Advanced English 02.doc

The Middle Eastern Bazaar I. Text Analysis (Paragraphs 1-4) 1 A. The Middle Eastern bazaar takes you back hundreds --- even thousands --- of years. 中东的集市仿佛把你带回到了几百年、甚至几千年前的时代。 a bazaar is an oriental market-place where a variety of goods is sold. The word perhaps comes from the Persian word bazar. The bazaar takes you back hundreds—even thousands—of yeas because it was possibly built centuries ago, the architecture was ancient, the bricks and stones were aged and the economy was a handicraft economy which no longer existed in the West B. The one I am thinking of particularly is entered by a Gothic - arched gateway of aged brick and stone. 此时此刻显现在我脑海中的这个中东集市，其入口处是一座古老的砖石结构的哥特式拱门。 is entered…: the present tense used here is called “historical present”. Ir is used for vividness. Gothic:of a style of building in Western Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries, with pointed arches, arched roofs, tall thin pillars, and stained glass windows. Aged:having existed long; very old.e.g. ~ wine C. You pass from the heat and glare of a big, open square into a cool, dark cavern which extends as far as the eye can see, losing itself in the shadowy distance. 你首先要穿过一个赤日耀眼、灼热逼人的大型露天广场，然后走进一个凉爽、幽暗的洞穴。这市场一直向前延伸，一眼望不到尽头，消失在远处的阴影里。 1) The place is dark, so when the street is long, objects in the distance become unclear and indistinct. Here “the heat” is contrasted with “cool”, “glare” with “dark”, and “open square” with “cavern”. glare: strong, fierce, unpleasant light, not so agreeable and welcome as “bright sunlight” “Cavern” here does not really mean a cave or an underground chamber. Metaphor. From the text we can see it is a long, narrow, dark street of workshops and shops with some sort of a roof over them, having the characteristic of a cave: dark, humid, and cool. eye: The words eye and ear are used in the singular not to mean the concrete organ of sight or hearing but something abstract; they are often used figuratively. Here the eye means man’s power of seeing or eye