时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:白领英语晨读


英语课
Elderly Men 

Elderly men have lived many years; they have often been taken in, and often made mistakes; and life on the whole is a bad business. The result is that they are sure about nothing and under-do everything. They "think" but they never "know"; and because of their hesitation 1 they always add a "possibly" or a "perhaps," putting everything this way and nothing positively 2. They are cynical 3; that is, they tend to put the worse construction on everything. Further, their experience makes them distrustful and therefore suspicious of evil. Consequently they neither love warmly nor hate bitterly, but following the hint of Bias 4 they love as though they will some day hate and hate as though they will some day love. They are small-minded, because they have been humbled 5 by life; their desires are set upon nothing more exalted 6 or unusual than what will help them to keep alive. They are not generous, because money is one of the things they must have, and at the same time their experience has taught them how hard it is to get and how easy to lose. They are cowardly, and are always anticipating danger; unlike that of the young, who are warm-blooded, their temperament 7 is chilly 8; old age has paved the way for cowardice 9; fear is, in fact, a form of chill. They love life; and all the more when their last day has come, because the object of all desire is something we have not got, and also because we desire most strongly that which we need most urgently. They are too fond of themselves; this is one form that small-mindedness takes. Because of this, they guide their lives too much by considerations of what is useful and too little by what is noble — for the useful is what is good for oneself, and the noble what is good absolutely.

n.犹豫,踌躇
  • After a long hesitation, he told the truth at last.踌躇了半天,他终于直说了。
  • There was a certain hesitation in her manner.她的态度有些犹豫不决。
adv.明确地,断然,坚决地;实在,确实
  • She was positively glowing with happiness.她满脸幸福。
  • The weather was positively poisonous.这天气着实讨厌。
adj.(对人性或动机)怀疑的,不信世道向善的
  • The enormous difficulty makes him cynical about the feasibility of the idea.由于困难很大,他对这个主意是否可行持怀疑态度。
  • He was cynical that any good could come of democracy.他不相信民主会带来什么好处。
n.偏见,偏心,偏袒;vt.使有偏见
  • They are accusing the teacher of political bias in his marking.他们在指控那名教师打分数有政治偏见。
  • He had a bias toward the plan.他对这项计划有偏见。
adj.(地位等)高的,崇高的;尊贵的,高尚的
  • Their loveliness and holiness in accordance with their exalted station.他们的美丽和圣洁也与他们的崇高地位相称。
  • He received respect because he was a person of exalted rank.他因为是个地位崇高的人而受到尊敬。
n.气质,性格,性情
  • The analysis of what kind of temperament you possess is vital.分析一下你有什么样的气质是十分重要的。
  • Success often depends on temperament.成功常常取决于一个人的性格。
adj.凉快的,寒冷的
  • I feel chilly without a coat.我由于没有穿大衣而感到凉飕飕的。
  • I grew chilly when the fire went out.炉火熄灭后,寒气逼人。
n.胆小,怯懦
  • His cowardice reflects on his character.他的胆怯对他的性格带来不良影响。
  • His refusal to help simply pinpointed his cowardice.他拒绝帮助正显示他的胆小。
学英语单词
acidic acidiferous
ACTH-ZN
air-breather
an iron hand
antisymbolic
Arcinae
autocratism
automatically programmed tools
Bacon, John
basic cobol
beak of dental forceps
Bellingshausen Abyssal Plain
bimetal deep-etch process
cellophane
Choerospondias axillaris
chorical
clip dryer
clutter region
coal semi-bituminous
Colibacter
common memory information transfer
curacies
cyclic quaternary compound
Delfin Basin
denitrifying bacteria
discharge spout
distance-regular graph
edible sea urchins
ejected electron
email system
fibro-epithelioma
flag logic function
fund requirement
gadolina reactivity effect
gandy dancer
gefil(l)te fish
general immunization
ginkgolide
h&e stain
hepatoblastoma
hieropyra
high strangeness
high-fat
hurla
hydroxycancrinite
in the very flush of youth
incruciation
indulge oneself in
internucleon coupling
irrigation efficiency
janny
jinkiest
kpetigoes
lateral increase
lectrone
legal case
Maesa ramentacea
manaksite
margo ulnares (digitorum manus)
matromorphic
mean hgih high water
military occupation area
mirabilia
multiple deck station
nication
non-metallic hard material
old world coral snakes
omissive representation
P-hydroxyephedrine
parenchymatous myocarditis
Personal Response System
plonks
potestatem
Praskoveya
pressure control valve (hydraulic)
prethee
prototype sample
rectified coast
regeneration-cutting
regular hand feed
rule conferring rihgt
single roller chain coupling
slizzard
sprags
square nut with collar
stationary distribution
steam circulation
stomidium
strongyloides papillosum
synthetic aperture sona(sas)
transverse escarpment
tributed
underexpand
unreliable observation
utero gestation
vacuum tubes
virotherapy
voice operation demonstrator (voder)
vorticity equation
vulcanized rubber insulated cable
witchweeds
wye -level