时间:2018-12-29 作者:英语课 分类:新视野听说教程2


英语课

   Judge by Appearances

A standard criticism of sociological research is that it goes to great lengths to prove what most people with common sense already know. Without exactly taking sides for or against that criticism ,Iwant to describe a sociological exercise that might seem to validate 1 it--exceptthat, for me and a classmate (and maybe for some who read this account),the experience made a common claim come alive.

During spring break from a local colllege,my friend and I went downtown to shop.First, however ,we made ourselves virtually unrecognizable to our friends and even to our famliies.We wore a faded cotton shirt over a T-shirtand a wrinkled skirt over sweat pants.Iwore a wool hat that concealed 2 my hair and an unfashionable coat and glasses with sunshades that clipped on.

The aim was to look like street people and to observe what difference that made in the way other people responded to us.We were also prepared to act out some mildly unusual behaviors that might speak of some emotional problems,without appearing seriously disturbed or dangerous,As it turned out,there was no need for dramatics;people turned us off or turned us out on the basis of appearance alone.

Our first stop (after parking our cars near the railroad tracks)was in the bargain store of a local charity,where we politely asked access to a bathroom and were refused.Next we entered the lobby of a large hotel,where we asked for a coffee shhop and a bathroom.The doorman said,"you must go to the twentieth floor."We weren't up to trying our act at an exclusiverestaurant,so we wandered around the first floor and left.From there we went to a second-hand 3 shop,where we more or less blended with the customers, and then to the upper-scale stores and coffee shops during the lunch hour.

It was predudice time. Some of the children we encountered stared, pointed 4, and laughed; adults gave ue long, doubting looks. Clerks in stores followed our track to watch our every move. In a lunchroom a second assistant hurried to the side of the cashier, where they took my $2 checkwithout askingfor ID; it seemed worth that price to have us out the door. At one doorway 5 a clerk physically 6 blocked the entrance apparently 7 to discourage our entry.

We had money to cover small purchases, and , apart from wearing downscale clothing, we did nothing in any of these settings to draw attention to ourselves; we merely shopped quietly in our acccustomed manner. At one establishment we did blow our cover when we ordered French rolls with two special coffees; that may have been too far out of character for"bag ladies". Elsewhere we encountered ribbing, imitating, lack of trust, and rude stares.

So what did we learn? Mostly what everybody knows:People judge by appearences. Just looking poor brings with it prejudice, accompanied by removal of much of the social grated. Laking the culturally acceptable symbols of belonging in this setting, we became, to a degree, objects, with less inherent dignity as persons.

There was, however, one surprise--more accurately 8, a shoke. It became clear most stronfly at the shop I mentioned earlier, the one where a clerk conspicuously 9 positioned herself in the entrance on seeing ua. I had just noticed the place and had turned to my companion, saying,"I've never seen thie store. Let's go in."She looked at me with alarm;"You're not really going there, are you?"

I knew what she meant and shared her feeling. The place felt out of bounds for us. In a very few hours, we found ourselves acceping and internalizing the superficial and prejudiced judgments 10 of ourselves that prevailed among the people we meet; we catalogued ourselves. Undoubtedly 11, it's a good lesson to learn, maybe especially for sociologists.



vt.(法律)使有效,使生效
  • You need an official signature to validate the order.你要有正式的签字,这张汇票才能生效。
  • In order to validate the agreement,both parties sign it.为使协议有效,双方在上面签了字。
a.隐藏的,隐蔽的
  • The paintings were concealed beneath a thick layer of plaster. 那些画被隐藏在厚厚的灰泥层下面。
  • I think he had a gun concealed about his person. 我认为他当时身上藏有一支枪。
adj.用过的,旧的,二手的
  • I got this book by chance at a second-hand bookshop.我赶巧在一家旧书店里买到这本书。
  • They will put all these second-hand goods up for sale.他们将把这些旧货全部公开出售。
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
n.门口,(喻)入门;门路,途径
  • They huddled in the shop doorway to shelter from the rain.他们挤在商店门口躲雨。
  • Mary suddenly appeared in the doorway.玛丽突然出现在门口。
adj.物质上,体格上,身体上,按自然规律
  • He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服,心绪也很乱。
  • Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
adv.准确地,精确地
  • It is hard to hit the ball accurately.准确地击中球很难。
  • Now scientists can forecast the weather accurately.现在科学家们能准确地预报天气。
ad.明显地,惹人注目地
  • France remained a conspicuously uneasy country. 法国依然是个明显不太平的国家。
  • She figured conspicuously in the public debate on the issue. 她在该问题的公开辩论中很引人注目。
判断( judgment的名词复数 ); 鉴定; 评价; 审判
  • A peculiar austerity marked his judgments of modern life. 他对现代生活的批评带着一种特殊的苛刻。
  • He is swift with his judgments. 他判断迅速。
adv.确实地,无疑地
  • It is undoubtedly she who has said that.这话明明是她说的。
  • He is undoubtedly the pride of China.毫无疑问他是中国的骄傲。
学英语单词
added circuit
administration board
albuminizes
Ambodiatafana
ammonium and ammonia in soils
angle of brush lead
antimycobacterial
automatic book block production line
autumnal
Azomonas
baldassares
Bazhen Pills
big-character
byte
carpodacus mexicanuss
Chaetoseris ciliata
Christmas-tree installation
code of Hammarabi
Congo red butter
cranio-facial fibrous proliferation
cytoplasmic island
dental vein (or inferior alveoler vein)
dilating pain
Dilleniales
direct current ring
direct radiation proximity indicator
domestic climatology
done a good job
drop ... a line
dusts
effaces
eglumine
engineering design
Estracyt
fabrication facilities
fall into a good berth
forced air-cooled transformer
fractional banking
full endoresment
fux
gargal
give a leg-up
Grande, Salar
gum line
hardbacks
head product
horse gram
ice flow control
in surprise
induced crystallization
interrupted development
learner driver
ljungberg
lucubrations
menstrual cups
meterbridge
methyl-2-benzimidazolecarbamate
miaou
minimise
mixed information structure
mlsc
most-like
Nahuatlisms
nbcw
null objects
Oenus
off-routes
path-generating mechanism
pearly shampoo
periodic volcano
physiological conditions
Plimsoll lines
polyoncosis
poor man('s)
procurement authorization application
puccinia caricis-urelytra
pur sang
quebecers
randomicity
residual gravity anomaly
restricted-hour tariff
retrogradism
rubeola
salamanders
second hand clothes
shrimp culture
shudders at
sidies
single arm davit
single-cross
Sofians
ST_animal-anatomy_the-buttocks
suIfonyl
target data inventory
tharses
thermal-protective coating
thorium fluoride
unimplicate
volumetric filler
waste gas tube
weak-interaction physics
zone of influence