时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力:文化博览2008年


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 She was so taken with Muhammad, she proposed marriage.


 
Ah, Hadijia, well I think she was a mentor 1 as well as a wife, a very strong lady who had her own business, and Muhammad was helping 2 her out, so it was a wonderful partnership 3 and I'm sure he learned a lot from her. He had tremendous amount of contact with merchants coming from different parts of the world passing through the Arabian Peninsula. I think he was a very intelligent man, very open-minded, and he was able to communicate with a great variety of peoples. He must have had great charisma 4 as well. 
 
Muhammad had a way with people and with resolving their disputes. Once when the Kaaba fell into disrepair, the clan 5 chieftains quarreled over who would have the honor of putting the sacred black stone back where it belonged. Before violence could erupt, Muhammad proposed an equitable 6 solution. United in the effort, the four leaders shared the weight and the honor. In gratitude 7, they invited Muhammad himself to replace the sacred stone. He became known as Al-Almin, the trusted one.
 
There are all kinds of indications that he was tremendously interested in religious questions. This is obviously not something that an ordinary person probably was interested in in those days.
 
He talked to sages 8, Arabic sages. He talked to Jewish and Christian 9 sages who lived in the area. He used to go up into the rock hills around Mecca and meditate 10, think about things, and at some point had this extraordinary vision which is spoken about very evocatively and allusively 11
 
In a cave above Mecca, Muhammad had an experience that would be the defining moment of his life. An angel was said to appear before him in the form of a man, instructing him to recite in the name of god the Almighty 12. For Muhammad it was an encounter as profound as it was deeply disturbing.
 
You get a sense of what it would be like to be a normal person in society, perhaps unusual in the sense of your intensity 13 for things like social justice, and finding out what the meaning of life is, but not being endowed with anything that would seem miraculous 14 by your friends, and all of a sudden, having this voice come to you and then come out of you as you speak it and recite it to other people.

n.指导者,良师益友;v.指导
  • He fed on the great ideas of his mentor.他以他导师的伟大思想为支撑。
  • He had mentored scores of younger doctors.他指导过许多更年轻的医生。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
n.合作关系,伙伴关系
  • The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
  • Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
n.(大众爱戴的)领袖气质,魅力
  • He has enormous charisma. He is a giant of a man.他有超凡的个人魅力,是个伟人。
  • I don't have the charisma to pull a crowd this size.我没有那么大的魅力,能吸引这么多人。
n.氏族,部落,宗族,家族,宗派
  • She ranks as my junior in the clan.她的辈分比我小。
  • The Chinese Christians,therefore,practically excommunicate themselves from their own clan.所以,中国的基督徒简直是被逐出了自己的家族了。
adj.公平的;公正的
  • This is an equitable solution to the dispute. 这是对该项争议的公正解决。
  • Paying a person what he has earned is equitable. 酬其应得,乃公平之事。
adj.感激,感谢
  • I have expressed the depth of my gratitude to him.我向他表示了深切的谢意。
  • She could not help her tears of gratitude rolling down her face.她感激的泪珠禁不住沿着面颊流了下来。
n.圣人( sage的名词复数 );智者;哲人;鼠尾草(可用作调料)
  • Homage was paid to the great sages buried in the city. 向安葬在此城市的圣哲们表示敬意。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Confucius is considered the greatest of the ancient Chinese sages. 孔子被认为是古代中国最伟大的圣人。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
v.想,考虑,(尤指宗教上的)沉思,冥想
  • It is important to meditate on the meaning of life.思考人生的意义很重要。
  • I was meditating,and reached a higher state of consciousness.我在冥想,并进入了一个更高的意识境界。
adj.暗指的,影射,间接提到
  • an allusive style of writing 引经据典的写作风格
  • The young schoolboy can not understand the allusive conversation of intellectual men. 这个年轻的学生听不懂文人们引经据典的谈话。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
adj.全能的,万能的;很大的,很强的
  • Those rebels did not really challenge Gods almighty power.这些叛徒没有对上帝的全能力量表示怀疑。
  • It's almighty cold outside.外面冷得要命。
n.强烈,剧烈;强度;烈度
  • I didn't realize the intensity of people's feelings on this issue.我没有意识到这一问题能引起群情激奋。
  • The strike is growing in intensity.罢工日益加剧。
adj.像奇迹一样的,不可思议的
  • The wounded man made a miraculous recovery.伤员奇迹般地痊愈了。
  • They won a miraculous victory over much stronger enemy.他们战胜了远比自己强大的敌人,赢得了非凡的胜利。
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