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
专升本
Americans have a sense of space, not of place. Go to an American home outside the city, and almost the first thing you do is dri
Americans have a sense of space, not of place. Go to an American home outside the city, and almost the first thing you do is dri
admin
2012-05-24
52
问题
Americans have a sense of space, not of place. Go to an American home outside the city, and almost the first thing you do is drift toward the picture window. How curious that the first compliment you pay your host inside his house is to say how lovely it is outside his house! He is pleased that you should admire his vistas. The distant horizon is not merely a line separating earth from sky; it is a symbol of the future. The American is not rooted in his place, however lovely: his eyes are drawn by the expanding space to a point on the horizon, which is his future.
By contrast, consider traditional Chinese homes. Blank walls surround it. Step behind the spirit wall and you are in a courtyard with perhaps a very small garden around a corner. Once inside his private compound, you are wrapped in calm beauty, an ordered world of buildings, rock and decorative vegetation. But you have no distant view: nowhere does space open out before you. The Chinese is rooted in his place. When he has to leave, it is not for the promised land on the terrestrial horizon, but for another world altogether along the vertical, religious axis of imagination. The majority of the Chinese people are engaged in the "root" industry of producing food, and they do not leave their country when it is in danger, being tied to their land.
Homesickness is a recurrent theme in Chinese poetry. An American reader of translated Chinese poems may well be taken aback — even put off— by the frequency, as well as the sentimentality, of the lament for home. To understand the strength of this sentiment, we need to know that the Chinese desire for stability and rootedness in place springs from a history full of threat of war and natural disasters. By contrast, Americans move, for the most part, willingly. Their homesickness for their hometowns is really a longing for a childhood to which they cannot return; in the meantime the future beckons, and the future is "out there", in open space. When we criticize American rootlessness, we tend to forget that it is a result of ideals we admire, namely social mobility and optimism about the future. When we admire Chinese rootedness, we forget that the word "place" means both a location in space and a position in society: to be tied to a place is also to be bound to one’s station in life. Space symbolizes hope, place, achievement and stability.
According to the passage, what causes the Chinese desire for stability?
选项
A、a history full of threat of war and natural disasters
B、the root industry of producing food
C、the promised land on the terrestrial horizon
D、social stability and pessimism about future
答案
A
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/gwGC777K
本试题收录于:
英语题库普高专升本分类
0
英语
普高专升本
相关试题推荐
Ahobbycanbealmostanythingapersonlikestodoinhissparetime.Hobbyists【B1】______pets,buildmodelshipsanythingap
Ahobbycanbealmostanythingapersonlikestodoinhissparetime.Hobbyists【B1】______pets,buildmodelshipsanythingap
A、Visitinganexhibition.B、Travellingatour.C、Attendingameeting.D、Doingabusiness.C
Chinese-AmericanstodayhavehigherincomesthanAmericansingeneral.One-fourthofall【36】Chinese-Americansareworkinginsci
Intoday’scompetitivejobmarket,studentsarelookingfordegreesoutsidetheirhomecountriestopositionthemselvesasgloba
Themanagementoflogistical(物流的)operationisaboutmovementandstorageofmaterialsandfinishedproducts.Logisticaloperat
TelevisionTelevisionisthegreatestcommunicationmediumeverdesignedandoperatedbyman.Itsendsintothehumanbrain
Ourenvironmentisgettingworseandworsewiththeincreaseoftheworldpopulation,whichaffectstheenvironmentintwoways.
Youwouldn’thaveseenherifit______notbeenforhim.
She______thenamesshewantedtoinvitetoherbirthdayparty.
随机试题
加强职业道德建设,可以促进社会主义________的正常发展。
下列组合,错误的是
患者,男,46岁。近日双眼睑水肿,尿呈洗肉水样,血压150/90mmHg,尿蛋白(++),尿沉渣有少量红细胞,大量颗粒管型。其病变在
近曲小管重吸收的特点是
患者右胸被撞伤2小时,胸痛,右胸呼吸幅度小,呼吸音弱,胸部X线检查,右胸5~8肋单处骨折,无血气胸,治疗应选择()
我国封闭式基金在达成交易后,二级市场交易份额和股份的交割是在()日,资金交割是在()日完成。
我国现有文献中最早引用勾股定理的是()
被唐德斯称为基线时间的是
数据库管理系统DBMS和操作系统OS之间的关系为______________。
Howdoesthemanrespondwhenthewomandecidestheyshouldgoonadiet?
最新回复
(
0
)