考研英语历年真题阅读要点之2006-Text 4（一）

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　　时间是有限的，复习应该有针对性，避免无用功。如何把握脉络，有效复习？当然就是参考历年真题。文都教育考研英语老师继续为大家梳理考研英语历年真题阅读文章中涉及的要点，包括词汇、短语、长难句以及简单的阅读方法。接下来看一下2006年考研英语真题阅读Text 4，这篇文章主要探讨了艺术家关注点的转变。
　　Many things make people think artists are weird. But the weirdest may be this: artists’ only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.
　　weird“怪异的，不可思议的”；explore emotions“探索情感”；yet表转折；choose的名词形式为choice；focus on“关注”；ones指的就是emotions。
　　This wasn’t always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy. But somewhere from the 19th century onward, more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless, phony or, worst of all, boring, as we went from Wordsworth’s daffodils to Baudelaire’s flowers of evil.
　　be suited for“适合于”；express joy“表达喜悦”；from the 19th century onward“自19世纪以来”；see...as...“把...看作...”；meaningless“无意义的”，反义词meaningful；phony“虚假的”；worst of all“最糟糕的是”；boring“无聊的”；Wordsworth英国诗人华兹华斯；daffodil“水仙花”；evil“罪恶，邪恶”。
　　You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen so much misery... perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents. The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today.
　　argue“认为”；skeptical“怀疑的”，be skeptical of“对...持怀疑态度”；misery“痛苦，不幸”，形容词形式miserable；perpetual“的，不断的”；disaster“灾难”；massacre“大屠杀”；innocent无辜的人；damn“可恶的”。
　　After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness? Advertising. The rise of anti-happy art ... tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.
　　after all“毕竟，终究”；be dedicated to“从事于，致力于”；depict“描述”；the rise of anti-happy art“反幸福艺术的兴起”；track“追踪”；emergence“出现”；mass media“大众传媒”；and with it可以译成“随之而来”；commercial culture“商业文化”；ideal“理想”；ideology“意识形态”。
　　以上就是文都教育考研英语老师为大家梳理的2006年考研英语真题阅读Text 4前四段的要点。“学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆”。死记硬背，生搬硬套，终究无法从根本上解决问题。因此，各位同学在复习过程中，一定注重学习与思考相结合，同时把理论应用于实践，举一反三，触类旁通，争取最大限度提升个人能力。
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