Monkey Trial猴子審判

1、The Trial That Rocked the Worldpara. 26-28,羅美歡 潘思嫻,When the court adjourned, we found Daytons streets swarming with strangers. adjourn v. close a session or meeting for the day or for a time 休會(huì)，閉 會(huì)；延期swarm v. be filled or crowded; teem with充滿， 被擠滿(常與with連用),para. 26,Hawkerscried their wares on every

2、 corner. One shop announced: DARWIN IS RIGHT INSIDE. (This was J. R. Darwins everything to Wear Store.),hawker n. a person who hawks goods in the street; peddle；huckster(沿街叫賣的)小販,rhetorical device,DARWIN IS RIGHT - INSIDE : (pun) The author or the shop owner plays on the different meanings of the wo

3、rds. Darwin can refer to the English naturalist or to the shop owner, while right can mean correct or directly. So when one pauses before the dash, the sign means Darwin (the naturalist) is correct; yet when you read out the whole sign in one breath, it means the shop owner is directly inside.,One e

4、ntrepreneur rented a shop window to display an ape. entrepreneur n. a person who organizes and manages a business undertaking, assuming the risk for the sake of the profit 企業(yè)家 ape n. any of a family of large，tailless monkeys that can stand and walk in an almost erect position 猿,Spectators paid to ga

5、ze at it and ponder whether they might be related.,gaze v. look steadily for a period of time 凝視 ponder v. weigh mentally; think deeply about; consider carefully 默想；深思；考慮,paraphrase,rhetorical device,people had to pay in order to have a look at the ape and consider carefully whether they and the ape

6、s could have a common ancestor.,para. 27 The poor brute cowered in a corner with his hands over his eyes,a reporter noted, afraid it might be true. cower v. shrink and tremble，as from someones anger，threats，or blow (因別人發(fā)怒、威脅或打擊而)畏縮；發(fā)抖，哆嗦,rhetorical device,ridicule,The reporter wrote in an assumingly

7、 sympathetically way for the ape, bue the intention was to ridicule the foolishness of the fundamentalists. Even the ape shrank in fear when it realized that it might share the same ancestry with those irrational human beings.,H. L. Mencken wrote sulphurous dispatches sitting in his Pants with a tan

8、 blowing on him, and there was talk of running him out of town for referring to the local citizenry as yokels . sulphurous adj. violently emotional；heated；fiery 異常 激 動(dòng) 的；激烈的；暴怒的 dispatch n. a news story sent to a newspaper, radio station, etcas by a special reporter or news agency (特派記者或新聞社發(fā)給報(bào)社、電臺(tái) 的

9、)(新聞)電訊，電文，通訊 yokel n. a person living in a rural area；rustic；country bumpkin 貶鄉(xiāng)巴佬，土包子,para. 28,Twenty-two telegraphists were sending out 165,000 words a day on the trial. telegraphist n. someone who transmits messages by telegraph 報(bào)務(wù)員,休庭期間，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)戴頓鎮(zhèn)的街頭巷尾到處擠滿了陌生人，每個(gè)角落里都有一些小商小販在叫賣貨物。有家商店的招牌上寫道：達(dá)爾文：沒錯(cuò)就在里面。(這是小達(dá)爾文的服裝店。)還有一個(gè)承包商租了一個(gè)商店櫥窗來展出一只猿猴。有些人便花錢去觀看這只猿猴，并思量著自己是否可能與它有什么淵源。 “這只可憐的畜牲雙手捂住眼睛