西安交通大学研究生综合英语Ⅱ,书后习题答案

研究生综合英语Ⅱ 书后的课后题 答案解析

Unit 1

2.Vocabulary

(1) assortment (2) narcissistic (3) obsessively (4) slaying (5) legion (6) instilled (7) ingrained (8) hustled (9) stampede (10) qualms

3. Paraphrase

(1) But then it occurred to me that this particular Lent has been too lengthy. For the past decade or more, the pop psychologists who use book jackets rather than couches all were busy telling us that I am okay, you are okay and whatever we do is okay.

= But then it came to my mind that people have given up guilt for too long a time. During that period of time of about ten years or more, those welcome psychologists solved people‘s mental problems by writing books instead of giving clinical treatment. And they are trying to advocate the concept that nobody should feel guilty for anything.

(2) There was a popular notion, in fact, that selflove began by slaying one’s guilt. People all around us spent a great portion of the last decade trying to tune out guilt instead of decoding its message and learning what it was trying to tell us.

= In the past, it was commonly thought that to love himself, everyone should first give up his guilt. For the most part of the past ten years, people deliberately ignored the sense of guilt without understanding its meaning and significance.

(3) Furthermore, we did not want to join the legions who conquered their guilt en route to new depths of narcissistic rottenness.

= What‘s more, we would never be one of those who give up their guilt while becoming more and more deteriorated in excessive admiration of themselves.

(4) We know people who are paralyzed by irrational guilt. And we certainly don‘t want to be among them, or to shepherd our children into their flock.

= There are people who are tortured by unreasonable guilt. Of course we are not willing to be one of them or guide our children to be one of them.

(5) We are also particularly vulnerable to feelings of duty in a time of change. Today an older and ingrained sense of what we should do may conflict with a new one. In the gaps that open between what we once were taught and what we now believe grows a rich crop of guilt.

= In such a changeable world, our sense of duty is very likely to change our feeling. Now an old concept may conflict with a new one on what we should do. There is a great difference between our belief and the education we got, and that difference results in the sense of guilt.

(6) If guilt is a struggle between our acceptance of shoulds and shouldnots, it is a