Lesson12
1. The American writer, in Europe, is relead….It is not until…proving that he is just a “regular guy” that he realizes how crippling this habit has been.
Key: In Europe, an American writer has no need to find reasons or excus to explain why he is a writer. In America a writer gets into the habit of displaying his strength to defend himlf or to avoid being attacked; and he is always trying to prove that he is an ordinary person, same as any other person. This habit makes him unable to act or function effectively. He realizes all this only when he gets rid of this habit in Europe.
2. Whatever the Europeans may actually think of artists…and as persistent-as rain, snow, taxes or businessmen.
Key: They all exist and are real and will never disappear. No matter what the Europeans may actually think of artists, they have killed off enough of them to know by now that artists are real people and there will always be artists just as there will always be rain, snow, taxes or businessmen.
3. He probably has been a ‘regular fellow”…and it is not easy for him to step out of that lukewarm bath.
Key: The writer, for much of his adult life, has probably been trying very hard to appear and behave like an ordinary person and it is not easy for him to change his habit now.
4. In short, the freedom that the American writer finds in Europe brings him….with the responsibility…in his own hands.
Key: In short, the pursuit of freedom is like a full circle: the American writer travels to Europe and finds freedom there, but the love for freedom brings him back to himlf, becau he is the only one who is responsible for his personal development. That is to say, freedom is not elwhere, but with himlf. Personal development is also promoted with himlf. /personal development is not decided by others, but by himlf.(最后一句有点不一样，不过都差不多。绿色部分是玛丽她们的答案）
5. A European writer considers himlf to be part of an old…and his choice of a vocation does not cau him…will cost him all his friends.
Key: A European writer considers himlf to be a part of an old and honorable profession. He is a man of letters. In following this profession he doesn’t need to worry whether or not he will lo all his fiends.
Lesson11 The future of English
6. The real English, who are “different”, who have inherited Englishness…reprenting the accelerated development of our whole age.
Key: The real English are different. They have inherited Englishness and have lost tho qualities that go together with Englishness and which have been handed down generation after generation. The English are different becau they do not feel comfortable living in the world today, where all kinds of development are taking place at a faster and faster rate.
7. Now “Englishness”, with its relation to the unconscious…cannot break its links with the past: it has been long roots.
Key: Englishness depends upon instinct and intuition and is connected to the unconscious. Therefore it cannot break away from past tradition. This link with national customs, beliefs, etc. goes a long way back in history.
8. The men believe that if there is a “Good Life” going, then it’s high time…But some remaining “Englishness” in them whispers that there may be a catch in it.
Key: A ction of English workers, together with their union boss, believe that if there is a ‘Good Life’ available, then they should certainly get some share of it without delay. But some remaining Englishness in them tells them privately that there must be some trick of deception in it.
9. They can be found, too--- though not…among crusty High Tories who avoid the City and directors’ fees.
Key: They can be found too---though there are not many of them now becau the kind of people are dying out---among the curt, bad-tempered, extremely conrvative politicians who refu to accept high posts in big commercial enterpris.
10. They make the rest of us feel that either they should be….their own business. As it is they are like a hippopotamus blundering in and out of a pets’ tea party.
Key: At prent they only create disorder and confusion (like a hippopotamus going and out of a tea party held by small tamed domesticated animals).红色部分未找到，只找到蓝色部分。
11. In my necessity to find the terms on which…I proved, to my astonishment, to be as American as any Texas G.I.
Key: Baldwin found it necessary to find out the conditions or ways in which he could relate his experience to that of other people, Negroes and whites, writers and non-writers. In this process he found, to his surpri, that he was as patriotic an American as any Texas soldier.
