10.effect 在句中作動(dòng)詞,意思是“實(shí)現(xiàn),進(jìn)行,產(chǎn)生…的結(jié)果”。句中without 后面要用動(dòng)名詞。本句的意思是:我們認(rèn)為,在不使技術(shù)人員喪失任何東西的情況下,計(jì)算機(jī)技術(shù)人員與詩(shī)人之間實(shí)現(xiàn)某種結(jié)合可能更富有成效。
A genuine purpose may be served by turning loose the wonders of the creative imagination on the kinds of problems being put to electronic technology. (11)
11.句中“to serve a purpose”滿足某一目的;being put to electronic technology 是被動(dòng)的過(guò)去分詞短語(yǔ),作problems 的后置定語(yǔ)。
本句的意思是:通過(guò)在由電子技術(shù)解決的問(wèn)題上充分發(fā)揮創(chuàng)造性想像的神奇力量,計(jì)算機(jī)的真正目的可以實(shí)現(xiàn)。
The company of poets may enable the men who tend the machines to see a wider range of possibilities than technology alone may inspire. (12)
tend(動(dòng)詞——照料)
enable……to…
12.句中賓語(yǔ)“the men”后帶有一個(gè)who 引導(dǎo)的定語(yǔ)從句。
詩(shī)人的參與能使計(jì)算機(jī)使用者看到比技術(shù)自身所能產(chǎn)生更寬廣的應(yīng)用可能性。
A poet, said Aristotle, has the advantage of expressing the universal; the specialist expresses only the particular. (13) The poet, moreover, can remind us that man‘s greatest energy comes not from his dynamos but from his dreams. But the quality of a man’s dreams can only be a reflection of his subconscious. What he puts into his subconscious, therefore, is quite literally the most important nourishment in the world.
the+形容詞;the universal 普遍
13.the universal 和 the particular. 都是 the +形容詞,表示一類人或事物。
全句的大意是:亞里士多德說(shuō)過(guò),詩(shī)人擅長(zhǎng)表達(dá)普遍,而專家只能表達(dá)個(gè)別。
Nothing really happens to a man except as it is registered in the subconscious. This is where event and feeling become memory and where the proof of life is stored. The poet - and we use the term to include all those who have respect for and speak to the human spirit - can help to supply the subconscious with material to enhance its sensitivity, thus safeguarding it. The poet, too, can help to keep man from making himself over in the image of his electronic wonders. For the danger is not so much that man will be controlled by the computer as that he may imitate it.(14)
unless(除了…以外)
This is where…/where…(表語(yǔ)從句)
keep…from(使…不能…)
not so…as
14.For 作連詞用時(shí),可與上句呼應(yīng),承上啟下,以提供對(duì)上文的因果解釋。句中“not so much …as”是比較級(jí)的否定形式,進(jìn)行比較的是兩個(gè)由that引導(dǎo)的從句,表示的意思是“與其說(shuō)…不如說(shuō)…”或“不是…而是…”。
由于人類被計(jì)算機(jī)控制的危險(xiǎn)固然存在,但人類若模仿計(jì)算機(jī)改造人類自身,則更可怕。
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness. It is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate on it is a gain. (15)
15.to speculate on it 是不定式作主語(yǔ)。其中 it 指代上句的uniqueness
gain
這種獨(dú)特性最終如何定義無(wú)關(guān)緊要,但即使思考一下這個(gè)問(wèn)題也會(huì)是得益非淺的。
Text B Changes to Come in U.S Education
New Words
1 infrastructure n. 基礎(chǔ);(社會(huì)的,國(guó)家的)基礎(chǔ)結(jié)構(gòu)(如教育,運(yùn)輸,通訊等設(shè)施)
2 kindergarten n. 幼兒園
nursery school(面向2~5歲的孩子)
3 postgraduate a. 大學(xué)畢業(yè)后的,大學(xué)研究院的
n.研究生
post(前綴——后)
pre(前綴——前)
4 scarce a. 1.[一般用作表語(yǔ)]缺乏的,不足的;2.稀有的,珍貴的
5 expansion n. 擴(kuò)張;膨脹
expand(動(dòng)詞)
6 enrol(l)ment n. 1.登記,接收,招生;2.招收人數(shù),入學(xué)人數(shù)
enroll(動(dòng)詞)
7 secondary a. 1.第二位的,次要的;2.中等的
8 upheaval n. 1.脹起,(地殼)的隆起;2.劇變,*
9 bus(s)ing n. 公共汽車接送;[美]用校車接送學(xué)生
A genuine purpose may be served by turning loose the wonders of the creative imagination on the kinds of problems being put to electronic technology. (11)
11.句中“to serve a purpose”滿足某一目的;being put to electronic technology 是被動(dòng)的過(guò)去分詞短語(yǔ),作problems 的后置定語(yǔ)。
本句的意思是:通過(guò)在由電子技術(shù)解決的問(wèn)題上充分發(fā)揮創(chuàng)造性想像的神奇力量,計(jì)算機(jī)的真正目的可以實(shí)現(xiàn)。
The company of poets may enable the men who tend the machines to see a wider range of possibilities than technology alone may inspire. (12)
tend(動(dòng)詞——照料)
enable……to…
12.句中賓語(yǔ)“the men”后帶有一個(gè)who 引導(dǎo)的定語(yǔ)從句。
詩(shī)人的參與能使計(jì)算機(jī)使用者看到比技術(shù)自身所能產(chǎn)生更寬廣的應(yīng)用可能性。
A poet, said Aristotle, has the advantage of expressing the universal; the specialist expresses only the particular. (13) The poet, moreover, can remind us that man‘s greatest energy comes not from his dynamos but from his dreams. But the quality of a man’s dreams can only be a reflection of his subconscious. What he puts into his subconscious, therefore, is quite literally the most important nourishment in the world.
the+形容詞;the universal 普遍
13.the universal 和 the particular. 都是 the +形容詞,表示一類人或事物。
全句的大意是:亞里士多德說(shuō)過(guò),詩(shī)人擅長(zhǎng)表達(dá)普遍,而專家只能表達(dá)個(gè)別。
Nothing really happens to a man except as it is registered in the subconscious. This is where event and feeling become memory and where the proof of life is stored. The poet - and we use the term to include all those who have respect for and speak to the human spirit - can help to supply the subconscious with material to enhance its sensitivity, thus safeguarding it. The poet, too, can help to keep man from making himself over in the image of his electronic wonders. For the danger is not so much that man will be controlled by the computer as that he may imitate it.(14)
unless(除了…以外)
This is where…/where…(表語(yǔ)從句)
keep…from(使…不能…)
not so…as
14.For 作連詞用時(shí),可與上句呼應(yīng),承上啟下,以提供對(duì)上文的因果解釋。句中“not so much …as”是比較級(jí)的否定形式,進(jìn)行比較的是兩個(gè)由that引導(dǎo)的從句,表示的意思是“與其說(shuō)…不如說(shuō)…”或“不是…而是…”。
由于人類被計(jì)算機(jī)控制的危險(xiǎn)固然存在,但人類若模仿計(jì)算機(jī)改造人類自身,則更可怕。
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness. It is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate on it is a gain. (15)
15.to speculate on it 是不定式作主語(yǔ)。其中 it 指代上句的uniqueness
gain
這種獨(dú)特性最終如何定義無(wú)關(guān)緊要,但即使思考一下這個(gè)問(wèn)題也會(huì)是得益非淺的。
Text B Changes to Come in U.S Education
New Words
1 infrastructure n. 基礎(chǔ);(社會(huì)的,國(guó)家的)基礎(chǔ)結(jié)構(gòu)(如教育,運(yùn)輸,通訊等設(shè)施)
2 kindergarten n. 幼兒園
nursery school(面向2~5歲的孩子)
3 postgraduate a. 大學(xué)畢業(yè)后的,大學(xué)研究院的
n.研究生
post(前綴——后)
pre(前綴——前)
4 scarce a. 1.[一般用作表語(yǔ)]缺乏的,不足的;2.稀有的,珍貴的
5 expansion n. 擴(kuò)張;膨脹
expand(動(dòng)詞)
6 enrol(l)ment n. 1.登記,接收,招生;2.招收人數(shù),入學(xué)人數(shù)
enroll(動(dòng)詞)
7 secondary a. 1.第二位的,次要的;2.中等的
8 upheaval n. 1.脹起,(地殼)的隆起;2.劇變,*
9 bus(s)ing n. 公共汽車接送;[美]用校車接送學(xué)生