英国纽卡斯尔大学高英英语第二册名词解释
第一篇：高英英语第二册 名词解释
George Orwell was the pudonym of Eric Arthur Blair(1903-50), an English writer who at one time rved with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma.Marrakech is a major city in the northwest African nation of Morocco.It is the fourth largest city in the country after Casablanca, Fes and Rabat, and is the capital of the mid-southwestern economic region of
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lsp是什么意思Moorish: Moors, mixed Arabs and Berbers, and inhabitants of Morocco.They t up a Moorish empire from the end of the 8th century to the 12th century: by 12th century the empire included North Africa to the borders of Egypt, as well as Mohammedan Spain
Distresd Area: area where there is widespread unemployment, poverty, etc., a slum area
Foreign Legionnaires: France organized a foreign legion shortly after the conquest of Algier
s in 1830, enlisting recruits who were not French subjects.Spain had a foreign legion, up till the revolution in Morocco, and Holland in the Dutch East Indies.The Norman Conquest:In 1066, at the battle of Hastings, the English was defeated by French-speaking Normans under Duke William, who was crowned as King of England.the King's English suppodly correct or standard English(especially British English)as to grammar and
pronunciation: so called from the notion of royal sanction.When the ruling monarch is a queen, it is called “the Queen’s English
Utopia : is generally defined as a place of ideal perfection in all aspects of existence.All is good and no evil a perfect, ideal society, where people em to live in a very perfect way of life.It’s ideal he lost generation were applied to the disillusioned young intellectuals and aesthetes of the years following the First World War, who rebelled against former ideals and values, but could replace them only bydespair or a cynical hedonism
Beat Generation；appeared after WWII in the US.a term applied to a group of American artists and writers, esp.poets who work became particularly popular in the late 1950s.Bohemianism：The practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people, with few permanent ties, involving musical, artistic, or literary pursuits.In this context, Bohemians may be wanderers, adventurers, or vagabonds.Prohibition ：The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic liquors for beverage purpos;specially in the U.S., the period(1920-1933)of prohibition by Federal Law.Puritan morality: extreme strictness in matters of morals.Strict Puritans even regarded drinking, gambling punishable offences青岛法语培训
Speakeasy:(Americanism): a place where alcoholic drinks are sold illegally，esp.a place in the U．S．during Prohibition愕然
flapper(Americanism): in the 1920s, a young woman considered to be bold and unconventional
constantsdrugstore cowboy(Americanism): a young man who hangs around drugstores and other p
ublic places trying to impress women
Bohemian: a person, esp.an artist, poet, unconventional in habits, dress, and sometimes in morals, material poverty becau they prefer their art
truthfulThe 1960s was a decade that began on 1 January 1960 and ended on 31 December 1969.The 1960s term also refers to an era more often called The Sixties, denoting the complex of inter-related cultural and political trends across the globe.This “cultural decade” is more looly defined than the actual decade, beginning around 1963 and ending around 1974.The purpo of a political speech：to persuade、to explain、to convince people : to accept his point of view, to accept what he says so as to support him
the Civil War between the Northern(Federal)States and Southern(Confederate)States, which resulted in victory for the former and the abolition of slavery
cynicism: a scornful or pessimisticattitude;a general distrust of the integrity of other people
Floral Heights referring to Floral Park on Long Island, a residential suburb of New York.It has a commercial flower industry
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Distresd Area: area where there is widespread unemployment, poverty, etc., a slum area
不敢当Foreign Legionnaires: France organized a foreign legion shortly after the conquest of Algiers in 1830, enlisting recruits who were not French subjects.Spain had a foreign legion, up till the revolution in Morocco, and Holland in the Dutch East Indies
The Washington Post: an influential and highly respected wspaper with a national distribution
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musketeers of Dumas: characters created by the French novelist, Alexandre Dumas(1802--1870)in his novel The Three Musketeers
descendants of convicts: in 1788 a penal ttlement was established at Botany Bay, Australia by Britain.British convicts, ntenced to long term imprisonment, were often transported to this penal ttlement.Regular ttlers arrived in Australia about 1829.Saxon churls: a farm laborer or peasant in early England;a term ud pejoratively by the Norman conquerors to mean an ill-bred, ignorant English peasant
Norman conquerors: the Normans, under William I, Duke of Normandy(former territory of N.France)conquered
England after defeating Harold, the English king, at the Battle of Hastings(1066).Angevins and Plantagenets: names of ruling Norman dynasties in England(1154--1399), sprung from Geoffrey, Count of Anjou(former province of W.France)
