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1、 新概念英语第四册 Lesson24：BeatuyBeatuy美first listen and then answer the following question.听录音，然后答复以下问题。点击这里翻开录音what do glimpses of beauty, either in nature or art, often suggest to the human mind?a young man sees a sunset and, unable to understand or to express the emotion that it rouses in him, concludes
2、 that it must be the gateway to world that lies beyond. it is difficult for any of us in moments of intense aesthetic experience to resist the suggestion that we are catching a glimpse of a light that shines down to us from a different realm of existence, different and, because the experience is int
3、ensely moving, in some way higher. and, though the gleams blind and dazzle, yet do they convey a hint of beauty and serenity greater than we have known or imagined. greater too than we can describe; for language, which was invented to convey the meanings of this world, cannot readily be fitted to th
4、e uses of another.that all great has this power of suggesting a world beyond is undeniable. in some moods, nature shares it. there is no sky in june so blue that it does not point forward to a bluer, no sunset so beautiful that it does not waken the vision of a greater beauty, a vision which passes
5、before it is fully glimpsed, and in passing leaves and indefinable longing and regret. but, if this world is not merely a bad joke, life a vulgar flare amid the cool radiance of the stars, and existence an empty laugh braying across the mysteries; if these intimations of a something behind and beyon
6、d are not evil humour born of indigestion, or whimsies sent by the devil to mock and madden us. if, in a word, beauty means something, yet we must not seek to interpret the meaning. if we glimpse the unutterable, it is unwise to try to utter it, nor should we seek to invest with significance that wh
7、ich we cannot grasp. beauty in terms of our human meanings is meaningless.c.e.m.joad pieces of mindnew words and expressions 生词和短语intenseadj. 剧烈的aestheticadj. 审美的realmn. 世界serenityn. 静谧undeniableadj. 不行否认的indefinableadj. 模糊不清的vulgaradj. 平凡的radiancen. 发光intimationn. 示意unutterableadj. 不行言传的investv. 给予
8、参考译文一个年轻人看到日落，由于无法理解和表达日落在他心中唤起的激情，便得出结论：日落处想必是通往遥远世界的大门。无论是谁，在剧烈感受到美的时刻，心中都不禁油生一种遐想：我们好像瞥见从另一个世界射向我们的一线光线，那个世界不仅不同于我们这个世界，而且由于美感的剧烈感染，在某些方面比我们这个世界更美妙。虽然这光线令人眼花缭乱，但它的确赐予我们一种不曾经受和无法想象的美感和静谧的启发。这种美感和静谧是我们无法描述的，由于我们创造的语言是用来描述这个世界的含义，不能任凭拿来去描述另一个世界。不行否认，一切宏大的艺术都具有使人遐想到进入天外世界的魅力。在某种状态下，大自然也有这种魅力。六月蔚蓝的天空总使人遥想一个更加蔚蓝的苍穹;漂亮的落日总会引起一个更加绚丽的景象未及饱览便一闪即逝，并在消逝中给人留下不行名状的渴望和惆怅。假如这个世界不只是一个拙劣的恶作剧，假如人生不只是群星寒光中平凡的一闪，假如存在不只是对神奇事物的一种空虚的笑声，假如某种玄妙事物的示意不是消化不良引起的邪恶心情，也不是魔鬼为了戏弄我们，使我们发狂而送给我们的邪念，一句话，假如美有某种意义的话，我闪千万不要去说明它的意义。假如我瞥见了只可意会不行言传的事物，企图把它说出来，那上不明智的;对于我们不理解的事物，我们也不应当去给予它某种意义。用对我们人类有意义的词解释美是没有意义的。
