magoosh上一道阅读题

wtttopUID：3913556

Writers are necessarily ambivalent about any kind of recognition—honors, prizes, simple praise—because they are ambivalent about their relationship to the present. The first audience that a writer wants to please is the past—the dead writers who led him to want to write in the first place. Forced to admit that this is impossible, he displaces his hope onto the future, the posterity whose judgment he will never know. That leaves the present as the only audible judge of his work; but the present is made up of precisely the people whom the writer cannot live among, which is why he subtracts himself from the actual world in order to deposit a version of himself in his writing. The approbation of the living is thus meaningful to a writer only insofar as he can convince himself that it is a proxy for the approbation of the past or the future—insofar as it becomes metaphorical.

求大神能说一下这段大体讲了什么吗？没看懂。。。。  谢谢~~~

huang4900UID：3879261

因为信息不全，只能看个大概。貌似是说：一个作家想要在他生存的那个时代，创作出新的作品（the first place）。现在（present）的人只能看到他留下的作品。（就是以前的作家想取得后人的赞同）。他把自己从他生活的那个时代剥离出来，（subtracts himself from the actual world）就是为了达到这个目的。   哈哈 不是大神，抛砖引玉。 我看你在论坛问了好多问题，都是好有水平的问题。希望共同学习探讨。

以希UID：3946411

我的理解：
作家对外界认可是矛盾的，因为无法理清自己和现实的关系。
作家想取悦过去，因为过去激发他们创作。
但这是不可能的，他们就寄希望于未来，而他们又不知道身后事。
所以只能听到现在的评价，而作家又不能置身现在，所以他们脱离现实置身作品。
现在的赞扬只有能代表过去和将来的赞扬才有意义，也就是越形而上（脱离现实），现在才越有意义。
ps:应该就是要脱离现实去接受认可，而认可又来自于现实，这本就是一个矛盾。
很有哲学感的一段话~

wtttopUID：3913556

huang4900 发表于 2019-3-25 10:56
因为信息不全，只能看个大概。貌似是说：一个作家想要在他生存的那个时代，创作出新的作品（the first plac ...

这道题的问题是这个：
The author of the passage believes that writers are ambivalent to recognition because it is

A. rarely commensurate to the way in which posterity will regard a writer’s work

B. only of consequence in the future, yet an author will never know what the future thinks of his or her work

C. typically bestowed in the present, whereas a writer is more concerned with approbation from the past and the future

D. unfairly meted out to those who possess only a modicum of talent

E. mostly unrelated to the quality of a writer’s prose

选C

谢谢解答~~   还不是很懂最后一句"The approbation of the living is thus meaningful to a writer only insofar as he can convince himself that it is a proxy for the approbation of the past or the future-insofar as it becomes metaphorical."  

请问你的头像GT是佐治亚理工学院吗？

wtttopUID：3913556

以希 发表于 2019-3-25 14:30
我的理解：
作家对外界认可是矛盾的，因为无法理清自己和现实的关系。
作家想取悦过去，因为过去激发他们 ...

感谢大神！ 这段太难懂了

huang4900UID：3879261

huang4900 发表于 2019-3-25 10:56
因为信息不全，只能看个大概。貌似是说：一个作家想要在他生存的那个时代，创作出新的作品（the first plac ...

大神的解答手动点赞。有个问题：insofar as 是什么意思呢？     metaphorical 是有形而上的意思吗

huang4900UID：3879261

wtttop 发表于 2019-3-25 14:42
这道题的问题是这个：
The author of the passage believes that writers are ambivalent to recogniti ...

感觉以希讲的就是对的。   


头像是默认头像啦

wtttopUID：3913556

huang4900 发表于 2019-3-26 07:10
大神的解答手动点赞。有个问题：insofar as 是什么意思呢？     metaphorical 是有形而上的意思吗

韦氏词典上的insofar as: to the extent or degree that

huang4900UID：3879261

了解，????谢谢