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
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a poo
abdoun
bayze
be scheduled to
belayings
bordeaux-styles
brandenburg-prussia
camber ratio
Carex phacota
CarHb
causal agent
chan
chromophous emulsion
cocktail hat
coelophyses
colorimeters
condenser resistance
conservative evaluation
copepod crustaceans
davit launching liferaft
day-flower
do-part
domiciliation
Ecpoviruses
emended
environment of sedimentation
ethylene perchloride primer
fade-out system
field shunting contactor
finds an opportunity to
finger-flowers
floating rice
gasoline-injection pump
Genesee Depot
Gibaro
giornoes
hand screw holdfast
Hanfic
hereditary retinoschisis
high-incidence
horizontal element spacing
host-guest material
huggett
in place density
injection mould
Internet refrigerator
inverse power factor
Junosuando
Kivat'
lifting action of blade
light minimum
liquid core
local mode of operation
Macoun L.
maximum number of balls
Messei
meyssonnier
mine survey map
molecule self-assembly
n.y.c
necessarians
New Milton
non budgetary
nonintense
offence of bigamy
open-circuit ventilation
out of the vertical
paragnetina planidorsa
pendulum apparatus
pogonatum contortum
portil
princely
program-controlled reagent feeder
Pujaut
quasi peak detector
quick tour
quintell
rackrent
recabarrens
refresher courses
Robert Boyle
satellite navigation earth stations
second land
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short interruption rate
smoke-uptake
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Sīdī Jihād
threepio
tide-meter
tooth visibility
total adding counter
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tuck shops
turbine blades
two-paint jack
unidle
unlosable
user-controlled
vacuum conveyer
Wielenbach
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