogilvie and the Croydons had to be kept a secret.the moon-faced male secretary: The use of male before secretary is to avoid possibility of the reader’s assuming otherwise, for is to avoid possibility Note: male nurse, man servant, but woman doctors, woman pilot. ‘Moon-faced’ means having a round face. The young man’s appearance is in keeping with his timid character( fear of pet animals).cruelly instructed: ‘cruel’ because they knew the secretary was terrified of dogs. They could easily have found some other errand for him.to exercise the Bedlington terriers: to walk the dogs, to take the dogs out and give them some exercise. The bedlington terrier is a breed of blur or liver-colored, woolly-coated, active, typically small dogs. The terriers are a status symbol showing that that the Duchess is no ordinary dog owner. And the fact that they can keep dog in a hotel suite proves they are very important people.10. Her own tension was not lessened…: Ogilvie had telephoned to say that he would be at the suit in an hour. The Duchess made arrangement for the maid and the secretary to be away when he called. But he was an hour late, and the maid and the secretary might return at any moment. The Duchess knew this and it made her nerveous.11. A wave of cigar smoke accompanied Ogilvie in: to smoke a cigar in the presence of a lady without asking for permission is impolite and the being familiar. He comes into the room smoking his cigar. Ogilvie is a coarse, vulgar, and uneducated fellow and because he thinks he has the Croydons under his thumb theDuchess ‘looked pointedly’, that is, directly and sharply at the cigar, trying to intimidate him with her superior social position.12. Would you kindly put that out.: a period in stead of a question make, indicating it is said in a falling tone, meant to be a command, not a polite request13. piggy eyes: small, narrow eyes lost in the mass of flesh. Ogilvie is one if the ‘bad guys’ in this novel. He has piggy eyes, a gross jowled face, an obese body, speaks in falsetto, is vulgar, unscrupulous, ill-mannered, to the point of throwing his cigar on the carpet. Some examples, to the point of throwing his cigar on the carpet. Some examples with the word pig: Don’t be a pig. ( Don’t be greedy.)He is a pig. ( He is a dirty, greedy or ill-mannered person.)I’ve made a pig of myself. (I’ve eaten too much)14. surveyed her sardonically: He looked her up and down scornfully because he had evidence of their crime up his sleeve and felt sure that in moment he would be able to humble her and bring her to her knees. Note the different meanings of the following words:sardonic: being scornful, cynicalsardonic: intending to hurt the feelings, to inflict pain by deriding, tauntingsardonic: intending to make a person or thing appear foolish or absurdironical: a humorous or sarcastic form of expression in which the intended meaning of what is said is directly opposite to the usual sense.15. to sweep the spacious, well-appointed room: His glance passes swiftly over the big, excellently furnished and arranged room.16. who faced them uncertainly: Besides having a weak character, the Duke is over fond of liquor and other men’s wives, and so is submissive to the Duchess, herself a woman of strong character, a known public figure and cousin of the queen. After the road accident, it was the Duchess who masterminded the cover-up and the Duke wasn’t quite sure of what to say to Ogilvie or what to do, he was afraid of messing things up.17. “Pretty neat set-up you folks got: Ogilvie’s language is ungrammatical, vulgar and slangy. Neat is slangy, meaning nice fine;a general term of approval. Set-up, a noun,meaning arrangement of furniture, etc. A better educated person might say: “This is a pretty nice room that you have got.”For Ogilie’s ungrammatical language, see Note 4 to the text.Here are some more examples form the text: Whether they got fancy titles neither-whether they had fancy title or notI seen you come in –I saw you come inthe kid and the woman was hit—were hit‘f she’d have drove—if she had driven, etc.18. an ornamented fireplace: a fake one, not for use. It is there to add to the decor of the suite.cf. an ornamented fireplace: a highly decorated one19. He missed: His cigar butt did not fall inside the fireplace as he had intended it to.20. I imagine you did not come here to discuss decor: I suppose you did not come here merely to discuss the arrangement of the furniture and other decorations of this suite, what she meant was “Speak your mind. Don’t waste time.” She purposely used the word decor, imagining Ogilvie would be awed. Unlike Ogilive, the Duchess always speaks the Queen’s English, using strictly grammatical structures and shoosing her words carefully, sometimes to the extent of being pompous.21. an appreciative chuckle: mainly self appreciative. When hotel employee goes to a guest’s room, usually he goes there on business and no familiarity is allowed. But here Ogilvie was enjoying the fact that he could afford to do whatever he liked. He love being in a position of temporary supremacy. Also he appreciated the fact that the Duchess was no fool. She knew why he had come.22. He lowered the level of his incongruous falsetto voice: He had an unnaturally high-pitched voice. When he spoke now, he lowered the pitch.incongruous: This falsetto voice sounded funny coming from a thickset man like Ogilvie.23. Jaguar: a brand of very expensive British made sports car24. "Aah" : Now the Duke knew what the man was there for. The sound escaping his lips showed that the Duke was startled and perhaps a bit relieved that things had now come out into the open.25. a warning glance: The Duke had made a blunder the night before by mentioning the car in front of the hotel's assistant general manager when his wife was Trying hard to establish something of an alibi. Now the wile was warning him not to blunder again.26. “In what conceivable way does our car concern you?” : I can hardly imagine how our car could in any way concern you. Why are you so interested in our car?27. "Who else is in this place?": first indication that he did not come with an honest purpose, for why should he desire secrecy28. It was the Duke who answered: The Duke realized that Ogilvie had found them out as soon as he heard that the latter was coming to talk to them. He didn't think what the Duchess had done or would do could improve the situation. So he was eager to cooperate with Ogilvie.29. We sent them out: another blunder, as good as admitting that they knew what Ogilvie had come for and that they had things to hide 30. it pays to check: to be profitable or worthwhile to check. Oilier examples:1) it pays to think before you speak. 2) It’ll pay in keep a diary in English.31. surprising speed- surprising because you wouldn't expect a fat man like him lo move quickly32. "Now then": used lo call attention or lo express a warning or protest33. "You two was in that hit-'n-run": You tow are guilty of that hit-and-run accident. Hit-and-run is usually used to describe a driver who flees from the scone of an accident in which he is involved.34. She met his eyes directly: to pretend that she was innocent of what he accused her of and therefore dared to take up the challenge 35. "This in for r eal.”: I'm no t joking. This is something serious. for real: (slang) meaning real, really36. bit off the end: In order to light up a fresh cigar one end of it has to be clipped. Coarse people like Ogilvic just bit it off.37. "There's been plenty on radio, too. ": There have been a lot of reports about the accident on the radio, too.38. Two high points of colour: The Duchess' cheeks flushed, not evenly, but around the cheek bones. She was upset and a bit scared.But at the moment she was pretending indignation.39. cut it out: (colloquial) to slop what she was doing, i.e. pretending they were innocent40. The words spat forth: According to grammar, it should be: "The words were spat forth", or "Ogilvie spat out the words". Perhaps the author here wants to make it more dramatic by having "the words" following right after what he had just said, instead of saying "he spat out the words". Also, "the words spat forth" is more forceful and vivid than "the words were spat forth."41. all pretense of blandness gone: nominative absolute construction with a noun phrase plus a past participle. Ogilvie threw away his pretended politeness.Some other examples of the same construction from the text:his eyes sardonically on the Duchess (n.+ prepositional phrase)you driving (pron. +present participle)her poise for the moment recovered (n. +past participle)42. Ignoring the Duke, Ogilvie waved the unlighted cigar under his adversary's nose: He knew that the Duchess was the stronger character of the two and it was she that he had to deal with, so she was his enemy.43. your high-an'-mightiness: high and mighty: very proud, (the correct way to address a Duke or a Duchess is "Your Grace"). Ogilvie addressed her this way in imitation of "Your Highness", Jo mock her haughty attitude.44. burnin' mad: burning mad; very angry45. high-tailed it: (colloquial) leave in a hurry, scurry off46. they'll throw the book, and never mind who ii hits: They’ll deal out the maximum in punishment, to apply the full force of the law and they will be punished in this case. To throw the book is an idiom, in which the word book means I the law book. It refers to the book. Here Ogilvic follows the metaphor through.47. if I do what by rights I should, ... you'll hardly see 'em: If 1 do what I should do in justice (that is, to report what 1 know to police headquarters), a group of policemen will come over here very fast, so fast that you wouldn't be able to see them moving.48. so’s: so as, so that49. ’f you want i t the other way: if you refuse lo tell me the truth and prefer to have the law lo interfere50. The Duchess of Croydon—three centuries and a half of inbred arrogance behind her—did not yield easily: The Duchess was supported by her arrogance coming from parents of noble families who belonged to tho nobility For more than three hundred years. So she did not give in easily.51. she faced the grossness of the house detective squarely: She stood up boldly and rebuked d the coarse vulgarity of the house detective.52. blackguard: scoundrel, villain53. flickered wavered54. "It’s no go, old girl It was a good try.": It's no use. What you did just now was a good attempt at trying to save the situation. Here the phrase no go is a colloquialism, meaning not possible; without use or value. Old girt is an informal way of addressing one's wife. 55. "That's more like it.” : said when a second thing said by the other person sounds more acceptable. plausible, or less objectionable than the first one 56. “Now we’re getting somewhere.”: Now we’re making some progress, accomplishing something.57. "I'll spell it out": I'll tell you frankly and in detail.58. The house detective took his time: It is the second time that Ogilvie has done so, both limes lo make the impact of what he is going to say on the Croydons even stronger.59. as if challenging her objection: as if openly daring her lo object to his smoking a cigar, as she had done earlier; as if he wanted too see if the Duchess dared to object to his smoking 60. Bin beyond wrinkling her nose in distaste, she made no comment: She only wrinkled her nose to show her dislike for the of-fending cigar smell, but did not rebuke him.61. Lindy’s Place: a gambling joint, a gambling nightclub, a casino62. Irish Bayou: bayou [beiu:] a French word,a marsh. New Orleans was colonized by the French, so a lot of places there have French names.63. fancy Jaguar: Fancy here means expensive and superior model (car).64. Leastways, I guess you'll all her that ifyou’re not too fussy: I guess if you are not too particular about what words to use, at least you'd rail her your lady friend. Here Ogilvie is trying to get at him. It’s more than obvious that be was not really with a friend, but a high class whore.65. As Ogilvie glanced, grinning, at the Duchess Ogilvie is rubbing it in, enjoying himself over the wounded pride of an arrogant wife.66. The way I hear it, you won a hundred at the tables then lost it at the bar: From what I hear, you won a hundred dollars in gambling and then spent the money drinking.67. You were into a second hundred—with a real swinging party: You were beginning to spend another hundred dollars of your own ( the hundred won in gambling had already been spent) to treat a merry and lively party.68. There ain’t much, out of the way, which people who stay in this hotel do, I don’t get to hear about: if anybody who stays in this hotel does anything wrong, improper or unusual, I always get to know about it. There isn’t much that can escape me.Out of the way: improper, wrong, unusual 69. I suppose it doesn’t matter: You already know so much, I might as wall as well tell you this, it won’t make much difference now.70. clucked his tongue reprovingly: He made noises with his tongue to show his disapproval. How can you be so careless! The expoliceman was playacting, gloating over their misfortune.71. took off home: left for home72. the way things turned out: judging from what happened later73. Explains that one: This fact explains why you were driving in your sodden state; driving when you were drunk.74. lickered up: liquored up, drunk Compare:Liquor: an alcoholic drink, esp. one made by distillation, as whiskey or rum (neat whiskey) Wine: mainly grape wine ( sweet or dry wine)Soft drinks: non-alcoholic, like soda pop Chaser: a mild drink, taken with or after liquor75. Then you don’t know: The Duchess thought it was all Ogilvie’s conjecture and that he didn’t really have any evidence against them. She thought he didn’t have any caseagainst them.76. Looked right shaken, too , the pair of you: You two looked extremely upset (shocked). 77. Just come in myself an’ I got to wondering why: I had just come in myself and began to wonder why (you two looked shaken).78. the word was out: The news about the accident was spreading around. Some expressions with word:a word of advice (warning)say a good word for sb.have a word with sb. (talk with sb.)have words with (quarrel)give sb. one's word (promise )be as good as one's word/break one's word/a man of his word in so many wordsword for word79. On a hunch I went over to the garage: As I suspected and felt there was something wrong, I went over to the garage to inspect.hunch: a feeling about something not based on known facts: premonition or suspicion. The meaning derives from the superstition that it brings good luck lo touch a hunch-back.I have a hunch that...: I rather think that ...80. look-see: (slang) n quick look or inspection81. jockeys: usu. professional rider in horse-races, here it means persons who park cars or trucks in a storage garage, also called car jockeysdisc jockeys: radio or TV broadcaster who introduces performances and comments on records or tapes of light popular music82. I suppose that doesn't matter now: Now that our secret has been discovered, whether the jockeys sec the car or not doesn’t matter now.83. You might have something there: There might be a point in what you say.84. Over there they got three things to go on: At police headquarters, they have three clues to base their investigation on.85. dust it, an' it shows: Sprinkle some kind of powder on the car fender and the brush trace shows up.86. Ain' any doubt they'd match up, even without the brush trace an’ the blood: I haven't any doubt, there isn't any doubt that the trim ring that had come off the car and the busied headlight will correspond. That will be enough for the police to identify the car even withoutthe brush trace and the blood on the car fender.ain’t: (colloquial) am not, is not, are not have not.87. Oh, my God: Ogilvie mentioned the blood slain casually as if it was not important, or it had just come to his mind. In fact he had been saving it the last moment as a death blow to the Croydons. He succeeded in achieving this effect.The Second Period (3 hours)I. Teaching Objectives1. the rest of the textII. Difficult and important pointstylistic meaning of English vocabularywords for psychological statedifficult sentencesIII. Classroom Activitiesexplaininganswering questionstranslatingDetailed Study of the Text 88. square his shoulders: to show he is ready to face the consequences, he is brave, not afraid of what is. to come89. took on a musing note: his voice sounded as if he was deep in thought. He was going to put all his cards on the table now that he had made it sufficiently clear to the Cioydons that I hey were in his hands.90. Rushing any place ain't gonna bring back the kid nor its motherneither: ungrammatical. It should be: Rushing to any place (to police headquarters ) isn't going lo make the kid and its mother come to Life again. Note the double negative here, which is used in uneducated speech.91. The other two slowly raised their eyes: It began to dawn on them that the detective had no intention of handing them over to the police.92. But I got to live too- a stock phrase when someone is asking to be given money or is accused of trying lo extract too much money 93. Tell us now, please: first, civil word from the Duchess, She realizes it is best for her to cooperate.94. we'd become turned round: We lost our way, we were going in a direction opposite tothe one we intended to take.95. who was headed out: more sense of completion than "was heading out". It means they had taken that direction and had gone some distance in that direction. Somebody who was driving away from the town.96. the outside towns: small towns around a big city, here outside New OrleansOutlying towns would be more common. 97. got around to: to get started on, esp. after a delay98. it won't be yet: That won't lake place yet.99. Providin' nobody twigs the car: It should be: Provided (or providing) that nobody notices the car.twig: (from thieves' slang) observe, notice 100. an' seein' where it is, etc.: If you are lucky nobody might no hotel garage.101. An' if you can get it away: And if you can get the car away, you might not be suspected at all.102. to holler "cops": to cry "police", to call the police103. You people are hot: Your are now wanted by the police.104. kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind: She kept firm and tiger control of her mind which is working quickly. Here the Duchess is thinking quickly but at the same time keeping her thoughts under control, not letting them run wild.105. It was essential that her thinking remain calm and reasoned: It was very important for her to think calmly and logically, Note the subjunctive mood in the "that" clause.Other example:1) It is natural that beginners should make such mistakes.2) It is essential that everybody take part in it. 106. as if the discussion were of some minor domestic matter and not survival itself: as if the discussion were about some unimportant domestic matter, not concerned will life and death107. her husband now a tense but passive spectator: Nominative absolute construction with a noun plus a noun. Her husband watched anxiously and nervously, incapable of taking an active108. Same thing with the glass: With the glass (as with the trim ring) the police can trace the make, model and year of the car.109. calculated coolness; She was not cool, in fact, her mind was racing, but she deliberately appeared to be cool.110. a slim one: (colloquial) a small chance 111. incriminating evidence' evidence that might prove sb. guilty of a crime112. highway patrol: police cars on highway patrol duty113. to fall victim to some sharp-eyed policeman: to be seen and arrested by an observant and alert policeman114. it might be done: They might succeed in escaping. The plan might work.115. but no more than waiting here for certain detection: To drive the car north would be risky, but not more risky than to wail here, because if they did nothing, they would surely be discovered.116. back roads: out-of-the-way, unfrequented loads.117. an unlikely route: not a route that ordinary people would take;a route which the police didn't think they would be likely to take118. other complications: other factors which would make it difficult for them to drive the car north themselves119. secondary roads: roads not of primary importance whose classification and maintenance vary according lo township, county,and state regulations120. adept at using maps: skilled in using maps Examples1) He is adept in photography.2) He is adept at (or in) taking pictures.121. their speech and manner would betray them: Their speech dud manner would reveal their identity.Betray: reveal unknowingly, or against one's wishesExamples:He said he had stayed indoors all day, but his shoes betrayed him.His face betrayed his fear.122. Or had they?: second thought which contradicts the first one Had they (the risks) to be taken?The Duchess suddenly realized that the y didn’t have to take the risks of driving the car north themselves.Other examples;He must buy that book. Or must he? (He didn’thave to.)If it had been anyone else, he would have agreed. Or would he? (Maybe not.)123. pretty well fixed: quite rich, wealthy fixed: (colloquial) supplied with something needed, esp. money, e.g. well fixed for life 124. As the Duke of Croydon shifted uneasily, the house detective's bulbous countenance reddened: Both the Duke and detective though, the Duchess had refused the offer. The Duke felt very uneasy; he’d rather pay the money In keep Ogilvie quiet.125. Eyes bored into him: looked at him steadily, sharply and searchinglybore: make a hole in, used here figuratively 126. swallowing: to refrain from retorting because he is somewhat cowered by the Duchess127. her own smallness of mind: her own meanness or weakness of mind. What she is about to do may be extremely significant to her and her husband. She has to lake a big chance, to do something very daring, so she must be bold, resolute and decisive. She has to rise to the occasion.128. When you were playing for the highest stakes, you made the highest bid: Stake and hid are gambling terms. Here the sentence means: You had to pay the highest price when your reputation and career were at stake. 129. gamble on the fat man's greed: She would take a chance on this fat man's greed.130. She must do so in such a way as to place the outcome beyond any doubt: She would offer him so much money as to make it impossible for him to refuse to do what she would ask him to in return, no matter how dangerous the job might be.131. eyes bulged: with greed132. watched intently: To the Duchess, it was a question of survival itself. Only it Ogilvie agreed to drive their car north would they have a chance to get out of the mess unscathed.133. "This cigar botherin' you, Duchess?": If this cigar is bot hering you, I’ll pit it out. This shows that he is willing to com. ply with the Duchess’ wishes.The Third Period (2 hours)I. Teaching Objectives1. the exercises accompanying the text II. Difficult and important pointtranslationclipping words and compound adjectivesword conversiondifference in stylistic meaningfixed collectionoral work and summery-writingIII. Classroom Activitiesdiscussingblack-fillingcommentingIV. ProceduresExercise SixIV. Write out the full words1) advertisement 2) brassiers 3) doctor 4) refrigerator 5) gymnasium 6 ) high fidelity (radio, photography, etc.)7)intercommunication system 8) liberation 9) memorandum 10) microphone 11) modern 12 )permanent wave 13)poliomyelitis 14) popular0song 15)preparatory (school) 16) professor 17)sister 18)television 19)veterinarian 20)zoologicalV. Translation1) a half-finished letter 2) a half-closed window 3) a piece of half –baked bread 4)a half-turned body 5)a well-appointed hotel 6)well-behaved pupils 7)well-chosen words 8)well-fed children 9)well-informed(people) 10)high-flown languageVI. Make sentencesSound (v.) His words sound lofty and pretentious.Figure (v.) Commerce figures largely in the prosperity of the city.Go (n.) He is always on the go from early morning till late at night.Try (n.) He didn’t succeed in his first try, but he kept on jumping.Dust (v.) They are dusting the crops with insecticide.Square (v.) He squared his shoulders to show his determination.Good (n.) Overworking yourself will do more harm than good.Head (v.) On hearing that, he headed straight for the gate without looking back.Make (n.) I don’t like a bicycle of this make. Reason (v.) If your reasons from false premises how can you expect the conclusion to be sound?。

高英课后英译汉答案

高级英语英译汉答案Lesson 6 Blackmail1. ―I’ll tell you, Duke---I’ve been in this town and this hotel a long time. I got friends all ov er. I oblige them; they do the same for me, like letting me know what gives, an’where. There ain’t much, out of the way, which people who stay in this hotel do, I don’t ge t to hear about. Most of’em never know I know, or know me. They think they got their little secret tucked away, and so they have---except like now.―告诉你吧，公爵——我在这个城市和这个旅馆呆的时间都很久了。

到处都有我的朋友。

我时常为他们帮忙，他们也同样帮我的忙，比如说告诉我哪儿发生了些什么事儿，住在这个旅馆的人们做了些什么事情，凡是有点儿出格的，那就很少能瞒得过我。

他们多半都不知道我会知道，而且也不认识我。

他们以为自己的那些小秘密被隐瞒住了—也的确有瞒住的时候—可是这一回却瞒不住了。

‖2.Well now, there’s no call for being hasty.‖ The incongruous falsetto voice took on musi ng note .What’s done’s been done. Russian’s any place ain’t gonna bring back the kid nor its mother neither . Besides , what they’d do to you across at the headquarters , Duke ,you would not like . No sir , you wouldn’t like it at all .―依我说呢，这事也不用着急。

高级英语Lesson 6 Mark Twain课文翻译

Lesson 6 Mark Twain ---Mirror of America马克.吐温--美国的一面镜子(节选) 诺埃尔.格罗夫Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure. In-deed,this nation's best-loved author was every bit as ad-venturous,patriotic,romantic, and humorous as anyone has ever imagined.I found another Twain as well–one who grew cynical,bitter,saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him,a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race,who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.在大多数美国人的心目中，马克•吐温是位伟大作家，他描写了哈克•费恩永恒的童年时代中充满诗情画意的旅程和汤姆•索亚在漫长的夏日里自由自在历险探奇的故事。

的确，这位美国最受人喜爱的作家的探索精神、爱国热情、浪漫气质及幽默笔调都达到了登峰造极的程度。

但我发现还有另一个不同的马克•吐温——一个由于深受人生悲剧的打击而变得愤世嫉俗、尖酸刻薄的马克•吐温，一个为人类品质上的弱点而忧心忡忡、明显地看到前途是一片黑暗的人。

Tramp printer,river pilot,Confederate guerrilla,prospector,starry-eyed optimist, acid-tongued cynic:The man who became Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens and he ranged across the nation for more than a third of his life,digesting the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer.He adopted his pen name from the cry heard in his steamboat days,signaling two fathoms (12feet)of water--a navigable depth.His popularity is attested by the fact that more than a score of his books remain in print,and translations are still read around the world.印刷工、领航员、邦联游击队员、淘金者、耽于幻想的乐天派、语言尖刻的讽刺家：马克•吐温原名塞缪尔•朗赫恩•克莱门斯，他一生之中有超过三分之一的时间浪迹美国各地，体验着美国的新生活，尔后便以作家和演说家的身分将他所感受到的这一切介绍给全世界。

高级英语第一册lesson6-Blackmail-课文详解2-detail-study、背景知识、文章结构及修辞学习

高级英语第一册lesson6-Blackmail-课文详解2-detail-study、背景知识、文章结构及修辞学习高级英语第一册lesson6 Blackmail 课文详解2 detail study、背景知识、文章结构及修辞学习2008-02-11 12:11:18| 分类：默认分类| 标签：|字号大中小订阅高级英语第一册lesson6 Blackmail 课文详解2 detail study、背景知识、文章结构及修辞学习2007年01月01日星期一下午11:4896. bulbous: shaped like a bulb, swelling and disgustingly fat and roundbulbous dome / nose97. peremptorily: (fml) showing an expectation of being obeyed at once and without questi on, impolitely and unfriendly, commanding, insisting obedience98. rivet: metal pin for fasten plates.to hold or fasten with or as if with rivetscf: glare, stare, fix99. feature: any of the noticeable parts of the facea man with Oriental featuresHer mouth is her worst feature / best feature, like a cherry.100. set in a mould:When you take a picture, you set your body, your countenance ...in a certain way. That is to set in a mould.(A lame one-eyed king taking a picture)mould (Am.E) = mould (Br.E): character, distinctive nature, a person's character, nature, et c., considered as having been shaped by family type, education, training, experience, etc.Be cast in a mould of a particular kind means to have the characteristics, attitudes, behavio ur or lifestyle that are typical of that kind of personbe made / cast in mould ofHe is made in his father's mould. (He has the same personality and character as his father' s)101. imperious: in tensely compelling, marked by arrogant assurance, dominating. This wo rd is related to imperial.The whole sentence can be paraphrased as follows:Her handsome high-cheekboned features were set in a way which shows her imperial char acter.102. respite: a short period of pause or rest, during a time of great effort pain, or trouble, a t ime of relief (as from labour, suffering or war) or delay (as before sentencing or executing).The patient said he never had any respite from the pain.Sentence sb. to death with 2-years' respite.103. bore: make a hole inThis machine can bore through solid rock.104. swallow: to take back, to keep from expressing or showing, to accept without question ing, protest or resentmentto swallow one's words: take back what was said105. sullen: silently bad-tempered, unforgiving, dark, gloomylook sullen, to wear a sullen look106. comply: act according to a demand, order, ruleto comply with the law / regulations107. vacillation: hesitation, uncertainty, waver, continuous changing of one's opinionsThis word implies prolonged hesitation resulting from one's inability to reach a decisionHe vacillates between accepting & not accepting.The earthquake caused the entire house vacillate.108. dally: to waste time or be slowDon't dally or we'll be late.dally over one's work109. bulge: to swell out as a result of the pressure from within110. bead: small ball of glass or other material with a hole through it for a string worn with other others on a thread, esp. round the neck for ornament.She is wearing a string of green beads.背景知识Background informationTitle of the novel: HotelSetting:The story happened in a hotel named St. Gregory /'greg ri/ in New Orleans, Louisiana which is in the south of US.Main character of the novel:Peter McDermott, assistant general managerMain characters in this part of the novel:Ogilvie: chief house officerthe Duke of Croydon: newly appointed British ambassador to the United Statesthe Duchess of Croydon: wife of the Dukea prostitute called lady friend by OgilviePlot:Gregory was now at the brink of bankruptcy, but Peter McDermott is trying every means he could to save it.Several events happened during the week with the present text as part of it.The Duke of Croydon was an internationally famous statesman and the newly appointed Br itish ambassador to Washington. They occupied the best suite of the hotel.Monday evening, the Duke went to the gambling house. Later, his wife pursued and found him. On their way back, the car Jaguar knocked down a woman and her child. Both killed.Then we have the present text....At one o'clock Thursday morning, Ogilvie drove the car north. But he was seen leaving the hotel by McDermott. Later in the afternoon, McDermott witnessed the funeral of the two victims o f the accident. He suddenly realized the relation between these two events and contacted police.Ogilvie was caught in Tennessee and sent back to New Orleans.The Duke decided to go to the police to confess his crime (to surrender himself / to give hi mself up). But he was hurled out the elevator due to the breakdown of it. He hit the cement groun d and died instantly.Anyway, the novel had a pleasant ending.One of the guests, who looked old and sick, turned out to be a millionaire. Earlier he was s eriously ill and was saved by McDermott and his girl friend. To show his gratitude and to repay t he hotel staffs' kindness, he bought the hotel and appointed McDermott executive vice president of the hotel.This kind of novels are called thrillers. Generally defining, a thriller is a work of fiction or dr ama designed to hold the interest by the use of a high degree of intrigue, adventure or suspense. (thrill: to cause sudden strong feeling of joy, fear, excitement, pleasure etc. that seems to flow r ound the body like a wave)Others can be called cop-criminal novels, detective novels. The main purpose is for enterta inment, amusement. Very often this kind of novels contain a lot of action, usu. suspension, not v ery much deep thought, without moral intention, not considered classic.The basic technique is to make the whole story of crime into sth. like a jigsaw puzzle. You c an not see the outcome until the final part is put in.文章结构Structural and stylistic analysisPart 1. PreludeThe chief house officer...Ogilvie remained standing {p.84 (old book, ditto)}.Section 1. The chief house officer...that both might return at any moment.The setting, main characters, and the suspension.Section 2. A wave of cigar smoke...Ogilvie remained standing.The preliminary encounter between the house detective and the Croydons.Part 2: Process of unveiling the crimeNow then...the Duchess turned away (p. 89).Section 1. Now then...Now we're getting somewhere (p. 86).First round of clash. the Duke confessed his crime.Section 2. Wearily, in a gesture...I can prove all I need to (p.87).Second round of clash. Ogilvie spelt out what he found out about the activity of the Croydo ns and tried to confirm all the detailed. The Duchess tried to win back the upper hand.Section 3. The Duke cautioned...the Duchess turned away (p. 89).The Croydons realized that they were convicted of the crime. The conviction was undeniabl e.Part 3. The Dirty DealSection 1. Her husband asked...You people are hot (p.91).Eliminating the possibility of having the car repaired in New Orleans.The possibility of not being found.Section 2. The Duchess ...Or had they? (p. 93)The interior monologue of the Duchess. Her judgement, analysis and calculation of the situ ation, weighing the advantages and disadvantages, the pros and cons.Section 3. (The Duchess faced Ogilvie... the silence hung (p. 94)The Duchess' decision to gamble on the greed of the house detective.Section 4. The ending.The dirty deal reached.修辞学习RHETORICMetaphor:...the nerves of both ... were excessively frayed...his wife shot him a swift, warning glance.The words spat forth with sudden savagery.Her tone ...withered......self-assurance...flickered...The Duchess kept firm tight rein on her racing mind. Her voice was a whiplash.eyes bored into himI’ll spell it out.Euphemism:...and you took a lady friend.Metonymy:won 100 at the tableslost it at the barthey'll throw the book,...Onomatopoeia:appreciative chuckleclucked his tongue。

高级英语第一册讲义06

Lesson 6 BlackmailObjectives of Teachingget familiar with the background of the author and this piece of writing；understand the main idea and theme of this text；master the key words and phrases and their use；learn and appreciate the writing style of this passage.Important and difficult pointsunderstand the main idea of this passagelearn to use the key words and phraseslearn and appreciate the writing styleI. Background information about the author:Arthur Hailey（1920-2004）was born and educated in Britain. He served in RAF（皇家空军）in 1939, and emigrated to Canada 1949.His famous novels: Hotel 《大饭店》, Airport《航空港》The moneychanger《钱商》II. Type of writing:Fiction/novel, to be specific, a thriller, designed to hold the interest by the use of a high degree of intriguey, adventure or suspense.III. Detailed study of the text1.The chief house officer, Ogilvie, who had declared he would …took twice that time : The chief house officer, Ogilvie, gave the Croydons a mysterious telephone call telling them he would pay them a visit an hour later, but actually he appeared at their suite two hours later.2. the Duke: (in Britain) a nobleman, whose rank is just below that of a prince. Below the duke are the marquis, earl, viscount and baron.3. the Duchess: wife or widown of a duke, or a woman with a rank equal to that of a duke4. the nerves of both the Duke and Duchess were excessively frayed: The nerves of both the Duke and Duchess were worn out by the long wait, were over-strained. Both the Duke and Duchess were extremely nervous.5. the muted buzzer: muted to render the noise of the bell less harsh and strident6. she had dispatched her maid on an invented errand: They sent her out to get her out of the way; the …errand‟being just an excuse, a trip which was not necessary. Obviously the talk between Ogilvie and the Croydons had to be kept a secret.7. the moon-faced male secretary: The use of male before secretary is to avoidpossibility of the reader‟s assuming otherwise, for commonly in the U.S. secretaryship is the female profession.Note: male nurse, man servant, but woman doctors, woman pilot. …Moon-faced‟means having a round face. The young man‟s appearance is in keeping with his timid character (fear of pet animals).8. cruelly instructed: ‟cruel‟because they knew the secretary was terrified of dogs. They could easily have found some other errand for him.9. to exercise the Bedlington terriers: to walk the dogs to take the dogs out and give them some exercise. The Bedlington terrier is a breed of blue or liver-coloured, wooly-coated, active, typically small dogs. The terriers are a status symbol showing that the Duchess id no ordinary dog owner. And the fact that they can keep dogs in a hotel suite proves they are very important people.10. Her own tension was not lessened …: Ogilvie had telephoned to say that he would be at the suite in an hour. The Duchess made arrangement for the maid and the secretary to be away when he called. But he was an hour late, and the maid and the secretary might return at any moment. The Duchess knew this and it made her nervous.11. A wave of cigar smoke accompanied Ogilvie in: to smoke a cigar in the presence of a lady without ask for permission is impolite and being familiar. He comes into the room smoking his cigar. Ogilvie is a coarse, vulgar, and uneducated fellow and because he thinks he has the Croydons under his thumb he doesn‟t give a damn to what they may think or feel. The Duchess …looked pointedly‟, that is, directly and sharply at the cigar, trying to intimidate hem with her superior social position.12. Would you kindly put that out.: a period instead of a question mark, indicating it is said in a falling tone, meant to be a command, not a polite request.13. piggy eyes: small, narrow eyes lost in the mass of flesh. Ogilvie is one of the …bad guys‟ in this novel. He has piggy eyes, a gross jowled face, an obese body, speaks in falsetto, is vulgar, unscrupulous, ill-mannered, to the point of throwing his cigar on the carpet. Some examples with the word pig:Don‟t be a pig. (Don‟t be greedy.)He is a pig. (He is a dirty, greedy or ill-mannered person)I‟ve made a pig of myself. (I‟ve eaten too much.)14. surveyed her sardonically: He looked her up and down scornfully because he had evidence of their crime up his sleeve and felt sure that in a moment he would be able to humble her and bring her to her knees.15. to sweep the spacious, will-appointed room: His glance passes swiftly over the big, excellently furnished and arranged room.16. who faced them uncertainly: Besides having a weak character, the Duke is over fond of liquor and other men‟s wives, and so is submissive to the Duchess, herself a woman of strong character, a known public figure and cousin of the queen. After the road accident, it was the Duchess who masterminded the cover-up and the Duke was n‟t quite sure of what to say to Ogilvie or what to do, he was afraid of messing things up.17. an appreciative chuckle: mainly self appreciative. When a hotel employee goes toa guest‟s room, usually he goes there on business and no familiarity is allowed. But here Ogilvie was enjoying the fact that he could afford to do whatever he liked. He loved being in a position of temporary supremacy. Also he appreciated the fact that the Duchess was no fool. She knew why he had come.He lowered the level of his incongruous falsetto voice: He had an unnaturally high-pitched voice. When he spoke now, he lowered the pitch.incongruous:This falsetto voice sounded funny coming from a thickset man like Ogilvie.18. a warning glance: The Duke had made a blunder the night before by mentioning the car in front of the hotel‟s assistant general manager when his wife was trying hard to establish something of an alibi. Now the wife was warning him not to blunder again.19. it pays to check: to be profitable or worthwhile to check. Other examples:1)It pays to think before you speak.2)It‟ll pay to keep a diary in English.20. surprising speed: surprising because you wouldn‟t expect a fat man like him to move quickly21. “You two was in that hit-…n-run”: You two are guilty of that hit-and-run accident. Hit-and-run is usually used to describe a driver who flees from the scene of an accident in which he is involved.22. your high-an‟-mightiness:high-and-mighty: very proud, (the correct way to address a Duke or a Duchess is “Your Grace”).Ogilvie addressed her this way in imitation of “Your highness”, to mock her haughty attitude.23. high-tailed it: (colloquial) leave in a hurry, scurry off24. they‟ll throw the book, and never mind who it hits: They‟ll deal out the maximum in punishment, to apply the full force of the law and they will not care who will be punished in this case. To throw the book is an idiom, in which the word book means the law book. It refers to the book. Here Ogilvie follows the metaphor through.25. The Duchess of croydon—three centuries and a half of inbred arrogance behind her—did not yield easily: The Duchess was supported by her arrogance coming from parents of noble families who belonged to the nobility for more than three hundred years. So she did not give in easily.26. she faced the grossness of the house detective squarely: She stood up boldly and rebuked the coarse vulgarity of the house detective.27. Lindy‟s Place: a gambling joint, a gambling nightclub, a casino28. Irish Bayou: bayou[¹beiu:] a French, word, a marsh. New Orleans was colonized by the French, so a lot of places there have French names.29. fancy Jaguar: Fancy here means expensive and superior model (car).30. You were into a second hundred—with a real swinging party: You were beginning to spend another hundred dollars of your own (the hundred won in gambling had already been spent) to treat a merry and lively party.31. There ain‟t much, out of the way, which people who stay in this hotel do, I don‟t get to hear about: If anybody who stays in this hotel does anything wrong, improperor unusual, I always get to know about it. There isn‟t much that can escape me.out of the way: improper, wrong, unusual32. lickered up: liquored up, drunkCompare:liquor: an alcoholic drink, esp. one made by distillation, as whiskey or rum (neat whiskey)wine: mainly grape wine (sweet or dry wine)soft drinks: non-alcoholic, like soda popchaser: a mild drink, taken with or after liquorbe as good as one‟s word /break one‟s word /a man of his word in so many words 33. On a hunch I went over to the garage: As I suspected and felt there was something wrong, I went over to the garage to inspect.hunch: a feeling about something not based on the known facts: premonition or suspicion. The meaning derives from the superstition that it brings good luck to touch a hunch-back.I have a hunch that…: I rather think that…34. Providin‟ nobody twigs the car: It should be: Provided (or providing) that nobody notices the car.twig: (from thieves‟ slang) observe, notice35. You people are hot: You are now wanted by the police.36. kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind: She kept firm and tight control of her mind which is working quickly. Here the Duchess is thinking quickly but at he same time keeping her thoughts under control, not letting them run wild.37. as if the discussion were of some minor domestic matter and not survival itself: as if the discussion were about some unimportant domestic matter, not concerned with life and death.38. her husband now a tense but passive spectator: Nominative absolute construction with a noun plus a noun. Her husband watched anxiously and nervously, incapable of taking an active part.39. calculated coolness: She was not cool, in fact, her mind was racing, but she deliberately appeared to be cool.40. to fall victim to some sharp-eyed policeman: to be seen and arrested by an observant and alert policeman41. adept at using maps: skilled in using maps42. their speech and manner would betray them: Their speech and manner wouldreveal their identity.betray: reveal unknowingly, or against one‟s wishesExamples:1)He said he had stayed indoors all day, but his hoes betrayed him.2)His face betrayed his fear.43. pretty well fixed: quite rich, wealthyfixed: (colloquial) supplied with something needed, esp. money, e.g. well fixed for life44. She must do so in such a way as to place the outcome beyond any doubt: Shewould offer him so much money as to make it impossible for him to refuse to do what she would ask him to in return, no matter how dangerous the job might be.45. eyes bulged: with greed46. watched intently: The to Duchess, it was a question of survival itself. Only if Ogilvie agreed to drive their car north would they have a chance to get out of the mess unscathed.47. “This cigar bother in‟ you, Duchess?”: If this cigar is bothering you, I‟ll put it out. This shows that he is willing to comply with the Duchess‟ wishes.IV. Organization of the story:Part 1. Prelude (The chief house officer ...Ogilvie remained standing) Section 1. The setting, main characters, and the suspension. (The chief house ...that both might return at any moment.)Section 2. The preliminary encounter between the house detective and the Croydons. (A wave of cigar smoke...Ogilvie remained standing)Part2: Process of unveiling the crime (Now then...the Duchess turned away）Section 1. First round of clash. the Duke confessed his crime（Now then...Now we're getting somewhere).Section 2. Second round of clash.(Wearily, in a gesture...I can prove all I need to )Ogilvie spelt out what he had found out about the activity of the Croydons and tried to confirm all the details. The Duchess tried to win back the upper hand.Section 3. The conviction was undeniable.(The Duke cautioned...the Duchess turned away ).The Croydons realized that they were convicted of the crimePart 3. The Dirty DealSection 1. Eliminating the possibility of having the car repaired in New Orleans. ( Her husband asked...You people are hot).Section 2. The interior monologue of the Duchess. Her judgement, analysis and calculation of the situation, weighing the advantages and disadvantages.(The duchess ...Or had they? )Section 3. The Duchess' decision to gamble on the greed of the house detective.(The Duchess faced Ogilvie... the silence hung )Section 4. The ending.The dirty deal reached.V. Character analysis:Ogilvie (notice that the name itself sounds awkward, awful): rude, uneducated,sardonic, self-assured, shamelessly greedy, but finally subservientthe Duchess: imperious, three centuries and a half of inbred arrogance, decisive, vigilant, very quick in response,highly educatedthe Duke: uncertain, ready to compromise, passive, despairing,VI. Rhetorical devices:Metaphor:...the nerves of both ... were excessively frayed…his wife shot him a swift, warning glance.The words spat forth with sudden savagery.I‟ll spell it out.Euphemism:...and you took a lady friend.Metonymy:won 100 at the tableslost it at the barthey'll throw the book,...VII. Questions for discussion:1. What made the Duchess jump to the conclusion that Ogilvie had come to blackmail them?2. Why did the Duchess offer Ogilvie twenty-five thousand dollars instead of the ten thousand the detective asked for? Did Ogilvie accept the Duchess‟ offer?。

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Plot:
• Monday evening, the Duke went to the gambling house. Later, his wife pursued and found him. On their way back, the car Jaguar knocked down a woman and her child. Both killed.
Plot:
• The Duke of Croydon was an internationally famous statesman and the newly appointed British ambassador to Washington. They occupied the best suite of the hotel--- the Presidential Suite.
Arthur Hailey’s Works
• • • • • • • • • • The Final Diagnosis (1959) In High Places (1962) Hotel (1966) Airport (1968) Wheels (1971) The Moneychangers (1975) Overload (1979) Strong Medicine (1984) The Evening News(1990) Detective(1997)
Organization
Part ⅠPrelude (Para. 1-13) Section 1 The setting, main characters, and the suspension. Section 2 The preliminary encounter between the house detective and the Croydons.
Part Ⅱ: Process of unveiling the crime (para. 14-47) Section 1 First round of clash. the Duke confessed his crime. Section 2 Second round of clash. Ogilvie spelt out what he found out about the activity of the Croydons and tried to confirm all the detailed. Section 3 The Croydons realized that they were convicted of the crime. The conviction was undeniable.
Lesson 6 Blackmail
Teaching Objectives
• Understand the theme of the novel • Learn the characters of people in different classes • Appreciate the writing features
Arthur Hailey
-- in 1920 Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England -- from 1939 to 1947 Joined the British Royal Air Force and served through the World War II -- In 1947 Emigrated to Canada and became a Canadian citizen -- in 1969 Moved to the Bahamas to avoid Canadian and U.S. income taxes, which were claiming 90% of his income
Type of literature
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This kind of novels are called thrillers. Generally defining, a thriller is a work of fiction or drama designed to hold the interest by the use of a high degree of intrigue, adventure or suspense. • / novel, film with an exciting and gripping plot, esp one involving crime. • Others can be called detective novels. The main purpose is for entertainment and amusement.
Characters of the novel:
• McDermott: assistant general manager of the hotel • Ogilvie: chief house detective • the Duke of Croydon: newly appointed British ambassador to the United States • the Duchess of Croydon: wife of the Duke • a prostitute called lady friend by Ogilvie
About the Novel: Hotel
A piece of narration
• Setting • Characters • Plot
Setting:
• The story happened in a hotel named St. Gregory in New Orleans, Louisiana which is in the south of US.
• wrote 11 books, which were published in 40 countries and 38 languages, with about 170 million copies in print. • died in his sleep on Nov. 24， 2004 at his home in Lyford Cay on New Providence in the Bahamas.
Plot:
• Gregory was now at the brink of bankruptcy, but Peter McDermott, the assistant general manager, is trying every means he could to save it. Several events happened during the week with the •present text as part of it.
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Very often this kind of novels contain a lot of action, usu. suspension, not very much deep thought, without moral intention, not considered classic. • The basic technique is to make the whole story of crime into sth. like a jigsaw puzzle. You can not see the outcome until the final part is put in.
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He promises to keep quiet about what he knows and asks for a large sum of money in return for the favour. The Duke, now totally at a loss as to what to do, has to let his wife handle the problem. The Duchess, a clever woman, first pretends to know nothing about what the detective says and denies the fact that they have killed the woman and the girl, but later admits it after the detective has produced a lot of evidence.
Each of his novels has a different industrial or commercial setting and includes, in addition to dramatic human conflict, carefully researched information about the way that particular environments and systems function and how these affect society and its inhabitants.
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The hotel's chief house detective Ogilvie notices the battered car when it comes back. He does not go to report this to the police; instead, he comes to the couple's suite and has a talk with them.
Structural Analysis
• • • • Introduction Development Climax Conclusion
Part ⅠPrelude (Para. 1-13) Part ⅡProcess of unveiling the crime (para. 14-47) Part Ⅲ The Dirty Deal Part Ⅳ The Endingthat to get themselves out of this mess, the car has to be driven out of the south where people are alerted about the hit-andrun. So she offers to pay Ogilvie twice more than he has asked on condition that he drives the car to Chicago up in the north. The greedy detective accepted the offer under the imposing air and the lure of money.