胡敏读故事记单词托福词汇156添加文本

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　　LESSON 156 A DYED-IN-THE-WOOL NONCONFORMIST
Alastair Greaves was a man of highly nontraditional and nonconformist views. He did not even pay nominal¹ regard to society’s norms. What was normal to others most of the time was nothing but bother to him. Frankly², he considered himself to be a notch³ above the rest, and he was notable, if not to say notorious, for his aloofness⁴, to say the very least. Even when he was sick, he would disdain⁵ his doctor’s advice, preferring instead of rely on some nostrum⁶ his grandmother had told him about, which he considered both healthful and nourishing.
Nonetheless, there were people who liked him, perhaps because they admired his sense of freedom. A group of them got together one day and decide to nominate him for some high civic⁷ office. When they approached him and requested him to be their nominee⁸, he curtly⁹ rejected their offer: “I have no intention of ever becoming some kind of notable, and notably¹⁰ not in this city.
At that time, Alastair had already decided¹¹ to get away from it all and lead a nomadic¹² life. He was filled motto. He was sure he would find plenty of nourishment¹³ in the fields and forests, nourish himself on the goodness of berries and wild honey, in other words. He was fond of notating himself as a latter-day Jean-Jacques Rousseau, preferring to live in Mother Nature’s arms, working on a new notation¹⁴ of an oratorio¹⁵ he had written, to dwelling¹⁶ in a civilized¹⁷ place with hot and cold running water.
WORDS:
nomadic adj. 游牧的，流浪的
nominal adj. 名义上的，有名无实的
nominate vt. 提名；任命
nominee n. 被提名的人，被任命者
nonconformist adj. 不遵照传统生活的人
nonetheless adv. 虽然如此，但是
nontraditional adv. 不遵照传统生活的，反传统的
norm n. 标准
normal adj. 正常的；标准的
nostalgia¹⁸ n. 思家的，怀旧
nostrum n.秘方药，万灵丹
notable adj. 著名的，显要的
notably adv. 显著地，特别地
notate vt. 以符号表示，把…写成记号
notation n.符号
notch n. 刻痕；水平；等级
nourish vt. 养育，滋养
nourishing adj. 有营养的，滋养的
nourishment n. 营养品