2021考研英語長(zhǎng)難句復(fù)習(xí)（六十五）

　　

　　In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in danger and that they would someday be meat for worms.

　?、貾eople in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery.

　　②They worked until exhausted, lived with few protections and died young.

　?、跧n the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in danger and that they would someday be meat for worms.

　　④Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer too.

　　參考譯文

　?、?論點(diǎn)：總1) 早些時(shí)代的人們處于令人處處想到悲苦的境地。

　?、?具體：分1) 他們工作到筋疲力盡，生活幾乎沒有保障，最后英年早逝。

　　③(并列：分2) 在西方，在大眾傳播和教育普及之前，最 強(qiáng)大的大眾傳媒是教堂，教堂提醒信徒，他們的靈魂處于危險(xiǎn)之中，他們有一天會(huì)成為蛆蟲的食物。

　　(論點(diǎn)：總2) 有了這一切，他們無需藝術(shù)再來表現(xiàn)這種失落感。