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
a change of voice
akbotoev
alinota
amount due from banks abroad
Ancuabe
architecture simulation
assembly drawing number
at sb's beck and call
background process group
Baker, Can.
Ballara
blow ... out
bond underwriter
calking groove
Catumbela
chinese translation
Cividale del Friuli
clotfelter
cold cross section
corde
cranial suture
cross your heart
cuntass
cytobiosis
dark-burn
Dociton
double-cropping
endotoxoids
equivalent-number of teeth
Escource
exposure indicator
Fedayee
flattenable
foreign business
fredo
genus Dreissena
genus Myrciaria
gyrostatic effect
hang on by the eyebrows
heart-strickenly
heliophilic
ice shelf water
industrial waste control
isosemantic class
iyomycin
Kentucky colonel
kerbies
Ligularia transversifolia
linear radiative stopping power
loepa formosensis
Lombard rate
lubrication point chart
magnetic flux path
MO (manual-operated)
ncta (national cable television association)
noun adjunct
obstruction
on occasions
on-call target
onoda
operational guidance
oxidizing roast
paid in slip
photovoltaicss
platform technology
ponazuril
precursing
prick post
proportional cost
railway premises
recording spectrometer
rogachev
rosberg
Saint Elmo's fires
Sandhausen
Saussurea auriculata
self-elect
several complex variables
snavely
social network sites
stiffleg
stoichiometric reaction
strap end
swampy soil
symplocarpus foetiduss
tetrabenzylsilane
the topic
Tonatiuh
transplutonium elements
two-component theory
type identifier
uncomprehensive
unexclusiveness
upper-body
us pvc
vegetable chemistry
vertical surface broaching machine
water-use for scouring and warping
weak-willed
weight correlation bias
X-ray fluorescent emission spectrometer
Z membrane matrix