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发表于 2010-5-18 22:22:46 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

Hank Morgan, the hero of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, is a nineteenth-century master mechanic who mysteriously awakening in sixth-century Britain, launches what he hopes will be a peaceful revolution to transform Arthurian Britain into an industrialized modern democracy. The novel, written as a spoof of Thomas Malory’s Morte d’ Arthur, a popular collection of fifteenth-century legends about sixth-century Britain, has been made into three upbeat movies and two musical comedies. None of these translations to screen and stage, however, dramatize the anarchy at the conclusion of A Connecticut Yankee, which ends with the violent overthrow of Morgan’s three-year-old progressive order and his return to the nineteenth century, where he apparently commits suicide after being labeled a lunatic for his incoherent babblings about drawbridges and battlements. The American public, although enjoying Twain’s humor, evidently rejected his cynicism about technological advancement and change through peaceful revolution as antithetical to the United States doctrine of progress.
问题 it can be inferred from the passage that Mark Twain would most probabably have believed in which of the following statements about societal change?
答案 technological advancements are limited in their ability to change society and will likely bring liabilities along with any potential benefits. 这个liability是哪来的？？

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贝拉不见了~~~好吧那我自己苦思闷想

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嗯。我来帮你看。

那些无法击垮我的东西，只会使我更加强大.

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The American public, although enjoying Twain’s humor, evidently rejected his cynicism about technological advancement and change through peaceful revolution as antithetical to the United States doctrine of progress.

it can be inferred from the passage that Mark Twain would most probabably have believed in which of the following statements about societal change? 答案 technological advancements are limited in their ability to change society and will likely bring liabilities along with any potential benefits. 这个liability是哪来的？？

看我给你的这句。 Twian的cynicism about technological advancement ...被reject. 同时这些cynicism是 as antithetical to the United States doctrine of progress. antithetical 这里是对立的意思。

liability 这里是3 : one that acts as a disadvantage。给benefits带来disadvantage，不就是对立么？
注意，通常我们理解的liability是债务的意思。但是它有一个很重要的引申意为不利条件。下附MW的liability的解释

1 a : the quality or state of being liable
2 : something for which one is liable especially : pecuniary obligation :
3 : one that acts as a disadvantage