【正文】 al in an age where the tools to wage war have far surpassed and exceeded the tools to keep peace.5. ...to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in effect or in force.6. ....before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental selfdestruction.Before the terrible forces of destruction, which atomic bombs can now release, wipe out mankind, which may be planned or brought about by an accident.7. ....yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the band of mankind’s final war.Yet both groups of nations are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of terrible military power that restrains each group from launching mankind’s final war.8. So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness...Let us start once again. We must bear in mind that being polite does not mean one is weak.9. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.Let both sides try to use science to produce good and beneficial things for man instead of employing it to bring frightful destruction.10. ....each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their country (by fighting and dying for their country’s cause).11. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love...We still lead the country we love , knowing our sure reward will be a good conscience, and history will finally judge whether we have done our task well or not.Lesson 4 Love Is a Fallacy1. A nice enough young fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs.He is a nice enough young fellow, you know, but he is emptyheaded.2. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason.A passing fashion or craze, in my opinion, shows a plete lack of reason.3. I should have known they’d e back when the Charleston came back.I should have known that raccoon coats would e back to fashion when the Charleston dance, which was popular in the 1920s, came back.4. “All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them. Where’ve you been?”All the important and fashionable men on campus are wearing them. How e you don’t know?5. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.My brain, which is precision instrument, began to work at high speed.6. With one omission, Polly fitted these specifications perfectly.Except for one thing (intelligence) Polly had all the other requirements.7. She was not yet of pinup proportions, but I felt sure that time would supply the lack.She was not as beautiful as those girls in posters but I felt sure she would bee beautiful enough after some time.8. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction.In fact, she went in the opposite direction, that is, she was not intelligent but rather stupid.9. “In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open. Is that right?”If you were no longer involved with her (if you stopped dating her), others would be free to pete to get her as a girlfriend.10. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.His head turned back and forth (looking at the coat and then looking away from the coat). Every time he looked his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to abandon/ give away Polly became weaker.11. This loomed as a project of no small dimensions...To teach her to think appeared to be a rather big task.12. Admittedly it was not a prospect fraught with hope, but I decided to give it one more try.One must admit the oute does not look very hopeful, but I decided to try one more time.13. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.There is a limit to what any human being can bear.14. I was not Pygmalion。 I was Frankenstein, and my monster had me by the throat.I planned to be Pygmalion, to fashion an ideal wife for myself, but I turned out to be Frankenstein because Polly (the result/ product of my hard work) ultimately rejected me and ruined my plan.15. Frantically I fought back the tide of panic surging through me.Desperately I tried to stop the feeling of panic that was overwhelming me.Lesson 5 The Sad Young Men1. The slighted mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middleaged...At the very mention of this postwar period ,middleaged people begin to think about it longingly and young people bee curious and start asking all kinds of questions..2. The rejection of Victorian gentility was, in any case, inevitable .In any case, an American could not avoid casting aside middleclass respectability and affected refinement.3. The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structure...The war only helped to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian social structure.4. ...it was tempted, in America at least, to escape its responsibilities and retreat behind an air of naughty alcoholic sophistication...In America the young people did not seriously take up the responsibilities of changing the traditional customs of society。 instead they lived unconventional lives and, by drinking and behaving indecently in many ways, they broke the moral code of the munity.5. Prohibition afforded the young the additional opportunity of making their pleasures illicit...The young people found greater pleasure in their drinking because Prohibition, by making drinking unlawful added a sense of adventure.6. ...our young men began to enlist under foreign flags.As a result, the young men began to join the armies of foreign countries to fight in the war.7. ...they “wanted to get into the fun before the whole thing turned belly up.”The young people wanted to take part in the glorious adventure before the war ended.8. ...they had outgrown towns and families...These young people could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their hometowns or their families.9. ...the returning veteran also had to face th