Lesson 29 Pieces of Mind 思想片断-

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. 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. And, though the gleams blind and dazzle, yet
do they convey a hint of beauty and serenity greater than we have known or imagined. Greater too than we can describe, for language, which was invented to convey the meanings of this world, cannot readily be fitted to the uses of another.

That all great art has this power of suggesting a world beyond is undeniable. In some moods Nature shares it. There is no sky in June so blue that it does not point forward to a bluer, no sunset so beautiful that it does not waken the vision of a greater beauty, a vision which passes before it is fully glimpsed, and in passing leaves an indefinable longing and regret. But, if this world is not merely a bad joke, life a vulgar flare amid the cool radiance of the stars, and existence an empty
laugh braying across the mysteries; if these intimations of a something behind and beyond are not evil humour born of indigestion, or whimsies sent by the devil to mock and madden us, if, in a word, beauty means something, yet we must not seek to interpret the meaning. If we glimpse the unutterable, it is unwise to try to utter it, nor should we seek to invest with significance that whichwe cannot grasp. Beauty in terms of our human meanings is meaningless.

New words and expressions 生词短语
rouse vt.激起(情感词） \emotion\excitement 激动\anger 仇恨\love 爱
同义词 arouse 激发,flame\inflame 火焰,stir 搅拌
This film is really rousing.这片子真是让人激动。
▲intense a 强烈的 love/passion 热情/hatred/heat 酷暑/coldness 严寒/light/rays 强光
intensive reading 精读/extensive reading 范读
intensive farming 精耕细作/intensified training 强化训练
同义词：violent/ferment/fierce/vehement
aesthetic
主义者
a 审美的 aesthetics 审美学（a＋s－名词，如 logic—logics）esthete 爱美者，唯美
realm n 世界 见 19 课

gleam n 光芒
见 10 课
dazzle vt 使眼花缭乱，头晕目眩
  The fireworks dazzle me.那绽放的烟花使我头晕目眩
  dazzling achivemeng 令人瞩目的成就
convey vt 传达，表达 information/meaning/knowledge
   Teacher conveys knowledge to students.
    同义词：transfer/transplant 移植/transmit/transpacific 横跨大西洋/pass over
 pass!传
serenity n 静谧 adj serene
    同义词：poetic/quice/peaceful（O）/placid/tranquil（w）/serene life
   serene lake/face（安祥的脸）
readilyad 轻易地
     The work is readily done.
     The problem is readily solved.这个难题迎刃而解
    同义词：smoothly/ painless
undeniable a 不可否认的
词源：否认 deny/可否认的 deniable
      ①deny sb.……sth.
 He denies me admission.他不准我进去。
      ②deny oneself in sth.
 I deny myself in drinking.我戒酒了
      deny oneself 毫无疑问/question－questionable－unqusetionable
   mistakable-unmistakble

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