新概念英語(yǔ)85年上外美音版第四冊(cè) 第26課:Virtue and a fast Gun

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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.
    supreme a.
    super 超級(jí)
    supreme court 法院
    supreme people’s court 人民法院
    intermediate 中級(jí)
    supremacy n.male supremacy 大男子主義male supremacist 大男子主義者
    grey mare 勝過(guò)丈夫的妻子second to none 的
    India is second to China in population. second to 僅次于
    protagonist n.主角
    se
    antagonist 反面角色
    leading role 主角
    supporting role 配角
    extra 跑龍?zhí)譻tarring 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 deliver 給
    framed a.遭到陷害的
    sheriff n.司法長(zhǎng)官
    vicious a.惡毒的
    fake 假的
    venomous 惡毒的 heinous 惡毒的
    malicious 邪惡的
    gossipn. 流言蜚語(yǔ)
    rumor 謠言,傳聞
    It is rumored that he robbed the bank.
    gossip monger 傳謠言的人
    in short 總之
    in brief /in a word 總之
    environment n 環(huán)境
    surrounding 環(huán)境
    under the environment 在……情況下
    environment makes man.環(huán)境造就人
    vanished a.消失了的
    absurdlyad 荒誕的
    arena n.競(jìng)技場(chǎng)
    amphitheater 圓形劇場(chǎng)
    political arena 政治舞臺(tái)
    bullflighting 斗牛
    encroaching a.漸漸滲入的
    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(wú)措
    wilder 迷茫 baffle/muddle 迷亂的
    dizzy 昏的 disorient 使……失去方向
    alien a. 外來(lái)的
    alien product 洋貨
    alien word 外來(lái)詞
    eg.sofa,jeep,café,coolie,kotow;
    alienate v.遠(yuǎn)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(guò)于挑剔
    chicanery n.詐騙
    chicane v.騙(以-ry結(jié)尾的名詞沒(méi)有復(fù)數(shù) 如machinery,pottery,jewelery
    cheat,deceive,hoax
    cheat 騙錢財(cái)
    deceive one’s feelings
    hoax:play trick(哄小孩)
    anarchy n.混亂
    monarchy 君主制 chaos n. 混亂 chaotic adj.混亂
    lawless adj.非法的 turbulence n.*
    impending a.迫近的 approaching 靠近 imminent 迫近的
    immolation n.殺戮 immolate vt. 殺 sacrifice n. 祭祀品
    code n.準(zhǔn)則
    William s.Hart
    William:first/given/Christian name
    s.:middle name
    Hart :last name
    Western stars 西部片影星
    for 因?yàn)?BR>    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(qiáng)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(shí)沖動(dòng)
    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(shí)代的人,當(dāng)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(shí)
    Jefferson
    the declaration of Indepedence 獨(dú)立宣言
    Louisiana 路易斯安那
    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(yǔ)從句
    no……more……構(gòu)成級(jí)
    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(yǔ)
    accustomed to 做后置定語(yǔ)
    意思是used to 習(xí)慣于
    unhorsed 放棄戎馬生涯
    overcame 擊退
    comment 評(píng)論
    relatively 相對(duì)的
    do=find it pleasan