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
Where would he stay after his scholarship year in London was over?
Where would he stay after his scholarship year in London was over?
admin
2009-06-24
77
问题
Where would he stay after his scholarship year in London was over?
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 rightness 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, al though 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 bilingual 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
take (that awful) uncomprehending misery
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/TIHd777K
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
Shewastheoneinthewholeclasswhowaseligibletoapplyforthescholarship.
Shewastheoneinthewholeclasswhowaseligibletoapplyforthescholarship.
London’sHeathrowAirportisnotoriousforqueuesanddelays.Whyisthishappeningandwhatcanyoudotoavoidthefrustration
ProfessorMeredithThring,ProfessorofMechanicalEngineeringatQueenMaryCollege,Londonshowedoffhislatestinventionto
______isnotforboys?______doesnotofferanyscholarships?
WherewouldhestayafterhisscholarshipyearinLondonwasover?
随机试题
下列属于时间管理的方法是
A、吸收速率常数B、生物利用度C、表观分布容积D、生物半衰期E、血浆蛋白结合率表示药物进入体循环的速率和量的是
A.血钙降低B.血钾降低C.低镁血症D.低渗性脱水E.代谢性酸中毒口唇樱红、呼吸深快、精神萎靡或烦躁不安考虑为
胃印戒细胞癌属于下列哪种组织学类型
《安全生产法》规定追究法律责任的负有安全生产职责的部门工作人员的违法行为,有下列哪几种()。
下列表述不正确的是()。
背景资料A公司承包某项目的机电安装工程,工程主要内容有:建筑给水排水、建筑电气工程、通风空调工程和建筑智能化工程等。合同约定:电力变压器、空调机组、配电柜、控制柜和水泵等设备由业主采购;阀门、灯具、风口、管材、电线电缆等由A公司采购。A公司因人力资
公路工程进度计划的主要形式包括( )。
某客户每月税前收入10000元,扣除三险一金10%,则该客户年现金流量表中工资薪金一栏为()元。
ClocksthroughTimeIttookhumanbeingalongtimetoinventdiversewaysfortellingtime.About3000yearsagopeoplefir
最新回复
(
0
)