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1. He enjoys the liberties hard won over centuries by the alliance of philosophic genius and political heroism, consecrated by the blood of martyrs (烈士) ; he is provided with comport and leisure by the most productive economy ever known to mankind; science has penetrated the secrets of nature in order to provide him with the marvellous, life like electronic sound and image reproductions he is enjoying.
  2. Each highbrow did and does congratulate himself on being unique in his unlikeness to other men; and conversely each lowbrow now congratulate himself on being in some mystical way unique in his likeness—on being, so to say, outstandingly average and extraordinarily ordinary.
  3. As for the lowbrows’ claim to be specially “human”, I for one have never been able to understand why it should be “inhuman” to use the faculties that distinguish us from pigs and geese and “human” to use those which we share with the lower animals.
  4. There is no disputing, says the proverb, about taste—though, in fact, human beings spend at least half their leisure doing nothing else—and if highbrowism and lowbrowism were exclusively ( as it is certain that they are in great part) matters of individual taste, there would be no more to say about them than what I have said in the preceding lines.
  5. Thus I desire a great deal less pleasure from jazz and thrillers than from the music, let us say, of Beethoven(贝多芬) or the novels, for example, of Dostoievsky; and the sex appeal of the girls on the covers of magazines seems to me less thrilling than the more complicated appeal to a great variety of feelings made by a Rubens, an EI Greco, a Constable, a Seurat.

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appeal [ə'pi:l]

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n. 恳求,上诉,吸引力
n. 诉诸裁决

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highbrow ['haibrau]

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n. 高知识分子,自以为文化修养很高的人 adj. 文化

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productive [prə'dʌktiv]

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adj. 能生产的,有生产价值的,多产的

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proverb ['prɔvə:b]

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n. 谚语,格言
vt. 用谚语表达

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congratulate [kən'grætju.leit]

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vt. 祝贺

 
likeness ['laiknis]

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n. 相像,相似物,样子

 
understand [.ʌndə'stænd]

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vt. 理解,懂,听说,获悉,将 ... 理解为,认为<

 
distinguish [dis'tiŋgwiʃ]

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vt. 区别,辨认,使显著

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exclusively [iks'klu:sivli]

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adv. 排他地(独占地,专门地,仅仅,只)

 
variety [və'raiəti]

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n. 多样,种类,杂耍

 

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