At the tail end of the 19th century, Fried

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At the tail end of the 19th century, Friedrich Nietzsche suggested that natural history— which he saw as a war against fear and superstition-ought to be narrated "in such a way that everyone who hears it is irresistibly inspired to strive after spiritual and bodily health and vigour," and he grumbled that artists had yet to discover the right language to do this. "None the less," Nietzsche admitted, "the English have taken admirable steps in the direction of that ideal... the reason is that they [natural history books] are written by their most distinguished scholars—whole, complete and fulfilling natures. "
The English language tradition of nature writing and narrating natural history is gloriously rich, and although it may not make any bold claims to improving health and wellbeing, it does a good job—for readers and the subjects of the writing. Where the insights of field naturalists meet the legacy of poets such as Clare, Wordsworth, Hughes and Heaney, there emerges a language as vivid as any cultural achievement.
That this language is still alive and kicking and read every day in a newspaper is astounding. So to hold a century’s worth of country diaries is, for an interloper like me, both an inspiring and humbling experience. But is this the best way of representing nature, or is it a cultural default Will the next century of writers want to shake loose from this tradition What happens next
Over the years, nature writers and country diarists have developed an increasingly sophisticated ecological literacy of the world around them through the naming of things and an understanding of the relationships between them. They find ways of linking simple observations to bigger issues by remaining in the present, the particular. For writers of my generation, a nostalgia for lost wildlife and habitats and the business of bearing witness to a war of attrition in the countryside colours what we’re about. The anxieties of future generations may not be the same.
Articulating the "wild" as a qualitative character of nature and context for the more quantitative notion of biodiversity will, I believe, become a more dynamic cultural project. The re-wilding of lands and seas, coupled with a re-wilding of experience and language, offers fertile ground for writers. A response to the anxieties springing from climate change, and a general fear of nature answering our continued environmental injustices with violence, will need a reassessment of our feelings for the nature we like—cultural landscapes, continuity, native species-as well as the nature we don’t like—rising seas, droughts, "invasive" species.
Whether future writers take their sensibilities for a walk and, like a pack of wayward dogs unleashed, let them loose in hills and woods to sniff out some fugitive truth hiding in the undergrowth, or choose to honestly recount the this-is-where-I-am, this-is-what-I-see approach, they will be hitched to the values implicit in the language they use. They should challenge these. Perhaps they will see our natural history as a contributor to the commodification of nature and the obsessive managerialism of our times. Perhaps they will see our romanticism as a blanket thrown over the traumatised victim of the countryside. But maybe they will follow threads we found in the writings of others and find their own way to wonder.

It can be concluded that the tone of the passage is basically ______.

A.assertive and radical

B.explicit and straightforward

C.neutral and impartial

D.implicit and explorative

考点:翻译专业资格考试高级口译上海市高级口译第一阶段笔试真题2007年3月
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白虎加人参汤证的辨证重点是( )

A.身热
B.汗多而渴
C.恶寒
D.脉大乏力

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(10分)如图所示,一小球从平台上抛出,恰好无碰撞地落在临 * * 台的一倾角为α=53°的光滑斜面上并下滑,已知斜面顶端与平台的高度差h=0.8 m.

(g取10 m/s2,sin 53°=0.8,cos 53°=0.6)

求:(1)小球水平抛出的初速度v0是多少?

(2)斜面顶端与平台边缘的水平距离s是多少?

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决定政府预备费动用的机构是()。

A.各级人民代表大会

B.各级人民代表大会常务委员会

C.各级政府

D.各级财政部门

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阅读下面语段,回答问题:

目前中国的考古发现表明,早在距今天6000年前的仰韶文化时期的陶器上已经发 现了简单的、抽象的划刻符号。但这只是符号,而不是文字。目前发现的时代最早的真正文 字,是在河南登封王城岗城址中出土的陶器上的刻划文字。

这段话直接支持这样一种论点,即(   )。

A.在距今6000年前的仰韶文化时期就已经发现了简单、抽象的符号,但不是文字

B.符号是在距今6000年前的仰韶文化时期形成的

C.最早的真正的文字是河南登封王城岗城中的文字

D.真正的最早的文字是在河南登封王城岗城址中出土的陶器上刻划的文字

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