新概念英语第四册27-04

Notes on the text 课文讲解

第一句:A young man sees a sunset and, unable to understand or to express the emotion that it rouses in him, concludes that it must be the gateway to a world that lies beyond.

sees 与 concludes 并列

it: sunset

unable...做原因状语

it: sunset

gateway to...通往...的大门 To master English is a gateway to a rosy future.

beyond : beyond this world

Mount Tai : 泰山 radiantly

It is great!/Beautiful !/It is realy glamorous!

It is realy beyond my words!

第二句: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 intensely moving, in some way higher.

from a individual to the general

for any of us 后面跟 to do sth. 中间的in moments of intense aesthetic experience 是插入语. 此句可以换为:Wen we have the moments of intense aesthetic experience

suggestion: 暗示

that...同位语从句

glimpse 一瞥

shines down to : above/high above

existence: world

different 修饰existence

intensely moving

moving(双重含义): touching /quickly