时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:历年考研英语阅读理解


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[00:03.69]2000 Passage5
[00:07.72]If ambition is to be well regarded,
[00:10.74]the rewards of ambition--wealth, distinction, control
[00:14.68]over one's destiny
[00:16.29]--must be deemed worthy 1 of the sacrifices
[00:18.82]made on ambition's behalf.
[00:21.24]If the tradition of ambition is to have vitality,
[00:24.46]it must be widely shared;
[00:26.57]and it especially must be highly regarded
[00:29.10]by people who are themselves admired,
[00:32.13]the educated not least among them.
[00:35.15]In an odd way, however, it is the educated
[00:38.07]who have claimed to have given up on ambition as an ideal.
[00:42.60]What is odd is that they have perhaps most benefited
[00:46.03]from ambition--if not always their own then
[00:49.66]that of their parents and grandparents.
[00:52.69]There is heavy note of hypocrisy 2 in this,
[00:55.61]a case of closing the barn door
[00:57.53]after the horses have escaped
[00:59.65]--with the educated themselves riding on them.
[01:03.65]Certainly people do not seem less interested in success
[01:07.08]and its signs now than formerly 3.
[01:10.21]Summer homes, European travel, BMWs
[01:14.14]--the locations, place names and name brands may change,
[01:18.57]but such items do not seem less in demand today
[01:21.90]than a decade or two years ago.
[01:24.51]What has happened is that people
[01:26.07]cannot confess fully 4 to their dreams,
[01:28.79]as easily and openly as once they could,
[01:32.12]lest they be thought pushing, acquisitive and vulgar.
[01:36.22]Instead, we are treated to fine hypocritical spectacles,
[01:40.26]which now more than ever seem in ample supply:
[01:44.10]the critic of American materialism
[01:46.32]with a Southampton summer home;
[01:48.63]the publisher of radical 5 books
[01:50.41]who takes his meals in three-star restaurants;
[01:53.35]the journalist advocating participatory democracy
[01:56.15]in all phases of life,
[01:58.37]whose own children are enrolled 6 in private schools.
[02:02.32]For such people and many more perhaps not so exceptional,
[02:06.37]the proper formulation is," Succeed at all costs
[02:10.51]but avoid appearing ambitious."
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[02:13.73]The attacks on ambition are many
[02:16.06]and come from various angles;
[02:18.38]its public defenders 7 are few and unimpressive,
[02:21.80]where they are not extremely unattractive.
[02:25.69]As a result, the support for ambition as a healthy impulse,
[02:29.83]a quality to be admired and fixed 8 in the mind of the young,
[02:33.55]is probably lower than it has ever been
[02:36.28]in the United States.
[02:37.79]This does not mean that ambition is at an end,
[02:40.92]that people no longer feel its stirrings and promptings,
[02:44.56]but only that, no longer openly honored,
[02:47.87]it is less openly professed 9.
[02:50.61]Consequences follow from this,of course,
[02:53.43]some of which are the ambition
[02:55.35]is driven underground, or made sly.
[02:58.97]Such, then, is the way things stand:
[03:01.90]on the left angry critics,
[03:04.12]on the right stupid supporters,
[03:06.63]and in the middle, as usual,
[03:08.87]the majority of earnest people trying to get on in life.


1 worthy
adj.(of)值得的,配得上的;有价值的
  • I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
  • There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。
2 hypocrisy
n.伪善,虚伪
  • He railed against hypocrisy and greed.他痛斥伪善和贪婪的行为。
  • He accused newspapers of hypocrisy in their treatment of the story.他指责了报纸在报道该新闻时的虚伪。
3 formerly
adv.从前,以前
  • We now enjoy these comforts of which formerly we had only heard.我们现在享受到了过去只是听说过的那些舒适条件。
  • This boat was formerly used on the rivers of China.这船从前航行在中国内河里。
4 fully
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
5 radical
n.激进份子,原子团,根号;adj.根本的,激进的,彻底的
  • The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
  • She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。
6 enrolled
adj.入学登记了的v.[亦作enrol]( enroll的过去式和过去分词 );登记,招收,使入伍(或入会、入学等),参加,成为成员;记入名册;卷起,包起
  • They have been studying hard from the moment they enrolled. 从入学时起,他们就一直努力学习。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He enrolled with an employment agency for a teaching position. 他在职业介绍所登了记以谋求一个教师的职位。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 defenders
n.防御者( defender的名词复数 );守卫者;保护者;辩护者
  • The defenders were outnumbered and had to give in. 抵抗者寡不敌众,只能投降。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • After hard fighting,the defenders were still masters of the city. 守军经过奋战仍然控制着城市。 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 fixed
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
9 professed
公开声称的,伪称的,已立誓信教的
  • These, at least, were their professed reasons for pulling out of the deal. 至少这些是他们自称退出这宗交易的理由。
  • Her manner professed a gaiety that she did not feel. 她的神态显出一种她并未实际感受到的快乐。
学英语单词
ablutophiliac
Adhfa
airfield surveillance radar
axial flow gas separator
axiversion
Bacillus tuberculosis typus humanus
Batagay
beginningless
Berkeley Hunt
bicircular quartic
bona fide possession
Branham's sign
carbon-rheostat
Carya cathayensis Sarg.
chemical polishing agent
chromn
clerkless
clfm
close coupled type aeroplane
colour selective mirror
Croce, Benedetto
cross section of a bundle
dead-eyed
dealigned
deoxyadenine
destructive sorites
dominant antigen
drop - down list
dry loft
Dāvūd, Kūh-e
earthquake distribution
El Salvador
electronic recording potentiometer
extend credit to
field grafting
fire dog
fried food
furuno
glass-coated steel & glass-lined steel
glenavies
glenman
Go to your head
harmers
Hatchie
have a reference to
hdl-cholesterol
heavy lift system
hoodwort
hypo-iodous
jerry lewis
lacaille
large tortoiseshells
load-slip curve
long - term investment
make system disk
micky ficky
miniaturisations
Mitterrandism
moity
motorizations
nominal line width
nuclear fusion
opless
partnerships
pattern on
percentage non-proportional elongation at maximum force
pernoctates
perspiration test
Pethidie-Intermediate-B
platform bridge
pomorska wies
porcione
power-surges
press die casting
resist-dye
second remove subroutine
ship manoeuvring
single beat main stop valve
small - claims court
smithying
spinning rotor
sport managerialics
squawvine
straight dam
sudd
syth
t-day
Tanzanian monetary unit
technical economics of productive distribution
terminal amino acid
tigloylmetelcidine
Tourrette-sur-Loup
transfd.
un-Saxon
univorous
virtually addressing cache
voice interface card
vowel colour
wax deoiling
wide-band modulation
xfsub
Yepachic