Lesson 3 Blackmail
I.Background knowledge related to the text (2 periods):Arthur Hailey(1920-2004)was born and educated in Britain. He served in RAF(皇家空军)in 1939, and emigrated to Canada 1949.
His famous novels: Hotel 《大饭店》, Airport《航空港》The moneychanger《钱商》II. Type of writing:
Fiction/novel, to be specific, a thriller, designed to hold the interest by the use of a high degree of intriguey, adventure or suspense.
III. The outline of the text (1/2 period):
Part 1. Prelude (The chief house officer ...Ogilvie remained standing)
Section 1. The setting, main characters, and the suspension. (The chief house ...that both might return at any moment.)
Section 2. The preliminary encounter between the house detective and the Croydons. (A wave of cigar smoke...Ogilvie remained standing)
Part2: Process of unveiling the crime (Now then...the Duchess turned away)Section 1. First round of clash. the Duke confessed his crime(Now then...Now we're getting somewhere).
Section 2. Second round of clash.(Wearily, in a gesture...I can prove all I need to ) Ogilvie spelt out what he had found out about the activity of the Croydons and tried to confirm all the details. The Duchess tried to win back the upper hand.
Section 3. The conviction was undeniable.(The Duke cautioned...the Duchess turned away ).
The Croydons realized that they were convicted of the crime
Part 3. The Dirty Deal
Section 1. Eliminating the possibility of having the car repaired in New Orleans.
( Her husband asked...You people are hot).
Section 2. The interior monologue of the Duchess. Her judgement, analysis and calculation of the situation, weighing the advantages and disadvantages. (The duchess ...Or had they? )
Section 3. The Duchess' decision to gamble on the greed of the house detective.(The Duchess faced Ogilvie... the silence hung )
Section 4. The ending.
The dirty deal reached.
IV. Detailed Study of the Text
1. (Title) Blackmail: blackmail: to demand money from someone by threatening to tell secrets about them
2. (Para. 1) The chief house officer, Ogilvie, who had declared he would appear at the Croydon’s suite an hour after his cryptic telephone call, actually took twice that time.: Ogilvie, who is the detective employed by the hotel to take care of the hotel security, made a mysterious phone call to the Croydons saying that he would be visiting them an hour later, but he was slow in coming, it actually took him two hours to come over to the Croydon s’ suite.
3. (Para. 1) As a result the nerves of both the Duke and Duchess were excessively frayed when the muted buzzer of the outer door eventually sounded.: Because of all this (Ogilvie’s mysterious phone call and his slowness in coming), the Duke and Duchess became over-strained and extremely nervous, and after a long and unbearable wait, the suite’s doorbell, which was muted to reduce the noise, finally rang.
4. (Para. 2) Earlier she had dispatched her maid on an invented errand: The Duchess had sent her maid out to do an errand that was not necessary. The purpose of sending the maid out was self –evident: The Croydons knew very well that Ogilvie would be here talking about something that they didn’t want the maid to overhear.
5. (Para. 5) “Petty neat set-up you folks got...”:
1) neat: very good, pleasant, or enjoyable 好的,令人愉快的
2) set-up: here it refers to the way the furniture in the suite is arranged.
Ogilvie was uneducated and his language is ungrammatical, vulgar and slangy. He was making this comment to start the conversation; at the same time, from the very beginning, he made it clear that he knew that the Croydons were rich people, so the amount of money that he was going to ask the Croydons to pay him for the favor he did them wouldn’t be a small sum.
6. (Para. 6) “I imagine you did not come here to discuss decor.” : I don’t think that the purpose of your coming here is to discuss how the furniture in the suite is arranged. So come to the point and don’t beat around the bush. The duchess used the French word “decor” in the place of “set up”, she did it on purpose, from the very beginning , she wanted to be intimidating and get the upper hand.
7. (Para. 7) The obese body shook in an appreciative chuckle.: Ogilvie was satisfied with the current situation. He anticipated the way the Duchess was talking to him, appreciated the fact that the Duchess was smart enough to be his adversary and was enjoying the fact that he was able to do what he liked to.
8. (Para. 9) “In what conceivable way does our car concern you?” : I can’t imagine how our car would have anything to do with you.
Attention should be paid to the Duchess’s educated and refined English, forming a sharp contrast with the language used by Ogilvie.
9. (Para. 18) “I told you—Cut it out!” The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all pretense of blandness gone.:
cut it out: stop doing what one is doing. Here Ogilvie was saying this to the Duchess because he thought the Duchess was pretending that they were innocent and he could no longer put up with what she was saying to him.
Ogilvie was being very impolite now. He was his old self again, coarse and uneducated. He tried very hard to be polite, but all that politeness and blandness disappeared when the Duchess became indignant and said to him that what he was suggesting was disgusting and ridiculous.
10. (Para. 18) When they find who done that last night, who killed that kid an’ its mother, then high-tailed it , they’ll throw the book , and never mind who it hits, or whether they got fancy titles neither.:
fancy titles: Ogilvie was being sarcastic about their social status, saying that even if you have the titles of Duke and Duchess, they wouldn’t be of any help and you would still be punished by the law.
Note once again the ungrammatical use of “whether they got fancy titles neither”T he grammatical use should be: “whether they have fancy titles or not”.
11. (Para. 19) The Duchess of Croydon—three centuries and half of inbred arrogance behind her—did not yield easily.: The Duchess was supported by the arrogance she was born with. The reason why she was arrogant was because she inherited this from her noble family who had belonged to the nobility for about three hundred and fifty years. And as a result of all this, she didn’t give in easily.
12. (Para. 19) Springing to her feet, her face wrathful, grey-green eyes blazing, she faced the grossness of the house detective squarely.: She suddenly stood up and confronted him directly and firmly, thinking that he was very unpleasant. All the dislike and anger were on her face and in her eyes.
13. (Para. 21) “That’s more like it,” Ogilvie said.: That’s more acceptable. That’s more plausible. The second is more acceptable than the first one.
14. (Para. 24) “Last night, early on, you went to Lindy’s Place in Irish Bayou...”:
1) early on: at an early stage in a relationship, process, etc.
2) Lindy’s Place: a gambling house, a casino
15. (Para.24) Leastways, I guess you’d call her that if you’re not too fussy.:
I think if you are not too particular about what words to use, at least you would call her your lady friend. Most likely the so-called lady friend is a prostitute.
Here Ogilvie is baring all the facts and spelling out all the details for the enjoys being in a superior
position and being cruel to his adversaries.
16. (Para. 26) “Well”—the smug fat face swung back—“the way I hear it, you won a hundred at the tables, then lost it at the bar. You were into a second hundred—with a real swinging party —when you wife here got there in a taxi.”: According to what I’ve heard, you won a hundred dollars at the gambling table, then you went to the bar to spend the money you won. You didn’t stop there and were beginning to spend another one hundred dollars drinking together with a lively party of fashionable people when your wife went over in a taxi to look for you.
17. (Para. 28) I got friends all over. I oblige them; they do the same for me, like letting me know what gives an’where. There ain’t much, out of the way, which people who stay in this hotel do, I don’t get to hear about .: I have friends everywhere. I help them and they help me in return, for example, they tell me what’s going on and where it’s taking place. If anybody who stays in this hotel does anythig wrong, improper or unusual, I will always get to know about it. There is much that I don’t hear about.
18. (Para. 32) The house detective clucked his tongue reprovingly.: The house detective showed his disapproval by making a short low noise with his tongue.
19.(Para. 37) old girl: an old woman here in the text is how the Duke addresses his wife.
20. (Para. 40) “Late last night the word was out about the hit-‘n-run. On a hunch I went over the garage and took a quiet look-see at your car.”: The news about the car accident was spreading around late last night. When I heard the news, I had a feeling that something went wrong, so I went over to the garage and checked out your car.
1) the word was out: The news about the car accident was spreading around
2) look-see: a quick look or inspection
21. (Para. 42) “You might have something there...”: There might be a point in what you say.
22. (Para.42) They reckon there’ll be a brush trace.: They think if the car involved in the accident, there will be signs left behind on the car when the car hit the victims.
23. (Para. 51) ... took on a musing note.: His voice sounded as if he was deep in thought. He was going to put all his cards on the table now that he had made it sufficiently clear to the Croydons that they were in his hands.
24. (Para. 51) “Rushing any place ain’t gonna bring back the kid nor its mother neither.”: This sentence is ungrammatical. It should be: Rushing to the police station isn’t going to make the kid or its mother come to life again. Note the double negative here , which is used in uneducated speech.
25. (Para. 56) “But I got to live too.”: a stock phrase or cliche when someone is asking to be given money or is accused of asking for too much. The correct grammar should be “I’ve got to live too”or “I have to live”.
26. (Para. 64) “They may get around to searchin’ down town, but it won’t be yet.”: Sometime in the future they may get started on searching downtown but that time hasn’t come yet.
get around to doing sonething : to do something that you have been intending to do for some time终于去做一直想做的事
27. (Para. 74) “You people are hot.”: You people are wanted by the police.
28. (Para. 75) It was essential, she knew, that her thinking remain calm and reasoned.: It was of utmost importance for her to remain calm and to think clearly and logically.
29. (Para. 82) calculated coolness: On the surface, the Duchess seemed cool, but she was not really so. In fact, she was nervous and racking her brains trying to outwit him, so she deliberately appeared to be cool.
30. (Para. 84) It would be hazardous, but no more than waiting here for certain detection.: To drive the car north would be risky and dangerous, but to wait here without doing anything is just as risky and dangerous. If they did nothing, the would surely be discovered.
31. (Para. 85) But there would be other complications...:
Complications: problems or situations that make some thing more difficult to understand or deal with
32. (Para. 85) ... their speech and manner would be betray them...: The Queen’s English they speak and the aristocratic manner about them would reveal their identity easily.
33. (Para. 96.) As the Duke of Croydon shifted uneasily, the house detective’s bulbous countenance reddened...: Both the Duke and Ogilvie thought the Duchess had refused to take the offer. The Duke was ill at ease for he’d rather pay the money to keep Ogilvie quiet, and Ogilvie was taken by surprise, and became kind of angry.
34. (Para. 99) Her voice was whiplash.: Her voice was like a heavy blow from a whip.
35. (Para 99) Eyes bored into him.: She looked at him steadily, as if she was able to see through him.
bore: to make a hole in, used here figuratively
36.(Para. 100) When you were playing for the highest stakes, you made the highest bid.: When your reputation, career or even freedom were at risk, you would have to pay the highest price.
37.(Para. 100) She must do so in such a way as to place the outcome beyond any doubt.: Under such circumstances, she knew very well that she had to do something big; that is to say, she had to offer him much more money than he would have expected. This way she would be sure that it would be impossible for him to refuse to do what she would ask him, thus taking control of the whole situation.
38. (Para.108) “This cigar botherin’ you Duchess?” : Is my cigar bothering/ofending you, Duchess? If it is the case, I’ll put it out.
Ogilvie was being polite this time, and it shows that he was ready to close the deal and comply with the Duchess’s wishes.
V. A detailed study of the text
The structure and main idea of the text.
Part one: The Duchess’s denying the crime.
Part two: Ogilvie’s presenting evidences
Part three: Negotiating
Part four: Making a deal
Climax: But we will pay you twenty-five thousand dollars.
Dramatic change of dominance of the situation
1.before the evidence shown:
Duchess Ogilvie
sharp, firm, arrogant, offensive, challenging
dominant, controlling
---- balance ----
2.after the evidence shown:
Duchess: Ogilvie:
Surrendered, collapsed strong, dominant
(gradually weak)
---- off balance----
3.Negotiating
Duchess: Ogilvie
Calm, friendly calm, friendly
---- balance ----
4.Making a deal:
Duchess: Ogilvie:
Powerful, demanding submissive, obedient
---- off balance.
VI. Character analysis:
Ogilvie (notice that the name itself sounds awkward, awful): rude, uneducated, sardonic, self-assured, shamelessly greedy, but finally subservient
the Duchess: imperious, three centuries and a half of inbred arrogance, decisive, vigilant, very quick in response,highly educated
the Duke: uncertain, ready to compromise, passive, despairing,
VII. Rhetorical devices:
Metaphor:
...the nerves of both ... were excessively frayed…
his wife shot him a swift, warning glance.
The words spat forth with sudden savagery.
I’ll spell it out.
Euphemism:
...and you took a lady friend.
Metonymy:
won 100 at the tables
lost it at the bar
they'll throw the book,...
VIII. Questions for discussion:
1. What made the Duchess jump to the conclusion that Ogilvie had come to blackmail them?
2. Why did the Duchess offer Ogilvie twenty-five thousand dollars instead of the ten thousand the detective asked for? Did Ogilvie accept the Duchess’ offer?
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2000年10月高级英语试题及答案 课程代码:0600 本试题分两部分,第一部分考核课程内容,1页至4页;选择题42分,非选择题18分。 第二部分考核水平,4页至8页;选择题20分,非选择题20分。本试题共8页,满分100分。考试时间150分钟。全部题目用英语作答(英语汉题目除外),并将答案写在答题纸的相应位置上,否则不记分。 Part One 1.The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your answer sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. (0.5 point each, 12 points) . Programmers live in (1) fear of losing anyone's attention -anyone's. The (2) way to avoid doing so is to (3) everything brief, not to (4) the attention of anyone but instead to provide constant (5) through variety, novelty, action and (6). .But before he ever begins to write he will have (7) an emotional attitude from which he will never completely (8). It is his job, no doubt, to (9) his temperament and (10) getting stuck at some (11) stage, or in some (12) mood. .His car needs mechanics, and mechanics grow more expensive and less (13). The gadgets in the home are cheaper to (14) than repair. The more efficiently (15) the home seems to be, the more dependent it is on the great (16) corporations, as well as a diminishing army of servitors. Skills at the lowest level have to be (17) slavishly and exorbitantly (18). .It is only lately that I have (19) how much science of genetics is (20). Agronomists have taken to (21) all sorts of vegetables and fruits (22) their original nature. This sounds wonderful and often is insane. For the scientists have not as a rule (23) any interest whatsoever in the taste of the things they have (24) with! A.acquired B.avoid C.breeding D.changing E.constant F.discipline G.efficient H.escape I.found J.impersonal K.involved L.keep M.movement N.perverse O.premature P.replace Q.rewarded R.self-contained S.stimulation T.strain U.surest V.taken W.tempered X.wooed II. There are 15 sentences with a blank in each, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your answer sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. (1 point each, 15 points) 25.In a hot summer day you would find the village children () in the small pond behind the woods. 26. I don't like the dishes in some Chinese restaurants abroad; for they () the local taste too much and the result is that the food is neither Chinese nor foreign. 27.Two pupils from the "Hope Schools" were () to represent Chinese children in the Euro 2000 ceremonies. 28. I think there is too much ( ) made by all people concerned, the parents, the media, and the authorities, about the university entrance examinations. 29. Suddenly the lights went out. She () in the dark for the matches. 30.He was very sad because he had tried very hard in the last three years but ()very little.
Text B Little Sister of the Poor 1.Mother Teresa (1910~1997) Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic nun, was born to Albanian parents in Yugoslavia. She is known as “the Saint of the Gutters” for bringing comfort and dignity to the destitute贫穷的. She founded an order (Missionaries of Charity) which is noted for its work among the poor and the dying in Calcutta, India, and throughout the world. Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. 2. Roman Catholic Church The Roman Catholic Church, also called the Catholic Church or the Church of Rome, is the Christian Church with administrative headquarters in the Vatican, of which the pope, or the Bishop of Rome is the supreme head. 3.John Paul II (1920~) John Paul II is the first non-Italian Polish Pope in the history of the Roman Catholic church. He was elected pope on Oct. 16, 1978. John Paul II is a conservative pope who firmly holds traditional Catholic views. 4. Chernobyl The world’s worst nuclear-reactor accident occurred at the Chernobyl (Ukraine) nuclear power plant on Apr. 26, 1986. The accident caused the immediate death of 31 people, while many others suffered radioactive contamination污染. 6. the Nobel Prize Any of the prizes (five in number until 1969, when a sixth was added) that are awarded annually by four institutions (three Swedish and one Norwegian) from a fund established under the will of Alfred Bernhard Nobel. Distribution was begun on Dec. 10, 1901, the fifth anniversary of the death of the founder, whose will specified that the awards should annually be made “to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.” The five prizes established by his will are: the Nobel Prize for Physics; the Nobel Prize for Chemistry; the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine; the Nobel Prize for Literature; and the Nobel Prize for Peace. An additional award, the Prize for Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was set up in 1968 by the Bank of Sweden, and the first award was given in 1969. Text Analysis: Part I (Para 1-3) death of the Mother Teresa and the public response 1.(para.1) Mother Teresa served the dying and desperate all over the world. 2.(para.2) Mother Teresa died of illness and many people felt personal grief over her death. 3.(para.3) Mother Teresa was regarded as a living saint and what she did transcended the boundaries of religion and nationality. Part II(para.4~8) The development of Mother Teresa’s cause and countless acts of mercy Part III(para.9~11) Mother Teresa gained fame and honor as well as criticism. Her act will be remembered by people. Words & Expressions: 1. Hospitalize vt. (usu. pass.) put (a person) into hospital [常被动] 送…进医院治疗 He hospitalizes patients for minor ailments. 他把只有小病的患者也送进医院。 Mrs Smith seriously ill already hospitalize. 史密斯夫人病重已住院。 You must hospitalize right now. 你必须立即住院。
绍兴文理学院元培学院学年学期 英语专业____级《高级英语(上)》试卷(D) I. Matching (10%) Directions: Match the phrases in Column A with the appropriate Chinese explanations in Column B. Write down the letters with corresponding numbers on your ANSWER SHEET. Column A Column B 1 attribute to A 实行,实现,使生效 2 fall into B 一事无成,无进展 3 put … into effect C 恰当的例子 4 meddle in D 插手,干涉 5 pass for E 归因于 6 a case in point F 落入,陷入,分为 7 get nowhere G 误认为 8 in proper perspective H 强加于 9 let down I 用恰当的观点 10 impose on J 放下,降低,使失望 II. Paraphrase (20%) Directions: Explain in English the meaning of the underlined words or expressions in each of the following sentences and then write your answers on your ANSWER SHEET. 11. Unfortunately, acceptance, the imprecise response packing the least educational punch, gets the most equitable sex distribution in classrooms. 12. Classroom chivalry is not only misplaced; it is detrimental. 13. In a railroad accident a menagerie-tiger, whose cage had broken open, is said to have emerged, but presently crept back again. 14. A practical joker saw a discharged veteran carrying home his dinner. 15. The tiger is said to have emerged, but presently crept back again, as if too much bewildered by his new responsibilities. 16. The relationship is a formal and formalized one for which conventionalities suffice. 17. The construction of our vehicle presupposes a design. 18. This confident attitude, so essential to development of future speaking skill, is very fragile and can be stifled quite early. 19. The lion’s share of the damage is man’s doing. 20. I can guess that you are living on a devastated Earth. 21. Government is supposed to be the way we human beings handle our collective affairs, but we just can’t seem to get the hang of it. 22. As a model of lucid scrutiny of a life’s experience, Maugham’s The Summing-Up is unsurpassed. 23. I have never had to put wet towels round an aching brain in order to excavate the meanings from a poem of Tennyson. 24. Religious groups and those who elevate the status of poverty as they equate money with evil exhort us to live simply. 25. Some, on the other hand, determine to break out of their fettered status and relentlessly strive for their share of the gold. 26. Many fine business ideas go down the drain in this way. 27. They develop skills, become knowledgeable, develop expertise, and work very hard. 28. Jukes had been somewhat taken aback by the startling viciousness of the first squall. 29. Such is the prestige, the privilege, and the burden of command. 30. It unveiled the black figures of men caught on the bridge, heads forward, as if petrified in the act of butting. III. Reading Comprehension (30%) Directions: In this section there are four passages followed by a total of 15 multiple-choice questions. Read the passages carefully and then write your answers on your ANSWER SHEET. Passage One You may not have thought of it just this way, but the letter you write is part of you, and expression of your personality. Therefore to write letters that are mere patterns of form is to present a colorless personality. Letters, by their very nature, are too individual to be standardized. A letter may be absolutely perfect according to the standards of good taste and good form; but unless it also expresses something of the writer’s personality, it is not a good letter. In other words, don't be satisfied to write letters that are just correct and nothing more. Try to write letters that are correct for you... letters that are warm and alive with reflections of your own personality. And if this sounds like a platitude (陈词滥调), stop for a moment and think back over your recent correspondence. What was the most interesting letter you received? Was it a letter anyone could have written? Or was it a letter that instantly “came alive”as you read it—that brought the personality of the sender right into the room with you.