新概念英语第四册09-03

notice, 祈使句

cold : 冷漠的 colourless:平庸之辈

on...but..., but=except craving for success:发迹

get on in this society get on: 青云直上

social climber , stages seeker

plum:李子 好东西 privilege: 特权

one after another: 一个又一个 , one year/day after another

take the juice and taste out of them. 把里面的汁液吸干净.

we worship 后置定语 worship: 顶礼膜拜 machine: 国家机器

appointment: 提拔 任命 elect: 选 chief: =important

Who are closest nepotisim 裙带关系

dawn: 黎明 拂晓

all the old wounds :旧伤 对国家深深的忧虑

nightmare :噩梦 vision: 幻影 幻觉 设想

all numbered and registered 后置定语 number: 标号 register: 注册

with not =without

twin :double ideal :理想

organization: 组织 quantity:数量 (剔除异己)

have won: 表示预见性 已经看到了.

Notice how the cold, colourless men, without ideas and with no other passion but a craving for success, get on in this society, capturing one plum after another and taking the juice and taste out of them. Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them. Between mid-night and dawn, when sleep will not come and

all the old wounds begin to ache, I often have a nightmare vision of a future world in which there are billions of people, all numbered and registered, with not a gleam of genius anywhere, not an original mind, a rich personality, on the whole packed globe. The twin ideals of our time, organization and quantity, will have won for ever.