新概念英語(yǔ)（第二版第四冊(cè)）新概念英語(yǔ)Lesson 47
新概念英語(yǔ)Lesson 47 Plato Today
今日 Plato
The modern Plato, like his ancient counterpart, has an unbounded contempt for oliticians and
statesmen and party leaders who are not university men. He finds politics a dirty game, and only
enters them reluctantly because he knows that at the very least he and his friends are better than the
present gang. Brought up in the traditions of the ruling classes, he has a natural pity for the
common people whom he has learnt to know as servants, and observed from a distance at their
work in the factory, at their play in the parks and holiday resorts. He has never mixed with them or
spoken to them on equal terms, but has demanded and generally received a respect due to his
position and superior intelligence. He knows that if they trust him, he can give them the Happiness
which they crave. A man of culture, he genuinely despises the self-made industrialist and
newspaper-king: with a modest professional salary and a little private income of his own, he
regards money-making as vulgar and avoids all ostentation. Industry and finance seem to him to be
activities unworthy of gentlemen, although, alas, many are forced by exigencies of circumstance to
take some part in them. intellectual, he gently laughs at the superstitions of most Christians, but
attends church regularly because he sees the importance of organized religion for the maintenance
of sound morality among the lower orders, and because he dislikes the scepticism and materialism
of radical teachers. His genuine passions are for literature and the philosophy of science and he
would gladly spend all his time in studying them. But the plight of the world compels his unwilling
attention, and when he sees that human stupidity and greed are about to plunge Europe into chaos
and destroy the most glorious civilization which the world has known, he feels that it is high time
for men of good sense and good will to intervene and to take politics out of the hands of the
plutocrats of the Right and the woolly-minded idealists of the Left. Since he and his kind are the
only representatives of decency combined with intelligence, they must step down into the arena
and save the masses for themselves.
New words and expressions 生詞短語(yǔ)
1．Plato 柏拉圖 Platonic love: friendship between woman and man of mind and spirit
2．counterpart 相對(duì)立的人
3．Resort 度假勝地 retreat 勝地 summer resort 避暑山 health resort 療養(yǎng)勝地 spot 勝地
4．mix 相混合 He mixes well./ He is a good mixer.他左右逢源。
5．Crave 混合 crave for fresh air 渴望新鮮空氣 craving 貪婪
6．Genuinely 真正的
genuine=pure 純正的 real=true 真的authentic 正宗的，真品Sincere 真誠(chéng)
7.vulgar 粗陋的
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8.ostentation 賣(mài)弄、炫耀 ostentatious adj pretentious adj showy adj flashy adj
9.alas 哎呀 10.exigency 緊迫 emergency 緊迫，急診
11．Christian 基督教徒 Christianity 基督教 Christ 基督 Islam/Moslem 伊斯蘭教
Buddhism 佛教Buddha 如來(lái)佛
12.religion 宗教 religious 宗教的 13.morality 道德 moral 道德
14．Scepticism 懷疑論
15.materialism 唯物主義 materialist 務(wù)實(shí)者，唯物主義者 idealist 理想主義者，唯心者
dialectical materialism 辯證唯物主義 historical materialism 歷史唯物主義
16.radical 激進(jìn)的
17.plight 困境trap/plunge/sink into plight 陷入困境 dilemma 左右為難的
18.greed 貪婪avaricious 貪婪的 insatiable 不知足的
19.plunge 使陷入 I plunge myself into poverty 我陷入貧困
Gambling plunged him into failure in Business.賭博使他陷入商業(yè)失敗的境地。
20.chaos 混亂 chaotic 混亂的 anarchy 無(wú)政府狀態(tài) lawlessness 無(wú)法無(wú)天 bedlam 瘋?cè)嗽?BR> 21.plutocrat 富豪 Pluto 冥王星
22.the Right 右翼 the Left 左翼 rightist 右派 leftist 左派
23.decency 體面 decent 體面的for the seek of decency 為了面子
Notes on the text 課文注釋
1.the modern Plato :the person who is like Plato in our modern society.
2.stateman 政治家 plitician 政客
3.A university is a place where those woo hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who
pursue truth who strike to make others see.
大學(xué)是憎惡無(wú)知的人求知之所,是尋求真理的人誨人之處.
4.them :political activities.
5.at the very least 說(shuō)句公道話
6.gang :group of people 在英文中,一般無(wú)褒義.
7.bring up:bring sb. upgrow up
8.on equal terms 平等的地位on speaking terms 平等條件下
They keep good terms with each other.
The two neighbors are not on borrowing term.這兩個(gè)鄰居從不來(lái)往
9.newspaper-king 報(bào)業(yè)巨子10.modest 適當(dāng)?shù)?BR> 11.sound:good,healthy12.teacher=advocator 說(shuō)教者
13.genuine passions 一種熱切的激情14.compet=win
15be about to do: do sth very soon16.high time =good time 早就該
17.intervene 干涉18.mob 烏合之眾19.arena 舞臺(tái)
20.課文短語(yǔ)
unbound contempt for sba natural pity
on equal termssuperior intelligence
a man of cultureself-made industrialist
newspaper-kingunworthy of gentlemen
plunge intohigh time
man of good sensehis kind
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新概念英語(yǔ)Lesson 47 Plato Today
今日 Plato
The modern Plato, like his ancient counterpart, has an unbounded contempt for oliticians and
statesmen and party leaders who are not university men. He finds politics a dirty game, and only
enters them reluctantly because he knows that at the very least he and his friends are better than the
present gang. Brought up in the traditions of the ruling classes, he has a natural pity for the
common people whom he has learnt to know as servants, and observed from a distance at their
work in the factory, at their play in the parks and holiday resorts. He has never mixed with them or
spoken to them on equal terms, but has demanded and generally received a respect due to his
position and superior intelligence. He knows that if they trust him, he can give them the Happiness
which they crave. A man of culture, he genuinely despises the self-made industrialist and
newspaper-king: with a modest professional salary and a little private income of his own, he
regards money-making as vulgar and avoids all ostentation. Industry and finance seem to him to be
activities unworthy of gentlemen, although, alas, many are forced by exigencies of circumstance to
take some part in them. intellectual, he gently laughs at the superstitions of most Christians, but
attends church regularly because he sees the importance of organized religion for the maintenance
of sound morality among the lower orders, and because he dislikes the scepticism and materialism
of radical teachers. His genuine passions are for literature and the philosophy of science and he
would gladly spend all his time in studying them. But the plight of the world compels his unwilling
attention, and when he sees that human stupidity and greed are about to plunge Europe into chaos
and destroy the most glorious civilization which the world has known, he feels that it is high time
for men of good sense and good will to intervene and to take politics out of the hands of the
plutocrats of the Right and the woolly-minded idealists of the Left. Since he and his kind are the
only representatives of decency combined with intelligence, they must step down into the arena
and save the masses for themselves.
New words and expressions 生詞短語(yǔ)
1．Plato 柏拉圖 Platonic love: friendship between woman and man of mind and spirit
2．counterpart 相對(duì)立的人
3．Resort 度假勝地 retreat 勝地 summer resort 避暑山 health resort 療養(yǎng)勝地 spot 勝地
4．mix 相混合 He mixes well./ He is a good mixer.他左右逢源。
5．Crave 混合 crave for fresh air 渴望新鮮空氣 craving 貪婪
6．Genuinely 真正的
genuine=pure 純正的 real=true 真的authentic 正宗的，真品Sincere 真誠(chéng)
7.vulgar 粗陋的
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8.ostentation 賣(mài)弄、炫耀 ostentatious adj pretentious adj showy adj flashy adj
9.alas 哎呀 10.exigency 緊迫 emergency 緊迫，急診
11．Christian 基督教徒 Christianity 基督教 Christ 基督 Islam/Moslem 伊斯蘭教
Buddhism 佛教Buddha 如來(lái)佛
12.religion 宗教 religious 宗教的 13.morality 道德 moral 道德
14．Scepticism 懷疑論
15.materialism 唯物主義 materialist 務(wù)實(shí)者，唯物主義者 idealist 理想主義者，唯心者
dialectical materialism 辯證唯物主義 historical materialism 歷史唯物主義
16.radical 激進(jìn)的
17.plight 困境trap/plunge/sink into plight 陷入困境 dilemma 左右為難的
18.greed 貪婪avaricious 貪婪的 insatiable 不知足的
19.plunge 使陷入 I plunge myself into poverty 我陷入貧困
Gambling plunged him into failure in Business.賭博使他陷入商業(yè)失敗的境地。
20.chaos 混亂 chaotic 混亂的 anarchy 無(wú)政府狀態(tài) lawlessness 無(wú)法無(wú)天 bedlam 瘋?cè)嗽?BR> 21.plutocrat 富豪 Pluto 冥王星
22.the Right 右翼 the Left 左翼 rightist 右派 leftist 左派
23.decency 體面 decent 體面的for the seek of decency 為了面子
Notes on the text 課文注釋
1.the modern Plato :the person who is like Plato in our modern society.
2.stateman 政治家 plitician 政客
3.A university is a place where those woo hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who
pursue truth who strike to make others see.
大學(xué)是憎惡無(wú)知的人求知之所,是尋求真理的人誨人之處.
4.them :political activities.
5.at the very least 說(shuō)句公道話
6.gang :group of people 在英文中,一般無(wú)褒義.
7.bring up:bring sb. upgrow up
8.on equal terms 平等的地位on speaking terms 平等條件下
They keep good terms with each other.
The two neighbors are not on borrowing term.這兩個(gè)鄰居從不來(lái)往
9.newspaper-king 報(bào)業(yè)巨子10.modest 適當(dāng)?shù)?BR> 11.sound:good,healthy12.teacher=advocator 說(shuō)教者
13.genuine passions 一種熱切的激情14.compet=win
15be about to do: do sth very soon16.high time =good time 早就該
17.intervene 干涉18.mob 烏合之眾19.arena 舞臺(tái)
20.課文短語(yǔ)
unbound contempt for sba natural pity
on equal termssuperior intelligence
a man of cultureself-made industrialist
newspaper-kingunworthy of gentlemen
plunge intohigh time
man of good sensehis kind
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