时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:历年考研英语阅读理解


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[00:08.24]Many things make people think artists are weird 1.
[00:11.77]But the weirdest 2 may be this:
[00:14.29]artists' only job is to explore emotions,
[00:18.00]and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.
[00:22.62]This wasn't always so.
[00:24.64]The earliest forms of art,
[00:25.90]like painting and music,
[00:28.18]are those best suited for expressing joy.
[00:31.92]But somewhere from the 19th century onward,
[00:35.44]more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless,
[00:39.69]phony or, worst of all, boring,
[00:42.79]as we went from Wordsworth's daffodils to
[00:45.44]Baudelaire's flowers of evil.
[00:48.45]You could argue that art became more skeptical 3 of happiness
[00:52.18]because modern times have seen so much misery 4.
[00:56.21]But it's not as if earlier times didn't know perpetual war,
[01:00.56]disaster and the massacre 5 of innocents.
[01:03.68]The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite:
[01:07.02]there is too much damn happiness in the world today.
[01:11.15]After all, what is the one modern form of expression
[01:14.88]almost completely dedicated 6 to depicting 7 happiness?
[01:19.01]Advertising.
[01:20.32]The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks
[01:23.65]the emergence 8 of mass media,
[01:25.88]and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness
[01:28.72]is not just an ideal but an ideology 9.
[01:33.06]People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders 10 of misery.
[01:37.48]They worked until exhausted,
[01:39.70]lived with few protections and died young.
[01:43.54]In the West, before mass communication and literacy,
[01:47.18]the most powerful mass medium was the church,
[01:50.50]which reminded worshippers that their souls were in danger
[01:54.03]and that they would someday be meat for worms.
[01:58.17]Given all this,
[01:59.44]they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer too.
[02:03.77]Today the messages the average Westerner
[02:06.79]is surrounded with are not religious but commercial,
[02:10.33]and forever happy.
[02:12.71]Fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers,
[02:16.06]all smiling, smiling, smiling.
[02:19.40]Our magazines feature beaming celebrities
[02:21.80]and happy families in perfect homes.
[02:25.41]And since these messages have an agenda
[02:28.04]--to lure 11 us to open our wallets
[02:30.46]--they make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable.
[02:34.89]"Celebrate!" commanded the ads for
[02:37.28]the arthritis 12 drug Celebrex,
[02:39.75]before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attacks.
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[02:44.49]But what we forget
[02:46.12]--what our economy depends on us forgetting
[02:48.72]--is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain.
[02:53.08]The things that bring the greatest joy
[02:55.40]carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment.
[02:59.43]Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness,
[03:03.53]we need art to tell us, as religion once did, Memento 13 mori:
[03:08.60]remember that you will die,
[03:10.100]that everything ends,
[03:12.79]and that happiness comes not in denying this
[03:15.90]but in living with it.
[03:18.44]It's a message even more bitter than a clove 14 cigarette,
[03:22.20]yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air.


1 weird
adj.古怪的,离奇的;怪诞的,神秘而可怕的
  • From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来,他好像有点怪。
  • His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
2 weirdest
怪诞的( weird的最高级 ); 神秘而可怕的; 超然的; 古怪的
  • Think of the weirdest, craziest shit you'd like to see chicks do. 想想这最怪异,最疯狂的屁事。你会喜欢看这些鸡巴表演的。
  • It's still the weirdest damn sound I ever heard out of a Jersey boy. 这是我所听过新泽西人最为怪异的音调了。
3 skeptical
adj.怀疑的,多疑的
  • Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
  • Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。
4 misery
n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦
  • Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
  • He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。
5 massacre
n.残杀,大屠杀;v.残杀,集体屠杀
  • There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中,这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
  • If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀,大屠杀就有可能再次发生!
6 dedicated
adj.一心一意的;献身的;热诚的
  • He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
  • His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。
7 depicting
描绘,描画( depict的现在分词 ); 描述
  • a painting depicting the Virgin and Child 一幅描绘童贞马利亚和圣子耶稣的画
  • The movie depicting the battles and bloodshed is bound to strike home. 这部描写战斗和流血牺牲的影片一定会取得预期效果。
8 emergence
n.浮现,显现,出现,(植物)突出体
  • The last decade saw the emergence of a dynamic economy.最近10年见证了经济增长的姿态。
  • Language emerges and develops with the emergence and development of society.语言是随着社会的产生而产生,随着社会的发展而发展的。
9 ideology
n.意识形态,(政治或社会的)思想意识
  • The ideology has great influence in the world.这种思想体系在世界上有很大的影响。
  • The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration.我的理想是在意识思想和灵感鼓动之间找到一个折衷。
10 reminders
n.令人回忆起…的东西( reminder的名词复数 );提醒…的东西;(告知该做某事的)通知单;提示信
  • The film evokes chilling reminders of the war. 这部电影使人们回忆起战争的可怕场景。
  • The strike has delayed the mailing of tax reminders. 罢工耽搁了催税单的投寄。
11 lure
n.吸引人的东西,诱惑物;vt.引诱,吸引
  • Life in big cities is a lure for many country boys.大城市的生活吸引着许多乡下小伙子。
  • He couldn't resist the lure of money.他不能抵制金钱的诱惑。
12 arthritis
n.关节炎
  • Rheumatoid arthritis has also been linked with the virus.风湿性关节炎也与这种病毒有关。
  • He spent three months in the hospital with acute rheumatic arthritis.他患急性风湿性关节炎,在医院住了三个月。
13 memento
n.纪念品,令人回忆的东西
  • The photos will be a permanent memento of your wedding.这些照片会成为你婚礼的永久纪念。
  • My friend gave me his picture as a memento before going away.我的朋友在离别前给我一张照片留作纪念品。
14 clove
n.丁香味
  • If tired,smell a whiff of clove oil and it will wake you up.如果疲倦,闻上一点丁香油将令人清醒。
  • A sweet-smell comes from roses and clove trees.丁香与玫瑰的香味扑鼻而来。
学英语单词
(Robaxin)Methocarbamol
a. ophthalmica
aitcs
angular dispersion
antique-dealer
aureolarias
Banteay Chey
be mounted
bichats
bumper jar
butt-chin
cardiac disease in toxemia of pregnancy
cercis likiangensis chun
certificate of beneficial interest
Chang Kuo
changeless
chion-
colega
collie eye anomaly
component truss
comprehensive confirming house shipment policy
congenital retinal fold
contact insertion and withdrawal force
contractualises
deblending
design proposal
desklamps
desksize computer
diffuse choroidal sclerosis
disappear to
downward storke
dynamic discovery
earning related benefit
ensta
entergy
Erypin
essential enzyme
flat-topped ridge
flow dichroism
follower stud
four-legged friends
gailliard
gas seep
goes down the drain
golfdom
heavy tail
high pressure adjusting spring
hollow-point
home reservation
humariaceous
indicating potentiometer
ironless armature
isopia
jet channelling
kirchoff's law
metallocarboxypeptidase
micro-fiche
milky tea
mistaker
moity wool
multiplication of determimants
navigation system
NAVMEDATASERVCEN
neoprene sponge
nine-tracks
nodi lymphatici cervicales anteriores
oftmentioned
on maturity
on roder
osteohalisteresis
outer iteration
output of column
Pahārikhera
paramyoclonus multiplex
pda-based
perrutenate
personal supremacy
photoconductive thermal-plastic polymer material
phyllosticta amorphophalli
picoeukaryotes
plavacridin
polar positioning system
pterolophia lineatipennis
Putnam, Rufus
radioactive pericarditis
reckon sth up
Rhododendron noriakianum
ripeful
scintillatio albescens
self-ionization spectroscopy
stwe
Sulzbach an der Murr
swallow
Taitzehoia
technomic
trophic linkage
vascular glands
Viterbi decoder
vitriate
waltz turn
warns
wide-sense stationary random process