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新手创业1. How do you interpret the irony of the title after reading the story?
Key: The title “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” refers to the café in the story, which is very clean and well-lighted. According to the literal meaning, we can find that the café is very warm and comfortable. People li ke going there. And the old man, in the story, also likes to have drink there. However, the younger waiter in it ruins such kind of quality of the café. He is lfish and impatient. Thinking of his wife waiting for him in bed, he refus to rve the old man and drives him away. He thought that one hour is more important for him than for the old man. The younger waiter shows no sympathy for the old man at all, and he is very cold-blooded. The clean and well-lighted café and the lfish and cold-hearted waiter form the sharp contrast. Thus, it shows the irony of the title.撮谷道
东芝笔记本>拆迁合同2. Do you think youth and confidence can help one withstand the metaphorical dark? Why or why not?
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Key: I don’t think youth and confidence can help one withstand the metaphorical dark. Bec au the m
etaphorical dark is rooted in one’s heart that no one can free from it, even cannot remove or ea it. Although, sometimes, youth and confidence bring great hope for young people, and with which they foree their bright future, they cannot take good advantage of it, becau that
they do not understand life and human beings. As in the story, the young waiter has both youth and confidence, but he cannot understand why the old man wants to suicide, and he also cannot anticipate his own future by the old man’s situation. He has no idea that youth is not permanent, and all people will be faced with the universal nada. So, he shows no sympathy for the old man and is impatient to him. His youth and confidence do not contribute to withstanding his metaphorical dark.
3. The older waiter said to the younger waiter: “We are of two different kinds.” In what way do you think they are different?
Key: They are different in many ways. Firstly, they are at different ages: one is younger and the other is in his middle age. Secondly, they have different life experiences and different understandings of life and people. The middle-aged waiter has went through much more than the younger waiter, and h
e has a better understanding of life and people, so he can understand more about the old man and his situation. Thus, thirdly, they have different personalities and have different attitudes towards the old man. The elder waiter is kind-hearted and sympathetic. He shows great sympathy for the old man, while the younger waiter is very lfish and he is very impatient to the old man and drives him away from the café. Last, they have different attitudes towards nada. The elder waiter has realized that it is impossible to avoid nada in one’s whole life, and the only thing that he can do is to keep cleanness in his mind and heart. So, he is willing to work有数字的古诗>论语名言
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late for the lonely old man and help tho who suffer from nada. On the contrary, the younger waiter has not realized nada in his heart, thus he ulessly cherishes his blind confidence.
