Lesson 9
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1.Their high calls rising like the swallows' crossing flights over the music and the singing (Para 1) . Simile
2.If you can't lick'em, join'em (Para 3). 感谢信英文aphorism bpt格言permanent是什么意思 If you can beat evil then become evil yourlf.
3.The faces of small children are amiable sticky; in the benign grey beard of a man a couplt of crumbs of rich pastry are entangled. Para 4. 玻璃杯的英文Transferred epithet.
4.unescoThe crowds along the racecour are like a field of grass and flowers in the wind. Para 6. Simile
5. In the streets between hous with red roofs and painted walls,between old mossgrown gardens and under avenues of trees,past great parks and public buildings,processions.—periodic ntence
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6. The air of morning was so clear that the snow stil crowning the Eighteen Peaks burned with white-gold fire across the miles of sunlit air,under the dark blue of the sky.—metaphor
7. In the silence of the broad green meadows one could hear the music winding through the city streets,farther and nearer and ever approaching,a cheerful faint sweetness of the air that from time to time trembled and gathered together and broke out into the great joyous clanging of the bells.—periodic ntence
8. Some of them understand why,and some do not,but they all understand that their happiness,the beauty of their city,the tenderness of their friendships,the health of their children,the wisdom of their scholars,the skill of their makers,even the abundance of their harvest and the kindly weathers of their skies,depend wholly on this child’s abominable miry.—parallelism/parallel structure
9. Indeed,after so long it would probably be wretched without walls about it to protect it ,and darkness for its eyes,and its own excrement to sit in.—parallelism/parallel structure
Lesson10
1. The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged and curious questionings by the young:memories of the deliciously illicit thrill of the first visit to a speakeasy,of the brave denunciating of Puritan morality,and of the fashionable experimentations in amour in the parked dan on a country road;questions about the naughty,jazzy parties,the flask-toting”sheik”,and the moral and stylistic vagaries of the “flapper”and the “drug-store cowboy”.para 1—transferred epithet ; parallelism
2. Second,in the United States it was reluctantly realized by some—subconsciously if not openly—that our country was no longer isolated in either politics or tradition and that we had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality or the geographical protection of our two bordering oceans. Para 2—battlegroundmetaphor
3. War or no war,as the generations pasd,it became increasingly difficult for our young people to accept standards of behavior that bore no relationship to the bustling business
medium in which they were expected to battle for success.para 3—metaphor
4. The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structure,and by precipitating our young people into a pattern of mass murder it relead their inhibited violent energies which,after the shooting was over,were turned in both Europe and America to the destruction of an obsolescent nineteenth century society. para 3—metaphor; metonomy(shooting refers to the war)
5. The prolonged stalemate of 1915-1916,the increasing insolence of Germany toward the United States,and our official reluctance to declare our status as a belligerent were intolerable to many of our idealistic citizens,and with typical American adventurousness enhanced somewhat by the strenuous jingoism of Theodore Roovelt,our young men began to enlist under foreign flags.—metonymy
6. Their energies had been whipped up and their naivete destroyed by the war and now,in sleepy Gopher Prairies all over the country,they were being asked to curb tho energies and resume the po of lf-deceiving Victorian innocence that they now felt to
be as outmoded as the notion that their fighting had”made the world safe for democracy”. Para 5—metaphor
7. newstyleAfter the war,it was only natural that hopeful young writers,their minds and pens inflamed against war,Babbittry,and”Puritanical”gentility,should flock to the traditional artistic center(where living was still cheap in 1919)to pour out their new-found creative strength,to tear down the old world, to flout ht morality of their grandfathers,and to give all to art,love,and nsation. Para 7—metonymy
8. Soon they found their imitators among the non-intellectuals. As it became more and more fashionable throughout the country for young persons to defy the law and the conventions and to add their own little matchsticks to the conflagration of "flaming youth", it was Greenwich Village易学英语 that fanned the flames. Para 8---metaphor;metonymy
