时间:2018-12-04 作者:英语课 分类:考研英语听力基本功4


英语课

Humor,which ought to give rise to only the most light-hearted and gay feeling

[00:05.72]can often stir to up vehemence 1 and animosit

[00:10.40]Evidently it is dearer to us than we realiz

[00:15.07]Men will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that they have no sense of humo

[00:23.22]A man will admit to being a coward or a liar 2 or a thief or a poor mechanic or a bad swimme

[00:30.90]but tell him he has a dreadful sense of humor and you might as well have slandered 3 his mothe

[00:37.56]Even if he is civilized 4 enough to pretend to make light of your statemen

[00:42.48]he will secretly believe that he has not only a good sense of humor but one superior to mos

[00:50.68]He has,in other words,a completely blind spot on the subjec

[00:55.82]This is all the more surprising when you consider that not one man in ten million can give you any kind of intelligent answer as to what humor is or why he laughs.



1 vehemence
n.热切;激烈;愤怒
  • The attack increased in vehemence.进攻越来越猛烈。
  • She was astonished at his vehemence.她对他的激昂感到惊讶。
2 liar
n.说谎的人
  • I know you for a thief and a liar!我算认识你了,一个又偷又骗的家伙!
  • She was wrongly labelled a liar.她被错误地扣上说谎者的帽子。
3 slandered
造谣中伤( slander的过去式和过去分词 )
  • She slandered him behind his back. 她在背地里对他造谣中伤。
  • He was basely slandered by his enemies. 他受到仇敌卑鄙的诋毁。
4 civilized
a.有教养的,文雅的
  • Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society. 文明社会憎恶种族主义。
  • rising crime in our so-called civilized societies 在我们所谓文明社会中日益增多的犯罪行为
学英语单词
-in
2-CdA
3-butenyl
abnormal oxidation state
ad hoc organization
adhesive substance
air cooled jacket
Angolans
anti-Semitism
antipollution loan
arabica gum
arms (in crinoids)
attorneys-at-law
backing dog
Bahia piassava
block structured
chemical pollutant
circumjacently
clearance area
collegation
commercialisms
coreference
degenerate basic variable
derusting by sand-blast
detrital pathway
direct-sum topological space
directed interview
distributor gear
electrical machinery plant
emergent beam
endorsement
enzyme-trace-substance theory
epiton
equilibrium relationship
Erik den Rφdes φ
erlands
exploit an advantage
field free
finder beam
finger banging
firing rod
Fournier, L.
frictional electrification
full to the gills
full-tilts
furniments
garda, lake
gasoline device
Gospel of Luke
greedy heuristic
guest bar
hamartolus
handspring
high speed line
hydroelevator
Hypericum calycinum
lead screw grinding machine
Lochee
longitudinal elasticity
loss through shock wave
lotions
LUTT
lyophilized collagen
magnetic electron optics
medium-weight nucleus
muscular insufficiency
no-load opening
nonthematically
numeric iteration
photodocument sensor
pick up the thread s
picked
polish sb off
port end
practitionership
presurvey modeling
pseudonamespace
purgeable
quadrature phase
radio compass fix
resonance activation cross-section
Roe Bank
rutile base covering
Sabril
sangars
schedule of production
scolloped
Sedum gagei
Selfoc lens
Senaah
single chip
spring loaded pressure valve
Strongyloplasmata
take-it-or-leave-it
The Federal Employers Liability Act
time feasibility
to the hilt
tree celandines
tutle
unclean liness
uvulopalatoplasty
weft fork motion