Virtue and a fast Gun新概念英语课程讲解

Virtue and a fast Gun新概念英语课程讲解

　　Virtue and a fast Gun 美德与快抢手

　　William S. Hart was, perhaps, the greatest of all Western stars, for unlike Gary Cooper and John Wayne he appeared in nothing but Westerns. From 1914 to 1924 he was supreme and unchallenged. It was Hart who created the basic formula of the Western film, and devised the protagonist he played in every film he made, the good-bad man, the accidental, noble outlaw, or the honest but framed cowboy, or the sheriff made suspect by vicious gossip; in short, the individual in conflict with himself and his frontier environment.

　　Unlike most of his contemporaries in Hollywood, Hart actually 'knew something of the old West. He had lived in it as a child when it was already disappearing, and his hero was firmly rooted in his memories and experiences, and in both the history and the mythology of the vanished frontier. And although no period or place in American history has been more absurdly romanticized, myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena, the conflict between the individual and encroaching civilization.

　　Men accustomed to struggling for survival against the elements and Indian were bewildered by politicians, bankers and Business-men, and unhorsed by fences, laws and alien taboos. Hart's good-bad man was always an outsider, always one of the disinherited, and if he found it necessary to shoot a sheriff or rob a bank along the way, his early audiences found it easy to understand and forgive, especially when it was Hart who, in the end, overcame the attacking Indians. Audiences in the second decade of the twentieth century found it pleasant to escape to a time when life, though hard, was relatively simple. We still do; living in a world in which undeclared aggression, war, hypocrisy, chicanery, anarchy and impending immolation are part of our daily lives, we all want a code to live by.

　　New words and expressions 生词短语

　　supreme

　　super

　　a. 首屈一指

　　超级

　　supreme court 最高法院

　　supreme people’s court 最高人民法院

　　intermediate 中级

　　supremacy

　　n.首屈一指 male supremacy 大男子主义 male supremacist 大男子主义者

　　grey mare 胜过丈夫的妻子 second to none 最高的

　　India is second to China in population.

　　second to 仅次于

　　protagonist n.主角

　　antagonist 反面角色

　　leading role 主角

　　supporting role 配角

　　extra 跑龙套 starring 领街

　　outlaw

　　n.亡命徒

　　outlaws in the green wood 绿林好汉

　　brigand 地匪，流窜犯

　　highway man 打劫的

　　fake 假的

　　framed

　　sheriff

　　vicious

　　fake 假的

　　venomous 恶毒的 heinous 恶毒的

　　malicious 邪恶的

　　gossipn. 流言蜚语

　　rumor 谣言，传闻

　　It is rumored that he robbed the bank.

　　gossip monger 传谣言的人

　　in short

　　总之

　　n 环境

　　in brief /in a word 总之

　　environment

　　surrounding 环境

　　under the environment 在……情况下

　　environment makes man.环境造就人

　　vanished

　　arena

　　a.消失了的

　　n.竞技场

　　absurdlyad 荒诞的

　　amphitheater 圆形剧场

　　political arena 政治舞台

　　anarchy

　　monarchy

　　lawless

　　impending

　　code n.准则

　　n.混乱

　　君主制

　　adj.非法的

　　chaos

　　n. 混乱

　　n.骚乱

　　deliver 给

　　a.遭到陷害的

　　n.司法长官

　　a.恶毒的

　　bullflighting 斗牛

　　encroaching

　　encroach 侵犯

　　American culture is encroaching globally.

　　penetratin 渗入

　　His speeh is penetrating.

　　India

　　n.印第安人

　　bewilder vt.使手足无措

　　wilder 迷茫 baffle/muddle 迷乱的

　　dizzy 昏的

　　alien

　　disorient 使……失去方向

　　a. 外来的

　　a.渐渐渗入的

　　alien product 洋货

　　alien word 外来词

　　eg.sofa,jeep,café,coolie,kotow；

　　alienate v.远离

　　taboo

　　n.戒律

　　forbidden words

　　disinherit vt.剥求……的继承权

　　damn it

　　inherit 继承

　　inheritance 继承权

　　undeclareda.未经宣布的

　　hypocrisy n.伪善

　　hypocrite 伪君子

　　hypocritical 过于挑剔

　　chicanery n.诈骗

　　chicane

　　v.骗（以-ry 结尾的名词没有复数

　　如 machinery,pottery,jewelery

　　cheat,deceive,hoax

　　cheat 骗钱财

　　deceive one’s feelings

　　hoax:play trick(哄小孩)

　　chaotic adj.混乱

　　imminent 迫近的

　　sacrifice n. 祭祀品

　　turbulence

　　a.迫近的 approaching 靠近

　　immolate vt. 杀

　　immolation n.杀戮

　　Notes on the text 课文注释William s.Hart

　　William:first/given/Christian name

　　s.:middle name

　　Hart :last name

　　Western stars 西部片影星

　　for 因为

　　unlike 与……不同

　　appear in nothing but 仅仅出现于

　　nothing but 仅仅

　　He is nothing but liar.他是骗子。

　　He is anything but liar 他不是骗子

　　he is nothing but angry.他很生气

　　he is anyghing but angry.他不生气

　　Gary Cooper

　　Puritan 清教徒

　　comedy 喜剧

　　unchallenged=matchless

　　It was ……强调句式

　　1． vast west

　　2． Indians

　　3． hero.

　　devise=design

　　upright 正直

　　film maker 制片人

　　good-bad man 本质好，偶尔做坏事的人

　　tramp 流浪者

　　Chinese Amercian 美籍华人（根在前）

　　noble:1.rich

　　2.noble minded

　　out of impulse 一时冲动

　　cowherd/comman 牧童

　　suspect 嫌疑犯

　　He was made Chairman.他被选为主席

　　abuse power 滥用权力

　　rangy 落魄的人

　　minor figure 小人物

　　in short

　　in conflict with 与……有冲突

　　frontier 此处意思是广阔的西部

　　unwillingly

　　outsider 局外人

　　contemporary 同时代的人，当代的

　　modern 现代的

　　know sth. of 略有了解

　　关于“西部在消失”的背景常识

　　Jefferson

　　the declaration of Indepedence 独立宣言

　　Louisiana 路易斯安那

　　- 64 –

　　Mississippi 密西西比河

　　ambassador 大使

　　hire 租用

　　fight across 难以定夺

　　（将在外，君命有所不受）

　　gold rush 淘金热

　　hero 英雄

　　mythology 神话

　　although 让步状语从句

　　no……more……构成最高级

　　romanticized 此处指作成电影（浪漫化）

　　indelible effect 不可磨灭的印象

　　join hands=coexist 并存

　　solid basis 虚构

　　同位句

　　conflict 是 arena 的同位语

　　accustomed to 做后置定语

　　意思是 used to 习惯于

　　unhorsed 放弃戎马生涯

　　overcame 击退

　　comment 评论

　　relatively 相对的

　　do=find it pleasan

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