首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
the United States
the United States
admin
2014-09-28
24
问题
Anxiety about the university job in Oxford had contributed to Ludwig’s torment; he wanted that job so dreadfully. Of course, whatever happened now he would stay on in England after his London scholarship year was over. He had no more doubt about the Tightness of his decision. The war was a piece of absolute wickedness in which he would take no part. He would not fight for the United States of America in that war. But neither was it his task to make politics, to shout and specify and martyr himself. I am not a political animal, he told himself repeatedly. He was a scholar. He would not waste his talents. He would stay in England, where by a pure and felicitous accident he had been born. To regret that his role was in so many ways an easy one was surely sentimental.
The analysis was clear and the decision was made. Only his Protestant conscience, like a huge primitive clumsy processing machine, obsolete but still operational, continued to give him trouble. If only he could take that awful uncomprehending misery away from his parents. He dreaded their letters, in which they begged him to come home and get himself "straightened out". Old European terrors, inherited from generations of wandering ancestors, coursed in their blood and made them shudder from breaking the laws of the United States and evading its decrees.
His father’s family was from Alsace. His mother’s were German. Ludwig’s parents had met soon after the war in France. They soon decided to emigrate to America, but while waiting for their visas went first on a brief visit to England so as to improve their English. Here young Ludwig had achieved an English birth, and with it the right to British nationality, although before his first birthday he was already in the U. S. A. He grew up happily enough, normally enough, as an American child, his parents’ joy. Yet in his blood, too, old European things lived and waited, and as he became an adult and an intellectual he found himself an unidentified person. His parents perfectly bi-lingual in French and German, spoke only English at home, laboriously conversing even when they were alone together, in this language which they never fully mastered. Ludwig learnt his French and German at school.
When he came at last to Europe no blood relations awaited him. All had died or scattered. What mainly confronted him was the ghost of Hitler. This and many other things needed to be exercised. As a historian and as a man he needed somehow in thought to undergo the whole passion of recent history, but he could not do it. Faced with what he had so significantly missed, his intellect became hazy and faint. He remained outside it all and yet burdened by it as by something heavy forever trailing behind him, a part of himself that he could never properly see. In America he felt European, in France he felt German, in Germany American. Only in England, which he found in some ways most alien of all, could he somehow forget or postpone that problem of who he was. The company of other historians suited him, jokey unexcited men who just took him for granted and assumed quietly that of course he would stay and become British. He was so grateful for that.
Meanwhile he knew that he did not feel guilty only because he was disappointing his parents. He felt guilty exactly as they did because he was disappointing the U. S. A. , because he was breaking the law, because he had decided not to return, because he feared death and would not be a soldier, because he was behaving as cowards and traitors behave. He accepted the guilt as a punishment for what was happening right now to his parents.
选项
答案
the United States
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/JqXd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语五级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语五级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
ZhangHongisplanningtogototheUnitedStatesinthespringsemester.
ZhangHongisplanningtogototheUnitedStatesinthespringsemester.
Answerquestionsbyreferringtothefollowingdescriptionofthreeschools.Whichschool…AEllesmereCollegeisoneof
Whereispopulationgrowthhappening?
______ismarkedbyitsindustry?______consistsofelevenstates?
______ismarkedbyitsindustry?______hasfewlargecitiesdespiteitsgreatsize?
Whereispopulationgrowthhappening?
Opinionpollsarenowbeginningtoshowthat,whoeveristoblameandwhateverhappensfromnowon,highunemploymentisprobabl
ThefirstspeakerhassomeacademicperformanceintheUnitedStates.
Thegreatestimpactonthefamilyoverthelast50yearshasbeenthechangingroleofthewife.Thesechangeshaveaffectednot
随机试题
判定下列交错级数的敛散性,如果收敛,指出是绝对收敛还是条件收敛.
简述合营企业采取有限责任公司形式的优越性。
高层建筑管道的法兰连接一般用在()等处,以及需要经常拆卸、检修的管段上。
入境粮食和饲料经检疫发现土壤或检疫性有害生物,且无有效除害处理方法的,按规定作退回或销毁处理。( )
经国务院批准设立的企业集团,其核心企业对紧密层企业资产控股为()的,可由控股的成员企业选择由核心企业统一合并纳税。
政府补助为非货币性资产的,应当按照公允价值计量;公允价值不能可靠取得的,按照名义金额计量。()
下列各项视同销售行为中,不需要确认收入的有()。
幼儿的科学教育是科学启蒙教育,重在__。
注意事项1.本题本由给定资料与作答要求两部分构成。考试时限为150分钟。其中,阅读给定资料参考时限为40分钟,作答参考时限为110分钟。满分150分。2.监考人员宣布考试开始时,才可以开始答题。3.请在题本、答题卡指定位置填写自己的姓名,填涂准考证号
李某拥有20万元的家庭财产,向保险公司投保家庭财产保险,保险金额为15万元,在保险期间李某家中失火,若按第一危险赔偿方式计算赔款,请问:财产损失10万元时,保险公司应赔偿多少?
最新回复
(
0
)