Lesson 26 Virtue and a fast Gun 美德與快搶手
William S. Hart was, perhaps, the greatest of all Western stars, for unlike Gary Cooper and John Wayne he appeared in nothing but Westerns. From 1914 to 1924 he was supreme and unchallenged. It was Hart who created the basic formula of the Western film, and devised the protagonist he played in every film he made, the good-bad man, the accidental, noble outlaw, or the honest but framed cowboy, or the sheriff made suspect by vicious gossip; in short, the individual in conflict with himself and his frontier environment.
Unlike most of his contemporaries in Hollywood, Hart actually 'knew something of the old West. He had lived in it as a child when it was already disappearing, and his hero was firmly rooted in his memories and experiences, and in both the history and the mythology of the vanished frontier. And although no period or place in American history has been more absurdly romanticized, myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena, the conflict between the individual and encroaching civilization.
Men accustomed to struggling for survival against the elements and Indian were bewildered by politicians, bankers and Business-men, and unhorsed by fences, laws and alien taboos. Hart's good-bad man was always an outsider, always one of the disinherited, and if he found it necessary to shoot a sheriff or rob a bank along the way, his early audiences found it easy to understand and forgive, especially when it was Hart who, in the end, overcame the attacking Indians. Audiences in the second decade of the twentieth century found it pleasant to escape to a time when life, though hard, was relatively simple. We still do; living in a world in which undeclared aggression, war, hypocrisy, chicanery, anarchy and impending immolation are part of our daily lives, we all want a code to live by.
New words and expressions 生詞短語
supreme
super
a.
超級
supreme court 高法院
supreme people’s court 高人民法院
intermediate 中級
supremacy
n. male supremacy 大男子主義 male supremacist 大男子主義者
grey mare 勝過丈夫的妻子 second to none 高的
India is second to China in population.
second to 僅次于
protagonist n.主角
antagonist 反面角色
leading role 主角
supporting role 配角
extra 跑龍?zhí)?starring 領(lǐng)街
outlaw
n.亡命徒
outlaws in the green wood 綠林好漢
brigand 地匪，流竄犯
highway man 打劫的
fake 假的
framed
sheriff
vicious
fake 假的
venomous 惡毒的 heinous 惡毒的
malicious 邪惡的
gossipn. 流言蜚語
rumor 謠言，傳聞
It is rumored that he robbed the bank.
gossip monger 傳謠言的人
in short
總之
n 環(huán)境
in brief /in a word 總之
environment
surrounding 環(huán)境
under the environment 在……情況下
environment makes man.環(huán)境造就人
vanished
arena
a.消失了的
n.競技場
absurdlyad 荒誕的
amphitheater 圓形劇場
political arena 政治舞臺
anarchy
monarchy
lawless
impending
code n.準則
n.混亂
君主制
adj.非法的
chaos
n. 混亂
n.*
deliver 給
a.遭到陷害的
n.司法長官
a.惡毒的
bullflighting 斗牛
encroaching
encroach 侵犯
American culture is encroaching globally.
penetratin 滲入
His speeh is penetrating.
India
n.印第安人
bewilder vt.使手足無措
wilder 迷茫 baffle/muddle 迷亂的
dizzy 昏的
alien
disorient 使……失去方向
a. 外來的
a.漸漸滲入的
alien product 洋貨
alien word 外來詞
eg.sofa,jeep,café,coolie,kotow；
alienate v.遠離
taboo
n.戒律
forbidden words
disinherit vt.剝求……的繼承權(quán)
damn it
inherit 繼承
inheritance 繼承權(quán)
undeclareda.未經(jīng)宣布的
hypocrisy n.偽善
hypocrite 偽君子
hypocritical 過于挑剔
chicanery n.詐騙
chicane
v.騙（以-ry 結(jié)尾的名詞沒有復(fù)數(shù)
如 machinery,pottery,jewelery
cheat,deceive,hoax
cheat 騙錢財
deceive one’s feelings
hoax:play trick(哄小孩)
chaotic adj.混亂
imminent 迫近的
sacrifice n. 祭祀品
turbulence
a.迫近的 approaching 靠近
immolate vt. 殺
immolation n.殺戮
Notes on the text 課文注釋W(xué)illiam s.Hart
William:first/given/Christian name
s.:middle name
Hart :last name
Western stars 西部片影星
for 因為
unlike 與……不同
appear in nothing but 僅僅出現(xiàn)于
nothing but 僅僅
He is nothing but liar.他是騙子。
He is anything but liar 他不是騙子
he is nothing but angry.他很生氣
he is anyghing but angry.他不生氣
Gary Cooper
Puritan 清教徒
comedy 喜劇
unchallenged=matchless
It was ……強調(diào)句式
1． vast west
2． Indians
3． hero.
devise=design
upright 正直
film maker 制片人
good-bad man 本質(zhì)好，偶爾做壞事的人
tramp 流浪者
Chinese Amercian 美籍華人（根在前）
noble:1.rich
2.noble minded
out of impulse 一時沖動
cowherd/comman 牧童
suspect 嫌疑犯
He was made Chairman.他被選為主席
abuse power 濫用權(quán)力
rangy 落魄的人
minor figure 小人物
in short
in conflict with 與……有沖突
frontier 此處意思是廣闊的西部
unwillingly
outsider 局外人
contemporary 同時代的人，當代的
modern 現(xiàn)代的
know sth. of 略有了解
關(guān)于“西部在消失”的背景常識
Jefferson
the declaration of Indepedence 獨立宣言
Louisiana 路易斯安那
- 64 –
Mississippi 密西西比河
ambassador 大使
hire 租用
fight across 難以定奪
（將在外，君命有所不受）
gold rush 淘金熱
hero 英雄
mythology 神話
although 讓步狀語從句
no……more……構(gòu)成高級
romanticized 此處指作成電影（浪漫化）
indelible effect 不可磨滅的印象
join hands=coexist 并存
solid basis 虛構(gòu)
同位句
conflict 是 arena 的同位語
accustomed to 做后置定語
意思是 used to 習(xí)慣于
unhorsed 放棄戎馬生涯
overcame 擊退
comment 評論
relatively 相對的
do=find it pleasan
William S. Hart was, perhaps, the greatest of all Western stars, for unlike Gary Cooper and John Wayne he appeared in nothing but Westerns. From 1914 to 1924 he was supreme and unchallenged. It was Hart who created the basic formula of the Western film, and devised the protagonist he played in every film he made, the good-bad man, the accidental, noble outlaw, or the honest but framed cowboy, or the sheriff made suspect by vicious gossip; in short, the individual in conflict with himself and his frontier environment.
Unlike most of his contemporaries in Hollywood, Hart actually 'knew something of the old West. He had lived in it as a child when it was already disappearing, and his hero was firmly rooted in his memories and experiences, and in both the history and the mythology of the vanished frontier. And although no period or place in American history has been more absurdly romanticized, myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena, the conflict between the individual and encroaching civilization.
Men accustomed to struggling for survival against the elements and Indian were bewildered by politicians, bankers and Business-men, and unhorsed by fences, laws and alien taboos. Hart's good-bad man was always an outsider, always one of the disinherited, and if he found it necessary to shoot a sheriff or rob a bank along the way, his early audiences found it easy to understand and forgive, especially when it was Hart who, in the end, overcame the attacking Indians. Audiences in the second decade of the twentieth century found it pleasant to escape to a time when life, though hard, was relatively simple. We still do; living in a world in which undeclared aggression, war, hypocrisy, chicanery, anarchy and impending immolation are part of our daily lives, we all want a code to live by.
New words and expressions 生詞短語
supreme
super
a.
超級
supreme court 高法院
supreme people’s court 高人民法院
intermediate 中級
supremacy
n. male supremacy 大男子主義 male supremacist 大男子主義者
grey mare 勝過丈夫的妻子 second to none 高的
India is second to China in population.
second to 僅次于
protagonist n.主角
antagonist 反面角色
leading role 主角
supporting role 配角
extra 跑龍?zhí)?starring 領(lǐng)街
outlaw
n.亡命徒
outlaws in the green wood 綠林好漢
brigand 地匪，流竄犯
highway man 打劫的
fake 假的
framed
sheriff
vicious
fake 假的
venomous 惡毒的 heinous 惡毒的
malicious 邪惡的
gossipn. 流言蜚語
rumor 謠言，傳聞
It is rumored that he robbed the bank.
gossip monger 傳謠言的人
in short
總之
n 環(huán)境
in brief /in a word 總之
environment
surrounding 環(huán)境
under the environment 在……情況下
environment makes man.環(huán)境造就人
vanished
arena
a.消失了的
n.競技場
absurdlyad 荒誕的
amphitheater 圓形劇場
political arena 政治舞臺
anarchy
monarchy
lawless
impending
code n.準則
n.混亂
君主制
adj.非法的
chaos
n. 混亂
n.*
deliver 給
a.遭到陷害的
n.司法長官
a.惡毒的
bullflighting 斗牛
encroaching
encroach 侵犯
American culture is encroaching globally.
penetratin 滲入
His speeh is penetrating.
India
n.印第安人
bewilder vt.使手足無措
wilder 迷茫 baffle/muddle 迷亂的
dizzy 昏的
alien
disorient 使……失去方向
a. 外來的
a.漸漸滲入的
alien product 洋貨
alien word 外來詞
eg.sofa,jeep,café,coolie,kotow；
alienate v.遠離
taboo
n.戒律
forbidden words
disinherit vt.剝求……的繼承權(quán)
damn it
inherit 繼承
inheritance 繼承權(quán)
undeclareda.未經(jīng)宣布的
hypocrisy n.偽善
hypocrite 偽君子
hypocritical 過于挑剔
chicanery n.詐騙
chicane
v.騙（以-ry 結(jié)尾的名詞沒有復(fù)數(shù)
如 machinery,pottery,jewelery
cheat,deceive,hoax
cheat 騙錢財
deceive one’s feelings
hoax:play trick(哄小孩)
chaotic adj.混亂
imminent 迫近的
sacrifice n. 祭祀品
turbulence
a.迫近的 approaching 靠近
immolate vt. 殺
immolation n.殺戮
Notes on the text 課文注釋W(xué)illiam s.Hart
William:first/given/Christian name
s.:middle name
Hart :last name
Western stars 西部片影星
for 因為
unlike 與……不同
appear in nothing but 僅僅出現(xiàn)于
nothing but 僅僅
He is nothing but liar.他是騙子。
He is anything but liar 他不是騙子
he is nothing but angry.他很生氣
he is anyghing but angry.他不生氣
Gary Cooper
Puritan 清教徒
comedy 喜劇
unchallenged=matchless
It was ……強調(diào)句式
1． vast west
2． Indians
3． hero.
devise=design
upright 正直
film maker 制片人
good-bad man 本質(zhì)好，偶爾做壞事的人
tramp 流浪者
Chinese Amercian 美籍華人（根在前）
noble:1.rich
2.noble minded
out of impulse 一時沖動
cowherd/comman 牧童
suspect 嫌疑犯
He was made Chairman.他被選為主席
abuse power 濫用權(quán)力
rangy 落魄的人
minor figure 小人物
in short
in conflict with 與……有沖突
frontier 此處意思是廣闊的西部
unwillingly
outsider 局外人
contemporary 同時代的人，當代的
modern 現(xiàn)代的
know sth. of 略有了解
關(guān)于“西部在消失”的背景常識
Jefferson
the declaration of Indepedence 獨立宣言
Louisiana 路易斯安那
- 64 –
Mississippi 密西西比河
ambassador 大使
hire 租用
fight across 難以定奪
（將在外，君命有所不受）
gold rush 淘金熱
hero 英雄
mythology 神話
although 讓步狀語從句
no……more……構(gòu)成高級
romanticized 此處指作成電影（浪漫化）
indelible effect 不可磨滅的印象
join hands=coexist 并存
solid basis 虛構(gòu)
同位句
conflict 是 arena 的同位語
accustomed to 做后置定語
意思是 used to 習(xí)慣于
unhorsed 放棄戎馬生涯
overcame 擊退
comment 評論
relatively 相對的
do=find it pleasan