Lesson 5 The Sad Young Menlanguage points

Lesson 5 The Sad Young Men - Language Points

Ⅰ. Vocabulary & Expressions:

(para.1) comment on; sensational(ly), romanticize, nostalgic, speakeasy, denunciation, amour, flask-toting, sheik, vagary, flapper, see...in perspective, degeneration

(para.2) be confined to, stature

(para.3) gentility, impersonality, bear (no) relationship to, medium, precipitate...into, obsolescent

(para.4) mores, Bohemian, hectic, gaiety, perversion, orgy, spree, run out, call...to a halt, sober up

(para.5) stalemate, insolence, belligerent, idealistic, strenuous, jingoism, enlist, turn belly up, strife, fracas, dissolve into, plead with, draft, unabated

(para.6) dissipate, with distinction, bombast, be guilty of, outgrow, whip up, curb, resume the pose of, smug, genteel

(para.7) set the pattern, eccentricity, flout

(para.8) pride itself on...

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(para.9) be avid for, be susceptible to, diatribe, grandiosely, rallying point, disgusted with, adjunct, keep up with the Joneses, glint, follow suit

(para.10) expatriation, common denominator, stun, ripen

(para.11) iconoclastic, write... off, sterile, flay

II. Paraphrase and translation

(para.1) (paraphrase) No aspect of life in the Twenties has been...the Younger Generation. (Lydia)

(para.1) (translation) The slightest mention of the decade...the “drug-store cowboy.” (Suzy)

(para.1) (paraphrase and translation) “no” because what seemed so wild...our jazzy mad youth.(Iris)

(para.2) (paraphrase and translation) Second, in the United States it was...our two bordering oceans. (Cuckoo)

(para.3) (paraphrase and translate) The booming of American industry,with its gigantic...less competitive age.(Christine)

(para.3) (translation) The war acted merely as a catalytic agent...obsolescent nineteenth-century society.(Jenny)

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(para.4) (paraphrase) it was tempted, in America at least...Bohemian immorality.(Sherry)

(para.4) (paraphrase and translation) The faddishness, the wild

spending...international responsibilities. (Eliza)

(para.4) (translation) Prohibition afforded the young the additional opportunity...for their escapism. (Emma)

(para.5) (translation) The prolonged stalemate...under foreign flags.(Jack)

(para.5) (translation) The strife of 1861-1865 ... cinematic charge up San Juan Hill. (Leslie)

(para.5) (paraphrase & translation) So tremendous was the

storming...continued unabated.(Jim)

(para.6) (paraphrase) To them, it was bitter to return to a home...two or three years earlier. (Carrie)

(para.6) (paraphrase) they had outgrown town and families ... could understand.(Vicky)

(para.6) (translate) Their energies had been whipped up ... safe for democracy” (Doria)

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(para.6) (translate) And, as if home town conditions were not enough, the returning ...war profiteers.(Harry)

(para.6) (paraphrase & translate) Something in the tension-ridden...genteel standards of behaviour. (Airden)

(para.7) (translation) After the war, it was only natural ...and sensation.(Elyn)

(para.8) (paraphrase) As it became more and more fashionable throughout ... fanned the flames. (Monty)

(para.8) (paraphrase) Each town had its “fast” set...throughout the nation.(Monty)

(para.8) (paraphrase) Before long the movement had become ... rendered sexually irresistible) (Elyn)

(para.8) (paraphrase) Younger brothers and sisters...play with the toy of vulgar rebellion.(Airden)

(para.9) (paraphrase & translation) Flaming diatribes poured from their pens boobery of our society. (Harry)

(para.9) (paraphrase) .., since the country was blind and deaf...where “they do things better.” (Doria)

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(para.10) (paraphrase & translation) In no sense a movement in itself...of the times. (Vicky)

(para.10) (translation) Besides Stein, Dos...more sophisticated society. (Carrie)

(para.11) (paraphrase & translation) A decade that produced...in a moment of self-pity. (Jim)

(para.11) (translation) The intellectuals of the Twenties...in its literary experience. (Leslie)

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