Lan的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day

练习材料：

[Day 1760 2019-07-22]

Lesson 24-2 Beauty

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 which we cannot

grasp. Beauty in terms of our human meanings is meaningless.

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知识笔记：

indefinable    adj. 难以定义的; 无法解释的;

longing    n. (对…的) 渴望，热望;  adj. 渴望的; 热望的; 表示渴望的;    v. (尤指对看似不会很快发生的事) 渴望;

vulgar    adj. 庸俗的; 粗俗的; 粗野的; 不雅的; 粗鲁的; 下流的;

flare    v. (短暂) 烧旺; (摇曳着) 燃烧; (火光) 闪耀; 突发; 加剧; 发怒地说; 粗暴地说;

          n. (短暂的) 旺火; (摇曳的) 光; (闪耀的) 火光; 闪光装置; 闪光信号灯; 照明弹; 逐渐展开; 喇叭形;

amid    prep. 在…过程中; 在…中; 四周是;

radiance    n. 容光焕发; 红光满面; (散发出来的) 光辉;

braying    v. (驴子) 嘶叫; 以刺耳的高声讲话(或笑);

intimations    n. 透露; 间接表示; 暗示;

indigestion    n. 消化不良(症);

whimsies  n. 怪念头; 古怪可笑的举动; 吊儿郎当; 随心所欲;

madden    v. 使非常生气; 使发疯;

unutterable  adj. 难以言表的; 说不出的;

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