The Merely Very Good
thumbkin1. When the author was invited to lecture at a writers’ conference, why did he want to turn down the invitation at first? What finally made him accept the invitation?
1）There were veral reasons to reject this invitation. On the one hand, the author lived far from the place where the conference would be held that he had to get up very early and sacrifice his weekend to drive a long distance only in order to give a lecture, and would not be well-offered; on the other hand, he was no longer interested in talking about the subject on the relations between poetry and physics and the author could hardly find anything interesting and worthy to be focud at such a conference.
2）But finally two other reasons made him accept this invitation. One was for his girlfriend who was so eager to poetry to give her some encouragement or enlightenment; the other was becau the author knew Spender was another tutor at the conference and he was so fascinated with his obssion with Auden who remained irresistibly charming for him.
2. What was he asked to talk on? Why?
He was asked to talk on the connection between writing poetry and doing physics. Becau he both wrote and did physics.
3. How did he get to the conference? How long did it take him? Was there a large audience?
1）He would rent a car and drive it across the entire state of New Jery to get there.
2）It almost took him as long as five hours.
3）No. There was only an extremely small amount of audience.
4. How did Spender conduct the workshop? What does this show?
1）He just began to read poems written by the workshop members without any opening statement. During the reading process he didn’t give any clue about what he thought of the poems. Sometimes he would interrupt his reading and ek out the author and ask some ordinary questions casually.
2）This shows that he was already tired of such workshops and only earned his life by this way. So whatever he was thinking of hand little to do with such workshops.
5. What annoyed the author at Spender’s workshop? What did he do?免费学习网
ptwolves1）The author put in a long day to attend spender’s poetry workshop but could hear nothing about his own thought and not any creative views.中文翻译成英语
2）He raid his hand to ask spender some acute questions.
6. What do you know about Oppenheimer from this article?
(a) After he graduated from Harvard, he went to Germany to get his Ph. D. in Gottingen.
剑桥英语培训班 (b) His views on Oppenheimer were not sympathetic. He admitted his talent but in such an embarrassing and trouble-leading way.
(c) Yes, they were. They were both young and ambitious, and both majored in quantum theories. But obviously Dirac made greater achievements in the field of quantum mechani
cs as younger than Oppenheimer was and he emed to be more focud with precision and creation. He had a profound effect on Oppenheimer so that he emed to be “great”.
(d) There discussion was more like an Oppenheimer monologue, which was abruptly interrupted by Dirac.
No, he didn’t. Becau he thought in physics people were given an understanding of something that nobody knew before, whereas poetry may bring people totally different experience from physics so that it is difficulty for one to do both of them at the same time.
(e) One of the charges brought against him was that his wife was the former wife of a person who had been a member of the Communist Party and who had been killed in 1937 fighting for the Spanish Republican Army.
(f) Becau he wanted to show his collection of some beautiful paintings.火星人俱乐部
He inherited this small collection from his father.
The collection didn’t expand becau he himlf added nothing to it. This implies that he didn’t really like it, his taste in collection of painting was only for show.
7. Who was Dirac? Why didn’t Dirac have any school or following? How did he teach? Why?
1）Dirac was one of the inventors of Quantum mechanics and continued to make great contributions in many areas of modern theoretical physics as a giant in this field.
2）Becau he thought the really good ideas in physics could only be had by one person.
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3）He taught his class at Cambridge University by, literally, reading in his preci, clipped way from his great text on the subject.
4）Becau he thought he had given the subject a great deal of thought and there was no better way to prent it.
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8. 语感Describe the scene of the author’s meeting with Dirac at Princeton. What is implied in the description?
1）Dirac arrived at their weekly physics minar unexpectedly, wearing a blue suit, and a pair of thigh-length muddy rubber boots which left indelible impression for me.
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