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
Flowers for the Dead Since flowers symbolize new life, it may seem inappropriate to have them at funerals. Yet people in ma
Flowers for the Dead Since flowers symbolize new life, it may seem inappropriate to have them at funerals. Yet people in ma
admin
2010-02-19
22
问题
Flowers for the Dead
Since flowers symbolize new life, it may seem inappropriate to have them at funerals. Yet people in many cultures top coffins or caskets with wreaths and garlands and put blossoms on the graves of them 【B1】______ This custom is part of a widespread, long-lived pattern. Edwin Daniel Wolff speculated that floral tributes to the dead are an outgrowth of the grave goods of ancient【B2】______ . In cultures that firmly believed in an 【B3】______ , and believed further that the departed could enter that afterlife only 【B4】______ they took with them indications of their worldly status, it was a necessity to bury the dead with material goods: hence the wives and animals that were killed to accompany 【B5】______ rulers, the riches 【B6】______ with Egyptian pharaohs, and the coins that Europeans used to place on the departed person’s eyes as payment for the Stygian ferryman. In time, as economy modified tradition, the actual 【B7】______ goods were replaced 【B8】______ symbolic representations. In China, for example, gold and silver paper became a stand-in 【B9】______ real money. Eventually even the symbolic significance became obscured. Thus, Wolff said, flowers may be the 【B10】______ step in "three well-marked stages of offerings to the dead: the actual object, its substitute in various forms, and -- finally -- mere tributes of respect."
【B2】______
选项
答案
traditions
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/wyIO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Inthispartofthetestyouareaskedtogiveashorttalkonabusinesstopic.Youhavetochooseoneofthetopicsfromthetw
Minipresentation—about5minutesInthispartofthetestyouareaskedtogiveashorttalkonabusinesstopic.Youhavetoc
Howmanyaretherequalitycontrolinspectionpoints?Howtocheckthequalityduringproduction?
BethHatfieldlostherjobbecausethecompanysheworkedforBethfinancedJumpstartby
Paymenttobemadebycashondelivery.TheinvoicehastobepaidPleaseenterwithoutknocking
ComputersoftwareAsmoreandmorecompaniesareusingtheInternettodobusiness,MarkWilliamsexplainshowanewsoftwa
LeadingtheStrategicChangesTheleaderisthechangestrategist,whoseroleistolead,tochampionthechanges,topromot
LeadingtheStrategicChangesTheleaderisthechangestrategist,whoseroleistolead,tochampionthechanges,topromot
Lookatthechartbelow.Itshowstheturnoverandprofitofeightcompanies(A-H)inthreeyears.Whichcompanydoeseachsen
Over-cultivationandalongperiodoferosionhasreducedthe______ofmuchofthecountry’sfarmland.
随机试题
杜甫诗歌的集大成体现在哪几个方而?
Morehavebeenlearnedsince1945aboutchemicalchangesinthebodythaninallhumanhistorybefore______time.
作为法律渊源的法律可以分为基本法律和法律两种,其区别在于:基本法律只能由全国人大制定和修改,而基本法律以外的法律则由全国人大常委会制定和修改。( )
在墙体设计中,其自身重量由楼板或梁来承担的墙为()。
WhichofthefollowingstatementsaretrueaboutCMRconvention?______
()是以财务报表中的某一总体指标为100%,计算其各构成项目占总体指标的百分比,然后比较若干连续时期的各项目所占百分比的增减变动趋势。
我国的企业会计准则体系由基本准则和应用指南两部分组成。()
窗外,博斯普鲁斯海峡中,两艘巨大的货轮交错而过,相互鸣笛致意。货轮的速度很慢,却有着既定的航线,它们不会相撞。而对于生活在由这个窄窄的海峡所分隔的两大宗教文明中的人们,要想找到解除宗教文明排他性的途径,是没有航线可循的。对这段文字的主旨概括最准确的是
Peoplearenolongersonaiveastobelievewhatevervestedinterestssay.Itisonlynecessarytolookatsmokingtolearnmuch
设某大型商场有各种商铺销售大量的产品,对该商场数据库应用系统,在其生命周期中,设有下列活动:Ⅰ.开发人员启动执行DDL代码建立数据库结构Ⅱ.编写商品信息录入和导入程序,在开业前建立商品信息清单Ⅲ.根据商场销售业务开展情况,调整数据库中的商品清单和价格
最新回复
(
0
)