【正文】 tan 19. Kesey ventured ... begin to be. (1) How did Kesey analyse the nature of the war? He considered the war as a war between the traditional pattern of power politics and a way of the weak trying to strike back, an asymmetrical war. (2) the brutal, aggressively male way things had always been What did Kesey mean by this? He meant the brutal, oppressive forces of the major powers in the world. In such a world, power, especially military power, had the final say. (3) the timorous and fragile way things might begin to be What did Kesey mean by this? He meant that the weak, the oppressed could not openly challenge the superpower but they were working out ways to strike back, to impose losses on the superpower. They would not fight openly, nor above board. Hence the word timorous. He feared that terrorism might bee a 高級(jí)英語 2課程講稿 第 9 頁 ，共 23 頁 way things might begin to be so he hoped that the future should be constructed on a model of mutual cooperation, trust and rational thinking. Part II (Paras. 711) The writer goes a step further into analyzing the cause of the changethe shattering of the sense of invulnerability and the emergence of national paranoia. Para. 7 20. The attacks ... American psyche. (1) Is the writer39。take to task those groups and individuals who fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the war we are facing Those groups and individuals, AVOT claims, need to be resisted both here and abroad. A fullpage AVOT advertisement carried in the March 10 Sunday New York Times pointed to radical Islam as 39。s title two weeks ago by saying We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. Last Wednesday (Sept. 26), Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, attacked Mr. Mayer and warned others, saying, Americans ... need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and ... this is not a time for remarks like that。 largest Muslim charities, the Global Relief Foundation, has been held in solitary confinement, first in Ann Arbor and then at a federal facility in Chicago. He is in his cell. Alone, for 23 hours a day. Every time he leaves, either to exercise in a special highsecurity cage or to take one of his thriceweekly showers, he is handcuffed. And yet Haddad, a Lebanese citizen who was educated in the United States, has been charged with no crime. According to the Treasury Department the only branch of government to give any explanation whatsoeverhe and his charity are suspected of links to Osama bin Laden39。s not cowardly. The remarks caused Fed Ex and Sears, two of the advertisers on the show to pull their ads under pressure. Mayer has since apologized for offending people ... A campaign is under way to have him sacked and the show closed down... The ABC news anchor Peter Jennings, received more than 10,000 s after making the following remarks on air. The country looks to the president on occasions like this to be reassuring to the nation. Some presidents do it well, some presidents don39。 are spreading twisted messages from the fantasy world they inhabit, The Heritage Foundation will continue to tell the truth to Congress, the media, and the Public. 6. I don39。 challenge chorus： a simultaneous utterance by many (2) a growing chorus of dissenting voices more and more people join in expressing their opposition (3) question the rush toward being a security state challenge the wisdom of taking hasty, not wellthoughtout measures to put homeland defense over everything else 16. There is a dialectic afoot... (1) afoot： in operation (2) Some people in the country begin to examine the validity of the argument of security state. 17 that has been largely ignored ... multihued. (1)主流媒體基本上不反映這種情況，它們認(rèn)為公眾的想法只有紅、白、藍(lán)三色，殊不知人們情感、思想、觀點(diǎn)的色譜就和美國本身一樣，是多彩的。 33 there are few places ... found a purchase. (1) 沒有什么地方看不到星條旗的 (2) has not found a purchase: has not been available 34. People who never ... patriotic. (1) Note the contrast implied in the statement. never gave much thought versus suddenly, passionately patriotic. (2) What is the tone of the statement? It is slightly ironical. (3) People who never bothered about the national flag except on national day, who never thought about the flag, suddenly became intensely patriotic. The implied meaning is that this is a kind of irrational emotion. 35. What are the two kinds of patriotism brought up by the writer in this paragraph? One is the upholding of the principles embodied in the Constitution. The other is the display of the flag everywhere, using the flag as an icon, as overpensation for a wounded ego. 36. But the now.., ego. (1) What is meant by the inescapable presence of the flag? It means the display of the flag everywhere. (2) What is meant by overpensation for a wounded ego? It means the presence of the flag everywhere seems to serve as an exaggerated effort to make up for the harm done to selfesteem. The Americans felt humiliated by the attacks. Eleven suicidal terrorists, with box cutters, hijacked four American passenger planes and struck at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, symbols of American economic and military power, killing thousands of people. A superpower with most sophisticated weapons was caught unawares and unprepared. This greatly hurt American pride and was a blow to American arrogance. This was a blow to the myth of American invulnerability. Hence the phrase wounded ego. In order to demonstrate their determination to rally round the government and the spirit of unity, the Americans turned to the buying and displaying of the national flag. The writer uses the word overpensation to describe such action. (3) to overpensate： [psychology] to react to a re