现代大学英语精读5课后解释与翻译Lesson 10

In our memory, the pre-September 11 world was peaceful, happy and safe (although it was the case) and we will talk about those days with a feeling of deep respect and love which can only be found in talking about dead people.

2. In order to win the war, we might have to give up some of the basic values and liberties we treasure most. This might be the cost we have to pay.

3. They are planning to carry out the plan of expanding the power of law enforcement agencies at home and of striking at the “axis of evil” abroad so as to extend American domination into areas originally beyond American reach, such as Central Asia. Hence, the colonization of the future.

4. … which takes for granted that people think in a simple and uniform way while actually the feelings, thoughts and views of the American people are as varied as America itself.

5. The terrorist attacks put us at the bottom of the hierarchy of human needs, trying hard to re-establish our confidence in physical safety, the lowest type of safety.

6. We are used to thinking that Western democracies practice rule of law and individual rights and freedom are protected by law. Violation of individual rights and suppression of dissenting voices can only be found in repressive regimes.

7. People began to put less emphasis on the pursuit of wealth and possession of worldly goods. And the other two dangerous symptoms that went with materialism, that is physical separation from other and irrational behavior as a result of impulse, also became less serious. Materialism, together with the accompanying symptoms of separation and compulsion, had been the cause of the ruin of community in this country.

8. … at a time when it is highly important for Americans to look into ourselves and ask ourselves why “they hate us”, this concept directs our attention and thinking away from such analysis.

9. … history records many crimes committed by human beings which are so horrible that they defy description.

10. In spite of the fact that these images are horrible images, images of large-scale atrocity, we still take care to keep alive these images.

于是纽约扬基体育场上空的空域关闭，禁止飞机通过。在体育场的屋顶上，部属了一排阻击手。

2. 副总统的保卫人员匆匆地把他从一个地方转移至另外一个地方，就像他那难以对付的死敌奥斯玛。本。拉登可能在世界的另一端从一个山洞转移到另一个山洞一样。

3. 带着惆怅的心情，我们目送怀念的小筏载着911前的世界，在一种怀旧的暗淡色彩中漂流而去。

4. 为了寻找安慰，整个国家都用国旗裹妆起来，就像一个小孩披上超人的斗篷，扮演无敌英雄。

5. 没有什么地方看不到星条旗。

6．但我们中许多人是用这些个人权力来定义个人安全和民族性的。

7． 每次，危机似乎都肯定会产生一种新的模式，使这种暴行永远不会再发生 ―――然而暴行又一次发生了。

8． “组成这个国家的人民有多强大，这个国家就多强大；人们希望国家如何发展，国家就会如何发展，”詹姆斯。鲍德温写道。“我们使我们居住的世界成了这个样子，我们有必要重造这个世界。”