Lesson 11．And it is an activity only of humans.And it is a human unique activity．2．Conversation is not for making a point.Conversation is not to convince others．3．In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to be lose.In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are willing to be lose.4.Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives. Bar friends are not deeply concerned with each other’s private lives.5....it could still go ignorantly on...The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong．6. There are cattle in the field, but we sit down to beef.These animals are called cattle in English, when they are alive and feeding in the fields；but when we sit down at the table to eat, we call their meat beef in French．7. The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language.The new ruling class had caused the cultural contradictions between the ruling class and native English by regarding French superior to English.8.English had come royally into its own.English had gained recognition by the King．9．The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes. The phrase, the king’s English has always been used disrespectfully and made fun by the lower classes.10. The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there. There is still opposition to cultural monopoly.11. There is always a great danger that “words will harden into things for us”We tend to make the mistake that we regard the things as they represent.12. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.Even the most educated and literated people will not always use the formal English in their conversation．Lesson 21. The burying--ground is merelya huge waste of hummocky earth,like a derelict building-lot.The burying-ground is just a hugepiece of wasteland full of moundsof earth, looking like a desertedconstruction land.2.All colonial empires are inreality founded upon that fact.All colonial empires are built byexploiting the local people.3. They rise out of the earth, theysweat and starve for a few years,and then they sink back into thenameless mounds of thegraveyard.They are born. Then they work hardwithout enough food for a fewyears. Finally they die and areburied in the hills graves withoutany mark to identify them.4. A carpenter sits crosslegged ata prehistoric lathe, turningchair-legs at lighting speed.A carpenter sits crossing his legs atan old-fashioned lathe, makinground chair-legs very fast.5. Instantly, from the dark holesall round, there was a frenziedrush of Jews.Immediately, Jews rushed out oftheir dark hole-like rooms nearbyin a frenzy madness.6.every one of them looks on acigarette as a more or lessimpossible luxury.Every one of these Jews considersthe cigarette as a somewhat pieceof luxury which they can notpossibly afford.7. Still, a white skin is alwaysfairly conspicuous.However, a white-skinnedEuropean is easy to notice in a fairway.8. In a tropical landscape one’seye takes in everything exceptthe human being.Against the background of atropical landscape, people couldnotice everything but they cannotsee local people.9. No one would think of runningcheap trips to the DistressedAreasNo one would propose the cheaptrips to the slums．10．...for nine-tenths of thepeople the reality of life is anendless, back-breaking struggleto wring a little food out of aneroded soil.The real life of nine-tenths of thepeople is that there is no end totheir extremely hard work in orderto get a little food from an erodedsoil．11. She accepted her status as anold woman, that is to say as abeast of burden.She took it for granted that as anold woman she should work like ananimal．12.People with brown skins arenext door to invisible.People who have brown skins arealmost invisible．13. Their splendid bodies werehidden in reach-me-down khakiuniforms...The soldiers wore second—handkhaki uniforms which covered theirbeautiful well—built bodies．14. How long before they turntheir guns in the other direction?How long will it take for them toattack us?15. Every white man there hadthis thought stowed somewhereor other in his mind.It is certain that every white manrealized this.Lesson31.And yet the same revolutionarybelief for which our forebearsfought is still at issue around theglobe...And yet the same revolutionarybelief which is the aim of ourancestors is still in dispute aroundthe world.2. This much we pledge--andmore.This much we promise to do andwe promise to do more.3. United, there is little we cannotdo in a host of cooperativeventures.If we are united, there is almostnothing we can not do through alot of cooperation.4. But this peaceful revolution ofhope cannot become the prey ofhostile powers.But this peaceful revolution whichcan bring hope in a peaceful waycan not fall victims to enemycountry.5. .... Our last best hope in an agewhere the instruments of warhave far outpaced theinstruments of pace...The United Nations is our last andbest hope in the era where meansof launching war have farsurpassed means of keeping peace.6. ...to enlarge the area in whichits writ may run...to increase the area where the UN’s written documents may beeffective.7....before the dark powers ofdestruction unleashed by scienceengulf all humanity in planned oraccidental self-destruction... before the evil atom weapon made possible by science destroy all human beings in a planned way or by accident.8...yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war...However both trying to change that unstable balance of weapons and this balance of weapons could prevent human beings from launching their final war.9. So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness... So let us begin once again to realize that politeness does not mean weakness.10. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.I suggest both sides try to use science to make wonders for human beings rather than terrors.11. ...each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.There are Americans from every generation who answer the call of the country to prove their loyalty to the country.12. 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... Our certain reward is our good conscience and history will judge our deeds, therefore, let us try to be pioneers in building our beloved country.Unit51.The slighted mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to themiddle-aged...At the very mention of this postwar period ,middle-aged people begin to think about it longingly.2.The rejection of Victorian gentility was , in anycase ,inevitable .In any case,an American could not avoid casting aside middle-class 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 at least,the youngpeople were strongly inclined toshirk their responsibilities. Theypretended to be worldly-wise,drinking and behaving naughtily.5.Prohibition afforded the youngthe additional opportunity ofmaking their pleasures illicit...The young found greater pleasurein drinking because Prohibition, bymaking drinking unlawful,added asense of adventure.6...our young men began to enlistunder foreign flags.Our young men joined the armiesof foreign countries to fight in thewar.7....they “wanted to get into thefun before the whole thingturned belly up.”The young wanted to take part inthe glorious adventure before thewhole ended.8...they had outgrown towns andfamilies...These young people could nolonger adapt themselves to lives intheir hometowns or their families.9..the returning veteran also hadto face the sodden,Napoleoniccynicism of Versailles,thehypocritical do-goodism ofProhibition...The returning veteran also had toface the stupid cynicism of thevictorious allies in Versailles whoacted as cynically as Napoleondid,and to face Prohibition whichthe lawmakers hypocriticallyassumed would do good to thepeople.10.Something in thetension-ridden youth of Americahad to “give”...(Under all this force andpressure)something in the youth ofAmerica,who were already verytense ,had to break down.11....it was only natural thathopeful young writers , theirminds and pens inflamed againstwar, Babbittry, and “Puritanical”gentility, should flock to thetraditional artistic center...It was only natural that hopefulyoung writers ,whose minds andwritings were full of violent angeragainst war, Babbittry,and“Puritanical”gentility,shouldcome in largen numbers to live inGreenwich Village, the traditionalartistic center.12.Each town had its “fast”setwhich prided itself on itself on itsunconventionality...Each town was proud that it had agroup of wild ,reckless people,wholived unconventional lives.Unit71.With a clamor of bells that setthe swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city Omelas.The loud ringing of the bells, which sent the frightened swallows flying high, marked the beginning of the Festival of Summer in Omelas.2. ..Their high calls rising like theswallows’ crossing flights over the music and singsing.The shouting of the children couldbe heard clearly above the music and singing like the calls of the swallows flying by overhead.3. ..Exercised their restive horsesbefore the race.The riders were putting the horsesthrough some exercises because the horses were eager to startand stubbornly resisting the control of the riders.4. Given a description such as this one tends to make certain assumptions.After reading the above description the reader is likely to assume certain things.5. This is the treason of artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.An artist betrays his trust when hedoes not admit that evil is nothingfresh nor novel and pain is very dull and uninteresting.6. They were nature, intelligent,passionate adults whose lives were not wretched.They were fully developed and intelligent grown-up people full of intense feelings and they were not miserable people.7. Perhaps it would be best if youimagined it as your own fancy bids, assuming it will rise to the occasion.Perhaps it would be best if the reader pictures Omelas to himself ashis imagination tells him, assuminghis imagination will be equal to the task.8. The faint insistent sweetness of drooz may perfume the way ofthe city.The faint but compelling sweet scent of the drug drooz may fill the streets of the city.9. Perhaps it was born defective,or perhaps it has become imbecile through fear, malnutrition andneglect.Perhaps the child was mentally retarded because it was born so or perhaps it has become very foolish and stupid because of fear, poor no urishment and neglect.10. Its habits are too uncouth for it to respond to humane treatm ent.The habits of the child are so crud e and uncultured that it will show no sign of improvement even if it i s treated kindly and tenderly. 11. Their tears at the bitter injust ice dry when they begin to perce ive the terrible justice of reality, and to accept it.They shed tears when they see ho w terribly unjust they have been to the child, but these tearsdry up w hen they realize how just and fair t hough terrible reality was.Unit81.....below the noisy arguments , the abuse and the quarrels , there is a reservoir of instinctive fellow-feeling...The English people may hotly argue and abuse and quarrel with each other , but there still exists a lot of natural sympathetic feelings for each other in their hearts. 2....at heart they would like to take a whip to the whole idle troublesome mob of them. What the wealthy employers would really like to do is to whip all the workers whom they regard as lazy and troublesome.3...there are not many of these men , either on the board or the shop floor...There are not many snarling shop stewards in the workshop,nor are there many cruel wealthy employers on the board of directors.4.It demands bigness ,and they are suspicious of bigness.The contemporary world demands that everything should be done on a big scale and the English do not trust bigness.5.Against this , at least superficially ,Englishness seems a poor shadowy show...At least on the surface ,when Englishness is put against the power and success of Admass , Englishness seems to put up a rather poor performance. 6....while Englishness is not hostile to change,it is deeply suspicious of change for change’s sake...Englishness is not against change, but it believes that changing just for change’s sake and not other useful purposes is very wrong and harmful.7.To put cars and motorways before houses seems toEnglishness a communalimbecility.To regard cars and motorways asmore important than housesseems to Englishness a publicstupidity.8.I must add that whileEnglishness can still fighton ,Admass could be winning.I must further say that whileEnglishness can go on fighting,there is a great possibility forAdmass to win.9.It must have some moralcapital to draw upon,and soon itmay be asking for an overdraft.Englishness draws its strength froma reservoir of strong moral andethical principles ,and soon it maybe asking for strength which thisreservoir of principles cannotprovide.10.They probably believe ,as I do ,that the Admass”Good Life”is afraud on all counts.There people probably believe ,as Ido,that the “Good Life”promisedby Admass is false and dishonest inall respects.11...he will not even find muchsatisfaction in this scroungingmessy existence, which doesnothing for a man’s self-respect.He will not even find muchsatisfaction in this untidy anddisordered life where he managesto live as a parasite by sponging onpeople. This kind of life does nothelp a person to build up anyself-respect.12.To them the House ofCommons is a remotesquabbling-shop.These people consider the Houseof Commons as a place rather faraway from them where somepeople are always quarreling andarguing over some small matters.13...heavy hands can fall on theshoulders that have beenshrugging away politics.They were very wrong to ignorepolitics for they can now suddenlyand for no reason be arrested andthrown into prison.Unit101. It is a complex fate to be an American.The fate of an American is complicated and hard to understand.2...they were no more at home inEurope than I was.They were uneasy and uncomfortable in Europe as I was.3...we were both searching for our separate identities.They were all trying to find their own special individualities.4. I do not think that could havemade this reconciliation here.I don't think I could have acceptedin America my Negro status without feeling ashamed.5...it is easier to cut across socialand occupational lines there thanit is here.It is easier in Europe for people ofdifferent social groups and occupations to intermingle and have social intercourse.6. A man can be as proud of being a good waiter as of being a good actor, and in neither case feelthreatened. In Europe a good waiter and a good actor are equally proud of their social status and position. They are not jealous of each other and do not live in fear of losing their position.7. I was born in New York, but have lived only in pockets of it.I was born in New York but have lived only in some small areas of thecity.8. This reassessment, which canbe very painful, is also very valuable.The reconsideration of the significance and importance of many things that one had taken for granted in the past can be very painful, though very valuable.9. On this acceptance, literally, the life of a writer depends.The life of a writer really depends on his accepting the fact that no matter where he goes or what he does he will always carry the marks ofhis origins.10. American writers do not havea fixed society to describe.American writers live in a mobile society where nothing is fixed, so they do not have a fixed society to describe.11..Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on thepart of the people.Every society is influenced and directed by hidden laws, and bymany things deeply felt andtaken for granted by the people, though not openly spoken about.。