时间:2018-12-04 作者:英语课 分类:自考英语(一)78讲


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                               LESSoN TWENTY-FIVE
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                               American Men Dont Cry 
                                         
      American men dont cry because it is considered not characteristic of men to do so. only women cry. Cry is a weakness characteristic of the female, and no American male wants to be identified with anything in the least weak or feminine. Crying, in our culture, is identified with childishness, with weakness and dependence 1. No one likes a crybaby, and we disapprove 2 of crying even in children, discouraging it in them as early as possible. In a land so devoted 3 to the pursuit of happiness as ours, crying really is rather un-American. Adults must learn not to cry in situations in which it is permissible 4 for a child to cry. Women being the weaker and dependent sex, it is only natural that they should cry in certain emotional situations. In women, crying is excusable. But in men, crying is a mark of weakness. So goes the American belief with regard to crying.
   
      A little man, we impress on our male children, never cries. only girls and crybabies do. And so we condition males in America not to cry whenever they feel like doing so. It is not that American males are unable to cry because of some biological time clock within them which causes them to run down in that capacity as they grow older, but that they are trained not to cry. And so the little man controls his desire to cry and goes on doing so until he is unable to cry even when he wants to. Thus do we produce a trained incapacity in the American male to cry. And this is bad. Why is it bad? Because crying is a natural function of the human organism which is designed to restore the emotionally disequilibrated person to a state of equilibrium 5. The return of the disequilibrated organ systems of the body to steady states or dynamic stability is known as homeostasis. Crying serves a homeostatic function for the organism as a whole. Any interference with homeostasis is likely to be damaging to the organism. And there is good reason to believe that the American males trained incapacity to cry is seriously damaging to him.
   
      It is unnecessary to cry whenever one wants to cry, but one should be able to cry when one ought to cry -- when one needs to cry. For to cry under certain emotionally disequilibrating conditions is necessary for the maintenance of health.
   
      To be human is to weep. The human species is the only one in the whole of animated 6 nature that sheds tears. The trained inability of any human being to weep is a lessening 7 of his capacity to be human -- a defect which usually goes deeper than the mere 8 inability to cry. And this, among other things, is what American parents -- with the best intentions in the world -- have achieved for the American male. It is very sad. If we feel like it, let us all have a good cry -- and clear our minds of those cobwebs of confusion which have for so long prevented us from understanding the natural necessity of crying.
   
   


 



1 dependence
n.依靠,依赖;信任,信赖;隶属
  • Doctors keep trying to break her dependence of the drug.医生们尽力使她戒除毒瘾。
  • He was freed from financial dependence on his parents.他在经济上摆脱了对父母的依赖。
2 disapprove
v.不赞成,不同意,不批准
  • I quite disapprove of his behaviour.我很不赞同他的行为。
  • She wants to train for the theatre but her parents disapprove.她想训练自己做戏剧演员,但她的父母不赞成。
3 devoted
adj.忠诚的,忠实的,热心的,献身于...的
  • He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
  • We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
4 permissible
adj.可允许的,许可的
  • Is smoking permissible in the theatre?在剧院里允许吸烟吗?
  • Delay is not permissible,even for a single day.不得延误,即使一日亦不可。
5 equilibrium
n.平衡,均衡,相称,均势,平静
  • Change in the world around us disturbs our inner equilibrium.我们周围世界的变化扰乱了我们内心的平静。
  • This is best expressed in the form of an equilibrium constant.这最好用平衡常数的形式来表示。
6 animated
adj.生气勃勃的,活跃的,愉快的
  • His observations gave rise to an animated and lively discussion.他的言论引起了一场气氛热烈而活跃的讨论。
  • We had an animated discussion over current events last evening.昨天晚上我们热烈地讨论时事。
7 lessening
减轻,减少,变小
  • So however much he earned, she spent it, her demands growing and lessening with his income. 祥子挣多少,她花多少,她的要求随着他的钱涨落。 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
  • The talks have resulted in a lessening of suspicion. 谈话消减了彼此的怀疑。
8 mere
adj.纯粹的;仅仅,只不过
  • That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
  • It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。
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a kickback
a walking skeleton
abstract data type
abuse ... authority
act of soil and water conservation
advisory opinions
altar-stone
aluminum rhodanate
amildar
anecdotive
arctic life zone
arteriae colica media
attery
auditor's comments
BLOCKING system
bonine
bookstaver
brainsickness
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character processing
chrisney
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compound hypergeometric distribution
condensing working
counter advertising
decline of production
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dibenzylamine
diethylene triamine pentoacetic acid
dorma
electrical drawing
electro-optical rectifier
elizabeth petrovna
enarmour
expiry
flat-conductor cable
great great grandson
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high-density graphite
hop over
immaculateness
impartial taxation
injector accelerator
Janus green
Kavir Desert
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lacrasia
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lounette
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nicknamed
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Panacur
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singularity of the universe
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Skærfjorden
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supplementary tone
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tranquilizing to relieve muscle spasm
transformation relation
transpinal
unedic
unrigged
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