五課愛丑之欲的翻譯-預(yù)覽頁
【正文】 蘭河谷地區(qū)，那是無法讓人信服的.美國某些階層的人們當(dāng)中似乎的的確確存在著一種愛丑之欲，就同某些人對教條主義神學(xué)和埃德加 a race which hates beauty as it hates truth (see the text, para. 9) 5. The satirical power of the authorr s attack in this essay is not only a result of his choice of words, of his diction, but also his masterly employment of the various rhetoric means such as metaphors, similes, hyperboles and so on. Examples may be referred to the answers to Exs. XIII, XIV,XV. 6. So far as the point which the author wanted to make is concerned, all the metaphors, similes and hyperboles are used appropriately and effectively. 7. As a rule, an excessive use of strong language in writing tends to be selfdefeating. Mencken uses a lot of hyper boles to exaggerate and also makes abundant use of sar casm, ridicule and irony to taunt the jeer in the essay. It may lead the average reader to doubt the objectivity and fairness or even the honesty of the writer. He may feel the writer perhaps has a special axe to grind and lose interest in what he has to say. So one might say Mencken employs all the force of diction, structure and figures only to batter his readers into insensitivity. IV. 1. As a boy and later when I was a grownup man, I had of ten travelled through the region. 2. But somehow in the past I never really perceived how shocking and wretched this whole region was. 3. This dreadful scene makes all human endeavors to advanceand improve their lot appear as a ghastly, saddening joke. 4. The country itself is pleasant to look at, despite the sooty dirt spread by the innumerable mills in this region. 5. The model they followed in building their houses was a brick standing upright. / All the houses they built iooked like bricks standing upright. 6. These bricklike houses were made of shabby, thin wooden boards and their roofs were narrow and had little slope. 7. When the brick is covered with the black soot of the mills it takes on the color of a rotten egg. 8. Red brick, even in a steel town, looks quite respectable with the passing of time. / Even in a steel town, old red bricks still appear pleasing to the eye. 9. I have given Westmoreland the highest award for ugliness after having done a lot of hard work and research and after continuous praying. 10. They show such fantastic and bizarre ugliness that, in looking back, they bee almost fiendish and wicked./ When one looks back at these houses whose ugliness is so fantastic and bizarre, one feels they must be the work of the devil himself. 11. It is hard to believe that people built such horrible houses just because they did not know what beautiful houses were like. 12. People in certain strata of American society seem definite ly to hunger after ugly things。 t like to do the right things and who was an inflexible enemy of man, em ployed all the cleverness and skill of hell to build these ugly houses。t see it. Use your nose and the smell will make you sicken. Floating on the brownish filthy water are used wrapping paper, plastic bags, foams, and one or two dead dogs or mice. 20 /
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