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1、The Sad Young Man,.Explain how the meaning of the following sentences is affected when the italicized words are replaced with the words in brackets:,1.The booming of American industry,with its gigantic,roaring factories,its corporate impersonality,and its large-scale aggressiveness,no longer left an
2、y room for the code of polite behavior(flourishing)(aggression),flourish意为向很理想的状况发展或正处于 该状况,即发展的鼎盛时期。boom意为突然迅速地蓬勃发展。aggressiveness在这里指大胆积极的开拓进取。aggression指无故地攻击别人或喜欢争吵。,2.it released their inhibited violent energies which,after the shooting was over,were turned in both Europe and America to the des
3、truction of an obsolescent nineteenth-century society(obsolete),obsolete指废旧的,不再时兴,不再使用的。obsolescent指向废旧转变的,过渡的。,4.Those who were reluctant to serve in a foreign army talked excitedly about Preparedness(preparations),preparedness指有所准备的状态,preparations则指做准备的行动或过程。,6.Their energies had been whipped up a
4、nd their naivet destroyed by the war(innocence),naive指真正的单纯或没有人为的痕迹,但有时又含有愚蠢、缺乏社会知识的意思。innocent指无罪,不会耍花样,或不做、不想不道德的事。,8.there was little remedy for the sensitive mind but to emigrate to Europe.(migrate),migrate意为从一地区、一国家迁移到另一地区、另一国家。指人时,意为迁往外地定居,指动物时,意为出于气候原因 和食物供给等进行季节性迁移。emigrate和immigrate仅用于人,emigrate具体指人离开一个国家到另一个国家定居,THANK YOU,