【正文】 a defensive and sensitive as if her face was guarded and marked. But in a brief moment when she was saying this, there was an expression of defiance on her face, which was her true emotion. In her eyes there was a kind of hope which was so intense that it stuck people as terrifying.10. ...she looked a mess, to tell you the truth, a real slattern, dressed any old how...She looked very messy, dirty and untidy, dressed in a very careless way.11. She was up in court a couple of timesdrunk and disorderly, of course.She was taken to court several times, because she was drunkanddisorderlyasone couldexpect.12. The one store had bee several dozen, and the settlement had all the attributes of a flourishing resorthotels, a dancehall, cafes with neon signs, the penetrating odours of potato chips and hot dogs.Therehadbeen onlyonestorebefore,butnowtherewereseveraldozenstores.The settlementhadall the features of a flourishing resort such as hotels, a dancehall, cafes lighted by neon signs, the strong smells of potato chips and hot dogs. 13. Perhaps they had been unable to find such a place, and had simply died out, having ceased to care any longer whether they lived or not.Perhapstheyhadfailedtofindasuitablehabitatwheretheycouldbelongandhad simplydiedout,havingstoppedcaringanylongerwhethertheylivedornot.Lesson10 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American1. ItisaplexfatetobeanAmerican…ThefateofanAmericanisplicatedandhardtounderstand.2. ..theywerenomoreathomeinEuropethanIwas.TheywereuneasyandunfortableinEuropeasIwas.3. ...wewerebothsearchingforourseparateidentities.American writers, black and white,werealltryingtofindtheirownspecialindividualities.4. Idonotthinkthatcouldhavemadethisreconciliationhere.Idon39。tthinkIcouldhaveacceptedinAmericamyblackstatuswithoutfeelingashamed.5. ...itiseasiertocutacrosssocialandoccupationallinestherethanitishere. ItiseasierinEuropeforpeopleofdifferentsocialgroupsandoccupationstointermingle and have social contact than in America. 6. Amancanbeasproudofbeingagoodwaiterasofbeingagoodactor,andinneither case feel threatened. InEuropeagoodwaiterandagoodactorareequallyproudoftheirsocialstatusandfunctions in society.Theyarenotjealousofeachotheranddonotliveinfearoflosingtheirstatus.7. IwasborninNewYork,buthavelivedonlyinpocketsofit.IwasborninNewYorkbuthavelivedonlyinsomesmallareasofthecity.8. Thisreassessment,whichcanbeverypainful,isalsoveryvaluable.This process of reconsidering many things that one had taken for granted in the past can be very painful (because you have to admit that some ideas you held were wrong), but is also very valuable and important. 9. Onthisacceptance,literally,thelifeofawriterdepends.Thelifeofawriterreallydependsonhisacceptingthefactthatnomatterwherehegoes or what he does he will alwayscarrythemarksofhisorigins.10.Americanwritersdonothaveafixedsocietytodescribe.Americanwritersliveinamobilesocietywherenothingisfixed,sotheydonot have a fixed society to describe. 11. Every society is governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on the part of the people.Everysocietyisinfluencedanddirectedbyunwrittenlaws,andbymanythingsdeeply felt and taken forgrantedbythepeople,thoughnotopenlyspokenabout.Lesson 11 Four Laws of Ecology ( Part 1 )1. All this, many times multiplied and organized species by species in intricate, precise relationships, make up the vast network of life on the earth.The above is just a single example about the connections of deer to other forms of life. In reality this is added many times and organized species by species in precise relationships with many details. And this makes up the large and extensive network of life on the earth.2. It is the science of planetary housekeeping.Ecology is the science about how the affairs of our house, the planet, are managed.3. Our ability to picture the behavior of such systems has been helped considerably by the development, even more recent than ecology, of the science of cybernetics.The development of the science of cybernetics has greatly helped our ability to scribe the behavior of ecosystems. The science of cybernetics is even younger than the science of ecology.4. In quite a similar way, stabilizing cybernetic relations are built into an ecological cycle.Similar to the ship system, cybernetics systems with stabilizing effects are an integral part of an ecological cycle.5. The most famous examples of such ecological oscillations are the periodic fluctuations of the size of furbearing animal populations.The bestknown examples that can clearly illustrate such ecological oscillations are the changes of the size of furbearing animal populations that take place periodically.6. These oscillations are built into the oper