高级英语上第9课
The Trouble with Television It is difficult to escape the influence of television. If you fit the statistical averages, by the age of 20 you will have been exposed to at least 20,000 hours of television. You can add 10,000 hours for each decade you have lived after the age of 20. The only things Americans do more than watch television are work and sleep.
Calculate for a moment what could be done with even a part of those hours. Five thousand hours, I am told, are what a typical college undergraduate spends working on a bachelor's degree. In 10,000 hours you could have learned enough to become an astronomer or engineer. You could have learned several languages fluently. If it appealed to you, you could be reading Homer in the original Greek or Dostoyevsky in Russian. If it didn't, you could have
walked around the world and written a book about it.
The trouble with television is that it discourages concentration. Almost anything interesting and rewarding in life requires some constructive, consistently applied effort. The dullest, the least gifted of us can achieve things that seem miraculous to those who never concentrate on anything. But Television encourages us to apply no effort. It sells us instant gratification. It diverts us only to divert, to make the time pass without pain.
Television's variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus. Its serial, kaleidoscopic exposures force us to follow its lead. The viewer is on a perpetual guided tour: 30 minutes at the museum, 30 at the cathedral, 30 for a drink, then back on the bus to the next attraction--except on television, typically, the spans allotted1are on the order of minutes or seconds, and the chosen delights are more often car crashes and people killing one another. In short, a lot of television usurps one of the most precious of all human gifts, the ability to focus your
attention yourself, rather than just passively surrender it.
Capturing your attention--and holding it--is the prime motive of most television programming and enhances its role as a profitable advertising vehicle. Programmers live in constant fear of losing anyone's attention-anyone's.
Quite simply, television operates on the appeal to the short attention span.
It is simply the easiest way out. But it has come to be regarded as a given, as inherent in the medium itself; as an imperative, as though General Sarnoff, or one of the other august2pioneers of video, had bequeathed to us tablets of stone commanding that nothing in television shall ever require more than a few moments' Concentration.
In its place that is fine. Who can quarrel with a medium that so brilliantly packages escapist entertainment as a mass-marketing tool? But I see its values now pervading this nation and its life. It has
become fashionable to think that, like fast food, fast ideas are the way to get to a fast-moving, impatient public.
In the case of news, this practice, in my view, results in inefficient communication. I question how much of television's nightly news effort is really absorbable3and understandable. Much of it is what has been aptly described as "machine-gun ning4with scraps." I think the technique fights coherence5. I think it tends to make things ultimately boring and dismissible (unless they are accompanied by horrifying pictures) because almost anything is boring and dismissible if you know almost nothing about it.
I believe that TV's appeal to the short attention span is not only inefficient communication but decivilizing as well. Consider the casual assumptions that television tends to cultivate: that complexity must be avoided, that visual stimulation is a substitute for thought, that verbal precision is an anachronism6. It may be old-fashioned, but I was taught that thought is words, arranged in grammatically
precise.
There is a crisis of literacy in this country. One study estimates that some 30 million adult Americans are "functionally illiterate" and cannot read or write well enough to answer the want ad or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle.
Literacy may not be an inalienable human right, but it is one that the highly literate Founding Fathers might not have found unreasonable or even unattainable7. We are not only not attaining it as a nation, statistically speaking8, but we are falling further and further short of attaining it. And, while I would not be so simplistic as to suggest that television is the cause, I believe it contributes and is an influence.
Everything about this nation--the structure of the society, its forms of family organization, its economy, its place in the world-- has become more complex, not less. Yet its dominating communications instrument, its principal form of national linkage, is one that sells
neat resolutions to human problems that usually have no neat resolutions. It is all symbolized in my mind by the hugely successful art form that television has made central to the culture, the 30-second commercial: the tiny drama of the earnest housewife who finds happiness in choosing the right toothpaste.
When before in human history has so much humanity collectively surrendered so much of its leisure to one toy, one mass diversion? When before has virtually an entire nation surrendered itself wholesale to a medium for selling?
Some years ago Yale University law professor Charles L. Black. Jr., wrote: "... forced feeding on trivial fare is not itself a trivial matter-" I think this society is being forced-fed with trivial fare, and I fear that the effects on our habits of mind, our language, our tolerance for effort, and our appetite for complexity are only dimly perceived. If I am wrong, we will have done no harm to look at the issue skeptically and critically, to consider how we should be
resisting it. I hope you will join with me in doing so.
C.
1、I f discovered, the soldiers hiding down in the valley would
be exposed to the enemy’s fire.
2、L isten to music diverts her after a hard day’s work.
3、T he suspect tried to evade an important question by saying
he could not remember.
4、S tatistically speaking the number of births and deaths rise and fall in nearly parallel lines.
5、I t is an anachronism to speak of Mark Twain as satirizing people watching Television.
6、U nder the stimulus of praise, the students will work even harder.
7、S taying up late on the New Year’s Eve was a novelty to the children, and they enjoyed it.
8、I f Mr. Pulman were not a successful lawyer, he would be very much in place as a teacher.
D.
1、T he teacher divided the children into several small groups for the trip to the Palace Museum.
2、A round mid-night, she received a mysterious phone call from someone she did not know of.
3、D o you think soil samples are obtainable from the Mars by an unmanned aircraft in the near future?
4、S he was so dear to him that he still kept her picture in a prominent position on his desk.
5、A soft background music will enhance a delicious meal.
6、H e was so disappointed when the manager said that his plan was completely dismissible.
7、The baby-sitter kept the kids company until we got back from the theater.
8、W ill the financial reverse prevent you from taking a holiday
this summer?
F.
人们的注意力跨度很短，因此，为了抓住观众的注意力，电视必须通过多样化、新奇性和动作不断地提供刺激。这样做的结果是，新闻过于简短，不能提供有效的交流；很多新闻节目就像“机关枪发射碎片”，破坏了思维的连贯性。这种迎合注意力跨度短的做法，还会降低文化水平。避免了复杂性，也是牺牲了思考。成年美国人中“功能性文盲”人数不断增长，他们甚至不知道如何回答招聘广告或读懂药瓶上的说明，电视对此起码应负一部分责任。
People have a short attention span, so in order to capture
attention of the viewer; TV program would constantly provide stimulation through variety, novelty action and movement. In doing so, news tends to be brief and result in inefficient communication; many programs are just like “machine-gunning with scraps”and they fight coherence. The practice to appeal to the short attention span is decivilizing as well. People are avoiding complexity at the cost of thinking. The number of "functionally illiterates" is increasing among adult Americans, they even cannot answer the want ad or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle, and television should at least be responsibility for a part of it.
☆英语中12个月份名称由来
公历一年有12个月，但不少人并不知道12个月的英语名称的来历。公历起源于古罗马历法。罗马的英语原来只有10个月，古罗马皇帝决定增加两个月放在年尾，后来朱里斯·凯撒大帝把这两个月移到年初，成为1月、2月，原来的1月、2月便成了3月、4月，依次类推。这就是今天世界沿用的公历。
January——1月
在罗马传说中，有一位名叫雅努斯的守护神，生有先后两副脸，一副回顾过去，一副要眺望未来。人们认为选择他的名字作为除旧迎新的第一个月月名，很有意义。英语January，便是由这位守护神的拉丁文名字January 演变而来的。
February——2月
每年2月初，罗马人民都要杀牲饮酒，欢庆菲勃卢姆节。这一天，人们常用一种牛、草制成的名叫Februa 的鞭子，抽打不育的妇女，以求怀孕生子。这一天，人们还要忏悔自己过去一年的罪过，洗刷自己的灵魂，求得神明的饶恕，使自己成为一个贞洁的人。英语2月February，便是由拉丁文Februar-ius(即菲勃卢姆节)演变而来。
March——3月
3月，原是罗马旧历法的1月，新年的开始。凯撒大帝改革历法后，原来的1月变成3月，但罗马人仍然把3月看做是一年的开始。另外，按照传统习惯，3月是每年出征远战的季节。为了纪念战神玛尔斯，人们便把这
位战神的拉丁名字作为3月的月名。英语3月March，便是由这位战神的名字演变而来的。
April——4月
罗马的4月，正是大地回春.鲜花初绽的美好季节。英文4月April便由拉丁文April(即开花的日子)演变而来。
May——5月
罗马神话中的女神玛雅，专门司管春天和生命。为了纪念这位女神，罗马人便用她的名字——拉丁文Maius 命名5月，英文5月May便由这位女神的名字演变而来。
June——6月
罗马神话中的裘诺，是众神之王，又是司管生育和保护妇女的神。古罗马对她十分崇敬，便把6月奉献给她，以她的名字——拉丁文Junius来命名6月。英语6月June便由这位女神的名字演变而来。也有学者认为，Junius 可能是古代拉丁家族中一个显赫贵族的姓氏。
July——7月
罗马统治者朱里斯·凯撒大帝被刺死后，着名的罗马将军马克·安东尼建议将凯撒大帝诞生的7月，用凯撒的名字——拉丁文Julius(即朱里斯)命名之。这一建议得到了元老院的通过。英语7月July由此演变而来。
August——8月
朱里斯·凯撒死后，由他的甥孙屋大维续任罗马皇帝。为了和凯撒齐名，他也想用自己的名字来命名一个月份。他的生日在9月，但他选定8月。因为他登基后，罗马元老院在8月授予他Augustus(奥古斯都)的尊号。于是，他决定用这个尊号来命名8月。原来8月比7月少一天，为了和凯撒平起平坐，他又决定从2月中抽出一天加在8月上。从此，2月便少了一天。英语8月August便由这位皇帝的拉丁语尊号演变而来。
September——9月
老历法的7月，正是凯撒大帝改革历法后的9月，拉丁文Septem是“7”月的意思。虽然历法改革了，但人们仍袭用旧名称来称呼9月。英语9月September便由此演变而来。
October——10月
英语10月，来自拉丁文Octo，即“8”的意思。它和上面讲的9月一样，历法改了，称呼仍然沿用未变。
November——11月
罗马皇帝奥古斯都和凯撒都有了自己名字命名的月份，罗马市民和元老院要求当时的罗马皇帝梯比里乌斯用其名命名11月。但梯比里乌斯没有同意，他明智地对大家说，如果罗马每个皇帝都用自己的名字来命名月份，那么出现了第13个皇帝怎么办？于是，11月仍然保留着旧称Novem，即拉丁文“9”的意思。英语11月November 便由此演变而来。
December——12月
罗马皇帝琉西乌斯要把一年中最后一个月用他情妇的Amagonius的名字来命名，但遭但元老院的反对。于是，12月仍然沿用旧名Decem，即拉丁文“10”的意思。英语12月December，便由此演变而来。
1Allot vt.分配与distribute同义，但强调发，而allot强调分
2August adj. 令敬畏的。其实就是八月。课上说，12个月均为神的名字☆，此词也是用的其引深含义。3Absorbable adj.可被吸收的。Sponges absorb water. 海绵吸水。
4machine-gun n.机关枪；v.以机关枪射击
5Coherence n. （言语、思想等）有条理、连贯性。Cohesion and Coherence （文章的）衔接与连贯6Anachronism n.时代错误指的是电视中存在一些那个时代还没有的东西。课上说蜀国打仗时，旗子上有“蜀”字，但应该是“汉”字，因为“蜀”字是后人总结的。
7Unattainable adj. 得不到的；达不到的，can not reach。课上说，obtain -- get; attain -- achieve。8statistically speaking 统计数字表明
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高级英语(2)修辞格汇总
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2016最新外研版九年级英语下册课文翻译
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高级英语1 lesson 9翻译
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