高级英语第三版第二册张汉熙1-6-8课课后答案

? Furthermore, while Englishness is not hostile to change ,it is deeply suspicious of change for change’s

sake,rejecting the idea that we are now committed to some inevitable mechanical progress.

而且，尽管英国特性对变革没有什么敌意，却极度怀疑为了变革而变革的做法，拒绝那种认为我们必须致力于一些不可避免的机械进步的观点。

? Behind the constant bickering , the sudden walk-outs and strikes , the “blood-mindedness”,which bewilder so

many foreign commentators,is the conflict between Admass , offering so much, and the Englishness that instinctively recoils from Admassian values and life-style.

在不断争吵的背后，困扰了如此多外国时事评论员的突发罢工和故意作对，成了大众广告和英国特性之间的冲突：前者提供了如此多的东西，后者不愿接受大众广告所提倡的价值观和生活方式。

? Moreover ,sooner or later they will have to put an end to this conflict between Admass and what remains of

their Englishness ,coming down decisively on one side or the other, for they cannot enjoy both together . 并且，他们迟早将结束这场大众广告和他们所保留的英国特性之间的冲突，果断地回到某一方，因为他们不能同时享有二者。

? All heavily industrialized societies are in the boredom business.

所有高度工业化的社会都在制造无聊乏味。

? Dictatorships have thrived on majorities that are apathetic and then frightened , and on minorities that are

fanatically divided,brutally quarrelsome and stupid.

独裁统治在那些冷漠而惶恐的多数人和严重分裂，激烈争吵和愚蠢的少数人之间兴盛起来。

? A rather poorer and harder way of life will not defeat them so long as it is not harder and poorer in spirit, so

long as it still refuses to reject Englishness -for so many centuries the secret of the islanders oddity and irrationality , their many weakness , they creative strength.

再贫困和再艰难的生活方式都不能打败他们，只要他们在精神上不感到艰难和贫困，只要仍然拒绝抛弃英国特性--这就是这么多世纪以来，岛国居民的奇特、非理性、缺点和创造力的奥秘所在。

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