I. 香港市花Why Don’t We Complain?
About the author
Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925 – …), an American editor and author, is one of the best-known spokesmen for political conrvatism in the United States. He founded the magazine National Review in 1955 and rved as its editor until 1990, when he resigned. Buckley also writes a widely syndicated newspaper column and conducts a nationally televid discussion program.
William Frank Buckley, Jr., was born in New York City and graduated from Yale University. In his first book, God and Man at Yale (1951), he attacked the liberal viewpoints that he said were common at Yale. His other political books include Up from Liberalism (1959) and The Unmaking of a Mayor我的雇主们 (1966). Buckley also has written a number of spy thrillers, starting with Saving the Queen (1975). He has told of his own adventures in Racing Through Paradi: A Pacific Passage (1987) and other books. In 1965, he ran unsuccessfully as the Conrvative Party candidate for mayor of New York City. His brother James L. Buckley r
ved as a U.S. nator of New York from 1971 to 1977.
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About the structure of the text
The author gives a variety of examples to make his point. Some examples are well-developed while others are just touched upon. By a combination of the examples the author leads us naturally to his generality at the end of the article. The examples are: the author’s experience in the train (paragraphs 1 to 4), the author and his wife in the cinema (paragraphs 5 to 8), the author at his breakfast in a restaurant in New Year’s Day (paragraph 11), the author at the ski repair store in Pico Peak, Vermont (paragraphs 13 to 17), the author in an airplane (paragraph 18), the reason the American people are so reluctant to asrt themlves in various matters (paragraph 19), the American people’s political apathy (paragraphs 20 to 23).
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fleck ---- to mark with spots of color, light or the like; speckle
The bird’s breast is flecked with brown.
Sunlight coming through the branches flecked the shadow cast by the tree.朋友的姐妹
When a banana ripens it is flecked with brown.
Westchester County ---- Many communities in the New York area are commuter suburbs. Their residents work in New York City and commute by automobiles, bus, ferries, railroads, and subways. Some of the suburbs, such as White Plains in Westchester County, have become important centers of business and shopping outside the central city.
edge ---- sharpness; the quality of being sharp or keen
The remark had a biting edge to it.
Slander, who edge is sharper than the sword. (Shakespeare)
sibilant ---- hissing; having or making a hissing sound
When he spoke, his voice was usually low and sibilant.
音乐会主题stupor ---- 书目推荐a dazed condition; loss or lesning of the power to feel; a state in which the mind and ns are dulled; partial or complete loss of nsibility, as from the u of a narcotic or from shock; mental or moral dullness or apathy. (SYN) lethargy, torpor
The injured man lay in a stupor, unable to tell what had happened to him.
??? I had only just uttered the word “conductor”, and there was no sibilant consonant in the word. Why did my atmates consider my question to be a sibilant intrusion into his stupor?）
I am incapable of making a discreet fuss ---- Whenever I lodged a complaint, I made a scene of it.
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discreet ---- very careful in speech and action; showing good judgement; wily cautious
A discreet person does not spread gossip
discreet fuss ---- oxymoron ???
Stamford ---- (pop. 108,056) It is an important business center in southwestern Connecticut. The city lies on Long Island Sound, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) northeast of New York City. Stamford, together with Norwalk, forms a metropolitan area with a population of 329,935. Stamford ranks among the leading cities as a site for headquarters of large corporations. A number of the nation’s biggest companies have home offices in Stamford. The city’s leading industries include printing, publishing, and the production of chemicals, electrical equipment, office machines, and textiles.
t in ---- to begin
Winter t in early.
It ems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to when the rain t in.
nonchalant ---- without warmth or enthusiasm; coolly unconcerned; casually indifferent; apathetic
