新概念英语Lesson 47 Plato Today-第四册笔记新版

新概念英语（第二版第四册）新概念英语Lesson 47
新概念英语Lesson 47 Plato Today
今日 Plato
The modern Plato, like his ancient counterpart, has an unbounded contempt for oliticians and
statesmen and party leaders who are not university men. He finds politics a dirty game, and only
enters them reluctantly because he knows that at the very least he and his friends are better than the
present gang. Brought up in the traditions of the ruling classes, he has a natural pity for the
common people whom he has learnt to know as servants, and observed from a distance at their
work in the factory, at their play in the parks and holiday resorts. He has never mixed with them or
spoken to them on equal terms, but has demanded and generally received a respect due to his
position and superior intelligence. He knows that if they trust him, he can give them the Happiness
which they crave. A man of culture, he genuinely despises the self-made industrialist and
newspaper-king: with a modest professional salary and a little private income of his own, he
regards money-making as vulgar and avoids all ostentation. Industry and finance seem to him to be
activities unworthy of gentlemen, although, alas, many are forced by exigencies of circumstance to
take some part in them. intellectual, he gently laughs at the superstitions of most Christians, but
attends church regularly because he sees the importance of organized religion for the maintenance
of sound morality among the lower orders, and because he dislikes the scepticism and materialism
of radical teachers. His genuine passions are for literature and the philosophy of science and he
would gladly spend all his time in studying them. But the plight of the world compels his unwilling
attention, and when he sees that human stupidity and greed are about to plunge Europe into chaos
and destroy the most glorious civilization which the world has known, he feels that it is high time
for men of good sense and good will to intervene and to take politics out of the hands of the
plutocrats of the Right and the woolly-minded idealists of the Left. Since he and his kind are the
only representatives of decency combined with intelligence, they must step down into the arena
and save the masses for themselves.
New words and expressions 生词短语
1．Plato 柏拉图 Platonic love: friendship between woman and man of mind and spirit
2．counterpart 相对立的人
3．Resort 度假胜地 retreat 胜地 summer resort 避暑山 health resort 疗养胜地 spot 胜地
4．mix 相混合 He mixes well./ He is a good mixer.他左右逢源。
5．Crave 混合 crave for fresh air 渴望新鲜空气 craving 贪婪
6．Genuinely 真正的
genuine=pure 纯正的 real=true 真的authentic 正宗的，真品Sincere 真诚
7.vulgar 粗陋的

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新概念英语（第二版第四册）新概念英语Lesson 47
8.ostentation 卖弄、炫耀 ostentatious adj pretentious adj showy adj flashy adj
9.alas 哎呀 10.exigency 紧迫 emergency 紧迫，急诊
11．Christian 基督教徒 Christianity 基督教 Christ 基督 Islam/Moslem 伊斯兰教
Buddhism 佛教Buddha 如来佛
12.religion 宗教 religious 宗教的 13.morality 道德 moral 道德
14．Scepticism 怀疑论
15.materialism 唯物主义 materialist 务实者，唯物主义者 idealist 理想主义者，唯心者
dialectical materialism 辩证唯物主义 historical materialism 历史唯物主义
16.radical 激进的
17.plight 困境trap/plunge/sink into plight 陷入困境 dilemma 左右为难的
18.greed 贪婪avaricious 贪婪的 insatiable 不知足的
19.plunge 使陷入 I plunge myself into poverty 我陷入贫困
Gambling plunged him into failure in Business.赌博使他陷入商业失败的境地。
20.chaos 混乱 chaotic 混乱的 anarchy 无政府状态 lawlessness 无法无天 bedlam 疯人院
21.plutocrat 富豪 Pluto 冥王星
22.the Right 右翼 the Left 左翼 rightist 右派 leftist 左派
23.decency 体面 decent 体面的for the seek of decency 为了面子
Notes on the text 课文注释
1.the modern Plato :the person who is like Plato in our modern society.
2.stateman 政治家 plitician 政客
3.A university is a place where those woo hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who
pursue truth who strike to make others see.
大学是憎恶无知的人求知之所,是寻求真理的人诲人之处.
4.them :political activities.
5.at the very least 说句公道话
6.gang :group of people 在英文中,一般无褒义.
7.bring up:bring sb. upgrow up
8.on equal terms 平等的地位on speaking terms 平等条件下
They keep good terms with each other.
The two neighbors are not on borrowing term.这两个邻居从不来往
9.newspaper-king 报业巨子10.modest 适当的
11.sound:good,healthy12.teacher=advocator 说教者
13.genuine passions 一种热切的激情14.compet=win
15be about to do: do sth very soon16.high time =good time 早就该
17.intervene 干涉18.mob 乌合之众19.arena 舞台
20.课文短语
unbound contempt for sba natural pity
on equal termssuperior intelligence
a man of cultureself-made industrialist
newspaper-kingunworthy of gentlemen
plunge intohigh time
man of good sensehis kind
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