【英语】2014年真题文本精学168期
2014年text2 第五段
①Knowing the results of Epley’s study, it makes sense that why people hate photographs of themselves so viscerally—on one level, they don’t even recognize the person in the picture as themselves. ②Facebook, therefore, is a self-enhancer’s paradise, where people can share only the most flattering photos, the cream of their wit,style,beauty, intellect and lifestyle. ③“It’s not that people’s profiles are dishonest, says Catalina Toma of Wiscon—Madison university ,”but they portray an idealized version of themselves.
句子切分:
第一句:
1. Knowing the results of Epley’s study,
2. it makes sense that why people hate photographs of themselves so viscerally—on one level,
3. they don’t even recognize the person in the picture as themselves.
翻译解析:了解到Epley的研究结果后,就不难理解人们为何本能的反感看到自己的照片,——从某种程度上来说,他们甚至不承认照片上的人是他们自己。
第二句:
1. Facebook, therefore, is a self-enhancer’s paradise,
2. where people can share only the most flattering photos, the cream of their wit,style,beauty, intellect and lifestyle.
翻译解析:因此,Facebook成了自我提升者的天堂,在那里,人们可以只分享令人喜欢的照片,分享自己的才智、品味,美貌,智慧及生活方式等好的方面。
第三句:
1. “It’s not that people’s profiles are dishonest, says Catalina Toma of Wiscon—Madison university ,”
2. but they portray an idealized version of themselves.
翻译解析:“这并不是说人们的个人资料不诚实,”威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校的Catalina Toma说,“而是他们描绘出了一个理想化的自己。(A of B的结构,翻译成B的A)”
重点词汇:
make sense:有道理的,讲得通的;
cream:精华;这里指好的方面;
wit:智慧;intellect智力/intelligence智慧/wisdom智慧
honest(诚实的)-dishonest(不诚实的)
profile:这里指个人的信息和资料;
portray:描述;扮演;
ideal(形容词,理想的,完美的)-idealize(动词,使理想化)
viscerally:本能的;真题中表示本能地,直觉性的词还有instinctively/intuitively可以结合记忆;
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