时间:2018-12-04 作者:英语课 分类:考研英语听力基本功4


英语课

Humor,which ought to give rise to only the most light-hearted and gay feeling

[00:05.72]can often stir to up vehemence 1 and animosit

[00:10.40]Evidently it is dearer to us than we realiz

[00:15.07]Men will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that they have no sense of humo

[00:23.22]A man will admit to being a coward or a liar 2 or a thief or a poor mechanic or a bad swimme

[00:30.90]but tell him he has a dreadful sense of humor and you might as well have slandered 3 his mothe

[00:37.56]Even if he is civilized 4 enough to pretend to make light of your statemen

[00:42.48]he will secretly believe that he has not only a good sense of humor but one superior to mos

[00:50.68]He has,in other words,a completely blind spot on the subjec

[00:55.82]This is all the more surprising when you consider that not one man in ten million can give you any kind of intelligent answer as to what humor is or why he laughs.



1 vehemence
n.热切;激烈;愤怒
  • The attack increased in vehemence.进攻越来越猛烈。
  • She was astonished at his vehemence.她对他的激昂感到惊讶。
2 liar
n.说谎的人
  • I know you for a thief and a liar!我算认识你了,一个又偷又骗的家伙!
  • She was wrongly labelled a liar.她被错误地扣上说谎者的帽子。
3 slandered
造谣中伤( slander的过去式和过去分词 )
  • She slandered him behind his back. 她在背地里对他造谣中伤。
  • He was basely slandered by his enemies. 他受到仇敌卑鄙的诋毁。
4 civilized
a.有教养的,文雅的
  • Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society. 文明社会憎恶种族主义。
  • rising crime in our so-called civilized societies 在我们所谓文明社会中日益增多的犯罪行为
学英语单词
all-glasses
amended by
anticipated transients without scram
Atka mackerel, Atka fish
barrel-polishing
blast table spreader
caparas
casemaking clothes moth
connection theory of learning
continued(CONTD)
control statistics
core stream
cottonpox
cowgh
departmental gross profit
depository right
determination of protein
Diopal
discus throw
double eyelid
Dukhnah
echiodon coheni
elastic-limit
Elche
emigrated
enamelled slate
ethno-cultural
Euclid's third axiom
excision of polyp
exfoliative esophagitis
explicit subsidy
febrile pulse
fitting-in
flexible safety fence
fluorescein-labeled
formed elements
full retreat system
genus argyranthemums
glossological
health promotion campaign
heat-supply system based upon heating plant
hike sth up
hog-brace
hysteresis response zone
identification mark
input output interface
Iranian
jaca
jane
jim
lateral flow spillway
lay sth. to sb.'s charge
loinss
lower category temperature
lyanla
lysergic acid amide
magnetic material content
marital right
moerella iridescens
occlusal contour
okey-dokey, Smokey
opero
oscillatory pressure pick-up
ostracion meleagris
outer-vibrating mould dragger
p-octyloxyphenol
pallidum Leucocytozoon
pentaethylacetophenone
phonograph recording disk
polysquares
Pooh-Bahs
porcelain pinless teeth
porcupine puffers
precompiler program
program emulator
proluvial
pseudorandomizes
pure and pute
recoding
regenerative carbon
relational ecs database (ecs/r)
revised definition
ribbon bomb
Ride a Cock-Horse
rubbing strake
Samsan
scale model study of obstacles
schlemiel
screenlets
serial regression
shear pin
signal control relay
spareribss
squibs
Sri Thep
stanyan
tail gate chain bracket
taung
timesheeting
vacuum annealing furnace
vapour pressure thermometer
whiffle