thedamnedhumanrace英文教案

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r. I was aware that many men who have accumulated more millions of money than they can ever use have shown a rabid hunger for more, and have not scrupled to cheat the ignorant and the helpless out of their poor savings in order to partially appease the appetite.（ para4)  3. Man is the only one who takes possession of revenge.  4. Man invented indecency, vulgarity and obscenity.  5. Man is soiledminded and he always covers himself.  6. Man is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. c) What effect do you think Mark Twain hopes to achieve with this mock seriousness? III. Detailed Reading 1) I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals”, and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. （ ） I have been studying the characteristics of the socalled lower animals in parison with those of man. The result of this study makes me, as a man, feel terribly ashamed.  traits and dispositions: characteristics。 features。 nature。 qualities。 personalities  humiliating: making me feel ashamed。 embarrassing。 mortifying  Notice the tongueincheek way the author expresses his ideas. He makes it sound as if he were conducting and reporting on the result of a scientific investigation. In other words, he is deliberately using a pompous style to achieve humor. 2) For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals and to name it the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals. Because the result of my study forces me to give up (to abandon) my loyalty to (firm belief in ) Darwin‟s theory of evolution and to change the theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals to the theory of the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.  to oblige sb to do sth: to force sb to do sth。 to make it necessary for sb to do sth  to renounce: to abandon or give up。 to reject or disown  allegiance: loyalty, esp. to a nation or a cause 3) … That is to say, I have subjected every postulate that presented itself to the crucial test of actual experiment. In other words, I have put every theory or hypothesis there is to the decisive test of actual experiment.  to subject sht/ sb to sth: to cause sb/sth to undergo or experience sth unpleasant or difficult and often for a long time, . They were subjected to very cruel tortures. The desertification subjected people living in that area to great hardships.  postulate: (fml) assumption。 theory。 hypothesis  that presented itself: that happens or exists, . when the opportunity presents itself you must seize it at once. 4) I It also seemed to suggest that the earl was descended from the anaconda, and had lost a good deal in the transition. Paragraph 3 It also seemed to show that the earl came from the anaconda and had lost a lot of the anaconda‟s good qualities in the process.  to be descended from sb: to be related to sb who lived a long time ago 5) I was aware that many men who have accumulated more millions of money than they can ever use have shown a rabid hunger for more, and have not scrupled to cheat the ignorant and the helpless out of their poor saving in order to partially appease that appetite. I knew that many men who have more money than they can ever use have shown a mad desire to get more, and they have not hesitated to cheat poor people and their few saving in order to satisfy that desire.  rabid: uncontrollable (Note: it is related to rabies, which is an acute, infectious and often fatal disease of dogs, also known as hydrophobia, transmitted by the bite of the infected animal)  to have not scrupled to do sth: to have not hesitated to do sth because of trouble conscience or embarrassment from moral considerations  to cheat sb out of sth: to trick or deceive sb in order to get an advantage, .  to cheat sb out of his money or job or land,etc  Compare: to talk sb out of sth。 to trick sb out of sth  the ignorant and helpless: the uneducated and powerless people。 the poor laboring people in general  to appease: to satisfy or relieve (hunger, thirst, desire, etc) 6) Cats are loose in their morals, but not consciously so. Man, in his descent from the cat, has brought the cat’s looseness with him but had left the unconsciousness behind—the saving grace which excuses the cat. Cats are immoral, but they do not know it. They just can‟t help it. Man has inherited cats‟ looseness, but not their innocence, which is what excuses the cat for its low morals.  to be loose in morals: immoral  the saving grace: the redeeming quality。 the quality that makes up for the generally negative characteristics. 1) Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity these are strictly confined to man。 he invented them. （ ） These are only man‟s problems. They are limited to man. They only happen to man 2) No Man is the Animal that。