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Unit1 Rhetorical Devices One begin with the solution proposed in Bible: the poor suffer in this world but are wonderfully reward in the next.(allusion) If they are poor and also meek, they eventually will inherit the earth.(irony) This is associated with the names of David Ricardo, a stockbroker, and Thomas Robert Malthus, a divine.(irony ) Couples in love the should repair to R.H.Macy`s, not the bed rooms.(irony) The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the (metaphor) It is then argued that the government is inherently incompetent,except as regards weapons design and procurement and the overall management of the Pentagon.(metonymy) Can we really believe that any considerable number of poor prefer welfare to a good job.(rhetoric question) Murray is the voice of Spencer in our time;he is enjoying, as indicated ,unparalleled popularity in high Washington circles.(irony) Paraphrase Virtue is,indeed must be ,self-centered. 正确的行动是，确实也必须是以自我为中心。 By right action ,we must help promote personal interest. 2.The poverty of poor was the fault of the poor. 穷人的贫穷是他们咎由自取，贫穷是他们过度生育的结果。 The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children. ——The rich were not responsiouble for either its creation or its amelioration. 平穷源于过度生育意味着富人不应该为产生贫穷和解决贫穷承担责任。 The rich were not to blame for the existence of poverty so they should not be asked to undertake the task of solving the problem. It is merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God. 这是自然规律和上帝的意志在起作用。 It is only the result or effect of the law of the survival of the fittest applied to nature or to human society. However ,Social Darwinism came to be considered a bit too cruel .It declined in popularity,and reference to it acquired a condemnatory . 人们认为社会学中的达尔文进化论有点过于残酷，人们提及到它都带有谴责的口吻。 People began too and oppose treasure values of sympathy,love and friendship.Therefore,when it was usually the target of criticism. 6___the search for a way of getting the poor off our