People are absorbed into “a culture of consumption” launched by the 19th-century department stores that offered “vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere.
3.堅持獨立自主,就要堅持中國的事情必須由中國人民自己處理,是我們黨全部理論和實踐的立足點,也是黨和人民事業(yè)不斷從勝利走向勝利的根本保證。
5.反對封建主義,從根本.上說,就是要在經(jīng)濟上消滅封建制度,在政治上消滅軍閥 的專制統(tǒng)治,消滅地主階級, 解放生產(chǎn)力,為中國的經(jīng)濟現(xiàn)代化和政治民主化創(chuàng)造條件。
?、買n spite of “endless talk of difference,” American society is an amazing machine for homogenizing people.
?、赥here is “the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness and absence of deference” characteristic of popular culture.
?、跴eople are absorbed into “a culture of consumption” launched by the 19th-century department stores that offered “vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere.
?、躀nstead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite,” these were stores “anyone could enter, regardless of class or background.
⑤This turned shopping into a public and democratic act.”
?、轙he mass media, advertising and sports are other forces for homogenization.
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?、?論點:總)盡管人們喋喋不休地談?wù)撁绹鐣牟町悾绹鐣匀皇且徊矿@人的民族融合的機器。
?、?具體:分)在美國,大眾文化的特點就是“在服飾和談吐方面大眾化的一致性、漫不經(jīng)心和不拘禮節(jié)”。
?、?例1:分1)人們沉迷于一種由 19 世紀(jì)的百貨商店掀起的“消費文化”中,這些商店“在幽雅的環(huán)境中供應(yīng)琳瑯滿目的商品。
④(并列:分2)與那些迎合知識精英人士的人情味十足的小商店不同”,這些商店是“任何階段和背景的人都可以進入的”。
?、?結(jié)果:分3)這使得購物轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)橐环N公認(rèn)和大眾的行為。
?、?例2:分)大眾媒介、廣告和體育賽事也促進了民族同化。
翻譯小作業(yè):與過去的大排檔不同,有越來越多迎合現(xiàn)代年輕人士人情味十足的餐廳在幽雅的環(huán)境中供應(yīng)特色美食。