Unit 2 Privacy

①social relations；private files；portrait；property ；address；marriage status

②bug；probe；peek；peep；spy

③indifferent；guilty；bothered；resented；irritated

 

1.bother

2.disregard

3.sacred

4.radically

5.apparently

6.function

7.elaborate

8.presence

 

1.swarming with

2.died away

3.to the exclusion of

4.better off

5.do away with

6.think nothing of

 

bug → bugging

kinds → kind

amazed → amazing

furthermore → however

pay celebrity’s ︿ to

choose → chooses

world see → to

 

 

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1. 政府正努力改善公众的住房条件。（strive for）

The government is striving for improvements in public housing.

 

2. 这五个圆环被认为象征了五大洲：欧洲、亚洲、非洲、大洋洲以及美洲。（symbolize）

The five rings are thought to symbolize the five continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania and America.

 

3. 他父亲淡淡地一笑，试图要他放心，一切都安然无恙。（reassure)

His father smiled weakly in an attempt to reassure him that everything was all right.

 

4. 他的沉默实际就是拒绝。（in effect）

His silence is in effect a refusal.

 

5. 我开始调查，试图发现他们解雇她的原因。（probe）

I begin to probe and try to find out why they have dismissed her.

 

传统上，中文里没有隐私这一概念。这是因为在中国，集体主义这一价值观受到高度赞扬。另一方面，中国人喜欢和家人住在一起，他们认为这样可以显示和谐的人际关系。我们甚至看到在中国，不同的家庭住在一个大院子里。在这样的居住环境下是没有隐私可言的。因此，中国人觉得凡事不必隐藏。

Traditionally, there is no equivalent term for “privacy” in Chinese. This is because the value of collectivism is praised highly in China. On the other hand, Chinese people enjoy living together with their family members because it is a way to show harmonious human relationship. It is not strange for us to find that even people from different families share a big courtyard in China. With such arrangements, privacy would be hardly possible. So, Chinese people feel that nothing should be concealed.

 

 

传统上，中文里没有隐私这一概念。

Traditionally, there is no equivalent term for “privacy” in Chinese.

 

这是因为在中国，集体主义这一价值观受到高度赞扬。

This is because the value of collectivism is praised highly in China.

 

另一方面，中国人喜欢和家人住在一起，他们认为这样可以显示和谐的人际关系。

On the other hand, Chinese people enjoy living together with their family members because it is a way to show harmonious human relationship.

 

我们甚至看到在中国，不同的家庭住在一个大院子里。

It is not strange for us to find that even people from different families share a big courtyard in China.

 

在这样的居住环境下是没有隐私可言的。因此，中国人觉得凡事不必隐藏。

With such arrangements, privacy would be hardly possible. So, Chinese people feel that nothing should be concealed.