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好的,我将逐句翻译并解释其中的关键词汇及其发音。 ### 文件 1 1. **Life in fact was much rougher, harder, more superficially insecure, when I was young, but there seemed to be more honesty about, less constant cheating and pilfering and certainly far less vicious criminality.** 2. **Other elements apart from boredom of course have been at work here.** 3. **There is Iago's“Put money in thy purse”; there is the false notion that the world owes you something while you owe it nothing; the other idea that so long as you are not found out, then all will be well-no final damnation threatening you any longer, and no understanding yet that there can be plenty of Hells on a do-it-yourself basis.** 4. **Behind it all, whether people are sunk into almost mindless apathy or scream out of their frustration for violence, there is a feeling that everything is different now, that life has been“found out” to be without meaning, without purpose, equally negative for all mankind or for your own nation.** 5. **Naturally I am not saying all the English are down on this level.** 6. **We still have some Englishness left, keeping our minds open to the past and retaining some faith in our future, rejecting the logic-chopping rational for the widely if hazily reasonable, refusing to be cut off from instinct and intuition.** 这些句子涵盖了对英国社会变迁和个人价值观的反思,希望这些解释和发音对你有所帮助。 |
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好的,我将逐句翻译并解释其中的关键词汇及其发音。 ### 文件 1 1. **Yes, Englishness is still with us.** 2. **But it needs reinforcement, extra nourishment, especially now when our public life seems ready to starve it.** 3. **There are English people of all ages, though far more under thirty than over sixty, who seem to regard politics as a game but not one of their games-polo, let us say.** 4. **To them the House of Commons is a remote squabbling shop.** 5. **Recognized political parties are repertory companies staging ghostly campaigns, and all that is real between them is the arrangement by which one set of chaps take their turn at ministerial jobs while the other set pretend to be astounded and shocked and bring in talk of ruin.** 6. **The whole thing, in the eyes of these people, is an expensive and tedious farce.** 7. **In my view they are mistaken, indeed quite dangerously wrong, and I can only hope that no young demagogue of genius and his friends are listening to them.** 8. **Otherwise they could soon learn, in the worst way, that heavy hands can fall on the shoulders that have been shrugging away politics.** 9. **You can ignore politics, taking what has been gained for granted, only to discover your cousins have vanished and you are being knocked up at three in the morning.** 10. **Dictatorships have thrived on majorities that are apathetic and then frightened, and on minorities that are fanatically divided, brutally quarrelsome and stupid.** 这些句子涵盖了对英国政治态度的批评和对政治参与重要性的讨论,希望这些解释和发音对你有所帮助。 |
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好的,我将逐句翻译并解释其中的关键词汇及其发音。 ### 文件 1 1. **At this time of writing, both the cynical or frivolous majority, which imagines itself to be outside politics, and the stubbornly divided minority, only agreeing in being myopic and entirely self-interested, exist in England.** 2. **But I believe there must also still exist, if only on a hidden level, what remains of a characteristically English sense of community, decent fellow feeling, fairness.** 3. **(“It isn’t fair”, children still cry.)** 4. **In spite of the Admass atmosphere, inflation, the all-round grab, all this must yet exist even now, for there are deep roots here.** 5. **But those roots must be needing nourishment.** ### 文件 2 1. **Englishness cannot be fed with the east wind of a narrow rationality, the latest figures of profit and loss, a constant appeal to self-interest.** 2. **Politicians are always making such appeals, whereas statesmen, when they can be found, prefer to take themselves and their hearers out of the stock exchanges, shareholders' meetings, counting-houses.** 3. **They offer men the chance of behaving better and not as usual.** 4. **They create an atmosphere in which the familiar greed and envy and resentment begin to seem small and contemptible.** 5. **They restore to people their idea of themselves as a family.** 6. **It has been done in England over and over again.** 7. **But not lately.** 8. **There has been little or no appeal from deep feeling to deep feeling, from imagination to imagination.** 9. **Recent years have “robbed us of immortal things”.** 10. **But we do not have to go on like that, to enter a Common Market of national character.** 11. **It is now many years since I first declared in public my belief that the English, despite so many appearances to the contrary, are at heart and at root an imaginative people immediately responsive to any suggestion of drama in their lives.** 12. **Deprived of it, they drift towards boredom, sulks and foolish short-sighted quarrels.** 13. **And this is true, whether they are wearing bowler hats or ungovernable mops of hair.** 14. **To face the future properly they need both a direction and a great lift of the heart.** 15. **A rather poorer and harder way of life will not defeat them so long as it is not harder and poorer in spirit, so long as it still refuses to reject Englishness-for so many centuries the secret of the islanders oddity and irrationality, their many weaknesses, their creative strength.** 这些句子涵盖了对英国民族性格和政治参与的反思,希望这些解释和发音对你有所帮助。 |