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15篇文章贯通六级词汇Unit08-Part2

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[00:00.00]One could only imagine
[00:03.26]how the Chinese must have felt
[00:05.34]at the turn of the century.
[00:06.88]Could any American imagine a scenario1
[00:10.71]of the shoe being on
[00:12.13]the other foot (putting themselves
[00:14.31]in the place of the Chinese)?
[00:16.39]How would Americans have felt
[00:19.24]if Chinese gunboats patrolled
[00:21.97]the Mississippi River up to St. Louis,
[00:24.71]a major city in the heart
[00:26.79]of America? What if the Chinese
[00:29.63]could come and go anywhere
[00:31.38]in the United States, being
[00:33.35]completely immune to all American laws.
[00:37.30]Could Americans accept Chinatown
[00:40.75]in Boston of San Francisco
[00:42.94]being under Chinese law, and
[00:45.89]displaying signs with such captions2
[00:47.53]as “No Americans or dogs allowed”?
[00:50.81]What if Manhattan Island and California
[00:54.64]were annexed3 by China? Would Americans
[00:58.58]tolerate their own officials
[01:00.44]being in collusion with, and being
[01:02.95]bribed by Chinese authorities,
[01:05.25]to let all of above to
[01:07.88]take place? One would think not.
[01:10.95]Is it any wonder that
[01:14.22]imperialism had become such
[01:15.97]an abominable4 term to the Chinese people?
[01:19.15]The Chinese have made some
[01:22.32]conscientious attempts to fight back,
[01:24.84]in efforts to defy foreign presence
[01:27.68]in China, but without much support
[01:30.20]during the slack reign5 of
[01:32.38]the Qing Emperor and the Dowager Empress.
[01:35.77]The Imperial family, for so long,
[01:39.06]had been extremely self?indulgent.
[01:42.02]It paid little attention
[01:44.31]to the realities of what
[01:46.37]was happening inside China.
[01:48.33]For so long, the nation's policies
[01:51.84]revolved around the whims6 of
[01:53.81]the Imperial Family.
[01:56.44]With reliance on its own resources,
[01:59.82]a secret society, called the Order
[02:03.54]of Literary Patriotic7 Harmonious8 Fists,
[02:07.16]made one last desperate attempt
[02:09.78]at revenge, to rid the country
[02:12.30]of foreigners. In 1900, these Boxers9
[02:16.57]as they were called, stubbornly engaged
[02:19.51]the foreign powers in conflict.
[02:22.14]The former tore up railway tracks,
[02:25.31]attacked Chinese Christians10, besieged11
[02:28.93]foreign delegations12, and eventually
[02:31.45]slaughtered over three hundred foreigners.
[02:34.29]The Americans collaborated13 with the Japanese,
[02:37.90]consolidated forces and easily overwhelmed
[02:41.95]the Boxers. The latter crumbled14
[02:45.34]under the pressure of foreign superiority
[02:47.85]and its own deficiencies in equipment
[02:50.70]and organization. The victors placed
[02:54.38]severe controls on the crippled
[02:56.13]Chinese Government and imposed heavy indemnities15
[03:00.72]of billions of dollars. The fact
[03:04.11]that the foreigners were interested,
[03:06.19]only in protecting their
[03:07.83]own interests, was abundantly clear.
[03:11.12]Aside from discriminatory immigration policy
[03:15.93]against Chinese, the U.S. had no
[03:18.66]official direct political or diplomatic relations
[03:22.38]with China until the Second World War.
[03:25.77]The United States took on
[03:28.29]a much cherished isolationist approach
[03:31.57]to world affairs following
[03:33.40]the First World War, after having
[03:35.48]established itself as a major world power.
[03:39.19]The United States did not even
[03:42.15]become a representative of
[03:44.20]the League of Nations, essentially17
[03:46.49]the creation of its own then
[03:48.57]President, Woodrow Wilson. This organization
[03:52.62]was set up in 1919 to curb18
[03:55.79]international conflict, which could,
[03:57.87]potentially, throw the world
[04:00.60]into a war again. The absence of
[04:03.99]this powerful nation was one of
[04:06.62]the major weaknesses of this
[04:08.37]organization and, consequently, a possible
[04:12.20]factor that actually facilitated
[04:14.06]the resumption of world conflict in 1939.
[04:18.76]The Second World War
[04:22.71]During the Second World War,
[04:26.97]the United States and China were
[04:29.16]allies against the common enemy,
[04:31.56]Japan. A coalition19 of the United States,
[04:36.49]British Commonwealth20 countries,
[04:39.00]and other allies dispatched supplies
[04:41.96]and other support to China
[04:43.81]by way of the Burma Road and
[04:46.22]by air over the hump (mountains),
[04:48.85]to close in on Japan from the rear.
[04:52.46]When war broke out in 1939,
[04:57.05]China was experiencing a civil war,
[04:59.90]the Nationalists versus21 the Communists.
[05:03.18]This civil war was put on
[05:06.36]hold while both the Nationalists
[05:08.43]and Communists joined forces
[05:10.84]to converge22 on Japan, which had,
[05:13.14]intermittently, hovered23 over China
[05:16.53]as a menace, or as an imperialist
[05:18.61]thorn in its side, for a good
[05:21.67]century before the war. The war
[05:25.72]brought the United States out
[05:27.35]of its splendid official isolation16.
[05:29.87]Once the war was over,
[05:32.28]turbulent times continued to stalk China.
[05:35.99]The civil war picked up
[05:39.06]where it left off. The Americans
[05:41.46]lent its moral support to
[05:43.76]the Nationalists in their struggle
[05:45.52]against the Communists, whereby
[05:47.70]the United States began to formulate24
[05:50.22]its Cold War policy of “Containment”
[05:52.84](Containing the spread of Communism).
 


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1 scenario lZoxm     
n.剧本,脚本;概要
参考例句:
  • But the birth scenario is not completely accurate.然而分娩脚本并非完全准确的。
  • This is a totally different scenario.这是完全不同的剧本。
2 captions 6b4aeece714abf706fa5b974cc5a9a41     
n.标题,说明文字,字幕( caption的名词复数 )v.给(图片、照片等)加说明文字( caption的第三人称单数 )
参考例句:
  • I stared, trying to grasp the point of the picture and the captions. 我目不转睛地看着漫画,想弄清楚漫画和解说词的意思。 来自辞典例句
  • Indicates whether the user or the system paints the captions. 指示是由用户还是由系统来绘制标题。 来自互联网
3 annexed ca83f28e6402c883ed613e9ee0580f48     
[法] 附加的,附属的
参考例句:
  • Germany annexed Austria in 1938. 1938年德国吞并了奥地利。
  • The outlying villages were formally annexed by the town last year. 那些偏远的村庄于去年正式被并入该镇。
4 abominable PN5zs     
adj.可厌的,令人憎恶的
参考例句:
  • Their cruel treatment of prisoners was abominable.他们虐待犯人的做法令人厌恶。
  • The sanitary conditions in this restaurant are abominable.这家饭馆的卫生状况糟透了。
5 reign pBbzx     
n.统治时期,统治,支配,盛行;v.占优势
参考例句:
  • The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.伊丽莎白王朝延至17世纪。
  • The reign of Zhu Yuanzhang lasted about 31 years.朱元璋统治了大约三十一年。
6 WHIMS ecf1f9fe569e0760fc10bec24b97c043     
虚妄,禅病
参考例句:
  • The mate observed regretfully that he could not account for that young fellow's whims. 那位伙伴很遗憾地说他不能说出那年轻人产生怪念头的原因。
  • The rest she had for food and her own whims. 剩下的钱她用来吃饭和买一些自己喜欢的东西。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
7 patriotic T3Izu     
adj.爱国的,有爱国心的
参考例句:
  • His speech was full of patriotic sentiments.他的演说充满了爱国之情。
  • The old man is a patriotic overseas Chinese.这位老人是一位爱国华侨。
8 harmonious EdWzx     
adj.和睦的,调和的,和谐的,协调的
参考例句:
  • Their harmonious relationship resulted in part from their similar goals.他们关系融洽的部分原因是他们有着相似的目标。
  • The room was painted in harmonious colors.房间油漆得色彩调和。
9 boxers a8fc8ea2ba891ef896d3ca5822c4405d     
n.拳击短裤;(尤指职业)拳击手( boxer的名词复数 );拳师狗
参考例句:
  • The boxers were goaded on by the shrieking crowd. 拳击运动员听见观众的喊叫就来劲儿了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The boxers slugged it out to the finish. 两名拳击手最后决出了胜负。 来自《简明英汉词典》
10 Christians 28e6e30f94480962cc721493f76ca6c6     
n.基督教徒( Christian的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Christians of all denominations attended the conference. 基督教所有教派的人都出席了这次会议。
  • His novel about Jesus caused a furore among Christians. 他关于耶稣的小说激起了基督教徒的公愤。
11 besieged 8e843b35d28f4ceaf67a4da1f3a21399     
包围,围困,围攻( besiege的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • Paris was besieged for four months and forced to surrender. 巴黎被围困了四个月后被迫投降。
  • The community besieged the newspaper with letters about its recent editorial. 公众纷纷来信对报社新近发表的社论提出诘问,弄得报社应接不暇。
12 delegations 13b3ac30d07119fea7fff02c12a37362     
n.代表团( delegation的名词复数 );委托,委派
参考例句:
  • In the past 15 years, China has sent 280 women delegations abroad. 十五年来,中国共派280批妇女代表团出访。 来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书
  • The Sun Ray decision follows the federal pattern of tolerating broad delegations but insisting on safeguards. “阳光”案的判决仿效联邦容许广泛授权的做法,但又坚持保护措施。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
13 collaborated c49a4f9c170cb7c268fccb474f5f0d4f     
合作( collaborate的过去式和过去分词 ); 勾结叛国
参考例句:
  • We have collaborated on many projects over the years. 这些年来我们合作搞了许多项目。
  • We have collaborated closely with the university on this project. 我们与大学在这个专案上紧密合作。
14 crumbled 32aad1ed72782925f55b2641d6bf1516     
(把…)弄碎, (使)碎成细屑( crumble的过去式和过去分词 ); 衰落; 坍塌; 损坏
参考例句:
  • He crumbled the bread in his fingers. 他用手指把面包捻碎。
  • Our hopes crumbled when the business went bankrupt. 商行破产了,我们的希望也破灭了。
15 indemnities e896f7bd62a3a10a9eb6a6bfdbc19bb0     
n.保障( indemnity的名词复数 );赔偿;赔款;补偿金
参考例句:
  • Experience shows that large indemnities do not work. 经验证明大量的赔款是行不通的。 来自辞典例句
  • The imperialist powers repeatedly forced the Qing government to cede territory and pay indemnities. 帝国主义列强多次强迫清朝政府割地赔款。 来自辞典例句
16 isolation 7qMzTS     
n.隔离,孤立,分解,分离
参考例句:
  • The millionaire lived in complete isolation from the outside world.这位富翁过着与世隔绝的生活。
  • He retired and lived in relative isolation.他退休后,生活比较孤寂。
17 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。
18 curb LmRyy     
n.场外证券市场,场外交易;vt.制止,抑制
参考例句:
  • I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
  • You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。
19 coalition pWlyi     
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
参考例句:
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
20 commonwealth XXzyp     
n.共和国,联邦,共同体
参考例句:
  • He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
  • Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。
21 versus wi7wU     
prep.以…为对手,对;与…相比之下
参考例句:
  • The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
  • The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。
22 converge 6oozx     
vi.会合;聚集,集中;(思想、观点等)趋近
参考例句:
  • The results converge towards this truth.其结果趋近于这个真理。
  • Parallel lines converge at infinity.平行线永不相交。
23 hovered d194b7e43467f867f4b4380809ba6b19     
鸟( hover的过去式和过去分词 ); 靠近(某事物); (人)徘徊; 犹豫
参考例句:
  • A hawk hovered over the hill. 一只鹰在小山的上空翱翔。
  • A hawk hovered in the blue sky. 一只老鹰在蓝色的天空中翱翔。
24 formulate L66yt     
v.用公式表示;规划;设计;系统地阐述
参考例句:
  • He took care to formulate his reply very clearly.他字斟句酌,清楚地做了回答。
  • I was impressed by the way he could formulate his ideas.他陈述观点的方式让我印象深刻。
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