第五册Unit 101. John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in shaping the behaviour of the individual as over against any way in which he can affect traditional custom, is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue over against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the vernacular of his family.答案：John Dewey has pointed out seriously that how far a social habit can impact an individual behavior as compared with how far an individual behaviour can impact a social habit can be likened to how far a native language can affect the entire vocabulary of a family dialect as compared with how far the entire vocabulary of a family dialect can affect a native language.2. When one seriously studies the social orders that have had the opportunity to develop autonomously ,the figure becomes no more than an exact and matter-of-fact observation.答案：The result from a serious study of various cultures that are allowed to grow with no influence from outside proves to be in complete conformity with the reality.3.Anthropology was by definition impossible as long as these distinctions between ourselves and the primitive,ourselves and the barbarian,ourselves and the pagan,held sway over peoples minds.答案：No scientific study of people and their cultures can be expected to achieve any fruitful end,where we still strongly believe that ours is superior to other cultures,which we have traditionally considered as underdeveloped,uncivilized or irreligious.4.It was necessary to recognize that these institutions which are based on the same premises,let us say the supernatural,must be considered together,our own among the rest.答案：We should accept that these cultures,which are like ours created by God,must be treaded as equals to our own culture and included in our study of social customs.Unit 111. Up above me,I knew,were unselfishnesses of the spirit,clean and noble thinking, keen intellectual living.答案：I believed that in a society high above me lived those who selfless,noble-minded and well-cultivated.2. But it is not particularly easy for one to climb up out of the working-class-especially if he is handicapped by the possession of ideals and illusions.答案：But it is surely difficult for a man,especially one full of objectives and imagination in life,to have his working class status changed.3. I had the muscle,and they made money out of it while I made but a very indifferent living out of it.答案：I was physically strong,and they profited by the exploitation of my physical strength,which,to my great disappointment, was not able to change my life for the better.4. He was a muscle bankrupt, and nothing remained to him but to go down into the cellar of society and perish miserably.答案：He was no longer physically strong/powerful,his strength was used up/exhausted/consumed completely /wore out;and he had to let himself slide down to the bottom of society,left alone in misery till the end of his life.Unit 121. One hundred years later,the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.答案：One hundred years later,the Negro still lives in a land of poverty isolated from a land of immense /enormous wealth,which surrounds us and is our homeland.2. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.答案：We can see clearly now that America has failed to execute this document as promised,as far as the black people are concerned.3. So we have come to cash this check-a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.答案：So we are here to demand the fulfillment of a promise which assures us of liberty and justice.4. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.答案：This is not the time now to try to persuade us to keep quiet and wait patiently,by and by, a solution is eventually found.Unit 21. Moses pleaded a speech defect to rationalize his reluctance to deliver Jehovahs edict to Pharaoh.答案：Moses justified his unwillingness to pass Jehovahs order to Pharaoh,saying that he was “slow of speech”.2. Yet for all the trouble procrastination may incur,delay can often inspire and revive a creative soul.答案：Delay leads to problems.However,in many cases,it can often stimulate the creativity in an artist.3. He notes that speedy action can be embarrassing or extremely costly.答案：He points out that hastiness may give rise to decisions which turn out to be humiliating or expensive.4. Bureaucratization,which flourished amid the growing burdens of government and the greater complexity of society,was designed to smother policymakers in blankets of legalism,compromise and reappraisal-and thereby prevent hasty decisions from being made.答案：Excessive red-tape developed because public administration was expanding in scope and because