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【英语语言学习】理发师与胡须

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On RN this is The Body Sphere, and I'm Amanda Smith.
Hey, would you go to a barber if you needed a tooth pulled or a limb amputated? Would you go to a surgeon for a haircut or a shave? Well, once upon a time you'd go to the same person for all of that.
In The Body Sphere: the age of the barber-surgeon.
And you'll meet a barber who even in the 1950s was similarly versatile1, not from Seville but Sicily.
Raimondo Gissara: Yes, I'm champion barber in Sicily. Barbiere, barbiere.
John Gissara: When I hear him talking to the older people and the stories, I can't believe, from pulling out people's teeth to…
Amanda Smith: Excuse me?
John Gissara: Yeah, you wouldn't go to a dentist, you'd go to the barber to have a tooth pulled out.
Raimondo Gissara: There used to be no injection, no nothing. With the little fine string, tie up there, to the teeth, put under the shoes, my shoes, pull it down like this…[laughs]…and the tooth's coming out!
Amanda Smith: And more from the tooth-pulling barber, and his son, later here in The Body Sphere.
Now, for 200 years, from the middle of the 16th to the middle of the 18th century in London, barbers and surgeons were in the same guild2 together, the Company of Barber-Surgeons.
Margaret Pelling: Effectively the barber-surgeons I think were in fact the general practitioners3 of their day.
Amanda Smith: Margaret Pelling is a medical historian at Oxford4 University.
Margaret Pelling: They did virtually everything, from looking after fairly cosmetic5 aspects of the body to what we would now regard as major operations like amputations, reducing dislocations, dealing6 with ulcers7 on the surface of the body. And, in particular, they had the major role in dealing with venereal disease, which was principally syphilis. Which in the 16th century was rampant8, and did really dreadful things to the whole of the body. And the physicians didn't want to touch it, really, literally9 as well as figuratively, and the barber-surgeons had charge of it.
Amanda Smith: Why the combination of barbers and surgeons?
Margaret Pelling: Well, there is an overlap10 in what they do. But there were always small, elite11 groups of surgeons, particularly in London, who didn't like the idea of being associated with the level of trade that barbers represented. Instead they wanted to be more like the physicians: again, a very small, elite group. So the surgeons were forever fighting to get away from the barbers. But in fact they were brought together in 1540 and they weren't separated until 1745.
Amanda Smith: So there were surgeons and there were barber-surgeons.
Margaret Pelling: Yes, although numerically there's no comparison. There were loads of barbers, barbers are ubiquitous, whereas the number of surgeons, like the number of academically qualified12 physicians, was extremely small and could in no way have met the actual demand.
Amanda Smith: The barber-surgeons were also, as I understand it, particularly known for bloodletting.
Margaret Pelling: Yes. Physicians, if they thought bloodletting was necessary, would never do it themselves. A surgeon or a barber-surgeon or a barber was always brought in to do that. And it was a regular thing: you know, it's springtime, you need to clear out the body, we all have ourselves bled to get us ready for the new season, as it were, if you were maintaining your health in the way that you should. But right up until the end of the 19th century, people did actually experience something like a sense of relief from bleeding. I mean, nothing that goes on that long, I think, lacks justification13 altogether, at least in terms of what the patient felt.
Amanda Smith: But it's the bloodletting that is where the barber's pole derives14 from; the blood and the bandages?
Margaret Pelling: Yes, the famous barber's pole. There are these sort of legends and stereotypes15, if I can call them that. The first record I think we have of them in London is the 16th century. And there are sort of literary asides about them being priapic, male, masculine sort of symbols. You know, they are a pole with a knob on top as it were. Whether the stripes on the barber's pole were actually to do with blood and bandaging…it's a moot16 point. Barbers certainly advertised by putting bowls of blood in their shop window. But you don't get many mentions of barber poles.
Amanda Smith: Well, presumably the barber-surgeons, as well as the surgery they did, also did cut your hair and shave your beard.
Margaret Pelling: And it's clear, I think, that barbers and barber-surgeons did all kinds of things which we would now regard as cosmetic. Now, admittedly, some of the things that we would think of as cosmetic were actually regarded then as medicinal, like brushing your hair a lot. But nonetheless they did things like picking ears, scraping teeth, dying hair and beards. There's even some evidence that they starched17 people's beards to make them stiffer. I mean, Elizabethans spent a lot of time thinking about how they would shape their beards, and there's no doubt that barbers were the people who did that.
Amanda Smith: Was the surgery done in the same place as the beard grooming18 and the hair cutting?
Margaret Pelling: Well, that is a good question. Again, there's very little evidence available but there are some pictures by Dutch genre19 painters which show a sort of curtain between two parts of a barber's shop. So that you might think, well, they wait in the front part and are treated in the back part. But there are other pictures which show those sort of operations not only going on in the same space, but people actually looking through the windows and watching them. So I think the idea of the private consultation20 was not something that was either developed or even expected at that time.
[Music: Muppets Barbershop Quartet]
Amanda Smith: Now, you'll recognise this as a barbershop quartet…well, the Muppets Barbershop Quartet doing 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'.
And this is The Body Sphere, with Amanda Smith and medical historian Margaret Pelling, talking about when barbers were surgeons: the London Company of Barber-Surgeons that operated from the 16th to the 18th century.
And Margaret, the barber-surgeons, as well as everything else they did they are associated with music, aren't they?
Margaret Pelling: They are indeed. Barber-surgeons not only taught their apprentices21 barber-surgery but they taught them music as well. It was regarded as part of what they needed to do. You also find numbers of barber-surgeons being singing men, and I'm very keen to explore this further because I'd like a link-up with the barbers shop quartet. Now, barbers shop quartet music, as it survives, does have a number of analogies with what I would regard as likely to have been happening in barbers' shops. What I haven't got for the earlier period is evidence of people standing22 around in barbers' shops singing. What there is evidence of, is people sitting in barber shops and playing musical instruments. You can see how it would also be functional23. A barber has something to do while he's waiting for customers, and if you were waiting in a barber's shop for your turn, if there was an instrument lying around you could go plunk-plunk and keep yourself occupied.
Amanda Smith: But I'm wondering also if this musical association is why barbers often appear as characters later, in 18th and 19th century operas.
Margaret Pelling: I think the opera connection is separate. I would regard there as being two types of barber. There's the shop barber that we've been talking about up till now pretty well, and then there's what I would call the henchman barber, the kind of body servant and the closest associate of a master. So it's part of the tradition of reflections on that kind of intimate master-servant relationship in the household rather than anything to do with the shop. But the henchman barber does become a tradition, if you like, particularly with Beaumarchais, whose work feeds in to the operas that you're probably thinking of by Mozart and Rossini. But there's also the henchman barber who, like with Don Quixote, is cynical24. Most henchman barbers are cynical about their masters because they know all about them.
[Music: Largo25 al factotum26, The Barber of Seville]
Amanda Smith: And Margaret Pelling is a senior research associate at Oxford University.
[Audio: Ray and John Gissara's barber shop]
Amanda Smith: So what style have you given him, Ray?
Raimondo Gissara: I've given him really the style, today's style, everybody do like this now. Everybody.
When I arrive in Australia, Australian haircut, short back and sides like an army haircut.
No speak English but by movement of my hands I understand exactly what the people want.
Amanda Smith: I'm in Kensington in the inner west of Melbourne at Jissara Hair, a salon27 that's been in the Gissara family for more than 60 years.
Raimondo Gissara: There you are, see? Nobody do a job like this, nobody!
Amanda Smith: Raimondo Gissara, fresh off the boat from Sicily, took it on in 1954. His son John runs the place these days.
You're not going to get a shave?
John Gissara: No. I like a little bit of growth, see? It's the fashion.
Amanda Smith: Now, Ray, there are photographs of you on the wall here, and you're wearing a white coat and a bow tie.
Raimondo Gissara: Yeah, that's the style that used to be…
Amanda Smith: I was hoping you'd be wearing your jacket and bow tie today.
Raimondo Gissara: Well, I dunno, people they reckon we look funny.
The town where I was born is Buccheri, provincia Syracusa, 1934. My father have a mill and make flour. And my father always say come and I show you the way you make flour. No, Dad, I don't like it.
John Gissara: He didn't like being on the farm, so he went into the town and became a barber.
Amanda Smith: So you were the Barber of Sicily!
Raimondo Gissara: Yes, I'm champion barber in Sicily! Barbiere, barbiere!
John Gissara: And then one day his dad said, 'You've got to go to Australia with your sister because she's getting married so we can't send her on her own, you have to chaperone her.'
Raimondo Gissara: I get on the boat in Messina. On the next day I got called from the captain of the boat. 'Mr Gissara, I know you are a professional hairdresser, we need a hairdresser in the salon here.' I said, 'Okay, no problem.' I started working, haircut and shave, haircut and shave. The captain pay me the wages, but the tip was tremendous, the tips. In a short time when I arrive in Port Melbourne here, I came out with big money.
John Gissara: Yeah, he was only supposed to be here for a few months till his sister settled down, and then leave.
Raimondo Gissara: Yes, I'd got tickets already to go back. My father said, 'It's a new country, have a look, what do you think, and come back.' When I arrive in Australia, I arrive with the money, I like the country and everything…forget about Italy!
John Gissara: And so while he was here he went for a walk up and down the street and found this little barber's shop, and I think the owner was Vic Willoughby if I remember correctly.
Raimondo Gissara: Yes, Mr Willoughby his name. He was about 39 years in these premises28. I said, 'You want to sell this business?' He said, 'Oh, yes. I want 2,000 pounds,' he said. 'I'll leave everything.' He used to sell cigarettes, he had three chairs…and I buy this premises.
I was 19 years old. Amazing.
1954, haircut three shilling and five pence was. Today, men's haircut $33. [Laughs]
John Gissara: Put the bowl on, that's the way…
Raimondo Gissara: Yeah, that's what I mean. When I came in Australia it used to be back and sides and a little bit of hair on the top.
John Gissara: It was very basic. He explains it like a bowl on top of your head. Whatever sticks out, shave it off.
Raimondo Gissara: Exactly. And slow, slowly I put in European haircut, and slow, slowly disappear this Australia short back and sides haircut. And today, everybody like a European haircut.
John Gissara: Really short, tapered29, clean, perfect cut. Razors around the edge.
Raimondo Gissara: The number one product was Brylcreem.
John Gissara: And you asked Dad about Brylcreem. He says, 'How much Brylcreem I sold!'
Raimondo Gissara: Between eight or ten dozen a week. Brylcreem was the number one hair cream. Beautiful!
Amanda Smith: So, John, what are some of your earliest memories of this place?
John Gissara: Oh, I've got good memories, because I used to come here after school, and barbers were very different then. He sold Panadol and laxatives and medicines, combs…and everyone used to come in and have their order. It was like going to the chemist. There weren't really supermarkets and chemists, you went to the barber's shop.
Amanda Smith: And what were the range of services your father did here?
John Gissara: From what I remember it was more barber, but when I hear him talking to the older people and the stories, I can't believe, from pulling out people's teeth to…
Amanda Smith: Ah, excuse me?
John Gissara: Yeah, pulling out teeth. You wouldn't go to a dentist, you'd go to the barber to have a tooth pulled out.
Raimondo Gissara: Yeah, used to be no injection, no nothing. With the little fine string. Tied it up to the teeth, put under the shoes, my shoes, pull it down like this! Ha! And the tooth's coming out. Before they say 'Ow!' the tooth's already on the string.'
Amanda Smith: Now, I also hear that you do the best cut-throat razor shave in town. It's a pity I'm not a man, you could have given me one.
Raimondo Gissara: Oh, don't talk about this because I feel really number one for shave. Young people they love to come, regular people, they come here for shave. They love it. What I'm doing: shave, second shave…two times shave, after shave lotion30, hot towel. Still I do it. With a cut-throat, yes.
John Gissara: There's a lot of younger generation but they haven't got the experience. As he says, when he learned barbering you had to go to the barber's shop to get a shave.
Raimondo Gissara: I used to shave my father two times a day, to learn with a cut-throat.
John Gissara: So he'd be doing shaves all day long, every day. So that's why he's very good at it and still is. He taught me. I'm good at it, but you can't compare his 60 years of experience to mine. He's just silky smooth. Unbelievable.
Amanda Smith: Well, you know, traditional barbers are making a big comeback. You see them all over town.
John Gissara: Yeah, definitely, and I'm glad. And when I look at my dad's pictures, the style that he did then is coming back now. And it's great that I know how to do that because it puts me right into the fashion, whereas the younger hairdressers are struggling with it, because that takes time to learn. You can't go and do a one-year course and expect to be able to cut hair like that. With a lady's haircut there's so much hair, you can hide the haircut a little bit. With a guy's short hair there's no hiding if you make a mistake, it's going to show. And right at the moment the beards are in and people are coming in and saying, 'Oh, do you do beard trims?' And we've got beard waxes now and all sorts of things. It's all the go, so yeah.
Amanda Smith: Well, you're now 80 years old?
Raimondo Gissara: Eighty-one on 13 June come.
Amanda Smith: Well, you still work here as a barber two days a week. How many haircuts do you think you've done over all these years?
Raimondo Gissara: Oh…I won't say a hundred but I'll say million.
Amanda Smith: Any thoughts of retiring from barbering?
Raimondo Gissara: No, don't talk about retiring because I love working here. I give this business to my son, my son is very happy bringing up the business exactly the way he wants to, a lady and men's hairdresser. But I still love to come and I come two days a week.
Amanda Smith: And cut hair.
Raimondo Gissara: And cut hair. And I shave.
Amanda Smith: Raimondo Gissara, along with his son John, at what's now known as Jissara Hair, formerly31 Ray's Hairdressing, in the Melbourne suburb of Kensington.
So, gents, are you bearded or clean-shaven? Yes, we're in a period right now of beardiness, amongst the hipster set at least. For a good 30 years or so, though, facial hair on men was very definitely un-fashionable, until you go back to the 1960s and '70s hirsute32 look. We're going to go way further back into the history of the beard, though, with Alun Withey. He's a British historian of medicine and the body, and joins us from Cardiff in Wales.
Alun, first of all, well, in the history of the beard, let's go back as far as the 16th century and Tudor England.
Alun Withey: Well the Tudor period is a very beardy period in history. You think of the archetypal images of that period, say Holbein's paintings, perhaps the most famous of all, of Henry VIII. Think of the big Tudor so-called spade beard, a big square outcrop of beard which is the sort of ultimate symbol of the Tudor man.
Amanda Smith: Well, you say that you can roughly identify a historical period by its facial hair, and, as you say, the Tudors favoured the spade beard. What about the Stuarts?
Alun Withey: In the 17th century everything becomes a little bit more elegant. The Stuart monarchy33, for example Charles I, he's got what's called the Van Dyke34 beard, which is the little pointy number on the chin and a little fey moustache. So the facial hair sort of gets smaller but more pointy and refined.
Amanda Smith: Nevertheless, a beard is an obvious sign of maleness. In this period that we're talking about though, 16th, 17th centuries, how is male facial hair thought of medically?
Alun Withey: That's a really interesting point, because it's actually conceived of as a form of bodily waste. Now, 17th century medicine is all about getting the bad things out of you. That explains why they do these mad things like purging35 and bloodletting and leeches36 and all the rest of it. In fact beard hair is essentially37 another form of that. It belongs to that category.
Amanda Smith: Let's move on to the 18th century, because that's interestingly an era of clean-shavenness, isn't it. Now, why was this?
Alun Withey: It's actually a very interesting question, because we don't really know. For some reason, all across Europe in the early part of the 18th century, men just start to lose their beards. It's been argued that the availability of better razors is part of it. That doesn't really happen until after the 1750s and beards are long gone by then. There are all sorts of other things going on; the Enlightenment and Enlightenment thought.
Amanda Smith: A face without a beard is a sort of open face. Does an open face suggest an open mind?
Alun Withey: Absolutely. It opens the face up to the world, literally. And it symbolises a mind that's open to these new ideas. This is a strong possibility for why the beard disappears. It's this smooth, elegant, refined model of manliness38.
Amanda Smith: Nevertheless, by the middle of the 19th century the beard is back, isn't it? Now, this was both the industrial age and the age of exploration. Are these factors in Victorian bewhiskerment?
Alun Withey: Absolutely. And, as you say, the beard comes back with an absolute vengeance39, the massive beards that we all associate with the Victorian period, by around 1850. A few reasons for this. One of them is Victorian explorers disappearing off to far-flung corners of the world, living amongst wild nature and letting their bodies become natural, in a sense.
And there's a whole new argument coming through about how beards are a natural symbol of male authority. So men start to use their beards and say, well look, God has given us this beard, we must be the stronger sex and therefore women, because you can't grow beards, we are in command here. Because they're God-given, how can you argue with it?
Amanda Smith: I mentioned the industrial age too, what about that?
Alun Withey: Yes, industrialisation is changing the way that particularly men are forced to work together. Rather than being small producers and having their own small businesses, big, multinational40 in effect, companies are coming through, large groups of men in one building together. And they have to get used to new types of authority, you know, having an immediate41 manager, having a big boss. This is quite a shock to men, it's not happened before. So it's a time of nervousness, and one thing that they tend to do is assert their masculinity in a very visible way, such as growing a beard.
Amanda Smith: That does make me think about the current age, but we'll get on to that. By the 1850s, health benefits were being attributed to beards, weren't they. What were the health benefits?
Alun Withey: Well, one line of argument runs that the beard is a filter against germs. It traps all the bad stuff before it can get into your nose and your throat and your windpipe. Because Victorians are newly obsessed42 with germs and sanitation43, and so the beard is a natural protectant.
Amanda Smith: Conversely, not being able to grow a thick, luscious44 beard during this period was considered a sign of ill-health; a weak, weedy chap.
Alun Withey: And in fact if you couldn't grow a beard, then there are ways and means that you try and bypass this. For example, a false beard made of goat's hair. I've even seen a patent in the British Library for a mechanical beard.
Amanda Smith: What's that?
Alun Withey: Well, exactly, I'm not quite sure how it works, but it seems to be a system of springs and this false moustache that fits and clips itself to the face somehow. I don't think it ever got to production, but the patent is fantastic.
Amanda Smith: Are there periods, though, when the beard has been considered unhealthy?
Alun Withey: Yeah, and in fact when beards are at their height there are some who are saying, well, hang on a minute, it makes no more sense to say the beard is a filter than it does to say that it acts as a nest of germs stuck to your face, you know, attracts germs and holds them there so you can breathe them in.
Amanda Smith: A germ magnet.
Alun Withey: A germ magnet, exactly. So some people even argue that they catch the bad vapours out of your breath as you exhale45, and cause you even more problems.
Amanda Smith: Well, what's clear from this conversation is that men's facial hair has not only changed in style but in meaning, regularly. Now, the most powerful recent example of this that I can think of is last year's Eurovision Song Contest winner. Would you care to comment?
Alun Withey: Yeah, I've got a sort of pet theory, as I look more back into history with when beards and facial hair become prominent, it quite often happens when masculinity is somehow an issue or a topic or under threat, being discussed in some way. We live in a world now where gender46 boundaries are increasingly being eroded47. We have same-sex marriages, transgender identities, so the gender boundaries are much looser than they used to be. And I think sometimes men get uncomfortable about this, and one way…in fact I would argue the only symbol of masculinity that a man can show in public, and at least not get arrested for, is the beard.
Amanda Smith: Yes, but what I'm talking about, with the Eurovision Song Contest last year, the winner, Conchita Wurst, is a transgender person with very feminine features and this full beard. So, effectively a kind of bearded lady. I found that astonishingly arresting and destabilising.
Alun Withey: Well, I think that's because the beard throws into much starker48 contrast. If she didn't have the beard…
Amanda Smith: It's a much more traditional transition.
Alun Withey: It's a more traditional transition. But when you add the beard in, it really confuses the gender identity, doesn't it. Because it's such a strong marker of masculinity, that to see a bearded man, dressed as a lady, with long hair, it really…yes, affects the balance.
Amanda Smith: Well, in this current time we're in of beardy fashion but also of short attention spans, I do have to ask you, have we reached peak beard?
Alun Withey: Well, actually it was being reported that we'd reached peak beard two years ago, and it seems to have gone from strength to strength. This current beard trend has already lasted longer than most have over the past years, because as you say, attention span and fashions change so quickly now. So it'll be interesting to see how long this lasts, but also what comes next. Beards, after all, involve decisions: whether you grow one, or you shave one off. And it's the motivations behind those decisions that tell us a lot.
Amanda Smith: And Alun Withey is an associate research fellow in the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter and a pogonophile, is that right?
Alun Withey: Definitely.
Amanda Smith: As I understand it is one who loves or studies beards, yeah?
Alun Withey: Absolutely. As opposed to a pogonophobe, who's afraid of them.
Amanda Smith: So are you a pogonophile or a pogonophobe? It would of course be absolutely delightful49 if you'd care to share your stories of beards, and barbers, from a male, female or transgender point of view. On the website, you can post a comment.
And this is the last program in the current season of The Body Sphere. Next week at this time, All In The Mind returns, and I'll be back with The Body Sphere in July.
[Excerpt from Sweeney Todd: The Demon50 Barber of Fleet Street]
Yes, another of the great musical barbers, Sweeney Todd, a demon with the cut-throat razor.

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1 versatile 4Lbzl     
adj.通用的,万用的;多才多艺的,多方面的
参考例句:
  • A versatile person is often good at a number of different things.多才多艺的人通常擅长许多种不同的事情。
  • He had been one of the game's most versatile athletes.他是这项运动中技术最全面的运动员之一。
2 guild 45qyy     
n.行会,同业公会,协会
参考例句:
  • He used to be a member of the Writers' Guild of America.他曾是美国作家协会的一员。
  • You had better incorporate the firm into your guild.你最好把这个公司并入你的行业协会。
3 practitioners 4f6cea6bb06753de69fd05e8adbf90a8     
n.习艺者,实习者( practitioner的名词复数 );从业者(尤指医师)
参考例句:
  • one of the greatest practitioners of science fiction 最了不起的科幻小说家之一
  • The technique is experimental, but the list of its practitioners is growing. 这种技术是试验性的,但是采用它的人正在增加。 来自辞典例句
4 Oxford Wmmz0a     
n.牛津(英国城市)
参考例句:
  • At present he has become a Professor of Chemistry at Oxford.他现在已是牛津大学的化学教授了。
  • This is where the road to Oxford joins the road to London.这是去牛津的路与去伦敦的路的汇合处。
5 cosmetic qYgz2     
n.化妆品;adj.化妆用的;装门面的;装饰性的
参考例句:
  • These changes are purely cosmetic.这些改变纯粹是装饰门面。
  • Laughter is the best cosmetic,so grin and wear it!微笑是最好的化妆品,所以请尽情微笑吧!
6 dealing NvjzWP     
n.经商方法,待人态度
参考例句:
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
7 ulcers CfBzhM     
n.溃疡( ulcer的名词复数 );腐烂物;道德败坏;腐败
参考例句:
  • Detachment of the dead cells produces erosions and ulcers. 死亡细胞的脱落,产生糜烂和溃疡。 来自辞典例句
  • 75% of postbulbar ulcers occur proximal to the duodenal papilla. 75%的球后溃疡发生在十二指肠乳头近侧。 来自辞典例句
8 rampant LAuzm     
adj.(植物)蔓生的;狂暴的,无约束的
参考例句:
  • Sickness was rampant in the area.该地区疾病蔓延。
  • You cannot allow children to rampant through the museum.你不能任由小孩子在博物馆里乱跑。
9 literally 28Wzv     
adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
参考例句:
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
10 overlap tKixw     
v.重叠,与…交叠;n.重叠
参考例句:
  • The overlap between the jacket and the trousers is not good.夹克和裤子重叠的部分不好看。
  • Tiles overlap each other.屋瓦相互叠盖。
11 elite CqzxN     
n.精英阶层;实力集团;adj.杰出的,卓越的
参考例句:
  • The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
  • We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。
12 qualified DCPyj     
adj.合格的,有资格的,胜任的,有限制的
参考例句:
  • He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
  • We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。
13 justification x32xQ     
n.正当的理由;辩解的理由
参考例句:
  • There's no justification for dividing the company into smaller units. 没有理由把公司划分成小单位。
  • In the young there is a justification for this feeling. 在年轻人中有这种感觉是有理由的。
14 derives c6c3177a6f731a3d743ccd3c53f3f460     
v.得到( derive的第三人称单数 );(从…中)得到获得;源于;(从…中)提取
参考例句:
  • English derives in the main from the common Germanic stock. 英语主要源于日耳曼语系。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He derives his income from freelance work. 他以自由职业获取收入。 来自《简明英汉词典》
15 stereotypes 1ff39410e7d7a101c62ac42c17e0df24     
n.老套,模式化的见解,有老一套固定想法的人( stereotype的名词复数 )v.把…模式化,使成陈规( stereotype的第三人称单数 )
参考例句:
  • Such jokes tend to reinforce racial stereotypes. 这样的笑话容易渲染种族偏见。
  • It makes me sick to read over such stereotypes devoid of content. 这种空洞无物的八股调,我看了就讨厌。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
16 moot x6Fza     
v.提出;adj.未决议的;n.大会;辩论会
参考例句:
  • The question mooted in the board meeting is still a moot point.那个在董事会上提出讨论的问题仍未决的。
  • The oil versus nuclear equation is largely moot.石油和核能之间的关系还很有争议。
17 starched 1adcdf50723145c17c3fb6015bbe818c     
adj.浆硬的,硬挺的,拘泥刻板的v.把(衣服、床单等)浆一浆( starch的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • My clothes are not starched enough. 我的衣服浆得不够硬。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The ruffles on his white shirt were starched and clean. 白衬衫的褶边浆过了,很干净。 来自辞典例句
18 grooming grooming     
n. 修饰, 美容,(动物)梳理毛发
参考例句:
  • You should always pay attention to personal grooming. 你应随时注意个人仪容。
  • We watched two apes grooming each other. 我们看两只猩猩在互相理毛。
19 genre ygPxi     
n.(文学、艺术等的)类型,体裁,风格
参考例句:
  • My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
  • Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看, 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。
20 consultation VZAyq     
n.咨询;商量;商议;会议
参考例句:
  • The company has promised wide consultation on its expansion plans.该公司允诺就其扩展计划广泛征求意见。
  • The scheme was developed in close consultation with the local community.该计划是在同当地社区密切磋商中逐渐形成的。
21 apprentices e0646768af2b65d716a2024e19b5f15e     
学徒,徒弟( apprentice的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • They were mere apprentices to piracy. 他们干海盗仅仅是嫩角儿。
  • He has two good apprentices working with him. 他身边有两个好徒弟。
22 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
参考例句:
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
23 functional 5hMxa     
adj.为实用而设计的,具备功能的,起作用的
参考例句:
  • The telephone was out of order,but is functional now.电话刚才坏了,但现在可以用了。
  • The furniture is not fancy,just functional.这些家具不是摆着好看的,只是为了实用。
24 cynical Dnbz9     
adj.(对人性或动机)怀疑的,不信世道向善的
参考例句:
  • The enormous difficulty makes him cynical about the feasibility of the idea.由于困难很大,他对这个主意是否可行持怀疑态度。
  • He was cynical that any good could come of democracy.他不相信民主会带来什么好处。
25 largo H90zb     
n.广板乐章;adj.缓慢的,宽广的;adv.缓慢地,宽广地
参考例句:
  • The tempo marking in most cases is andante,adagio,or largo.大多数第一乐章的速度标记是行板、柔板或广板。
  • The second movement is a largo.第二乐章是广板乐章。
26 factotum tlWxb     
n.杂役;听差
参考例句:
  • We need a factotum to take care of the workshop.我们需要一个杂役来负责车间的事情。
  • I was employed as housekeeper,nanny,and general factotum.我是管家、保姆和总勤杂工。
27 salon VjTz2Z     
n.[法]沙龙;客厅;营业性的高级服务室
参考例句:
  • Do you go to the hairdresser or beauty salon more than twice a week?你每周去美容院或美容沙龙多过两次吗?
  • You can hear a lot of dirt at a salon.你在沙龙上会听到很多流言蜚语。
28 premises 6l1zWN     
n.建筑物,房屋
参考例句:
  • According to the rules,no alcohol can be consumed on the premises.按照规定,场内不准饮酒。
  • All repairs are done on the premises and not put out.全部修缮都在家里进行,不用送到外面去做。
29 tapered 4c6737890eeff46eb8dd48dc0b94b563     
adj. 锥形的,尖削的,楔形的,渐缩的,斜的 动词taper的过去式和过去分词
参考例句:
  • The tail tapered to a rounded tip. 尾部越来越细,最后成了个圆尖。
  • The organization tapered off in about half a year. 那个组织大约半年内就逐渐消失了。
30 lotion w3zyV     
n.洗剂
参考例句:
  • The lotion should be applied sparingly to the skin.这种洗液应均匀地涂在皮肤上。
  • She lubricates her hands with a lotion.她用一种洗剂来滑润她的手。
31 formerly ni3x9     
adv.从前,以前
参考例句:
  • We now enjoy these comforts of which formerly we had only heard.我们现在享受到了过去只是听说过的那些舒适条件。
  • This boat was formerly used on the rivers of China.这船从前航行在中国内河里。
32 hirsute RlryY     
adj.多毛的
参考例句:
  • He was wearing shorts which showed his long,muscular,hirsute legs.他穿着短裤,露出自己强壮多毛的长腿。
  • You're looking very hirsute,Richard are you growing a beard?理查德,瞧你一脸的胡子--是不是在留胡子了?
33 monarchy e6Azi     
n.君主,最高统治者;君主政体,君主国
参考例句:
  • The monarchy in England plays an important role in British culture.英格兰的君主政体在英国文化中起重要作用。
  • The power of the monarchy in Britain today is more symbolical than real.今日英国君主的权力多为象徵性的,无甚实际意义。
34 dyke 1krzI     
n.堤,水坝,排水沟
参考例句:
  • If one sheep leap over the dyke,all the rest will follow.一只羊跳过沟,其余的羊也跟着跳。
  • One ant-hole may cause the collapse of a thousand-li dyke.千里长堤,溃于蚁穴。
35 purging 832cd742d18664512602b0ae7fec22be     
清洗; 清除; 净化; 洗炉
参考例句:
  • You learned the dry-mouthed, fear-purged, purging ecstasy of battle. 你体会到战斗中那种使人嘴巴发干的,战胜了恐惧并排除其他杂念的狂喜。
  • Purging databases, configuring, and making other exceptional requests might fall into this category. 比如清空数据库、配置,以及其他特别的请求等都属于这个类别。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
36 leeches 1719980de08011881ae8f13c90baaa92     
n.水蛭( leech的名词复数 );蚂蟥;榨取他人脂膏者;医生
参考例句:
  • The usurers are leeches;they have drained us dry. 高利贷者是吸血鬼,他们吸干了我们的血汗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Does it run in the genes to live as leeches? 你们家是不是遗传的,都以欺压别人为生? 来自电影对白
37 essentially nntxw     
adv.本质上,实质上,基本上
参考例句:
  • Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
  • She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。
38 manliness 8212c0384b8e200519825a99755ad0bc     
刚毅
参考例句:
  • She was really fond of his strength, his wholesome looks, his manliness. 她真喜欢他的坚强,他那健康的容貌,他的男子气概。
  • His confidence, his manliness and bravery, turn his wit into wisdom. 他的自信、男子气概和勇敢将他的风趣变为智慧。
39 vengeance wL6zs     
n.报复,报仇,复仇
参考例句:
  • He swore vengeance against the men who murdered his father.他发誓要向那些杀害他父亲的人报仇。
  • For years he brooded vengeance.多年来他一直在盘算报仇。
40 multinational FnrzdL     
adj.多国的,多种国籍的;n.多国籍公司,跨国公司
参考例句:
  • The firm was taken over by a multinational consulting firm.这家公司被一个跨国咨询公司收购。
  • He analyzed the relationship between multinational corporations and under-developed countries.他分析了跨国公司和不发达国家之间的关系。
41 immediate aapxh     
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
参考例句:
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
42 obsessed 66a4be1417f7cf074208a6d81c8f3384     
adj.心神不宁的,鬼迷心窍的,沉迷的
参考例句:
  • He's obsessed by computers. 他迷上了电脑。
  • The fear of death obsessed him throughout his old life. 他晚年一直受着死亡恐惧的困扰。
43 sanitation GYgxE     
n.公共卫生,环境卫生,卫生设备
参考例句:
  • The location is exceptionally poor,viewed from the sanitation point.从卫生角度来看,这个地段非常糟糕。
  • Many illnesses are the result,f inadequate sanitation.许多疾病都来源于不健全的卫生设施。
44 luscious 927yw     
adj.美味的;芬芳的;肉感的,引与性欲的
参考例句:
  • The watermelon was very luscious.Everyone wanted another slice.西瓜很可口,每个人都想再来一片。
  • What I like most about Gabby is her luscious lips!我最喜欢的是盖比那性感饱满的双唇!
45 exhale Zhkzo     
v.呼气,散出,吐出,蒸发
参考例句:
  • Sweet odours exhale from flowers.花儿散发出花香。
  • Wade exhaled a cloud of smoke and coughed.韦德吐出一口烟,然后咳嗽起来。
46 gender slSyD     
n.(生理上的)性,(名词、代词等的)性
参考例句:
  • French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语,所有的名词都有性。
  • Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。
47 eroded f1d64e7cb6e68a5e1444e173c24e672e     
adj. 被侵蚀的,有蚀痕的 动词erode的过去式和过去分词形式
参考例句:
  • The cliff face has been steadily eroded by the sea. 峭壁表面逐渐被海水侵蚀。
  • The stream eroded a channel in the solid rock. 小溪在硬石中侵蚀成一条水道。
48 starker f9387f74109f271490a87cdf77896afc     
(指区别)明显的( stark的比较级 ); 完全的; 了无修饰的; 僵硬的
参考例句:
  • As night falls, the contrast between these worlds grows starker. 随着夜幕的降临,两个世界的对比更为鲜明。
  • What's more, compared with 1992, voters face a starker economic choice. 另外,跟1992年相比,选民面临着一种更为刻板的经济选择。
49 delightful 6xzxT     
adj.令人高兴的,使人快乐的
参考例句:
  • We had a delightful time by the seashore last Sunday.上星期天我们在海滨玩得真痛快。
  • Peter played a delightful melody on his flute.彼得用笛子吹奏了一支欢快的曲子。
50 demon Wmdyj     
n.魔鬼,恶魔
参考例句:
  • The demon of greed ruined the miser's happiness.贪得无厌的恶习毁掉了那个守财奴的幸福。
  • He has been possessed by the demon of disease for years.他多年来病魔缠身。
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