Given :specific 特定的
Bulldozev。蒙骗,威胁
adult life 成年时期。Patriotic
Bogus 假的
Paunch肠胃。
Ambition 志向,
aggressiveness,挑战性。
Sense of duty ,责任感。
constipation 便秘
Stinginess 小气。
Nonsense 废话
Awe 敬畏, over awed 别吓住
GOOD TASTE IN KNOWLEDGE
THE aim of education or culture is merely the development of good taste in knowledge
and good form in conduct. The cultured man or the ideal educated man is not necessarily
one who is well-read or learned, but one who likes and dislikes the right things.
To know what to love and what to hate is to have taste in knowledge. ... I have met
such persons, and found that there was no topic that might come up in the course of
the conversation concerning which they did not have some facts or figures to produce,
but whose points of view were deplorable. Such persons have erudition, but no
discernment, or taste. Erudition is a mere matter of cramming of facts or information,
while taste or discernment is a matter of artistic judgment. In speaking of a scholar,
the Chinese generally distinguish between a man's scholarship, conduct, and taste
or discernment. This is particularly so with regard to historians; a book of history