高级英语themerelyverygood学习.pptxVIP

;Background Information ;Who is Jeremy Bernstein? ;Jeremy Bernstein (1929- );Major Works of Jeremy Bernstein ;The Four Protagonists(I);The Four Protagonists(II);The Four Protagonists(III);The Four Protagonists(IV);Organization of this article;montage(蒙太奇);How are different people introduced into the article?; How does the author develop the article? The 1981 conference and the authors indecision. →(flashback to1925-1927) the author talked about earlier life of Oppenheimer and his relations with Dirac. → (back to 1981) the authors decision to attend conference. → (flashback to 1956) the author talked about Spender and Oppenheimer. → (back to 1981) the author met Spender. → (bringing the scene to 1996) concluding remarks. then the author wrote “The merely very good”. ;Relationship of the four characters in the article: physicists Oppenheimer----Spender(merely good) poets Dirac------Auden (excellent) ;Oppenheimer vs. Dirac( similarity difference); What are the things the author wants to tell the readers? (1) Great poetry and great physics cannot be imitated. As Dirac put it, the really great ideas in physics are had by only one person. (2) Great poetry and physics are pushed (driven) ahead by unanticipated genius. The merely very good cannot contribute to the development of either poetry or physics.; What are the things the author wants to tell the readers? (3) To be original and profound, one has to be focused. As the author says, Auden and Dirac focused like laser beams. This, according to the author, is the cause of the difference of being great and being merely very good. ;Jack of all trades, but master of none(博而不专) From the text ,we know that no matter how talented one may be ,if one doesn’t concentrate on a specific aspect,he will not make any achievements as supposed to be. ; Even a genius can not be skilled in all subjects that he took interes