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【今日句子】
The stridency and urgency with which such arguments are delivered is a reflection of a profound craving for a neat end-date under which a line can be drawn on Britain’s involvement in slavery and the slave trade. Such desires clash repeatedly with historical reality. It is our addiction to regarding our history as a great repository of pride and other comforting feelings that led historians and others to forge a national story in which slavery, empire and imperial violence were either pushed to the margins or airbrushed out completely.
【思考题】：
The author’s attitude towards the Britain Empire is__.
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【句子解析】
第一句：
The stridency and urgency with which such arguments are delivered is a reflection of a profound craving for a neat end-date under which a line can be drawn on Britain’s involvement in slavery and the slave trade.
参考译文：这些既尖锐又迫切的论述反映了一种强烈的渴望——想要一个干净利落的终止日期，基于它可以划出分割英国参与奴隶制和奴隶贸易的界限。
第二句：
Such desires clash repeatedly with historical reality.
参考译文：这种愿望与历史现实反复冲突。
第三句：
It is our addiction to regarding our history as a great repository of pride and other comforting feelings that led historians and others to forge a national story in which slavery, empire and imperial violence were either pushed to the margins or airbrushed out completely.
参考译文：正是我们沉迷于将历史视为自豪和其他令人欣慰的情感的巨大宝库，才导致历史学家及其他人共同伪造了一个国家叙事，在这个叙事中，奴隶制、帝国和殖民暴力要么被排斥到边缘，要么被完全抹去。
【答案及解析】
The author’s attitude towards the Britain Empire is__.
A. adulatory（谄媚的）
B. indifferent（漠不关心的）
C. proud（骄傲的）
D. accusatory（责问的）
答案选D。
原文的第三句话其实讲的很清楚，英国在面对历史时，可以将哪些不好的“奴隶制、帝国、殖民暴力”全部都尽可能的抹去或者边缘化，尤其是作者使用到了一个词语“forge”，他觉得历史学家其实是在伪造故事的，再结合到第二句话中的“和历史事实有冲突”，就不难推断出作者其实是有些责问的，或者你看不出责问，也至少可以推断出是一个负面的态度。
因为作者处于一个负面的态度，所以A和C肯定不对。
同时B选项的漠不关心也不对，作者都做了这么多研究，聊了这么多，肯定不是不关心，答案只能是D。
【词汇总结】
stridency n. 尖锐
urgency n. 紧迫感
delivered v. 传递
reflection n. 反映
profound craving 强烈的渴望
neat adj. 整洁的
end-date 结束日期
drawn v. 画
involvement n. 参与
slavery adj. 奴隶制
slave trade 奴隶买卖
clash v. 冲突
repeatedly adv. 反复
historical reality 历史实情
addiction n. 沉迷
repository n. 存储库
pride n. 自豪
comforting feelings 安慰的感觉
historians n. 历史学家
forge v. 伪造
national story 民族故事
empire n. 帝国
imperial violence 帝国暴力
margins n. 边缘
airbrushed out completely 完全喷刷掉
【文章背景】
在过去的几百年中，英国的政客、媒体以及许多其他人都在不遗余力地合谋，绘出一种充满英雄主义和浪漫主义的历史叙事。这种叙事将奴隶制和奴隶贸易掩藏在对废除奴隶制和一些反对奴隶制的名人的夸张颂扬之后，将工业革命描述成一种全然生发于英国土壤的自然现象，却可疑地对其重要的资本来源三缄其口，更是对工业生产扩大所需的一些关键原料来源保持沉默。在这种氛围之中，即使是专门研究相关历史的专家也常常忘了英国现存的一些“伟大”机构是怎样继承了黑暗的奴隶制带来的巨大财富，却并没有同样提起纠正历史的责任。本文的作者在一个突然的“滑动门时刻”意识到，自己供职的卫报正是因为奴隶制才获得了创始资本——创始人约翰·爱德华·泰勒及其合伙投资者通过在美国南部的棉花庄园获得了巨额的财富，而庄园的运转建立在奴隶们极端艰辛的生活和劳作之上。
原文标题：
Slavery and the Guardian: The Ties That Bind Us（奴隶制和卫报：捆绑住我们的联系）
Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2023/mar/28/slavery-and-the-guardian-the-ties-that-bind-us
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