高级英语第10课paraphrase总结

2．Geographically American was separated by the Atlantic and the Pacific on both sides from the rest of world, historically, the nation had wished to establish a theological country and make it example for the world. However, in the 1920s, some people realized that their country no longer stood alone and they had assumed an international position. It was simple impossible to make policies or adhere to the tradition according to their own principles of right and wrong without the impact of the world event. These people might not declare the idea openly, but at least they had subconsciously understood it.

3.After the first world war, the American industry developed at an unprecedented speed, producing large, noisy factories where modern machinery roared all the time and big, profit-thirsty corporations without any human feelings and a society where the ruthless desire to dominate pervaded. Under such circumstances, the principles of polite behavior, personal culture and traditional morality which were formed in the quieter and less competitive age before the war were totally discarded.

4. War was not the crucial factor in the change of moral standard. As time passed, the society advanced and one generation followed another, it became more and more difficult for our young people to act on the principles of behavior that had nothing to do with the prosperous business world. It was in this noisy and busy world that they had to struggle to be successful.

5. In the process of tearing down the social system of the Victorian age, the First World War was only a stimulus, the first world war was only a stimulus, not the decisive blow. It threw the romantic and unprepared young people into the modern war which turned out to be a mass murder, and liberated the wild energics which they had so far kept in check. After the war, both

in Europe and American, the young used their violent energies to destroy the nineteenth-century society which was out of date.

6. The young generation was confronted with the task of updating the moral code of the post-war society. But they tended to escape the responsibilities by pretending to be cynical and to be able to see through everything and by drinking heavily and living an immoral life as the unconventional artists. At least in American they behaved mischievously and withdrew from their duties.

7. Prohibition made it illicit to buy and drink alcohol. As a result the young people at that time found drinking more enjoyable than ever, not only because it was refreshing and relaxing, but also because the very act of drinking was illicit. The widely-known debauched lift the intellectuals lived in Greenwich Village set them an example, which the much-publicized ideas defying the traditional values gave them the philosophy to justify their escapism.

9. Their energies had been whipped up and their naivete by the war and now, in sleepy Gopher Prairies all over the country, they were being asked to curb those energies and resume the pose of self-deceiving Victorian innocence that they now felt to be as outmoded as the notion that their fighting had “made the world safe for democracy.”

P：Their violent energies had been released by war and their innocent beliefs and romantic ideals destroyed by war. To them, the old Victorian social codes were just as out-molded as the idea that their flight had “made the world soft for democracy.” The whole country appeared in their eyes as backward, undeveloped areas of the prairies and they were now asked to control their energies and continue a lift as virtuous and pretentious as the Victorian structure required.

10. After the war, it was only natural that hopeful young writers, their minds and pens inflamed against war, Babbittry, and “Puritanical” gentility, should flock to the traditional artistic center to pour out their new-found creative strength, to tear down the old world, to flout the morality of their grandfathers, and to give all to art, love, and sensation.

P: After the war, hopeful young writers thought and wrote with violent indignation at war, at the bourgeois provincial smugness, and the traditional “Puritanical”elegance. It was only natural for them to crowd in large numbers to Greenwich Village—the traditional living center for artists where living was still cheap in 1919—to write vigorously with their newly liberated creative strength, to attack and destroy the old social structure, to mock at the conventional old morality and to put their heart into art, love and the pursuit of new sensations. 11. Younger brothers and sister of the war generation, who had been playing with marbles and

dolls during the battles of Belleau Wood and Chateau—Thierry, and who had suffered no real

disillusionment or sense of loss, now began to imitate the manners of their elder and play with

the toys of vulgar rebellion.

P: Younger brother and sister of the generation matured up in war now imitated them to be rebellious although they were playing with their toys when their elders fought hard and shed blood at the battles of Belleau Wood and Chatearu—Thierry and they had never suffered the disillusionment or sense of loss their elders felt so acutely.

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P:If people had really listened to artists and followed their ideas, these deficiencies could

eliminated. But the whole country cared about nothing except money, the sensitive and

disappointed artists had no choice but emigrate to Europe which was the center of art and

literature and where they could do better.